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  • Hidden Scars by Angela Marsons, Ángela Marsons

    Hidden Scars by Angela Marsons, Ángela Marsons

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    While Jamie’s cold, lifeless body lay in the morgue, Detective Kim Stone stared at the empty board in the incident room and felt her anger boil. Why were there no photos, details, or lines of enquiry?When a nineteen-year-old boy, Jamie Mills, is found hanging from a tree in a local park, his death is ruled a suicide...
  • A Whisper of Sorrows by J.D. Kirk

    A Whisper of Sorrows by J.D. Kirk

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The hunter has become the hunted.Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan caught the twisted child killer known as Mister Whisper.Two days ago, Mister Whisper escaped.Now, Jack must track down the most ruthless enemy he has ever faced before he can strike again. But, after ten years behind bars, it isn't just murder that Mister Whisper has in mind.It's revenge...
  • A Snowball's Chance in Hell by J.D. Kirk

    A Snowball's Chance in Hell by J.D. Kirk

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When a young man is found frozen to death on a Highland street in mid-December, DCI Jack Logan initially puts it down to a Christmas night out gone tragically wrong.But, when a post mortem reveals something more sinister, Jack discovers he is dealing with a cold, calculating killer with a long line of victims, a talent for torture, and a perverse sense of justice...
  • The Heist by Elle Gray

    The Heist by Elle Gray

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When an armored car heist turns into a bloody and grisly crime scene.Federal agent Blake Wilder is sent to Philadelphia to track down the culprits.But there’s more to this militantly precise and violent crew than meets the eye...As the death count rises and the case takes an even more violent turn, it becomes clear that there is more to these robberies than initially believed...
  • In Cold Blood by Caroline Mitchell

    In Cold Blood by Caroline Mitchell

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    WHEN THE HUNTER BECOMES THE HUNTED…DI Amy Winter faces her toughest case yet as a serial killer couple kidnap and hunt their prey. After capture, the victims are released from an unknown location each day. But freedom does not come easily as the victim’s injuries become more severe, and if they haven’t escaped by day four, they won’t live to see the fifth...
  • Mania by Victor Methos

    Mania by Victor Methos

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Jon Stanton finds his life unraveling. His fiancé has left him. His panic attacks are growing more acute. He's attacking his job with ferocity and violence. After nearly killing a human trafficker after he had surrendered, Stanton realizes he's losing control. And knows it all stems from one incident: the disappearance of his sister Elizabeth twenty-seven years ago...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  hard-boiled  murder  mystery
  • Whip Crack by Alex Smith

    Whip Crack by Alex Smith

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Every time you hear his voice, another child will die.DCI Robert Kett’s family may be whole again, but he is a broken man.Suspended from duty, he takes his girls out of the city for a much-needed holiday on the Norfolk Coast.Instead of the peace he desperately needs, however, Kett finds a community in chaos. Four teenagers are missing, and time is running out before they meet a horrific fate...
  • Evil Games by Angela Marsons, Andrea Sawatzki

    Evil Games by Angela Marsons, Andrea Sawatzki

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The greater the Evil, the more deadly the game…When a rapist is found mutilated in a brutal attack, Detective Kim Stone and her team are called in to bring a swift resolution. But, as more vengeful killings come to light, it soon becomes clear that there is someone far more sinister at work...
  • The Boss by Caz Finlay

    The Boss by Caz Finlay

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He’s inside. She’s running the family. But now he’s back – only one can boss the streets of Liverpool. Packed with twists, turns and deceit, get ready for the first novel in an explosive new gangland crime series. HE’S OUT FOR BLOOD After a stint inside, notorious gangster Nathan Conlon is back. He says he’s a changed man, but old habits die hard on Liverpool’s gritty streets...
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    crime  suspense  urban  abuse  adult  book  drama  family
  • The Good Daughter by Elle Gray, K.S. Gray

    The Good Daughter by Elle Gray, K.S. Gray

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In an affluent neighborhood.Twin daughters Raleigh and Eve are excited to graduate from high school.Wanting to celebrate, Raleigh does her best to convince her bookworm sister to go out to a party.That night while their parents were out of town, one daughter went out and one vanished.A decade has passed and to this day what occurred that night at the Valentine's residence has remained a mystery..
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  investigator  kidnapping  murder
  • Shadow's Secret by Mary Stone, Lori Rhodes

    Shadow's Secret by Mary Stone, Lori Rhodes

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Hidden secrets lead to deadly lies...Following the incident that brought justice to her parents’ killers but ended her career, former FBI Special Agent Rebecca West needs a fresh start. Hoping to find peace, she decides to spend a few months in the sleepy beach town of Shadow Island, where she spent idyllic summers as a kid...
  • Missing in the Falls by Elle Gray

    Missing in the Falls by Elle Gray

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Who killed Lexi Wise?Former FBI agent Spenser Song thought she was leaving the chaos behind her after taking the job as Sheriff of Sweetwater Falls.But when a monster from her past catches up with her, she finds herself fighting for her life once again.Despite the danger, Spenser begins to settle in, making new friends and earning the respect of the local townspeople...
  • Last Breath by Robert Bryndza

    Last Breath by Robert Bryndza

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    He’s your perfect date. You’re his next victim. When the tortured body of a young woman is found in a dumpster, her eyes swollen shut and her clothes soaked with blood, Detective Erika Foster is one of the first at the crime scene. The trouble is, this time, it’s not her case...
  • Dark Water by Robert Bryndza

    Dark Water by Robert Bryndza

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Beneath the water the body sank rapidly. She would lie still and undisturbed for many years but above her on dry land, the nightmare was just beginning. When Detective Erika Foster receives a tip-off that key evidence for a major narcotics case was stashed in a disused quarry on the outskirts of London, she orders for it to be searched...
  • The Monument Murders by Rachel McLean

    The Monument Murders by Rachel McLean

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When a body is found draped over Swanage's iconic Globe monument, DCI Lesley Clarke is called in.A message points to the Go Home.Is this a hate crime? Or something closer to home?Lesley must find the killer before he or she strikes again, all while dealing with a mutiny in her team and political pressure from her boss...
  • The Woman Behind the Door by Elle Gray, K.S. Gray

    The Woman Behind the Door by Elle Gray, K.S. Gray

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “YOU ARE LIVING A LIE. Everything about you is a lie…”This is a story about an ordinary woman, a mother of two.To most women, to most mothers, her life is relatable in every way.Except behind closed doors her truth comes with unimaginable consequences.Amid a night of fun and festivities, Isabella Walker found herself alone with a bold masked man at her front door...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  kidnapping  murder  mystery
  • Body Count by Jodi Burnett

    Body Count by Jodi Burnett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Abducted and hidden away deep in the Rocky Mountains, Susan Bell is frantic to escape her murderous captor.Freshman Special Agent Burke Cameron is straight laced, traditionally minded, and comes with a hefty set of old-fashioned values. Burke doesn’t know what to do with the free spirited, progressive woman he’s falling for...
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    crime  suspense  adult  animals  audiobook  book  fiction  murder
  • Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith

    Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    Cormoran Strike is back, with his assistant Robin Ellacott, in a mystery based around soldiers returning from war.When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman’s severed leg.Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed...
  • Cold Blood by Robert Bryndza

    Cold Blood by Robert Bryndza

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    She fell in love with a killer, now she’s one too.The suitcase was badly rusted, and took Erika several attempts, but it yielded and sagged open as she unzipped it. Nothing could prepare her for what she would find inside…When a battered suitcase containing the dismembered body of a young man washes up on the shore of the river Thames, Detective Erika Foster is shocked...
  • The Stolen by Dan Padavona

    The Stolen by Dan Padavona

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The night Sutter and Monica Steen leave for dinner, they never return home.Two weeks later, the police drag their bodies out of the river, sending the town into a panic.The Black River killer is back. Nobody is safe.When another person goes missing, Jefferson Gildon, a police detective with a checkered past, leads the investigation...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  pulp  serial-killers
  • Code Name: Cowboy by Heather Slade

    Code Name: Cowboy by Heather Slade

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Code Garrison “Cowboy” Cassidy Winslow Greer Take the ski champion to new peaks.COWBOYBeing quiet and reserved makes cracking cases and taking down enemies—one vile and malicious criminal at a time—easy for a stealthy agent like me. But when I meet Winslow, it requires every bit of my reserve to take it slow...
  • The Clifftop Murders by Rachel McLean

    The Clifftop Murders by Rachel McLean

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    DCI Lesley Clarke is settling into her new job in Dorset's Major Crimes Unit, and becoming accustomed to a slower pace of life.But then she's called in to solve the murder of a woman with links to Lesley's new girlfriend...
  • Every Little Breath by Keri Beevis

    Every Little Breath by Keri Beevis

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I was nineteen when I discovered my boyfriend’s father was a serial killer. I stumbled upon his latest victim tied up in the basement of the house he was renovating, and it was my evidence that helped convict him to a life in prison.My boyfriend never forgave me for turning against his dad and a couple of years later took his own life. That was fifteen years ago...
  • A Cold Killing by Anna Smith

    A Cold Killing by Anna Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Crime reporter Rosie Gilmour returns from hiding in Bosnia to a story of a brutal execution. University lecturer Tom Mahoney was shot at point blank range, the killing has all the signs of a hit. But who would want to kill a retired lecturer? Rosie throws herself into the investigation, looking for a witness that has gone missing. A witness that might hold the key to the story...
  • Mercurial Dreams by Hadena James

    Mercurial Dreams by Hadena James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Aislinn Cain and the Serial Crimes Tracking Unit are being sent to the hottest place in North America to investigate mummified remains that were found in Death Valley. When Xavier Reece uncovers elemental mercury in the heart of one of the mummies, they discover there is more than Mother Nature at work...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  murder
  • Explosive Dreams by Hadena James

    Explosive Dreams by Hadena James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bright midways, rides with loud music and flashing lights, barkers trying to get people to spend money on rigged games; the normal sounds of county fairs everywhere until an explosion rips through the tinny music of the carnival rides. Now the screams are not squeals of delight but the terrified shrieks of the dying.The danger is no longer imaginary, something to shrug off when the ride is over...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  murder
  • Shadow Sands by Robert Bryndza, Kristin Atherton

    Shadow Sands by Robert Bryndza, Kristin Atherton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The internationally bestselling author of Nine Elms and The Girl in the Ice is back with a nail-biting new Kate Marshall case, a woman with a dark secret and a powerful sense of justice.When Kate Marshall finds the bloated body of a young man floating in the Shadow Sands reservoir, the authorities label it a tragic accident...
  • Vile by Debra Webb

    Vile by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Deputy Chief Jess Harris knows her time is running out. Somehow she must protect the people she loves and any more innocent victims from the serial killer obsessed with her...
  • Vicious by Debra Webb

    Vicious by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book 7 in the Faces of Evil series. Serial killer Eric Spears is far from done. He has chosen his next victim and Deputy Chief Jess Harris knows it's only a matter of time until he comes for her. The murders are vicious, the killer relentless...
  • Heinous by Debra Webb

    Heinous by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The body count is rising. The serial killer obsessed with Birmingham’s Deputy Chief Jess Harris is getting closer, and he knows Jess’s secret. Can she protect the child she carries and the people she loves from Eric Spears and his followers? The body farm discovered in a small Alabama town has many buried secrets...
  • The Locked Door by Freida McFadden

    The Locked Door by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Some doors are locked for a reason…While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement.Until the day the police arrived at their front door.Decades later, Nora’s father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence...
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    crime  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  killer  mystery
  • The Key to Justice by Dennis Carstens

    The Key to Justice by Dennis Carstens

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A serial killer is on the loose in Minneapolis and the head of the investigation, Minneapolis police Lt. Jake Waschke, is feeling the pressure to find him. To make matters worse, the killer strikes again, this time across the river in St. Paul, and his victim is the daughter of a prominent politician...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  legal  murder  politics
  • Singing To The Dead by Caro Ramsay

    Singing To The Dead by Caro Ramsay

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It's Christmas, and half the Partickhill police squad is down with flu. Not good timing, with a series of cyanide poisonings in the area, plus two small boys reported missing in the space of a few days. And then there's the monumental task of providing concert security for rock legend Rogan O'Neill . .
  • Sleeping Beauties by Jo Spain

    Sleeping Beauties by Jo Spain

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    'Five stars' Amazon reviewer 'What a read!' Amazon reviewer ' I was engrossed right from the start and read it in one long, very satisfied sitting' Amazon reviewer THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WITH OUR BLESSING AND BENEATH THE SURFACE RETURNS WITH A BRAND NEW SERIAL-KILLER THRILLER. The inspector frowned and examined the earth under the trees. As he scanned the glade, his stomach lurched...
  • Alter Ego by Brian Freeman

    Alter Ego by Brian Freeman

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When a freak auto accident kills a driver on the remote roads outside Duluth, Jonathan Stride is disturbed to discover that the victim appears to be a "ghost," with a false identity and no evidence to suggest who he really was. Alarmingly, a gun is found in the car--and the gun has recently been fired...
  • The Lost Child by Patricia Gibney

    The Lost Child by Patricia Gibney

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    They placed me in here and threw away the key. I look down at the gown they’ve put on me. I want my own clothes. I don’t know how long I’ve been here. An elderly woman is found murdered in her daughter's home, and Detective Lottie Parker and her partner Detective Boyd are called in to investigate...
  • The Island Murders by Rachel McLean

    The Island Murders by Rachel McLean

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    An isolated community... a web of secrets... a mysterious death.When a body washes up on the shores of Brownsea Island, DCI Lesley Clarke initially suspects suicide. But as she gets closer to the island's close-knit community, she starts to suspect foul play...
  • Lethal Lines by Paige Black

    Lethal Lines by Paige Black

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    For fans of gripping thrillers and intense police procedurals comes a chilling tale that will keep you on the edge of your seat.Eden Mercer, a determined young officer in Nightfall, Oregon, is making strides to overcome her traumatic past in a fundamentalist cult. With her loyal K-9 partner, Shadow, at her side, she's ready to tackle any challenge...
  • Psychopath by Jeff Menapace

    Psychopath by Jeff Menapace

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The final game is here… A decade has passed. The Lambert family is thriving. Amy Lambert is a successful entrepreneur and in a promising relationship with Allan Brown. Caleb Lambert is a respected member of the United States Marine Corps. Carrie Lambert is a flourishing college student. Or so they wish. Nothing could be further from the truth...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  murder  mystery
  • Profile of Terror by Alexa Grace

    Profile of Terror by Alexa Grace

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A missing coed named Abby Reece. Two clever thrill killers are committing the most brutal, public, and horrifying abductions and murders in the county’s history. The killers, known as the Gamers, have done this before, and are now upping their evil game to a new level. The question is — can they be stopped before they kill again? Things get complicated...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  killer  mystery
  • Senseless & Merciless Bundle by Mary Burton

    Senseless & Merciless Bundle by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Senseless & Merciless Bundle Senseless Every Serial Killer Knows. . . The vicious burns scarring the victims' flesh reveal the agony of their last moments. Each woman was branded with a star, then stabbed through the heart. With every death, a vengeful killer finds a brief, blissful moment of calm. But soon it's time for the bloodshed to start again. . . The Perfect Time. .
  • The Crossing by Matt Brolly

    The Crossing by Matt Brolly

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In a small town full of secrets, everyone’s a suspect.When a body is discovered, bled dry on a beach, the sleepy seaside town of Weston-super-Mare wakes up to a nightmare. For Detective Inspector Louise Blackwell, recently transferred to the town she last saw as a child, it’s her first case on the job...
  • The Corfe Castle Murders by Rachel McLean

    The Corfe Castle Murders by Rachel McLean

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Meet DCI Lesley Clarke. She’s a straight-talking city copper who doesn’t suffer fools gladly… and she’s been transferred to rural Dorset.After being injured in a bomb attack, Lesley is presented with a choice - early retirement, or a period of respite in a calmer location.But things don’t stay calm for long...
  • His Garden of Bones by Vickie McKeehan

    His Garden of Bones by Vickie McKeehan

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Not all flowers are grown with love. Years earlier, teenage girls began to vanish off the streets of Seattle. Now, they're turning up dead, their mutilated bodies left in prominent locations around the city. Skye Cree suspects there are more...
  • Reckoning by Jeff Menapace

    Reckoning by Jeff Menapace

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Life in the swamp just got wilder… “The Swamp Massacre.” That’s what the media dubbed it. A family on a boat tour through the Florida Everglades. Abducted by the infamous Roy family. Forced to endure hell. Five years later, an aspiring filmmaker and her friends are keen on making a documentary about the incident...
  • Bitter Legacy by Dal Maclean

    Bitter Legacy by Dal Maclean

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    London. Detective Sergeant James Henderson’s remarkable gut instincts have put him on a three-year fast track to becoming an inspector. But the advancement of his career has come at a cost. Gay, posh and eager to prove himself in the Metropolitan Police, James has allowed himself few chances for romance. But when the murder of barrister Maria Curzon-Whyte lands in his lap, all that changes...
  • Elysium Dreams by Hadena James

    Elysium Dreams by Hadena James

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He skins his victims alive, taking pleasure from their pain. In the cold, dark nights of Alaska, a hunter is stalking his prey. Once found, he takes them into the woods and skins them alive, prolonging the experience as much as he can, but the satisfaction always wanes.Aislinn Cain and the Serial Crimes Tracking Unit have just finished up another case when they get the call...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  murder
  • The Murders in Beacon Hill by Elle Gray

    The Murders in Beacon Hill by Elle Gray

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “Death is inescapable. I am your penance.”FBI agent Olivia Knight has seen her fair share of shocking and gruesome cases.So much so that she trained herself to expect the unexpected.But when she is called onto a case in a sleepy small-town of Beacon Hill.A case involving a brutal stabbing with the words…“Death is inescapable. I am your penance.”, written in blood...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  book  dark  fiction  kidnapping  murder
  • Girl, Expendable by Blake Pierce

    Girl, Expendable by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    FBI Agent Ella Dark has studied serial killers from the time she could read, devastated by the murder of her own sister, and has gained an encyclopedic knowledge of murderers. A murderer obsessed with past serial killers seems to be copycatting their work—but with one curious difference...
  • Ten Little Girls by Willow Rose

    Ten Little Girls by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Every Mother's Worst Fear! Imagine waiting for the school bus, waiting for your daughter to come home, looking forward to spending the afternoon with her, but as the bus stops and the children start to come out, your daughter isn't there. Ten little girls go missing on the same day in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Ten little girls all from the same school...
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