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Such a Good Girl by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFBI-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... -
![The Poet by Michael Connelly]()
The Poet by Michael Connelly
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsDenver crime-beat reporter Jack McEvoy specializes in violent death. So when his homicide detective brother kills himself, McEvoy copes in the only way he knows how--he decides to write the story. But his research leads him to suspect a serial killer is at work--a devious murderer who's killing cops and leaving a trail of poetic clues... -
![You Better Run by Willow Rose]()
You Better Run by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDead.Who is this girl?How did she end up in the pool?Was she even at the party?Even more strange is when they pull her out of the water, Meg realizes the girl looks very familiar. As a matter of fact, she looks just like her.Like an identical twin.But Meg has no twin, at least none that she knows of, and no one at the party knows this girl or can say where she is from... -
![Shadow Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff]()
Shadow Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor thousands of years, women have been prey. This time, the predators lose.Does Fate connect us?Mass killer Cara Lindstrom is in the wind, after a deadly encounter which leaves FBI Special Agent Antara Singh questioning her own sanity and fitness to serve... -
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![Marked by Charisse Spiers, Clarise Tan]()
Marked by Charisse Spiers, Clarise Tan
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWelcome to my fucking world. My name is Kaston Cox and I’m a criminal’s worst nightmare. Most people run from darkness, but I live in it, require it, and thrive in the night. Some call me a monster, some a lover of evil, and others, the devil himself, but they’re all wrong. I’m just a shadow in the dark. I speak for the innocent when no one else will... -
![I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories by William Gay]()
I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories by William Gay
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWilliam Gay established himself as "the big new name to include in the storied annals of Southern Lit" (Esquire) with his debut novel, The Long Home, and his highly acclaimed follow-up, Provinces of Night. Like Faulkner's Mississippi and Cormac McCarthy's American West, Gay's Tennessee is redolent of broken souls... -
![The Fourth Monkey by J.D. Barker]()
The Fourth Monkey by J.D. Barker
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFor over five years, the Four Monkey Killer has terrorized the residents of Chicago. When his body is found, the police quickly realize he was on his way to deliver one final message, one which proves he has taken another victim who may still be alive.As the lead investigator on the 4MK task force, Detective Sam Porter knows even in death, the killer is far from finished... -
![Ramonst by A.F. Knott]()
Ramonst by A.F. Knott
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHidden in the mountains of East Tennessee, an eleven-year old goes about the business of being a boy during the summer of 1970. Within a balance of terror and innocence, he bears silent witness to ghosts of the dead and the cruelties of a teenage killer while local justice plays out in a community carved from legacies of coal mining and religion... -
![Diesel by M. Merin]()
Diesel by M. Merin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHot on the trail of a major human trafficking ring, Diesel sinks deeper and deeper into the darkness of that world the more he unearths the digital footprints of those responsible for the kidnapping and death of members of his MC Family... -
![Maleficium by Natalie Bennett]()
Maleficium by Natalie Bennett
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTragic and Twisted Fall Apart…Ave Satanas worship or perish.The reckoning has begun.In the Devil’s Playground morals have vanished, demons run rampant, and the death toll is rising.The price of freedom looms closer than before, simply crown the king, claim a queen, and make idle work of the damned.One will perish.Bounties will be placed... -
![Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane]()
Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsMaster of new noir Dennis Lehane magnificently evokes the dignity and savagery of working-class Boston in Darkness, Take My Hand, a terrifying tale of redemption.Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro’s latest client is a prominent Boston psychiatrist, running scared from a vengeful Irish mob. The private investigators know about cold-blooded retribution... -
![The Naming of the Beasts by Mike Carey]()
The Naming of the Beasts by Mike Carey
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThey say the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, but if you ask Castor he'll tell you there's quite a bit of arrogance and reckless stupidity lining the streets as well. And he should know. There's only so many times you can play both sides against the middle and get away with it. Now, the inevitable moment of crisis has arrived and it's left Castor with blood on his hands... -
![Jantar Secreto by Raphael Montes]()
Jantar Secreto by Raphael Montes
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsUm grupo de jovens deixa uma pequena cidade no Paraná para viver no Rio de Janeiro. Eles alugam um apartamento em Copacabana e fazem o possível para pagar a faculdade e manter vivos seus sonhos de sucesso na capital fluminense. Mas o dinheiro está curto e o aluguel está vencido... -
![The Unquiet by John Connolly]()
The Unquiet by John Connolly
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratings"But that is the nature of revenge. It escalates. It cannot be controlled. One hurt invites another, on and on until the original injury is all but forgotten in the chaos of what follows."John Connolly's originality and talent for storytelling have quickly made him one of today's preeminent thriller writers... -
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![John Saul: Hellfire, The Unwanted, Sleepwalk by John Saul]()
John Saul: Hellfire, The Unwanted, Sleepwalk by John Saul
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author John Saul is a master at writing psychological terror, with fifteen novels on the bestseller lists. This first-ever hardcover edition of three of his most popular books features Hellfire, The Unwanted and Sleepwalk. All three stories explore supernatural mysteries of suspense and horror.Appearences are definitely deceiving in John Saul's world... -
![Counts of Eight by Brynn Ford]()
Counts of Eight by Brynn Ford
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRELEASE DATE: May 31, 2020ARCs sign-up open through May 18, 2020: bit.ly/CO8ARCsAll of my choices had been stripped from me except for one.Dance or die.Three years ago, I was taken, stolen away, far from the world I knew, far from civilization. I became a slave, forced to serve one of the four families with my talent. I'd been abused, battered, tortured in isolation... -
![BONES by Yolanda Olson]()
BONES by Yolanda Olson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContent advisory: The following book contains vivid depictions of gore, graphic sexual violence, endless mind games, will induce strangely beautiful feelings of paranoia, and lots of bad things. Really bad things. It's not recommended eating before, during, or after reading this story. Prepare for a one way trip to Hell. I'm haunted. Not by ghosts, but by a face I can't quite remember... -
![The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim]()
The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFeminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective.Ji-won’s life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her appa’s extramarital affair and subsequent departure. Her mother, distraught. Her younger sister, hurt and confused. Her college freshman grades, failing. Her dreams, horrifying… yet enticing... -
![Lady of the Shades by Darren Shan]()
Lady of the Shades by Darren Shan
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn a hotel room in Chile, an assassin washes blood from his clothes as he receives word of a new job. Miles away in the twisting streets of London, American writer Ed is tormented by the ghosts of his brutal past. And unseen, a plot churns into motion that will blur the boundaries between what's real and what's not... -
![Wicked Little Words by Stevie J. Cole, B.T. Urruela]()
Wicked Little Words by Stevie J. Cole, B.T. Urruela
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEdwin Allen Mercer I want them all to read my words. And they do. Every last blood-stained sentence, they've read and praised me for. They love the gore and violence, the realness. And I get a sense of power with it all because I know a secret: the victims in my books—they’re real and have all died on my table. And maybe that’s why the last book had such awful reviews... -
![Cruel Black Hearts by Candace Wondrak]()
Cruel Black Hearts by Candace Wondrak
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Dark Reverse Harem Romance. My name is Stella, and I am empty. I am broken. I am nothing. The only thing I enjoy about my life is my job at the Tribune. My focus in both my editorial and my personal writing involves serial killers. Even my best friend doesn’t understand my obsession with them. No one does. Until I meet them... -
![Hell's Half Acre by Will Christopher Baer]()
Hell's Half Acre by Will Christopher Baer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsKidnapping, snuff films, amputee geeks and a requiem of lost love.Cast adrift after the blood symphony of Penny Dreadful, Phineas Poe is looking for answers in the form of a woman. He tracks Jude to San Francisco, where he finds her involved with John Ransom Miller, a wealthy sociopath with a mysterious hold over her... -
![Love & Other Killers by Brynne Weaver]()
Love & Other Killers by Brynne Weaver
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsSerial killers versus serial killer in a hot and twisted novella about family games, true love, and competitive carnage by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Ruinous Love Trilogy.It’s the annual hunt for Sloane and her vigilante family of serial killers. Track the most cold-blooded psychos imaginable and take them down... -
![Thicker Than Water by Mike Carey]()
Thicker Than Water by Mike Carey
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFelix Castor is a freelance exorcist, so dealing with the dead is his stock in trade. Between his private clients and some consulting for the Met, he thinks he's seen it all. But a late-night call out to a South London housing estate proves that he still has a few surprises left. After all, it's not every day you see your own name painted in blood at a a crime scene.But that's only the beginning... -
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![Flesh House by Stuart MacBride]()
Flesh House by Stuart MacBride
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe case was closed. Until the killer walked free…Panic strikes the Granite City…When an offshore container turns up at Aberdeen Harbour full of human meat, it kicks off the largest manhunt in the Granite City’s history.Twenty years ago ‘The Flesher’ was butchering people all over the UK – turning victims into oven-ready joints – until Grampian’s finest put him away... -
![Eyes of Prey by John Sandford]()
Eyes of Prey by John Sandford
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsLieutenant Davenport's sanity was nearly shattered by two murder investigations. Now he faces something worse . . . Two killers. One hideously scarred. The other strikingly handsome, a master manipulator fascinated with all aspects of death. The dark mirror of Davenport's soul . . . This is the case that will bring Davenport back to life. Or push him over the edge... -
![Blood and Water by J. David Osborne]()
Blood and Water by J. David Osborne
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter discovering a body in a local fishing hole, two brothers come to terms with their own poverty as they're inescapably drawn into a surreal world of dangerous criminals.Set against a rural Oklahoma backdrop, Blood and Water is a story of family responsibility, the lure of easy outs and even easier scores, and our own violent impulses... -
![Mad Girl by A.A. Dark, Alaska Angelini]()
Mad Girl by A.A. Dark, Alaska Angelini
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings**CAUTION-------PITCH BLACK READ** My mother was the Madison Ridge Killer … and I helped her. At nine, I was given a new start—a new life. My adoptive parents did everything they could to help me forget my past, and for a while, they succeeded. But I was never normal. I never truly forgot all I saw or did.Now, twenty years later, I work in the billing department for a small city newspaper... -
![We Keep Secrets by A.J. Merlin]()
We Keep Secrets by A.J. Merlin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThings were supposed to get better once no one was actively trying to kill me. Not a lot worse.With my murderous stalker dead and buried, I really should be able to enjoy getting to know my two men more intimately and focusing on how I’m going to move forward with my life.Not worrying that one of them is a murderer and that the other is way too okay with that... -
![Serial, Volume Three by Lily White, Jaden Wilkes]()
Serial, Volume Three by Lily White, Jaden Wilkes
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith Donovan closing in, his feelings growing for Ronnie, and the sudden realization where their paths crossed before, Jude's composure might be cracking... -
![Burn for Me by Effie Campbell]()
Burn for Me by Effie Campbell
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThere are three rules he lives by. Burn it all. Leave no witnesses. Don't ask questions. It was all perfect, until he took her. And now? She's his.PHOENIXI can't speak. I have no one. I live my life below the radar, burning crime scenes for the mafia. Most of my life I've managed to quash the loneliness down until it left me nothing but a hardened shell. Until I found her. Until I took her... -
![Small Town Nightmare by Anna Willett]()
Small Town Nightmare by Anna Willett
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA young drifter is in deep trouble, his sister is his only hope... Lucy’s younger brother has gone missing. When she sets out to find him, the trail takes her to Night Town. It’s a rural backwater deep in the forests of south western Australia. Lucy tries to enlist the help of the local police, but she is met with hostility. She befriends a man who might help her cause... -
![The Art of Murder by José Carlos Somoza]()
The Art of Murder by José Carlos Somoza
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn 2006, the art world has moved far beyond sheep in formaldehyde and the most avant-garde movement is to use living people as artwork. Undergoing weeks of preparation to become 'canvases', the models are required to stay in their pose for ten to twelve hours a day and, as art pieces, they are also for sale... -
![Hard Candy by Andrew Vachss]()
Hard Candy by Andrew Vachss
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this mercilessly compelling thriller, Burke—the private eye, sting artist, and occasional hit man who metes out a cruelly ingenious vengeance on those who victimize children—is up against a soft-spoken messiah, who may be rescuing runaways or recruiting them for his own hideous purposes... -
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![My Dead Body by Charlie Huston, Scott Brick]()
My Dead Body by Charlie Huston, Scott Brick
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPrivate eye Joe Pitt has been in hiding since exposing the secret source of blood for half of Manhattans Vampyres. But now a Vampyre civil war threatens to drag the Clans into the sunlight once and for all. Then Joe is hired to find a missing girl who is carrying a baby that just might be the destiny of Vampyre-kind... -
![Six Bad Things by Charlie Huston]()
Six Bad Things by Charlie Huston
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHank Thompson is living off the map in Mexico with a bagful of cash that the Russian mafia wants back and many, many secrets. So when a Russian backpacker shows up in town asking questions, Hank tries to play it cool. But he knows the jig is up when the backpacker mentions the money . . . and the family Hank left behind... -
![A Dangerous Man by Charlie Huston]()
A Dangerous Man by Charlie Huston
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“Among the new voices in twenty-first-century crime fiction, Charlie Huston . . . is where it’s at.”–The Washington Post“Huston writes dialogue so combustible it could fuel a bus and characters crazy enough to take it on the road.”–The New York Times Book ReviewReluctant hitman Henry Thompson has fallen on hard times... -
![The Mountain King by Anders de la Motte]()
The Mountain King by Anders de la Motte
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis atmospheric and sinister mystery, perfect for fans of the Nordic thrillers of Jo Nesbo and Stieg Larsson, follows an overachieving female inspector investigating the darkest side of humanity.Criminal inspector Leonore Asker seems to have the leading position at Malmö’s Major Crime Division within reach... -
![Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock]()
Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIn this unforgettable work of fiction, Donald Ray Pollock peers into the soul of a tough Midwestern American town to reveal the sad, stunted but resilient lives of its residents. Spanning a period from the mid-sixties to the late nineties, the linked stories that comprise Knockemstiff feature a cast of recurring characters who are woebegone, baffled and depraved but irresistibly, undeniably real... -
![The Furies by John Connolly]()
The Furies by John Connolly
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Furies: mythological snake-haired goddesses of vengeance, pursuers of those who have committed unavenged crimes. Now, private investigator C harlie Parker is drawn into a world of modern furies... -
![One of Us by Michael Marshall Smith]()
One of Us by Michael Marshall Smith
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt's not what you've done that counts it's what you remember....If you could sell your conscience, could you get away with murder?Hap Thompson works the gray area between truth and lies. He works for REMtemp, taking on other people's memories. It's illegal, but usually harmless. Maybe a petty criminal wants to pass a lie detector test. Or an unfaithful spouse wants to enjoy a guiltless affair... -
![Down in the Zero by Andrew Vachss]()
Down in the Zero by Andrew Vachss
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAndrew Vachss has reinvented detective fiction for an age in which guilty secrets are obsolete and murder isn't even worth a news headline. And in the person of his haunted, hell-ridden private eye Burke, Vachss has given us a new kind of hero: a man inured to every evil except the kind that preys on children... -
![Full Brutal by Kristopher Triana]()
Full Brutal by Kristopher Triana
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKim White is a very popular cheerleader. She’s pretty, healthy, and comes from a well-off family. She has everything a girl of sixteen is supposed to want. And she’s sick to death of it. In search of something to pull her out of suicidal thoughts, she decides to lose her virginity, having heard it’s a life-changing event. But Kim doesn’t want to do it the same way the other girls do... -
![Nemesis by Jo Nesbø]()
Nemesis by Jo Nesbø
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsDetective Harry Hole must use his maverick methods once again as he investigates a slew of brutal bank robberies and the suspicious suicide of a female artist in this clever and harrowing installment in the Harry Hole series from the author of The Snowman—soon to be a major motion picture, starring Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, and J. K. Simmons... -
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![Carnival Shadows: A Dark Stalker Romance by Selena Winters]()
Carnival Shadows: A Dark Stalker Romance by Selena Winters
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe problem with stalking a predator? Sometimes, they decide to keep you.I study killers for a living. I analyze their methods, dissect their psychology, and share their darkest deeds with my podcast listeners, but I’ve never encountered anyone like Remy.When I spotted him at the carnival, I knew he was different... -
![The Cadaver Factory by Kenneth Jarrett Singleton]()
The Cadaver Factory by Kenneth Jarrett Singleton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJack Rally is an eighteen-year-old boy who is evil and witty. He receives an opportunity from an older film-maker named Mr. Bigsley whose films are films of actual murders. Jack takes the opportunity and runs with it, becoming a master of his murderous profession... -
![God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlepig by Tad Williams]()
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlepig by Tad Williams
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Oh, ho, ho!" the demon Chickenleg said, sounding like your drunk uncle trying to get you to laugh at a dirty joke. "Oh, ho! You'll love this one, Dollar!" Bobby Dollar, Advocate Angel and perpetual thorn in the side of Heaven, is about to save the holidays for a very special someone. Or somewolf... -
![Titanshade by Dan Stout]()
Titanshade by Dan Stout
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis noir fantasy thriller from a debut author introduces the gritty town of Titanshade, where danger lurks around every corner. "Take a little Mickey Spillane, some Dashiell Hammet, a bit of Raymond Chandler, and mix it with Phillip K. Dick's Blade Runner; add a taste of CJ Box, and Craig Johnson, and you've got a masterpiece of a first novel." --W... -
![A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers]()
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFood critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. Discerning, meticulous, and very, very smart, Dorothy’s clear mastery of the culinary arts make it likely that she could, on any given night, whip up a more inspired dish than any one of the chefs she writes about... -
![Lincoln Hospital by Cassia Brightmore]()
Lincoln Hospital by Cassia Brightmore
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn the twenty-third day—he hunts, bringing the scum of the earth to justice; his justice. Ending up as a patient on Dr. O’Reilly’s table could either save your life or end it in the most horrific way. New York City. The infamous city that never sleeps; the place where dreams either shine brightly or shatter into razor sharp pieces of metal. For Dr...
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