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  • Genesis by Chris Carter

    Genesis by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A killing like no other.A killer more twisted than he’s ever seen before.A case that will test him to the limit. Has Robert Hunter finally met his match?‘Do you believe the Devil exists, Detective?’ the officer at the end of the line asks. ‘Because if you don’t . . . I’m sure you will once you get here.’ Robert Hunter is called to the most vicious crime scene he has ever attended...
  • One by One by Chris Carter

    One by One by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    'I need your help, Detective. Fire or water?' Detective Robert Hunter of the LAPD's Homicide Special Section receives an anonymous call asking him to go to a specific web address - a private broadcast. Hunter logs on and a show devised for his eyes only immediately begins. But the caller doesn't want Detective Hunter to just watch, he wants him to participate, and refusal is simply not an option...
  • The Sixth Wicked Child by J.D. Barker

    The Sixth Wicked Child by J.D. Barker

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the riveting conclusion of the 4MK trilogy, Barker takes the thriller to an entirely new level. Hear No Evil For Detective Sam Porter, the words “Father, forgive me” conjure memories long forgotten; a past intentionally buried. For Anson Bishop, these three words connect a childhood to the present as he unleashes a truth concealed for decades...
  • Hunting Evil by Chris Carter

    Hunting Evil by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    'Every story one day comes to an end.' As roommates, they met for the first time in college. Two of the brightest minds ever to graduate from Stamford Psychology University. As adversaries, they met again in Quantico, Virginia. Robert Hunter had become the head of the LAPD’s Ultra Violent Crimes Unit...
  • The Night Stalker by Chris Carter

    The Night Stalker by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    When an unidentified female body is discovered laid out on a slab in an abandoned butcher's shop, the cause of death is unclear. Her body bears no marks, except for the fact that her lips have been stitched shut...
  • I Am Death by Chris Carter

    I Am Death by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    AN EVIL MIND was Chris Carters's most acclaimed novel to date, described by the Daily mail as: 'A chilling, compulsive portrait of a psychopath, and proves that Carter is now in the Jeffrey Deaver class.' It spent three weeks in the Sunday Timestop ten and received brillant reviews and sales. This terrifying new standalone thriller reunites Hunter and Garcia in their most explosive case to date...
  • The Executioner by Chris Carter

    The Executioner by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE CALLER. Inside a Los Angeles church, on the altar steps, lies the blood-soaked body of a priest. Later, the forensic team discover that, on the victim's chest, the figure 3 has been scrawled in blood. At first, Detective Robert Hunter believes that this is a ritualistic killing. But as more bodies surface, he is forced to reassess...
  • The Caller by Chris Carter

    The Caller by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Don't miss GENESIS, the latest must-read serial killer thriller from master of the genre, Chris Carter. Available to order now.THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERBe careful before answering your next call. It could be the beginning of your worst nightmare.After a tough week, Tanya Kaitlin is looking forward to a relaxing night in, but as she steps out of her shower, she hears her phone ring...
  • Missing Angel by Roger Stelljes

    Missing Angel by Roger Stelljes

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Isabella pedals her bright red bike on the familiar route home, admiring her charm bracelet catching the light. But half an hour later, she is nowhere to be seen. All her frantic parents find is an angel-shaped charm discarded on the sidewalk…When twelve-year-old Isabella Farner disappears, Agent Tori Hunter races to the scene...
  • Such a Good Girl by Willow Rose

    Such a Good Girl by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas faces a devious plan in bestselling author Willow Rose’s blood-rushing thriller of murder and revenge.A girl falls from the penthouse floor of an apartment in Washington, D.C.Media Mogul Richard Wanton owns the apartment and is seen standing on the balcony when the girl falls...
  • Beneath Blackwater River by Leslie Wolfe, Gwendolyn Druyor

    Beneath Blackwater River by Leslie Wolfe, Gwendolyn Druyor

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Listening Length 13 hours and 4 minutesShe looked alive, her hair drifting freely in the water, her red lips gently parted, as if to let her final breath escape. A small locket floated by her face, attached to her neck with a silver chain…When Detective Kay Sharp first left Mount Chester—population 3,823—in her rear-view mirror, she promised never to look back...
  • Winter's Redemption by Mary Stone

    Winter's Redemption by Mary Stone

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Preacher is killing again...The serial killer who slaughtered Winter’s parents has come out of retirement, leaving bloody victims in his wake. Special Agent Winter Black has spent her entire life preparing for this moment, and she intends to end the man who took everything from her and solve the disappearance of her little brother—no matter the cost...
  • Play Dead by Angela Marsons

    Play Dead by Angela Marsons

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The dead don't tell secrets... unless you listen. The girl's smashed-in face stared unseeing up to the blue sky, soil spilling out of her mouth. A hundred flies hovered above the bloodied mess. Westerley research facility is not for the faint-hearted. A 'body farm' investigating human decomposition, its inhabitants are corpses in various states of decay...
  • The Fifth To Die by J.D. Barker

    The Fifth To Die by J.D. Barker

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Alternate cover art can be found hereIn the thrilling sequel to The Fourth Monkey, a new serial killer stalks the streets of Chicago, while Detective Porter delves deeper into the dark past of the Four Monkey Killer.Detective Porter and the team have been pulled from the hunt for Anson Bishop, the Four Monkey Killer, by the feds...
  • Killing Season by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    Killing Season by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Let it bleed. Watch it burn.The first shot punches through the windshield of an SUV. A head shot. The driver's death is instantaneous.By the time Special Agent Violet Darger arrives in Atlanta, the city teeters toward panic. The vacant streets and restaurants paint an eerie picture. No one dares to venture out.A killer walks among them. A shadow...
  • Written in Blood by Chris Carter

    Written in Blood by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Don't miss GENESIS, the latest must-read serial killer thriller from master of the genre, Chris Carter. Available to order now. ‘Wonderful storytelling, with a superbly drawn killer, it underlines exactly how good Carter has become’ Daily MailTHE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER    A serial killer who will stop at nothing…  The Killer His most valuable possession has been stolen...
  • NO OTHER WAY by Willow Rose

    NO OTHER WAY by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Shocking evidence hits close to home for Miami PD’s Detective Harry Hunter as Willow Rose’s bestselling series continues. Three women went on a road trip to Key West. Only two returned. When asked what happened, their stories don’t completely match...
  • TO DIE FOR by Willow Rose

    TO DIE FOR by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️…Very suspenseful up to the last page. One of my new favorites. Former FBI-profiler, Eva Rae Thomas is caught off guard by a murderous plan that sends her on a pulse-pounding race against time in this romantic thriller by Willow Rose. It is a typical Tuesday morning. Scott Benton gets up, kisses his girlfriend Sarah goodbye, and goes to work...
  • Say You Love Me by Willow Rose

    Say You Love Me by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Former FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas is back and embedded in a true nightmare reaching deep into her own family. What would you do if your brother was accused of a horrible crime, and you were certain he didn’t do it? Life is not done throwing Eva Rae Thomas curveballs. A phone call turns her life upside down – once again...
  • Aberration by Lisa Regan

    Aberration by Lisa Regan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    FBI analyst Kassidy Bishop is assigned to the “For You” killer’s task force after a series of sadistic murders bearing the same signature arise in different parts of the country.The homicides are both calculated and savage, occurring in different states, but bearing the same signature: the words “for you” scribbled at each crime scene...
  • You Better Run by Willow Rose

    You Better Run by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Dead.Who is this girl?How did she end up in the pool?Was she even at the party?Even more strange is when they pull her out of the water, Meg realizes the girl looks very familiar. As a matter of fact, she looks just like her.Like an identical twin.But Meg has no twin, at least none that she knows of, and no one at the party knows this girl or can say where she is from...
  • Never Ever by Willow Rose

    Never Ever by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Former FBI profiler Eva Rae Thomas returns in Willow Rose’s most hair-raising thriller yet. Ex-agent Eva Rae Thomas is on the run. The past month she has done things she never knew she was capable of while hunting for her kidnapped daughter. Eva Rae has risked everything, -her career, -her newfound love, -her freedom. She’s looking for the man they call the Iron Fist...
  • What You Did by Willow Rose

    What You Did by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Former FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas faces the most personal case in her career, as bestselling author Willow Rose’s new hit-series continues. Three girls disappear on prom night at the local high school. One of them is the prom queen...
  • The Girl in the Sand by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    The Girl in the Sand by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Shallow graves scar the desert landscape. A cemetery in the sand. Some of the lost are never found. Thousands of girls go missing every year in Las Vegas. Taken. Bought and sold. Or worse. And now the dead are calling. These lost girls summon FBI Profiler Violet Darger to Sin City -- a new case...
  • Cold Lake by Jeff Carson

    Cold Lake by Jeff Carson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The truth emerges one piece at a time. When a fisherman reels in a plastic bag containing a severed human head from the depths of Cold Lake, Colorado, Sheriff David Wolf and his deputies scramble to the scene, and quickly realize there are more surprises to be found below...
  • No Safe Place by Patricia Gibney

    No Safe Place by Patricia Gibney

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Listening Length: 12 hours and 4 minutesThere's nothing more dangerous than a familiar face...As funeral mourners stand in silence at Ragmullin cemetery, a deafening cry cuts through the air. Lying crumpled at the bottom of an open grave is the bloodied body of a young woman, and Detective Lottie Parker is called in to investigate...
  • Opening Moves by Steven James

    Opening Moves by Steven James

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Milwaukee, 1997. In a city reeling from the crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer, a series of gruesome kidnappings and mutilations draw authorities into a case like nothing they've ever seen. Cops think a Dahmer copycat is on the loose. But Patrick Bowers, working as a homicide detective, suspects this is more than an ode to the infamous cannibal...
  • Her Final Word by Willow Rose

    Her Final Word by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rather be the hunter than the prey. Inspired by a true story. Ella Maria Chauncey walks home after a night out with her friends, hurrying to get back before her parents realize she's been out with the boy they don't want her to date. Living in the gated community of Lyford Cay, in one of the world's wealthiest neighborhoods, she believes it is safe. Ella Maria never makes it home...
  • Once Lost by Blake Pierce

    Once Lost by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Still reeling from her former partner Lucy’s death and from her partner Bill’s PTSD, FBI Special Agent Riley Paige does her best to try to keep herself stable and to patch together her family life. She has to decide what to about April’s boyfriend, recovering from his abusive father, and about Blaine, who is ready for their relationship to move ahead...
  • Police by Jo Nesbø

    Police by Jo Nesbø

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    When a police officer is found murdered at the scene of an old unsolved murder case that he was involved in investigating, it can hardly be a coincidence. When the same thing happens to two other officers in a matter of months the pattern is as clear as it is terrifying. None of the old cases were ever solved. The killings are extremely brutal and the police have no leads...
  • The Watson Girl by Leslie Wolfe

    The Watson Girl by Leslie Wolfe

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    An entire family is murdered and, by a quirk, a young girl is left unharmed. For fifteen years, she believed the killer had been caught, and he’s now on death row, awaiting execution. While trying to be content with her adoptive family, she’s living in relentless uncertainty and the fear of remembering what really happened that night when she was five years old. She’s The Watson Girl...
  • Last Day Alive by J.R. Adler, Jeneva Rose

    Last Day Alive by J.R. Adler, Jeneva Rose

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    One hot summer’s evening, ten-year-old Piper Chase went for a bike ride. She never came home…Piper cycles off one hot Oklahoma evening for a sleepover with her new friend Miley from summer camp. But when she doesn’t come home, her grandparents raise the alarm. Their little angel is missing, last seen on her pink bicycle, heading towards the dark woods on Black Heart Lane...
  • The Lucky Ones by Mark Edwards

    The Lucky Ones by Mark Edwards

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    It was the happiest day of her life. Little did she know it was also the last.When a woman’s body is found in the grounds of a ruined priory, Detective Imogen Evans realises she is dealing with a serial killer—a killer whose victims appear to die in a state of bliss, eyes open, smiles forever frozen on their faces.A few miles away, single dad Ben Hofland believes his fortunes are changing at last...
  • Girl Next Door by Willow Rose

    Girl Next Door by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    “We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere”-Ted BundyInspired by a true story.He came in the morning when they were still making lunches and getting ready for school and work. He killed them all. Mother, father, children. Brutally slaughtered them in the comfort of their own home.They called him the Monday Morning Killer...
  • RUN GIRL RUN by Willow Rose

    RUN GIRL RUN by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Willow Rose’s beloved detective, Harry Hunter is back in this thrilling second installment of the bestselling series. When a mother and her child are pulled out of the harbor in their car, the case seems pretty straightforward for Miami PD and Detective Harry Hunter. Everything points to a double suicide...
  • Once Cold by Blake Pierce

    Once Cold by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    There is one cold case that has plagued Special Agent Riley Paige for her entire career, dwelling at the corners of her consciousness, forcing her to return to it again and again. The only case she has never solved, she has finally put it out of her mind. Until she gets a call from the murdered victim’s mother...
  • Once Stalked by Blake Pierce

    Once Stalked by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When two soldiers are found dead on a huge military base in California, apparently killed by gunshot, military investigators are stumped. Who is killing its soldiers, inside the secure confines of its own base?And why?The FBI is called in, and Riley Paige is summoned to take the lead...
  • Caleb by Jeff Menapace

    Caleb by Jeff Menapace

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Vengeance is therapy.Caleb Lambert kills people for a living. The money is nice, but it comes a distant second to his primary reason for choosing such a Caleb often calls it “scratching an itch.”Here’s the thing, Caleb won’t just accept any contract. He and his team thoroughly vet each and every prospective mark to make sure they deserve to be punished...
  • The Thirst by Jo Nesbø

    The Thirst by Jo Nesbø

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Harry Hole returns in the eleventh installment of the author's best-selling, electrifying crime fiction series—published in 48 languages, more than 30 million copies sold worldwide. In Police—the last novel featuring Jo Nesbø's hard-bitten, maverick Oslo detective—a killer wreaking revenge on the police had Harry Hole fighting for the safety of the people closest to him...
  • Arsonist by Victor Methos

    Arsonist by Victor Methos

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Evil is Released Onto the Streets of San Diego...A series of deadly fires rages across the cityscape, claiming the lives of entire families. Helpless to stop the fires, the SDPD assigns their most famous detective, Jon Stanton, to the case. The evidence points him to a single arsonist committing the horrendous acts...
  • Once Lured by Blake Pierce

    Once Lured by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    ONCE LURED is book #4 in the bestselling Riley Paige mystery series, which begins with the #1 bestseller ONCE GONE.Women are turning up dead on a lone stretch of highway in Delaware. Some go missing for an inexplicable length of time, while others are turning up dead, their bodies left out for display in bizarre and mysterious ways...
  • Alone in the Woods by Charly Cox

    Alone in the Woods by Charly Cox

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The sudden appearance of a man's booted feet had Addis snapping her mouth shut. Screaming, she kicked out at the tall, muscular guy as he dragged her from beneath the desk...It was a scene from a horror movie; Gabriel Kensington and his wife Lydia found, brutally slain in their luxurious home in New Mexico...
  • The Crucifix Killer by Chris Carter

    The Crucifix Killer by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    *Don't miss GENESIS, the next instalment in the compulsive Robert Hunter series from Sunday Times number one bestselling author of WRITTEN IN BLOOD - available to pre-order now!*When the body of a young woman is discovered in a derelict cottage in Los Angeles, Robert Hunter is thrown into a nightmare case...
  • Fractured by Karin Slaughter

    Fractured by Karin Slaughter

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The second Will Trent novel, from the No. 1 Bestseller.When Atlanta housewife Abigail Campano comes home unexpectedly one afternoon, she walks into a nightmare. A broken window, a bloody footprint on the stairs and, most devastating of all, the horrifying sight of her teenage daughter lying dead on the landing, a man standing over her with a bloody knife...
  • The Puppet Show by M.W. Craven

    The Puppet Show by M.W. Craven

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District's prehistoric stone circles. He leaves no clues and the police are helpless. When his name is found carved into the charred remains of the third victim, disgraced detective Washington Poe is brought back from suspension and into an investigation he wants no part of . .
  • Find Her by Lisa Gardner

    Find Her by Lisa Gardner

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Lisa Gardner's runaway New York Times bestseller--a fast-paced thrill ride featuring Detective D. D. Warren. Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora Dane was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure...
  • Chosen To Die by Lisa Jackson

    Chosen To Die by Lisa Jackson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    HE'LL CHOOSE THEM... Detective Regan Pescoli has worked the "Star Crossed Killer" case for months, never imagining she'd be captured by the madman she's been hunting. Regan knows exactly what he's capable of - and avoiding the same fate will take every drop of her courage and cunning. ABDUCT THEM... Regan Pescoli is unlike any woman Nate Santana has met before...
  • Little Boy Blue by M.J. Arlidge

    Little Boy Blue by M.J. Arlidge

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Detective Helen Grace faces her own dark compulsions in the twisty new thriller from the author of Pop Goes the Weasel and Eeny Meeny.In the darkest corners of the city, there is a thriving nightlife where people can let loose and cross the lines of work and play, of pleasure and pain. But now that sanctuary has been breached. A killer has struck and a man is dead...
  • Hope to Die by James Patterson

    Hope to Die by James Patterson

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career. Cross's family – his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious children--have been ripped away. Terrified and desperate, Cross must give this mad man what he wants if he has any chance of saving the most important people in his life...
  • The Girls They Lost by J.H. Leigh

    The Girls They Lost by J.H. Leigh

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dead girls don’t run or tell secrets.Nicole, Dylan and Jilly may have escaped the horrors of the auction house but they aren’t safe.Madame Moirai has eyes everywhere. There’s nowhere the girls can go that can shelter them for long. On the run, with no one to trust, it’s just a matter of time before they’re found...
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