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  • One Moment by Linda Green

    One Moment by Linda Green

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Finn and Kaz are about to meet for the first time. Ten-year-old Finn, a quirky, sensitive boy who talks a lot and only eats at cafes with a 5-star hygiene rating, is having a tough time at school and home. Outspoken Kaz, 59, who has an acerbic sense of humour and a heart of gold, is working at the café when Finn and his mum come in...
  • The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark

    The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She's back.Meg Williams. Maggie Littleton. Melody Wilde. Different names for the same person, depending on the town, depending on the job. She's a con artist who erases herself to become whoever you need her to be—a college student. A life coach. A real estate agent. Nothing about her is real...
  • Water by John Boyne

    Water by John Boyne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past.But scandals follow like hunting dogs. And she has some questions of her own to answer...
  • Break Him by Nicki Grace

    Break Him by Nicki Grace

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    MY HUSBAND IS PLANNING to leave me soon and he thinks that I don’t know. Can you believe that after 14 years of marriage and 3 kids, he simply wants to discard me like I am trash? NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Throughout our entire marriage he lies and I ignore it, he cheats and I still stand by his side, but now he has double crossed me and dragging him through a mess divorce simply won't cut deep enough...
  • Next of Kin by Kia Abdullah

    Next of Kin by Kia Abdullah

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “Abdullah’s legal thrillers make John Grisham seem like a maiden aunt.” Sunday Times Crime Club “An enthralling, heartbreaking and thrilling courtroom drama that had me shouting out loud and gripped until the last page.” Nadine Matheson, author of The Jigsaw Man“Brilliantly tense, this is another clever page turner from Kia Abdullah that I couldn’t put down. Just superb...
  • The Secret Child by Kerry Fisher

    The Secret Child by Kerry Fisher

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Just for a moment, I was young and invincible again, back before I made the decision that changed the rest of my life…   Susie did something that she knows she will always regret: giving her baby son up for adoption, to keep her infidelity secret from her family...
  • The Foster Family by Nicole Trope

    The Foster Family by Nicole Trope

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In their holiday home, a stone’s throw from the beach, Elizabeth dials the police with trembling hands. ‘My little boy, he’s missing.’Elizabeth is Joe’s foster mother, but she loves him like her own. The five-year-old, who adores superheroes and watching the birds outside, is the child she has dreamed of...
  • The Brighton Mermaid by Dorothy Koomson

    The Brighton Mermaid by Dorothy Koomson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Brighton Beach, 1993Teenagers Nell and Jude find the body of a young woman and when no one comes to claim her, she becomes known as the Brighton Mermaid. Nell is still struggling to move on when, three weeks later, Jude disappears.Twenty-five years on, Nell is forced to quit her job to find out who the Brighton Mermaid really was - and what happened to her best friend that summer...
    Categorized as:
    family  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  mystery
  • Last Seen by Lucy Clarke

    Last Seen by Lucy Clarke

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    In a small seaside community, there’s always somebody watching… Twisty, pacy, and superbly plotted, Last Seen is the perfect psychological page-turner for fans of Clare Mackintosh and Sabine Durrant. Seven years ago, two boys went missing at sea – and only one was brought to shore. The Sandbank, a remote stretch of coast dotted with beach huts, was scarred forever...
  • No More Lies by Kerry Lonsdale

    No More Lies by Kerry Lonsdale

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Secrets and lies shadow a woman on the run in the second novel in the No More trilogy by Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kerry Lonsdale.Jenna Mason’s life seems perfect: a successful career as an animator, a town house near the beach, and an adoring son, Josh, whose artistic talent looks as promising as his mother’s. But there’s something nobody realizes about Jenna...
  • The Night She Vanished by Wendy Dranfield

    The Night She Vanished by Wendy Dranfield

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My parents seem to be the perfect couple. But no one knows what I know... Everyone in the small Midwestern town of Henderson looks up to my perfect parents. With dependable jobs as a midwife and the town sheriff, they help this close-knit community feel safe. But the locals didn't grow up in my parents' house. They don't know what I know. And they wouldn't believe me if I told them..
  • The Baby by A.J. McDine

    The Baby by A.J. McDine

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There’s a baby in your house. It isn’t yours…The day I was told I’d never be able to have a child, my world came crashing down. My husband says he still loves me but I lie awake at night, wishing we could have a family.One morning, my husband’s side of the bed is cold and empty. I hear a noise and head downstairs. In the middle of the rug in my living room is a wooden drawer...
  • Glen Affric by Karine Giébel

    Glen Affric by Karine Giébel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Bestselling French author of psychological suspense Karine Giebel makes her American debut with this dark and haunting novel about the unbreakable bond between two brothers, both treated unfairly by the world—for fans of Karin Slaughter and Stieg Larsson.“I’m so stupid. I barely have a brain at all...
  • The Forgetting by Hannah Beckerman

    The Forgetting by Hannah Beckerman

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From the bestselling author of If Only I Could Tell You comes the story of two women determined to uncover the truth. But how can you trust the present if you can't remember the past?“Left me gasping. Brilliant.” —Alex Michaelides“Has one of the best story twists I have ever read…superb writing.” —Ruth Jones“Resonates long after you turn the final page...
  • The Thorn Girl by Laura Elliot

    The Thorn Girl by Laura Elliot

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A swallow flutters its wings into a dimly lit attic as Adele Foyle stumbles across the secret diary of the mother she has never met, and a shocking account of a crime committed over twenty-five years ago...
    Categorized as:
    family  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  crime  female-mc  fiction
  • The Night Away by Jess Ryder

    The Night Away by Jess Ryder

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Their baby was supposed to be mine…No relationship is perfect. But since the birth of baby Mabel, seven months ago, Amber and George have been in desperate need of a night away. Mabel is all that Amber has ever wanted but she can’t deny that sometimes she struggles to cope. George has booked them into a luxury hotel and Amber’s sister is babysitting...
  • No More Words by Kerry Lonsdale

    No More Words by Kerry Lonsdale

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author comes the first book in a trilogy about love, betrayal, and the secrets families keep.Forced to choose between abortion or adoption, Olivia Carson’s younger sister, Lily, runs away from home. Sixteen and pregnant, she never returns. But she writes...
  • My Name Is by Angela Marsons

    My Name Is by Angela Marsons

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Kit Mason is a brittle ex-prostitue trying to outrun a past of abuse and cruelty. Frances Thornton is a lawyer from a privileged background shrouded in secrets. Alcohol could be their destruction. My Name Is follows the unlikely friendship between two very different women fighting their addiction to alcohol...
  • My Sister's Husband by Nicola Marsh

    My Sister's Husband by Nicola Marsh

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The sunroom at the back of the house is just as I remember. I can’t taste homemade lemonade or smell oatmeal cookies without thinking of home, of the beautiful cliffs of Martino Bay, and I feel welcomed. But all thoughts of a happy family reunion are destroyed the moment I see him… He’s as handsome as I remember: broad shoulders, piercing blue eyes, hair the colour of burnt toffee...
    Categorized as:
    family  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  crime  dark  female-mc
  • The Baby Shower by S.E. Lynes, Tamsin Kennard

    The Baby Shower by S.E. Lynes, Tamsin Kennard

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    * 10 hours, 33 minutes *A stunningly twisty story of toxic female friendships, guilt, and lies from S.E. Lynes, author of the number-one best-seller 'The Housewarming'. She doesn’t know I’m there, watching her in the mirror. She slides her hand under her blouse. And then I see something impossible. She isn’t pregnant…She bursts into my life like a storm, and nothing is the same again...
  • It's One of Us by J.T. Ellison

    It's One of Us by J.T. Ellison

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "A heart-stoppingly tense thriller about the price of secrets and the layers behind every marriage." —Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman In Cabin 10Everybody lies. Even the ones you think you know best of all . . . Olivia Bender designs exquisite home interiors that satisfy the most demanding clients...
    Categorized as:
    family  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • She Won't Leave by James Caine

    She Won't Leave by James Caine

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She has taken over my life.Everything was perfect until tragedy brought my mother-in-law, Delores Sterling, to my front door with extra baggage at her side. After the sudden death of her husband, she asked if she could live with us temporarily.I knew that living with my mother-in-law wouldn’t be easy. She’s made it obvious ever since I married her only son, that I’m not worthy of him...
  • Other Parents by Sarah Stovell

    Other Parents by Sarah Stovell

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They all have opinions.They all have secrets...
  • The Engagement by Samantha Hayes

    The Engagement by Samantha Hayes

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    You thought you had escaped him. Until he proposed to your daughter.‘There’s someone I want you to meet,’ Belle says, as a man draws up to her side. He’s tall with dark hair and stubble on his square jaw. He’s dressed in expensive-looking clothes – tan trousers and a fitted navy shirt...
  • The Narrator by K.L. Slater

    The Narrator by K.L. Slater

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What if the chance of a perfect life… put your daughter in grave danger?Being a single mother is tough, but I’d do anything for my little girl Scarlet. I’d given up on my career as a voice actor when the call came, but suddenly I was the new narrator for a secret book from bestselling author Philippa Roberts, who has been missing for eight months. It was a lifeline for me and my daughter...
  • Closet Full of Bones by A.J. Aalto

    Closet Full of Bones by A.J. Aalto

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ever since they were children, Gillian Hearth has been her sister Frankie’s guardian, her sounding board, and her best friend. Together, the Hearth sisters quietly bury their secrets and form a formidable team during any crisis. Purchasing the old Blymhill house with the hopes of turning it into an artists’ retreat, the sisters are finally living their dream...
    Categorized as:
    family  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc  fiction  horror
  • Exquisite by Sarah Stovell

    Exquisite by Sarah Stovell

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Bo Luxton has it all - a loving family, a beautiful home in the Lake District, and a clutch of bestselling books to her name. Enter Alice Dark, an aspiring writer who is drifting through life, with a series of dead-end jobs and a freeloading boyfriend. When they meet at a writers' retreat, the chemistry is instant, and a sinister relationship develops ..
  • Cause for Alarm by Erica Spindler

    Cause for Alarm by Erica Spindler

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Cause For Alarm by Erica Spindler released on Jan 25, 1999 is available now for purchase...
  • Hurt Mountain by Angela Crook

    Hurt Mountain by Angela Crook

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An estranged mother and father join forces to uncover the truth about their missing daughter in a haunting novel about trauma, loss, family, and hope. When patrolman Brandon Hall comes upon a broken-down car on a Colorado highway, he finds a young girl in a bloodied nightgown at the wheel. In the back seat, the brutalized body of a teenage boy. The girl will say only one Hurt...
  • My Little Girl by Shalini Boland

    My Little Girl by Shalini Boland

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    ‘I’m sorry. Your daughter is missing…’Claire Nolan receives a panicked phone call, telling her that her seven-year-old daughter Beatrice has gone missing on a trip to the local fair.It’s every mother’s worst nightmare. And it’s happening to her...
  • The Family Trap by Lorna Dounaeva

    The Family Trap by Lorna Dounaeva

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Prudence welcomed Zoe into her home. Now she’s fighting to survive.Two simple words shatter Prudence Ahern’s world - “I’m pregnant.”Her son Nathan is only eighteen when his new girlfriend Zoe drops that little bombshell. Prudence feels she has to support her son and asks Zoe to move in with them.Right from the start, Prudence knows something isn’t right...
  • The Life She Wants by J.M. Hewitt

    The Life She Wants by J.M. Hewitt

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Paula wants to save her marriage, and she hopes a romantic cruise vacation will help. But the more she learns about the mysterious Anna, a new woman Paula and her husband meet on the ship, the more Paula realizes that Anna wants to destroy it. But why?Paula worries that her marriage to Tommy is barely hanging on, so when he suggests a getaway for the two of them, she's thrilled...
  • Dear Mother by Angela Marsons

    Dear Mother by Angela Marsons

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A story about three sisters brought together by the death of their cruel and abusive mother. Alex, the youngest, is a bitter, unforgiving woman who refuses to face the events of her childhood. She hides in a bottle and destroys any chance of happiness that comes her way. Her life is spiralling dangerously out of control but she doesn't have the strength to stop it...
  • The Break by Katie Sise

    The Break by Katie Sise

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Can she trust the people she loves? Can she trust herself? A new mother is pushed to the edge in a provocative thriller by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Open House.After the traumatic birth of her daughter at a New York City hospital, Rowan O’Sullivan returns home to her apartment with her perfect newborn, Lila...
  • The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth

    The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Get ready for a thrilling, addictive novel about marriage, betrayal, and the secrets that push us to the edge in Sally Hepworth's The Soulmate.There’s a cottage on a cliff. Gabe and Pippa’s dream home in a sleepy coastal town. But their perfect house hides something sinister. The tall cliffs have become a popular spot for people to end their lives...
  • The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

    The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The Golden Couple is an addictive page-turning psychological thriller from Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, the authors of the bestselling The Wife Between Us and An Anonymous Girl, that will keep you guessing to the very end.Marissa and Mathew Bishop seem like the golden couple . . . until Marissa cheats...
  • The Promise by Teresa Driscoll

    The Promise by Teresa Driscoll

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The chilling new psychological thriller from the #1 bestselling author of I Am Watching You. It was their darkest secret. Three schoolgirls made a promise – to take the horrible truth of what they did to the grave.Thirty years later, Beth and Sally have tried to put the trauma behind them...
  • The Woman in Our House by Andrew Hart

    The Woman in Our House by Andrew Hart

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    What happens when you open your home to the perfect stranger?Anna Klein is ready to return to work as a literary agent for the first time since having children. She and her husband, Josh, decide to hire a live-in nanny with some trepidation, but all their misgivings disappear as soon as they meet Oaklynn Durst. She has stellar references, a calm disposition, and a natural way with children...
  • The Curfew by T.M. Logan

    The Curfew by T.M. Logan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Your son said he was home. WHY DID HE LIE? It's time to preorder the brand new up-all-night thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Richard and Judy pick The Holiday, now a major TV Drama.I should have known something was wrong. I should have sensed it. Felt it in the air, like the build-up of pressure before a thunderstorm, that heavy, loaded calm...
  • After She Left by Claire Amarti

    After She Left by Claire Amarti

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Abigail Gibson is gone. The morning after Christmas Day, she walks out of her home in the leafy suburbs of Westchester, New York, leaving behind a strange note on the kitchen table… and her ten-year-old son, Sam.When her sister Gillian gets the call, she can barely believe it...
  • The Other Daughter by Shalini Boland

    The Other Daughter by Shalini Boland

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Nine years ago her daughter was taken. And now she’s back. Two-and-a-half-year-old Holly is playing happily in a pink plastic playhouse, while her mother Rachel sips coffee and chats with a friend nearby. It should be an ordinary day for all of them. But, in the blink of an eye, it turns into every family’s worst nightmare. Holly is taken by a stranger and never found...
  • Little Whispers by K.L. Slater

    Little Whispers by K.L. Slater

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    You shared a secret with the wrong person.Janey Markham is thrilled to be moving with her family to Buckingham Crescent, the smartest address in a desirable suburban town.Worried she’ll be excluded by the glossy local mothers, Janey is thrilled when she meets Tanya, the kind of woman she has always looked up to...
  • Lock the Door by Jane Holland

    Lock the Door by Jane Holland

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Meghan Smith has always been a protective mother. Her baby son, Harry, has a life-threatening condition and is never far from her sight. But on the evening of her wedding anniversary, as she and her husband celebrate in the garden with friends, Harry disappears from his cot without a trace...
  • The Mother-in-Law by Kiersten Modglin

    The Mother-in-Law by Kiersten Modglin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    There’s something strange about Loren’s new mother-in-law…When Loren meets Jack, she’s sure he’s the man she’s been waiting for—a perfect husband and a father for her young daughter. Shortly after their wedding, their plans to start a life together are put on hold when the couple receives word that Jack’s father has died...
  • What It Seems by Emily Bleeker

    What It Seems by Emily Bleeker

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A page-turning novel of suspense about the perfect family, and the perfect lies, by the bestselling author of When I’m Gone and The Waiting Room.Adopted by her controlling foster mother at the age of eight, twenty-year-old Tara has seen little of the outside world. Lonely, punished for the slightest offense, her only distraction comes from watching the Feely family’s online videos...
  • We Used To Live Here by Daniel Hurst

    We Used To Live Here by Daniel Hurst

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Every house has secrets. But not all of them stay buried forever...When the Burgess family move into their 'forever' home, it seems like they are set for many happy years together at their new address. Steph and Grant, along with their children, Charlie and Amelia, settle into their new surroundings quickly...
  • One In Three by Tess Stimson

    One In Three by Tess Stimson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Both of them loved him. One of them killed him . . .Louise has had to watch her husband, Andrew, start a new family in the four years since he left her. The ‘other woman’ is now his wife – but Louise isn’t ready to let Caz enjoy the life that was once hers, or to let go of the man she still loves.As Louise starts to dig into Caz’s past, the two women’s pretence of civility starts to slip...
  • The Mother by Jane Caro

    The Mother by Jane Caro

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Just like the garden, the fuse box, the bills, bin night and blown light bulbs, this was just something else she'd now have to take care of herself.Recently widowed, Miriam Duffy is a respectable North Shore real estate agent and devoted mother and grandmother...
  • Valentina by S.E. Lynes

    Valentina by S.E. Lynes

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Glasgow journalist Shona McGilvery moves with her partner Mikey and their baby to an idyllic cottage in rural Scotland, they believe that all that lies ahead of them is happiness.But with Mikey working offshore, the  frightening  isolation of the Aberdeenshire  countryside begins to drive her insane...That is, until she is rescued by a new friendship with the enchanting Valentina...
  • The Girl in the Woods by Lorna Dounaeva

    The Girl in the Woods by Lorna Dounaeva

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She finally had the family she had always wanted, so why did she feel as though someone had stepped on her grave?Suzannah and Noel are desperate for a child so when they get the chance to adopt a young girl called Orchid, they jump at the chance. They have been warned that it will take time for Orchid to settle into their family, but the problems they encounter seem out of the ordinary...
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