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Justice Redeemed by Scott Pratt
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
· 26 ratings
Two years ago, Darren Street made a name for himself as the man who rooted out corruption in the district attorney’s office. Now the hotheaded young lawyer is in the public eye yet again—this time, accused of murder.Jalen Jordan retained Street for what seemed to be a minor traffic violation, but when evidence turned up linking Jordan to the death of two boys, Street wanted out of the case...

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The Professor by Robert Bailey, Eric G. Dove
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
· 26 ratings
Law professor Thomas Jackson McMurtrie literally wrote the book on evidence in the state of Alabama. But when a power-hungry colleague uses a recent run-in between McMurtrie and headstrong student Rick Drake to end his career, he is left unsure what to do next.Meanwhile, a devastating trucking accident in Henshaw, Alabama, leaves a young family dead...

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The Pucelle Connection by Estelle Ryan
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
Mediaeval books. Murdered priests. Bioweapons. Renowned nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard's search for an international criminal is interrupted when her team receives an antique book. At first the book is dismissed--until they discover similar books gifted to people who are now dead...

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Lone Wolf by Robert Muchamore
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
· 17 ratings
Fay has spent eighteen months locked up in a Secure Training Centre. Drug deals and rip-offs are the only things this teenager knows. Now she's back on the street, looking to settle old scores.CHERUB agents Ryan and Ning need Fay's knowledge to unearth a major drug importer...

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Golden Prey by John Sandford
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
· 26 ratings
Lucas Davenport s first case as a U.S. marshal takes him into unexplored territory, in the thrilling new novel in the #1 "New York Times" bestselling Prey series. Thanks to some very influential people whose lives he s saved, Lucas Davenport has a new job. He is a U.S. marshal, but not just any marshal one with unusual scope...

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The Chaos Kind by Barry Eisler
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 20 ratings
The assassins of Barry Eisler’s #1 bestseller The Killer Collective are back—and this time, it’s chaos.Assistant US Attorney Alondra Diaz hates traffickers. And she’s determined to put one of America’s most powerful financiers, Andrew Schrader, in prison forever for his crimes against children.But Schrader has videos implicating some of the most powerful members of the US national security state...

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The Alchemy Fire Murder by Susan Rowland
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 20 ratings
Former Archivist Mary Wandwalker hates bringing bad news. Nevertheless, she confirms to her alma mater that their prized medieval alchemy scroll, is, in fact, a seventeenth century copy. She learns that the original vanished to colonial Connecticut with alchemist, Robert Le More. Later the genuine scroll surfaces in Los Angeles...

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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...

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Free Fire by C.J. Box
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
A Joe Pickett novel from #1"New York Times-"bestselling author C.J. Box. Joe Pickett s been hired to investigate one of the most cold-blooded mass killings in Wyoming history. Attorney Clay McCann admitted to slaughtering four campers in a back-country corner of Yellowstone National Park a free-fire zone with no residents or jurisdiction...

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Fatal Intrusion by Jeffery Deaver, Isabella Maldonado
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
As a wave of murders grips Southern California, an unlikely pair must untangle the mysterious patterns of an elusive killer. A propulsive new series by New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Isabella Maldonado.Carmen Sanchez is a tough Homeland Security agent who plays by the rules...

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Brigands M.C. by Robert Muchamore
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
· 37 ratings
A new member of CHERUB gets the chance to avenge the death of his family in the eleventh book of the CHERUB series, which Rick Riordan says has “plenty of action.”CHERUB agents are highly trained, extremely talented—and all under the age of seventeen. For official purposes, these agents do not exist...

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Perilous Trust by Barbara Freethy
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
In PERILOUS TRUST, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy brings you the first book in a new romantic suspense series! OFF THE GRID: An FBI Trilogy offers three breath-stealing books filled with action-packed plot, heart-stopping romance, and page-turning suspense. It was one dark night that brought Damon Wolfe and Sophie Parker together...

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Game of Snipers by Stephen Hunter
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
In this blazing new thriller from Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter, master sniper Bob Lee Swagger takes on his biggest job to date...and confronts an assassin with skills that match his own...

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The Messenger by Daniel Silva
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
· 26 ratings
Gabriel Allon, art restorer and spy, has been widely acclaimed as one of the most fascinating characters in the genre and now he is about to face the greatest challenge of his life.Allon is recovering from a grueling showdown with a Palestinian master terrorist, when a figure from his past arrives in Jerusalem...

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The End Game by Catherine Coulter, J.T. Ellison
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
From #1 New York Times–bestselling author Catherine Coulter, the explosive new addition to the remarkable thriller series featuring Nicholas Drummond and Mike Caine. FBI agent Nicholas Drummond and his partner, Mike Caine, are deep into an investigation of COE—Celebrants of the Earth—a violent group known for widespread bombings of power grids and oil refineries across the country...

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Cold Snap by Marc Cameron
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
The bestselling author of the latest Tom Clancy, Jack Ryan novels delivers an adrenaline-filled new thriller featuring Deputy US Marshal Arliss Cutter! Stranded with three violent prisoners in the deadly Alaskan wilderness, Cutter will become the hunter and the hunted… After an early spring thaw on the Alaskan coast, Anchorage police discover a gruesome new piece of evidence in their search for...

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Catherine Coulter the FBI Thrillers Collection Books 1-5 by Catherine Coulter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
The #1 New York Times bestselling FBI thrillers are “excellent beach reads”*—stock up today on these five suspense novels featuring Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock. From the debut of the series, The Cove, through the “fast-paced twists and turns” of Riptide (San Francisco Examiner), you’ll be swept away...

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Happy Death Day by Lisa Renee Jones
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
Kane Mendez.The son of a drug lord, who is not his father's son, and yet, he has enemies. Too many enemies.Lilah Love.The FBI agent who perhaps kills a little too easily. Or does she? As she's called in to consult on a case, and catch a killer, her troubles back home don't go away. People want her dead. She simply wants them dead first.Kane and Lilah. Lilah and Kane. War is on the horizon...

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Malibu Burning by Lee Goldberg
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
For a professional criminal and a relentless arson investigator, fear and revenge spread like wildfire in a an incendiary thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg.Hell comes to Southern California every October. It rides in on searing Santa Ana winds that blast at near hurricane force, igniting voracious wildfires. Master thief Danny Cole longs for the flames...

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Prince Of Fire by Daniel Silva, Guerin Barry
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
· 26 ratings
Few recent thriller writers have elicited the kind of critical praise that Daniel Silva has received, with his novels featuring art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon.Now Allon is back in Venice, when a terrible explosion in Rome leads to a disturbing personal revelation: the existence of a dossier in terrorist hands that strips away his secrets, lays bare his history...

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December by Gabrielle Lord
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
On New Year's Eve, Cal is chased down the street by a staggering, sick man with a deadly warning They killed your father. They'll kill you. You must survive the next 365 days. Hurled into a life on the run the 15-year-old fugitive is isolated and alone. Hunted by the law and ruthless criminals, Cal must somehow uncover the truth about his father's mysterious death and a history-changing secret...

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Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
· 20 ratings
The promise, as I remember it, happened this way.Happy and content in his hometown of Aurora, Minnesota, Cork O'Connor has left his badge behind and is ready for a life of relative peace, setting up shop as a private investigator...

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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...

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Night Deception by Tamsen Schultz
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
From the award-winning author of The Windsor Series comes the second Tildas Island mystery:When treason isn’t enoughIsiah Clarke may be a former Navy SEAL, but now that he’s retired, he’s more than happy to be passing his time tending to the bar he owns on Tildas Island. That is, until a former teammate sends him a message asking for help in finding and protecting an elusive CIA asset...

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Crossing the Line by Meghan Rogers
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
IN THIS TEEN SPY THRILLER, JOCELYN STEELY IS AMERICA'S LAST SHOT TO BEAT THE NORTH KOREANSWhen Jocelyn Steely was kidnapped by a North Korean spy agency, she was only a little girl. Young. Scared. Powerless. And completely moldable.Now, ten years later, she’s a ruthless assassin. Yet her target isn't who you might think...

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Mad River by John Sandford
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
· 26 ratings
They thought they were Bonnie and Clyde. And what's-his-name, the sidekick. Three teenagers with dead-end lives, chips on their shoulders, and guns. The first person they killed was a woman during a robbery. The second was incidental. Simply in the way...

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Shock Wave by John Sandford
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
· 26 ratings
The fifth Virgil Flowers novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author John SandfordA billion-dollar superstore has its sights set on a small Minnesota river town for its next outlet. Two very angry groups want to stop it: local merchants, fearing for their businesses, and environmentalists, predicting ecological disaster...

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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...

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The Namatjira Connection by Estelle Ryan
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Looted artworks. Italian Mafia. Deepfakes.The weekend in Italy is supposed to be a family event—a celebration as well as a break for the whole team to enjoy everything Naples has to offer. As it is, Doctor Genevieve Lenard is hard-pushed to keep an autistic shutdown at bay while surrounded by boisterous relatives and friends...

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Fire with Fire by Candice Fox
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
A pair of desperate parents. A man on the run. A rookie cop.Four people with everything on the line...

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May by Gabrielle Lord
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
The sound of screaming fills the air. Cal's identity has been stripped from him, and he's been locked up in an asylum where danger lurks on both sides of the bars. He has no idea who's put him there, but the doctors are convinced "Cal-Ben Galloway" is delusional, and they have no intention of setting him free...

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Written In Bones by James Oswald
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
The roots of murder run deep . . . When a body is found in a tree in The Meadows, Edinburgh's scenic parkland, the forensics suggest the corpse has fallen from a great height...

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Rip Tides by Toby Neal
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
Surfing in Hawaii can be fame, talent and…murder. Poised to win the prestigious Triple Crown of Surfing, Maui surf star Makoa Simmons washes up tragically dead. Detective Lei Texeira plunges into a high-profile case whose dark and tangled motives reach deep into the elite world of professional surfing on the North Shore of Oahu...

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September by Gabrielle Lord
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
Convinced Oriana was behind his little sister's kidnapping, Cal teams up with Boges to pull off a plan to extract vital information out of her...

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August by Gabrielle Lord
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
Now I was completely alone. There was nothing but silence and the ghosts of the dead. Cal Ormond has escaped death several times and deceived enemies in the most unlikely situations. All this to discover what the Ormond Singularity is, a secret that transformed the young man's routine and that can change history as we know it...

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Red Means Run by Brad Smith
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
· 15 ratings
Mickey Dupree is one of the most successful criminal attorneys in upstate New York, having never lost a capital murder case. That is the upside of being Mickey. The downside—Mickey has a lot of enemies and one of them drives the shaft of a golf club through his heart, leaving him dead in a sand trap at his exclusive country club...

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The Wild One by Nick Petrie
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
War veteran Peter Ash tracks a murderer and his criminal family through the most forbidding and stark landscape he has ever encountered, in the latest thriller from the national bestselling author of The Drifter...

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Labyrinth by Catherine Coulter
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
The #1 New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series returns with another tour de force in which Agent Sherlock risks losing her career—and her sanity—over a case that is more complicated and twisted than any she’s ever encountered. On a dark night, Agent Sherlock is driving along circuitous mountain roads in West Virginia when her car is suddenly T-boned at an intersection...

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The Lost Key by Catherine Coulter, J.T. Ellison
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
· 20 ratings
The newest entry in the sizzling international thriller series featuring Nicholas Drummond, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter.Freshly minted FBI agent Nicholas Drummond is barely out of his Quantico training when he and his partner, Mike Caine, are called to investigate a stabbing on Wall Street.Their investigation, however, yields more questions than answers...

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Enemy Exposure by Meghan Rogers
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
A spy and action thriller featuring a teenage girl who kicks butt and outsmarts with the best of them. To accomplish her mission, though, she'll need to team up with those she trusts the least in this latest Raven File case.Jocelyn Steely (code name: Raven) may have escaped the clutches of KATO and won the trust of the IDA, but she isn’t out of danger yet...

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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..

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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...

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The Center Cannot Hold: A Ray Elkins Thriller by Aaron Stander
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
· 13 ratings
In the depths of winter, Cedar County is on occasion literally frozen in place. Roads are impassable; the area schools are closed for days at a time. And the bad guys and gals, they’re hunkered down like everyone else until the weather breaks. But this winter isn’t the usual. There’s arson and murder...

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Silent Little Angels by Jennifer Chase
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
The water ripples as the girl’s body escapes the reeds and floats silently upwards. Her beautiful face—blue eyes frozen open, skin as white as snow—breaks the surface. But it’s too late, this innocent soul has taken her final breath…When camp counselor Carolyn Sable’s body is found floating in a lake beside Eagle Ridge Summer Camp, Detective Katie Scott must dig deep to stay focused...

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April by Gabrielle Lord
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
A high-speed chase gone wrong leaves Cal exposed to Oriana's thugs. If captured, all hope of solving the Ormond Singularity and having a normal life again disappears...

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The Bloomsday Dead by Adrian McKinty
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
In the heart-stopping finale of the Dead trilogy, tough guy Michael Forsythe -- bad-boy antihero of the critically acclaimed "Dead I Well May Be" and "The Dead Yard" -- returns to his native Ireland, where a dangerous and beautiful old flame forces Michael to look for her daughter, who has mysteriously disappeared in Belfast...

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June by Gabrielle Lord
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
With seconds to spare, Cal escapes from the burning wreck of the Orca. Helicopters search from the sky, while Oriana's thugs chase on foot. There's no time to think about his dead great-uncle---Cal must dodge the cops and crim's and return to his pursuit of the Ormand jewel...

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A Terminal Agenda by Mark McKay
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
When the only form of justice that counts is your ownDCI Nick Severance investigates murders, a rare occurrence in the City of London. When a man dies violently one morning, only yards from the police station, the motive eludes him. The victim had recently been in India, looking for an ancient tomb that could contain something priceless...

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Broken Ferns by Toby Neal
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
Paradise can be merciless.Does she really want to bring down the bandit? Lei made a difficult transition from detective on Maui to the FBI on Oahu. Her first big case as an agent draws national media attention as a teenage Robin Hood robs from the rich and gives to the poor, hopping from island to island in a stolen airplane.Someone has to make things right...

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Burned by Melissa F. Miller
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
Strike the match. Light the fuse. Watch Olivia burn.CIA operative Olivia Santos lives on a razor's edge. As a NOC--an agent with non-official cover--she's well aware of the risks: if her cover's blown, there's no diplomatic immunity, and a life sentence in a foreign prison is the best-case scenario. The worst-case scenario is too gruesome to mention...

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