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  • St. Benet's by David Blake

    St. Benet's by David Blake

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A girl thrown from a church tower, a man sacrificed to Satan, and a priest murdered at the hands of the Devil. When the body of an old man is found lying in the ruins of St Benet’s Abbey, his throat cut, a knife resting in his open hand, DI John Tanner and DC Jenny Evans are given no choice but to accept a ruling of death by misadventure...
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    crime  female-mc  suspense  whodunit  thriller  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Lodge by J.L. Bryan

    The Lodge by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    More than a century ago, the Sea Islands of Georgia's coastline were the playground of the ultra-wealthy. Carnegies, Morgans, Rockefellers and other aristocrats of the Industrial Age built luxurious southern beach retreats on islands like Cumberland and Jekyll to escape the icy winters of New York...
  • MESSAGE in the BONES: A small town murder mystery with a psychic twist by Dawn Merriman

    MESSAGE in the BONES: A small town murder mystery with a psychic twist by Dawn Merriman

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Escape the usual small town murder story with this quirky, page turning mystery. With long-buried bones, psychic visions, a tattoo with messages from above, and a clown-masked murderer chasing through a corn maze, this story will keep you on edge until the very last word.
  • 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...
  • Pretty Dead by Anne Frasier

    Pretty Dead by Anne Frasier

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A serial killer stalks the streets of Savannah...Homicide detective Elise Sandburg and her partner, profiler David Gould, are all too familiar with the terrible costs of chasing evil. Despite their wounded psyches, the detectives delve into the deranged killer’s twisted mind, determined to unravel the clues in the taunts he leaves behind.A city gripped by fear..
  • You Can Run by Willow Rose

    You Can Run by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It's not the kind of thing you'd expect to happen on an ordinary Saturday morning. Her kids are arguing and her husband is still sleeping. Lisa is tired and wonders why her husband keeps working late...
  • Crawl by H.P. Bayne

    Crawl by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Four years ago, seventeen-year-old spelunker Carter was killed in a cave collapse. The coroner deemed it an accident.Sullivan Gray knows better.A camping weekend with his brother Dez takes an unsettling turn when Sully sees Carter’s shattered spirit, a sighting that reveals the teen’s death was, in fact, murder...
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    crime  paranormal  psychics  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • The Dule Tree by H.P. Bayne

    The Dule Tree by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    How do you find someone who no longer exists? Two years after the supposed death of his brother Sully, Dez wakes up six feet under and six inches from death. With no air remaining, he is pulled back from the brink—by Sully. The reunion is short-lived. Sully is kidnapped by a pair of masked assailants, leaving Dez desperate to find him...
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    crime  paranormal  psychics  suspense  adult  book  fiction  ghosts
  • The Wynne Witch by H.P. Bayne

    The Wynne Witch by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A mysterious death. A vicious gang. And a spectre whose presence foreshadows a horrific fate.When the Wynne family inherits a house from a deceased family member, they didn’t expect a ghost to come with it.The frightening figure of a skeletal, wild wraith with a bloodcurdling scream leads the Wynnes to seek the help of psychic private investigator, Sully Gray. Rarely does Sully land simple cases...
  • Under the Bones: A Lou Thorne Thriller by Kory M. Shrum

    Under the Bones: A Lou Thorne Thriller by Kory M. Shrum

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Enemies make the best allies. Louie Thorne is good at only one thing. Killing. She knows peace only when she kills and this relentless thirst drives her to hunt the world's worst crime lords. But when her cancer-stricken aunt makes a dying wish, Louie is torn between her own dark nature and a promise made to the only family she has left...
  • Hollow Road by H.P. Bayne

    Hollow Road by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For years, the legend of Faceless Flo—a young woman who disappeared in the 1920s—has drawn people to Hollow Road in search of her ghost.Some were never seen again.Among the missing is a young banker who vanished thirty years ago. Dez is called in to help solve the decades-old cold case, and when a connection to the Faceless Flo legend comes to light, he enlists Sully’s help...
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    crime  paranormal  psychics  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • Descension by Shani Struthers

    Descension by Shani Struthers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Descension is the fifth in the bestselling Psychic Surveys series, that features plot twists, compelling characters and a mystery at its dark heart!This is what we're dealing with here, the institutionalised..Brookbridge housing estate has long been a source of work for Psychic Surveys...
  • Gentle Is the Angel of Death by Dean Koontz

    Gentle Is the Angel of Death by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    To some he’s a medical genius. To others, a twisted angel of mercy with a necessary solution to what he sees as an ugly dilemma. Only one man can help Dr. Death face the evil of his ways.Henry Siphuncle has a selfless mission: releasing his patients forever from their distasteful imperfections. It’s for their own good. And the world’s. Even Henry’s own wife didn’t survive his disgust...
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    suspense  crime  thriller  paranormal  dark  fiction  audiobook  horror
  • The Pendergast Files:  (Relic, Reliquary) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    The Pendergast Files: (Relic, Reliquary) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This discounted ebundle includes: Relic, ReliquaryThe books that introduced the world to Douglas Preston’s and Lincoln Child’s FBI Special Agent Pendergast. Hidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by those who walk the streets above. There lies the ultimate secret of the Museum Beat...
  • MARKED by DARKNESS: Gripping, psychological serial killer adventure thriller by Dawn Merriman

    MARKED by DARKNESS: Gripping, psychological serial killer adventure thriller by Dawn Merriman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A gritty and raw serial killer thriller with hints of the supernatural. . Two years ago, Detective Maribeth Johansen’s family was murdered by the killer she hunted. Maribeth now lives alone in the woods with her grief, the ghosts of her family in her mind.
  • Miracle Mountain by J.L. Bryan

    Miracle Mountain by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the early nineteenth century, hungry gold prospectors descended on Miracle Mountain in north Georgia, ripping open the ancient wilderness, driven by dreams of glittering fortunes. Local legends tell of mysterious events, like a young girl who defied death after toppling from the mountain's treacherous waterfall...
  • The Haunting of Crawley House by Michelle Dorey

    The Haunting of Crawley House by Michelle Dorey

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Like a grand lady, the house has reigned over Harvest Street for almost a century. It's a splendid home- a sweeping veranda, ivy covered walls and spacious rooms, all within a short walk to the campus. Add to its charm the exceptionally low rent, and it's a perfect student rental. In spite of this, tenants never stay...
  • The Forgotten Cottage by Helen Phifer

    The Forgotten Cottage by Helen Phifer

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Forgotten Cottage, the eagerly-awaited and chillingly terrifying new book in Helen Phifer’s best-selling ‘Annie Graham’ series. Annie Graham has fought her demons, and is ready to leave them behind. Her new cottage seems like the new start she’s craved: quiet and quaint, it’s empty of the memories which have haunted her for so long...
  • Veiled Passages by Terri Reid

    Veiled Passages by Terri Reid

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A famous mystery writer drowns in a hotel bathtub… an accident or foul play? His ghost thinks it was murder. His mystery writer colleagues want to help Mary solve the case. Gary Copper is still on the loose and gunning for both Bradley and Mary. And, in between all of the murder and mayhem, Mary and Bradley are trying desperately to finally walk up the aisle...
  • Stay Dead by Anne Frasier

    Stay Dead by Anne Frasier

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Anne Frasier takes readers back to her dark, enchanting Savannah—a place as terrifying as it is mesmerizing. Homicide detective Elise Sandburg is traumatized after her run-in with a madman the press has dubbed “The Organ Thief...
  • 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 Belles of Desire, Mississippi  (The Ghosts of Summerleigh) by M.L. Bullock

    The Belles of Desire, Mississippi (The Ghosts of Summerleigh) by M.L. Bullock

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What happened to Jeopardy Belle? Is she the lost soul that haunts Summerleigh? Jerica Poole had no idea how quickly life could change until hers is ripped apart at the seams. After a messy divorce and the tragic death of her daughter, she jumps at the chance to fulfill the last wish of her friend, Harper Belle Hayes...
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    crime  paranormal  spirituality  suspense  adult  book  fiction  ghosts
  • The Forgotten Child by Melissa Erin Jackson

    The Forgotten Child by Melissa Erin Jackson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The dead can speak. They need her to listen.Ever since Riley Thomas, reluctant medium extraordinaire, accidentally released a malevolent spirit from a Ouija board when she was thirteen, she’s taken a hard pass on scary movies, haunted houses, and cemeteries...
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    crime  dark  female-mc  justice  paranormal  psychics  suspense  abuse
  • Guilty Spark by Al K. Line

    Guilty Spark by Al K. Line

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I'd been gone for a year, incarcerated in a Hidden prison. The verdict was guilty, punishment death.Invoking the Law, I've got my freedom until my sentence is carried out. Three days then I'm history. Gone, not even a memory. Wiped from the collective consciousness of those that knew, even loved me.Magic drives me on as I try to right so many wrongs committed in the name of justice...
  • The Victim by Jonas Saul

    The Victim by Jonas Saul

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In Book Five, Sarah Roberts is The Victim.Sarah is killed in a horrible car accident, the DNA found in the car verified as hers. But the government men at the Sophia Project have faked her death to keep her to themselves.After her funeral, she shows up in the food court of a busy mall where a violent exchange takes place. Things go wrong fast...
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    paranormal  suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Mourning Gloria by Andrew Downs

    Mourning Gloria by Andrew Downs

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When a murder suspect escapes indictment on a technicality, Agent Leah Hudson is forced to shift her focus to a new task, a cold case. Five years after Gloria Stone disappears, Hudson must piece together the final days of her life, but Gloria was no ordinary girl...
  • A Crown of Lights by Phil Rickman

    A Crown of Lights by Phil Rickman

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When a derelict country church is bought by a pagan couple, the local evangelical minister reacts with fury. A modern witch hunt begins, and Merrily Watkins is expected to keep a lid on the cauldron. Meanwhile, there is the problem of the man who won’t be parted from his dead wife, the ancient mystery of the five local churches dedicated to St. Michael, and a killer with an old tradition to guard...
  • The Seventh Witch by Shirley Damsgaard

    The Seventh Witch by Shirley Damsgaard

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This is the seventh and last installment of the enchanting mystery series featuring a small-town librarian psychic and her grandmother, and a benevolent witch.Small-town librarian and psychic Ophelia Jensen hails from a long line of wise and wonderfully gifted women. There's her grandmother, Abby, a talented witch, and her great-aunt Mary, who's about to celebrate her 100th birthday...
  • Harbinger by H.P. Bayne

    Harbinger by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.A spirit who sees the future might rob Sully of his.When Sully’s boss is fatally shot, he becomes the main suspect in the homicide. The woman's ghost is guarding a secret, one that will reveal the true killer—if Sully can convince her to show him.But he's got other problems...
  • The River by Noelle W. Ihli

    The River by Noelle W. Ihli

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A short post-script to Ask for Andrea by Noelle W. Ihli. Learn what happened to April...
  • Razor: Fantasy Thriller - Becoming a Hero by Wilkie Martin

    Razor: Fantasy Thriller - Becoming a Hero by Wilkie Martin

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A mourning husband can’t live with his guilt… ... he decides to die, not by his own hand, but in heroically helping the vulnerable. Since the peaceful Cotswold countryside offers limited opportunities for heroism, despite the presence of some weird and dangerous inhabitants, he ventures further afield...
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    crime  dark  justice  paranormal  suspense  vigilante  adult  audiobook
  • Black Hill Farm by Tim O'Rourke

    Black Hill Farm by Tim O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When sixteen year-old Ben McCloud moves to Black Hill Farm, he soon falls in love with the mysterious and seductive Andrea Black.Finding themselves alone on this remote farm and desperate to stay together, Ben and Andrea’s world spirals out of control. As they fight for survival, every step they take leads them into an ever darker world of forbidden love and despair...
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    crime  dark  paranormal  suspense  audiobook  book  fiction  ghosts
  • The Occupied by Craig Parshall

    The Occupied by Craig Parshall

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As a youth, Trevor Black unleashed spiritual forces he couldn t comprehend. Years later, Trevor is a high-flying criminal defense lawyer in New York City, with a six-figure Aston Martin and a trophy wife. But in an extraordinary turn of events, he receives a burdensome gift: the ability to perceive the invisible. And the dark forces he now sees are all gunning for him...
  • Good Neighbors by Russell C. Connor

    Good Neighbors by Russell C. Connor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Winner of the Silver Medal for Horror in the 2016 Independent Publishing Awards HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS? Elliot Jefferson moved to the isolated Estates of North Hills to work on his sobriety and avoid other people at all costs. But when the electric transformers around the complex begin emitting a horrible buzz that he calls ‘the Squall,’ neither is easy to achieve...
  • The Rage Colony by Shanon Hunt

    The Rage Colony by Shanon Hunt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They promised purification.They delivered poison.One that hijacks the mind. A plague that will change humanity forever.From the author of The Pain Colony comes the highly anticipated second book in The Colony series.Investigative reporter Nick Slater could have been the best in the business if only he hadn’t gone off the rails chasing a conspiracy theory...
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    medical  paranormal  psychics  suspense  adult  book  dystopia  fiction
  • The Last Laugh by Michelle Dorey

    The Last Laugh by Michelle Dorey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From Michelle Dorey, bestselling author of paranormal suspenseSome secrets should have stayed buried…Finding the century home in the idyllic lakeside town of Westport was the best thing that could have happened to Sharon. She’d turn it into a B&B and finally run her own business. Who said that it was all downhill at fifty? This is a change of life all right—a change for the better...
  • The Haunting by Raymond M Hall

    The Haunting by Raymond M Hall

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He was searching for an escape. But in his new home, there may be no way out… World-class pianist Sebastian Carmichael desperately needs rest. After the strain of his touring career causes him to collapse onstage, he seeks peace and quiet in the remote English countryside. But when he buys a dilapidated seventeenth-century building, his plan to renovate could be the riskiest decision of his life...
  • The Artifact by Brian Hill

    The Artifact by Brian Hill

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A 4000-year-old Egyptian artifact, pulled from a mythical pharaoh’s tomb.A British aristocrat with mysterious intentions.A young thief without a past.A shady spiritualist in hiding.A Native American private investigator, trying to keep his business afloat.Who is the victim?Who is the criminal?Who is the monster?It’s 1984, and Rev Parata is a hard-nosed, Native-American P.I...
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    paranormal  crime  thriller  suspense  horror  myths  mystery  fiction
  • Black Candle by H.P. Bayne

    Black Candle by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A missing teen. The ghost of a murdered woman. And one man whose struggles to save them both might cost him everything—including his own life.Sullivan sees the ghosts of those who have died at the hands of another, and his own peace rests solely on his ability to help find theirs.His family has helped shoulder his burden since childhood...
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    crime  paranormal  psychics  suspense  adult  book  fiction  ghosts
  • My Darling Girl by Jennifer McMahon

    My Darling Girl by Jennifer McMahon

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A spine-tingling psychological thriller about a woman who, after taking in her dying, alcoholic mother, begins to suspect demonic possession is haunting her family.Alison has never been a fan of Christmas. But with it right around the corner and her husband busily decorating their cozy Vermont home, she has no choice but to face it. Then she gets the call...
  • What Lies Below by Barbara Taylor Sissel

    What Lies Below by Barbara Taylor Sissel

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Everyone has nightmares. One woman is living hers… Gilly O’Connell’s nightmares aren’t just bad dreams; they’re glimpses of terrifying realities to come. Gilly has spent her entire life trying to suppress the foreboding visions. So when a dismissed premonition leads to her husband’s murder, she buries the guilt and pain of the unsolved crime in the only way she knows how—she runs from it...
  • The Neighbor by London Clarke

    The Neighbor by London Clarke

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Claire Vogel is a recently divorced mother of four girls and a successful counselor living in a planned and prestigious community. She knows all her neighbors, and they know her. But Claire has a secret. To cope with hidden, deep-rooted pain, she often participates in risky, reckless behavior...
  • Peek A Boo, I See You by Willow Rose

    Peek A Boo, I See You by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent editionThe body of a woman found in front of Nordby City Hall has a message for Emma Frost carved into the skin. Behind this ruthless murder stands a ghostly figure that likes to play childish games. Soon, this killer brings a reign of terror to the small Danish Island and especially to the life of Emma Frost...
  • Time to Die by Caroline Mitchell

    Time to Die by Caroline Mitchell

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He will predict your life… and your death.Don’t ever cross his palm with silver. He will reveal your most shameful secrets. He will predict your death. He is hiding a secret. He is hiding a monster. And all his predictions come true.Investigating a series of chilling murders, Detective Jennifer Knight finds herself tracking a mysterious tarot card reader known only as The Raven...
  • Seven, Eight... Gonna Stay Up Late by Willow Rose

    Seven, Eight... Gonna Stay Up Late by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She thought she could keep it a secret. Just fourteen years old, Amalie thought she could take off and go to the festival with her best friend without anyone knowing it - without her parents finding out. She thought she was safe when she met a man offering her drugs. She thought she was safe when she went alone to her tent to take the pills...
  • The Whisperers by John Connolly

    The Whisperers by John Connolly

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    ""'Oh, little one, ' he whispered, as he gently stroked her cheek, the first time he had touched her in fifteen years. 'What have they done to you? What have they done to us all?' ""In his latest dark and chilling Charlie Parker thriller, New York Times bestselling author John Connolly takes us to the border between Maine and Canada...
  • The Midnight Man by Caroline Mitchell

    The Midnight Man by Caroline Mitchell

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From number one bestselling author Caroline Mitchell, comes the first chilling Slayton thriller for fans of C. J. Tudor and Stephen King.If you open your door to the Midnight Man, hide with a candle wherever you can. Try not to scream as he draws near, because one of you won't be leaving here...On Halloween night in Slayton, five girls go to Blackhall Manor to play the Midnight Game...
  • Thr3e by Ted Dekker, Rob Lamont

    Thr3e by Ted Dekker, Rob Lamont

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    The nightmare has just begun... your world has changed forever. “Evil is beyond the reach of no man.” “But can a man remove himself beyond the reach of evil?” Kevin asked. “Indeed,” Dr. Francis said. “Can man step beyond evil’s reach? I think not. Not in this lifetime.” “Then all men are condemned to a life of evil,” Kevin said. “A lifetime struggle with evil, not a life of evil,” Dr...
  • Louisiana Blood by Mike Donald

    Louisiana Blood by Mike Donald

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When the remains of Jack the Ripper’s first five victims are discovered in present day Louisiana, an English detective and a local sheriff form an unlikely alliance to unravel the mystery…and find themselves caught up in a modern-day conspiracy...
  • Angel Eyes: The Haunting of January House by A.N. Willis

    Angel Eyes: The Haunting of January House by A.N. Willis

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everyone in Ashton, Colorado, knows that January House is haunted. Tucked away on an isolated hillside, the place has seen grisly murders and unsolved disappearances. An artists’ commune took up residence there in the 1970s, creating a controversy that still divides the town. Now, a reclusive painter has died in the crumbling house. The police say it’s natural causes...
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