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The Edge by David Baldacci, Zachary Webber
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 25 ratings11 hours, 45 minutesThe 6:20 Man is back, dropped by his handlers into a small coastal town in Maine to solve the murder of a CIA agent who knew America’s dirtiest secrets—can Travis Devine uncover the truth before his time runs out? When CIA operative Jenny Sikwell is murdered in rural Maine, government officials have immediate concerns over national security... -
![Ocean Prey by John Sandford]()
Ocean Prey by John Sandford
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsAn off-duty Coast Guardsman is fishing with his family in the Atlantic just off south Florida when he sees, and then calls in, some suspicious behavior in a nearby boat. It's a snazzy craft, slick and outfitted with extra horsepower, and is zipping along until it slows to pick up a surfaced diver . . . a diver who was apparently alone, without his own boat, in the middle of the ocean... -
![The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen]()
The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsA retired CIA operative in small-town Maine tackles the ghosts of her past in this fresh take on the spy thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen.Former spy Maggie Bird came to the seaside village of Purity, Maine, eager to put the past behind her after a mission went tragically wrong... -
![Blood Money: A Legal Thriller by Scott Pratt]()
Blood Money: A Legal Thriller by Scott Pratt
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn the sixth volume of the bestselling Joe Dillard series, Dillard does something he has never done before -- he hires a young associate. Her name is Charleston Story, she is bright and beautiful, and in her very first case, she winds up inheriting an item so valuable that it threatens to destroy her and everything she cares about... -
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![Conflict of Interest by Scott Pratt]()
Conflict of Interest by Scott Pratt
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA six-year-old girl is kidnapped from her bed in Tennessee's oldest town. The ransom note demands millions. In this fifth installment of the highly-acclaimed and bestselling Joe Dillard series, Dillard is hired to represent the parents of a child who has gone missing... -
![Injustice For All by Scott Pratt]()
Injustice For All by Scott Pratt
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA criminal court judge is found hanging from a tree. A young employee of the district attorney's office goes missing. In this third book of the best selling Joe Dillard series, Dillard finds himself in the middle of two volatile mysteries. The primary suspect in the judge's murder is Dillard's son's best friend, and Dillard's wife may have destroyed evidence... -
![Reasonable Fear by Scott Pratt]()
Reasonable Fear by Scott Pratt
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThree young women are found floating in a lake. The suspect is one of the richest and most powerful men in Tennessee. "Reasonable Fear" is the fourth of the bestselling Joe Dillard series offered by Scott Pratt. In this novel, Dillard has become the district attorney in Northeast Tennessee... -
![The Professor by Robert Bailey, Eric G. Dove]()
The Professor by Robert Bailey, Eric G. Dove
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsLaw professor Thomas Jackson McMurtrie literally wrote the book on evidence in the state of Alabama. But when a power-hungry colleague uses a recent run-in between McMurtrie and headstrong student Rick Drake to end his career, he is left unsure what to do next.Meanwhile, a devastating trucking accident in Henshaw, Alabama, leaves a young family dead... -
![A Crime of Passion by Scott Pratt]()
A Crime of Passion by Scott Pratt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA beautiful, young, rising star in the country music world is found dead in a Nashville hotel room. The owner of her record company is charged with murder. In the seventh installment of Scott Pratt's bestselling Joe Dillard series, Dillard is hired to travel to Tennessee's capital city to defend Paul Milius, a record company baron accused of strangling Kasey Cartwright, his label's young star... -
![Storm's Fury by Mary Stone, Amy Wilson]()
Storm's Fury by Mary Stone, Amy Wilson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSome storms destroy. Others clear a path.Military veteran Amelia Storm returns to her hometown of Chicago when her beloved police officer brother is killed in the line of duty. Now she is a special agent with the FBI. No longer a scared girl, she vows to avenge her brother and do what she can to end the city’s deep wells of corruption... -
![Special Circumstances by Sheldon Siegel, Tim Campbell]()
Special Circumstances by Sheldon Siegel, Tim Campbell
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsListening Length: 12 hours and 18 minutesIntroducing an electrifying new voice in legal fiction--in a phenomenal thriller unlike anything you've read before...Debut author Sheldon Siegel bursts into the legal arena with a riveting courtroom drama, exposing the world of big-time law firms and lawyers in a sharp-witted, wonderfully sardonic page-turner of a novel.Meet Mike Daley. Ex-priest... -
![The Night Fire by Michael Connelly]()
The Night Fire by Michael Connelly
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsHarry Bosch and LAPD Detective Renee Ballard come together again on the murder case that obsessed Bosch's mentor, the man who trained him -- new from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case... -
![The Alchemy Fire Murder by Susan Rowland]()
The Alchemy Fire Murder by Susan Rowland
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFormer Archivist Mary Wandwalker hates bringing bad news. Nevertheless, she confirms to her alma mater that their prized medieval alchemy scroll, is, in fact, a seventeenth century copy. She learns that the original vanished to colonial Connecticut with alchemist, Robert Le More. Later the genuine scroll surfaces in Los Angeles... -
![The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly]()
The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsMickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home. Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty... -
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![Cold Blooded by Toni Anderson]()
Cold Blooded by Toni Anderson
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA journalist searching for the truth about her best friend’s death—and the FBI agent who needs her to stop. Disgraced investigative journalist Pip West is devastated when she discovers her best friend’s body face-down in a tranquil lake. When cops and federal agents determine that her friend overdosed then drowned, Pip knows they’re mistaken and intends to prove it... -
![An Eye for an Eye by Irene Hannon]()
An Eye for an Eye by Irene Hannon
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAfter he accidentally shoots a teenager at a tense standoff, FBI Hostage Rescue Team member Mark Sanders is sent to St. Louis to work as a field agent and get his bearings while the bad press starts to settle. Just weeks away from returning to Quantico to resume his work on the HRT, Mark has a chance encounter with an old flame, Emily Lawson. But their reunion is cut short by a sniper... -
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Catherine Coulter the FBI Thrillers Collection Books 1-5 by Catherine Coulter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe #1 New York Times bestselling FBI thrillers are “excellent beach reads”*—stock up today on these five suspense novels featuring Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock. From the debut of the series, The Cove, through the “fast-paced twists and turns” of Riptide (San Francisco Examiner), you’ll be swept away...Categorized as:
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![Deceived by Stella Barcelona]()
Deceived by Stella Barcelona
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTheir destinies have been set in motion by their ancestors. Taylor Marlowe Bartholomew carries three of the most notable names in New Orleans society. She hoped to forge her own path in the world as an Assistant District Attorney, but that dream is dying as obligations pull her into the family shipbuilding business... -
![Malibu Burning by Lee Goldberg]()
Malibu Burning by Lee Goldberg
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFor a professional criminal and a relentless arson investigator, fear and revenge spread like wildfire in a an incendiary thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg.Hell comes to Southern California every October. It rides in on searing Santa Ana winds that blast at near hurricane force, igniting voracious wildfires. Master thief Danny Cole longs for the flames... -
![The Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly]()
The Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsMickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game... -
![Dead Tomorrow by Peter James]()
Dead Tomorrow by Peter James
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratings*Lynn gripped the sides of the armchair, trying to put aside her own inner terror. 'I can't believe I'm thinking this, Ross. I'm not a violent person, even before Caitlin's influence, I never even liked killing flies in my kitchen. Now I'm sitting here actually willing some stranger to die... -
![Incriminating Evidence by Sheldon Siegel]()
Incriminating Evidence by Sheldon Siegel
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWith his terrific first novel, Special Circumstances , Sheldon Siegel delivered legal fiction so exciting, it drew comparisons with the very top tier of courtroom thrillers. Now he has a new challenge for defense attorney Mike Daley--ex-priest, ex-husband, ex-public defender--and it’s a high-profile zinger: a case he doesn’t think he can win for a client he can’t stand... -
![NYPD Red 6: A missing bride. A bloodied dress. NYPD Red’s deadliest case yet by James Patterson]()
NYPD Red 6: A missing bride. A bloodied dress. NYPD Red’s deadliest case yet by James Patterson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratings_______________________________At the wedding of the century, a brazen kidnapper steals the star of the show...Erin Easton's wedding in one of New York's biggest venues may have a TV crew documenting every extravagant detail, but when the bride disappears from the reception, it's not diva behaviour. Her dressing room is empty, except for a blood-spattered wedding dress... -
![The Burning Room by Michael Connelly]()
The Burning Room by Michael Connelly
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsIn the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet nine years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other evidence is virtually nonexistent... -
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![Mad River by John Sandford]()
Mad River by John Sandford
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThey thought they were Bonnie and Clyde. And what's-his-name, the sidekick. Three teenagers with dead-end lives, chips on their shoulders, and guns. The first person they killed was a woman during a robbery. The second was incidental. Simply in the way... -
![Fire with Fire by Candice Fox]()
Fire with Fire by Candice Fox
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA pair of desperate parents. A man on the run. A rookie cop.Four people with everything on the line... -
![Dead Man's Wake by Paul Doiron]()
Dead Man's Wake by Paul Doiron
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsGame Warden Mike Bowditch's engagement party is interrupted by the discovery of a gruesome double murder in this new thriller from Edgar Award-winning author Paul Doiron.On the evening of their engagement party, Maine Game Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch and Stacey Stevens witness what seems to be a hit-and-run speedboat crash on a darkened lake... -
![Threads of Suspicion by Dee Henderson]()
Threads of Suspicion by Dee Henderson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDee Henderson Pens Another Compelling Cold Case Mystery Evie Blackwell's reputation as a top investigator for the Illinois State Police has landed her an appointment to the governor's new Missing Persons Task Force. This elite investigative team is launched with plenty of public fanfare. The governor has made this initiative a high priority, so they will have to produce results--and quickly... -
![Dead Man's Footsteps by Peter James]()
Dead Man's Footsteps by Peter James
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFrom the ashes of mass destruction. . . Amid the tragic unfolding mayhem of the morning of 9/11, failed Brighton businessman and ne'er-do-well Ronnie Wilson sees the chance of a lifeline: to shed his debts, disappear and reinvent himself in another country... -
![Total Control by David Baldacci]()
Total Control by David Baldacci
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsSidney Archer thought she had the perfect life - a great family and a great career. Then her husband is killed in a plane crash. But when the FBI think he is still alive, Sidney begins a desperate search for the truth... -
![The Winner by David Baldacci]()
The Winner by David Baldacci
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A woman who gets rich after being forced to participate in a fixed lottery is wanted for murder... -
![Avarice by Lisa Clark O'Neill]()
Avarice by Lisa Clark O'Neill
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeventeen years ago, Ainsley Tidwell’s young life was shattered upon her discovery of the body of her murdered cousin, Carly. Now Carly’s sister Sabrina is missing, and Ainsley returns to Dahlonega, Georgia for the first time since the homicide that tore her family apart... -
![The Center Cannot Hold: A Ray Elkins Thriller by Aaron Stander]()
The Center Cannot Hold: A Ray Elkins Thriller by Aaron Stander
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIn the depths of winter, Cedar County is on occasion literally frozen in place. Roads are impassable; the area schools are closed for days at a time. And the bad guys and gals, they’re hunkered down like everyone else until the weather breaks. But this winter isn’t the usual. There’s arson and murder...Categorized as:
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![Ultimatum by Simon Kernick]()
Ultimatum by Simon Kernick
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTHE THREAT8 an explosion blasts through a cafe in Central London.THE ULTIMATUMMinutes later, a call from an unknown terror group warns that a far greater attack will be launched in 12 hours' time.THE PRISONERWilliam Garrett, AKA Fox, is awaiting trial for mass murder. He claims he can name the bombers. But only at a price...Categorized as:
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![Bloodline by F. Paul Wilson]()
Bloodline by F. Paul Wilson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsJack has been on hiatus since the events in Harbingers. With his lover Gia's encouragement he dips a toe back into the fix-it pool. Christy Pickering's eighteen-year-old daughter is dating Jerry Bethlehem, a man twice her age. Christy sensed something shady and sinister about him, so she hired a private investigator to look into his past. But the PI isn't returning her calls... -
![Name Withheld by J.A. Jance]()
Name Withheld by J.A. Jance
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAs Beau wrestles at home with his own dying ex-wife and the vindictive former spouse of his best friend, his office time is spent trying to discover who murdered a very nasty bio-tech executive... -
![Failure to Appear by J.A. Jance, Gene Engene]()
Failure to Appear by J.A. Jance, Gene Engene
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA desperate father's search for his runaway daughter has led him to the last place he ever expected to find her: backstage at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. But the murders in this dazzling world of make-believe are no longer mere stagecraft, and the blood is all too real. The hunt for his child has plunged former Seattle Homicide Detective J.P... -
![Not Dead Enough by Peter James]()
Not Dead Enough by Peter James
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsOn the night Brian Bishop murdered his wife, he was sixty miles away, asleep in bed at the time. At least, that’s the way it looks to Detective Superintendent Roy Grace who is called in to investigate the kinky slaying of beautiful young Brighton socialite, Katie Bishop... -
![Lupa nera by Juan Gómez-Jurado]()
Lupa nera by Juan Gómez-Jurado
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsRestare viva non è mai stato tanto difficile. Dopo Regina Rossa, che ha incoronato Antonia Scott come la nuova protagonista assoluta del thriller spagnolo, il secondo capitolo della trilogia bestseller di Juan Gómez-Jurado. Antonia Scott e Jon Gutiérrez sono ancora alla ricerca di Sandra Fajardo, quando Mentor li convoca per un altro caso al momento più pressante... -
![The Blood Tide by Neil Lancaster]()
The Blood Tide by Neil Lancaster
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings‘Think Jack Reacher fronting Line of Duty’ Ian RankinYou get away with murder.In a remote sea loch on the west coast of Scotland, a fisherman vanishes without trace. His remains are never found.You make people disappear.A young man jumps from a bridge in Glasgow and falls to his death in the water below. DS Max Craigie uncovers evidence that links both victims... -
![Wings of Fear by Helene Young]()
Wings of Fear by Helene Young
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContemporary Suspense Novel set in Northern Australia. Above the crystal-blue waters of North Queensland, Captain Morgan Pentland patrols the vast Australian coastline. When Customs Agent Rafe Daniels joins her crew, she is immediately suspicious... -
![Roses Are Blood Red by Novoneel Chakraborty]()
Roses Are Blood Red by Novoneel Chakraborty
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI'll gift you a love story that every girl desires, but few get to live.'He'd told me once. And boy, did he stick to his words! Vanav Thakur is the perfect boyfriend that any girl can have. He ticks every box you can ever have for your Mr Right. Trust me on this... -
![Echoes by Laura Tisdall]()
Echoes by Laura Tisdall
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“There is truth to be shared. Let us begin…”Volatile genius Mallory Park is living two lives. In one, she is trying to survive senior year, balancing OCD and social anxiety with looking after her troubled family. In the other, she spends her nights glued to her laptop, breaking into some of the world's most secure systems as the hacker Echo Six...Categorized as:
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![Critical Pursuit by Janice Cantore]()
Critical Pursuit by Janice Cantore
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOfficer Brinna Caruso has built a reputation at the precinct as the cop to call when a child goes missing. For Brinna, it's personal because she was once one of them. Brinna and her K-9 search and rescue dog, Hero, will stop at nothing to find a missing child, no matter the stakes. Detective Jack O'Reilly isn't ready to return to his homicide duties after losing his wife to a drunk driver... -
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![Stolen Seduction by Elisabeth Naughton]()
Stolen Seduction by Elisabeth Naughton
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA missing bronze holds the key to a decades-old murder. To prove her innocence, Hailey Roarke will have to partner up with the sexy homicide detective who has the power to steal more than her freedom-if she-s not careful, he may just steal her heart- Hailey Roarke was never interested in her family’s fortune. That’s why she became a cop... -
![First You Run by Roxanne St. Claire]()
First You Run by Roxanne St. Claire
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAN UNSTOPPABLE BODYGUARD ON THE HUNT. A WOMAN HIDING A SECRET EVEN SHE DOESN'T KNOW. A PASSION THAT BEGINS WITH DANGER.... Bullet Catcher Adrien Fletcher is on a mission to track down a baby given up in a black market adoption thirty years ago. He has a list of possible names and one tantalizing clue: the infant girl had been marked with a tiny tattoo... -
![The Client / The Street Lawyer by John Grisham]()
The Client / The Street Lawyer by John Grisham
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTHE CLIENTThe Law, the Mob, a murder — and the mind of an eleven-year- old child... An eleven-year-old has discovered a secret that not even an adult should know. A US State Senator is dead, and Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden. The FBI want him to tell them where it is at whatever cost to Mark and his family. The killer wants him silenced forever... -
![The Score by Richard Stark, John Banville]()
The Score by Richard Stark, John Banville
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt was an impossible crime: knock off an entire North Dakota town called Copper Canyon—clean out the plant payroll, both banks, and all the stores in one night. Parker called it "science fiction," but with the right men (a score of them), he could figure it out to the last detail. It could work...Categorized as:
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![Widowmaker by Paul Doiron]()
Widowmaker by Paul Doiron
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Paul Doiron's Widowmaker, When a mysterious woman in distress appears outside his home, Mike Bowditch has no clue she is about to blow his world apart. Amber Langstrom is beautiful, damaged, and hiding a secret with a link to his past.. She claims her son Adam is a wrongfully convicted sex offender who has vanished from a brutal work camp in the high timber around the Widowmaker Ski Resort... -
![Let it Burn by Steve Hamilton]()
Let it Burn by Steve Hamilton
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAlex McKnight swore to serve and protect Detroit as a police officer, but a trip to Motown these days is a trip to a past he'd just as soon forget. The city will forever remind him of his partner's death and of the bullet still lodged in his own chest.Then he gets a call from his old sergeant...
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