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  • After the Fire by Will Hill

    After the Fire by Will Hill

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The things I've seen are burned into me, like scars that refuse to fade.Before, she lived inside the fence. Before, she was never allowed to leave the property, never allowed to talk to Outsiders, never allowed to speak her mind. Because Father John controlled everything—and Father John liked rules. Disobeying Father John came with terrible consequences...
  • The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

    The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 73 ratings
    Four decades after it first terrified the world, William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist is back! An extraordinary classic work of horror and dark paranormal suspense. In this stunning 40th Anniversary Edition, a desperate mother and two priests fight to free the soul of a little girl from a supernatural entity of pure malevolence...
  • Bitter Falls by Rachel Caine

    Bitter Falls by Rachel Caine

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    She’s investigating a cold case no one else could—by going places no one else would dare.In spite of a harrowing past still haunting her, Gwen Proctor is trying to move forward. Until a new assignment gives her purpose: the cold-case disappearance of a young man in Tennessee. Three years missing, no clues. Just Ruth Landry, a tortured mother in limbo...
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    crime  dark  drama  north-america  religion  spirituality  usa  abuse
  • Fallen by Karin Slaughter

    Fallen by Karin Slaughter

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    There's no police training stronger than a cop's instinct. Faith Mitchell's mother isn't answering her phone. Her front door is open. There's a bloodstain above the knob. Her infant daughter is hidden in a shed behind the house. All that the Georgia Bureau of Investigations taught Faith Mitchell goes out the window when she charges into her mother's house, gun drawn...
  • Of Foster Homes and Flies by Chad Lutzke, Alberto Plumed

    Of Foster Homes and Flies by Chad Lutzke, Alberto Plumed

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A neglected 12-year-old boy does nothing to report the death of his mother in order to compete in a spelling bee. A tragic coming-of-age tale of horror and drama in the setting of a hot New Orleans summer. "Original, touching coming of age." ~Jack Ketchum, author of THE GIRL NEXT DOOR "With OF FOSTER HOMES & FLIES, Lutzke is firing on all cylinders. It's a lean mean emotional machine...
  • Primal Fear by William Diehl

    Primal Fear by William Diehl

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Martin Vail, the brilliant "bad-boy" lawyer every prosecutor and politician love to hate, is defending Aaron Stampler, a man found holding a bloody butcher's knife near a murdered archbishop...
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    crime  dark  drama  religion  spirituality  adult  book  contemporary
  • The Institute by Stephen King

    The Institute by Stephen King

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 69 ratings
    In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window...
  • Sul lato selvaggio by Tiffany McDaniel

    Sul lato selvaggio by Tiffany McDaniel

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Six women—mothers, daughters, sisters—gone missing. Inspired by the unsolved murders of the Chillicothe Six, this harrowing novel tells the story of two sisters, both of whom could be the next victims, from the internationally best-selling author of Betty."Capture[s] what goes horribly wrong when women don’t fit a customary victim profile..
  • Seven by Anthony Bruno

    Seven by Anthony Bruno

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Mismatched partner cops Somerset and Mills are on the trail of a psychotic murderer who intends to avenge the seven deadly sins, starting with gluttony...
  • Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

    Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 79 ratings
    It follows the experiences of an unnamed protagonist struggling with insomnia. Inspired by his doctor's exasperated remark that insomnia is not suffering, the protagonist finds relief by impersonating a seriously ill person in several support groups. Then he meets a mysterious man named Tyler Durden and establishes an underground fighting club as radical psychotherapy...
  • Invisible by James Patterson, David Ellis

    Invisible by James Patterson, David Ellis

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Everyone thinks Emmy Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emmy has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her recurring nightmares of an all-consuming fire...
  • Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

    Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    9 hours, 42 minutes In the tradition of 'Long Bright River' and 'The Mars Room', a gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense that deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row, told primarily through the eyes of the women in his life - from the best-selling author of 'Girl in Snow'.Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours...
  • Wallflower by Chad Lutzke

    Wallflower by Chad Lutzke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After an encounter with a homeless man, a high school graduate becomes obsessed with the idea of doing heroin, challenging himself to try it just once. A bleak tale of addiction, delusion, and flowers."Bleak as hell and honestly horrific."~John Boden, author of JEDI SUMMER"Using his strong narrative, he (Lutzke) conveys the everyday realistic horror and pulls the reader right into the ugliness...
  • Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

    Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Brace yourself, America, for Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting—the novel and the film that became the cult sensations of Britain. Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh's spectacular career—an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives. It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr...
  • Devils Within by S.F. Henson

    Devils Within by S.F. Henson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Killing isn’t supposed to be easy. But it is. It’s the after that’s hard to deal with.Nate was eight the first time he stabbed someone; he was eleven when he earned his red laces—a prize for spilling blood for “the cause...
  • The Magus of Hay by Phil Rickman

    The Magus of Hay by Phil Rickman

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a man's body is discovered in the picturesque town of Hay-on-Wye, his death appears to be "unnatural" in every sense. Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mother, and exorcist, is drafted in to investigate, in this 12th installment A man's body is found below a waterfall. It looks like suicide or an accidental drowning—until DI Frannie Bliss enters the dead man's home...
  • One of Our Own by Lucinda Berry, A.J. Cook

    One of Our Own by Lucinda Berry, A.J. Cook

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A suicide prevention hotline volunteer answers a call that turns her world upside down in this edge-of-your-seat audio original thriller by the bestselling author of The Perfect Child and The Best of Friends, performed by A.J. Cook (Criminal Minds) and Tessa Albertson (Younger)...
  • Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson

    Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    A collection of linked stories narrated by a recovering alcoholic and heroin addict, Jesus' Son is a disturbing portrayal of loneliness and hope. He travels through an American underworld of burnt-out sports stars, hospital waiting rooms, doomed relationships and senseless violence...
  • The Blackhouse by Peter May

    The Blackhouse by Peter May

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    A brutal killing takes place on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland: a land of harsh beauty and inhabitants of deep-rooted faith.A MURDERDetective Inspector Fin Macleod is sent from Edinburgh to investigate. For Lewis-born Macleod, the case represents a journey both home and into his past.A SECRETSomething lurks within the close-knit island community. Something sinister...
  • Faithless by Karin Slaughter

    Faithless by Karin Slaughter

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    The victim was buried alive in the Georgia woods–then killed in a horrifying fashion. When Sara Linton and Jeffrey Tolliver stumble upon the body, both become consumed with finding out who killed the pretty young woman. For them, a harrowing journey begins, one that will test their own turbulent relationship and draw dozens of life into the case...
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    crime  dark  drama  religion  spirituality  abuse  audiobook  book
  • Long Bright River by Liz Moore

    Long Bright River by Liz Moore

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Two sisters travel the same streets, though their lives couldn't be more different. Then, one of them goes missing.In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in the vise of addiction. The other, Mickey, walks those same blocks on her police beat...
  • The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis

    The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial killer strikes across the city...
  • The Pale White by Chad Lutzke

    The Pale White by Chad Lutzke

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After being held against their will in a house used for trafficking, three girls plan their escape.Alex: A hardened goth-punk who’s convinced she’s a vampire with a penchant for blood.Stacia: A seventeen-year-old raised by an alcoholic mother, her fellow captives the only family she’s ever truly had.Kammie: The youngest of the three—a mute who finds solace in a houseplant...
  • The Art of Murder by José Carlos Somoza

    The Art of Murder by José Carlos Somoza

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In 2006, the art world has moved far beyond sheep in formaldehyde and the most avant-garde movement is to use living people as artwork. Undergoing weeks of preparation to become 'canvases', the models are required to stay in their pose for ten to twelve hours a day and, as art pieces, they are also for sale...
  • Either Side of Midnight by Tori de Clare

    Either Side of Midnight by Tori de Clare

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    WHAT IF THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE TURNED INTO YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE? When nineteen-year-old Naomi Stone is snatched from her husband at knifepoint on the night of their wedding and taken to a deserted cemetery, she knows her life is finished. Drugged and disorientated, she loses consciousness as she lies in an open grave with a gun to her head...
  • Afraid to Die by Lisa Jackson, Natalie Ross

    Afraid to Die by Lisa Jackson, Natalie Ross

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    AFRAID TO SCREAMOthers may dread the chill of winter, but he relishes it. The way the frigid water preserves his victims, the feel of their icy skin beneath his fingers... And soon the world will see their beauty—and his vengeance.AFRAID TO RUN The town of Grizzly Falls is on edge in the wake of a serial killer, and Detective Selena Alvarez is no exception...
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    crime  dark  drama  north-america  usa  adult  audiobook  book
  • You Let Me In by Lucy Clarke

    You Let Me In by Lucy Clarke

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Spine-tingling, chilling, and utterly compulsive, YOU LET ME IN is the stunning new novel from Richard & Judy Book Club author, Lucy Clarke Nothing has felt right since Elle rented out her house . . . I’M IN YOUR HOUSE There’s a new coldness. A shift in the atmosphere. The prickling feeling that someone is watching her every move from the shadows...
  • The Good Samaritan by John Marrs

    The Good Samaritan by John Marrs

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    She’s a friendly voice on the phone. But can you trust her?The people who call End of the Line need hope. They need reassurance that life is worth living. But some are unlucky enough to get through to Laura. Laura doesn’t want them to hope. She wants them to die.Laura hasn’t had it easy: she’s survived sickness and a difficult marriage only to find herself heading for forty, unsettled and angry...
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    crime  dark  drama  literary-fiction  abuse  adult  audiobook  book
  • A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham

    A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    From debut author Stacy Willingham comes a masterfully done, lyrical thriller, certain to be the launch of an amazing career. A Flicker in the Dark is eerily compelling to the very last page.When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, Chloe’s father had been arrested as a serial killer and promptly put in prison...
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    crime  dark  drama  north-america  usa  adult  audiobook  book
  • Thr3e by Ted Dekker, Rob Lamont

    Thr3e by Ted Dekker, Rob Lamont

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    The nightmare has just begun... your world has changed forever. “Evil is beyond the reach of no man.” “But can a man remove himself beyond the reach of evil?” Kevin asked. “Indeed,” Dr. Francis said. “Can man step beyond evil’s reach? I think not. Not in this lifetime.” “Then all men are condemned to a life of evil,” Kevin said. “A lifetime struggle with evil, not a life of evil,” Dr...
  • Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

    Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, an ordinary young couple, settle into a New York City apartment, unaware that the elderly neighbors and their bizarre group of friends have taken a disturbing interest in them...
  • The First Day of Spring by Nancy Tucker

    The First Day of Spring by Nancy Tucker

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    "So that was all it took," I thought. "That was all it took for me to feel like I had all the power in the world. One morning, one moment, one yellow-haired boy. It wasn't so much after all."Meet Chrissie... Chrissie is eight and she has a secret: she has just killed a boy. The feeling made her belly fizz like soda pop...
  • Crucifix by Richard Montanari

    Crucifix by Richard Montanari

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The scene is carefully set--a teenage parochial school girl, artfully posed in death with her arms chained around a graffiti-scarred pillar, clutching a rosary and a picture of a religious painting by Robert Blake...
  • Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán, Sophie Hughes

    Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán, Sophie Hughes

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!From a global star and International Booker Prize finalist, a razor-sharp, unforgettable novel about a maid who’s seen too much and a family at a breaking pointA young girl has died and the family’s maid is being interrogated. She must tell the whole story before arriving at the girl’s death...
  • In Silence by Erica Spindler

    In Silence by Erica Spindler

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When Avery Chauvin returns to her Louisiana hometown after her father's suicide, she discovers clippings of a fifteen-year-old murder and learns about recent disappearances and murders that lead her to start an investigation...
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    crime  north-america  usa  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror
  • Blister by Jeff Strand

    Blister by Jeff Strand

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    They call her Blister. She’s a hideously disfigured twenty-three year-old woman, living in a shed next to her father’s house, hidden away from the world.Jason Tray is a successful cartoonist, banished to his agent’s lakeside cabin for a few days of mandatory rest and relaxation...
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    crime  dark  drama  adult  audiobook  body-horror  book  comedy
  • Memento Mori by Jonathan Nolan

    Memento Mori by Jonathan Nolan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A man named Earl has anterograde amnesia. Because of his inability to remember things for more than a few minutes, he uses notes and tattoos to keep track of new information...
  • Carrie by Stephen King

    Carrie by Stephen King

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 81 ratings
    A modern classic, Carrie introduced a distinctive new voice in American fiction -- Stephen King. The story of misunderstood high school girl Carrie White, her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge, remains one of the most barrier-breaking and shocking novels of all time.Make a date with terror and live the nightmare that is..
  • Deliver Me by Elle Nash

    Deliver Me by Elle Nash

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “To read the work of Elle Nash is to be restored to faith in the wildness, wetness, and visceral power of contemporary American fiction. Deliver Me is a barbed liturgy of bugs, babies, meat, the gospel, women lusting women, women lusting men, and the human body. Get saved.”  — MELISSA BRODER, author of Milk Fed , The Pisces , and Death Valley “..
  • Brother Odd by Dean Koontz

    Brother Odd by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    Loop me in, odd one.The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker nature...
  • The Night Bird by Brian Freeman

    The Night Bird by Brian Freeman

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Homicide detective Frost Easton doesn’t like coincidences. When a series of bizarre deaths rock San Francisco—as seemingly random women suffer violent psychotic breaks—Frost looks for a connection that leads him to psychiatrist Francesca Stein. Frankie’s controversial therapy helps people erase their most terrifying memories…and all the victims were her patients...
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    crime  drama  north-america  usa  adult  audiobook  book  california
  • The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes

    The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A hard-hitting and hopeful story about the dangers of blind faith—and the power of having faith in yourself The Kevinian cult has taken everything from seventeen-year-old Minnow: twelve years of her life, her family, her ability to trust. And when she rebelled, they took away her hands, too...
  • Nobody Knows You're Here by Bryn Greenwood

    Nobody Knows You're Here by Bryn Greenwood

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A desperate woman fights to escape captivity in this gripping thriller from the New York Times -bestselling author of All the Ugly and Wonderful Things. Beatrice is about to lose everything when a kind stranger offers her a cup of coffee and a job. It seems like a promise of a better life . . . until she wakes up under lock and key in an isolated mansion in the woods...
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    crime  dark  drama  mystery  fiction  suspense  audiobook  horror
  • The Liar's Daughter by Megan Cooley Peterson

    The Liar's Daughter by Megan Cooley Peterson

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Piper was raised in a cult. She just doesn't know it. Seventeen-year-old Piper knows that Father is a Prophet. Infallible. The chosen one.She would do anything for Father. That's why she takes care of all her little sisters. That's why she runs end-of-the-world drills. That's why she never asks questions. Because Father knows best.Until the day he doesn't...
  • Putney by Sofka Zinovieff

    Putney by Sofka Zinovieff

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In the spirit of Notes on a Scandal and Zoe Whittall's The Best Kind of People, an explosive, powerful and timely novel about the far-reaching repercussions of an illicit relationship between a young girl and a man twenty years her senior...
  • Beside the Sea by Véronique Olmi

    Beside the Sea by Véronique Olmi

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A single mother takes her two sons on a trip to the seaside. They stay in a hotel, drink hot chocolate, and go to the funfair. She wants to protect them from an uncaring and uncomprehending world. She knows that it will be the last trip for her boys...
  • Before She Was Found by Heather Gudenkauf

    Before She Was Found by Heather Gudenkauf

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    A gripping thriller about three young girlfriends, a dark obsession and a chilling crime that shakes up a quiet Iowa town, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Weight of Silence .For twelve-year-old Cora Landry and her friends Violet and Jordyn, it was supposed to be an ordinary sleepover--movies and Ouija and talking about boys...
  • Father of Lies by Brian Evenson

    Father of Lies by Brian Evenson

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    At the urging of his wife, Provost Fochs reluctantly agrees to see a therapist, Dr. Feshtig. Through the therapist's detailed notes, correspondence from the church, and the provost himself, the provost's sickness emerges and the reader is drawn into the disturbing inner workings of a violent pedophile.The provost relays his crimes in excruciating detail...
  • The Beach by Alex Garland

    The Beach by Alex Garland

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 56 ratings
    After discovering a seemingly Edenic paradise on an island in a Thai national park, Richard soon finds that since civilized behavior tends to dissolve without external restraints, the utopia is hard to maintain...
  • The String: Deadly Games by Caleb Breakey

    The String: Deadly Games by Caleb Breakey

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to the string, a game of impossible decisions and deadly consequences. Let's go over the ground rules: Rule #1: Participation is mandatory. Rule #2: If anyone refuses to play, all threats will come to pass. Game on...
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