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  • Here After by Sean Costello

    Here After by Sean Costello

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    LOVE. LOSS. OBSESSION. REDEMPTION.Following the death of his ten-year-old son, physician Peter Croft embarks on a desperate, seemingly random search for a missing child, risking his sanity, even his life in a grief-induced quest. His journey propels him into the darkest reaches of human suffering, and pits him squarely against an adversary whose own obsession defies all reason...
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    suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror  mystery  paranormal
  • BETA: A Technological Nightmare by Sammy Scott

    BETA: A Technological Nightmare by Sammy Scott

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Michael Danvers’ life of self-imposed seclusion is interrupted when he receives a strange the unique opportunity to move into and beta-test a fully automated, state-of-the-art smart home...
  • Per Addestrarti by Chiara Cilli

    Per Addestrarti by Chiara Cilli

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Credevo di sapere chi fossi. Cosa fossi.Credevo di non avere più scampo, che la mia resistenza fosse ormai giunta al termine.Poi ho sentito la sua voce pronunciare il mio nome.Poi i suoi occhi hanno risposto al richiamo dei miei.Non ha paura di me. Si avvicina. Mi parla. Mi tocca come se le appartenessi. È folle.Lui è l’unica chance che ho per restare viva. Devo far sì che gli importi di me...
  • My Final Breath by Paige Dearth

    My Final Breath by Paige Dearth

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An unbearable tragedy. A life cut short. A dead girl searching for truth.Twelve-year-old Molly suddenly wakes up dead in Limbo after spending four years in and out of hospital beds. Fearful of being forgotten by her family, she wants nothing more than to return to Earth, until her guardian exposes the grim truth about her demise...
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    suspense  abuse  adult  book  family  fiction  horror  mental-illness
  • Psychopath by Jeff Menapace

    Psychopath by Jeff Menapace

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The final game is here… A decade has passed. The Lambert family is thriving. Amy Lambert is a successful entrepreneur and in a promising relationship with Allan Brown. Caleb Lambert is a respected member of the United States Marine Corps. Carrie Lambert is a flourishing college student. Or so they wish. Nothing could be further from the truth...
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    suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror  murder  mystery
  • Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino

    Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An exciting new series character ...Gia Santella is a fast-driving, hard-drinking, karate-trained free spirit, who is gorgeous, sexy, and a young heiress. She also has a fierce temper and zero tolerance for people in power preying on the vulnerable ... especially when the injustice takes place in her neighborhood...
  • Monster by S.E. Green

    Monster by S.E. Green

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It takes a survivor to know a madman.When the police need to crawl inside the mind of a monster, they call Caroline.As a child, Caroline was abducted along with her twin sister. For over a year, their captor forced them to play his sick games, using their hunger to test the lengths they’d go to survive.Caroline escaped. Her sister didn’t...
  • Elysium Dreams by Hadena James

    Elysium Dreams by Hadena James

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He skins his victims alive, taking pleasure from their pain. In the cold, dark nights of Alaska, a hunter is stalking his prey. Once found, he takes them into the woods and skins them alive, prolonging the experience as much as he can, but the satisfaction always wanes.Aislinn Cain and the Serial Crimes Tracking Unit have just finished up another case when they get the call...
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    suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  horror  murder
  • Beneath These Walls by Shade Owens

    Beneath These Walls by Shade Owens

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Six months ago, my husband tried to kill me.Now, my sons and I are living in an old Victorian house passed down to me by my uncle. The house may be big, but the town is small... it's safe, which is something I haven't felt in a very long time. And best of all, it's very far away from my ex.As soon as we move in, however, I discover that this house has an eerie reputation...
  • Dark Peak by Adam J. Wright

    Dark Peak by Adam J. Wright

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Thirty years ago, nine-year-old Mitch Walker was left for dead in the woods while his five-year-old sister Sarah was abducted. Now, circumstances pull him back to the place where Sarah vanished...
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    suspense  adult  audiobook  book  crime  female-mc  fiction  horror
  • Widow Town by Joe Hart

    Widow Town by Joe Hart

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the future there is no such thing as a serial killer.A breakthrough research project has detected an active gene present in all known psychopaths and developed a vaccine to make it completely dormant. People are inoculated at birth. Society has rejoiced the extinction of the sociopathic mind. There hasn’t been a serial killing in America in over forty years...
  • Vengeful Games by Jeff Menapace

    Vengeful Games by Jeff Menapace

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    PLAYTIME IS NOT OVER...In Autumn of 2008, the Lambert family headed to western Pennsylvania for a weekend getaway to the family cabin.They visited hell instead...The Fannelli brothers. Two psychopaths who believed themselves exceptional, put on this Earth for the soul purpose of tormenting others for their own amusement. To make people play their twisted games...
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    suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror  murder  mystery
  • The Girl on Gander Green Lane by M.J. Hardy

    The Girl on Gander Green Lane by M.J. Hardy

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When a perfect marriage, the perfect husband and perfect life is nothing but an illusion. Sarah Standon is living the dream, at least that’s what everyone tells her. She is the wife of a successful solicitor who looks like a movie star. They live a Stepford existence and appear to have it all. Then, one fateful night, everything changes...
  • Stephen King Box Set: Desperation, The Regulators by Stephen King, Richard Bachman

    Stephen King Box Set: Desperation, The Regulators by Stephen King, Richard Bachman

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    1996/97 boxed set of 2...
  • The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers by Jack Steen

    The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers by Jack Steen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They arrive alive. They always leave dead.But first, they give me their confessions.My name is Jack Steen, and for those who arrive on my 'death' ward at the Asylum, I'm the last face many will see before they die. I am the night nurse at an Asylum for the Criminally Insane, and most of my patients know me as their Angel of Death...
  • The Reaper's Game by Layton Green

    The Reaper's Game by Layton Green

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Is it murder from beyond the grave . . . or the final ruse of a twisted serial killer?Three years ago, a deranged murderer dubbed the Halloween Killer butchered half a dozen people in New Orleans. He was caught and sentenced to die. Just before his execution, the Halloween Killer vowed to take revenge on the district attorney who put him behind bars...
  • Borderlands 2 by Thomas F. Monteleone

    Borderlands 2 by Thomas F. Monteleone

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The stories we tell are not limited to monsters and harsh otherworlds. Yet the fiction books in the Borealis imprint certainly belong to a world other than our own. This line encompasses our science fiction, fantasy and horror novels and anthologies...
  • The Mother Of All Things by Gabriel Blake

    The Mother Of All Things by Gabriel Blake

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    DARK BEGINNINGS, BRUTAL ENDINGSA traumatic event and the break-up of her marriage returns Elaine to her childhood home where she embarks on renovating the run-down farmhouse as she reconnects with her mother and entertains her two children over the summer holidays...
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    suspense  adult  book  crime  dark  fiction  horror  psychological
  • The Bell Chime by Mona Kabbani

    The Bell Chime by Mona Kabbani

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Winner of the Ladies of Horror Fiction Award for Best Novella of 2020"Can you hear the bell chime?"A girl suffering from paralyzing night terrors finds a missing poster hanging from the door of her apartment building. On that poster is a photograph of a frighteningly familiar face.It’s her.Only, she’s never seen this photo before and something about its grin scares her...
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    suspense  adult  book  dark  fiction  horror  psychological
  • The Ridealong: A Suspense Thriller by Michaelbrent Collings

    The Ridealong: A Suspense Thriller by Michaelbrent Collings

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "I've left clues for you, and clues for the police. They'll be searching for you. The evidence at the scene of Officer Knight's death is enough to send you both to jail." "Who am I searching for?" The Voice laughs. That strange, dangerous laugh. "Me, of course." *** It was supposed to be just one more ridealong, a night when high schooler Melissa Latham accompanies her father on his patrol...
  • J.A. Konrath Horror Trilogy - Three Scary Thriller Novels  (Origin, The List, Haunted House) by J.A. Konrath, Jack Kilborn

    J.A. Konrath Horror Trilogy - Three Scary Thriller Novels (Origin, The List, Haunted House) by J.A. Konrath, Jack Kilborn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Three complete thriller novels. O R I G I N Thriller writer J.A. Konrath, author of the Lt. Jack Daniels series, digs into the vaults and unearths a technohorror tale from the depths of hell... 1906 - Something is discovered by workers digging the Panama Canal. Something dormant. Sinister. Very much alive. 2009 - Project Samhain...
  • She Won't Leave by James Caine

    She Won't Leave by James Caine

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She has taken over my life.Everything was perfect until tragedy brought my mother-in-law, Delores Sterling, to my front door with extra baggage at her side. After the sudden death of her husband, she asked if she could live with us temporarily.I knew that living with my mother-in-law wouldn’t be easy. She’s made it obvious ever since I married her only son, that I’m not worthy of him...
  • Mine by L.M. Kaplin

    Mine by L.M. Kaplin

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Chandler Henricks hates his life. Socially awkward and a near shut-in, Chandler spends his time caring for his ailing mother and watching the neighbors from his window.His favorite person to watch is his next-door neighbor Samantha. Young and beautiful, she would be the woman of any man’s dreams. Chandler knows he will make Samantha happy, if she just gave him a chance...
  • Psychosis by Tony Marturano

    Psychosis by Tony Marturano

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Police, what is your emergency?” “They’re in the house and they’re going to kill me…” “My name is Marco and I am flawed. I know that. And I was fine with it until it cost me my family. Now, I’ll do anything to get them back – even see a therapist. Which is a joke, because I am a therapist. At least I was before I was fired...
  • 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..
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    suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  horror  mystery
  • The Girls They Stole by J.H. Leigh

    The Girls They Stole by J.H. Leigh

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The deal seems easy. Follow the rules. Keep your mouth shut. The payoff? Enough money to change your life forever. But is it too good to be true? Nicole, Dylan, Jilly and Tana need to take the deal. All for different, equally desperate reasons. But the deal comes at a price. Once they step into Madame Moirai’s depraved world it's too late...
  • The List by Kiersten Modglin

    The List by Kiersten Modglin

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ten years ago, the small town of Bates, South Carolina was changed forever with the appearance of a slip of paper.Six names.Six people set to die.Six months later, they were gone. But the list maker was far from done with their town.Like clockwork, new lists come out every six months. To keep their names off of them, the citizens go to extraordinary lengths and keep terrifying secrets...
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    suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror  murder  mystery
  • Closet Full of Bones by A.J. Aalto

    Closet Full of Bones by A.J. Aalto

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ever since they were children, Gillian Hearth has been her sister Frankie’s guardian, her sounding board, and her best friend. Together, the Hearth sisters quietly bury their secrets and form a formidable team during any crisis. Purchasing the old Blymhill house with the hopes of turning it into an artists’ retreat, the sisters are finally living their dream...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  adult  book  contemporary  family  female-mc  fiction  horror
  • The Disturbing Incidents at Lonesome Woods Boarding School by Dr. Harper

    The Disturbing Incidents at Lonesome Woods Boarding School by Dr. Harper

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The devastating start to Dr. Harper's career.I wasn't always like this, you know - paranoid, temperamental, vindictive.I mean, sure, I've always been a bit... high strung. But I never used to stalk my therapist patients. Or yell at them. Or hold them captive in my garage.No, all of that started after the incidents at Lonesome Woods Boarding School.And I'm not talking about the school shooter...
  • You Are Mine by Miranda Rijks

    You Are Mine by Miranda Rijks

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Rupert has spent years searching for his perfect wife. Now he’s found her. Her name is Charlotte Aldridge and she’s wonderful. A talented artist, modest and beautiful, she’s everything he ever dreamed of. Her hair, her eyes, her mouth - every little detail is perfect.Rupert is confident that when they meet, she’ll fall in love with him just as he has with her...
  • The Sleepover by Keri Beevis

    The Sleepover by Keri Beevis

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When you’re a kid, you imagine monsters to have horns and fangs. That they hide under the bed or in the wardrobe. And you believe they can only come after you when it’s dark.You don’t expect them to look like everyday people or that they may be someone you already know…The summer in question started out with hot, fun-filled days and new friendships...
  • Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison

    Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The Seattle Times said of Angry Candy: "Ellison's stories rattle the bars of complacency that people put around their souls . . . Razor sharp . . . piercingly profound." Once again, Ellison's writing defies all labels. These seventeen stories by a modern master are an "assembled artifact" of anger and faith - as bittersweet as a"jalapeno-laced cinnamon bear...
  • The Devil's Work by Mark Edwards

    The Devil's Work by Mark Edwards

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A gripping psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Follow You Home and The Magpies . It was the job she had dreamed of since childhood. But on her very first day, when an unnerving encounter drags up memories Sophie Greenwood would rather forget, she wonders if she has made a mistake. A fatal mistake...
  • The Mother by T.M. Logan, Gemma Whelan

    The Mother by T.M. Logan, Gemma Whelan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Framed for murder. Now she's free . . .A woman attends a funeral, standing in the shadows and watching in agony as her sons grieve. But she is unable to comfort them - or reveal her secret.A decade earlier, Heather gets her children ready for bed and awaits the return of her husband Liam, little realising that this is the last night they will spend together as a family...
  • Suicide Med by Freida McFadden

    Suicide Med by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    There’s a reason Southside Medical School has been nicknamed “Suicide Med.” For the last six years, every year one student has taken his own life.Except for last year. Last year was a murder-suicide.The press has pointed to the heavy workload as the culprit in the high suicide rate. Some students believe that the school is cursed...
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    suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror  medical  murder
  • The Widow's Cabin by L.G. Davis, Chloe Dolandis

    The Widow's Cabin by L.G. Davis, Chloe Dolandis

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    He wanted to die. He needed her help.One year ago, Meghan Wilton's husband begged her to help him die. Two months after asking her to do the unthinkable, he was dead. Now Meghan is on the run with her five-year-old son. Her new name is Zoe Roberts, and her hiding place is a cabin in the woods of Willow Creek, Tennessee. Zoe has more than the law to fear...
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    suspense  adult  audiobook  book  crime  female-mc  fiction  horror
  • Into the Wolves' Den by Jon Athan

    Into the Wolves' Den by Jon Athan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    What would you do to protect your family? Keith Klein, a beat cop in the small New Mexico town of Montaño, sets out to find his missing daughters after they vanish on their way home from school. He enlists the help of Gerald Greenwood, an old friend and a private investigator...
  • Blister by Jeff Strand

    Blister by Jeff Strand

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    They call her Blister. She’s a hideously disfigured twenty-three year-old woman, living in a shed next to her father’s house, hidden away from the world.Jason Tray is a successful cartoonist, banished to his agent’s lakeside cabin for a few days of mandatory rest and relaxation...
  • The Boy in the Barn by Ciana Stone

    The Boy in the Barn by Ciana Stone

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "Addictive" - Candid Book Reviews Fear. That's the first word that came to mind when she thought of her childhood. She ran away from home to escape an abusive father, and to protect her unborn child, leaving everything behind except for memories of the boy in the barn and childhood dreams that could never come true. Twenty years passed and she is now a woman...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  abuse  adult  book  children  dark  fiction  horror
  • Wrong Exit by N.L. Hinkens

    Wrong Exit by N.L. Hinkens

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Her life is about to change. But first she must survive the road trip.Driving the I-40 coast to coast was never on newlywed Cora Dalton’s bucket list. Until the day she finds out she has inherited a house in New York from an eccentric grandmother she has never met. Terrified of flying, Cora talks her best friend, Adele into accompanying her on a rip-roaring fun, ten-day road trip...
  • The Odds by Jeff Strand

    The Odds by Jeff Strand

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    After a disastrous evening playing slot machines, Ethan Caustin wonders how he's going to explain his massive loss to his wife and kids. As he tries to find his way out of the casino, sick to his stomach and filled with self-loathing, he's approached by a stranger who offers a solution to his problem. It's a simple game. A 99% chance for him to win ten thousand dollars...
  • Jack & Jill by Kealan Patrick Burke

    Jack & Jill by Kealan Patrick Burke

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alternate Cover Edition forB00H2SVMZ0. A NEW NOVELLA FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE TURTLE BOY & KIN. When they were kids, Gillian and John used to visit the local cemetery every Sunday after church. It was a curious place for children to frequent, but they had their reasons...
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    suspense  abuse  adult  book  family  fiction  horror  psychological
  • The Dying Place by Luca Veste

    The Dying Place by Luca Veste

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “No one believes you. Nothing you say is the truth.” DI Murphy and DS Rossi discover the body of known troublemaker Dean Hughes, dumped on the steps of St Mary’s Church in West Derby, Liverpool. His body is covered with the unmistakable marks of torture. As they hunt for the killer, they discover a worrying pattern. Other teenagers, all young delinquents, have been disappearing without a trace...
  • Hush, My Darling by Leigh Kenny

    Hush, My Darling by Leigh Kenny

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "As evidenced by her dazzling debut, Cursed, Kenny is a bright new voice in modern horror, one that is poised to take the genre by storm."Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Kin and Sour Candy.In pursuit of peace and family ties, American tourist Megan goes on a road trip around Ireland. When she becomes stranded deep in the mountains, the Brogan family come to her rescue...
  • Within the Woods by Tony Urban, Thomas Rode

    Within the Woods by Tony Urban, Thomas Rode

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Don't go in the woods... For 12-year-old Garrett and his four best friends, the idyllic summer of 1989 crashes to a halt when Garrett's older brother vanishes. Something is very wrong in Sallow Creek, Pennsylvania. Something is turning their neighbors, their relatives, into unstoppable monstrosities... Monsters that are coming for the them...
  • The Last Whisper in the Dark by Tom Piccirilli

    The Last Whisper in the Dark by Tom Piccirilli

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Professional thief Terrier Rand hasn’t gotten caught yet. It’s only his conscience chasing at his heels. In the follow-up to Tom Piccirilli’s acclaimed novel The Last Kind Words, prodigal thief Terrier Rand has come home to the family that has lawbreaking in its blood...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror  mystery  noir
  • Relentless by Christopher Artinian

    Relentless by Christopher Artinian

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sal had woken up with no recollection of the night before a few times but never like this … in a forest … alone … confused … scared.She scoured her surroundings, desperate for some clue as to how she’d ended up here. Fragments of conversations, snapshots of memories were all she could scramble together.But, suddenly, none of it mattered.A stranger.A warning.And the hunt is on...
  • Borderlands 3 by Thomas F. Monteleone, Elizabeth Massie

    Borderlands 3 by Thomas F. Monteleone, Elizabeth Massie

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The stories we tell are not limited to monsters and harsh otherworlds. Yet the fiction books in the Borealis imprint certainly belong to a world other than our own. This line encompasses our science fiction, fantasy and horror novels and anthologies...
  • The Meat Hunter by Megan Allen

    The Meat Hunter by Megan Allen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Molly Bishop grew up on a farm and was horrified by her father’s indifference toward the animals they raised, viewed only as slabs of flesh to be consumed by a ravenous society. Now a seductive and cunning young woman, she seeks out the cruelest members of the meat industry and offers up her own brand of redemption. Molly’s mission is clear...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  adult  anti-hero  book  crime  fiction  horror  mystery
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