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Resurrection Walk by Michael Connelly
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsDefense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. After getting a wrongfully convicted man out of prison, he is inundated with pleas from incarcerated people claiming innocence. He enlists his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, to weed through the letters, knowing most claims will be false...Categorized as:
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![Six Graves by Angela Marsons]()
Six Graves by Angela Marsons
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt’s a typical teenage bedroom with posters covering the walls and clothes littering the floor. But the girl lying on her bed, wearing a delicate chain around her neck, is lifeless. A circle of red stains her white vest top and Kim feels a sharp stab of sadness... -
![The Innocent Wife by Lisa Regan]()
The Innocent Wife by Lisa Regan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCandles are lit and their rich vanilla scent twists its way through the cabin. The table is set for a romantic anniversary dinner with fresh roses dropping crimson petals on crisp white linen...Categorized as:
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![The Killing Code by J.D. Kirk]()
The Killing Code by J.D. Kirk
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWhat would you do if there weren't any consequences?After twenty years on the force, Detective Chief Inspector Jack Logan thinks he has seen it all.He is wrong.When a nurse is murdered on her way home from nightshift, Jack and his team go on the hunt for her killer... -
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![Vortex by Catherine Coulter]()
Vortex by Catherine Coulter
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIn the latest installment in Catherine Coulter’s #1 New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series, agents Sherlock and Savich find themselves dealing with powerful pieces of the past that could have dire consequences in the present.Seven years ago, Mia Briscoe was at a frat party with her best friend Serena when a fire broke out. Everyone was accounted for except Serena...Categorized as:
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![Lost Angels by Stacy Green]()
Lost Angels by Stacy Green
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen 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... -
![Golden Prey by John Sandford]()
Golden Prey by John Sandford
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsLucas Davenport s first case as a U.S. marshal takes him into unexplored territory, in the thrilling new novel in the #1 "New York Times" bestselling Prey series. Thanks to some very influential people whose lives he s saved, Lucas Davenport has a new job. He is a U.S. marshal, but not just any marshal one with unusual scope...Categorized as:
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![Enigma by Catherine Coulter]()
Enigma by Catherine Coulter
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe highly anticipated twenty-first FBI thriller by New York Times #1 bestselling author Catherine Coulter presents Agents Savich and Sherlock with two baffling mysteries. Working with Agent Cam Wittier ( Insidious ) and New York-based former Special Forces agent Jack Cabot, they must race against the clock to catch an international criminal and solve the enigma of the man called John Doe...Categorized as:
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Perilous Trust by Barbara Freethy
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn PERILOUS TRUST, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy brings you the first book in a new romantic suspense series! OFF THE GRID: An FBI Trilogy offers three breath-stealing books filled with action-packed plot, heart-stopping romance, and page-turning suspense. It was one dark night that brought Damon Wolfe and Sophie Parker together...Categorized as:
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![The Shape of Lies by Rachel Abbott, Lisa Coleman]()
The Shape of Lies by Rachel Abbott, Lisa Coleman
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsYesterday, Scott was dead.Today, he’s back.And Anna doesn’t believe in ghosts.Fourteen years ago Scott was Anna’s boyfriend. She loved him, but he ruined her life. When he died, she should have been free.But today Scott is on the radio, talking about her. Threatening to spill her secrets.Anna is a mother, a wife, and head teacher of a primary school. And she’s a very good liar... -
![Watch Her Disappear by Lisa Regan]()
Watch Her Disappear by Lisa Regan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLying on the ground, the girl’s prom dress, the colour of champagne, shimmers in the dying light. A corsage of wilting pink sweetheart roses decorates her wrist...Categorized as:
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![A Woman to Blame by Vincent Panettiere]()
A Woman to Blame by Vincent Panettiere
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHours after a thoroughbred racehorse collapses and dies after finishing last in a race he was favored to win, his trainer—a young woman with a promising career—is found dead on a suburban Chicago beach. To the police, it's a simple case of murder-suicide. But Mike Hegan, veteran police detective, refuses to believe the official story... -
![Faith and the Beloved by Kochery C. Shibu]()
Faith and the Beloved by Kochery C. Shibu
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNaithy Cherozil is a rich and successful business woman from Mumbai who marries the young and handsome model Tony D'Souza after the death of her spouse. Little does she know that the ideal sex slave of her husband is the sleeper cell of a terror outfit. Events in her life take unforeseen turns as the male Mata Hari is activated... -
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![The Reversal by Michael Connelly]()
The Reversal by Michael Connelly
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsLongtime defense attorney Mickey Haller finds himself recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder.After 24 years in prison, new DNA evidence means convicted killer Jason Jessup has been granted another trial. Haller takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch...Categorized as:
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![Her Deadly Touch by Lisa Regan]()
Her Deadly Touch by Lisa Regan
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe woman is kneeling at a gravestone, her hair blowing in the breeze, a bunch of wilting yellow daffodils on the grass beside her. Her eyes are fixed on the ground and her mouth is parted in a silent prayer...Categorized as:
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![King City by Lee Goldberg]()
King City by Lee Goldberg
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMajor Crimes Unit detective Tom Wade secretly worked with the Feds to nail seven of his fellow cops for corruption…turning him into a pariah in the police department. So he’s exiled to patrol a beat in King City’s deadliest neighborhood… with no back-up, no resources, and no hope of survival...Categorized as:
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![Night Deception by Tamsen Schultz]()
Night Deception by Tamsen Schultz
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the award-winning author of The Windsor Series comes the second Tildas Island mystery:When treason isn’t enoughIsiah Clarke may be a former Navy SEAL, but now that he’s retired, he’s more than happy to be passing his time tending to the bar he owns on Tildas Island. That is, until a former teammate sends him a message asking for help in finding and protecting an elusive CIA asset...Categorized as:
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![My Child is Missing by Lisa Regan]()
My Child is Missing by Lisa Regan
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe little girl’s bright blue eyes are wide with fear, her hair tousled, her tears making tracks in the dirt smudged across her cheek. Curled tight in a tiny ball, it’s as if she wants to hide away forever. “He took her!” she cries. “He took my sister!”When a desperate mother calls Denton Police Department to report her children missing, Detective Josie Quinn races to investigate...Categorized as:
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![No Way Out by Allison Brennan]()
No Way Out by Allison Brennan
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom Allison Brennan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cut and Run, comes a new e-novella, No Way Out: FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid faces her worst fear when her husband goes missing Nine years ago, mercenary Kane Rogan and photojournalist Siobhan Walsh risked their lives to rescue Hestia Juarez, a thirteen-year-old girl being forced to marry a much older man to expand her father’s crime family... -
![The Namatjira Connection by Estelle Ryan]()
The Namatjira Connection by Estelle Ryan
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLooted artworks. Italian Mafia. Deepfakes.The weekend in Italy is supposed to be a family event—a celebration as well as a break for the whole team to enjoy everything Naples has to offer. As it is, Doctor Genevieve Lenard is hard-pushed to keep an autistic shutdown at bay while surrounded by boisterous relatives and friends... -
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Creole Belle by James Lee Burke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“America’s best novelist” James Lee Burke returns with another New York Times bestselling entry in the Dave Robicheaux thriller series (The Denver Post)...Categorized as:
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![The Man Who Watched Women by Michael Hjorth, Hans Rosenfeldt]()
The Man Who Watched Women by Michael Hjorth, Hans Rosenfeldt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAs a heatwave blazes in Stockholm, a series of women are found brutally murdered and the Criminal Investigation Department is getting nowhere. The murders bear all the hallmarks of Edward Hinde, the serial killer jailed by psychological profiler Sebastian Bergman fifteen years earlier.Sebastian desperately needs some order in his chaotic life... -
![Deadly Wishes by Rachel McLean]()
Deadly Wishes by Rachel McLean
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMeet Zoe Finch, West Midlands Police's newest Detective Inspector. She's outspoken, ambitious, and damaged. And she's working a case that could make her career, or cost her everything...Fresh from the success of the Canary investigation into depravity and corruption at the highest levels, she's attracted attention. Not least from Assistant Chief Constable Bryn Jackson...Categorized as:
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![The Missing and the Dead by Stuart MacBride]()
The Missing and the Dead by Stuart MacBride
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOne mistake can cost you everything…A little girl’s body washes up just outside the sleepy coastal town of Macduff, kicking off a major manhunt. Officially, the investigation is out of Sergeant Logan McRae’s hands, but DCI Steel’s Major Investigation Team, drafted in from Aberdeen, is getting nowhere fast.Steel is running out of ideas and time... -
![In Harm's Way by Viveca Sten]()
In Harm's Way by Viveca Sten
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA woman’s dangerous career comes to a chilling end in this spellbinding thriller by Viveca Sten, bestselling author of In the Heat of the Moment… The body of world-famous journalist Jeanette Thiels is discovered the day after Christmas, frozen in a snow-spotted garden just steps from her hotel on Sandhamn Island... -
![Dead Man's Grip by Peter James]()
Dead Man's Grip by Peter James
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsCarly Chase is still traumatized ten days after being in a fatal traffic accident that kills a teenage American student from Brighton University. Then she receives news that turns her entire world into a living nightmare. The drivers of the other two vehicles involved have been found tortured and murdered...Categorized as:
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![The Target by Catherine Coulter]()
The Target by Catherine Coulter
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn the remote Colorado Rockies, Judge Ramsey Hunt rescues an abused little girl...Categorized as:
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![Point Blank by Catherine Coulter]()
Point Blank by Catherine Coulter
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe explosive action kicks off as treasure-hunting FBI agent Ruth Warnecki is on the trail of stolen Confederate gold hidden in Winkel’s Cave in western Virginia. She never expects to find herself chin-deep in a grisly murder that leaves her nearly dead and rocks the town of Maestro...Categorized as:
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![Stalker by Lars Kepler]()
Stalker by Lars Kepler
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsDetective Joona Linna -- recently returned from compassionate leave -- reunites with hypnotist Erik Maria Bark in a search for a seemingly unassailable sadistic killer.The Swedish National Crime Unit receives a video of a young woman in her home, clearly unaware that she's being watched. Soon after the tape is received, the woman's body is found horrifically mutilated... -
![The Baltimore Boys by Joël Dicker]()
The Baltimore Boys by Joël Dicker
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsSwiss Sensation Joel Dicker's compulsive follow-up to the phenomenally bestselling The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair... -
![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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Silent Little Angels by Jennifer Chase
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe water ripples as the girl’s body escapes the reeds and floats silently upwards. Her beautiful face—blue eyes frozen open, skin as white as snow—breaks the surface. But it’s too late, this innocent soul has taken her final breath…When camp counselor Carolyn Sable’s body is found floating in a lake beside Eagle Ridge Summer Camp, Detective Katie Scott must dig deep to stay focused...Categorized as:
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![Guiltless by Viveca Sten]()
Guiltless by Viveca Sten
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe tiny Swedish island of Sandhamn has always been a haven for lawyer Nora Linde. With trouble brewing in her marriage, she finds its comforts more welcome than ever, even in the depths of winter. That is, until her two young sons trip across a severed arm in the woods... -
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![The Silent Girl by Michael Hjorth, Hans Rosenfeldt]()
The Silent Girl by Michael Hjorth, Hans Rosenfeldt
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn idyllic white, two-storey, beautiful house in Sweden. Inside, a family has been brutally murdered – mother, father and two young children all shot in broad daylight. And the killer has got away.Sebastian Bergman has been brought in to solve the crime, but with no credible suspects, he is at a dead end.Until he discovers that there was a witness to the crime...Categorized as:
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![Tonight You’re Dead by Viveca Sten]()
Tonight You’re Dead by Viveca Sten
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSoon to be divorced, attorney Nora Linde is finding her way as a single mother, and even falling in love again, when she’s asked by her childhood friend Detective Thomas Andreasson to help in a disturbing investigation... -
![The Final Cut by Catherine Coulter, J.T. Ellison]()
The Final Cut by Catherine Coulter, J.T. Ellison
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsScotland Yard’s new chief inspector Nicholas Drummond is on the first flight to New York when he learns his colleague, Elaine York, the "minder" of the Crown Jewels for the "Jewel of the Lion" exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was found murdered. Then the centerpiece of the exhibit, the infamous Koh-i-Noor Diamond, is stolen from the Queen Mother’s crown... -
![Blindside by James Patterson]()
Blindside by James Patterson
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratings___________________________The mayor of New York has a daughter who's missing. Detective Michael Bennett has a son who's in prison. Can one father help the other?Bennett and the mayor have always had a tense relationship, but now the mayor sees in Bennett an exceptional investigator who might be willing to take on a case that needs to be kept under the radar. The two men strike the deal...Categorized as:
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![Lazarus by Lars Kepler]()
Lazarus by Lars Kepler
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSometimes the past won't stay buried.All across Europe, the most ruthless criminals are suffering gruesome deaths. At first, it seems coincidental that their underworld affiliations are finally catching up to them. But when two of the victims are found to have disturbing connections to Detective Joona Linna, it becomes clear that there's a single killer at work... -
![The Fire Witness by Lars Kepler]()
The Fire Witness by Lars Kepler
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsPsychologically tense and as fast-paced as The Hypnotist, the third book in the Joona Linna series by Lars Kepler is already a worldwide sensation, appealing to fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo... -
![Redemption Lake by Susan Clayton-Goldner]()
Redemption Lake by Susan Clayton-Goldner
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTucson, Arizona – Eighteen-year-old Matt Garrison is harboring two terrible secrets: his involvement in the drowning death of his 12-year-old cousin, and a night of drunken sex with his best friend’s mother, Crystal, whom he finds dead in a bathtub of blood. Guilt forces Matt to act on impulse and hide his involvement with Crystal.Detective Winston Radhauser knows Matt is hiding something... -
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The Hunter by Tana French
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die.Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![The Smiling Man by Joseph Knox]()
The Smiling Man by Joseph Knox
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'Packing a punch from the very first page. You will love The Smiling Man' Jane Harper, author of The DryFrom the bestselling author of Sirens, Detective Aidan Waits is on the hunt to find the identity of The Smiling Man.Disconnected from his history and careless of his future, Detective Aidan Waits has resigned himself to the night shift... -
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![The Bone Field by Simon Kernick]()
The Bone Field by Simon Kernick
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the best-selling author of Stay Alive, The Final Minute and The Witness.When the bones of a 21-year old woman who went missing without trace in Thailand in 1990, are discovered in the grounds of an old Catholic school in Buckinghamshire, an enduring mystery takes on a whole new twist...Categorized as:
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![Dixie City Jam by James Lee Burke, Mark Hammer]()
Dixie City Jam by James Lee Burke, Mark Hammer
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratings10 cassettes-14...Categorized as:
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![California Fire and Life by Don Winslow]()
California Fire and Life by Don Winslow
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsInsurance claims investigator Jack Wade knows that the woman who died in a suspicious fire in her multimillion-dollar mansion overlooking the Pacific was murdered. Jack could turn away from the case, but he won't because some old scores need to be settled. So Jack takes the plunge into a world of crime, ambition, and evil...Categorized as:
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![Dead Souls by Ian Rankin]()
Dead Souls by Ian Rankin
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWeary, wary, hard-drinking Detective John Rebus returns. As complex and unpredictable as the brooding mists that envelop his Edinburgh beat, Rebus is ever resourceful and determined-but this time, vulnerable and challenged as never before, with complications in his personal life, and events that shake him to the depths of his being... A colleague's suicide. Pedophiles. A missing child... -
![Hidden in Snow by Viveca Sten]()
Hidden in Snow by Viveca Sten
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe splendor of the Swedish mountains becomes the backdrop for a bone-chilling crime.On the day Stockholm police officer Hanna Ahlander’s personal and professional lives crash, she takes refuge at her sister’s lodge in the Swedish ski resort paradise of Åre. But it’s a brief comfort. The entire village is shaken by the sudden vanishing of a local teenage girl... -
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Knock Knock by Chris Merritt
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNatasha Mayston wasn’t expecting anyone to knock on her door so late at night. And she has no idea that the face staring back at her is the last one she’ll ever see…As Detective Dan Lockhart is called to a wealthy London street to investigate Natasha’s death, he’s startled by the similarity to a previous case...Categorized as:
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