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The Secret She Kept by Elle Gray
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSoon, I’ll see you. Soon, we’ll be together again...For FBI agent Blake Wilder, the past is inescapable.And the one lead she had, regarding the mysteries of her past, only led to dead bodies and dead ends.When Blake is assigned a new case, they find that their victim has been stuffed into a barrel — in pieces... -
![The Chosen Girls by Elle Gray]()
The Chosen Girls by Elle Gray
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOne Mississippi. Two Mississippi. Three...“Need a ride?”Fourteen years ago, FBI agent Blake Wilder's life turned upside down.Her parents were murdered, and her sister was taken.At the age of 22, Blake joined the FBI. Hoping one day she would find out the truth behind her tragic past. Unfortunately, the only lead she had; a man she had known since childhood was found dead... -
![Saving Meadow by Riley Edwards]()
Saving Meadow by Riley Edwards
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA sexy FBI suspense thriller romance Meadow The road was long, it was painful, and it was raw. It has taken me four years to come to terms with my new reality. A life in which I live with the daily reminders of a vicious attack that has left me scarred both emotionally and physically... -
![Stone Cold Dead by Alex Smith]()
Stone Cold Dead by Alex Smith
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsGetting blood from these stones will be all too easy.In the middle of one of Norfolk’s most brutal winters a frozen body is discovered on the legendary Stone of Ling. With Robert Kett out of action the case falls to DC Kate Savage and DI Pete Porter, and it quickly becomes clear to them that the young man wasn’t just killed, he was sacrificed.And he isn’t alone... -
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![Three Little Pigs by Alex Smith]()
Three Little Pigs by Alex Smith
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHe will find the truth. Even if it kills him. Five months ago, DCI Robert Kett’s wife Billie was snatched from a London street. Five months of no leads, no evidence, and no suspects. Until now... -
![Whip Crack by Alex Smith]()
Whip Crack by Alex Smith
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEvery time you hear his voice, another child will die.DCI Robert Kett’s family may be whole again, but he is a broken man.Suspended from duty, he takes his girls out of the city for a much-needed holiday on the Norfolk Coast.Instead of the peace he desperately needs, however, Kett finds a community in chaos. Four teenagers are missing, and time is running out before they meet a horrific fate... -
![Broken Bones by Angela Marsons]()
Broken Bones by Angela Marsons
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThey thought they were safe. They were wrong. The murder of a young prostitute and a baby found abandoned on the same winter night signals the start of a disturbing investigation for Detective Kim Stone – one which brings her face to face with someone from her own horrific childhood... -
![I See You by Elle Gray]()
I See You by Elle Gray
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI see you. After years of digging into his wife’s death, Paxton has had enough.He left the force and opened his own PI firm.His first case is to help a family navigate their way through a kidnapping.As Paxton launched into this case, he finds himself in the sights of a serial killer.But there is more than meets the eye about the kidnapper though.Armed with only three names... -
![Forever Mine by Linsey Lanier]()
Forever Mine by Linsey Lanier
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn old friend. A bad smell. A body stuffed into a wall. You'll never escape. After she left her abusive husband thirteen years ago, Miranda Steele became a fighter. Over the years, she picked up martial arts and street fighting tactics, and now that she works for the Parker Investigative Agency, she can handle a weapon. But the battle with her inner demons? Not so easy... -
![Lost Angels by Stacy Green]()
Lost Angels by Stacy Green
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen Special Agent Nikki Hunt is called to the Boundary Waters near Stillwater, Minnesota, it’s not just the cold that shocks her to her core: the body of a young woman has been found frozen beside a remote lake... -
![Silenced in the Falls by Elle Gray]()
Silenced in the Falls by Elle Gray
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTo be young, wild, and carefree.The true essence of Taft High’s Spring dance.But there’s a price for the naivety of youth.A high price that could cost your blood, soul, and your silence.Sweetwater Falls is a charming town with all sorts of characters.From chaperoning the school dance with Ryker to putting drunk drivers behind bars... -
![Buried by Kendra Elliot]()
Buried by Kendra Elliot
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsReporter Michael Brody is used to getting answers. The one that’s eluded him, though, for twenty long years is learning what happened to his brother Daniel the day his school bus disappeared. When the remains of the other children are discovered—and Daniel’s aren’t among them—a desperate Michael calls upon the sole survivor of the tragedy, Chris Jacobs, hoping he will finally break his silence... -
![The Voice Inside by Brian Freeman]()
The Voice Inside by Brian Freeman
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOne cop’s lie has set a killer free.Four years after serial killer Rudy Cutter was sent away for life, San Francisco homicide inspector Frost Easton uncovers a terrible lie: his closest friend planted false evidence to put Cutter behind bars. When he’s forced to reveal the truth, his sister’s killer is back on the streets... -
![The Dead Call by J.M. Dalgliesh]()
The Dead Call by J.M. Dalgliesh
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.. -
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![The Boss by Caz Finlay]()
The Boss by Caz Finlay
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe’s inside. She’s running the family. But now he’s back – only one can boss the streets of Liverpool. Packed with twists, turns and deceit, get ready for the first novel in an explosive new gangland crime series. HE’S OUT FOR BLOOD After a stint inside, notorious gangster Nathan Conlon is back. He says he’s a changed man, but old habits die hard on Liverpool’s gritty streets... -
![The Silent Threat by Elle Gray]()
The Silent Threat by Elle Gray
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAfter the bodies of six young girls were discovered in a shipping container that had been dumped in a scrapyard, FBI agent Blake Wilder is summoned onto the horrific scene. A closer inspection of the bodies reveals strange markings, similar to Spenser's victims in Sweetwater Falls... -
![A Code to Kill by Elle Gray]()
A Code to Kill by Elle Gray
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMost of us have a code we live by.Some live their life altruistically, while others live by a more sinister code.A code that only their victims know. A code to kill…Fresh from a grueling joint operation with Spenser Song, FBI agent Blake Wilder continues to find herself being stalked and hunted down by an unknown culprit. The worst part is that they may be after her loved ones as well... -
![Memories of the Falls by Elle Gray]()
Memories of the Falls by Elle Gray
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt’s summertime at the Falls, and this season revenge tastes even sweeter…Sheriff Spenser Song thought she would get a much-needed break after aiding FBI agent Blake Wilder on an international trafficking ring.Shortly upon her return to the Falls and to Ryker, the place is once again in an uproar.When the town’s star athletes are found dead due to a drug overdose... -
![What You Did by Willow Rose]()
What You Did by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFormer 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... -
![Bad Dog by Alex Smith]()
Bad Dog by Alex Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSome legends can kill you. When a young woman is brutally murdered in the Norfolk countryside, the locals blame Black Shuck—a legendary wild dog. There’s only one problem: the wounds weren’t made by an animal. DCI Robert Kett is battling a black dog of his own... -
![The Woman Behind the Door by Elle Gray, K.S. Gray]()
The Woman Behind the Door by Elle Gray, K.S. Gray
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“YOU ARE LIVING A LIE. Everything about you is a lie…”This is a story about an ordinary woman, a mother of two.To most women, to most mothers, her life is relatable in every way.Except behind closed doors her truth comes with unimaginable consequences.Amid a night of fun and festivities, Isabella Walker found herself alone with a bold masked man at her front door... -
![The Talisker Dead by J.M. Dalgliesh]()
The Talisker Dead by J.M. Dalgliesh
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPulling on the threads of your past... is enough to kill you...When a teenage islander goes missing on Burns Night, D.I. Duncan McAdam takes a strong interest despite the apparent lack of concern shown by the boy's father. When a woman's body is soon discovered in Talisker Bay, with a single stab wound to the chest, Duncan and his team realise they have a killer on the island... -
![The Secret Child by Caroline Mitchell]()
The Secret Child by Caroline Mitchell
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsDI Amy Winter knows evil. She’s lived through it.Four-year-old Ellen is snatched by a stranger in the dead of night. Her devastated mother, Nicole, receives four identical phials and a threatening note in a familiar scrawl that chills her to the bone. But she always knew this would happen. She’s been expecting it for years…According to the note, one of the phials is poisoned... -
![Unquiet Souls by Liz Mistry]()
Unquiet Souls by Liz Mistry
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat is the link between the abduction of a little girl and a dead prostitute? When the body of a prostitute is found, followed by the discovery of children locked in an attic, DI Gus McGuire, newly returned to work, is given the case. But what at first appears to be a simple murder soon turns into an international manhunt for the members of a twisted child trafficking ring... -
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![The Sirani Connection by Estelle Ryan]()
The Sirani Connection by Estelle Ryan
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsStolen masterpieces. Deadly narcotics. Artificial intelligence.A mysterious email and the arrest of a fugitive art thief send Doctor Genevieve Lenard and her team to Prague, where it soon becomes apparent that this theft has a close connection to a sadistic killer they've been tracking for almost a year... -
![The Recipient by Audrey J. Cole]()
The Recipient by Audrey J. Cole
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSergeant Wade McKinnon knows who killed Samantha the moment he arrives at her crime scene. Problem is, he watched her killer die a year ago.A year after serial killer Michael Rhodes is executed and allowed to donate part of his brain as an organ transplant, Wade gets called to a murder scene that shares uncanny similarities to those of the late Michael Rhodes... -
![Her Final Word by Willow Rose]()
Her Final Word by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRather 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... -
![Dark Water by Caro Ramsay]()
Dark Water by Caro Ramsay
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA bitterly cold February in Glasgow. In the attic of a deserted tenement, the body of a man is found hanging, his face disfigured beyond recognition.Around his neck is a sign that reads: I Am Stephen Whyte.Investigating officers DI Anderson and DS Costello believe the dead man was the prime suspect in a decade-old unsolved case.Ten years ago, a young woman was brutally attacked and left for dead... -
![Kill Me Again by Rachel Abbott]()
Kill Me Again by Rachel Abbott
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhen your life is a lie, who can you trust? When Maggie Taylor accepts a new job in Manchester, she is sure it is the right move for her family. The children have settled well although her husband, Duncan, doesn’t appear to be so convinced. But nothing prepares her for the shock of coming home from work one night to find that Duncan has disappeared, leaving their young children alone... -
![Midnight Obsession by Melinda Leigh]()
Midnight Obsession by Melinda Leigh
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s edgy new thriller, Louisa Hancock thought she was safe…but there’s a new killer in town.When a mysterious package lands on Louisa Hancock’s doorstep, the Philadelphia museum curator can hardly anticipate the nightmare that’s about to envelop her... -
![The Girl With No Name by Lisa Regan]()
The Girl With No Name by Lisa Regan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDetective Josie Quinn is horrified when she’s called to the house of a mother who had her newborn baby snatched from her arms... -
![Trick of the Night by Joy Ellis]()
Trick of the Night by Joy Ellis
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMatt and Liz may have retired from the police, but that doesn’t guarantee a quiet life.A deserted building. A face in the window. A face that shouldn’t be there.Photography student Toby Unsworth has found the location for the perfect night-time shoot. A cobbled street in the old part of Fenfleet... -
![The Sleepover by Carol Wyer]()
The Sleepover by Carol Wyer
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsRoxy had a secret. Now she’s gone. When fourteen-year-old Roxy says she’s going for a sleepover at her best friend Ellie’s house, Cathy sees no reason to check her daughter’s story. The two families are neighbours, and the girls are in and out of each other’s homes every day. It is a decision she will regret... -
![Their Lost Daughters by Joy Ellis]()
Their Lost Daughters by Joy Ellis
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsTWO GIRLS GO TO A PARTY, ONLY ONE RETURNS ALIVEToni, the surviving teenager, is found delirious, wandering the muddy fields. She has been drugged and it’s uncertain whether she’ll survive. She says she saw her friend Emily being dragged away from the party. But no one knows who Emily is or even if she’s still alive. . .Meanwhile the drowned body of another girl has been found on an isolated beach... -
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![A Dark Sin by J.M. Dalgliesh]()
A Dark Sin by J.M. Dalgliesh
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOur darkest secrets are best left buried...When a local journalist is found dead in an isolated spot on Roydon Common, lying beneath a hangman's noose on the anniversary of a teenager's suicide, DI Tom Janssen is asked to take on the investigation as a favour to local colleagues and must unpick the deceased man's life to discover how he came to be there... -
![The Hunter of the Dark by Donato Carrisi]()
The Hunter of the Dark by Donato Carrisi
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA brutal killer is on the streets of Rome. He leaves no trace. And shows no mercy.A series of gruesome murders leaves the police force in Rome reeling, with no real clues or hard evidence to follow. Assigned to the case is Sandra Vega, a brilliant forensic analyst, struggling to come to terms with the crimes and her own past... -
![Her Last Breath by Charlie Gallagher]()
Her Last Breath by Charlie Gallagher
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDiscover a crime thriller which will have you gripped from the explosive start to one of the most shocking endings of the year. DETECTIVE GEORGE ELMS THOUGHT HE’D SEEN IT ALL, UNTIL HE COMES UP AGAINST SERIAL KILLER HENRY ‘THE BULL’ ROBERTS. Henry Roberts had a type — young, blonde, attractive women. He is three years into a life sentence. Two of his victims were never found... -
![Safe Haven by Patricia MacDonald]()
Safe Haven by Patricia MacDonald
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsShe finally had everything she ever wanted . . .Dena returns to her hometown for a high school reunion. She gets together with Brian, her high school crush, and ends up pregnant.She moves back to the small town where she grew up to start a new life with horse breeder Brian.But behind closed doors, Dena’s perfect life becomes the perfect nightmare... -
![A Veronica Lee Thriller Collection Volume Two: A Veronica Lee Thriller Box Set Includes Books 5-8 by Melinda Woodhall]()
A Veronica Lee Thriller Collection Volume Two: A Veronica Lee Thriller Box Set Includes Books 5-8 by Melinda Woodhall
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIf you love twisty thrillers with heart, you'll love the Veronica Lee Thriller Collection Volume Two, Books 5-8, which has been earning rave reviews from thriller lovers looking for their next chilling series... -
![Watch Her Disappear by Lisa Regan]()
Watch Her Disappear by Lisa Regan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLying on the ground, the girl’s prom dress, the colour of champagne, shimmers in the dying light. A corsage of wilting pink sweetheart roses decorates her wrist... -
![Hell to Pay by Rachel Amphlett]()
Hell to Pay by Rachel Amphlett
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen a road traffic accident on a dark autumn night uncovers a disturbing conspiracy, Detective Sergeant Kay Hunter’s investigation exposes a ruthless serial killer exploiting vulnerable young women.With her enemies unmasked and her career spiralling out of control, Kay’s determination to seek vengeance for the victims brings her dangerously close to those who want to silence her... -
![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... -
![The Silent Children by Carol Wyer]()
The Silent Children by Carol Wyer
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe boy studied the bruise turning yellow at the base of his neck. With quick fingers his mother tightened his tie, and pulled his collar high above it. Her eyes alone said, We will not speak of this... Years later, a man is found shot dead in a local park. On his phone is a draft text: I can’t keep this secret any longer. The recipient is unnamed... -
![Rush to Judgement by John Carson]()
Rush to Judgement by John Carson
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA woman is found hanging in the woods in a small Highland town.A hearse crashes into an old church and is abandoned. The police find a coffin inside but the body isn't a recent death. It's the badly decomposed body of a girl who went missing thirty years ago.DCI Harry McNeil is sent north to co-ordinate the hunt for a killer, along with colleagues from Glasgow... -
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![Last Lullaby by Carol Wyer]()
Last Lullaby by Carol Wyer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCharlotte’s baby is safe. But is she? When the body of young mother Charlotte Brannon is discovered by her husband in their immaculate, silver bedroom, Detective Natalie Ward is first on the scene. The killer has left a chilling calling card: the word ‘Why?’ written on the wall in blood... -
![Fractured by Karin Slaughter]()
Fractured by Karin Slaughter
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsThe 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... -
![Dead to Me by J.M. Dalgliesh]()
Dead to Me by J.M. Dalgliesh
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLet go of your past... or it will be the death of you...When a man's body is discovered crammed into the boot of an abandoned car in a remote location, DI Tom Janssen and his team must unpick his life to find out how he came to be there.The victim was a local man, popular with some although hated by others, and he had a habit of making enemies, enemies that any sane man would seek to avoid... -
![Lethal Lines by Paige Black]()
Lethal Lines by Paige Black
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor fans of gripping thrillers and intense police procedurals comes a chilling tale that will keep you on the edge of your seat.Eden Mercer, a determined young officer in Nightfall, Oregon, is making strides to overcome her traumatic past in a fundamentalist cult. With her loyal K-9 partner, Shadow, at her side, she's ready to tackle any challenge... -
![The Girls They Lost by J.H. Leigh]()
The Girls They Lost by J.H. Leigh
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDead 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...Categorized as:
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![The Disappeared by Sibel Hodge]()
The Disappeared by Sibel Hodge
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Widow. The Secret. The Liar. The Disappeared… On a routine flight from Africa to England, Dr Mason Palmer is tragically killed when the light aircraft he’s travelling on crashes and disappears in dense bushland. The Widow… Ten months later, Nicole Palmer is still trying to block out the grief of her husband’s sudden death...
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