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The Betrayer by Kimberley Chambers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBased in Stepney, this book is set on a rough and ready Council Estate, in the heart of London's East End. A story that starts in 1975 ends in 2005, it tells the trials and tribulations of the Hutton family. Maureen - the gutsy mum, separated from her alcoholic husband, she scrimps and saves for years to bring up her children and instil life's good values in them... -
![The Sting by Kimberley Chambers]()
The Sting by Kimberley Chambers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTWO CHILDHOOD FRIENDSBest friends Tommy Boyle and Scratch always had each other’s backs. Dragged up in care, and cruelly betrayed by everyone they trusted, they made a pact to fight their way out of the gutter – together. TWO SIDES OF THE LAW Old loyalties die hard on the streets of London. Tommy throws his lot in with the notorious Darling family – even if it means leaving Scratch to the wolves... -
![The Wronged by Kimberley Chambers]()
The Wronged by Kimberley Chambers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsVinny Butler has used his time in prison well: to plan the downfall of all who’ve wronged him.As always with the Butlers, family comes first: Vinny’s brother Michael may think he’s the top dog running the family business, but it won’t last when Vinny finds out how good his brother’s got it... -
![Twenty Years Later by Charlie Donlea]()
Twenty Years Later by Charlie Donlea
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsAvery Mason, host of American Events, knows the subjects that grab a TV audience's attention. Her latest story--a murder mystery laced with kinky sex, tragedy, and betrayal--is guaranteed to be ratings gold. New DNA technology has allowed the New York medical examiner's office to make its first successful identification of a 9/11 victim in years... -
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![Edinburgh Dusk by Carole Lawrence]()
Edinburgh Dusk by Carole Lawrence
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe prize-winning author of Edinburgh Twilight returns to the darkening shadows of nineteenth-century Scotland to track a killer on a profane mission of revenge...Categorized as:
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![None Left to Tell by Noelle W. Ihli]()
None Left to Tell by Noelle W. Ihli
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThree women, connected by one of the most brutal mass slayings in US history.Lucy is sick of turning the other cheek. Ten years ago, an anti-Mormon mob drove her family and friends from their homes in Illinois. But now, the tables have turned. Rumor has it, some of those same men are traveling through Utah on their way to California. And this time, Lucy won’t run... -
![Unnatural History by Jonathan Kellerman]()
Unnatural History by Jonathan Kellerman
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe most enduring detectives in American crime fiction are back in this electrifying thrillerof art and brutalityfrom the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.Los Angeles is a city of stark contrast, the palaces of the affluent coexisting uneasily with the hellholes of the mad and the needy. It is that shadow world and the violence it breeds that draw brilliant psychologist Dr... -
![The Marriage of Mary Russell by Laurie R. King]()
The Marriage of Mary Russell by Laurie R. King
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLaurie R. King takes readers way back in her bestselling series with this exclusive ebook short story, as Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes embark upon the riskiest adventure of their their wedding. Includes a special preview of the highly anticipated new mystery from Laurie R...Categorized as:
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![A Season in Purgatory by Dominick Dunne]()
A Season in Purgatory by Dominick Dunne
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThey were the family with everything. Money. Influence. Glamour. Power. The power to halt a police investigation in its tracks. The power to spin a story, concoct a lie, and believe it was the truth. The power to murder without guilt, without shame, and without ever paying the price. America's royalty, they called the Bradleys. But an outsider refuses to play his part... -
![A Place of Execution by Val McDermid]()
A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWinter 1963: two children have disappeared in Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezing day in December, another child goes missing: 13-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from the isolated Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale... -
![Veil of Doubt by Sharon Virts]()
Veil of Doubt by Sharon Virts
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen a mother is charged with murder in a town already convinced of her guilt, can defense attorney Powell Harrison find truth and justice in a legal system where innocence is not presumed? Emily Lloyd, a young widow in Reconstruction-era Virginia, is accused of poisoning her three-year-old daughter, Maud... -
![Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver]()
Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis novel is a meticulously detailed account of a celebrated murder trial. It concentrates on defense attorney Paul Biegler from the moment he accepts the case until the verdict is brought in. Biegler's client is accused of murdering a man who his wife claims assaulted her... -
![Pick-Up by Charles Willeford]()
Pick-Up by Charles Willeford
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHe Holed Up With a Helpless LushProwling the grimy streets of San Francisco low-life, Helen is a beautiful, sensuous drunk - and a pathetically easy pick-up. Harry just wants to help, but before long he and Helen are both adrift in a sea of alcohol - until Harry conceives the ultimate crime.. -
![Deadly Communion by Frank Tallis]()
Deadly Communion by Frank Tallis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDetective Inspector Oskar Reinhardt finds that young women are being slain in an unnerving—and ingenious—manner, with a small, almost undetectable, hat pin. For Dr. Max Liebermann, the killer is unique in the annals of psychopathology, one who murders in the midst of consensual love...Categorized as:
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![A Curse of Silence by Lauren Haney]()
A Curse of Silence by Lauren Haney
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA vile rumor sweeps across the desert like a swiftly gathering sandstorm: Queen Hatshepsut plans to disband much of her frontier army and transform its fortresses into storehouses. The arrival of Amonked—the Queen's cousin and Storekeeper of Amon—at the city of Buhen convinces an uneasy Lieutenant Bak of the Medjay police that the whisperings that have alarmed the populace are true... -
![Steel Breeze by Douglas Wynne]()
Steel Breeze by Douglas Wynne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA BLACK WIND BLOWS AND LIFE HANGS IN THE BALANCE. It’s been a year since novelist Desmond Carmichael's wife Sandy was brutally murdered. Now, with someone stalking him and his four-year-old son, he fears that the wrong man has been imprisoned for the crime... -
![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... -
![Instruments of Night by Thomas H. Cook]()
Instruments of Night by Thomas H. Cook
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThomas Cook is one of today's most acclaimed writers of psychological thrillers, penning hypnotic tales of forbidden love and devastating secrets. Now he has written an unforgettable novel that weaves one man's tortured life with a deadly mystery that spans five decades....Riverwood is an artists' community in the Hudson River valley, a serene place where writers can perfect their craft... -
![Cutthroat by Michael Slade]()
Cutthroat by Michael Slade
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the mastermind behind Headhunter comes a thriller that compares to such classics as Psycho and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Three enigmatic story lines intertwine to culminate in an ultimate climax, as this horror whodunit follows the bloody footsteps of a serial killer through the streets of San Francisco--and through history--each chapter drawing readers closer to the secret behind Cutthroat... -
![Carolina Skeletons by David Stout]()
Carolina Skeletons by David Stout
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn 1944, Linus Bragg, a 14-year-old black student, is accused of killing two white girls and condemned to the electric chair. Forty-four years later, Bragg's nephew travels to South Carolina to discover the truth--and finds himself on the Wanted List and fighting for his own freedom! HC: Mysterious Press... -
![The Bone Box by Gregg Olsen]()
The Bone Box by Gregg Olsen
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOlsen will scare you--and you'll love it. --Lee Child"Olsen writes rapid-fire page-turners." --Seattle Times "Olsen deftly juggles multiple plot lines." --Publishers WeeklyThey call it the Bone Box. A collection of old cases, solved and unsolved, that continue to haunt forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman. None is more disturbing than the first... -
![Bedford Square by Anne Perry]()
Bedford Square by Anne Perry
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSuperintendent Thomas Pitt becomes suspicious when a man found dead outside a general's home is discovered to possess a snuff box that had recently graced the general's study. Pitt and his clever wife, Charlotte, must tread lightly while probing this masterpiece of evil. The book contains an interview with the author... -
![Carta a Mi Juez by Georges Simenon]()
Carta a Mi Juez by Georges Simenon
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor forty years Charles Alavoine sleepwalks through his life. Obedient to his domineering mother’s wishes, he trains as a doctor, takes a plain unassuming wife, opens a medical practice in a quiet country town, and settles into an existence of impeccable bourgeois conformity... -
![Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell by Paul Kane, Barbie Wilde]()
Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell by Paul Kane, Barbie Wilde
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe World’s Greatest Detective Meets Horror’s Most Notorious Villains!Late 1895, and Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion Dr John Watson are called upon to investigate a missing persons case. On the face of it, this seems like a mystery that Holmes might relish – as the person in question vanished from a locked room... -
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![The Love of a Bad Man by Laura Elizabeth Woollett]()
The Love of a Bad Man by Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA schoolgirl catches the eye of the future leader of Nazi Germany. An aspiring playwright writes to a convicted serial killer, seeking inspiration. A pair of childhood sweethearts reunite to commit rape and murder. A devoted Mormon wife follows her husband into the wilderness after he declares himself a prophet... -
![The Thieves Of Faith by Richard Doetsch]()
The Thieves Of Faith by Richard Doetsch
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBeneath the Kremlin lies a shocking ancient truth.And it’s about to be stolen.…Since the times of Ivan the Terrible, generations of Russian leaders have turned the Kremlin into a fortress within a fortress, stocking its labyrinthine underground with secret vaults, elegant chambers, and priceless treasures... -
![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 Man Who Watched Trains Go By by Georges Simenon, Marc Romano]()
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By by Georges Simenon, Marc Romano
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsKees Popinga is an average man, a solid citizen who might enjoy a game of chess in the evening. But one night, this model husband and devoted father discovers his boss is bankrupt and that his own carefully tended life is in ruins. Before, he had watched impassively as the trains swept by; now he catches the first one out of town and soon commits murder before the night is out... -
![Rabbit Foot Bill: A Novel by Helen Humphreys]()
Rabbit Foot Bill: A Novel by Helen Humphreys
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA lonely boy in a prairie town befriends a tramp in 1947 and then witnesses a shocking murder. Based on a true story.Canwood, Saskatchewan, 1947. Leonard Flint, a lonely boy in a small farming town befriends the local tramp, a man known as Rabbit Foot Bill. Bill doesn’t talk much, but he allows Leonard to accompany him as he sets rabbit snares and to visit his small, secluded dwelling...Categorized as:
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![The Burden by Mary Westmacott, Agatha Christie]()
The Burden by Mary Westmacott, Agatha Christie
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLaura Franklin bitterly resented the arrival of her younger sister Shirley, an enchanting baby loved by all the family. But Laura's emotions towards her sister changed dramatically one night, when she vowed to protect her with all her strength and love... -
![Shake Hands Forever by Ruth Rendell]()
Shake Hands Forever by Ruth Rendell
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe bed was neatly made, and the woman on top neatly strangled.According to all accounts, Angela Hathall was deeply in love with her husband and far too paranoid to invite an unknown person into their home. So who managed to gain entry and strangle her without a struggle? That is the problem facing Inspector Wexford in Shake Hands Forever... -
![Dance of the Assassins by Hervé Jubert]()
Dance of the Assassins by Hervé Jubert
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn London, Jack the Ripper has claimed another victim.But this "London" is a crime-free virtual city, a historical theme park for tourists. Qualified witch Roberta Morgenstern and her young police assistant, Clément Martineau, set out to solve the murder.A wild chase through the streets of old London brings them face-to-face with the terrifying new Ripper...Categorized as:
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![The Billion Dollar Ransom by Franklin W. Dixon]()
The Billion Dollar Ransom by Franklin W. Dixon
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings...Categorized as:
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![See How They Run by James Patterson]()
See How They Run by James Patterson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsOutside New York City, the palatial home of Dr. David Strauss's parents is attacked by gunmen during a glittering party. As he watches helplessly, his wife is murdered. In Los Angeles, Strauss's brother is killed during the Academy Award ceremonies. In Manhattan, his past sweetheart, Alix Rothchild, is running for her life. Dr... -
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![A Demon in My View by Ruth Rendell, Julian Glover]()
A Demon in My View by Ruth Rendell, Julian Glover
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShe waits for him in the dark, her mind and body perfect, passive, until one day, when he goes to the cellar, and she is gone . . .In A Demon in My View, Ruth Rendell creates a character as frightening as he is fascinating. Mild-mannered Arthur Johnson has never known how to talk to women... -
![The Grave Tattoo by Val McDermid]()
The Grave Tattoo by Val McDermid
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom bestselling author Val McDermid comes a modern thriller about an ancient murder set on the high seas…After summer rains uncover a corpse bearing tattoos like those of eighteenth-century seafarers, many residents of the English Lake District can’t help but wonder whether it’s the body of one of the town’s most legendary fugitives... -
![Time Is a Killer by Michel Bussi]()
Time Is a Killer by Michel Bussi
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the summer of 2016, Clotilde is spending her vacation in Corsica with her husband Franck and her teenage daughter Valentine. It is the first time she has been back to the island since the car accident in which her parents and her brother were killed decades earlier. She was in the car too, but miraculously escaped with her life... -
![A Death in Vienna by Frank Tallis]()
A Death in Vienna by Frank Tallis
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, Max Liebermann is at the forefront of psychoanalysis, practicing the controversial new science with all the skill of a master detective. Every dream, inflection, or slip of tongue in his “hysterical” patients has meaning and reveals some hidden truth... -
![Death in Profile by Guy Fraser-Sampson]()
Death in Profile by Guy Fraser-Sampson
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe genteel façade of London’s Hampstead is shattered by a series of terrifying murders, and the ensuing police hunt is threatened by internal politics, and a burgeoning love triangle within the investigative team... -
![Beast in the Shadows by Edogawa Rampo]()
Beast in the Shadows by Edogawa Rampo
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphA mystery writer turns detective to protect the woman he loves. But is he hunter or hunted?The chance meeting between a crime novelist and a married woman blossoms into friendship... -
![Play to the End by Robert Goddard]()
Play to the End by Robert Goddard
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOnce Toby Flood played a Bond-like hero in a Hollywood film. Now he’s serving a sentence in a crippled traveling production of a newly unearthed Joe Orton play—a play that might have saved Toby’s career if only someone enjoyed watching it. Painfully, the show’s swan song is coming in Brighton, where Toby’s wife happens to be living happily with another man in anticipation of a divorce decree... -
![Mister Memory by Marcus Sedgwick]()
Mister Memory by Marcus Sedgwick
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn Paris, at the end of the nineteenth century, a man with a perfect memory murders his wife. But that is only the start of the story... A dazzling literary mystery from prizewinning author Marcus Sedgwick.In Paris in the year 1899, Marcel Després is arrested for the murder of his wife and transferred to the famous Salpêtrière asylum. And there the story might have stopped... -
![Perennials by Bryce Gibson]()
Perennials by Bryce Gibson
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSummer in South Carolina – a time of ripe peaches, crackling bonfires, trips to the lake, and the rural legend of a creature known as the Lizard Man. This year, a very real monster is lurking about. The victims all have one thing in common – they share their names with plants. Soon it becomes apparent that seventeen-year-olds Dusty Miller and Nandina Bush may be next on the killer’s list...Categorized as:
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![The Keys to the Street by Ruth Rendell]()
The Keys to the Street by Ruth Rendell
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSet in and around London's Regent's Park, where the city's wealthiest, poorest, kindest, and most vicious citizens all cross paths, The Keys to the Street tells of the deadly thanks a young woman risks receiving in return for an act of selfless generosity. "Is it true that we dislike those who have done us a service?" asks Mary Jago's grandmother... -
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![Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott]()
Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBy the author of Dare Me and The End of EverythingIn October 1931, a station agent found two large trunks abandoned in Los Angeles' Southern Pacific Station. What he found inside ignited one of the most scandalous tabloid sensations of the decade... -
![April in Spain by John Banville]()
April in Spain by John Banville
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBooker Prize winner John Banville returns with a dark and evocative new mystery set on the Spanish coastDon't disturb the dead…On the idyllic coast of San Sebastian, Spain, Dublin pathologist Quirke is struggling to relax, despite the beaches, cafés and the company of his disarmingly lovely wife... -
![Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne]()
Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLawrence Osborne brings one of literature’s most enduring detectives back to life—as Private Investigator Philip Marlowe returns for one last adventure. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND NPR • NOMINATED FOR THE EDGAR AND SHAMUS AWARDSThe year is 1988. The place, Baja California... -
![Going Wrong by Ruth Rendell]()
Going Wrong by Ruth Rendell
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn Rendell's evocative portrayal of West London, the slums of Notting Hill Gate and the mews houses of Holland Park are not streets, but worlds, apart. When these two worlds collide, the repercussions are fatal.Guy and Leonora were childhood sweethearts, and belonged to the same criminal gang... -
![Too Many Murders by Colleen McCullough, Колин Маккалоу]()
Too Many Murders by Colleen McCullough, Колин Маккалоу
Rated: 3.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn her riveting sequel to On, Off, Colleen McCullough, the bestselling author of The Thorn Birds, proves once again that she is a master of suspense.1967. The world teeters on the brink of nuclear holocaust as the Cold War persists... -
![What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James & Jack the Ripper by Paula Marantz Cohen]()
What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James & Jack the Ripper by Paula Marantz Cohen
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Under Certain Circumstances, No One Is More Suited to Solving a Crime than a Woman Confined to Her Bed"An invalid for most her life, Alice James is quite used to people underestimating her. And she generally doesn't mind. But this time she is not about to let things alone. Yes, her brother Henry may be a famous author, and her other brother William a rising star in the new field of psychology...Categorized as:
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