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  • One Last Child by Anni Taylor

    One Last Child by Anni Taylor

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Winner, Audiofile Earphones Award 2020 - narration by Caroline Lee.Five long-missing children are about to be RETURNED.It was summer in the mountains when five small children vanished from their nursery school picnic. The heat was stifling that day, the tinkle of an ice-cream van in the air....Three-and-a-half years later, in the dead of winter, the children are returned to their families..
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    crime  drama  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Surrogate's Gift by L.G. Davis

    The Surrogate's Gift by L.G. Davis

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Her one good deed is about to turn into her worst nightmare.Becoming a surrogate for Marcia and Travis Thorpe is Grace’s chance to overcome her inner demons.Nothing can go wrong. Her life depends on it.Determined to focus on the pregnancy, she drops everything and accepts the Thorpes’ offer to move in with them until the baby is born. A simple decision. One big mistake...
  • The Wife Upstairs by Freida McFadden

    The Wife Upstairs by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Victoria Barnett has it all.A great career. A handsome and loving husband. A beautiful home in the suburbs and a plan to fill it with children. Life is perfect—or so it seems.Then she’s in a terrible accident… and everything falls apart.Now Victoria is unable to walk. She can’t feed or dress herself. She can’t even speak. She is confined to the top floor of her house with twenty-four-hour care...
  • 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...
  • Never Goodbye by Adam Mitzner

    Never Goodbye by Adam Mitzner

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A thriller of murder, redemption, and breakneck twists by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Dead Certain. After her sister was murdered, Ella Broden meted out her own punishment, then abandoned her career to pursue her passion as a singer. But another murder that hits close to home draws her back to seek justice...
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    crime  drama  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book
  • First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

    First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist.The identity comes to Evie Porter. Once she’s given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it...
  • The Perfect Nanny by D.L. Fisher

    The Perfect Nanny by D.L. Fisher

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lucinda and Andrew Douglass are settling into life with their newborn baby, Delilah. Only four weeks in, much to Andrew’s dismay, Lucinda is planning her return to a high-powered job at the New York Stock Exchange, causing a major rift in their already volatile marriage.On the bright side, Lucinda has found the perfect nanny to care for their precious baby...
  • Do You Remember? by Freida McFadden

    Do You Remember? by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Tess Strebel can’t recognize her own face.She can’t recognize her home. Her bedroom is unfamiliar. And she can’t remember the handsome stranger lying next to her in bed. A stranger who claims he’s her husband.Tess reads a letter in her own handwriting, composed during a rare lucid day, explaining her life as it now exists: She was in a terrible car accident one year ago...
  • The Game You Played by Anni Taylor

    The Game You Played by Anni Taylor

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Little Boy Blue Where did you go? Who led you away? Only I know . . . . Two-year-old Tommy Basko goes missing from a popular inner-city playground. Six months later, his parents begin receiving cryptic messages in rhyme about Tommy. The police don't believe the messages are from the abductor, but Tommy's mother Phoebe is certain they're a game meant for her...
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    crime  drama  suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  kidnapping
  • 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...
  • Did I Kill My Husband? by A.J. Campbell

    Did I Kill My Husband? by A.J. Campbell

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The police officer’s voice is steady as he tells me the news. ‘Your husband is in hospital.’ My heart pounds. I think about my children, safely tucked up in bed. What will happen to us if he loses his life? And more importantly… do the police know where I really was tonight?Everybody thinks Michael and I are the perfect couple. But everybody is wrong...
  • Only The Good Die Young : And I'm Not A Saint by Akash Verma

    Only The Good Die Young : And I'm Not A Saint by Akash Verma

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sometimes when you're desperate to leave the past behind, the past is eager to catch up!Anuradha leaves Gurgaon when Dhruv chooses his family over her. She thinks that chapter of her life hasended, and starts afresh in Mumbai. But strangely, it seems her past is trying to catch up. Dhruv suddenlycomes back into her life...
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    crime  madness  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Beneath These Walls by Shade Owens

    Beneath These Walls by Shade Owens

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Six months ago, my husband tried to kill me.Now, my sons and I are living in an old Victorian house passed down to me by my uncle. The house may be big, but the town is small... it's safe, which is something I haven't felt in a very long time. And best of all, it's very far away from my ex.As soon as we move in, however, I discover that this house has an eerie reputation...
  • Left Hanging by Maria Frankland

    Left Hanging by Maria Frankland

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Marriage is a coin with two sides. One joyful. One deadly.Kerry's focus is on fitting in, whilst safeguarding the lifestyle she has always craved. With a handsome, affluent husband, twin boys and her own successful business, it seems as though nothing could ever ‘flip’ her coin.Ed fears their marriage is a sham and that he is living a lie...
  • The Concierge by Miranda Rijks

    The Concierge by Miranda Rijks

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They hired an assistant to help them. But she has other plans.High-flying duo Goldie and Braun Delucci run a major film production company. But recently their gilded lives were touched by tragedy when one of their leading actors, Ally, died in a car crash.What the Deluccis don’t realise is that their newly hired private assistant is actually Ally’s sister...
  • One Little Lie by Christopher Greyson

    One Little Lie by Christopher Greyson

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    THE TRUTH COULD COST HER EVERYTHING.Kate had high hopes when she moved to her husband‘s hometown, but her domestic bliss was short-lived. Blindsided by her spouse’s very public affair with his high school sweetheart and a painful divorce, Kate’s determined to hold onto custody of her kids and pull herself together...
  • The Arrangement by Miranda Rijks

    The Arrangement by Miranda Rijks

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    How well do you know your daughter?Grace is living through every mother’s worst nightmare. Her student daughter Abi went away on a dream vacation to South Africa - and was murdered...
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    crime  drama  suspense  thriller  adult  book  family  fiction
  • Want to Know a Secret? by Freida McFadden

    Want to Know a Secret? by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Everyone has secrets.YouTube baking sensation April Masterson knows the secret to the perfect gooey brownies. Or how to make key lime squares that will melt in your mouth. But if you keep watching her offline, you may find out some other secrets about April. Secrets she’d rather you didn’t know...
  • Stone Cold Fox by Rachel Koller Croft

    Stone Cold Fox by Rachel Koller Croft

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A perfectly wicked debut thriller about an ambitious woman who, after a lifetime of conning alongside her mother, wants to leave her dark past behind and marry the heir to one of the country's wealthiest families.Like any enterprising woman, Bea knows what she’s worth and is determined to get all she deserves—it just so happens that what she deserves is to marry rich. Filthy rich...
  • Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda

    Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The new thrilling novel from Megan Miranda, the instant New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls, The Last to Vanish, and The Only Survivors.When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake’s longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she’s warily drawn back to the town—and people—she left behind almost a decade earlier...
  • My Husband's Affair by Ruth Heald

    My Husband's Affair by Ruth Heald

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    We promised forever. But only one of us will leave this marriage alive…I stare at the messages between my husband Rob and another woman, their plans to run away together bringing tears to my eyes as I stand, trembling, in our luxurious apartment. I thought I had the perfect marriage...
  • You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego

    You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An exclusive thriller writer’s retreat hosted on a private island turns lethal when one of the authors is found murdered in this twisty locked room mystery.When renowned anonymous author J. R...
  • The Couple’s Revenge by Daniel Hurst

    The Couple’s Revenge by Daniel Hurst

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    How far would you go to protect your child?I knew something was wrong. It’s a mother’s instinct.I could tell when my son started hiding things from me. He used to walk to school with a mischievous grin on his beautiful face. Now he avoids eye contact and keeps his head down...
  • The Next Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine

    The Next Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Daphne and Amber Parrish are thrust back into each other’s lives upon the resurgence of a long-forgotten threat, forcing a vicious game of cat and mouse where everything is on the line, in this thrilling sequel to the million-copy-bestselling Reese’s Book Club pick The Last Mrs. Parrish.Amber Patterson Parrish has come a long way from being an invisible wallflower...
  • Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell

    Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Jewell—three women are connected by one man in this kaleidoscopic thriller.Restauranteur Paddy Swann was the life of the party until the day a man pushed him in the path of an oncoming train, leaving his twenty-something daughter Ash and wife Nina devastated...
  • Third Party by Brandi Reeds

    Third Party by Brandi Reeds

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Is it murder? Is someone playing mind games? Or is it both? The chilling answers are in this twisting novel of psychological suspense by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Trespassing.The apparent suicide of a beautiful aspiring law student unites two strangers, connected only by their tangled suspicions: that nothing about Margaux Stritch’s tragic end is what it looks like...
  • My Husband’s Secret by L.G. Davis

    My Husband’s Secret by L.G. Davis

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I thought I knew my husband. I was wrong...I have the perfect life: a loving marriage, and an adorable little daughter, Mia, who is always full of smiles. But when my husband Keith is hit by a car, my whole world is turned upside down. With my heart breaking in his cold white hospital room, I hold his hand and tell him how much I love him...
  • Their Little Secrets by Vanessa Garbin

    Their Little Secrets by Vanessa Garbin

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A peaceful suburban neighbourhood is shaken to the core when a teenage girl goes missingSara felt she had turned her life around by marrying Edward. But their relationship comes under strain as they struggle to fulfil their dream of becoming parents.Yet when their best friends’ daughter suddenly disappears and her husband begins to act suspiciously, Sara feels her world is collapsing around her...
  • Don't Blink by L.G. Davis

    Don't Blink by L.G. Davis

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    *This book was previously published under the titles The Girl in the Rain and The Girl in the Storm.* Two years ago, Paige Wilson watched helplessly as her brother Ryan was shot, right on her doorstep. He survived the attack, but never fully recovered from the trauma. Stuck in a wheelchair, Ryan refuses to accept the life of a paraplegic...
  • The Daughter-in-Law by Shalini Boland

    The Daughter-in-Law by Shalini Boland

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Your new husband has a shocking secret. Would your mother-in-law kill to protect it?From the moment I meet my new mother-in-law in her beautiful country house, she makes it clear I’m not welcome. Lilian Fletcher hates me for marrying her precious boy on a golden beach far away from her.Starting our marriage living in the Fletchers’ family home is a nightmare...
  • 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...
  • The Halo Effect by Anne D. LeClaire

    The Halo Effect by Anne D. LeClaire

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In this tour de force, a father, shaken by tragedy, tries to avenge his daughter’s murder—and restore his family’s shattered life. It was supposed to be a typical October evening for renowned portrait artist Will Light...
  • Until I Met Her by Natalie Barelli

    Until I Met Her by Natalie Barelli

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    She should never have said ‘yes’… When Beatrice said she wanted to publish her next novel under Emma’s name, Emma thought she was joking. Why on earth would Beatrice, the famous crime writer, not want to publish her new book under her own name? Precisely because she was so famous, Beatrice had explained...
  • After the Wedding by Laura Elliot

    After the Wedding by Laura Elliot

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Everyone said she was the prettiest flower girl. But now her dress lies on the floor. It’s wet and torn, her shoes are lost. ‘Where did you go?’ her daddy asks. She shakes her head. All she can remember are the red rose petals scattering like drops of blood spilling to the ground...
  • The Ex by Freida McFadden

    The Ex by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Cassie thinks she has met the perfect man. Joel is sweet, handsome, romantic, and best of all, he’s crazy about Cassie. She thinks she’s found the guy she’ll spend the rest of her life with. Have children with. Grow old with. Yes, she knows about his perfect ex-girlfriend, Francesca. The beautiful, brilliant chef, beloved by all his friends. But she thinks Francesca is out of the picture...
  • The Perfect Family by Shalini Boland

    The Perfect Family by Shalini Boland

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    ‘Mummy, she’s gone…’ Gemma Ballantine is getting ready for work one morning when her eldest child comes running down the stairs, saying the words every mother dreads. The front door is open. And her six-year-old daughter has disappeared. Frantic with fear, Gemma starts a nail-biting search for her little girl...
  • Not My Mother by Miranda Smith

    Not My Mother by Miranda Smith

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What if the person you trust most in the world is lying to you?I’d heard of the Baby Caroline case, of course. When a baby is snatched from her mother’s arms, the whole country knows about it. I knew about the parents left lying by the swimming pool, the open window in the nursery. But I never dreamed it had anything to do with me.Today, my beautiful daughter turned one...
  • I'm Here to Help by Claire Lunn

    I'm Here to Help by Claire Lunn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ‘Just rest, Frankie. I’ll take care of you.’ I feel my baby kick as my nanny fluffs my pillows and lays me down. She gives me a soothing smile, but it doesn’t reach her eyes. She knows I’m afraid of her…When I shake our nanny Jasmine’s hand for the first time and catch her perfect smile, I can’t ignore the feeling that we’ve met before.But I tell myself it’s nothing...
  • The Accident by Natalie Barelli

    The Accident by Natalie Barelli

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    If only she'd said no... Katherine knew she’d had too many drinks, but they were only going a short distance. And as Eve pointed out, it was late, there was no traffic anyway... Now, Katherine would do anything to turn back the clock. If anyone ever found out about the accident, it would ruin Katherine’s life...
  • 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...
  • 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 Dream Job by Kiersten Modglin

    The Dream Job by Kiersten Modglin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Autumn Sanderson goes by Lark now. No one in her new life can know who she was. No one from her old life can know where she is now. Drowning in debt, Lark is desperate to land a job. When she finds herself at an interview for a mysterious company offering her an exorbitant salary, she jumps at the chance. But things aren’t quite what they seem..
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    crime  drama  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • The Midnight Wife by L.G. Davis

    The Midnight Wife by L.G. Davis

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    She has a new life and a loving husband, but will her secrets ruin everything? Kelsey Bloom has been living a perfect lie, hiding in plain sight from the past that broke her.Everything is going according to plan. She has made herself at home in the small town of Sanlow, Montana, and her life seems perfect from the outside…… until she’s attacked by someone who claims to know her secrets...
  • 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...
  • The Intruder by Daniel Hurst

    The Intruder by Daniel Hurst

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Getting into their house was easy. The hard part was getting out.Maria and William seem to have it all. Two happy children. A beautiful house. A thriving business.But when their home is invaded by David, an ex-employee with a score to settle, the couple face a terrifying fight to survive.During the course of one hellish night, David picks apart their carefully constructed life...
  • The Perfect Father by Charlotte Duckworth

    The Perfect Father by Charlotte Duckworth

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the author of Unfollow Me comes a dark, surprising suspense of toxic relationships and family secrets . . . The perfect husband... After a difficult pregnancy, Esther is grateful that her forward-thinking husband Robin offers to put his career on hold so that she can return to the job she loves. The perfect father..
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    crime  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  book  family  fiction
  • The Phantom Child by A.J. Wills

    The Phantom Child by A.J. Wills

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Is her child really missing? Or did he never exist at all?With cracks beginning to show in her marriage, Karina thinks a short break to a luxury villa in Turkey with her husband, Ronan, and their four-year-old son, Jacob, is just what the family needs.It’ll be a chance to relax, enjoy some good food, and more importantly to reconnect with the people she loves the most...
  • 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...
  • My Daughter's Secret by Nicole Trope

    My Daughter's Secret by Nicole Trope

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    My baby girl, I’ll never forget you – your smile, your laugh, the way your hair sparkles in the sun. I cannot comprehend this pain. I cannot breathe through it.In the middle of the night, Claire wakes up to discover that her beloved daughter, Julia, is dead – and life, as she knows it, is over...
  • When He Finds You by Sadie Ryan

    When He Finds You by Sadie Ryan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    “Her life was in danger and she didn’t know it. He felt a thrill just knowing that simple thing …”Gemma’s business is on the brink of collapse, and there’s a real chance that she and her husband could lose everything they’ve worked so hard for.So when a stranger offers financial help, Gemma ignores the red flags and accepts out of desperation...
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