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The Green Mile: The Screenplay by Frank Darabont
Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsTells the story of John Coffey, a death row inmate who exhibits supernatural powers that make the guards and prisoners around him reexamine their... -
![Dead and Buried: A Scottish Detective Mystery by John Carson]()
Dead and Buried: A Scottish Detective Mystery by John Carson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSometimes, the past is better left behind...Detective Chief Inspector Harry McNeil had found himself back in CID after a leave of absence saw his team disbanded. Now he's been temporarily assigned to an existing Major Investigation team, working alongside his old friend, Detective Inspector Frank Miller, after Miller's DCI dies suddenly.A body is found in the city centre, torn to pieces... -
![Trick of the Night by Joy Ellis]()
Trick of the Night by Joy Ellis
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMatt and Liz may have retired from the police, but that doesn’t guarantee a quiet life.A deserted building. A face in the window. A face that shouldn’t be there.Photography student Toby Unsworth has found the location for the perfect night-time shoot. A cobbled street in the old part of Fenfleet... -
![The Boy Under the Table by Nicole Trope]()
The Boy Under the Table by Nicole Trope
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTina is a young woman hiding from her grief on the streets of the Cross. On a cold night in the middle of winter she breaks all her own rules when she agrees to go home with a customer.What she finds in his house will change her life forever.Across the country Sarah and Doug are trapped in limbo, struggling to accept the loss that now governs their lives... -
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![The Wife Upstairs by Freida McFadden]()
The Wife Upstairs by Freida McFadden
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsVictoria Barnett has it all.A great career. A handsome and loving husband. A beautiful home in the suburbs and a plan to fill it with children. Life is perfect—or so it seems.Then she’s in a terrible accident… and everything falls apart.Now Victoria is unable to walk. She can’t feed or dress herself. She can’t even speak. She is confined to the top floor of her house with twenty-four-hour care... -
![The Hunter of the Dark by Donato Carrisi]()
The Hunter of the Dark by Donato Carrisi
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA brutal killer is on the streets of Rome. He leaves no trace. And shows no mercy.A series of gruesome murders leaves the police force in Rome reeling, with no real clues or hard evidence to follow. Assigned to the case is Sandra Vega, a brilliant forensic analyst, struggling to come to terms with the crimes and her own past... -
![I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories by William Gay]()
I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories by William Gay
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWilliam Gay established himself as "the big new name to include in the storied annals of Southern Lit" (Esquire) with his debut novel, The Long Home, and his highly acclaimed follow-up, Provinces of Night. Like Faulkner's Mississippi and Cormac McCarthy's American West, Gay's Tennessee is redolent of broken souls... -
![Bună seara, Melania! by Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu]()
Bună seara, Melania! by Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRodica Ojog-Braşoveanu a publicat romane poliţiste, istorice şi alte povestiri. Maestră in arta suspansului, Rodica Ojog-Brasoveanu se arată o fină cunoscătoare a maștilor dincolo de care se ascund întotdeauna oamenii și în literatura, și în viata. Această carte o dovedește din plin.Despre "Ciclul Melaniei": Melania este cheia întregii serii, prin unicitatea ei... -
![Tangled Web by Wendy Saunders]()
Tangled Web by Wendy Saunders
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCassandra Grayson leads a quiet life managing a library in Queens, NY. There's only one thing missing... her sister.Cassandra hasn't seen her sister since the night their wealthy, prominent father died from a massive heart attack. She had only been five years old at the time and can barely recall the events of that night... -
![Le ossa parlano by Antonio Manzini]()
Le ossa parlano by Antonio Manzini
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMentre Rocco Schiavone affronta a Roma i suoi fantasmi con la sensazione che a quella città non abbia più niente da dire, ad Aosta nei boschi vicino Saint-Nicolas, vengono rinvenute alcune minuscole ossa umane. Sono di Mirko Sensini, un bimbo di 8 anni strangolato dopo aver subito violenza sessuale. Rocco stavolta dovrà scavare nel terreno più torbido della psicopatologia la pedofilia... -
![Vecchie conoscenze by Antonio Manzini]()
Vecchie conoscenze by Antonio Manzini
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRocco Schiavone indaga sull’omicidio di una professoressa in pensione. E intanto l’ombra del passato si fa pressante: la pena per Sebastiano, l’amico fraterno che non ha mai smesso di dare la caccia a Enzo Baiocchi, che gli ha assassinato la moglie, lo rende inquieto e gli ruba il sonno... -
![Killing Moon by Jo Nesbø]()
Killing Moon by Jo Nesbø
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the thirteenth novel in the New York Times best-selling series, brilliant rogue police investigator Harry Hole is back, this time as an outsider assembling his own team to help find a serial killer.Harry has gone to Los Angeles to drink himself to death, in the wake of his life back in Oslo falling to pieces... -
![Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned by Walter Mosley]()
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned by Walter Mosley
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this cycle of 14 bittersweet stories, Walter Mosley breaks out of the genre--if not the setting--of his bestselling Easy Rawlins detective novels. Only eight years after serving out a prison sentence for murder, Socrates Fortlow lives in a tiny, two-room Watts apartment, where he cooks on a hot plate, scavenges for bottles, drinks and wrestles with his demons... -
![Anima by Wajdi Mouawad]()
Anima by Wajdi Mouawad
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA man, returning home one evening after work, discovers his wife brutally murdered, lying in a pool of blood. A cat, their cat, a domesticated animal, tells the man the macabre tale of what happened, and in the second chapter, birds at the window continue the tale... -
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![Ο λαβύρινθος των πνευμάτων - τόμος 2 by Carlos Ruiz Zafón]()
Ο λαβύρινθος των πνευμάτων - τόμος 2 by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsΗ Αλίθια έβρεξε την πένα στο μελανοδοχείο και την άφησε να γλιστρήσει πάνω στο χαρτί, χαράζοντας μια γραμμή σε μπλε γυαλιστερό χρώμα. Έγραψε το όνομά της κι έμεινε να κοιτάζει το μελάνι που στέγνωνε σιγά σιγά. Η απόλαυση της λευκής σελίδας, που πάντα στην αρχή ανάδινε ένα άρωμα μυστηρίου γεμάτο υποσχέσεις, χάθηκε μεμιάς... -
![Pretty Lies by Kitty Thomas]()
Pretty Lies by Kitty Thomas
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs a phone sex operator, Annette Waincott knows how to tease to get what she wants. That is, until she teases the wrong man at a club, claiming kinky fantasies she doesn’t really have. It must have been too much vodka and his tantalizing Russian accent. Too bad he believes her. When the Russian accidentally kidnaps her twin sister as part of an ill-fated sex game, things quickly get real... -
![A Long December by Richard Chizmar]()
A Long December by Richard Chizmar
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 1996, Richard Chizmar's debut short story collection, Midnight Promises, was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. Publishers Weekly called it "a sterling collection" while singling out "The Silence of Sorrow" as "an understated masterpiece."Two years later, Subterranean Press published a mini-collection from Chizmar entitled Monsters and Other Stories... -
![Underneath by Andie M. Long, Michelle Dunbar]()
Underneath by Andie M. Long, Michelle Dunbar
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the Author of The Alphabet Game comes a tale of drama and suspense. LAUREN LAWLER’s life is visually perfect. However husband Niall seems to have forgotten she exists. Running a Vintage shop on Ebay and meeting her best friend Monique for coffee and shopping, Lauren feels settled but bored... -
![Kamer 19 by Marc Raabe]()
Kamer 19 by Marc Raabe
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOp het openingsevenement van de Berlinale zorgt een snuff-movie voor een massale schok. Ruim 1800 sterren en beroemdheden zien hoe een gruwelijke moord op camera is vastgelegd. Het slachtoffer is de dochter van burgemeester Otto Keller. De dader dreigt dat het niet bij deze moord zal blijven. Rechercheur Tom Babylon en psychologe Sita Johanns staan met hun onderzoek naar de moord onder hoge druk... -
![The Sleepwalker by Joseph Knox]()
The Sleepwalker by Joseph Knox
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratings‘He said he didn’t remember killing them…’As a series of rolling blackouts plunge the city into darkness, Detective Aidan Waits sits on an abandoned hospital ward, watching a mass murderer slowly die. Transferred from his usual night shift duties and onto protective custody, he has just one job…To extract the location of Martin Wick’s final victim before the notorious mass murderer passes away...Categorized as:
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![Bred to Kill by Franck Thilliez]()
Bred to Kill by Franck Thilliez
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe shocking sequel to the runaway international bestseller Syndrome ESyndrome E’s Lucie Henebelle and Inspector Sharko have reunited to take on the case of the brutal murder of Eva Louts, a promising graduate student who was killed while working at a primate research center outside of Paris. But what first appears to be a vicious animal attack soon proves to be something more sinister... -
![The Lost Get-Back Boogie by James Lee Burke]()
The Lost Get-Back Boogie by James Lee Burke
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIry Paret's done his time -- two years for manslaughter in Louisiana's Angola State Penitentiary. Now the war vet and blues singer is headed to Montana, where he hopes to live clean working on a ranch owned by the father of his prison pal, Buddy Riordan. In prison, Iry tinkered with a song -- "The Lost Get-Back Boogie" -- that never came out quite right... -
![In the Shadow of Power by Viveca Sten]()
In the Shadow of Power by Viveca Sten
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhat do the new arrivals on Sandhamn Island have to fear? Their own secrets—in this gripping novel of suspense by the bestselling author of In the Heat of the Moment. The new summer house on Sandhamn Island is an architectural dream for its owner, Carsten Jonsson. It’s a nightmare for the locals... -
![Noah's Rainy Day by Sandra Brannan]()
Noah's Rainy Day by Sandra Brannan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom birth, Noah Hogarty has lived with severe cerebral palsy. He is nearly blind, unable to speak, and cannot run, walk, or crawl. Yet his mind works just as well as any other twelve-year-old’s—maybe even better. And Noah holds a secret dream: to become a great spy, following in the footsteps of his aunt, Liv “Boots” Bergen... -
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![Texas Vigilante: An Ellie Taine Thriller by Bill Crider]()
Texas Vigilante: An Ellie Taine Thriller by Bill Crider
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe powerful sequel to Outrage at Blanco, Edgar & Shamus Award nominee Bill Crider’s startlingly original western crime novel Six months ago, Ellie was a newlywed, working the dry land in 1880s Texas. Then the desperados came. They raped her and killed her husband, leaving her for dead... -
![Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward]()
Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsIn a lonely cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. It is the story of a sun-drenched vacation of his youth, of the terrible tragedy that forever bonded him with his friends Nat and Harper in unknowable ways, and of the killer that stalked the small New England town where they spent their summers... -
![India Gray by Sujata Massey]()
India Gray by Sujata Massey
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTravel to the Indian subcontinent with a new collection of Sujata Massey's suspenseful historical fiction. This boxed set includes five works. The title story, INDIA GRAY, is a poignant adventure set on the 1945 battlefront iof Assam, India and features Kamala and Simon, much-loved characters from the 2013 historical saga, THE SLEEPING DICTIONARY... -
![Tell Tale by Mark Sennen]()
Tell Tale by Mark Sennen
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings`A wonderfully twisty maze' JAMES OSWALDDI CHARLOTTE SAVAGE KNOWS WHO KILLED HER DAUGHTER But before Charlotte can get her revenge, disturbing events start to unfold on Dartmoor...A woman's naked body is found near an isolated reservoir on the bleak winter moors. When the woman's housemate also goes missing, Charlotte knows she must move fast... -
![The Art of Murder by José Carlos Somoza]()
The Art of Murder by José Carlos Somoza
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn 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... -
![Shella by Andrew Vachss]()
Shella by Andrew Vachss
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the author of the acclaimed Burke private-eye series comes an ambitious and chilling novel that shows us not only what evil is, but where it comes from. For Shella is nothing less than a tour of evil's spawning ground, conducted by one of its natural predators... -
![Close by Martina Cole]()
Close by Martina Cole
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe #1 bestselling novelist in the UK makes her U.S. debut with a hard-hitting story that combines the brutality and deep family ties of The Sopranos with an unparalleled look at the underbelly of London's gang land. Patrick Brodie is on the way up. He is a risk-taker like his alcoholic father, and knows exactly how far he is prepared to go to get what he wants... -
![Desperation Road by Michael Farris Smith]()
Desperation Road by Michael Farris Smith
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the vein of Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone and the works of Ron Rash, an Amazon Best Book of the Month set in a tough-and-tumble Mississippi town where drugs, whiskey, guns, and the desire for revenge violently intersect. For eleven years the clock has been ticking for Russell Gaines as he sits in Parchman Penitentiary in the Mississippi Delta... -
![Blossom by Andrew Vachss]()
Blossom by Andrew Vachss
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the figure of Burke, Andrew Vachss has given contemporary crime fiction one of its most mesmerizing characters. An abused child raised in orphanages, foster homes, and prisons, Burke is a career criminal and outlaw who steals and scams for a living... -
![The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun by Sébastien Japrisot]()
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun by Sébastien Japrisot
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDany Longo is blonde, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why she is going there... -
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![Born Bad: Collected Stories by Andrew Vachss]()
Born Bad: Collected Stories by Andrew Vachss
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom a writer whose novels have been acclaimed for their unflinching exploration of evil comes a brilliant collection of short stories—some never before published—that distill dread back down to its essence—and inject it straight into the reader's back brain... -
![Beasts of the Earth: A Novel by James Wade]()
Beasts of the Earth: A Novel by James Wade
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJames Wade, whose first two novels were praised as rhapsodic and haunting, delivers his most powerful work to date--a chilling parable about the impossible demands of hate and love, trauma and goodness, vividly set in the landscapes of Texas and Louisiana... -
![The New Black by Richard Thomas, Brian Evenson]()
The New Black by Richard Thomas, Brian Evenson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe New Black is a collection of twenty neo-noir stories exemplifying the best authors currently writing in this dark sub-genre. A mixture of horror, crime, fantasy, science fiction, magical realism, and the grotesque—all with a literary bent—these stories represent the future of genre-bending fiction from some of our brightest and most original voices... -
![The Black Mass of Brother Springer by Charles Willeford]()
The Black Mass of Brother Springer by Charles Willeford
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNote: Originally published as "Honey Gal". The Washington Post calls this darkly humorous novel by Charles Willeford, one of the great crime writers of the 20th century, "his masterpiece." This new edition includes a new introduction by James Sallis, and the previously unpublished play version of the novel (THE ORDAINMENT OF BROTHER SPRINGER)... -
![Dark Ride by Lou Berney]()
Dark Ride by Lou Berney
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you needTwenty-one-year-old Hardy “Hardly” Reed—good-natured, easygoing, usually stoned—is drifting through life. A minimum-wage scare actor at an amusement park, he avoids unnecessary effort and unrealistic ambitions. Then one day he notices two children, around six or seven, sitting all alone on a bench... -
![The Eighth Day by Mitsuyo Kakuta, Mitsuyo Kakuta]()
The Eighth Day by Mitsuyo Kakuta, Mitsuyo Kakuta
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe year is 1985. Kiwako is an ordinary office worker, in love with a married man, until an unwanted abortion causes her to snap. She kidnaps her lover's six-month-old baby and runs away with her, eventually taking refuge in an all-female religious commune. Here, she attempts to raise the girl... -
![Love and Other Wounds by Jordan Harper]()
Love and Other Wounds by Jordan Harper
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the hard-edged tradition of Hubert Selby Jr., Daniel Woodrell, and Donald Ray Pollock, and with the fresh, complex humanity of Breaking Bad and Reservoir Dogs, a blistering debut collection that unsparingly confronts the extreme, brutal parts of the human heart.A man runs away from his grave and into a maelstrom of bullets and fire... -
![Reasonable Doubts by Gianrico Carofiglio, Seán Barrett]()
Reasonable Doubts by Gianrico Carofiglio, Seán Barrett
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsGuerrieri is asked to handle the appeal of Fabio Paolicelli, sentenced to 16 years for smuggling drugs. Paolicelli intially confessed to the crime, and everything seems stacked against the appeal... -
![Volt: Stories by Alan Heathcock]()
Volt: Stories by Alan Heathcock
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA blistering collection of stories from an exhilarating new voiceOne man kills another after neither will move his pickup truck from the road. A female sheriff in a flooded town attempts to cover up a murder. When a farmer harvesting a field accidentally runs over his son, his grief sets him off walking, mile after mile. A band of teens bent on destruction runs amok in a deserted town at night... -
![The Slanted Gutter by S. Craig Zahler]()
The Slanted Gutter by S. Craig Zahler
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDarren Tasking is a slick who lives in Great Crown, Florida and considers himself an entrepreneur. Others might refer to him as a criminal or a pimp or an extortionist or all of these things, if they knew what he was doing at night. His income is derived from a number of brothels and gambling parlors that are secreted behind iron doors in what appear to be typical apartment buildings... -
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![Poachers: Stories by Tom Franklin]()
Poachers: Stories by Tom Franklin
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn ten stunning and bleak tales set in the woodlands, swamps and chemical plants along the Alabama River, Tom Franklin stakes his claim as a fresh, original Southern voice. His lyric, deceptively simple prose conjures a world where the default setting is violence, a world of hunting and fishing, gambling and losing, drinking and poaching-a world most of us have never seen... -
![Un mese con Montalbano by Andrea Camilleri]()
Un mese con Montalbano by Andrea Camilleri
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsUn mese con Montalbano è una raccolta di trenta racconti di Andrea Camilleri, pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1998 dalla Mondadori Editore; nel 2018 il libro viene ripubblicato da Sellerio Editore di Palermo.Il titolo si collega al numero di racconti, che coinvolgerebbero il lettore per un mese esatto, leggendo un racconto ogni giorno, come afferma lo stesso autore nella nota conclusiva... -
![Un mese con Montalbano by Andrea Camilleri]()
Un mese con Montalbano by Andrea Camilleri
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsUn mese con Montalbano è una raccolta di trenta racconti di Andrea Camilleri, pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1998 dalla Mondadori Editore; nel 2018 il libro viene ripubblicato da Sellerio Editore di Palermo.Il titolo si collega al numero di racconti, che coinvolgerebbero il lettore per un mese esatto, leggendo un racconto ogni giorno, come afferma lo stesso autore nella nota conclusiva... -
![Freedom Road by William Lashner]()
Freedom Road by William Lashner
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHe’s taking a dangerous path in search of his missing granddaughter—the only part of his life worth saving. Oliver Cross is fresh out of jail. His plans for the future are to live out his days in regret, back pain, and a bottle of Lone Star. But when he finds out his granddaughter, a wild child who reminds him of his late wife, has vanished—bless her hell-raising heart—Oliver jumps parole... -
![Claiming Lily by Rene Webb]()
Claiming Lily by Rene Webb
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings✅ Romantic Suspense✅ Rescued by a Millionaire Hero✅ Virgin (former) HeroineCan Finn convince me that I want to be his, before my family interferes?LilyI may have been rescued from the brothel, but my safety is still in question. My captors are on the hunt and closing in. Finn and I must team up to unravel the truth behind my kidnapping and take down those responsible... -
![Truck Stop by J.A. Konrath]()
Truck Stop by J.A. Konrath
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBefore the events of Jack Kilborn's epic horror novel AFRAID...Before the events of J.A. Konrath's critically acclaimed Jack Daniels thrillers FUZZY NAVEL and CHERRY BOMB...Before the events of Jack Kilborn's and Blake Crouch's #1 ebook bestseller SERIAL...A cop and two killers meet for the ultimate showdown at the TRUCK STOP...
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