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Unspeakable Prayers by John Ellsworth
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsUNSPEAKABLE PRAYERS is the story of nineteen year-old Lodzi Ashstein taken to Treblinka in 1942 and forced by the Nazis to help destroy Jews. Watch a beaten and broken man survive against all odds. Later in life the captain of the SS Nazi guards is murdered. The Holocaust survivor Lodzi is charged with the murder and a trial ensues... -
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Chiefs by Stuart Woods
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the bitter winter of 1920, the first body is found in Delano, Georgia; the naked corpse of an unidentified teenager. There is no direct evidence of murder, but the body bears marks of what seems to be a ritual beating. The investigation falls to Will Henry Lee, a failed cotton farmer newly appointed as Delano's first chief of police... -
![Dead of Night by Simon Scarrow]()
Dead of Night by Simon Scarrow
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAs Germany strangles under the tight grip of the Nazi Party, the frozen winter of 1940 brings even more reasons to fear the dark in the crackling new WWII crime novel from #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Scarrow – perfect for fans of Philip Kerr’s Berlin Trilogy, Robert Ludlum, Andrew Gross, and William Christie… One freezing night in 1940 Berlin, an SS doctor and his wife return from... -
![The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale]()
The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe narrator of The Bottoms is Harry Collins, an old man obsessively reflecting on certain key experiences of his childhood. In 1933, the year that forms the centerpiece of the narrative, Harry is 11 years old and living with his mother, father, and younger sister on a farm outside of Marvel Creek, Texas, near the Sabine River bottoms... -
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![Metropolis by Philip Kerr, John Lee]()
Metropolis by Philip Kerr, John Lee
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBerlin, 1928, the dying days of the Weimar Republic shortly before Hitler and the Nazis came to power. It was a period of decadence and excess as Berliners - after the terrible slaughter of WWI and the hardships that followed - are enjoying their own version of Babylon. Bernie is a young detective working in Vice when he gets a summons from Bernard Weiss, Chief of Berlin's Criminal Police... -
![Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith]()
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsMGB officer Leo is a man who never questions the Party Line. He arrests whomever he is told to arrest. He dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because he is told to, because he believes the Party stance that there can be no murder in Communist Russia. Leo is the perfect soldier of the regime. But suddenly his confidence that everything he does serves a great good is shaken... -
![A Thousand Devils by Frank Goldammer, Steve Anderson]()
A Thousand Devils by Frank Goldammer, Steve Anderson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA disturbing murder reveals a high-stakes conspiracy among the ruins of postwar Dresden.Two years after the firebombing that devastated the historic East German city, the suffering continues in the throes of a brutal winter. The wary and exhausted citizens scramble to survive, wolf packs of orphans scavenge for food, and Detective Max Heller is called to the scene of a savage murder... -
![The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb]()
The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsInspired by serial killer Harry Powers, "The Bluebeard of Quiet Dell," who was hung in 1932 for his murders of two widows and three children. This best-selling novel, first published in 1953 to wide acclaim by author Grubb, (who like Powers lived in Clarksburg, West Virginia), served as the basis for Charles Laughton's noir classic... -
![In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes, Paula Rabinowitz]()
In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes, Paula Rabinowitz
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPostwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside—and a stranger is preying on young women. The suggestively named Dix Steele, a cynical vet with a chip on his shoulder about the opposite sex, is the LAPD's top suspect... -
![A Lonely Death by Charles Todd]()
A Lonely Death by Charles Todd
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“Todd’s Ian Rutledge mysteries are among the most intelligent and affecting being written these days.”—Washington PostCritics have called Charles Todd’s historical mystery series featuring shell-shocked World War One veteran Inspector Ian Rutledge “remarkable” (New York Times Book Review), “heart-breaking” (Chicago Tribune), “fresh and original” (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)... -
![A Man Without Breath by Philip Kerr]()
A Man Without Breath by Philip Kerr
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBerlin, March, 1943. A month has passed since the stunning defeat at Stalingrad. Though Hitler insists Germany is winning the war, commanders on the ground know better. Morale is low, discipline at risk. Now word has reached Berlin of a Red massacre of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk. If true, the message it would send to the troops is clear: Fight on or risk certain death... -
![In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead by James Lee Burke]()
In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead by James Lee Burke
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe sixth Dave Robicheaux novel from SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author James Lee Burke... -
![The German by Lee Thomas]()
The German by Lee Thomas
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the Lambda Literary Award and Bram Stoker Award-winning author Lee Thomas come a thrilling novel. 1944 - Barnard, Texas. At the height of World War II, a killer preys on the young men of a quiet Texas town. The murders are calculated, vicious, and they are just beginning. Sheriff Tom Rabbit and his men are baffled and the community he serves is terrified of the monster lurking their streets... -
![The Enemy at Home by Kevin O'Brien]()
The Enemy at Home by Kevin O'Brien
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs World War II rages overseas, a serial killer preys on women working in Seattle’s factories in this provocative blend of vivid, richly detailed historical fiction and taut suspense.1943, Seattle. While raging war reshapes the landscape of Europe, its impact is felt thousands of miles away too... -
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![Madness in the Ruins by John A. Connell]()
Madness in the Ruins by John A. Connell
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA mutilated body. No witnesses. The only clue, a message, “Those who I have made suffer will become saints and they shall lift me up from hell.” Winter, 1945. Munich is in ruins, and a savage killer is stalking the city.U.S. Army investigator Mason Collins enforces the law in the American Zone of Occupation. This post is his last chance to do what he loves most—being a homicide detective... -
![Some Murders in Berlin by Karen Robards]()
Some Murders in Berlin by Karen Robards
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA serial killer on the loose. A profiler with a hidden past. A world at war.Trust is a luxury no one can afford.September 1943: Berlin is the heart of darkness—and the last place Dr. Elin Lund wishes to be. An expert in psychological profiling, she’s been summoned from Copenhagen to investigate the gruesome murders of eight young women... -
![Cut to the Bone: A Body Farm Novel by Jefferson Bass]()
Cut to the Bone: A Body Farm Novel by Jefferson Bass
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this long-awaited prequel to his New York Times bestselling series, Jefferson Bass turns the clock back to reveal the Body Farm's creationand Dr... -
![Greeks Bearing Gifts by Philip Kerr]()
Greeks Bearing Gifts by Philip Kerr
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsKnowing New York Times -bestselling author Philip Kerr's delight in subterfuge and obfuscation, readers can rest assure that nothing is what it seems when Bernie Gunther discovers war criminals living freely in Europe. It is 1956 and Bernie Gunther has a new name (Christoph Ganz), a clean passport, a chip on his shoulder, and a menial low-paying job in Munich... -
![The King's Justice by Susan Elia MacNeal]()
The King's Justice by Susan Elia MacNeal
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsCould a stolen violin be linked to a serial killer terrorizing London during World War II? Only secret agent extraordinaire Maggie Hope knows in this riveting mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Churchill's Secretary. London. December, 1942... -
![The Alienist by Caleb Carr]()
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsWhen The Alienist was first published in 1994, it was a major phenomenon, spending six months on the New York Times bestseller list, receiving critical acclaim, and selling millions of copies. This modern classic continues to be a touchstone of historical suspense fiction for readers everywhere.The year is 1896. The city is New York... -
![The Bad Seed (P.S.) by William March]()
The Bad Seed (P.S.) by William March
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNow reissued – William March's 1954 classic thriller that's as chilling, intelligent and timely as ever before. This paperback reissue includes a new P.S. section with author interviews, insights, features, suggested reading and more.What happens to ordinary families into whose midst a child serial killer is born? This is the question at the center of William March's classic thriller... -
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Close Up by Amanda Quick
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWelcome to Burning Cove, California where 1930s Hollywood glamour conceals a ruthless killer… Vivian Brazier never thought life as an art photographer would include nightly wake-up calls to snap photos of grisly crime scenes or headshots for aspiring male actors. Although she is set on a career of transforming photography into a new art form, she knows her current work is what’s paying the bills... -
![Murder on St. Mark's Place by Victoria Thompson]()
Murder on St. Mark's Place by Victoria Thompson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAs a midwife in the turn-of-the-century tenements of New York City, Sarah Brandt has seen suffering and joy, birth and death-and even murder. And the crime ridden streets of the teeming city offer little relief from either. Thinking she has been summoned by German immigrant Agnes Otto to usher a new life into the world, Sarah Brandt is greeted by the news of an untimely death instead... -
![A Fine Summer's Day by Charles Todd]()
A Fine Summer's Day by Charles Todd
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOn a fine summer's day in June 1914, Ian Rutledge is planning to propose to a woman he deeply loves, despite hints from his family and friends that she may not be the most suitable choice for a policeman's wife. To the north, another man in love—a Scottish Highlander named Hamish MacLeod—asks his own sweetheart to marry him... -
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![The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie]()
The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsWhen Alice Asher is murdered in Andover, Hercule Poirot is already looking into the clues. Alphabetically speaking, it's one letter down, twenty-five to go.There's a serial killer on the loose. His macabre calling card is to leave the ABC Railway Guide beside each victim's body... -
![The Nightingale Gallery by Paul Doherty, P. Harding]()
The Nightingale Gallery by Paul Doherty, P. Harding
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn 1376, the famed Black Prince died of a terrible rotting sickness, closely followed by his father, King Edward III. The crown of England is left in the hands of a mere boy, the future Richard II, and the great nobles gather like hungry wolves round the empty throne... -
![Ripper by Michael Slade]()
Ripper by Michael Slade
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of Cutthroat comes a nerve-shattering thriller combining the legend of Jack the Ripper, the terrifying secrets of the Tarot, and a "mystery weekend" on a secluded Canadian island, whereurder becomes all too real... -
![Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s: Laura / The Horizontal Man / In a Lonely Place / The Blank Wall by Vera Caspary, Helen Eustis]()
Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s: Laura / The Horizontal Man / In a Lonely Place / The Blank Wall by Vera Caspary, Helen Eustis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWomen writers have always had a central place in American crime writing, although one wouldn’t know it for all the attention focused on the men of the hardboiled school. This collection, the first of a two-volume omnibus, presents four classics of the 1940s overdue for fresh attention... -
![The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr]()
The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIn The Angel of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr. Kreizler himself, are seen anew. It is June 1897. A year has passed since Dr... -
![River of Darkness by Rennie Airth]()
River of Darkness by Rennie Airth
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAs rural England slowly emerges from the sorrow of World War I, a particularly vicious attack on a household in a small Surrey village leaves five butchered bodies and no explanation for the killings. Sent by Scotland Yard to investigate is Inspector John Madden, a man still recovering from his own war experience and from the deaths of his wife and child... -
![The Unclaimed Victim by D.M. Pulley]()
The Unclaimed Victim by D.M. Pulley
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLiving decades apart, two women get caught in the web of an infamous serial killer. In 1938, at the height of the Great Depression, a madman hunts his victims through the hobo jungles of Cleveland, terrorizing the city... -
![The Accordionist by Fred Vargas]()
The Accordionist by Fred Vargas
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen two Parisian women are shockingly murdered in their homes, the police suspect young accordionist Clément Vauquer, who was seen outside both of the apartments in question. It seems on the surface like an open-and-shut case.But now Clément has disappeared from public view. His likeness has appeared in the papers and detectives from Paris to Nevers are on his tail... -
![The Unexpected Return of Josephine Fox by Claire Gradidge]()
The Unexpected Return of Josephine Fox by Claire Gradidge
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAgatha Christie meets The Mitford Murders in this deliciously dark golden age mystery of wartime family secrets and lies in small town England.**DON'T MISS THE LASTEST JOSEPHINE FOX MYSTERY, A CONFLICT OF INTERESTS . OUT NOW!**April 1941, Romsey, England.Josephine 'Jo' Fox hasn't set foot in Romsey in over twenty years... -
![The Devil Aspect by Craig Russell]()
The Devil Aspect by Craig Russell
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsPrague, 1935: Viktor Kosárek, a psychiatrist newly trained by Carl Jung, arrives at the infamous Hrad Orlu Asylum for the Criminally Insane. The state-of-the-art facility is located in a medieval mountaintop castle outside of Prague, though the site is infamous for concealing dark secrets going back many generations... -
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![The Untouched Crime by Zijin Chen, Michelle Deeter]()
The Untouched Crime by Zijin Chen, Michelle Deeter
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor three years, a serial killer has walked among the citizens of Hangzhou, China. With each new body come the same clues: a jump rope, a cigarette, and a slip of paper that says, “Come and get me.” In the same city, Luo Wen wanders into a park just as a young woman stabs a local thug to death in a desperate act of self-defense... -
![City of Shadows by Ariana Franklin]()
City of Shadows by Ariana Franklin
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA cultured city scarred by war. . . . An eastern émigré with scars and secrets of her own. . . . A young woman claiming to be a Russian grand duchess. . . . A brazen killer, as vicious as he is clever. . . . A detective driven by decency and the desire for justice.. . . A nightmare political movement steadily gaining power. . . .This is 1922 Berlin... -
![The Air Raid Killer by Frank Goldammer]()
The Air Raid Killer by Frank Goldammer
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAs the Third Reich ends, a killer’s game begins.In the final days of the Third Reich, with the historic city of Dresden on the brink of destruction, terrifying rumors spread about the Fright Man, a demonic killer who exploited the cover of a nighttime air raid siren to mutilate and kill a young nurse... -
![The Blood-Dimmed Tide by Rennie Airth]()
The Blood-Dimmed Tide by Rennie Airth
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWith the publication of the New York Times Notable Book River of Darkness, Rennie Airth established himself as a master of suspense. The Blood-Dimmed Tide, set in 1932, marks the return of the beloved Inspector John Madden, whose discovery of a young girl's mutilated corpse near his home in rural England brings him out of retirement despite his wife's misgivings... -
![A Pocket Full of Rye: A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation by Agatha Christie, Michael Bakewell]()
A Pocket Full of Rye: A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation by Agatha Christie, Michael Bakewell
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsWith only one bizarre clue to the agonizing death of a wealthy financiar, Miss Marple must unravel a mystery hidden in a child's nursery rhyme that is to prove one of the strangeset cases of her life... -
![Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula: The Adventure of the Sanguinary Count by Loren D. Estleman]()
Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula: The Adventure of the Sanguinary Count by Loren D. Estleman
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAfter a mysterious schooner runs aground in an English harbor with no human passengers--only the dead captain, drained of blood--a series of bizarre nocturnal crimes takes place in London. It can only be the work of Count Dracula, and only one man can save the city: the great Sherlock Holmes... -
![In the Heat of the Night by John Dudley Ball]()
In the Heat of the Night by John Dudley Ball
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA 50th anniversary edition of the classic crime novel that inspired the Oscar-winning film starring Sidney Poitier.'They call me Mr Tibbs!'A small southern town in the 1960s. A musician found dead on the highway. It's no surprise when white detectives arrest a black man for the murder... -
![The Cold Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty]()
The Cold Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Cold Cold Ground is the start of a major new series from Adrian McKinty, author of the acclaimed Falling Glass, Fifty Grand and the DEAD trilogy.Featuring Catholic cop Sean Duffy whose outsider status in the mostly Protestant RUC makes it as hard to do his job as the criminals he’s fighting, this is the start of a new series set in Troubles-era Belfast. A body is found in a burnt out car... -
![The Whitechapel Horrors by Edward B. Hanna]()
The Whitechapel Horrors by Edward B. Hanna
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis novel brings back to life Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great character in atmospheric Victorian London as he is faced with a crisis of conscience when confronted with disclosing the identity of Jack the Ripper. "Intriguing and chilling".--New York Times Book Review... -
![The Purification Ceremony by Mark T. Sullivan]()
The Purification Ceremony by Mark T. Sullivan
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn LA Times Best Book of the Year The product of a long line of hunters, shamans, and healers, Diana Jackman grew up surrounded by wilderness. A natural-born tracker, she and seven other hunters have gathered in the remote and treacherous snow-covered tundra of northern British Columbia in pursuit of white-tail deer. And while the group may be isolated, they are not alone... -
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![Nocturne by Karina Halle]()
Nocturne by Karina Halle
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA vampire romance so dark it’ll bite.He’s not just dangerous—he’s designed to destroy you.Blood. Obsession. Murder.And a love story twisted enough to hurt so good.Los Angeles, 1947.The city is drowning in secrets and blood—and Lena Reid just lost her best friend to the shadows.Elizabeth Short is dead. The press calls her the Black Dahlia.Lena wants answers. Closure. Revenge... -
![The White Russian by Tom Bradby]()
The White Russian by Tom Bradby
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJanuary 1917—With St. Petersburg on the brink of revolution, Sandro Ruzsky, the city’s chief police investigator, returns from exile in Siberia only to be assigned a grisly case: the bodies of a young couple found on the ice of the frozen River Neva, just outside the Tsar’s Winter Palace... -
![The Ninja by Eric Van Lustbader]()
The Ninja by Eric Van Lustbader
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 30 ratings"Totally absorbing...as gripping a tale of hatred and revenge as you will read...It is superb."NEWS RECORDThis is the story of Nicholas Linnear, half-Caucasian, half-Oriental, a man caught between East and West, between the sexual passions of a woman he can't forget and the one he can't control and between a past he can't escape and a destiny he can't avoid... -
![A Study in Crimson: Sherlock Holmes 1942 by Robert J. Harris]()
A Study in Crimson: Sherlock Holmes 1942 by Robert J. Harris
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBringing Sherlock Holmes from the Victorian Era into the dark days of World War II, this imaginative new thriller confronts the world’s greatest detective with a killer emulating the murders of Jack the Ripper.London, 1942. A killer going by the name of “Crimson Jack” is stalking the wartime streets of London, murdering women on the exact dates of the infamous Jack the Ripper killings of 1888... -
![A Wicked Snow (Emily Kenyon #3) by Gregg Olsen, Kevin Foley]()
A Wicked Snow (Emily Kenyon #3) by Gregg Olsen, Kevin Foley
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHannah Griffin was a girl when tragedy struck on her family's farm. She still remembers the flames reflected against the newly fallen snow and the bodies the police dug upone of them her mother's. It was the nation's worst murder scene in decades and the killer was never found. Two decades later Hannah is a CSI investigating a case of child abuse when the past comes hurtling back... -
![The Devil's Flute Murders by Seishi Yokomizo]()
The Devil's Flute Murders by Seishi Yokomizo
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn ingenious and highly atmospheric classic whodunit from Japan’s master of crime.Amid the rubble of post-war Tokyo, inside the grand Tsubaki house, a once-noble family is in mourning.The old viscount Tsubaki, a brooding, troubled composer, has been found dead...
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