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  • Dying Truth by Angela Marsons

    Dying Truth by Angela Marsons

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    How far would you go to protect your darkest secrets? When teenager Sadie Winter jumps from the roof of her school, her death is ruled as suicide – a final devastating act from a troubled girl. But then the broken body of a young boy is discovered at the same school and it’s clear to Detective Kim Stone that these deaths are not tragic accidents...
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    crime  drama  family  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook
  • Hello Again by Brenda Novak

    Hello Again by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From NYT bestseller Brenda Novak comes the next installment of Dr. Evelyn Talbot and her murderous home for psychopaths in Hello Again. SHE CAN MAKE SENSE OF A COMPLEX CRIMINAL MIND. Evelyn Talbot, a psychiatrist at a maximum-security prison in Alaska, studies some of the world's worst serial killers. But she’s about to meet her most elusive patient at Hanover House yet: Dr...
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    crime  dark  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book
  • Face Off by Brenda Novak

    Face Off by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Tortured and left for dead at sixteen, Evelyn Talbot turned her personal nightmare into her life’s work—studying the disturbing psychopathy of some of the world’s most vicious serial killers...
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    crime  dark  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Girl in the River by Rita Herron

    The Girl in the River by Rita Herron

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The body lay in the river, arms outstretched. Long brown hair swirled in all directions, flowing with the current of the water. Her eyes were wide open in death, pale pink lips parted in a scream.Detective Ellie Reeves should be enjoying the wedding of her dear friend Mia Norman. But instead of celebrating, she is frantically searching for the missing bride...
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    crime  family  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  animals  book
  • Bad Blood by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Bad Blood by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When Cassie Hobbes joined the FBI's Naturals program, she had one goal: uncover the truth about her mother's murder. But now, everything Cassie thought she knew about what happened that night has been called into question. Her mother is alive, and the people holding her captive are more powerful—and dangerous—than anything the Naturals have faced so far...
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    crime  dark  drama  family  female-mc  friendship  realistic  suspense
  • Lost Angels by Stacy Green

    Lost Angels by Stacy Green

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Special Agent Nikki Hunt is called to the Boundary Waters near Stillwater, Minnesota, it’s not just the cold that shocks her to her core: the body of a young woman has been found frozen beside a remote lake...
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    crime  dark  family  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary
  • Such a Good Girl by Willow Rose

    Such a Good Girl by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas faces a devious plan in bestselling author Willow Rose’s blood-rushing thriller of murder and revenge.A girl falls from the penthouse floor of an apartment in Washington, D.C.Media Mogul Richard Wanton owns the apartment and is seen standing on the balcony when the girl falls...
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    crime  dark  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  amateur-sleuth  book
  • Killer Instinct by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Killer Instinct by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Cassie Hobbes has a gift for profiling people. Her talent has landed her a spot in an elite FBI program for teens with innate crime-solving abilities, and into some harrowing situations. After barely escaping a confrontation with an unbalanced killer obsessed with her mother's murder, Cassie hopes she and the rest of the team can stick to solving cold cases from a distance...
  • Heartbreak Bay by Rachel Caine

    Heartbreak Bay by Rachel Caine

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    They’re hunting a killer so silent, so invisible, that his unspeakable crimes are the only proof he exists.A car submerged in a remote pond. The bodies of two girls strapped into their seats. The mystery of their mother, vanished without a trace, leads Gwen Proctor and Kezia Claremont into dangerous territory...
  • The Patient's Secret by Loreth Anne White

    The Patient's Secret by Loreth Anne White

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Secrets worth dying―and killing―for, in a novel of suspense inspired by a horrific true crime by Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestselling author Loreth Anne White...
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    suspense  crime  thriller  family  dark  drama  female-mc  mystery
  • Trapper Road by Rachel Caine, Carrie Ryan

    Trapper Road by Rachel Caine, Carrie Ryan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sometimes danger comes from the most unexpected places.Gwen Proctor has always been willing to do anything it takes to protect her kids. But there are some things even she can’t protect them from. When a violent incident at Connor’s school brings the press to Gwen’s doorstep, she agrees to take a case out of town hoping to keep her family out of the crushing media spotlight...
  • The Body Counter by Anne Frasier

    The Body Counter by Anne Frasier

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    From a New York Times bestselling author comes the chilling follow-up to the Thriller Award winner The Body Reader. Months after discovering the mastermind behind her own kidnapping, Detective Jude Fontaine is dealing with the past the only way she knows how: by returning to every dark corner of it...
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    crime  dark  drama  female-mc  suspense  thriller  abuse  adult
  • Truth and Lies by Caroline Mitchell

    Truth and Lies by Caroline Mitchell

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Meet Amy Winter: Detective Inspector, daughter of a serial killer.DI Amy Winter is hoping to follow in the footsteps of her highly respected police officer father. But when a letter arrives from the prison cell of Lillian Grimes, one half of a notorious husband-and-wife serial-killer team, it contains a revelation that will tear her life apart...
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    crime  dark  drama  family  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult
  • Impostor by L.J. Ross

    Impostor by L.J. Ross

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DCI RYAN MYSTERIES There’s a killer inside all of us… After an elite criminal profiling unit is shut down amidst a storm of scandal and mismanagement, only one person emerges unscathed...
  • Their Lost Daughters by Joy Ellis

    Their Lost Daughters by Joy Ellis

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    TWO GIRLS GO TO A PARTY, ONLY ONE RETURNS ALIVEToni, the surviving teenager, is found delirious, wandering the muddy fields. She has been drugged and it’s uncertain whether she’ll survive. She says she saw her friend Emily being dragged away from the party. But no one knows who Emily is or even if she’s still alive. . .Meanwhile the drowned body of another girl has been found on an isolated beach...
  • Tell Me by Anne Frasier, Erin Bennett

    Tell Me by Anne Frasier, Erin Bennett

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What really happened in the forest? Hidden crimes and secrets of the past converge in a riveting thriller by Anne Frasier, the New York Times bestselling author of Find Me.No strangers to evil, criminal profiler Reni Fisher and detective Daniel Ellis both still grapple with traumatizing pasts. It unites them. So has a crime they must solve before someone else dies...
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    crime  dark  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Face of Death by Cody McFadyen

    The Face of Death by Cody McFadyen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In Shadow Man, Cody McFadyen took the suspense thriller where other writers have feared to tread. He introduced readers to a heroine every bit as dark and edgy as the serial killers she hunts: Special Agent Smoky Barrett. Now, in his latest novel, McFadyen brings Agent Barrett back to track down a killer who breaks all the rules...
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    crime  dark  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book
  • 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  dark  drama  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook
  • Vanishing Girls by Lisa Regan

    Vanishing Girls by Lisa Regan

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    She was close enough to see that the girl had written a word on the wall in bright, warm red blood. Not a word, actually. A name… Everyone in the small American town of Denton is searching for Isabelle Coleman, a missing seventeen-year-old girl. All they’ve found so far is her phone and another girl they didn’t even know was missing...
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    crime  dark  drama  female-mc  suspense  thriller  abuse  adult
  • Untitled by Dot Hutchison

    Untitled by Dot Hutchison

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A fourth book is coming with a release date estimated Spring 2019...
  • The Killing Hour by Lisa Gardner

    The Killing Hour by Lisa Gardner

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Each time he struck, he took two victims. Day after day, he waited for the first body to be discovered--a body containing all the clues the investigators needed to find the second victim, who waited...prey to a slow but certain death. The clock ticked--salvation was possible.The police were never in time.Years have passed; but for this killer, time has stood still...
  • A Stranger in the Family by Jane Casey

    A Stranger in the Family by Jane Casey

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The gripping new thriller featuring DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent from the Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling authorEvery mother's worst nightmare . . .When nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall vanished from her bed one summer night, her disappearance tore her family apart.Now, sixteen years later, her mother Helena is found dead, her husband by her side...
  • YOU DID THIS by Jamie Millen

    YOU DID THIS by Jamie Millen

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A sister’s worst nightmare. A homicide detective’s destiny.Everybody loves Claire’s little sister, Tina. But only Claire sees the twisted psychopath hiding behind her sister’s angelic face. When Tina is brutally murdered on her fourteenth birthday, the day Claire failed to walk her home from school, Claire never forgives herself. And neither does their mother...
  • Hide by Lisa Gardner

    Hide by Lisa Gardner

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    You have good reason to be afraid. . . . It was a case that haunts Bobby Dodge to this day—the case that nearly killed him and changed his life forever. Now, in an underground chamber on the grounds of an abandoned Massachusetts mental hospital, the gruesome discovery of six mummified corpses resurrects his worst nightmare: the return of a killer he thought dead and buried...
  • A Killer's Mind by Mike Omer

    A Killer's Mind by Mike Omer

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    A chilling thriller of serial murder and dark secrets that will leave you wondering, is the past really in the past?Three Chicago women have been found strangled, embalmed, and posed as if still alive. Doubting the findings of the local PD’s profiler, The FBI calls on forensic psychologist Zoe Bentley to investigate...
  • 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...
  • Fractured by Karin Slaughter

    Fractured by Karin Slaughter

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The second Will Trent novel, from the No. 1 Bestseller.When Atlanta housewife Abigail Campano comes home unexpectedly one afternoon, she walks into a nightmare. A broken window, a bloody footprint on the stairs and, most devastating of all, the horrifying sight of her teenage daughter lying dead on the landing, a man standing over her with a bloody knife...
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    crime  dark  drama  family  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook
  • 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...
  • A Dark Mind by T.R. Ragan, Kate Rudd

    A Dark Mind by T.R. Ragan, Kate Rudd

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A serial killer is terrorizing Sacramento, preying on happily married couples and unleashing unspeakable cruelties upon his victims. The ordeal rekindles disturbing memories for private investigator Lizzy Gardner, who barely escaped a serial killer clutches only years ago...
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    crime  dark  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book
  • Shadow Man by Cody McFadyen

    Shadow Man by Cody McFadyen

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    FBI agent Smoky Barrett is no stranger to the darker recesses of the human mind. But nothing could have prepared her for the day she had to watch her husband and daughter die at the hands of a serial killer. She bears the scars, mental and physical. Most people would run - from work, from life, from everything associated with the pain of a shattered existence...
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    crime  dark  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Summer Children The Collector, Book 3 by Dot Hutchison

    The Summer Children The Collector, Book 3 by Dot Hutchison

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Series including The Butterfly...
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    crime  dark  drama  family  female-mc  friendship  suspense  thriller
  • The Girl Hunter by Leslie Wolfe

    The Girl Hunter by Leslie Wolfe

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    His pale skin is covered with the dirt I threw over his still-warm body. His hands, marked by a struggle that ended in blood, rest over his chest. His once vibrant, loving eyes are now forever closed. I am the one who consigned my husband to the damp earth of the Glades.Seven months ago, I lost everything.I used to have it all. A successful career in television...
  • Be Afraid by Mary Burton

    Be Afraid by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Fear Is Terrifying When police rescue five-year-old Jenna Thompson from the dark closet where she's been held captive for days, they tell her she's a lucky girl. Compared to the rest of her family, it's true. But even with their killer dead of an overdose, Jenna is still trying to find peace twenty-five years later...
  • 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...
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    crime  drama  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary
  • 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...
  • Hide by Tracy Clark

    Hide by Tracy Clark

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From acclaimed author Tracy Clark comes a page-turning mystery featuring hard-boiled Chicago detective Harriet Foster, who’s on the hunt for a serial killer with a deadly affinity for redheads.When a young red-haired woman is found brutally murdered in downtown Chicago, one detail stands out: the red lipstick encircling her wrists and ankles...
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    crime  drama  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Last Party by A.R. Torre

    The Last Party by A.R. Torre

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A loving mother. A notorious murderer. They both have reasons to hide their secrets in a novel of escalating shock and suspense by New York Times bestselling author A. R. Torre.Perla Wultz lives with her husband, Grant, and their precious daughter, Sophie, in a gated Pasadena community. Affluent, sociable, and accomplished, Perla plays the part of loving wife and mother to perfection...
  • Malevolent by Jana Deleon

    Malevolent by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon, the first in a new thriller series. Everyone wondered about Shaye Archer’s past. Including Shaye. Shaye Archer’s life effectively began the night police found her in an alley, beaten and abused and with no memory of the previous fifteen years, not even her name...
  • The Murderer's Son by Joy Ellis

    The Murderer's Son by Joy Ellis

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    What if your mother was a serial killer? A BLOODY KILLER SEEMS TO HAVE RETURNED TO THE LINCOLNSHIRE FENS A gripping new crime series by the best-selling author of the Nikki Galena series. Twenty years ago: a farmer and his wife are cut to pieces by a ruthless serial killer. Now: a woman is viciously stabbed to death in the upmarket kitchen of her beautiful house on the edge of the marshes...
  • Blood of My Blood by Barry Lyga

    Blood of My Blood by Barry Lyga

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Jazz Dent has never been closer to catching his father.Jazz has been shot and left to die in New York. His girlfriend, Connie, is in the clutches of Jazz's monstrous father, Billy--the world's most notorious serial killer. And his best friend, Howie, is bleeding to death on the floor of Jazz's new home...
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    crime  dark  drama  family  friendship  realistic  suspense  thriller
  • Right Behind You by Lisa Gardner

    Right Behind You by Lisa Gardner

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Lisa Gardner's latest thriller following her runaway hit Find Her takes her wildly popular brand of suspense to new heights.Eight years ago, Sharlah May Nash's older brother beat their drunken father to death with a baseball bat in order to save both of their lives. Now thirteen years old, Sharlah has finally moved on...
  • Wolfhunter River by Rachel Caine

    Wolfhunter River by Rachel Caine

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller.She can’t ignore a cry for help. But in this remote hunting town, it’s open season.Gwen Proctor escaped her serial-killer husband and saved her family. What she can’t seem to outrun is his notoriety. Or the sick internet vigilantes still seeking to avenge his crimes. For Gwen, hiding isn’t an option...
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    crime  dark  drama  family  female-mc  realistic  suspense  thriller
  • A Familiar Sight by Brianna Labuskes

    A Familiar Sight by Brianna Labuskes

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A shocking murder carries echoes of the past for a psychologist in a startling novel of suspense by a Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestselling author.Psychologist and criminologist Dr. Gretchen White is a specialist in antisocial personality disorders and violent crimes...
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    crime  dark  family  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book
  • Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

    Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    9 hours, 42 minutes In the tradition of 'Long Bright River' and 'The Mars Room', a gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense that deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row, told primarily through the eyes of the women in his life - from the best-selling author of 'Girl in Snow'.Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours...
  • The Couple at No. 9 by Claire Douglas

    The Couple at No. 9 by Claire Douglas

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    It was the house of their dreams. Until the bodies were found . . . BODIES FOUND UNDER PATIOWhen pregnant Saffron Cutler moves into 9 Skelton Place with boyfriend Tom and sets about renovations the last thing she expects is builders uncovering a body - two bodies, in fact.POLICE INVESTIGATEForensics indicate the bodies have been buried at least thirty years. Nothing Saffy need worry herself over...
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    crime  family  friendship  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book
  • Game by Barry Lyga

    Game by Barry Lyga

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Billy grinned. “Oh, New York,” he whispered. “We’re gonna have so much fun.”I Hunt Killers introduced the world to Jazz, the son of history’s most infamous serial killer, Billy Dent.In an effort to prove murder didn’t run in the family, Jazz teamed with the police in the small town of Lobo’s Nod to solve a deadly case...
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    crime  dark  drama  family  friendship  realistic  suspense  thriller
  • An FBI Murder Mystery Bundle by Ava Strong, Blake Pierce

    An FBI Murder Mystery Bundle by Ava Strong, Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A two-book mystery bundle by debut author Ava Strong and #1 bestselling author Blake Pierce, author of ONCE GONE, a #1 bestseller on Amazon with over 1,000 five star reviews!Here is a bundle of the first books in two different series—the Ilse Beck FBI Suspense Thriller series by Ava Strong and the Adele Sharp Mystery series by Blake Pierce—all in one convenient place...
  • The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and what you want. But it’s not a skill that she’s ever taken seriously. That is, until the FBI come knocking: they’ve begun a classified program that uses exceptional teenagers to crack infamous cold cases, and they need Cassie...
  • 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...
  • The Poet by Lisa Renee Jones

    The Poet by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones brings a fresh, modern take to the thriller genre that will keep you guessing until the very end.“The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.” -Jean Cocteau Some call him friend or boss. Some call him husband or dad. Some call him son, even a favorite son. But the only title that matters to him is the one the media has given him: The Poet...
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