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  • Cross Down by James Patterson, Brendan DuBois

    Cross Down by James Patterson, Brendan DuBois

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Only John Sampson can save his partner, Alex Cross . . . and America. The brilliant crime-solving duo of Washington DC’s Metro PD and the FBI has a proven operating procedure:   Detective Alex Cross makes his own rules. Detective John Sampson enforces them.   Then a series of military-style attacks erupts. No sooner do Cross and Sampson join the investigation than Alex is brutally sidelined...
  • Wicked by Jana Deleon

    Wicked by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The fourth book in the Shaye Archer series by New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon.College student Tara Chatry is certain something bad has happened to her best friend Ethan Campbell. The smart, geeky student has disappeared, and when Tara tries to get the police involved, they dismiss her concerns, convinced Ethan is just another college student off on a bender...
  • Beware the Past by Joy Ellis

    Beware the Past by Joy Ellis

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    One terrible case always haunted detective Matt Ballard. Now many years later, the killer seems to be back. And this time he's after Matt. When Matt Ballard was starting out his career, three boys were murdered in the same area, the remote and bleak Gibbet Fen. When the main suspect was killed in a hit-and-run, the killings stopped...
  • The Betrayer by Kimberley Chambers

    The Betrayer by Kimberley Chambers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Based in Stepney, this book is set on a rough and ready Council Estate, in the heart of London's East End. A story that starts in 1975 ends in 2005, it tells the trials and tribulations of the Hutton family. Maureen - the gutsy mum, separated from her alcoholic husband, she scrimps and saves for years to bring up her children and instil life's good values in them...
  • Unseen by Jana Deleon

    Unseen by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Madison Avery is a young woman with a huge problem. From her penthouse apartment, she witnessed a murder in the building across the street, but by the time the police arrived, the crime scene had been wiped clean. Unfortunately, Madison suffers from prosopagnosia—face blindness—so even though she had a clear view of the murder, she can’t describe the victim or the killer...
  • The Girl and the Black Christmas by A.J. Rivers

    The Girl and the Black Christmas by A.J. Rivers

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When a mysterious package containing a severed hand is left at FBI agent Emma Griffin’s doorstep, Emma is suddenly pulled into one of the buried mysteries of her past.Emma is looking forward to spending the holidays with the family she’s built around herself...
  • One Way by Tom Barber

    One Way by Tom Barber

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    NYPD Detective Sam Archer is on his way home on a Sunday afternoon in New York City. He’s been out of the field for over three months due to a broken ankle and a nasty case of pneumonia, but has just been given the all clear to get back out there again, starting tomorrow. Archer takes a seat on a bench in the Upper West Side, enjoying a cold drink and soaking up the last remaining sun of the day...
  • Little Broken Things by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Little Broken Things by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Detective Georgiana Germaine is back on the trail of a cold-blooded killer, and once again, the case hits close to home.Twenty-year-old Olivia Spencer sits at her desk in her mother's bookshop, dreaming about her upcoming wedding. The shop may be closed, but Olivia's not alone, and her dream is about to become her worst nightmare...
  • Dawn Girl by Leslie Wolfe

    Dawn Girl by Leslie Wolfe

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A GRIPPING SERIAL KILLER THRILLERHer blue eyes wide open, glossed over. A few specks of sand clung to her long, dark lashes. Her beautiful face, immobile, covered in sparkling flecks of sand. Her lips slightly parted as if to let a last breath escape...
  • Crimson Lake Road by Victor Methos

    Crimson Lake Road by Victor Methos

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Bestselling author Victor Methos’s acclaimed series continues as prosecutor Jessica Yardley races to catch an art-obsessed serial killer before she becomes his next masterpiece.Retiring prosecutor Jessica Yardley can’t turn down one last investigation. This time, it’s a set of murders inspired by a series of grisly paintings called The Night Things...
  • Criss Cross by James Patterson

    Criss Cross by James Patterson

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A killer with all the skills of a master detective has made Alex Cross the subject of his deranged "investigation." In a Virginia penitentiary, Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson, witness the execution of a killer they helped convict. Hours later, they are called to the scene of a copycat crime. A note signed "M" rests on the corpse. "You messed up big time, Dr. Cross...
  • Bedlam by L.J. Ross

    Bedlam by L.J. Ross

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From the international best-selling author of the DCI Ryan mysteries.In a world gone mad, who can you trust?Fresh from a high-profile case in the Paris fashion world, elite forensic psychologist and criminal profiler Dr Alexander Gregory receives a call from the New York State Homicide Squad...
  • Where the Wild Roses Grow by Willow Rose

    Where the Wild Roses Grow by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Queen of scream novels does it again! - It's laced with a terrifying nail-biting tension and characters that make your skin crawl. With her blankly staring eyes seeming to gaze into the sky, he put a red rose between her teeth and then gently pushed her into the water. She slowly sank into the slow, flowing river...
  • Unbound Ties: When the past unravels, all that’s left is death ... by Liz Mistry

    Unbound Ties: When the past unravels, all that’s left is death ... by Liz Mistry

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When the past unravels, all that’s left is death.Lavender’s blue, dilly dilly,When DI Gus McGuire is called out to the murder of a pregnant woman, the crime scene tells him that this killer is not only taunting them … he’s also just getting started.Lavender’s green,With ritualistic precision, the killer has placed a series of clues beneath the victim’s feet...
  • The Thames Path killer by Biba Pearce

    The Thames Path killer by Biba Pearce

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A SCINTILLATING DEBUT MYSTERY FROM YOUR NEW CRIME FICTION OBSESSION: BIBA PEARCE.Please note this book is a completely revised edition of THE SURREY STALKER.A deranged serial killer targeting brides-to-be. An ambitious young detective. A case that could destroy everything.A young woman is brutally attacked on her way home. It looks like she was the victim of a jilted — and twisted — ex-lover...
  • The Viaduct Killings by Wes Markin

    The Viaduct Killings by Wes Markin

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Still grieving from the tragic death of her colleague, DCI Emma Gardner continues to blames herself and is struggling to focus. So, when she is seconded to the wilds of Yorkshire, Emma hopes she’ll be able to get her mind back on the job, doing what she does best - putting killers behind bars.But when she is immediately thrown into another violent murder, Emma has no time to rest...
  • Winter Prey by John Sandford

    Winter Prey by John Sandford

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    "Winter Prey" is a John Sandford suspense masterpiece!  Following the international success of "Shadow Prey" and "Silent Prey," he creates another heart-pounding chapter in the career of Lucas Davenport, the brilliant, hard-bitten detective from the Twin Cities.The Iceman is Lucas Davenport's most determined foe - a serial killer driven to cover his brutal tracks with blood...
  • Safe Haven by Patricia MacDonald

    Safe Haven by Patricia MacDonald

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    She finally had everything she ever wanted . . .Dena returns to her hometown for a high school reunion. She gets together with Brian, her high school crush, and ends up pregnant.She moves back to the small town where she grew up to start a new life with horse breeder Brian.But behind closed doors, Dena’s perfect life becomes the perfect nightmare...
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  • Dark Night of the Soul by Kristi Belcamino, Sonja Field

    Dark Night of the Soul by Kristi Belcamino, Sonja Field

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Gia Santella, the fast-driving, hard-drinking, karate-trained free spirit, has finally put her dark past behind her. UNFORTUNATELY, the past isn't done with her yet. The third book in a new, exciting series featuring an unforgettable new character by the Anthony, Barry & Macavity finalist and crime writer ..
  • Naked Prey by John Sandford

    Naked Prey by John Sandford

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Lucas Davenport finds some changes — and some nasty surprises — in store, in the chilling new novel by the number-one-bestselling author.After thirteen years and thirteen Prey novels, John Sandford's writing is as fresh as ever. His last book, Mortal Prey, was "a model of the genre" (People) and "the cop novel of the year" (Kirkus Reviews)...
  • Little Girl Lost by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Little Girl Lost by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    For the past two years, former detective Georgiana "Gigi" Germaine has been living off the grid, until today, when she hears some disturbing news that shakes her. Georgiana's brother-in-law has been murdered, her seven-year-old niece kidnapped. As the hours waste away, Georgiana races back to a town she left behind, and a former life she's still not ready to face...
  • Twelve Years Gone by K.J. Kalis

    Twelve Years Gone by K.J. Kalis

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Twelve years gone…Sarah Schmidt went out for a hike a month before heading to college on a cross-country scholarship. She never came back.In the twelve years she’s been gone, the local police have done little to help the family, leaving them with the desperate knowledge that Sarah could still be alive, somewhere, somehow...The family hasn’t given up their hope for revenge, or at least answers...
  • Secret Prey by John Sandford

    Secret Prey by John Sandford

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The company chairman lay dead in the woods, his orange hunting jacket punctured by a bullet at close range. Around him stood the four executives with whom he had been hunting, each with a reason not to be sorry about the man's death. A classic murder mystery, it would seem: the kind where the detective gathers everyone together at the end and solves the case...
  • 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...
  • The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

    The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a Tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only child. But when her ex-husband appears at her door without warning one day, her comfortable world is shattered. When Detective Kusanagi of the Tokyo Police tries to piece together the events of that day, he finds himself confronted by the most puzzling, mysterious circumstances he has ever investigated...
  • Don't Make a Sound by David Jackson

    Don't Make a Sound by David Jackson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    You can't choose your family. Or can you? Meet the Bensons. A pleasant enough couple. They keep themselves to themselves. They wash their car, mow their lawn and pass the time of day with their neighbours. And they have a beautiful little girl called Daisy.There's just one problem. Daisy doesn't belong to the Bensons. They stole her...
  • The Perfect Son by Freida McFadden, Suzie Althens

    The Perfect Son by Freida McFadden, Suzie Althens

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    7 hours, 30 minutes "Mrs. Cass, we were hoping your son could answer a few questions about the girl who disappeared last night..."Erika Cass has a perfect family and a perfect life. Until the evening when two detectives show up at her front door.A high school girl has vanished from Erika's quiet suburban neighborhood. The police suspect the worst--murder...
  • Murder Theory by Andrew Mayne

    Murder Theory by Andrew Mayne

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The desire to kill is becoming contagious in this riveting novel of conceivable mad science by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Naturalist.Computational biologist and serial-killer hunter Dr. Theo Cray receives an off-the-record request from the FBI to investigate an inexplicable double homicide. It happened at the excavation site where a murderer had buried his victims’ remains...
  • Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino

    Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An exciting new series character ...Gia Santella is a fast-driving, hard-drinking, karate-trained free spirit, who is gorgeous, sexy, and a young heiress. She also has a fierce temper and zero tolerance for people in power preying on the vulnerable ... especially when the injustice takes place in her neighborhood...
  • The Next Accident by Lisa Gardner

    The Next Accident by Lisa Gardner

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    FBI Agent Pierce Quincy is haunted by his daughter's death in a drunk-driving accident. Pierce knew about his daughter's problem with alcohol, and about her loneliness. And so, he is sure, did the man who killed her. Rainie Conner is an ex-cop with a past overshadowed by violence. She was once involved with Pierce in a harrowing case that brought them together personally and professionally...
  • Fixed in Blood by T.E. Woods

    Fixed in Blood by T.E. Woods

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Perfect for fans of Jeff Lindsay’s Dexter thrillers and the novels of Lisa Gardner and Karin Slaughter, the gritty, action-packed Justice series continues as a depraved mind taunts those who seek retribution on both sides of the law. I become whatever they want. Whatever they need.   Seattle Chief of Detectives Mort Grant is still reeling from losing his daughter—again...
  • The Girl and the Silent Night by A.J. Rivers

    The Girl and the Silent Night by A.J. Rivers

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    T’was the night before Christmas when all through the house,Not a creature was stirring inside Agent Emma Griffin's house.But then out of nowhere a dark shadow appeared.And all of a sudden this holiday season is no longer filled with cheer.After facing many misfortunes throughout her life.FBI Agent Emma Griffin has opted to make work her main priority...
  • Remnants by Carolyn Arnold

    Remnants by Carolyn Arnold

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Savannah, Georgia used to be a tranquil tourist destination—until human body parts started floating down the river.FBI Agent Brandon Fisher trusts his team with his life—or at least he did. It’s only been six months since Brandon’s boss almost died at the hands of a serial killer when the team is called to Savannah, Georgia...
  • Take Your Breath Away by Linwood Barclay, Joe Knezevich

    Take Your Breath Away by Linwood Barclay, Joe Knezevich

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Find You First and Elevator Pitch comes a gripping psychological thriller about a formerly missing woman who has suddenly returned under mysterious circumstances.One weekend, while Andrew Mason was on a fishing trip, his wife, Brie, vanished without a trace...
  • The Face Changers by Thomas Perry

    The Face Changers by Thomas Perry

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Can a woman who's rescued countless victims now save herself from an unknown enemy? After over a decade as a guide who helped people in trouble disappear, Jane Whitefield has promised her new husband that she will never work again. But she is asked to perform her magic just one last time...
  • Dead Eyed by Matt Brolly, David Monteath

    Dead Eyed by Matt Brolly, David Monteath

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    DCI Michael Lambert thought he’d closed his last case…Yet when he’s passed a file detailing a particularly gruesome murder, Michael knows that this is no ordinary killer at work.The removal of the victim’s eyes and the Latin inscription carved into the chest is the chilling calling-card of the ‘soul jacker’: a cold-blooded murderer who struck close to Michael once before, twenty-five years ago...
  • The Things you find in Rockpools by Gregg Dunnett

    The Things you find in Rockpools by Gregg Dunnett

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Why has Billy Wheatley become a favorite character for thousands of readers? Eleven-year-old Billy lives a lonely life with his father in a windswept clifftop house. Until a tourist girl vanishes from the beach below. A huge police search takes over the island, but fails to uncover what happened. And Billy can’t resist getting involved...
  • From Cradle to Grave by Patricia MacDonald

    From Cradle to Grave by Patricia MacDonald

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A nail-biting novel of domestic suspense from a best-selling author - When Morgan Adair arrives at the small seaside town of West Briar on the Long Island shore, she is looking forward to attending the baptism of her new godson, Drew. Morgan and Drew's mother, Claire, have been friends since childhood, and Morgan was delighted when Claire married the handsome Guy Bolton...
  • The Watchmaker’s Hand by Jeffery Deaver

    The Watchmaker’s Hand by Jeffery Deaver

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When a New York City construction crane mysteriously collapses, causing mass destruction and killing several people, Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are on the case. A political group claims to be behind the sabotage and threatens another crane collapse in twenty-four hours, unless their demands are met. The clock is ticking...
  • Gone for Good by Harlan Coben

    Gone for Good by Harlan Coben

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins' affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman--a girl Will had once loved--was found brutally murdered in her family's basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein. With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished...
  • Broken Skin by Stuart MacBride

    Broken Skin by Stuart MacBride

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Nearly bouncing back from a transfer, Detective Sergeant Logan McRae is still looking at nothing but dead ends. His only chance of escaping his current post is to get noticed. Not that any of the cases he’s working on are the type that you want to get noticed for. For starters, someone dumped a dying man outside the hospital. McRae’s boss D.I...
  • Free Fall by Robert Crais

    Free Fall by Robert Crais

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Jennifer Sheridan's fiance, Mark Thurman, is a decorated LA cop with an elite plainclothes unit, but Jennifer is sure he's in trouble - the kind of serious trouble that only Elvis Cole can get him out of...
  • Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane

    Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    “Chilling, completely credible….[An] absolutely gripping story.” —Chicago TribuneNew York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Shutter Island) vividly captures the complex beauty and darkness of working-class Boston in this gripping, deeply evocative thriller...
  • Win by Harlan Coben

    Win by Harlan Coben

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    From a #1 New York Times bestselling author comes this thrilling story that shows what happens when a dead man's secrets fall into the hands of vigilante antihero—drawing him down a dangerous road.Over twenty years ago, the heiress Patricia Lockwood was abducted during a robbery of her family's estate, then locked inside an isolated cabin for months...
  • Last Patient of the Night by Gary Gerlacher

    Last Patient of the Night by Gary Gerlacher

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    "Last Patient of the Night is M*A*S*H* meets Detective Harry Bosch. It's a thriller that won't disappoint." –Gregory D. Lee, author of An International ThrillerThe death of a nameless young woman in his emergency room spurs physician AJ Docker to seek answers...
  • Dead End Fix by T.E. Woods

    Dead End Fix by T.E. Woods

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fear and violence come home to roost in this exhilarating Justice thriller featuring The Fixer—a roller-coaster ride for readers of Lisa Gardner, Karin Slaughter, and Jeff Lindsay’s Dexter novels.   I’ll bring Hadley home. Whatever it takes. Whatever it costs. Whoever has to die.   There’s a gang war unfolding on the streets of Seattle...
  • 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...
  • Easy as One Two Three by Willow Rose

    Easy as One Two Three by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent editionMads and Signe are very young when they get married. They are ready to take on the world, starting with their honeymoon to Egypt. Two years later, Mads is in a coma, and Signe has vanished from the face of the earth.Meanwhile, Emma Frost is looking for her daughter whom the police believe is guilty of the hit and run that left Mads Schou brain dead...
  • Nathan's Run by John Gilstrap

    Nathan's Run by John Gilstrap

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Twelve-year-old Nathan Bailey, accused of murdering a cop, becomes the target of a nationwide manhunt even as a vicious hit man is closing in on him. Orphaned and alone, Nathan has no one to count on but himself. To stay alive he must exercise all his agility and cleverness...
  • Dance for the Dead by Thomas Perry

    Dance for the Dead by Thomas Perry

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "COMPELLING . . . NOBODY WRITES A CHASE BETTER THAN PERRY."  *The Washington Post Book WorldWhen eight-year-old Timothy Decker finds his parents brutally murdered, it's clear the Deckers weren't the intended victims: Timothy's own room—ransacked, all traces of his existence expertly obliterated *is the shocking evidence. Timothy's nanny, Mona, is certain about only one thing...
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