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  • Dark Sky by C.J. Box

    Dark Sky by C.J. Box

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must accompany a Silicon Valley CEO on a hunting trip--but soon learns that he himself may be the hunted--in the thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box...
  • Long Range by C.J. Box

    Long Range by C.J. Box

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box returns with a blazing new Joe Pickett novel, in which the Wyoming game warden must investigate a murder that happens on his turf--a murder committed from a confoundingly long distance.The wife of a prominent local judge is shot and killed on Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett's turf...
  • Dark Horse by Gregg Hurwitz

    Dark Horse by Gregg Hurwitz

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Gregg Hurwitz's New York Times bestselling series returns when Orphan X faces his most challenging mission ever in Dark Horse.Evan Smoak is a man with many identities and a challenging past. As Orphan X, he was a government assassin for the off-the-books Orphan Program...
  • A Cold Trail by Robert Dugoni

    A Cold Trail by Robert Dugoni

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    In New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni’s riveting series, Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite returns home to a brutal murder and her haunted past. The last time homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite was in Cedar Grove, it was to see her sister’s killer put behind bars...
  • Mercy by David Baldacci

    Mercy by David Baldacci

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    FBI Agent Atlee Pine’s harrowing search for her long-lost sister Mercy reaches a boiling point in this breakneck thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.   For her entire life, FBI agent Atlee Pine has been searching for her twin sister, Mercy, who was abducted at the age of six and never seen again...
  • Hidden Creed by Alex Kava

    Hidden Creed by Alex Kava

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Secrets are exposed and Ryder Creed's life hangs in the balance in the riveting sixth installment of the award-winning Alex Kava Ryder Creed K-9 mysteries.NOTHING STAYS HIDDEN FOREVER...During a training exercise, Creed’s scent dog, Grace, is drawn off course and discovers a shallow grave...
  • Our Stolen Pieces by James Hunt

    Our Stolen Pieces by James Hunt

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When the morning after a slumber party reveals two missing girls, a newly minted Detective and a young veteran are assigned the case. Recently partnered, the pair of detectives must set aside their troubled pasts to recover the pair of girls who may have been coerced by a stranger who had kidnapped before...
  • Murder in the Mansion by Faith Martin

    Murder in the Mansion by Faith Martin

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Looking for a brilliant best-selling murder mystery with a feisty female detective? Meet DI HILLARY GREENE, a policewoman struggling to save her career and catch criminals. Mattie Jones is found brutally stabbed to death in her palatial home. Hillary Greene is called in to investigate the murder of this wealthy woman...
  • Little Broken Things by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Little Broken Things by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Detective Georgiana Germaine is back on the trail of a cold-blooded killer, and once again, the case hits close to home.Twenty-year-old Olivia Spencer sits at her desk in her mother's bookshop, dreaming about her upcoming wedding. The shop may be closed, but Olivia's not alone, and her dream is about to become her worst nightmare...
  • The Patient Man by Joy Ellis

    The Patient Man by Joy Ellis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From #1 best-selling author Joy Ellis, a totally absorbing mystery full of stunning twists and turns. Discover the author who’s sold over two million books globally...
  • The Maid's Diary by Loreth Anne White

    The Maid's Diary by Loreth Anne White

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Kit Darling is a maid with a snooping problem. She’s the “invisible girl,” compelled to poke into her wealthy clients’ closely guarded lives. It’s a harmless hobby until Kit sees something she can’t unsee in the home of her brand-new clients: a secret so dark it could destroy the privileged couple expecting their first child. This makes Kit dangerous to the couple...
  • To Die For by David Baldacci

    To Die For by David Baldacci

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author, David Baldacci, the 6:20 Man returns, this time sent to the Pacific Northwest to aid the FBI in a case that gets more complicated with the more questions Devine asks—and he’s about to come face-to-face with his nemesis, the girl on the train. Travis Devine has become a pro at adapting to any situation to accomplish the mission set in front of him...
  • 12 by Nolon King, David Wright

    12 by Nolon King, David Wright

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What Would You Do With the Last 12 Hours of Your Life?At 6 p.m. on a Wednesday in October, a gunman will enter Goldman’s Diner and commit one of the worst massacres the small coastal town of Palm Isles, Florida has ever seen.Twelve hours twelve lives are on borrowed time, unaware that death is coming, or that their paths will collide in one tragic moment...
  • Vicious Circle by C.J. Box

    Vicious Circle by C.J. Box

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, C.J. BOX! The past comes back to haunt game warden Joe Pickett and his family with devastating effect in the thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author C. J. Box. The plane circled in the dark. Joe Pickett could just make out down below a figure in the snow and timber, and then three other figures closing in. There was nothing he could do about it...
  • Stone Sober by Gwyn McNamee

    Stone Sober by Gwyn McNamee

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Stone Hawke is precisely the kind of man women are warned about—handsome, intelligent, arrogant, and intricately entangled with some dangerous people. I should stay away, but he manages to strip my soul bare with just a look and dominates my thoughts. Bad decisions are in my past. My life is (mostly) on track, even if it is no longer the one to medical school...
  • The Viaduct Killings by Wes Markin

    The Viaduct Killings by Wes Markin

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Still grieving from the tragic death of her colleague, DCI Emma Gardner continues to blames herself and is struggling to focus. So, when she is seconded to the wilds of Yorkshire, Emma hopes she’ll be able to get her mind back on the job, doing what she does best - putting killers behind bars.But when she is immediately thrown into another violent murder, Emma has no time to rest...
  • Shattered by Allison Brennan

    Shattered by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Over a span of twenty years, four boys have been kidnapped from their bedrooms, suffocated, and buried nearby in a shallow grave. Serial killer or coincidence?That’s the question investigative reporter Maxine Revere sets out to answer when an old friend begs her to help exonerate his wife, who has been charged with their son’s recent murder. But Max can do little to help because the police and D...
  • Cold Red by Fiona Quinn

    Cold Red by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Undercover. Under fire. Under arrest...…It’s hard to save a special agent’s life with your hands cuffed behind your back.Anna walks into the house and is met with flashbang. The FBI have her cuffed and belted into the back of their car. Two FBI agents are escorting her over the mountains of West Virginia heading to Washington DC for interrogation……She was never meant to get there alive...
  • A Very Bad Thing by J.T. Ellison

    A Very Bad Thing by J.T. Ellison

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison comes a taut thriller about one author at the pinnacle of her career, whose past threatens to destroy everything she has—and everyone she knows.A great writer knows when to deliver a juicy plot twist. But for one author, the biggest twist of all is her own murder...
  • Missed Connections by Alexandria Clarke

    Missed Connections by Alexandria Clarke

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    How far would you go for revenge? Veronica Bauer isn’t above homicide. Twelve years after a ruthless attack killed her mother and put her father in prison, she embarks on a mission to bring the real culprits to justice. As bodies start to drop, Detective Sheila Arden is assigned to the gruesome case, but she soon discovers that the truth is more complicated than she thought...
  • YOU DID THIS by Jamie Millen

    YOU DID THIS by Jamie Millen

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A sister’s worst nightmare. A homicide detective’s destiny.Everybody loves Claire’s little sister, Tina. But only Claire sees the twisted psychopath hiding behind her sister’s angelic face. When Tina is brutally murdered on her fourteenth birthday, the day Claire failed to walk her home from school, Claire never forgives herself. And neither does their mother...
  • The Promise by Katerina Diamond

    The Promise by Katerina Diamond

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    ‘All hail the new Queen of Crime!’ HeatWhen troubled teen Connor moves to Exeter from the US after a horrific school shooting, he finds himself embroiled in a world of popular kids and easy girls. Everyone wants to be his friend, but they don’t know about what he did…and they don’t know about his father...
  • Gated Prey by Lee Goldberg

    Gated Prey by Lee Goldberg

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A simple sting operation takes a violent and unexpected turn for Detective Eve Ronin in a gripping thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg.Los Angeles County Sheriff’s detective Eve Ronin and her soon-to-retire partner, Duncan Pavone, are running a 24-7 sting in a guard-gated enclave of palatial homes in Calabasas...
  • Wrath by Gwyn McNamee

    Wrath by Gwyn McNamee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All I see is red.Blood.Pain.Rage.It consumes me.The moment he took her, wrath invaded my soul.I only have one purpose. End him and take back what’s mine. Love isn’t always clean, and wrath is the deadliest sin...
  • Fixed in Blood by T.E. Woods

    Fixed in Blood by T.E. Woods

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Perfect for fans of Jeff Lindsay’s Dexter thrillers and the novels of Lisa Gardner and Karin Slaughter, the gritty, action-packed Justice series continues as a depraved mind taunts those who seek retribution on both sides of the law. I become whatever they want. Whatever they need.   Seattle Chief of Detectives Mort Grant is still reeling from losing his daughter—again...
  • The Girl in the Snow by Alexandria Clarke

    The Girl in the Snow by Alexandria Clarke

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A retired FBI agent. A heartstopping tragedy. Carolina Caccia, a divorced mother of two, confronts her worst fears when her son goes missing during a family ski trip. As she discovers her son has been taken, she must revisit her dark past to rescue her child...
  • Love You To Death by Caroline Mitchell

    Love You To Death by Caroline Mitchell

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here.‘I’m not your mother. You’re a monster. I don’t want you’Women who gave a child up for adoption are being killed. A knock at their front door begins a nightmare from which they will never wake up.For Detective Ruby Preston and her team, it is a race against time to connect the dots before the killer can strike again...
  • Small Spaces by Sarah Epstein

    Small Spaces by Sarah Epstein

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    We don’t pick and choose what to be afraid of. Our fears pick us.Tash Carmody has been traumatised since childhood, when she witnessed her gruesome imaginary friend Sparrow lure young Mallory Fisher away from a carnival. At the time nobody believed Tash, and she has since come to accept that Sparrow wasn’t real. Now fifteen and mute, Mallory’s never spoken about the week she went missing...
  • The Face Changers by Thomas Perry

    The Face Changers by Thomas Perry

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Can a woman who's rescued countless victims now save herself from an unknown enemy? After over a decade as a guide who helped people in trouble disappear, Jane Whitefield has promised her new husband that she will never work again. But she is asked to perform her magic just one last time...
  • Dead List by Helen H. Durrant, Jonathan Keeble

    Dead List by Helen H. Durrant, Jonathan Keeble

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    An unlikely serial killer with a bucket list of victims....Police partners, D.I. Calladine and D.S. Ruth Bayliss battle a murderer who is working their way through a list of victims. Each murder is meticulously planned and unique, and a tarot card is left at the scene of the crime...
  • Stranger in the Woods by Anni Taylor

    Stranger in the Woods by Anni Taylor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Photographer Isla Wilson is thrilled she’s landed her dream job, but the clients who hired her are getting stranger by the day. It sounded so perfect - a month‘s assignment at the misty, sprawling Scottish Highlands property of brilliant architect Alban McGregor, and his wife, Jessica. But deep in the woods, there is a chilling playhouse...
  • From Cradle to Grave by Patricia MacDonald

    From Cradle to Grave by Patricia MacDonald

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A nail-biting novel of domestic suspense from a best-selling author - When Morgan Adair arrives at the small seaside town of West Briar on the Long Island shore, she is looking forward to attending the baptism of her new godson, Drew. Morgan and Drew's mother, Claire, have been friends since childhood, and Morgan was delighted when Claire married the handsome Guy Bolton...
  • The Fourth Friend by Joy Ellis

    The Fourth Friend by Joy Ellis

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Looking for your next unputdownable mystery? Then try this book by #1 best-selling author Joy Ellis, a mystery full of stunning twists and turns. FOUR LOST FRIENDS. FOUR TASKS TO COMPLETE. ONE BIG MYSTERY LEFT. Police detective Carter McLean is the only survivor of a plane crash that kills his four best friends. He returns to work but he is left full of guilt and terrible flashbacks...
  • Never Tell by Lisa Gardner

    Never Tell by Lisa Gardner

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner returns with an unpredictable thriller that puts fan favorites D. D. Warren and Flora Dane on a shocking new case that begins with a vicious murder and gets darker from there.A man is dead, shot three times in his home office. But his computer has been shot twelve times, and when the cops arrive, his pregnant wife is holding the gun.D. D...
  • Win by Harlan Coben

    Win by Harlan Coben

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    From a #1 New York Times bestselling author comes this thrilling story that shows what happens when a dead man's secrets fall into the hands of vigilante antihero—drawing him down a dangerous road.Over twenty years ago, the heiress Patricia Lockwood was abducted during a robbery of her family's estate, then locked inside an isolated cabin for months...
  • West End Justice by K.J. Kalis

    West End Justice by K.J. Kalis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Everything in Detective Morgan Foster’s life is a secret…Living in West End, West Virginia wasn’t part of the plan, but the murders of her husband, Peter, and her partner, AJ Roth, have sent her into hiding.For a while, everything seemed to be fine, but two dead bodies at her waitressing job tell another story..
  • Fixed in Fear by T.E. Woods

    Fixed in Fear by T.E. Woods

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Fixer returns in the pulse-pounding Justice series—perfect for fans of Lisa Gardner, Karin Slaughter, and Jeff Lindsay’s Dexter thrillers—as worlds collide in an inferno of bloodshed, revenge, and holy terror. I’ll probably never see my daughter again. And if I do, she’ll either be dead or in a jail cell...
  • Dead End Fix by T.E. Woods

    Dead End Fix by T.E. Woods

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fear and violence come home to roost in this exhilarating Justice thriller featuring The Fixer—a roller-coaster ride for readers of Lisa Gardner, Karin Slaughter, and Jeff Lindsay’s Dexter novels.   I’ll bring Hadley home. Whatever it takes. Whatever it costs. Whoever has to die.   There’s a gang war unfolding on the streets of Seattle...
  • The End of Lies by Andrew Barrett

    The End of Lies by Andrew Barrett

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My name is Becky. I arrived home to find my husband, Chris, stabbed to death and a gang of men ransacking our house. Turns out that Chris has something that belongs to them. And if I want to stay alive, I have to find it and return it. They have given me seven days. And a beating. There is nowhere to hide and no time left to look. So I will stand my ground as the deadline approaches...
  • Running Cold by Susan Walter

    Running Cold by Susan Walter

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In this heart-pounding story of deception, murder, and survival, a former Olympian retreats to the Canadian wilderness for a fresh start, only to find out that the past will always catch up to her.Julie Adler’s perfect facade is shattered by grief when her husband commits suicide...
  • The Silence Between Breaths by Cath Staincliffe

    The Silence Between Breaths by Cath Staincliffe

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Eight people, one deadly secret.Passengers boarding the 10.35 train from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston are bound for work, assignations, reunions, holidays or new starts, with no idea that their journey is about to be brutally curtailed...
  • The Night You Left by Emma Curtis

    The Night You Left by Emma Curtis

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    IT ONLY TAKES A MOMENT TO UNRAVEL A PERFECT LIFE . . . When Grace’s fiancé vanishes without a trace the night after proposing, her life is turned upside down. But has Nick walked out on her, or is he in danger?As Grace desperately searches for answers, it soon becomes clear that Nick wasn’t the uncomplicated man she thought she knew...
  • Girl Found by Kate Gable

    Girl Found by Kate Gable

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Don’t look for me… A college student is found dead in the apartment of a US Marine who has disappeared.Where is he? Did he kill her and run? And if so, why? Detective Kaitlyn Carr will stop at nothing to find out what happened.The marine’s father is certain that his son would never do anything to harm his friend...
  • Dance for the Dead by Thomas Perry

    Dance for the Dead by Thomas Perry

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "COMPELLING . . . NOBODY WRITES A CHASE BETTER THAN PERRY."  *The Washington Post Book WorldWhen eight-year-old Timothy Decker finds his parents brutally murdered, it's clear the Deckers weren't the intended victims: Timothy's own room—ransacked, all traces of his existence expertly obliterated *is the shocking evidence. Timothy's nanny, Mona, is certain about only one thing...
  • Payback by Kimberley Chambers

    Payback by Kimberley Chambers

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Butlers are not a family to be messed with. Top dogs in the East End, they trample on anybody who gets in their way.Vinny Butler has upset many people on his rise up the criminal ladder. His best pal, mum, brother, dad, aunt, son and his girlfriend's father all hold grudges against him...
  • The Girl in the Woods by Patricia MacDonald

    The Girl in the Woods by Patricia MacDonald

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A deathbed confession has chilling consequences in this gripping novel of psychological suspense. “I have to tell you something … I did something bad”.Ever since her best friend Molly was murdered fifteen years before, Blair Butler has returned to her small hometown in the Pocono mountains as seldom as possible...
  • Boetedoening (O'Loughlin by Michael Robotham

    Boetedoening (O'Loughlin by Michael Robotham

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Ray Hegarty, a highly respected former detective, lies dead in his daughter Sienna's bedroom. She is found covered in his blood. Everything points to her guilt, but psychologist Joe O'Loughlin isn't convinced.Fourteen-year-old Sienna is Joe's daughter's best friend ? Joe has watched her grow up and seen the troubled look in her eyes...
  • Out of Bounds by Val McDermid

    Out of Bounds by Val McDermid

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Internationally bestselling author Val McDermid is one of our finest crime writers, whose gripping, impeccably plotted novels have garnered millions of readers worldwide. In her latest, Out of Bounds, she delivers a riveting cold case novel featuring detective Karen Pirie...
  • The Bitter Season by Tami Hoag

    The Bitter Season by Tami Hoag

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    #1"New York Times "bestselling author Tami Hoag explores the devastating consequences of the secrets families keep in this powerful thriller. As the dreary, bitter weather of late fall descends on Minneapolis, Detective Nikki Liska is restless, already bored with her new assignment to the cold case squad...
  • Trespassing by Brandi Reeds

    Trespassing by Brandi Reeds

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In a novel of mounting psychological suspense, a young mother follows a dangerous path to find her missing husband.Veronica Cavanaugh’s grasp on the world is slipping. Her latest round of fertility treatments not only failed but left her on edge and unbalanced. And her three-year-old daughter, Elizabella, has a new imaginary friend, who seems much more devilish than playful...
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