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  • Due Process by Scott Pratt

    Due Process by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    An Amazon Top 30 bestseller.A young exotic dancer claims she was sexually assaulted at a party thrown by a university football team.Three players stand accused.In the ninth installment of the bestselling Joe Dillard series, Dillard finds himself defending one of the players accused of assaulting the young woman...
  • The Final Reckoning by Robert Bailey, ロバート・ベイリー

    The Final Reckoning by Robert Bailey, ロバート・ベイリー

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    His last challenge: live long enough to save the lives of those he loves.Cold-blooded killer JimBone Wheeler blames Tom McMurtrie for putting him on death row. He once vowed that he’d bring “a reckoning” on Tom and everyone the southern lawyer holds dear. When Wheeler escapes from prison, he aims to fulfill his promise. Victim by victim, he’s getting closer to his ultimate target...
  • Final Option by Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison

    Final Option by Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In Final Option, Juan Cabrillo fights the worst enemy from his past to the terrifying and unexpected ending created by the Grand Master of Adventure, Clive Cussler, in the latest action-packed thriller in his #1 New York Times-bestselling series...
  • Blood Money: A Legal Thriller by Scott Pratt

    Blood Money: A Legal Thriller by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the sixth volume of the bestselling Joe Dillard series, Dillard does something he has never done before -- he hires a young associate. Her name is Charleston Story, she is bright and beautiful, and in her very first case, she winds up inheriting an item so valuable that it threatens to destroy her and everything she cares about...
  • Conflict of Interest by Scott Pratt

    Conflict of Interest by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A six-year-old girl is kidnapped from her bed in Tennessee's oldest town. The ransom note demands millions. In this fifth installment of the highly-acclaimed and bestselling Joe Dillard series, Dillard is hired to represent the parents of a child who has gone missing...
  • Injustice For All by Scott Pratt

    Injustice For All by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A criminal court judge is found hanging from a tree. A young employee of the district attorney's office goes missing. In this third book of the best selling Joe Dillard series, Dillard finds himself in the middle of two volatile mysteries. The primary suspect in the judge's murder is Dillard's son's best friend, and Dillard's wife may have destroyed evidence...
  • Reasonable Fear by Scott Pratt

    Reasonable Fear by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Three young women are found floating in a lake. The suspect is one of the richest and most powerful men in Tennessee. "Reasonable Fear" is the fourth of the bestselling Joe Dillard series offered by Scott Pratt. In this novel, Dillard has become the district attorney in Northeast Tennessee...
  • The Professor by Robert Bailey, Eric G. Dove

    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...
  • A Crime of Passion by Scott Pratt

    A Crime of Passion by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A beautiful, young, rising star in the country music world is found dead in a Nashville hotel room. The owner of her record company is charged with murder. In the seventh installment of Scott Pratt's bestselling Joe Dillard series, Dillard is hired to travel to Tennessee's capital city to defend Paul Milius, a record company baron accused of strangling Kasey Cartwright, his label's young star...
  • The Conviction by Robert Dugoni

    The Conviction by Robert Dugoni

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In this exhilarating legal thriller from Robert Dugoni, the #1 Kindle bestselling author of MY SISTER'S GRAVE, attorney David Sloane must take the law into his own hands to save his son from a corrupt juvenile detention center. As David Sloane continues to piece his life back together in the wake of his wife's vicious murder, he also struggles to handle his difficult teenage son, Jake...
  • Bodily Harm by Robert Dugoni

    Bodily Harm by Robert Dugoni

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ROBERT DUGONI RETURNS WITH HIS MOST EXHILARATING THRILLER TO DATE, A PULSE-POUNDING STORY OF CORPORATE GREED, ESPIONAGE, AND THE LENGTHS ONE MAN IS WILLING TO GO FOR JUSTICE.Bodily Harm opens with a big win for David Sloane and his new partner, Tom Pendergrass, in a malpractice case centered on the death of a young child...
  • 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...
  • Crimson Lake Road by Victor Methos

    Crimson Lake Road by Victor Methos

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Bestselling author Victor Methos’s acclaimed series continues as prosecutor Jessica Yardley races to catch an art-obsessed serial killer before she becomes his next masterpiece.Retiring prosecutor Jessica Yardley can’t turn down one last investigation. This time, it’s a set of murders inspired by a series of grisly paintings called The Night Things...
  • The Tracker by Chad Zunker

    The Tracker by Chad Zunker

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Trust no one.Sam Callahan learned this lesson from a childhood spent in abusive foster care, on the streets, and locked in juvie. With the past behind him and his future staked on law school, he is moonlighting as a political tracker, paid to hide in crowds and shadow candidates, recording their missteps for use by their opponents...
  • 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...
  • Missing Persons by James Patterson, Adam Hamdy

    Missing Persons by James Patterson, Adam Hamdy

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In Afghanistan, a US Special Forces pilot is shot down during a covert mission.In New York, a mother is forced to flee with her two young children.A wealthy businessman approaches Jack Morgan, head of Private - the world's largest investigation agency - with a desperate plea to track down his daughter and grandchildren, who have disappeared without a trace...
  • Misjudged by James Chandler

    Misjudged by James Chandler

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    When a disabled veteran takes a new job as an attorney in a small Wyoming town, he is thrust into a mysterious murder case.Sam Johnstone was hoping for renewal when he took a job at a boutique law firm in rustic Wyoming. The mountains and streams of the west would be a refreshing, quiet place to start over after years of war and turmoil in his personal life...
  • Wrongful Death by Robert Dugoni

    Wrongful Death by Robert Dugoni

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni tackles hot-button issues in this riveting legal thriller featuring attorney David Sloane. When a widow asks Sloane to take her case against the military, Sloane knows it's a lost cause but can't turn her down, even if it puts his own life--and the lives of his family--in dire jeopardy.Just minutes after winning a $1...
  • An Innocent Client by Scott Pratt, Khaled Nokib

    An Innocent Client by Scott Pratt, Khaled Nokib

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent editionA preacher is found brutally murdered in a Tennessee motel room. A beautiful, mysterious young girl is accused. In this Mystery Readers International finalist for "Best Debut Mystery," criminal defense lawyer Joe Dillard has become jaded over the years as he's tried to balance his career against his conscience...
  • Tell No One / Gone For Good by Harlan Coben

    Tell No One / Gone For Good by Harlan Coben

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben comes an unforgettable duet of classic novels—two top-notch thrillers filled with the author’s signature storytelling genius.TELL NO ONEFor Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams...
  • Flesh and Bones by Paul Levine

    Flesh and Bones by Paul Levine

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    SPELLBINDING  THRILLER FROM EDGAR NOMINEE PAUL LEVINE"I was sitting at the end of the bar sipping single-malt Scotch when I spotted the tall blond woman with the large green eyes and the small gray gun." The next thing Jake Lassiter knows, the woman pumps three bullets into the man on the next bar stool. Lassiter, the linebacker-turned-lawyer, has a new client...
  • 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...
  • Incriminating Evidence by Sheldon Siegel

    Incriminating Evidence by Sheldon Siegel

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    With his terrific first novel, Special Circumstances , Sheldon Siegel delivered legal fiction so exciting, it drew comparisons with the very top tier of courtroom thrillers. Now he has a new challenge for defense attorney Mike Daley--ex-priest, ex-husband, ex-public defender--and it’s a high-profile zinger: a case he doesn’t think he can win for a client he can’t stand...
  • Sea of Greed by Clive Cussler

    Sea of Greed by Clive Cussler

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of adventure, a brand new mission for Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew--based on a remarkable historical incident. January 1968Two submarines--one French, one Israeli--vanish in the Mediterranean within days of each other. Extensive search-and-rescue operations turn up no sign of either vessel...
  • Next Exit, Three Miles by C.W. Browning

    Next Exit, Three Miles by C.W. Browning

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Alina Maschik was one of the best. She never missed. Yet, two years ago in Cairo, she missed her shot at one of the world’s most wanted terrorists. Now, he’s back. This time, he’s on US soil.Given the opportunity to redeem herself, Alina’s objective is simple: find the terrorist and complete her mission...
  • 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...
  • Hard Knocks by Zoë Sharp

    Hard Knocks by Zoë Sharp

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ‘Perhaps if the army had known what was inside me, what I would eventually turn into, they might not have been so keen to let me go.’Charlie really didn’t care who shot dead her traitorous ex-army comrade Kirk Salter during a bodyguard training course in Germany...
  • Sins of the Father by Jen Blood

    Sins of the Father by Jen Blood

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Alternate Cover Edition for ASIN B008OKBNOK. Sins of the Father finds Erin Solomon continuing her quest to find her father by investigating a convicted murderer's claim of innocence. Her investigation leads her down a path of dark secrets, painful truths, and deadly obsessions, as she struggles to reconcile her memories of her father with the cold, ruthless portrait others paint...
  • The Dead Tracks by Tim Weaver

    The Dead Tracks by Tim Weaver

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "The Dead Tracks" is the second in the David Raker series from Tim Weaver. A serial killer more terrifying than you could ever imagine...Seventeen-year-old Megan Carver was an unlikely runaway. A straight - a student from a happy home, she studied hard and rarely got into trouble. Six months on, she's never been found. Missing persons investigator David Raker knows what it's like to grieve...
  • The Perk by Mark Gimenez

    The Perk by Mark Gimenez

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Beck Hardin returns to his Texas hometown - and his estranged father - after the death of his wife leaves him with two children to raise. The town is still reeling from the murder of sixteen-year-old Heidi, whose father - Beck's old college friend - asks Beck to help him find Heidi's killer before the statute of limitations runs out...
  • Trial by Clifford Irving

    Trial by Clifford Irving

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A thrilling adventure into the real world of criminal law, a rich and powerful novel that deals with murder, the morality of justice and the perils of love, Clifford Irving's novel sets a new standard for courtroom fiction. A twisting, relentless thriller, Trial follows Texas lawyer Warren Blackburn as he defends two accused murderers in two separate cases...
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  • 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...
  • Shadow Tyrants by Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison

    Shadow Tyrants by Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    "Nearly two thousand years ago, an Eastern emperor charged a small group with safeguarding secrets powerful enough to change the history of mankind. They went down in legend as the Nine Unknown Men--and now two rival factions of their descendants are fighting a mighty battle. Both sides think they are saving the world, but their tactics could very well bring about the end of humankind...
  • Redemption by Phil M. Williams

    Redemption by Phil M. Williams

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Do you really trust your husband?That’s what I had to decide. I had it all. At least that’s what people told me. Beauty, brains, and a rich husband. I deserved it too. My fiancé had cheated on me with my best friend. But I won in the end, or at least I thought I had.Until Christmas of 1999. My ex-fiancé, Danny, showed up at my parents’ house, wanting to talk to my father...
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    suspense  crime  thriller  legal  mystery  fiction  tragedy  vigilante
  • Dark Purpose by Mary Stone

    Dark Purpose by Mary Stone

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Everyone has a purpose. Some are just darker than others.Always calm, cool, and collected, Savannah PD Detective Charli Cross compensates for her petite five-foot frame with an impenetrable exterior and pragmatic competence. It’s an approach that catapulted her to the rank of detective at twenty-three and contributes to her and her partner’s unequaled murder clearance rate...
  • The Bannerman Solution by John R. Maxim

    The Bannerman Solution by John R. Maxim

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Paul Bannerman was once his nation's deadliest weapon--a top covert operative heading up the most lethal group of contract agents and network specialists in all of Europe. Now Bannerman is a liability--an unpredictable loose cannon that could irreparably damage America's shaky intelligence structure, if he chose to...
  • 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...
  • Rampage by John Sandford

    Rampage by John Sandford

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    John Sandford and Michele Cook complete their New York Times bestselling thriller series in this explosive finale! Fans of James Dashner, Harlan Coben, and James Patterson will love this nail-biting trilogy. Shay Remby and her band of renegade activists have got the corrupt Singular Corporation on the run. Their expos' is finally working...
  • Dr. Vigilante by Alberto Hazan

    Dr. Vigilante by Alberto Hazan

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Doctor by day.Vigilante by night.Robert lives a double life in New York City. He spends his days treating patients at the St. Jude’s Hospital ER and his nights going after the psychopaths who wrong them: the child molesters, wife beaters, and rapists...
  • Illegal by Paul Levine

    Illegal by Paul Levine

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A down-and-out L.A. lawyer with nothing to lose...A beautiful Mexican woman and her son who disappear crossing the border...And the corrupt rancher who schemes to destroy them all.  Set in the world of human trafficking and sex slavery, this a "masterful tale from one of the most skillful practitioners of the modern thriller.""Chilling and rings with authenticity...
  • Lassiter by Paul Levine

    Lassiter by Paul Levine

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "Take John Grisham's courtroom skills, add a dash of James Patterson's action and a pinch of Harlan Coben's humanity...and you've got LASSITER."Eighteen years ago, Jake Lassiter crossed paths with a teenage runaway who disappeared into South Florida's sex trade...
  • Her Last Wish by Blake Pierce

    Her Last Wish by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    FBI Agent Rachel Gift, 33, unparalleled for her ability to enter the minds of serial killers, is a rising star in the Behavioral Crimes Unit—until a routine doctor visit reveals she has but a few months left to live.Not wishing to burden others with her pain, Rachel decides, agonizing as it is, not to tell anyone—not even her boss, her partner, her husband, or her seven-year-old daughter...
  • Bad To The Bones by James Harper

    Bad To The Bones by James Harper

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    **Alternative cover edition for ASIN: B076H9C28F here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...**What would you give, how far would you go, to find a lost child and redeem your soul? And will it ever be far enough? Ten years ago, Linda Clayton's son Daniel disappeared. The love and support of her husband Robbie was all that kept her sane—until the day he ran away...
  • Blind Run by Patricia Lewin

    Blind Run by Patricia Lewin

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Decker was a specialized hunter for a CIA Shadow Organization, working deep undercover to track down and capture ruthless international mercenaries and fugitives. Then a daring mission takes a lethal turn, leaving innocents dead in its wake, and Ethan’s wife a prime target of a ruthless assassin...
  • What She Saw by Mark Roberts

    What She Saw by Mark Roberts

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The second DCI Rosen novel finds dark forces at work among the children of the estate—serial killer thriller meets occult thriller in a roller-coaster readWhen a nine-year-old boy is left to die inside a burning car on a sink estate in Peckham, DCI David Rosen is drafted in to investigate. The young boy has been severely burned, and is now fighting for his life...
  • Malicious Pursuit by K.G. MacGregor

    Malicious Pursuit by K.G. MacGregor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Injured and on the run, Spencer encounters Ruth, who must overcome her fear of being discovered - and of losing her daughter forever - to help a total stranger fight a battle for her life. With trust at a premium, the two women join forces to thwart their pursuers...
  • The Rule of Knowledge by Scott Baker

    The Rule of Knowledge by Scott Baker

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Faith, history, science and love collide in this fast-paced action adventure.High school teacher Shaun Strickland is shocked when he receives a last-minute invitation from Cambridge University to deliver a paper on the relationship between space and time, something he has been studying for years. This could be the break he s been longing for...
  • Roses Are Blood Red by Novoneel Chakraborty

    Roses Are Blood Red by Novoneel Chakraborty

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I'll gift you a love story that every girl desires, but few get to live.'He'd told me once. And boy, did he stick to his words! Vanav Thakur is the perfect boyfriend that any girl can have. He ticks every box you can ever have for your Mr Right. Trust me on this...
  • The Nomination: A Novel of Suspense by William G. Tapply

    The Nomination: A Novel of Suspense by William G. Tapply

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Nomination is a fast-paced action and suspense thriller that brings events from the final days of the Vietnam War into direct conflict with contemporary American politics. Vietnam War hero and Massachusetts Judge Thomas Larrigan is hand-picked by his friend the president to fill the upcoming vacancy on the Supreme Court...
  • Riot Act by Zoë Sharp

    Riot Act by Zoë Sharp

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A self-defence expert with a motorbike and an attitude, Charlie Fox doesn't need to go looking for trouble. It generally finds her. Housesitting for a friend seemed easy at first but the house is in the Lavender Garden Estate. Teenage gangs are running riot and desperate neighbours have employed a ruthless security firm to apply rough justice...
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