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  • Cross Down by James Patterson, Brendan DuBois

    Cross Down by James Patterson, Brendan DuBois

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Only John Sampson can save his partner, Alex Cross . . . and America. The brilliant crime-solving duo of Washington DC’s Metro PD and the FBI has a proven operating procedure:   Detective Alex Cross makes his own rules. Detective John Sampson enforces them.   Then a series of military-style attacks erupts. No sooner do Cross and Sampson join the investigation than Alex is brutally sidelined...
  • A Steep Price by Robert Dugoni

    A Steep Price by Robert Dugoni

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni’s thrilling series continues as Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite is plunged into a case of family secrets and murder… “Another outstanding novel from one of the best crime writers in the business...
  • Mercy by David Baldacci

    Mercy by David Baldacci

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    FBI Agent Atlee Pine’s harrowing search for her long-lost sister Mercy reaches a boiling point in this breakneck thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.   For her entire life, FBI agent Atlee Pine has been searching for her twin sister, Mercy, who was abducted at the age of six and never seen again...
  • Unseen by Jana Deleon

    Unseen by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Madison Avery is a young woman with a huge problem. From her penthouse apartment, she witnessed a murder in the building across the street, but by the time the police arrived, the crime scene had been wiped clean. Unfortunately, Madison suffers from prosopagnosia—face blindness—so even though she had a clear view of the murder, she can’t describe the victim or the killer...
  • Hidden Creed by Alex Kava

    Hidden Creed by Alex Kava

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Secrets are exposed and Ryder Creed's life hangs in the balance in the riveting sixth installment of the award-winning Alex Kava Ryder Creed K-9 mysteries.NOTHING STAYS HIDDEN FOREVER...During a training exercise, Creed’s scent dog, Grace, is drawn off course and discovers a shallow grave...
  • Our Stolen Pieces by James Hunt

    Our Stolen Pieces by James Hunt

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When the morning after a slumber party reveals two missing girls, a newly minted Detective and a young veteran are assigned the case. Recently partnered, the pair of detectives must set aside their troubled pasts to recover the pair of girls who may have been coerced by a stranger who had kidnapped before...
  • Her Final Breath by Robert Dugoni

    Her Final Breath by Robert Dugoni

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite has returned to the police force after the sensational retrial of her sister’s killer. Still scarred from that ordeal, Tracy is pulled into an investigation that threatens to end her career, if not her life.A serial killer known as the Cowboy is killing young women in cheap motels in North Seattle...
  • Winter's Redemption by Mary Stone

    Winter's Redemption by Mary Stone

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Preacher is killing again...The serial killer who slaughtered Winter’s parents has come out of retirement, leaving bloody victims in his wake. Special Agent Winter Black has spent her entire life preparing for this moment, and she intends to end the man who took everything from her and solve the disappearance of her little brother—no matter the cost...
  • Close to Home by Robert Dugoni

    Close to Home by Robert Dugoni

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni’s acclaimed series continues as Tracy Crosswhite is thrown headlong into the path of a killer conspiracy.While investigating the hit-and-run death of a young boy, Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite makes a startling discovery: the suspect is an active-duty serviceman at a local naval base...
  • One Way by Tom Barber

    One Way by Tom Barber

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    NYPD Detective Sam Archer is on his way home on a Sunday afternoon in New York City. He’s been out of the field for over three months due to a broken ankle and a nasty case of pneumonia, but has just been given the all clear to get back out there again, starting tomorrow. Archer takes a seat on a bench in the Upper West Side, enjoying a cold drink and soaking up the last remaining sun of the day...
  • Little Broken Things by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Little Broken Things by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Detective Georgiana Germaine is back on the trail of a cold-blooded killer, and once again, the case hits close to home.Twenty-year-old Olivia Spencer sits at her desk in her mother's bookshop, dreaming about her upcoming wedding. The shop may be closed, but Olivia's not alone, and her dream is about to become her worst nightmare...
  • Dawn Girl by Leslie Wolfe

    Dawn Girl by Leslie Wolfe

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A GRIPPING SERIAL KILLER THRILLERHer blue eyes wide open, glossed over. A few specks of sand clung to her long, dark lashes. Her beautiful face, immobile, covered in sparkling flecks of sand. Her lips slightly parted as if to let a last breath escape...
  • The Girl in the Sand by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    The Girl in the Sand by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Shallow graves scar the desert landscape. A cemetery in the sand. Some of the lost are never found. Thousands of girls go missing every year in Las Vegas. Taken. Bought and sold. Or worse. And now the dead are calling. These lost girls summon FBI Profiler Violet Darger to Sin City -- a new case...
  • Bedlam by L.J. Ross

    Bedlam by L.J. Ross

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From the international best-selling author of the DCI Ryan mysteries.In a world gone mad, who can you trust?Fresh from a high-profile case in the Paris fashion world, elite forensic psychologist and criminal profiler Dr Alexander Gregory receives a call from the New York State Homicide Squad...
  • The Patient Man by Joy Ellis

    The Patient Man by Joy Ellis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From #1 best-selling author Joy Ellis, a totally absorbing mystery full of stunning twists and turns. Discover the author who’s sold over two million books globally...
  • Killer Smile by Mary Stone

    Killer Smile by Mary Stone

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    If looks can kill, a smile can be deadly.Special Agent Stella Knox became an FBI agent to find the dirty cops responsible for her father’s murder and make them pay. But fresh out of Quantico, her first case has her seeking justice for a different victim—three of them, in fact.The bodies of three teenage boys have turned up in a sleepy town outside of Nashville, TN...
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  • Gray After Dark by Noelle W. Ihli

    Gray After Dark by Noelle W. Ihli

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A merciless wilderness. A harrowing attack. A desperate escape.When a tragic accident sidelines Miley's dreams of Olympic gold, she takes a summer job at a mountain guest lodge.The Frank Church Wilderness is remote, but it’s the perfect place to train and recover. Local lore about a staffer who died years ago doesn’t scare her. But it should...
  • The Wife Upstairs by Freida McFadden

    The Wife Upstairs by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Victoria Barnett has it all.A great career. A handsome and loving husband. A beautiful home in the suburbs and a plan to fill it with children. Life is perfect—or so it seems.Then she’s in a terrible accident… and everything falls apart.Now Victoria is unable to walk. She can’t feed or dress herself. She can’t even speak. She is confined to the top floor of her house with twenty-four-hour care...
  • Fortunate Son by Andrew Bridgeman

    Fortunate Son by Andrew Bridgeman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A deadly prophecy must be stopped before all is lost. Trust none, sacrifice words to live (or die) by in this edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller of deceit and intrigue...
  • Bad Blood by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    Bad Blood by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The body slumps over the steering wheel. Pools of blood going tacky on the dash. Two shots to the back of the head. A mafia-style hit in a small town.So Special Agent Violet Darger arrives in rural Michigan. She must make sense of this savagery. Figure out how something like this could happen in an idyllic town of just 5,000.The victim had been living the American dream...
  • Wasp by Fiona Quinn

    Wasp by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Zoe knows the secrets, now they're coming for her.The enemy will stop at nothing to get to Zoe and the military secrets that could change everything. What Zoe knows is getting people killed. Is she next?Gage is a hardened Marine special forces operative with only one soft spot: Zoe.Her desperate screams echoing from inside her home switch his instincts from lover to guardian...
  • Thorn by Fiona Quinn

    Thorn by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Thorn Has Met His MatchRetired Navy Seal, turned Iniquus security operative, Thorn Iverson is heading home from Brussels when the call comes in.A U.S. military scientist's daughter, Juliette, was snatched from the streets of France, and she’s in immediate danger.Juliette is desperate.Juliette is fighting for her life...
  • A Very Bad Thing by J.T. Ellison

    A Very Bad Thing by J.T. Ellison

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison comes a taut thriller about one author at the pinnacle of her career, whose past threatens to destroy everything she has—and everyone she knows.A great writer knows when to deliver a juicy plot twist. But for one author, the biggest twist of all is her own murder...
  • One By One by Freida McFadden

    One By One by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    One by one, they will get what they deserve...A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not how Claire Matchett expected to spend her vacation.She thought this would be a break from the stresses of work and raising her young children. A chance to repair her damaged marriage. A week of hiking and hot tubs with two other couple friends. It sounded like heaven...
  • Little Girl Lost by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Little Girl Lost by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    For the past two years, former detective Georgiana "Gigi" Germaine has been living off the grid, until today, when she hears some disturbing news that shakes her. Georgiana's brother-in-law has been murdered, her seven-year-old niece kidnapped. As the hours waste away, Georgiana races back to a town she left behind, and a former life she's still not ready to face...
  • Twelve Years Gone by K.J. Kalis

    Twelve Years Gone by K.J. Kalis

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Twelve years gone…Sarah Schmidt went out for a hike a month before heading to college on a cross-country scholarship. She never came back.In the twelve years she’s been gone, the local police have done little to help the family, leaving them with the desperate knowledge that Sarah could still be alive, somewhere, somehow...The family hasn’t given up their hope for revenge, or at least answers...
  • Missed Connections by Alexandria Clarke

    Missed Connections by Alexandria Clarke

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    How far would you go for revenge? Veronica Bauer isn’t above homicide. Twelve years after a ruthless attack killed her mother and put her father in prison, she embarks on a mission to bring the real culprits to justice. As bodies start to drop, Detective Sheila Arden is assigned to the gruesome case, but she soon discovers that the truth is more complicated than she thought...
  • The Advocate's Felony by Teresa Burrell

    The Advocate's Felony by Teresa Burrell

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sabre Brown’s phone rings at 2 a.m. It’s her brother Ron. After seven years in the Witness Protection Program, someone has discovered his whereabouts, and has tried to kill him. He’s called to warn Sabre that she is in imminent danger. Sabre and her private investigator, J.P., leave sunny San Diego to search for her brother in the cold, wintry Northwest...
  • Don't Make a Sound by David Jackson

    Don't Make a Sound by David Jackson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    You can't choose your family. Or can you? Meet the Bensons. A pleasant enough couple. They keep themselves to themselves. They wash their car, mow their lawn and pass the time of day with their neighbours. And they have a beautiful little girl called Daisy.There's just one problem. Daisy doesn't belong to the Bensons. They stole her...
  • 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...
  • Break Every Rule by Brian Freeman

    Break Every Rule by Brian Freeman

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne series comes a breathtaking thriller about a man whose only chance to rescue his family is to return to the past he thought he’d left behind.Tommy Miller is a man with deadly skills, hiding in Florida under a false identity...
  • The Persuasion by Iris Johansen

    The Persuasion by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When Eve Duncan's daughter, Jane MacGuire, becomes a killer's target, Jane must team up with longtime love interest Seth Caleb in this thrilling novel from the #1 bestselling author of Smokescreen. Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and ex-Navy Seal Joe Quinn are about to give Seth Caleb their trust for the most important duty of his life: keeping their daughter, Jane, safe at any cost...
  • 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 Burying Place by Brian Freeman

    The Burying Place by Brian Freeman

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A stunning, clever and unputdownable thriller for fans of Harlan Coben and Michael ConnellyLieutenant Jonathan Stride is quietly recovering from injuries sustained on his latest case when a rich doctor's baby is kidnapped and his peace is shattered...
  • The Abduction by Mark Gimenez

    The Abduction by Mark Gimenez

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Ben Brice lives alone in the New Mexico wilderness where he battles memories of Vietnam with oceans of Jim Beam. Miles away in Texas, his estranged son, John, an Internet geek-turned-billionaire, half watches his daughter Gracie's soccer game while conducting business on his cell phone. When her mother Elizabeth arrives, the coach reports that her uncle has already collected Gracie...
  • The Fourth Friend by Joy Ellis

    The Fourth Friend by Joy Ellis

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Looking for your next unputdownable mystery? Then try this book by #1 best-selling author Joy Ellis, a mystery full of stunning twists and turns. FOUR LOST FRIENDS. FOUR TASKS TO COMPLETE. ONE BIG MYSTERY LEFT. Police detective Carter McLean is the only survivor of a plane crash that kills his four best friends. He returns to work but he is left full of guilt and terrible flashbacks...
  • Close Encounter, Part 1 by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Close Encounter, Part 1 by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
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  • Close Encounter, Part 1 by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Close Encounter, Part 1 by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Alternate cover edition of ASIN B07QMDN765 What happens in the city of sin during a total blackout? EVERYTHING...Cane O'Reilly has one job, keep Charlie Adams alive. When witness protection fails, more than once, he's the only one who can protect her.As the only surviving victim of an international serial killer, she comes with a hell of a lot of baggage and...other needs Cane is happy to fulfill...
  • The End of Lies by Andrew Barrett

    The End of Lies by Andrew Barrett

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My name is Becky. I arrived home to find my husband, Chris, stabbed to death and a gang of men ransacking our house. Turns out that Chris has something that belongs to them. And if I want to stay alive, I have to find it and return it. They have given me seven days. And a beating. There is nowhere to hide and no time left to look. So I will stand my ground as the deadline approaches...
  • Color Of Blood by Keith Yocum

    Color Of Blood by Keith Yocum

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dennis is glad to be back at work. His wife’s death left him devastated but he’ll do anything to lose himself into work at the Inspector General’s office of the CIA. A brilliant, if prickly investigator, he’s spent his career chasing down the Agency’s thieves and liars...
  • Running Cold by Susan Walter

    Running Cold by Susan Walter

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In this heart-pounding story of deception, murder, and survival, a former Olympian retreats to the Canadian wilderness for a fresh start, only to find out that the past will always catch up to her.Julie Adler’s perfect facade is shattered by grief when her husband commits suicide...
  • Easy as One Two Three by Willow Rose

    Easy as One Two Three by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent editionMads and Signe are very young when they get married. They are ready to take on the world, starting with their honeymoon to Egypt. Two years later, Mads is in a coma, and Signe has vanished from the face of the earth.Meanwhile, Emma Frost is looking for her daughter whom the police believe is guilty of the hit and run that left Mads Schou brain dead...
  • The Silence Between Breaths by Cath Staincliffe

    The Silence Between Breaths by Cath Staincliffe

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Eight people, one deadly secret.Passengers boarding the 10.35 train from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston are bound for work, assignations, reunions, holidays or new starts, with no idea that their journey is about to be brutally curtailed...
  • Never Come Back by Joe Hart

    Never Come Back by Joe Hart

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Needing to help the most vulnerable is in Nora McTavish’s DNA. Living within the echoes of her own traumatic past, she spends her days as a family advocate providing comfort and justice for those without anyone else to turn to. So when a long lost childhood friend calls asking for help and promising clues to the location of Nora’s missing mother, she has no choice but to say yes...
  • Abandoned by Cody McFadyen

    Abandoned by Cody McFadyen

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    For FBI Special Agent Smoky Barrett, her colleague’s wedding is cause for celebration. Until a woman staggers down the aisle—incoherent, wearing only a white nightgown. A fingerprint check determines that she’s been missing for nearly eight years. Her coldly efficient captor toyed with her mind and body, imprisoning her, depriving her of any contact with the outside world...
  • All He Has Left by Chad Zunker

    All He Has Left by Chad Zunker

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Power, money, and dark family secrets are a killer combination in a propulsive novel of suspense by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Family Money.After Jake Slater’s wife dies in a tragic hit-and-run, all he has left is his daughter, Piper―nearly lost, too, in a brutal custody battle with his wealthy in-laws...
  • Point of Balance: A Thriller by Juan Gómez-Jurado

    Point of Balance: A Thriller by Juan Gómez-Jurado

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In this superbly written, nail-biting thriller, a top neurosurgeon is forced to choose between ending the life of the most important person in America or guaranteeing his own daughter’s horrifying death.I am no saint, no martyr, no terrorist, no madman, and no murderer…I am a father. That’s my story. Dr...
  • Never Lie by Freida McFadden

    Never Lie by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams.But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate… with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end...
  • Relentless Pursuit by Adrienne Giordano

    Relentless Pursuit by Adrienne Giordano

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    You call this a mission? Yeah, ex-Army Ranger and Taylor Securities operative Billy Tripp screwed up. So instead of being assigned to a dangerous international mission, he’s sent to babysit a pricey necklace at a trendy South Beach hotel. The only bright side to the assignment is working with the manager, smoking-hot hotel heiress Kristen Dante...
  • Swallow Lane by Marie Snow, Jordan Marie

    Swallow Lane by Marie Snow, Jordan Marie

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It was supposed to be a fresh start.
A new life.
That’s what I told myself anyway when I moved with my son Matthew to Liars Island from Stillwake.
Too much conflict and heartache had been a constant in our life, especially with my son. And although my Matthew was grown, I’d always see him as my little boy and the one person I needed to protect above all else...
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