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  • The Last Straw by Sharon Sala

    The Last Straw by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Charlie Dodge may be down, but he’s most definitely not out. He’s still reeling after a series of earth-shattering events, so when a desperate woman hires Dodge Investigations to find her missing sister, the head-scratcher of a case is exactly the distraction Charlie and his steadfast partner, Wyrick, need...
  • Something Wicked by Lily Morton

    Something Wicked by Lily Morton

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After powerful psychic Blue Billings fell in love with Levi Black, he believed their biggest challenges would arise from Blue’s ability to see and speak to the dead. So it’s rather alarming when he and Levi are confronted with a spate of new—and frightening—problems that have to do with the realm of the living...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  psychics  crime  suspense  dark  romance  mlm  mystery
  • Buried by Kendra Elliot

    Buried by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Reporter 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...
  • Fated for Felony by Victoria Laurie

    Fated for Felony by Victoria Laurie

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In New York Times bestselling author Victoria Laurie’s newest Psychic Eye Mystery, Abby is after a serial killer who’s simply fated for felonies...
  • MESSAGE in the BONES: A small town murder mystery with a psychic twist by Dawn Merriman

    MESSAGE in the BONES: A small town murder mystery with a psychic twist by Dawn Merriman

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Escape the usual small town murder story with this quirky, page turning mystery. With long-buried bones, psychic visions, a tattoo with messages from above, and a clown-masked murderer chasing through a corn maze, this story will keep you on edge until the very last word.
  • Ghost of Deceit by Alice Winters

    Ghost of Deceit by Alice Winters

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    HiroSeeing the dead has never been easy, but the last thing I expected was to be a pawn in a serial killer’s game.Moving in with Maddox was supposed to be the only thing we needed to worry about. Not a dead teacher, and not the fact that a serial killer knows my abilities...
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    paranormal  crime  suspense  dark  romance  mlm  mystery  ghosts
  • Memories of Tomorrow by Dean Koontz

    Memories of Tomorrow by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    What strange science made Nameless who he is? What catastrophes have been erased from his memories? In the stunning conclusion of this series, the dark past comes flooding back, and Nameless must decide how much he really wants to know.In Indiana, a murderous psycho has kidnapped his own six-year-old stepson, Jamie, and secreted him away in a subterranean cave. It’s become their bunker...
  • Message in the Grave by Dawn Merriman

    Message in the Grave by Dawn Merriman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A psychic suspense thriller The darker the secret, the harder it is to keep buried I’m finally accepting that my psychic talents serve a purpose, that I can use them to help people. But two mysteries plague me...
  • Message in the Fire by Dawn Merriman

    Message in the Fire by Dawn Merriman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A daring escape, psychic visions, a terrifying cult and a burning ritual. . Blood stained her back and her hands were bound. She’d crumpled on her side under a tree, wrapped around her crying newborn. My psychic abilities would show me what happened to the young woman, but the horror can scar. Fear stopped me from touching her. I scooped the infant up and the young woman moved. She was alive.
  • A Killer's Kiss by Helen Harper

    A Killer's Kiss by Helen Harper

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A twisted killer is making his mark in London, leaving a trail of blood and devastation in his wake. It’s not only humans who are being targeted. Vampires, werewolves and pixies are in mortal danger too.I’ve been called in to help with the investigation but I can’t shake the feeling that there’s more to the murders. Someone is playing a very sick game - and it’s up to me to put a stop to it...
  • Shadow Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff

    Shadow Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    For thousands of years, women have been prey. This time, the predators lose.Does Fate connect us?Mass killer Cara Lindstrom is in the wind, after a deadly encounter which leaves FBI Special Agent Antara Singh questioning her own sanity and fitness to serve...
  • No Rest For Wicked by Persephone Steele

    No Rest For Wicked by Persephone Steele

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Psychic.What a joke.The only thing I can be sure of these days are the three men who have somehow battered their way past my walls and forced me to, dare I say it, start feeling things.Well…them, and my trusty trash panda partners in crime. But they've always had my heart.I must have kissed their asses real good, because instead of wanting to kill me, I think they might actually kind of like me...
  • Blood Truth by J.R. Ward

    Blood Truth by J.R. Ward

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    As a trainee in the Black Dagger Brotherhood's program, Boone has triumphed as a soldier and now fights side by side with the Brothers. Following his sire's unexpected death, he is taken off rotation against his protests—and he finds himself working with Butch O'Neal, former homicide cop, to catch a serial killer: Someone is targeting females of the species at a live action role play club...
  • I Don't Want to Kill You by Dan Wells

    I Don't Want to Kill You by Dan Wells

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    John Cleaver has called a demon—literally called it, on the phone, and challenged it to a fight. He’s faced two of the monsters already, barely escaping with his life, and now he’s done running; he’s taking the fight to them...
  • Hunting Fear by Kay Hooper, Dick Hill

    Hunting Fear by Kay Hooper, Dick Hill

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    He's no ordinary kidnapper. Not only does he strike again and again, but he collects the ransom, gets away safely, and leaves his helpless hostages dead. Now, after months of eluding the best that law enforcement can put against him, this monster has left nothing in his wake but a cold trail of unconnected victims. He's no ordinary cop...
  • Touching Evil by Kay Hooper, Alyssa Bresnahan

    Touching Evil by Kay Hooper, Alyssa Bresnahan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    This is the story of Seattle police artist Maggie Barnes, whose remarkable artistic talents are the focus of an even more extraordinary psychic gift that she is determined to keep secret: a gift that has allowed her to work with crime victims, to feel what they feel, to create perfect portraits of their attackers...
  • Out of the Shadows by Kay Hooper

    Out of the Shadows by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    To catch this killer, she must break every rule and cross every line.Out Of The ShadowsA picture-perfect Tennessee town has just become a monster's hunting ground. Two bodies are found tortured to death. A third person goes missing. What little evidence is left behind defies all explanation...
  • Sense of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Sense of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Kay Hooper is the brightest new star of suspense fiction. Now the New York Times bestselling author who's built a reputation for keeping her readers' pulse in the red zone delivers a thriller that will stun the senses -- all six of them. This time a psychic special agent and a gritty cop must stop a brutal killer with a chilling M.O. and an unstoppable...Sense of Evil...
  • Possession in Death by J.D. Robb

    Possession in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    “The devil killed my body. I cannot fight, I cannot find. I cannot free her. You must. You are the one. We speak to the dead...
  • San Francisco Night by Stephen Leather

    San Francisco Night by Stephen Leather

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jack Nightingale fights his battles in the shadows – in the grey areas where the real world meets the supernatural. But when he arrives in San Francisco to take on a group of Satanists bent on opening a doorway to Hell, the danger is out in the open and all too real...
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    crime  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  demons  fiction
  • Whisper of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Whisper of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Someone is stalking the little town of Silence...Three victims have fallen to a killer’s savage vengeance. Each of the dead men was a successful and respected member of the community — yet each also harbored a dark secret discovered only after his murder...
  • Leopard's Prey by Christine Feehan

    Leopard's Prey by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author "Christine Feehan knows how to weave a tale of action, suspense and paranormal passion" (Romance Junkies). Now, she’s back -- and the New Orleans nights have never felt so torrid or so dangerous...From a tough stint in the armed forces to stalking the unknown as a bayou cop, leopard-shifter Remy Boudreux has been served well by his uncanny gifts...
  • Still Life With Crows by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Still Life With Crows by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground.Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy?Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land?Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America's heartland.No one is safe...
  • Raphael by Tillie Cole

    Raphael by Tillie Cole

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    They are the Fallen. A brotherhood of murderers whose nature compels them to kill. But guided by their leader, Gabriel, the Fallen have learned to use their urges to rid the world of those it is better off without. For Raphael, sex and death are intertwined. Where there is one, there must be the other. He is a lust killer, luring his victims with the face of an angel and a body built for sin...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  kidnapping  paranormal  suspense  abuse  adult  alpha-mc
  • Sleeping with Fear by Kay Hooper

    Sleeping with Fear by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Fear has never been so close...New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper returns with a relentless thriller that brings her readers face-to-face with fear itself. In this terrifying new novel, a psychic special agent finds herself caught up in a tangled web of secrets, lies... and evil.Riley Crane woke up fully dressed, a gun under her pillow, and covered in blood...
  • Blood Sins by Kay Hooper, Joyce Bean

    Blood Sins by Kay Hooper, Joyce Bean

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Young, vulnerable, attractive, Tessa Gray made the perfect victim. Which was why Noah Bishop of the FBI’s Special Crimes Unit recruited her to play the role of grieving widow. As the supposed new owner of property coveted by the Church of the Everlasting Sin, she’d be irresistible bait for the reclusive and charismatic Reverend Samuel...
  • In the Lawman's Protection by Janie Crouch

    In the Lawman's Protection by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An agent will do anything to take down a terrorist.Even if that means using a woman as his weapon.To locate a terrorist, Ren McClement must find the criminal’s “dead” wife Natalie. His plan: use the innocent beauty as bait. But when his duplicity leads them into grave danger, Ren reveals his secret to Natalie...and his passion for her...
  • Whiplash by Catherine Coulter

    Whiplash by Catherine Coulter

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Yale professor Dr. Edward Kender’s father is undergoing chemotherapy when the supply of a critical accompanying drug, Culovort, suddenly runs out. Unwilling to accept the drug manufacturer’s disingenuous excuse of production line problems, Dr. Kender hires private investigator Erin Pulaski to prove that something more sinister is going on at Schiffer Hartwin...
  • The Secrets of the Shadows by Helen Phifer

    The Secrets of the Shadows by Helen Phifer

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sophie was afraid of the man in the shadows. He terrified her, but he would always disappear when someone else came. But one day in June 1984, she didn't escape. He took her. When a young woman is found draped over a gravestone in a chilling murder, police officer Annie Graham experiences a familiar sense of dread...
  • The Forgotten Cottage by Helen Phifer

    The Forgotten Cottage by Helen Phifer

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Forgotten Cottage, the eagerly-awaited and chillingly terrifying new book in Helen Phifer’s best-selling ‘Annie Graham’ series. Annie Graham has fought her demons, and is ready to leave them behind. Her new cottage seems like the new start she’s craved: quiet and quaint, it’s empty of the memories which have haunted her for so long...
  • Dante's Demons by K.L. Barstow

    Dante's Demons by K.L. Barstow

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    DanteAs President of the Demon Dawgs, I don’t always keep my hands clean. After all, dogs love to dig in the dirt. While my MC brothers and I may work on both sides of the law, we draw the line at hurting women. So when we find a young woman, broken and dumped outside our clubhouse, we swear to find her attacker and stop him. Permanently...
  • Dance of Death by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Dance of Death by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Two brothers on opposite sides of the law battle it out on the streets of New York in this chill-inducing thriller, a follow-up to BRIMSTONE. — As the previous installment came to a close, vicious dogs and armed men surrounded FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast and his demise seemed certain. Nevertheless, he did leave behind a legacy: a letter for his friend, NYPD Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta...
  • Voice of Fear by Heather Graham

    Voice of Fear by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A killer is looking to silence them, once and for all.FBI agent Jordan Wallace is close to cracking the human trafficking case she’s been working, when she does the one thing she should never do: let her guard down. The botched undercover mission is semi-salvaged by the last-minute appearance of criminal psychologist Patrick Law, but Jordan can’t imagine making a worse first impression...
  • Remnants by Carolyn Arnold

    Remnants by Carolyn Arnold

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Savannah, Georgia used to be a tranquil tourist destination—until human body parts started floating down the river.FBI Agent Brandon Fisher trusts his team with his life—or at least he did. It’s only been six months since Brandon’s boss almost died at the hands of a serial killer when the team is called to Savannah, Georgia...
  • The Last Time I Saw Her by Karen Robards

    The Last Time I Saw Her by Karen Robards

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Librarian’s note: This is an updated cover image for Kindle. See previously published cover here. In this world, Dr. Charlotte “Charlie” Stone skillfully probes the twisted minds of incarcerated serial killers to better understand what makes them tick, and to help nab those who remain at large...
  • Shadow Warrior by Christine Feehan

    Shadow Warrior by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Danger inspires fierce passion when a serial killer threatens Chicago’s Ferraro crime family in this novel in Christine Feehan’s New York Times bestselling series.Vittorio Ferraro is a man whose family loyalty knows no bounds. He would die for his siblings and the people they love, but what he really wants is to start a family of his own...
  • Chill of Fear by Kay Hooper, Dick Hill

    Chill of Fear by Kay Hooper, Dick Hill

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    For twenty years FBI agent Quentin Hayes has been haunted by an unsolved murder that took place at a secluded Victorian-era resort in Tennessee when he was little more than a boy. Now part of Noah Bishop's Special Crimes Unit, he's returned to the scene of that long-ago crime to find answers.Diana Brisco has come to The Lodge hoping to unlock the mystery of her own troubled past...
  • Retribution by C.M. Sutter

    Retribution by C.M. Sutter

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The violent drug-related murders of two prominent attorneys have the homicide division of the Chicago Police Department scrambling for answers, but without clues, a motive, or a suspect, not even the FBI can track down the killer...
  • The Unquiet by John Connolly

    The Unquiet by John Connolly

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    "But that is the nature of revenge. It escalates. It cannot be controlled. One hurt invites another, on and on until the original injury is all but forgotten in the chaos of what follows."John Connolly's originality and talent for storytelling have quickly made him one of today's preeminent thriller writers...
  • Blood Ties by Kay Hooper

    Blood Ties by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A series of grisly murders has left a trail of blood across three states, bringing the Special Crimes Unit to a small Tennessee town. There, two more brutal killings lure Noah Bishop and the SCU into what may be the ultimate trap, and lead Special Agent Hollis Templeton into a dangerous attraction—and a serial murder investigation that turns very, very personal...
  • The Mercy of Snakes by Dean Koontz

    The Mercy of Snakes by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A series of suspicious deaths in a retirement home draws Nameless into the confidence of a terrified former resident—and into the dark heart of a shocking conspiracy. In part five of the Nameless series, it’s time to hunt.Oakshore Park is Michigan’s most exclusive assisted-living community. Presided over by two killer angels of mercy, it’s also the go-to facility in assisted dying...
  • Inside Voices: A captivating mystery with a touch of romance by Sarah Davis

    Inside Voices: A captivating mystery with a touch of romance by Sarah Davis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The mind is a strange beast…extraordinary, unpredictable, protective.Penny Osborn’s mind is no exception. In High School, Penny witnessed a massacre and lost her father to the same killers. She had seen it unfold before it happened, in a premonition, but could not prevent it.A college research project at the edge of the Arctic is her chance for a new beginning...
  • Mind Games by Nora Roberts

    Mind Games by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Identity presents a suspenseful new novel of tragedy and trauma, love and family, and the evil that awaits.As they do each June, the Foxes have driven the winding roads of Appalachia to drop off their children for a two-week stay at their grandmother’s...
  • In Plain Sight by K.C. Wells

    In Plain Sight by K.C. Wells

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Detective Gary Mitchell and psychic Dan Porter are now investigating cold cases that are literally falling from the sky—a headless body in 2006 and a carpenter who fell from a roof two years ago.The first case leads them into dangerous territory. The second feels like a dead end...
  • The Haunting of Rachel Harroway by J.S. Donovan

    The Haunting of Rachel Harroway by J.S. Donovan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In 1983, a family of four was murdered in their nineteenth century Queen Anne manse. There were no witnesses, no real investigation, and no survivors. The discovery of a serial killer's burial ground rocks the peaceful town of Highlands, North Carolina. Rachel Harroway, a tragic detective with the ability to see the dead, and her brilliant atheistic partner, Jenson Peak, are put on the case...
  • Ghostly Findings by E.M. Leya

    Ghostly Findings by E.M. Leya

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As a medical examiner, seeing ghosts has its advantages. After being informed by a ghost that there is a mass grave in the area, Lance and Detective Angus Young feel the fallout. As one investigates the murders, the other investigates the bodies, both trying to piece together what happened. Luckily, the dead aren't all silent...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  crime  suspense  psychics  romance  mystery  mlm  ghosts
  • Primal Instinct by Janie Crouch

    Primal Instinct by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A killer stalks the city streets, and one FBI agent is determined to bring him down in Janie Crouch's Primal Instinct. On the crowded streets of San Francisco, a serial killer watches and waits. Known only as "Simon Says," he lures his next victim while the FBI grasps for answers. Desperate, they turn to Adrienne Jeffries...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  paranormal  psychics  suspense  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook
  • Deity by Matt Wesolowski

    Deity by Matt Wesolowski

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A shamed pop starA devastating fireSix witnessesSix storiesWhich one is true?When pop megastar Zach Crystal dies in a fire at his remote mansion, his mysterious demise rips open the bitter divide between those who adored his music and his endless charity work, and those who viewed him as a despicable predator, who manipulated and abused young and vulnerable girls...
  • The Eye of the Moon by Anonymous

    The Eye of the Moon by Anonymous

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Following a massive rampage that left the streets of Santa Mondega soaked with blood, the elusive supernatural serial killer known only as the Bourbon Kid is now himself being haunted. Hot on his heels are several vampire gangs, the Secret Service, a couple of werewolves, corrupt cops, and the Dark Lord himself, and none will rest until he is dead...
  • Lethal Lies by Rebecca Zanetti

    Lethal Lies by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of the Dark Protectors series comes a sexy romantic suspense about a woman determined to solve her sister's murder and the only man she can trust with long-buried family secrets. Revenge. It's the only thing that will help Anya Best sleep at night...
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