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  • Desert Star by Michael Connelly

    Desert Star by Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    LAPD detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to hunt the brutal killer who is Bosch’s “white whale”—a man responsible for the murder of an entire family.  Discover more thrilling Bosch mysteries in the original Freevee series Bosch: Legacy. A year has passed since LAPD detective Renée Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization, and endless red tape...
  • Bad Blood by Angela Marsons

    Bad Blood by Angela Marsons

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The victim is lying under the trees, arms lifted above his head, unnaturally still. His muscles are slack. His eyes are empty. There are no signs of life. But he is not quite dead…When Detective Kim Stone races to the crime scene, there is no body waiting for the paramedics are desperately trying to save the victim’s life...
  • The Accomplice by Steve Cavanagh

    The Accomplice by Steve Cavanagh

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    THE MOST HATED WOMAN IN AMERICAThe Sandman killings have been solved. Daniel Miller murdered fourteen people before he vanished. His wife, Carrie, now faces trial as his accomplice. The FBI, the District Attorney, the media and everyone in America believe she knew and helped cover up her husband's crimes.THE LAWYEREddie Flynn won't take a case unless his client is innocent...
  • Broken Bones by Angela Marsons

    Broken Bones by Angela Marsons

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    They thought they were safe. They were wrong. The murder of a young prostitute and a baby found abandoned on the same winter night signals the start of a disturbing investigation for Detective Kim Stone – one which brings her face to face with someone from her own horrific childhood...
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    crime  drama  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Forever Mine by Linsey Lanier

    Forever Mine by Linsey Lanier

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An old friend. A bad smell. A body stuffed into a wall. You'll never escape. After she left her abusive husband thirteen years ago, Miranda Steele became a fighter. Over the years, she picked up martial arts and street fighting tactics, and now that she works for the Parker Investigative Agency, she can handle a weapon. But the battle with her inner demons? Not so easy...
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    crime  drama  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc  fiction
  • Evil Never Dies by T.R. Ragan

    Evil Never Dies by T.R. Ragan

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Private investigator Lizzy Gardner believed in law and order once. But after losing a loved one to a killer and watching too many vicious predators game the system and walk free, she’s traded flawed justice for perfect vengeance.Together with her tough and trusted assistants, Lizzy is tracking down a list of Sacramento’s worst offenders and dealing out the payback they deserve...
  • Hunted by Heather Atkinson

    Hunted by Heather Atkinson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ryan and Rachel’s dreams of finally moving back into their family home in Devon after it was devastated by fire are doused by the discovery of a body buried on their land. Ryan, as ever highly dubious of the abilities of the police, decides to look into the matter personally, with the help of the ever-loyal Battler and Bruiser...
    Categorized as:
    crime  justice  vigilante  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • Fear No Evil by James Patterson

    Fear No Evil by James Patterson

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Alex Cross enters the final showdown with the relentless killer who has stalked him and his family for years.​Dr. Alex Cross and Detective John Sampson venture into the rugged Montana wilderness—where they will be the prey. They’re not on the job, but on a personal mission...
  • Hide Away by Jason Pinter

    Hide Away by Jason Pinter

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From the bestselling author of the Henry Parker series comes a page-turning thriller about a vigilante who’s desperate to protect her secrets—and bring a killer to justice.On the surface, Rachel Marin is an ordinary single mother; on the inside, she’s a fierce, brilliant vigilante...
  • The Flinck Connection by Estelle Ryan

    The Flinck Connection by Estelle Ryan

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A murdered politician. An unsolved art heist. An international conspiracy. A cryptic online message leads nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard to the body of a brutally murdered politician. Despite being ordered not to investigate, Genevieve and her team look into this vicious crime...
  • Unholy Bonds : A Dark Serial Killer Romantic Suspense by Maya Raine

    Unholy Bonds : A Dark Serial Killer Romantic Suspense by Maya Raine

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Three serial killers connected by an unholy thread, tangled in a twisted chase for revenge and blood. In this game of hunters, who will become the ultimate prey?***He is every sin she wants to commit. Yara West spends her day as a Medical Examiner. At nights, she dons the mask of a twisted killer to satiate the demons in her head...
  • The Fallen by David Baldacci, Orlagh Cassidy

    The Fallen by David Baldacci, Orlagh Cassidy

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Amos Decker is the Memory Man. Following a football-related head injury that altered his personality, Decker is now unable to forget even the smallest detail - as much a curse as it is a blessing. And in The Fallen, Decker's life might be about to change again....Something sinister is going on in Baronville. The rust belt town has seen four bizarre murders in the space of two weeks...
  • Cruel Acts by Jane Casey

    Cruel Acts by Jane Casey

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From award-winning author Jane Casey comes another powerful Maeve Kerrigan crime thriller which will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final page! Leo Stone is a killer. A year ago, he was convicted of murdering two women and sentenced to life without parole. But now, a juror from his trial has revealed the jury was prejudiced, and a retrial is called...
  • Wired In by Toby Neal

    Wired In by Toby Neal

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Paradise has no protection from a hacker with a hidden agenda.Do you love a woman sleuth with a dark past, a great dog, and a complicated romantic life?Meet tech agent Sophie Ang.Sophie’s emotions are battered by a child kidnapping case, and in tracking the criminal ring, her rogue data analysis program D.A.V.I.D...
  • Electing To Murder by Roger Stelljes

    Electing To Murder by Roger Stelljes

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Ruthless killers...grizzly deaths...escalating stakes...A clandestine late night meeting in Kentucky, a murder in a seedy St. Paul motel, a mysterious investigator operating in the shadows and dueling political masterminds all collide to provide Mac McRyan with the ultimate test in ELECTING TO MURDER...
  • Follow Me Home by D.K. Hood

    Follow Me Home by D.K. Hood

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    ‘Don’t you agree Detective? That some people deserve to die? I’ve killed the first. I’ve killed the second. Now will you catch the others, or do I have to kill them too?’ The body of Amos Price lies in a pool of blood on the polished floor of an otherwise empty house. With no signs of a break in, and no clues left at the scene, Detective Jenna Alton is at a loss...
  • Field of Prey by John Sandford

    Field of Prey by John Sandford

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The night after the fourth of July, Layton Carlson Jr., of Red Wing, Minnesota, finally got lucky. And unlucky. He’d picked the perfect spot to lose his virginity to his girlfriend, an abandoned farmyard in the middle of cornfields: nice, private, and quiet. The only problem was . . . something smelled bad—like, really bad...
  • The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly, Dick Hill

    The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly, Dick Hill

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Detective Harry Bosch was sure he'd shot the serial killer responsible for a string of murders in LA . . . but now, a new crime makes him question his convictions.The Dollmaker was the name of the serial killer who had stalked Los Angeles ruthlessly, leaving grisly calling cards on the faces of his female victims...
  • Gathering Prey by John Sandford

    Gathering Prey by John Sandford

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winner John Sandford. They call them Travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimes—they just like to stay on the move. And now somebody is killing them...
  • Seven Days by Alex Lake

    Seven Days by Alex Lake

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The twisty new psychological thriller from the USA Today bestselling author Maggie Taylor’s son is a week away from his third birthday, and she is terrified. Because in her world, third birthdays are the day on which the worst possible thing happens…She loses her child.For the last decade, Maggie has been imprisoned in a basement. Kidnapped aged sixteen, she has not seen a sunrise for ten years...
  • A Cold Killing by Anna Smith

    A Cold Killing by Anna Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Crime reporter Rosie Gilmour returns from hiding in Bosnia to a story of a brutal execution. University lecturer Tom Mahoney was shot at point blank range, the killing has all the signs of a hit. But who would want to kill a retired lecturer? Rosie throws herself into the investigation, looking for a witness that has gone missing. A witness that might hold the key to the story...
  • The Judge's List by John Grisham

    The Judge's List by John Grisham

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Listening Length 11 hours and 36 minutesFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a new legal thriller about a man who might be the most criminal sitting judge in American history As an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct, Lacy Stoltz sees plenty of corruption among the men and women elected to the bench...
  • Buried Prey by John Sandford

    Buried Prey by John Sandford

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    A house demolition provides an unpleasant surprise for Minneapolis-the bodies of two girls, wrapped in plastic. It looks like they've been there a long time. Lucas Davenport knows exactly how long. In 1985, Davenport was a young cop with a reputation for recklessness, and the girls' disappearance was a big deal. His bosses ultimately declared the case closed, but he never agreed with that...
  • The River's Edge by Joy Ellis, Richard Armitage

    The River's Edge by Joy Ellis, Richard Armitage

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A series of gruesome murders on the Lincolnshire fens. An old enemy from the past. A deadly game of cat and mouse.The peaceful little village of Saltern-le-Fen is buzzing with excitement. A film crew are in town, shooting a new TV police drama, Fen Division Five. But Detective Jackman receives a disturbing tip-off that something is wrong...
  • Watch Her Disappear by Lisa Regan

    Watch Her Disappear by Lisa Regan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Lying on the ground, the girl’s prom dress, the colour of champagne, shimmers in the dying light. A corsage of wilting pink sweetheart roses decorates her wrist...
  • Obsessed by T.R. Ragan

    Obsessed by T.R. Ragan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Lizzy Gardner is a one-million copy bestselling series.Desperate for better ratings, radio psychologist Madeline Blair tells her listeners she’s being stalked, unaware that her long-time listener and biggest fan, Seth Brown, will do anything to protect her. When her publicity stunt is revealed, Seth becomes enraged by her deceit and dangerously unhinged...
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    crime  drama  justice  suspense  vigilante  thriller  adult  audiobook
  • The Southern Lawyer by Peter O'Mahoney

    The Southern Lawyer by Peter O'Mahoney

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    After more than twenty years away from the law, Joe Hennessy is forced back into the courtroom…Trying to save his vineyard after years of drought, Hennessy returns to practice in the city he walked away from after the murder of his ten-year-old son—Charleston, South Carolina...
  • Daylight by David Baldacci

    Daylight by David Baldacci

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    FBI Agent Atlee Pine's search for her sister Mercy clashes with military investigator John Puller's high-stakes case, leading them both deep into a global conspiracy -- from which neither of them will escape unscathed.For many long years, Atlee Pine was tormented by uncertainty after her twin sister, Mercy, was abducted at the age of six and never seen again...
  • The House of Cross by James Patterson

    The House of Cross by James Patterson

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The thirty-second instalment in James Patterson's globally bestselling Alex Cross series. It’s time to put the guns down, Detective Cross. Even if you knew the way out of this place, we would catch you.A serial killer is taking out America’s finest legal minds, and Alex Cross is called to investigate their brutal murders...
  • Girl Next Door by Willow Rose

    Girl Next Door by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    “We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere”-Ted BundyInspired by a true story.He came in the morning when they were still making lunches and getting ready for school and work. He killed them all. Mother, father, children. Brutally slaughtered them in the comfort of their own home.They called him the Monday Morning Killer...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Exposed by C.J. Carmichael

    Exposed by C.J. Carmichael

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When a young boy goes missing shortly after his father is arrested for murdering the boy’s mother, the residents of Twisted Cedars are in a panic. They would be even more fearful if they knew a serial murderer has secretly moved back to town...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction
  • A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly

    A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Terry McCaleb, the retired FBI agent who starred in the bestseller "Blood Work," is asked by the LAPD to help them investigate aseries of murders that have them baffled. They are the kind of ritualized killings McCaleb specialized in solving with the FBI, and he is reluctantly drawn from his peaceful new life back into the horror and excitement of tracking down a terrifying homicidal maniac...
  • Echo Park by Michael Connelly

    Echo Park by Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    More than a decade ago, Harry Bosch worked on the case of Marie Gesto, a twenty-two-year-old who went missing but was never found. Now, with the Gesto file still on his desk, Bosch gets a call from the District Attorney: A serial killer has confessed. Did Harry miss a key clue? Or is something more going on here?In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket...
  • The Sixth Man by David Baldacci

    The Sixth Man by David Baldacci

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    After the #1 New York Times bestsellers Split Second, Hour Game, Simple Genius, and First Family, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return in their most shocking case: a high stakes struggle where the relentless needs of national security run up against the absolute limits of the human mind...
  • The Stolen Hours by Allen Eskens

    The Stolen Hours by Allen Eskens

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A woman finds herself in a race not only for justice but for her life in this "riveting, hold-your-breath" new mystery from the bestselling author of The Life We Bury (Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author).Lila Nash is on the verge of landing her dream job—working as a prosecutor under the Hennepin County Attorney—and has settled into a happy life with her boyfriend, Joe Talbert...
  • Run For Your Life by C.M. Sutter

    Run For Your Life by C.M. Sutter

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    With the weekend right around the corner, Homicide Detective Mitch Cannon is looking forward to Saturday night. It isn’t often he has a date, and this one will be particularly interesting. His new friend Liza is beautiful, edgy, outspoken, and somewhat odd.But Mitch’s usual Friday-morning phone call to his mom sets the wheels in motion for five days of pure hell...
  • Almost Dead by T.R. Ragan

    Almost Dead by T.R. Ragan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Life for private investigator Lizzy Gardner will never be the same. It’s been three weeks since her fiancé, Jared, was shot on what was supposed to be their wedding day. He’s in a coma now, and Lizzy is being forced to make a decision she might not be able to live with.But a string of deaths has forced her to get back to work...
  • Sole Survivor by Candice M. Wright

    Sole Survivor by Candice M. Wright

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There’s a murderer on the loose.One who kills without hesitation and remorse.When Rue Anderson, the killer’s tenth victim, is found in a shallow grave at a children’s park, it sends shockwaves through the local community and sparks a media frenzy.But there is a difference between Rue and the nine victims that came before her.Rue survived...
  • Whiplash by Catherine Coulter

    Whiplash by Catherine Coulter

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Yale professor Dr. Edward Kender’s father is undergoing chemotherapy when the supply of a critical accompanying drug, Culovort, suddenly runs out. Unwilling to accept the drug manufacturer’s disingenuous excuse of production line problems, Dr. Kender hires private investigator Erin Pulaski to prove that something more sinister is going on at Schiffer Hartwin...
  • The Secret Witness by Victor Methos

    The Secret Witness by Victor Methos

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From the bestselling author of A Killer’s Wife comes the thrilling first installment in the Shepard & Gray series, featuring a young sheriff who teams up with a former prosecutor to stop a copycat killer.This is Reaper speaking.So begins an anonymous letter published in a Utah newspaper after a young couple is viciously murdered...
  • A Killer’s Game by Isabella Maldonado

    A Killer’s Game by Isabella Maldonado

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    An FBI agent with a background in cryptography. A brilliant game maker bent on revenge. A deadly battle of wits and wills. An ingenious thriller from the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Cipher.FBI agent and former military codebreaker Daniela “Dani” Vega witnesses a murder on a Manhattan sidewalk. The victim is chief of staff for a powerful New York senator...
  • The Drop by Michael Connelly

    The Drop by Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fiercely than ever. In one morning, he gets two.DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist...
  • Masked Prey by John Sandford

    Masked Prey by John Sandford

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Lucas Davenport investigates a vitriolic blog that seems to be targeting the children of U.S. politicians in the latest thriller by #1 New York Times-bestselling author John Sandford.The daughter of a U.S. Senator is monitoring her social media presence when she finds a picture of herself on a strange blog. And there are other pictures . .
  • Cold Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff

    Cold Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The hunt for mass murderer Cara Lindstrom is over. FBI Special Agent Matthew Roarke has been working for this moment: the capture of a killer who savagely hunts the worst of humanity. But Roarke remains traumatized by his own near-death at the hands of the serial killer who slaughtered Cara’s family…and haunted by the enigmatic woman who saved his life...
  • A Caller's Game by J.D. Barker

    A Caller's Game by J.D. Barker

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    DIE HARD meets TALK RADIO in this heart-pounding, relentlessly fast-paced thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Fourth Monkey—master of suspense, J.D. Barker. "I'm going to offer you a choice." Controversial satellite radio talk show host, Jordan Briggs, has clawed her way to the top of the broadcast world...
  • Death is in the Details by Heather Sunseri

    Death is in the Details by Heather Sunseri

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A woman haunted by her past. A killer who won't let her forget.Faith Day's condition curses her to recall her mother’s fiery murder like it was yesterday. And when the forensic photographer’s convicted stepbrother is somehow cleared 12 years later and released from prison, Faith wonders if he'll put an end to her tortured memories...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  thriller  abuse  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Running Blind by Lee Child, Dick Hill

    Running Blind by Lee Child, Dick Hill

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    In Jack Reacher, Lee Child has created an epic hero: tough, taciturn, yet vulnerable. His first three Reacher novels, Killing Floor, Die Trying and Tripwire, were published to great acclaim; Killing Floor was recently awarded the Anthony Award in America for the Best First Novel, and Die Trying was selected as a Thumping Good Read by W.H. Smith in the U.K...
  • Tell Me Your Secret by Dorothy Koomson

    Tell Me Your Secret by Dorothy Koomson

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The gripping new emotional thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Ice Cream Girls, My Best Friend's Girl and The Brighton Mermaid. Pieta has a secretTen years ago, Pieta survived a weekend with a sadistic serial killer. She never told anyone what happened and instead moved on with her life...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc
  • Be Mine by Rick Mofina

    Be Mine by Rick Mofina

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    During his years as a crime reporter in San Francisco, Tom Reed had seen a lot of sick messages, but the one just delivered to his fellow reporter Molly Wilson is different -- it's shockingly personal, written in human blood...
  • The 9th Judgment by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

    The 9th Judgment by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The most personalA young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. There are no witnesses, and Detective Lindsay Boxer is left with only one shred of evidence: a cryptic message scrawled across the windshield in bloodred lipstick...
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