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  • Genesis by Chris Carter

    Genesis by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A killing like no other.A killer more twisted than he’s ever seen before.A case that will test him to the limit. Has Robert Hunter finally met his match?‘Do you believe the Devil exists, Detective?’ the officer at the end of the line asks. ‘Because if you don’t . . . I’m sure you will once you get here.’ Robert Hunter is called to the most vicious crime scene he has ever attended...
  • One by One by Chris Carter

    One by One by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    'I need your help, Detective. Fire or water?' Detective Robert Hunter of the LAPD's Homicide Special Section receives an anonymous call asking him to go to a specific web address - a private broadcast. Hunter logs on and a show devised for his eyes only immediately begins. But the caller doesn't want Detective Hunter to just watch, he wants him to participate, and refusal is simply not an option...
  • The Sixth Wicked Child by J.D. Barker

    The Sixth Wicked Child by J.D. Barker

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the riveting conclusion of the 4MK trilogy, Barker takes the thriller to an entirely new level. Hear No Evil For Detective Sam Porter, the words “Father, forgive me” conjure memories long forgotten; a past intentionally buried. For Anson Bishop, these three words connect a childhood to the present as he unleashes a truth concealed for decades...
  • Hunting Evil by Chris Carter

    Hunting Evil by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    'Every story one day comes to an end.' As roommates, they met for the first time in college. Two of the brightest minds ever to graduate from Stamford Psychology University. As adversaries, they met again in Quantico, Virginia. Robert Hunter had become the head of the LAPD’s Ultra Violent Crimes Unit...
  • The Night Stalker by Chris Carter

    The Night Stalker by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    When an unidentified female body is discovered laid out on a slab in an abandoned butcher's shop, the cause of death is unclear. Her body bears no marks, except for the fact that her lips have been stitched shut...
  • I Am Death by Chris Carter

    I Am Death by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    AN EVIL MIND was Chris Carters's most acclaimed novel to date, described by the Daily mail as: 'A chilling, compulsive portrait of a psychopath, and proves that Carter is now in the Jeffrey Deaver class.' It spent three weeks in the Sunday Timestop ten and received brillant reviews and sales. This terrifying new standalone thriller reunites Hunter and Garcia in their most explosive case to date...
  • The Caller by Chris Carter

    The Caller by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Don't miss GENESIS, the latest must-read serial killer thriller from master of the genre, Chris Carter. Available to order now.THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERBe careful before answering your next call. It could be the beginning of your worst nightmare.After a tough week, Tanya Kaitlin is looking forward to a relaxing night in, but as she steps out of her shower, she hears her phone ring...
  • Missing Angel by Roger Stelljes

    Missing Angel by Roger Stelljes

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Isabella pedals her bright red bike on the familiar route home, admiring her charm bracelet catching the light. But half an hour later, she is nowhere to be seen. All her frantic parents find is an angel-shaped charm discarded on the sidewalk…When twelve-year-old Isabella Farner disappears, Agent Tori Hunter races to the scene...
  • The Death Sculptor by Chris Carter

    The Death Sculptor by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    A student nurse has the shock of her life when she discovers her patient, prosecutor Derek Nicholson, brutally murdered in his bed. The act seems senseless - Nicholson was terminally ill with only weeks to live. But what most shocks Detective Robert Hunter is the calling card the killer left behind...
  • Written in Blood by Chris Carter

    Written in Blood by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Don't miss GENESIS, the latest must-read serial killer thriller from master of the genre, Chris Carter. Available to order now. ‘Wonderful storytelling, with a superbly drawn killer, it underlines exactly how good Carter has become’ Daily MailTHE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER    A serial killer who will stop at nothing…  The Killer His most valuable possession has been stolen...
  • TO DIE FOR by Willow Rose

    TO DIE FOR by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️…Very suspenseful up to the last page. One of my new favorites. Former FBI-profiler, Eva Rae Thomas is caught off guard by a murderous plan that sends her on a pulse-pounding race against time in this romantic thriller by Willow Rose. It is a typical Tuesday morning. Scott Benton gets up, kisses his girlfriend Sarah goodbye, and goes to work...
  • Aberration by Lisa Regan

    Aberration by Lisa Regan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    FBI analyst Kassidy Bishop is assigned to the “For You” killer’s task force after a series of sadistic murders bearing the same signature arise in different parts of the country.The homicides are both calculated and savage, occurring in different states, but bearing the same signature: the words “for you” scribbled at each crime scene...
  • What You Did by Willow Rose

    What You Did by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Former FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas faces the most personal case in her career, as bestselling author Willow Rose’s new hit-series continues. Three girls disappear on prom night at the local high school. One of them is the prom queen...
  • 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...
  • Opening Moves by Steven James

    Opening Moves by Steven James

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Milwaukee, 1997. In a city reeling from the crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer, a series of gruesome kidnappings and mutilations draw authorities into a case like nothing they've ever seen. Cops think a Dahmer copycat is on the loose. But Patrick Bowers, working as a homicide detective, suspects this is more than an ode to the infamous cannibal...
  • Once Lost by Blake Pierce

    Once Lost by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Still reeling from her former partner Lucy’s death and from her partner Bill’s PTSD, FBI Special Agent Riley Paige does her best to try to keep herself stable and to patch together her family life. She has to decide what to about April’s boyfriend, recovering from his abusive father, and about Blaine, who is ready for their relationship to move ahead...
  • The Cutting Place by Jane Casey

    The Cutting Place by Jane Casey

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Rumours…Everyone’s heard the rumours about elite gentlemen’s clubs, where the champagne flows freely, the parties are outrageous…and what goes on behind closed doors is darker than you could possibly imagine.Scandals…Paige Hargreaves was a young journalist working on a story about a club for the most privileged men in London. She was on the brink of exposing a shocking scandal...
  • The Lucky Ones by Mark Edwards

    The Lucky Ones by Mark Edwards

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    It was the happiest day of her life. Little did she know it was also the last.When a woman’s body is found in the grounds of a ruined priory, Detective Imogen Evans realises she is dealing with a serial killer—a killer whose victims appear to die in a state of bliss, eyes open, smiles forever frozen on their faces.A few miles away, single dad Ben Hofland believes his fortunes are changing at last...
  • Vanished by Victor Methos

    Vanished by Victor Methos

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Cheyenne Police Department doesn't handle many murders. So when a woman is found mutilated and crucified, Detective Kyle Dixon catches a case where all the evidence has long since been destroyed...
  • 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...
  • Once Cold by Blake Pierce

    Once Cold by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    There is one cold case that has plagued Special Agent Riley Paige for her entire career, dwelling at the corners of her consciousness, forcing her to return to it again and again. The only case she has never solved, she has finally put it out of her mind. Until she gets a call from the murdered victim’s mother...
  • Once Stalked by Blake Pierce

    Once Stalked by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When two soldiers are found dead on a huge military base in California, apparently killed by gunshot, military investigators are stumped. Who is killing its soldiers, inside the secure confines of its own base?And why?The FBI is called in, and Riley Paige is summoned to take the lead...
  • The Ursulina by Brian Freeman

    The Ursulina by Brian Freeman

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The mythical beast goes by many names. Bigfoot. Sasquatch. Yeti.In Black Wolf County, he's called ... the Ursulina.But to Deputy Rebecca Colder, the beast is no myth. A serial killer has taken on the identity of the monster--and with each body left behind, there's a chilling message written in blood. I am the Ursulina...
  • Arsonist by Victor Methos

    Arsonist by Victor Methos

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Evil is Released Onto the Streets of San Diego...A series of deadly fires rages across the cityscape, claiming the lives of entire families. Helpless to stop the fires, the SDPD assigns their most famous detective, Jon Stanton, to the case. The evidence points him to a single arsonist committing the horrendous acts...
  • Once Lured by Blake Pierce

    Once Lured by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    ONCE LURED is book #4 in the bestselling Riley Paige mystery series, which begins with the #1 bestseller ONCE GONE.Women are turning up dead on a lone stretch of highway in Delaware. Some go missing for an inexplicable length of time, while others are turning up dead, their bodies left out for display in bizarre and mysterious ways...
  • Last Breath by Mary Stone

    Last Breath by Mary Stone

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Welcome to the deadliest show on Earth...When the Ruby Red Spectacle Circus rolls into town, chaos and death follow in its wake. At first, the accidents seem coincidental, but as the body count rises, it becomes clear that a killer is lurking within the big top’s shadows.Smoke and mirrors concealing love and hate...
  • If Angels Fall by Rick Mofina

    If Angels Fall by Rick Mofina

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In the bestselling tradition of Jonathan Kellerman and Mary Higgins Clark, comes this powerful psychological thriller from newcomer Rick Mofina. "If Angels Fall" is the story of a man beset by tragedy, who moves from mourning...to madness...to murder.There are some horrors a man can never forget. Sounds so chilling that they can never be silenced. The frantic screams of drowning children...
  • Deep Dark Secrets by Keri Beevis

    Deep Dark Secrets by Keri Beevis

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The darkest minds hide the deepest secrets… Lizzie Kent wasn't supposed to babysit the night she was murdered. She was covering for her best friend, Nell. Nell has lived with the guilt ever since. Eighteen years later Nell returns to the area, desperate to escape a bad relationship after inheriting her aunt's rundown guesthouse...
  • I Know a Secret by Tess Gerritsen

    I Know a Secret by Tess Gerritsen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the twelfth gripping novel featuring Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles, the crime-solving duo—featured in the smash-hit TNT series Rizzoli & Isles—are faced with the gruesomely staged murder of a horror film producer.The crime scene is unlike any that Detective Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles have ever before encountered...
  • Little Boy Blue by M.J. Arlidge

    Little Boy Blue by M.J. Arlidge

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Detective Helen Grace faces her own dark compulsions in the twisty new thriller from the author of Pop Goes the Weasel and Eeny Meeny.In the darkest corners of the city, there is a thriving nightlife where people can let loose and cross the lines of work and play, of pleasure and pain. But now that sanctuary has been breached. A killer has struck and a man is dead...
  • 十三級階梯 by Kazuaki Takano, 高野和明

    十三級階梯 by Kazuaki Takano, 高野和明

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    死神在上午九點來臨。樹原亮只聽過一次死神的腳步聲。最先傳進耳裡的，是推開鐵門的重低音。當那來自地底般的空氣震動停止後，牢房的氣氛為之一變。通往地獄的門打開了，致使身體不敢稍有動彈的真正恐怖流竄而至。 山中偏僻的一戶平房裡，一對老夫婦慘遭殺害，一切證據都指向樹原亮，但他卻因車禍喪失了行凶時刻前後數小時的記憶。刑務官南鄉和剛假釋出獄的三上，為了替樹原亮洗清冤罪而展開調查，但他們唯一的線索，是他記得自己在「爬樓梯」！距離執行死刑的時間已所剩無幾，樹原亮隨時會被處死，但案件疑雲重重，不僅完全沒有其他人證、物證，連關鍵「樓梯」的線索都找不到，儘管如此他們仍相信樹原亮是被冤枉的，誓言要把他從十三級階梯的死刑台上救下來。該爬上十三級階梯的，究竟會是誰……？...
  • Once Trapped by Blake Pierce

    Once Trapped by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In this dark psychological thriller, a wealthy husband turns up dead, and his abused wife is charged with the crime. She calls Riley for help—and yet it seems clear she is guilty...
  • Once Buried by Blake Pierce

    Once Buried by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A serial killer is killing victims with rapid speed, and in each crime scene, he leaves an unusual signature: an hourglass. Its sand is designed to fall for 24 hours—and when its empty, a new victim appears. Amidst intense media pressure, and in a frantic race against time, FBI Special Agent Riley Paige is summoned, with her new partner, to crack the case...
  • Seven by Anthony Bruno

    Seven by Anthony Bruno

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Mismatched partner cops Somerset and Mills are on the trail of a psychotic murderer who intends to avenge the seven deadly sins, starting with gluttony...
  • Dark Pattern by Andrew Mayne

    Dark Pattern by Andrew Mayne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Dr. Theo Cray is on the hunt for a killer nurse, and redemption, in a mind-bending psychological thriller by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Naturalist. Dr. Theo Cray has a legendary mathematical knack for catching serial killers. Until his exposure to a mind-altering pathogen knocks him off his game...
  • From the Cradle by Louise Voss, Mark Edwards

    From the Cradle by Louise Voss, Mark Edwards

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The first child was taken from her house.The second from his mother's car. The third from her own bedroom...When Helen and Sean Philips go out for the evening, leaving their teenage daughter babysitting little Frankie, they have no idea that they are about to face every parent's greatest fear...
  • Buried by C.J. Carmichael

    Buried by C.J. Carmichael

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    An alternate cover edition can be found here.Justice is overdue in the coastal town of Twisted Cedars where two unsolved mysteries lay buried in the past.Over thirty years ago a series of murders targeting Oregon librarians was never solved. Now someone with inside knowledge is feeding clues to true crime writer Dougal Lachlan, promising him the best story of his career...
  • The Vanished Ones by Donato Carrisi

    The Vanished Ones by Donato Carrisi

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    We call them the sleepers...At the elite Missing Persons bureau of the Federal Police, Mila Vasquez is tasked with finding the hundreds of lost people who have vanished from their former lives. However, the longer they are gone, they more they are forgotten by the world. Now they are returning...
  • Absolute Fear by Lisa Jackson

    Absolute Fear by Lisa Jackson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Every Serial Killer... A serial killer is stalking the streets of New Orleans. The victims are killed in a ritual fashion, a series of numbers tattooed into their bodies. There are no clues, no connections except one: a crumbling old asylum that was once the scene of unspeakable madness--and is now the calling card of a new kind of fear. Is Searching For..
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  • Looking Good Dead by Peter James

    Looking Good Dead by Peter James

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Tom Bryce did what any decent person would do. But within hours of picking up the CD that had been left behind on the train seat next to him, and attempting to return it to its owner, he is the sole witness to a vicious murder. Then his young family are threatened with their lives if he goes to the police...
  • Liar Liar by M.J. Arlidge

    Liar Liar by M.J. Arlidge

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Detective Helen Grace gets caught in an inferno of death and destruction in the red-hot new thriller from the author of Eeny Meeny, Pop Goes the Weasel, and The Doll’s HouseDetective Helen Grace has never seen such destruction. Six fires in twenty-four hours. Two people dead. Several more injured. It’s as if someone wants to burn the city to the ground..
  • Please Tell Me by Mike Omer

    Please Tell Me by Mike Omer

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    After a year in captivity, a kidnapped child escapes―only to reveal horrific truths that lead her psychologist on a race against time...When eight-year-old Kathy Stone turns up on the side of the road a year after her abduction, the world awaits her harrowing story. But Kathy doesn’t say a word. Traumatized by her ordeal, she doesn’t speak at all, not even to her own parents...
  • Invisible by James Patterson, David Ellis

    Invisible by James Patterson, David Ellis

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Everyone thinks Emmy Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emmy has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her recurring nightmares of an all-consuming fire...
  • The Longest Silence by Debra Webb

    The Longest Silence by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "The twists and turns in this dark, taut drama make it both creepy and compelling." -- New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry A killer stole her voice. Now she's ready to take it back. Don't miss the chilling Shades of Death series from USA TODAY bestselling author Debra Webb. Joanna Guthrie was free. She had been for eighteen years--or so she needed everyone to believe...
  • The Darkest Water by Mark Edwards

    The Darkest Water by Mark Edwards

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In this chilling thriller from the bestselling author of Keep Her Secret, if you don’t take your dark secrets to the grave, maybe they’ll take you there first…Calvin finally owns the bakery of his dreams, in an idyllic village in the Lake District. After reluctantly following his wife Vicky’s advice to promote it on social media, he’s thrilled when a viral clip makes him a legend overnight...
  • Stay Awake by Megan Goldin

    Stay Awake by Megan Goldin

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Liv Reese wakes up in the back of a taxi with no idea where she is or how she got there. When she’s dropped off at the door of her brownstone, a stranger answers―a stranger who now lives in her apartment and forces her out in the cold. She reaches for her phone to call for help, only to discover it’s missing, and in its place is a bloodstained knife...
  • The Keeper by Luke Delaney

    The Keeper by Luke Delaney

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A damp, dark cellar holds two cages. And for the women behind the bars, their worst nightmares are about to come true . . .When Louise Russell goes missing from her home, D.I. Sean Corrigan from South London's Murder Investigation Unit immediately senses foul play...
  • Judas Kiss by J.T. Ellison

    Judas Kiss by J.T. Ellison

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It was a murder made for TV: a trail of tiny bloody footprints. An innocent toddler playing beside her mother's bludgeoned body. Pretty young Corinne Wolff, seven months pregnant, brutally murdered in her own home. Cameras and questions don't usually faze Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson, but the media frenzy surrounding the Wolff case is particularly nasty…and thorough...
  • Sleep Tight by Anne Frasier

    Sleep Tight by Anne Frasier

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    WAKE UP, LITTLE DARLING. DO YOU LIKE WHAT YOU SEE?He's looking for the perfect woman. Someone who won't disappoint him, like so many have before. Someone who'll love him ... someone who won't have to die for her mistakes.GIVE UP, LITTLE DARLING....FBI agent Mary Cantrell has been called to Minneapolis to hunt down a killer...
  • Ich vergesse nie by John Marrs

    Ich vergesse nie by John Marrs

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    She’s chasing a killer. He’s watching her every move.He hides in the shadows, waiting for the perfect moment. Each kill is calculated, planned and executed like clockwork.Struggling to balance her personal and professional life, young DS Becca Vincent has landed the biggest case of her career—and she knows that it will make or break her. But she can’t catch the culprit alone...
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