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  • L'Affaire Alaska Sanders by Joël Dicker

    L'Affaire Alaska Sanders by Joël Dicker

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Avril 1999. Mount Pleasant, une paisible bourgade du New Hampshire, est bouleversée par un meurtre. Le corps d'une jeune femme, Alaska Sanders, est retrouvé au bord d'un lac. L'enquête est rapidement bouclée, la police obtenant les aveux du coupable et de son complice.Onze ans plus tard, l'affaire rebondit...
  • Cowboy in the Crosshairs by Em Petrova

    Cowboy in the Crosshairs by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They’re total opposites. That doesn’t mean he won’t lay down his life for her.Silas Shanie is ready for action. Now that his medical leave is over, he’s more than capable of being back on the WEST Protection team. His first assignment? Easy. His new ward? Not at all. But he’ll keep the gorgeous, shallow heiress safe because it’s his job. He doesn’t have to like her. Except…he does. Maybe too much...
  • The Surrogate's Gift by L.G. Davis

    The Surrogate's Gift by L.G. Davis

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Her one good deed is about to turn into her worst nightmare.Becoming a surrogate for Marcia and Travis Thorpe is Grace’s chance to overcome her inner demons.Nothing can go wrong. Her life depends on it.Determined to focus on the pregnancy, she drops everything and accepts the Thorpes’ offer to move in with them until the baby is born. A simple decision. One big mistake...
  • Dangerous Lady by Martina Cole

    Dangerous Lady by Martina Cole

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Martina's explosive first novel of corruption and...
  • 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...
  • A Deeper Fear by Allison Brennan

    A Deeper Fear by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid’s husband, Sean Rogan, is in a dark place after being held captive. He won’t talk about it with anyone, not even Lucy. She’s hoping a conference in Sacramento, which includes family and the unveiling of a highly sought after drone Sean’s been working on, will help him heal...
  • Dead Tomorrow by Peter James

    Dead Tomorrow by Peter James

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    *Lynn gripped the sides of the armchair, trying to put aside her own inner terror. 'I can't believe I'm thinking this, Ross. I'm not a violent person, even before Caitlin's influence, I never even liked killing flies in my kitchen. Now I'm sitting here actually willing some stranger to die...
  • The House of Lies by Debra Burroughs

    The House of Lies by Debra Burroughs

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Debra Burroughs... P.I. Emily Parker and sexy police detective Colin Andrews are back, along with their close circle of friends. The House of Lies is Book 7 and you are in for another exciting and dangerous murder mystery with a thrilling dose of romance. Emily is fighting to clear the prime murder suspect while Colin is working to put him in jail...
    Categorized as:
    crime  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction
  • None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell

    None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    From the #1  New York Times  bestselling author known for her “superb pacing, twisted characters, and captivating prose” ( BuzzFeed ), Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast...
  • No Way Out by Allison Brennan

    No Way Out by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From Allison Brennan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cut and Run, comes a new e-novella, No Way Out: FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid faces her worst fear when her husband goes missing Nine years ago, mercenary Kane Rogan and photojournalist Siobhan Walsh risked their lives to rescue Hestia Juarez, a thirteen-year-old girl being forced to marry a much older man to expand her father’s crime family...
  • Snow Blind by Lori G. Armstrong

    Snow Blind by Lori G. Armstrong

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The frigid winter months are mighty slow in the PI biz for Julie Collins and her partner, Kevin Wells—until the duo is hired by a young woman to investigate problems at her grandfather’s assisted living facility, where they encounter lax security, unqualified healthcare personnel, and a shady senior volunteer organization...
  • Screams in the Dark by Anna Smith

    Screams in the Dark by Anna Smith

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A gritty, page-turning thriller perfect for fans of Martina Cole.Refugees are disappearing in Glasgow. The mutilated body of one has been found, but the police aren't interested...
  • Sweet Vengeance by Fern Michaels

    Sweet Vengeance by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels’ new novel is a deeply satisfying and uplifting story of one woman’s journey from heartbreak to triumph.   Tessa Jamison couldn’t have imagined anything worse than losing her beloved twin girls and husband—until she was convicted of their murder...
  • Third Watch by Robert Dugoni

    Third Watch by Robert Dugoni

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Tracy Crosswhite’s ordinary night patrolling her Seattle beat becomes front page news when she responds to a domestic disturbance call that turns into a hostage crisis...
  • Faceless by Martina Cole

    Faceless by Martina Cole

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Eleven years ago Marie Carter was convicted of killing her two best friends. And she's paid the price. Now she is being released from prison. It's time to go home. But life has moved on, and Marie has nowhere to go. Her parents have disowned her; her friends have abandoned her; even her kids don't want to know...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  thriller  book  contemporary  dark  fiction  mystery
  • La casa delle voci by Donato Carrisi

    La casa delle voci by Donato Carrisi

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Pietro Gerber non è uno psicologo come gli altri. La sua specializzazione è l'ipnosi e i suoi pazienti hanno una cosa in comune: sono bambini. Pietro è il migliore di tutta Firenze, dove è conosciuto come l'addormentatore di bambini. Ma quando riceve una telefonata da parte di una collega australiana che gli raccomanda una paziente, Pietro reagisce con perplessità e diffidenza...
  • Retaliation by Mimi Barbour

    Retaliation by Mimi Barbour

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A virgin librarian with hot-chick potential, the conflicts in her story won’t let you put the book down. Be prepared for an all-nighter… She watches the mob kill her twin and is too frozen with fear to stop them. How can she live with that cowardice eating away at her self-respect? Revenge claws at her sheltered existence until she can’t breathe. Though she’s naïve, she isn’t stupid...
  • An FBI Murder Mystery Bundle by Ava Strong, Blake Pierce

    An FBI Murder Mystery Bundle by Ava Strong, Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A two-book mystery bundle by debut author Ava Strong and #1 bestselling author Blake Pierce, author of ONCE GONE, a #1 bestseller on Amazon with over 1,000 five star reviews!Here is a bundle of the first books in two different series—the Ilse Beck FBI Suspense Thriller series by Ava Strong and the Adele Sharp Mystery series by Blake Pierce—all in one convenient place...
  • Notorious by Carey Baldwin

    Notorious by Carey Baldwin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The woman everyone loves to hate is dead. Dallas socialite Cynthia Langhorne is infamous for her beauty, her philanthropy, and her home wrecking--until she's found shot through the heart and posed nude at a fundraising ball. The case is high profile, and there's a bigger problem: Cindy is the wife of a decorated FBI special agent--the prime suspect in her murder...
    Categorized as:
    crime  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • The List by Velvet Vaughn

    The List by Velvet Vaughn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the author of The Fan and Committed is the first romantic suspense novel in the COBRA Securities series. The List is an intriguing mixture of pulse-pounding suspense and sizzling passion. It was just supposed to be a game... What started out as a harmless game between friends has turned deadly real. Fourteen men are dead, all from apparent accidents...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • Only The Good Die Young : And I'm Not A Saint by Akash Verma

    Only The Good Die Young : And I'm Not A Saint by Akash Verma

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sometimes when you're desperate to leave the past behind, the past is eager to catch up!Anuradha leaves Gurgaon when Dhruv chooses his family over her. She thinks that chapter of her life hasended, and starts afresh in Mumbai. But strangely, it seems her past is trying to catch up. Dhruv suddenlycomes back into her life...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  madness
  • You Beneath Your Skin by Damyanti Biswas

    You Beneath Your Skin by Damyanti Biswas

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It’s a dark, smog-choked New Delhi winter. Indian American single mother Anjali Morgan juggles her job as a psychiatrist with caring for her autistic teenage son. She is in a long-standing affair with ambitious police commissioner Jatin Bhatt – an irresistible attraction that could destroy both their lives...
    Categorized as:
    crime  thriller  suspense  fiction  mystery  contemporary  murder  book
  • The Woman on the Ledge by Ruth Mancini

    The Woman on the Ledge by Ruth Mancini

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Obsession. Intrigue. Revenge. Whose secrets are you keeping? And why?A woman falls to her death from a London bank’s twenty-fifth-floor roof terrace.You’re arrested for her murder.You tell the police that you had only met the victim the previous night at your office party. She was threatening to jump from the roof, but you had talked her down.You’ve got nothing to do with this tragedy...
  • Dark Justice by Brandilyn Collins

    Dark Justice by Brandilyn Collins

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If I’d had any idea what those words would mean to me, to my mother and daughter, I’d have fled California without looking back. While driving a rural road, Hannah Shire and her aging mother, who suffers from dementia, stop to help a man at the scene of a car accident. The man whispers mysterious words in Hannah’s ear. Soon people want to kill Hannah and her mother for what they “know...
  • His Other Lie by Ava Strong

    His Other Lie by Ava Strong

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Stella Fall, still reeling from the trauma of her deceitful fiancé and her failed engagement, has decided to pursue her dreams, follow in her father’s footsteps, and throw herself into law enforcement. Upon graduating from the FBI’s academy, she isf placed in the FBI’s Connecticut field office...
  • The House of Now and Then by Jo Dixon

    The House of Now and Then by Jo Dixon

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    You should leave the past in the past ... or should you? A vividly told, jaw-droppingly twisty and wholly engaging story about the consequences of discovering the truth. For readers of Sally Hepworth, Nicola Moriarty and Adele Parks...
  • The Girl Who Ran Away: The McClintock-Carter Crime Thriller Series by Susan Lund

    The Girl Who Ran Away: The McClintock-Carter Crime Thriller Series by Susan Lund

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A new missing persons case, a prime suspect and questions about an old friend challenge amateur sleuth and crime reporter Tess McClintock and FBI Special Agent Michael Carter in THE GIRL WHO RAN AWAY, a new book in the McClintock-Carter Crime Thriller Series...
  • The Thorn Girl by Laura Elliot

    The Thorn Girl by Laura Elliot

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A swallow flutters its wings into a dimly lit attic as Adele Foyle stumbles across the secret diary of the mother she has never met, and a shocking account of a crime committed over twenty-five years ago...
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    crime  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  family
  • Juste une ombre by Karine Giébel

    Juste une ombre by Karine Giébel

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Cloé Beauchamp est une jeune femme à qui tout semble réussir; belle, brillante, sur le point d'être nommée à la tête d'une prestigieuse agence de publicité... Et amoureuse, depuis peu, d'un homme charmant. Elle cache à la perfection ses failles et les horreurs qui ont jalonné son passé. Mais lentement, sa vie va se transformer en cauchemar...
  • The Stepdaughter by Georgina Cross

    The Stepdaughter by Georgina Cross

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It’s a normal afternoon when I walk out the patio doors of our kitchen to check on Mia, my stepdaughter, who is swimming in our backyard pool. But she’s gone. My heart stops when I see the back gate is open, her pink, fluffy towel lying folded on a chair. I was just feet away...
  • Le Manuscrit Inachevé by Franck Thilliez, Jean-Yves Berteloot

    Le Manuscrit Inachevé by Franck Thilliez, Jean-Yves Berteloot

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Aux alentours de Grenoble, un jeune a fini sa trajectoire dans un ravin après une course-poursuite avec la douane. Dans son coffre, le corps d’une femme, les orbites vides, les mains coupées et rassemblées dans un sac...
  • Little Buried Secrets by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Little Buried Secrets by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The clock is ticking, and for Margot, time has just run out.Margot Remington exits the wood-lined boardwalk at Moonstone Beach and pedals her bike onto the highway. It's dusk, and the sky has started to grumble, the clouds shifting and bending as they turn a melancholy shade of charcoal. Rain was coming. Margot could smell it in the air...
  • Caught You by Molly Black

    Caught You by Molly Black

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    On a notorious stretch of highway rife with serial killers, new victims are appearing, their cars crashed off the road by a reckless killer, their bodies missing...
  • Cover Your Tracks by Claire Askew

    Cover Your Tracks by Claire Askew

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Robertson Bennet returns to Edinburgh after a 25-year absence in search of his parents and his inheritance. But both have disappeared. A quick, routine police check should be enough - and Detective Inspector Helen Birch has enough on her plate trying to help her brother, Charlie, after an assault in prison. But all her instincts tell her not to let this case go. And so she digs...
  • The Paris Widow by Kimberly Belle

    The Paris Widow by Kimberly Belle

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A dream vacation turns deadly when secrets from the past catch up to a married couple in Paris in this new edge-of-your-seat thriller from USA Today bestselling author, Kimberly Belle.When Stella met Adam, she thought she had finally found a nice, normal guy—a welcome change from her previous boyfriend and her precarious jetsetter lifestyle with him...
  • Roses Are Blood Red by Novoneel Chakraborty

    Roses Are Blood Red by Novoneel Chakraborty

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I'll gift you a love story that every girl desires, but few get to live.'He'd told me once. And boy, did he stick to his words! Vanav Thakur is the perfect boyfriend that any girl can have. He ticks every box you can ever have for your Mr Right. Trust me on this...
  • Hard Time by A.J. Carella

    Hard Time by A.J. Carella

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When it comes to family, Kat will do anything. Even if that means going against everything she believes in, and risking her already fragile relationship with the man she loves. Faced with a problem that is too much for her alone, she enlists the help of her one time partner, Kyle. Together they must uncover a deadly secret before any more innocent lives are lost...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • Bad Guys Get Caught by Marie Astor

    Bad Guys Get Caught by Marie Astor

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Bad Guys Get Caught (Book Three in the Janet Maple Series) Janet Maple and Dennis Walker are aces at catching the bad guys, but an assignment involving an international gangster and a sleazy politician just might have them in over their heads. With the man of her dreams on her arm and a dream job at one of NYC’s top private agencies, Janet’s life is nearly perfect...
    Categorized as:
    crime  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction
  • Three Strikes by Kate Kessler

    Three Strikes by Kate Kessler

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Three Strikes is the new novel in a thriller series where a criminal psychologist uses her own dark past to help law enforcement catch dangerous killers.Thanksgiving is approaching, and Audrey Harte has a lot to be thankful for -- her mother has recovered from surgery, her relationship with Jake is solid, her father is relatively sober, and her career is evolving in an exciting direction...
  • Black for Remembrance by Carlene Thompson

    Black for Remembrance by Carlene Thompson

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Caroline Webb knows what it means to lose the person you love most. Twenty years ago, her five-year-old daughter, Hayley, was the light of her life, her treasure, her angle. Then came the terrible day when Hayley was kidnapped from her favorite swing. More than a month passed before her burned, lifeless body was found. All that remained was the silence of Caroline's heartache--and her guilt..
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror
  • Night Tales by Nora Roberts

    Night Tales by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Detective Boyd Fletcher's Night Shift assignment to protect vulnerable Cilia O'Roarke is fraught with danger... especially to his heart. Prosecutor Deborah O'Roarke suspects a link between enigmatic Gage Guthrie and a heroic phantom who lurks in Night Shadow. Lieutenant Althea Grayson and P.I. Colt Nightshade butt heads and hearts, tracking a killer...
  • First Bones by Kathy Reichs

    First Bones by Kathy Reichs

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    An e-novella by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs that explores the origins of her vastly popular character, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.In 1980s Charlotte, North Carolina, Temperance Brennan is newly employed as a bioarchaeologist, studying the bones of the ancient dead...
  • The Perfect Couple by Brenda Novak

    The Perfect Couple by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    One afternoon in May, Zoe Duncan's thirteen-year-old daughter goes missing from her own backyard. The police think Samantha ran away because she's unhappy about her mother's upcoming marriage—but Zoe doesn't believe it. In fact, she's willing to do anything to bring Sam home, even if it means losing her job, her beautiful home, her fiancé...
  • The Client / The Street Lawyer by John Grisham

    The Client / The Street Lawyer by John Grisham

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    THE CLIENTThe Law, the Mob, a murder — and the mind of an eleven-year- old child... An eleven-year-old has discovered a secret that not even an adult should know. A US State Senator is dead, and Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden. The FBI want him to tell them where it is at whatever cost to Mark and his family. The killer wants him silenced forever...
  • Tahoe Deathfall by Todd Borg

    Tahoe Deathfall by Todd Borg

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When 14-year-old Jennifer Salazar approaches Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna, she explains that her identical twin sister Melissa died 8 years before on their 6th birthday. Now, at the ripe old age of 14, Jennifer has come to believe that her sister's death was not the accident that everyone says. When McKenna investigates, he uncovers a long-buried secret that is still driving a murderer to kill...
  • Stimmen by Ursula Poznanski

    Stimmen by Ursula Poznanski

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Er hatte die Zeichen gesehen. Er sah sie seit Jahren schon, und hatte immer wieder versucht, die Menschen zu warnen, doch nie wollte jemand ihm glauben.Sie hatten ein Opfer dargebracht. Auf keinen Fall durften sie ihn hören. Sie wissen, wer du bist.Menschen, die wirr vor sich hinmurmeln...
  • Mind Game by Iris Johansen

    Mind Game by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    With Iris Johansen’s trademark adventure, intrigue, and explosive energy, Mind Game is a propulsive thriller that’s impossible to put down.Scotland holds a treasure that Jane MacGuire has been hunting for years. But as she scours the Highlands in search of it, she’s plagued by dreams of a girl in danger—dreams she can’t ignore no matter how hard she tries...
  • The Running Girls by Matt Brolly

    The Running Girls by Matt Brolly

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the bestselling author of the Detective Louise Blackwell series comes a story of two murders, twenty years apart. There’s only one suspect. But what if he’s innocent?Twenty years ago, in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas, Annie Randall took her dog for a walk. The dog returned. Annie did not...
  • Expecting to Die by Lisa Jackson

    Expecting to Die by Lisa Jackson

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The menacing woods of Grizzly Falls, Montana, are not for the faint of heart. But for some, they're the perfect setting for partying and pranks. They don't know there's a rapt audience amid the tangled trees, a killer with a different kind of game in mind, for whom the woods are dark and deep and perfectly deadly. Some places earn their bad reputation through tall tales or chance...
  • The Halo Effect by Anne D. LeClaire

    The Halo Effect by Anne D. LeClaire

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In this tour de force, a father, shaken by tragedy, tries to avenge his daughter’s murder—and restore his family’s shattered life. It was supposed to be a typical October evening for renowned portrait artist Will Light...
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    crime  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  drama
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