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  • An Invisible Client by Victor Methos

    An Invisible Client by Victor Methos

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    For high-powered personal injury attorney Noah Byron, the good things in life come with a price tag—cars, houses, women. That’s why he represents only cases that come with the possibility of a nice cut of the action. But as a favor to his ex-wife, he meets with the mother of twelve-year-old Joel, a boy poisoned by tainted children’s medicine...
  • Justice Redeemed by Scott Pratt

    Justice Redeemed by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Two years ago, Darren Street made a name for himself as the man who rooted out corruption in the district attorney’s office. Now the hotheaded young lawyer is in the public eye yet again—this time, accused of murder.Jalen Jordan retained Street for what seemed to be a minor traffic violation, but when evidence turned up linking Jordan to the death of two boys, Street wanted out of the case...
  • Vortex by Catherine Coulter

    Vortex by Catherine Coulter

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In the latest installment in Catherine Coulter’s #1 New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series, agents Sherlock and Savich find themselves dealing with powerful pieces of the past that could have dire consequences in the present.Seven years ago, Mia Briscoe was at a frat party with her best friend Serena when a fire broke out. Everyone was accounted for except Serena...
  • Separation of Power by Vince Flynn

    Separation of Power by Vince Flynn

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    CIA superagent Mitch Rapp is back in action in Vince Flynn's high-velocity New York Times bestseller. Newly appointed CIA director Dr. Irene Kennedy is the target of an inside plot to destroy her and prematurely end the American President's term. To make matters worse, Saddam Hussein is close to entering the nuclear arms race -- something Israel has vowed to stop...
  • L'Affaire Alaska Sanders by Joël Dicker

    L'Affaire Alaska Sanders by Joël Dicker

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Avril 1999. Mount Pleasant, une paisible bourgade du New Hampshire, est bouleversée par un meurtre. Le corps d'une jeune femme, Alaska Sanders, est retrouvé au bord d'un lac. L'enquête est rapidement bouclée, la police obtenant les aveux du coupable et de son complice.Onze ans plus tard, l'affaire rebondit...
  • The Third Option by Vince Flynn

    The Third Option by Vince Flynn

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Mitch Rapp, CIA's top counterterrorism operative, is sent on his final mission. His target, a German Industrialist who has been selling sensitive equipment to the worlds most notorious sponsors of terrorism...
  • Justice Lost by Scott Pratt

    Justice Lost by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the Wall Street Journal bestseller, lawyer turned rogue Darren Street faces the most personal and ruthless vendetta of his life.After forfeiting years serving time for a false murder conviction, former criminal defense attorney Darren Street finally got his freedom back and is trying to build a regular life...
  • The Tracker by Chad Zunker

    The Tracker by Chad Zunker

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Trust no one.Sam Callahan learned this lesson from a childhood spent in abusive foster care, on the streets, and locked in juvie. With the past behind him and his future staked on law school, he is moonlighting as a political tracker, paid to hide in crowds and shadow candidates, recording their missteps for use by their opponents...
  • Body In The Woods by Behcet Kaya

    Body In The Woods by Behcet Kaya

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Award-winning author Behcet Kaya has once again brought his PI protagonist Jack Ludefance to life in a novel of suspense and mystery, filled with indelible characters, and laced with threads of credible circumstances, in his latest book titled Body in the Woods...
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    crime  drama  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  epic  fiction
  • The Shotgun Lawyer by Victor Methos

    The Shotgun Lawyer by Victor Methos

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From the bestselling author of The Neon Lawyer comes a page-turning thriller about a scrappy lawyer and his fight for justice.Personal injury attorney Peter Game has a reputation: cynical, untroubled by ethics, and willing to take any case, anytime, in his pursuit of the win. He dreams of a sweetheart score that’ll make his name and net him millions...
  • 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...
  • I Looked Away by Jane Corry

    I Looked Away by Jane Corry

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    YOU MADE A MISTAKE. BUT THEY'RE SAYING IT'S MURDER.From the Sunday Times bestselling author of My Husband's Wife, comes a beautifully written psycholgocial thriller for fans of Lisa Jewell and Clare Mackintosh.Every Monday, 49-year-old Ellie looks after her grandson Josh. She loves him more than anyone else in the world. The only thing that can mar her happiness is her husband's affair...
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    crime  drama  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Tooth for Tooth by J.K. Franko

    Tooth for Tooth by J.K. Franko

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What would YOU do?What would you do if you got away with murder? Would you stop there? Could you?Susie and Roy thought that they committed the perfect crime.Their planning was meticulous. Their execution was flawless. But, there is always a loose end, isn’t there? Always a singing bone.Now, while enemies multiply and suspicions abound, their perfect world begins to crumble...
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    drama  suspense  contemporary  epic  fiction  mystery
  • The Judge's List by John Grisham

    The Judge's List by John Grisham

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Listening Length 11 hours and 36 minutesFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a new legal thriller about a man who might be the most criminal sitting judge in American history As an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct, Lacy Stoltz sees plenty of corruption among the men and women elected to the bench...
  • Faith and the Beloved by Kochery C. Shibu

    Faith and the Beloved by Kochery C. Shibu

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Naithy Cherozil is a rich and successful business woman from Mumbai who marries the young and handsome model Tony D'Souza after the death of her spouse. Little does she know that the ideal sex slave of her husband is the sleeper cell of a terror outfit. Events in her life take unforeseen turns as the male Mata Hari is activated...
  • Passenger 19 by Ward Larsen

    Passenger 19 by Ward Larsen

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Jammer Davis has spent most of his life investigating aircraft accidents. When a small regional jet disappears over the jungles of Colombia, it is a tragedy like dozens of others he has seen…but for one terrible detail—his young daughter, who was enroute to a semester abroad in South America, is listed on the passenger manifest...
  • Next of Kin by Kia Abdullah

    Next of Kin by Kia Abdullah

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “Abdullah’s legal thrillers make John Grisham seem like a maiden aunt.” Sunday Times Crime Club “An enthralling, heartbreaking and thrilling courtroom drama that had me shouting out loud and gripped until the last page.” Nadine Matheson, author of The Jigsaw Man“Brilliantly tense, this is another clever page turner from Kia Abdullah that I couldn’t put down. Just superb...
  • What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan

    What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an emotional novel of suspense about two families pitted against each other—one seeking justice in the disappearance of their daughter, the other desperate to clear their son’s name.Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love...
  • Miami Requiem by J.B. Turner

    Miami Requiem by J.B. Turner

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A gripping race-against-time crime thriller for fans of Michael Connelly, James Lee Burke, Harlan Coben and Karin Slaughter.She wanted the truth. They wanted her dead.Since her first day on the Miami Herald, rookie reporter Deborah Jones has been agitating for a shot at one particular story. William Craig is on Death Row, convicted of killling Senator Jack O'Neill's only son...
  • The Neon Lawyer by Victor Methos

    The Neon Lawyer by Victor Methos

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    With money and hope in short supply, newly minted attorney Brigham Theodore decides it’s time to lower his standards. He joins a seedy fly-by-night firm in Salt Lake City out of desperation. After he loses his first case—a speeding ticket—he’s convinced his career is over. But to his shock, his boss hands him a slightly more complex case: capital murder...
  • Total Control by David Baldacci

    Total Control by David Baldacci

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Sidney Archer thought she had the perfect life - a great family and a great career. Then her husband is killed in a plane crash. But when the FBI think he is still alive, Sidney begins a desperate search for the truth...
  • The No. 1 Lawyer by James Patterson, Nancy Allen

    The No. 1 Lawyer by James Patterson, Nancy Allen

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Stafford Lee Penney is the best defence lawyer in Mississippi - he's never lost a case. Until now.Hot on the heels of his latest courtroom victory, his wife is brutally murdered. Devastated, Stafford Lee spirals into a losing streak that forces him to abandon his once brilliant career.But his wife's killer is still on the loose and they seem determined to frame Stafford Lee for their crimes...
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    crime  suspense  drama  thriller  mystery  fiction  audiobook  legal
  • The Winner by David Baldacci

    The Winner by David Baldacci

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A woman who gets rich after being forced to participate in a fixed lottery is wanted for murder...
  • The List by Velvet Vaughn

    The List by Velvet Vaughn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the author of The Fan and Committed is the first romantic suspense novel in the COBRA Securities series. The List is an intriguing mixture of pulse-pounding suspense and sizzling passion. It was just supposed to be a game... What started out as a harmless game between friends has turned deadly real. Fourteen men are dead, all from apparent accidents...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • You Beneath Your Skin by Damyanti Biswas

    You Beneath Your Skin by Damyanti Biswas

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It’s a dark, smog-choked New Delhi winter. Indian American single mother Anjali Morgan juggles her job as a psychiatrist with caring for her autistic teenage son. She is in a long-standing affair with ambitious police commissioner Jatin Bhatt – an irresistible attraction that could destroy both their lives...
    Categorized as:
    crime  thriller  suspense  fiction  mystery  contemporary  murder  book
  • The Devils' Cradle by Darcy Daniel

    The Devils' Cradle by Darcy Daniel

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    On Australia’s island state, more than one species of Tasmanian Devil exists... Beneath the surface of Nina Holt’s perfect marriage lurks a life of terror inflicted upon her by her politically powerful husband Michael and his brother Greg, a sadistic detective. For over a decade they have managed to keep Nina imprisoned, using her to satisfy their every whim...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  suspense  thriller  abuse  adult  book  contemporary
  • The Fifth Suspect by Robert McNeil

    The Fifth Suspect by Robert McNeil

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A DCI deals with a homicide on a boat in the Thames—and hostility from his own colleagues—in the debut of this police thriller series.A shady London nightclub owner is found dead on his boat on the River Thames—and newly promoted DCI Alex Fleming, a man with a troubled past, is keen to prove his worth with his first murder case after joining the Major Crime Unit of Thames Valley Police...
  • The Silence Between Breaths by Cath Staincliffe

    The Silence Between Breaths by Cath Staincliffe

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Eight people, one deadly secret.Passengers boarding the 10.35 train from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston are bound for work, assignations, reunions, holidays or new starts, with no idea that their journey is about to be brutally curtailed...
  • Extra Dirty by Mia Gold

    Extra Dirty by Mia Gold

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    EXTRA DIRTY is book #2 in the Ruby Steele Mystery, which begins with ON THE ROCKS (Book #1).Ruby Steele, 30, beautiful, fit, seems just like any other ex-pat hiding out in the Bahamas and playing local bartender. But unruly patrons find out the hard way: Ruby is a mixed-martial-arts pro, and not one you’d want to cross.A 40-something female tourist seeks out Ruby, desperate for her help...
  • The Bourne Objective by Eric Van Lustbader, Robert Ludlum

    The Bourne Objective by Eric Van Lustbader, Robert Ludlum

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    After Bourne is ambushed and nearly killed while in Indonesia, he fakes his death to take on a new identity and mission- to find out who is trying to assassinate him. In the process, Bourne begins to question who he really is and what he would become if he no longer carried the Bourne identity...
  • Wildcard by Ken McClure

    Wildcard by Ken McClure

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A traveler dies a horrifying death on a flight from Africa to London. The Ebola virus is suspected, but Steven Dunbar of the Sci-Med Directorate discovers the more frightening truth, and must act quickly before the outbreak achieves its sinister purpose...
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    crime  medical  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • Rough Justice by Brad Smith

    Rough Justice by Brad Smith

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    After ten years' absence, Carl Burns has returned to his hometown to support his estranged daughter Kate, who is currently testifying in a rape case. Carl is determined to get justice for Kate, whatever it takes. But with few allies, he finds himself incurring the wrath of powerful enemies as he attempts to uncover the truth...
  • Roses Are Blood Red by Novoneel Chakraborty

    Roses Are Blood Red by Novoneel Chakraborty

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I'll gift you a love story that every girl desires, but few get to live.'He'd told me once. And boy, did he stick to his words! Vanav Thakur is the perfect boyfriend that any girl can have. He ticks every box you can ever have for your Mr Right. Trust me on this...
  • Hard Time by A.J. Carella

    Hard Time by A.J. Carella

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When it comes to family, Kat will do anything. Even if that means going against everything she believes in, and risking her already fragile relationship with the man she loves. Faced with a problem that is too much for her alone, she enlists the help of her one time partner, Kyle. Together they must uncover a deadly secret before any more innocent lives are lost...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • The Birthday Girl by Stephen Leather

    The Birthday Girl by Stephen Leather

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Tony Freeman rescued Mersiha when she was fighting for her life in war-torn Yugoslavia. Now she's his adopted daughter, the perfect all-American girl, and it seems like her past is another country.But Mersiha has been trained to kill. And when she discovers that Freeman's company is being subjected to a sinister takeover bid, she decides to help - whatever the risks...
  • Tahoe Deathfall by Todd Borg

    Tahoe Deathfall by Todd Borg

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When 14-year-old Jennifer Salazar approaches Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna, she explains that her identical twin sister Melissa died 8 years before on their 6th birthday. Now, at the ripe old age of 14, Jennifer has come to believe that her sister's death was not the accident that everyone says. When McKenna investigates, he uncovers a long-buried secret that is still driving a murderer to kill...
  • The Mercy Rule by John Lescroart

    The Mercy Rule by John Lescroart

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Justice...Once Dismas Hardy was a cop. Now he spends his days in a lawyer's suit, billing hours to a corporate client in a downtown San Francisco office. Hardy's wife and kids like it that way. Then one client changes everything.Compassion...Graham Russo, a former baseball star, is charged with murdering his dying father...
  • Closer Than You Know by Brad Parks

    Closer Than You Know by Brad Parks

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Brad Parks delivers another riveting, emotionally powerful stand-alone domestic suspense thriller perfect for fans of The Couple Next Door and What She Knew.Disaster, Melanie Barrick was once told, is always closer than you know.It was a lesson she learned the hard way growing up in the constant upheaval of foster care...
  • The Color of Law by Mark Gimenez, Stephen Hoye

    The Color of Law by Mark Gimenez, Stephen Hoye

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    WHAT IF you had to choose between:your seven-figure salaryyour fancy house in the exclusive suburbyour memberships at a posh health club and even posher country clubyour marriage(not your soul; you’ve been renting it out for so long, it’s as good as sold)anddoing the right thingAnd what if in doing the right thing, all of the above still wasn’t enough and you risked having to pay the ultimate...
  • The Jury Master by Robert Dugoni

    The Jury Master by Robert Dugoni

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In a courtroom, David Sloane can grab a jury and make it dance. He can read jurors' expressions, feel their emotions, know their thoughts. With this remarkable ability, Sloane gets juries to believe the unbelievable, excuse the inexcusable, and return the most astonishing verdicts...
  • Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille, David Dukes

    Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille, David Dukes

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A Mafia don's steamy affair with an attorney's wife doesn't keep the hoodlum from hiring the hotshot lawyer to defend him in a murder charge...
  • Hour Game by David Baldacci

    Hour Game by David Baldacci

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    He's copying famous serial killers. And the HOUR GAME has just begun...A woman is found murdered in the woods. It seems like a simple case but it soon escalates into a terrible nightmare. Someone is replicating the killing styles of the most infamous murderers of all time. No one knows this criminal's motives...or who will die next...
  • The Whole Truth by David Baldacci

    The Whole Truth by David Baldacci

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    "Matt, I need a war."So begins David Baldacci's new book--a thriller unlike any he's written before. "Matt" is Mathew Pender, of Pender Associates--a shadowy organization that specializes in managing seemingly impossible situations for its clients. Sometimes, those services extend to managing--and creating--armed conflict...
  • The First Lady by James Patterson

    The First Lady by James Patterson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    "Sir, the First Lady ... has gone rogue."President Tucker is caught up in a media firestorm. The scandal of his affair has sent shockwaves through his re-election campaign, and threatens to derail everything he has worked for. To win the vote, he needs the First Lady to stand by his side.But Grace Tucker has a mind of her own...
  • Betrayal by Tim Tigner

    Betrayal by Tim Tigner

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    IT STARTED AS AN EXPERIMENT.It ended with an invention.He never intended to use it.But then they betrayed him.Imagine Vince Flynn's TERM LIMITS meets David Baldacci's ABSOLUTE POWER._____________________________Presumed dead after a staged terrorist attack, FBI Agent Odysseus Carr is running for his life with the doctor who rescued him...
  • The Deserter by Nelson DeMille, Alex DeMille

    The Deserter by Nelson DeMille, Alex DeMille

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A taut, psychologically suspenseful military thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille—writing with his son, screenwriter Alex DeMille—about two army investigators on the hunt in Venezuela for an army deserter who might know too much about a secret Pentagon operation...
  • The Judge by Steve Martini

    The Judge by Steve Martini

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Judge Armanda "the Coconut" Acosta is arrested on charges of soliciting a prostitute in a sting operation for "johns," and few -- including attorney Paul Madriani, who has a long history of enmity with the judge -- are sympathetic. When the young female decoy who snared the judge is found brutally murdered, Acosta is the prime suspect...
  • Protect and Defend by Richard North Patterson

    Protect and Defend by Richard North Patterson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    On a cold day in January President Kerry Kilcannon takes the oath of office-- and within days makes his first, most important move: appointing a new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Kilcannon's choice is a female judge with a brilliant record. And a secret...
  • Eyes of a Child by Richard North Patterson

    Eyes of a Child by Richard North Patterson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The same 3-hour quality performce for less2 cassettes / 3 hoursOnly $8.99Read by Ken HowardA stunning new courtroom drama from the author of the nationwide bestsellers Final Judgment, Silent Witness, and Degree of Guilt.In San Francisco, a dead man discovered amid evidence that might confirm suicide but strongly suggests murder...
  • I Made a Mistake by Jane Corry

    I Made a Mistake by Jane Corry

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    IT STARTED WITH A KISS... AND ENDED WITH MURDER. The darkly addictive new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of I Looked Away, Blood Sisters and My Husband's Wife. --------------------------------------------------------In Poppy Page's mind, there are two types of women in this world: those who are faithful to their husbands, and those who are not...
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    crime  drama  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
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