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  • The Body Keeper by Anne Frasier

    The Body Keeper by Anne Frasier

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The Thriller Award–winning series continues as Detective Jude Fontaine finds a decades-old connection to missing children that will freeze her blood.A boy’s frozen body is found trapped in the ice of a Minneapolis lake. The horrifying discovery leads Detective Jude Fontaine and her partner, Uriah Ashby, to more bodies in the ice, all of twelve-year-old boys missing for twenty years...
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  • Heartbreak Bay by Rachel Caine

    Heartbreak Bay by Rachel Caine

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    They’re hunting a killer so silent, so invisible, that his unspeakable crimes are the only proof he exists.A car submerged in a remote pond. The bodies of two girls strapped into their seats. The mystery of their mother, vanished without a trace, leads Gwen Proctor and Kezia Claremont into dangerous territory...
  • The Dollmaker by Mary Burton

    The Dollmaker by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Dr. Tessa McGowan had never seen anything quite like it. But the mutilated bodies on her exam table tell a stunningly macabre tale: someone with a twisted mind is kidnapping women and altering their faces to resemble real, life-size dolls. As a forensic pathologist, it’s her job to aid the agent leading the case—even if that agent is her estranged husband...
  • The Fifth To Die by J.D. Barker

    The Fifth To Die by J.D. Barker

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Alternate cover art can be found hereIn the thrilling sequel to The Fourth Monkey, a new serial killer stalks the streets of Chicago, while Detective Porter delves deeper into the dark past of the Four Monkey Killer.Detective Porter and the team have been pulled from the hunt for Anson Bishop, the Four Monkey Killer, by the feds...
  • The Poet by Michael Connelly

    The Poet by Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Denver crime-beat reporter Jack McEvoy specializes in violent death. So when his homicide detective brother kills himself, McEvoy copes in the only way he knows how--he decides to write the story. But his research leads him to suspect a serial killer is at work--a devious murderer who's killing cops and leaving a trail of poetic clues...
  • Memories of Tomorrow by Dean Koontz

    Memories of Tomorrow by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    What strange science made Nameless who he is? What catastrophes have been erased from his memories? In the stunning conclusion of this series, the dark past comes flooding back, and Nameless must decide how much he really wants to know.In Indiana, a murderous psycho has kidnapped his own six-year-old stepson, Jamie, and secreted him away in a subterranean cave. It’s become their bunker...
  • Criminal by Karin Slaughter

    Criminal by Karin Slaughter

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Karin Slaughter's new novel is an epic tale of love, loyalty, and murder that encompasses forty years, two chillingly similar murder cases, and a good man's deepest secrets. Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him...
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  • Message in the Grave by Dawn Merriman

    Message in the Grave by Dawn Merriman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A psychic suspense thriller The darker the secret, the harder it is to keep buried I’m finally accepting that my psychic talents serve a purpose, that I can use them to help people. But two mysteries plague me...
  • Gallery of the Dead by Chris Carter

    Gallery of the Dead by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    ‘Thirty-seven years in the force, and if I was allowed to choose just one thing to erase from my mind, what’s inside that room would be it.'That’s what a LAPD Lieutenant tells Detectives Hunter and Garcia of the Ultra Violent Crimes Unit as they arrive at one of the most shocking crime scenes they have ever attended...
  • Looking Glass by Andrew Mayne

    Looking Glass by Andrew Mayne

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Professor Theo Cray caught one of the most prolific serial killers in history using revolutionary scientific methods. Cut off from university research because of the shroud of suspicion around him after the death of his former student and the aftermath of catching his quarry, Cray tries to rebuild his life but finds himself drawn into another unsolved case...
  • I Don't Want to Kill You by Dan Wells

    I Don't Want to Kill You by Dan Wells

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    John Cleaver has called a demon—literally called it, on the phone, and challenged it to a fight. He’s faced two of the monsters already, barely escaping with his life, and now he’s done running; he’s taking the fight to them...
  • Cold Fear by Toni Anderson

    Cold Fear by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A relentless FBI profiler hunts a vicious killer. When old evidence turns up on a fresh corpse, ASAC Lincoln Frazer is determined it won’t delay the execution of a convicted serial killer. But when more young women are brutally slain, it becomes clear—this new killer is intimately familiar with the old murders. A dedicated emergency physician hides a dark secret. Former Army Captain Dr...
  • The Silence of the White City by Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, Eva García Sáenz

    The Silence of the White City by Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, Eva García Sáenz

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A madman is holding Vitoria hostage, killing its citizens in brutal ways and staging the bodies. The city's only hope is a brilliant detective struggling to battle his own demons.Inspector Unai López de Ayala, known as "Kraken", is charged with investigating a series of ritualistic murders. The killings are eerily similar to ones that terrorized the citizens of Vitoria twenty years earlier...
  • Genesis by Karin Slaughter

    Genesis by Karin Slaughter

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When a tortured young woman enters the trauma center of an Atlanta hospital, Dr. Sara Linton is thrust into a desperate police investigation with Special Agent Will Trent and his partner, Faith Mitchell. Though guarding their own wounds and their own secrets, Sara, Will, and Faith find that they are all that stand between a madman and his next victim...
  • Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh

    Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    The serial killer isn't on trial.He's on the jury.It’s the murder trial of the century. And Joshua Kane has killed to get the best seat in the house – and to be sure the wrong man goes down for the crime. Because this time, the killer isn’t on trial. He’s on the jury.But there’s someone on his tail...
  • Police by Jo Nesbø

    Police by Jo Nesbø

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    When a police officer is found murdered at the scene of an old unsolved murder case that he was involved in investigating, it can hardly be a coincidence. When the same thing happens to two other officers in a matter of months the pattern is as clear as it is terrifying. None of the old cases were ever solved. The killings are extremely brutal and the police have no leads...
  • Out of the Shadows by Kay Hooper

    Out of the Shadows by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    To catch this killer, she must break every rule and cross every line.Out Of The ShadowsA picture-perfect Tennessee town has just become a monster's hunting ground. Two bodies are found tortured to death. A third person goes missing. What little evidence is left behind defies all explanation...
  • Killman Creek by Rachel Caine

    Killman Creek by Rachel Caine

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Every time Gwen closed her eyes, she saw him in her nightmares. Now her eyes are open, and he’s not going away.Gwen Proctor won the battle to save her kids from her ex-husband, serial killer Melvin Royal, and his league of psychotic accomplices. But the war isn’t over. Not since Melvin broke out of prison. Not since she received a chilling text…You’re not safe anywhere now...
  • Blood Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff

    Blood Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Book II in the Thriller Award-nominated Huntress/FBI seriesTwenty-five years have passed since a savage killer terrorized California, massacring three ordinary families before disappearing without a trace...
  • Body Double by Tess Gerritsen

    Body Double by Tess Gerritsen

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles literally meets her match–and must face a savage serial killer and shattering personal revelations–in the brilliant new novel of suspense by the New York Times bestselling author of The Surgeon and The Sinner.Dr. Maura Isles makes her living dealing with death...
  • Broken by Karin Slaughter

    Broken by Karin Slaughter

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own and far too many unanswered questions about a prisoner's death. He doesn't understand why Officer Lena Adams is hiding secrets from him. He doesn't understand her role in the death of Grant County's popular police chief. He doesn't understand why that man's widow, Dr...
  • Still Life With Crows by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Still Life With Crows by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground.Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy?Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land?Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America's heartland.No one is safe...
  • Catch Me by Lisa Gardner

    Catch Me by Lisa Gardner

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Detective D. D. Warren has four days to stop a killer in this “shocking…‘must read’”* from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner—one of Library Journal's Best Thrillers of the Year.Charlene Grant believes she is going to die. For the past few years, her childhood friends have been murdered one by one. Same day. Same time...
  • The Thirst by Jo Nesbø

    The Thirst by Jo Nesbø

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Harry Hole returns in the eleventh installment of the author's best-selling, electrifying crime fiction series—published in 48 languages, more than 30 million copies sold worldwide. In Police—the last novel featuring Jo Nesbø's hard-bitten, maverick Oslo detective—a killer wreaking revenge on the police had Harry Hole fighting for the safety of the people closest to him...
  • A Killer's Mind by Mike Omer

    A Killer's Mind by Mike Omer

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    A chilling thriller of serial murder and dark secrets that will leave you wondering, is the past really in the past?Three Chicago women have been found strangled, embalmed, and posed as if still alive. Doubting the findings of the local PD’s profiler, The FBI calls on forensic psychologist Zoe Bentley to investigate...
  • The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver

    The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    Lincoln Rhyme was once a brilliant criminologist, a genius in the field of forensics -- until an accident left him physically and emotionally shattered. But now a diabolical killer is challenging Rhyme to a terrifying and ingenious duel of wits...
  • No One Left to Tell by Karen Rose

    No One Left to Tell by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A car crashes in front of rookie PI Paige Holden’s home. And suddenly, she finds one of her pro bono clients dying in her arms—from a gunshot wound. With her last breath, the woman whispers cryptic words into her ear and hands her a blood-smeared flash drive. Five years ago, State’s Attorney Grayson Smith put a murderer behind bars...
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  • In the Barren Ground by Loreth Anne White

    In the Barren Ground by Loreth Anne White

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In the Barrens, a vast wilderness in northern Canada bordering the Arctic Circle, night consumes every hour of the winter. Humans are scarce; ferocious predators roam freely. Locals say spirits do, too. Rookie cop Tana Larsson doesn’t mind the dark and quiet. Five months pregnant and hoping to escape the mistakes of her past, she takes a post in Twin Rivers, population 320...
  • Find Her by Lisa Gardner

    Find Her by Lisa Gardner

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Lisa Gardner's runaway New York Times bestseller--a fast-paced thrill ride featuring Detective D. D. Warren. Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora Dane was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure...
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    crime  dark  suspense  abuse  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • Dark Hollow by John Connolly

    Dark Hollow by John Connolly

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Dark Hollow is a masterful second novel from a young Irish writer whose storytelling skills were established with Every Dead Thing. Now his fiery, ingenious detective, Charlie Bird Parker, returns to uncover a legacy of evil that has haunted Maine citizens for decades...
  • Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane

    Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Master of new noir Dennis Lehane magnificently evokes the dignity and savagery of working-class Boston in Darkness, Take My Hand, a terrifying tale of redemption.Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro’s latest client is a prominent Boston psychiatrist, running scared from a vengeful Irish mob. The private investigators know about cold-blooded retribution...
  • The Summer Children The Collector, Book 3 by Dot Hutchison

    The Summer Children The Collector, Book 3 by Dot Hutchison

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Series including The Butterfly...
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  • Vanish by Tess Gerritsen

    Vanish by Tess Gerritsen

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    A blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli when she finds herself on the wrong side of a hostage crisis in this timely and relentless thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Body Double. A nameless, beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue...
  • The Body Reader by Anne Frasier, 安·費瑟

    The Body Reader by Anne Frasier, 安·費瑟

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    For three years, Detective Jude Fontaine was kept from the outside world. Held in an underground cell, her only contact was with her sadistic captor, and reading his face was her entire existence. Learning his every line, every movement, and every flicker of thought is what kept her alive...
  • Dance of Death by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Dance of Death by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Two brothers on opposite sides of the law battle it out on the streets of New York in this chill-inducing thriller, a follow-up to BRIMSTONE. — As the previous installment came to a close, vicious dogs and armed men surrounded FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast and his demise seemed certain. Nevertheless, he did leave behind a legacy: a letter for his friend, NYPD Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta...
  • Beyond Reach by Karin Slaughter

    Beyond Reach by Karin Slaughter

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Sara Linton--resident medical examiner/pediatrician in Grant County, Georgia, --has plenty of hardship to deal with, including defending herself in a heartbreaking malpractice suit. So when her husband, Police chief Jeffery Tolliver, learns that his friend and coworker detective Lena Adams has been arrested for murder and needs Sara's help, she is not sure she can handle the pressure of it all...
  • Voice of Fear by Heather Graham

    Voice of Fear by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A killer is looking to silence them, once and for all.FBI agent Jordan Wallace is close to cracking the human trafficking case she’s been working, when she does the one thing she should never do: let her guard down. The botched undercover mission is semi-salvaged by the last-minute appearance of criminal psychologist Patrick Law, but Jordan can’t imagine making a worse first impression...
  • The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen

    The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The Surgeon has been locked up for a year but his chilling legacy still haunts the city, and especially Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli. But now a new killer is at work and Rizzoli senses something horrifyingly familiar about this murderer's modus operandi...
  • A Caller's Game by J.D. Barker

    A Caller's Game by J.D. Barker

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    DIE HARD meets TALK RADIO in this heart-pounding, relentlessly fast-paced thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Fourth Monkey—master of suspense, J.D. Barker. "I'm going to offer you a choice." Controversial satellite radio talk show host, Jordan Briggs, has clawed her way to the top of the broadcast world...
  • I See You by Ker Dukey, D.H. Sidebottom

    I See You by Ker Dukey, D.H. Sidebottom

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    This is a DARK novel, 18 only. Standalone title. I watch you, I see you in ways no one else can, and through my lens I create a life of you for someone to dissect. I capture you in your vulnerability; that smile, your laugh, those tears. I document you and sell your secrets. When I watch you through my lens you’re mine until I pass you to the buyer...
  • Triptych by Karin Slaughter

    Triptych by Karin Slaughter

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    In the city of Atlanta, women are dying—at the hands of a killer who signs his work with a single, chilling act of mutilation. Leaving behind enough evidence to fuel a frenzied police hunt, this cunning madman is bringing together dozens of lives, crossing the boundaries of wealth and race. And the people who are chasing him must cross those boundaries too...
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    crime  dark  suspense  abuse  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Dirty South by John Connolly

    The Dirty South by John Connolly

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In an Arkansas jail cell sits a former NYPD detective, stricken by grief. He is mourning the death of his wife and child, and searching in vain for their killer. Obsessed with avenging his lost family, his life is about to take a shocking turn...
  • 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...
  • The Unquiet by John Connolly

    The Unquiet by John Connolly

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    "But that is the nature of revenge. It escalates. It cannot be controlled. One hurt invites another, on and on until the original injury is all but forgotten in the chaos of what follows."John Connolly's originality and talent for storytelling have quickly made him one of today's preeminent thriller writers...
  • Dead Like You by Peter James

    Dead Like You by Peter James

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is forever haunted by the unexplained disappearance of his wife, Sandy, nearly ten years ago. Ever since she went missing, he's been consumed with finding out what happened to her. Finally, he may be moving on. He has fallen in love and is going to marry his girlfriend, Cleo, who is pregnant with their child...
  • The Vanished Ones by Donato Carrisi

    The Vanished Ones by Donato Carrisi

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    We call them the sleepers...At the elite Missing Persons bureau of the Federal Police, Mila Vasquez is tasked with finding the hundreds of lost people who have vanished from their former lives. However, the longer they are gone, they more they are forgotten by the world. Now they are returning...
  • Malevolent by Jana Deleon

    Malevolent by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon, the first in a new thriller series. Everyone wondered about Shaye Archer’s past. Including Shaye. Shaye Archer’s life effectively began the night police found her in an alley, beaten and abused and with no memory of the previous fifteen years, not even her name...
  • The Mercy of Snakes by Dean Koontz

    The Mercy of Snakes by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A series of suspicious deaths in a retirement home draws Nameless into the confidence of a terrified former resident—and into the dark heart of a shocking conspiracy. In part five of the Nameless series, it’s time to hunt.Oakshore Park is Michigan’s most exclusive assisted-living community. Presided over by two killer angels of mercy, it’s also the go-to facility in assisted dying...
  • The Whisperer by Donato Carrisi

    The Whisperer by Donato Carrisi

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A gripping literary thriller and smash bestseller that has taken Italy, France, Germany and the UK by storm.Six severed arms are discovered, arranged in a mysterious circle and buried in a clearing in the woods. Five of them appear to belong to missing girls between the ages of eight and eighteen. The sixth is yet to be identified...
  • Trophy Hunt by C.J. Box

    Trophy Hunt by C.J. Box

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    It's an idyllic late-summer day in Saddlestring, Wyoming, and game warden Joe Pickett is fly-fishing with his two daughters when he stumbles upon the mutilated body of a moose. Whatever - or whoever - attacked the animal was ruthless: half the animal's face has been sliced away, the skin peeled back from the flesh...
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