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  • Enemy at the Gates by Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn

    Enemy at the Gates by Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Mitch Rapp, the CIA’s top operative, searches for a high-level mole with the power to rewrite the world order.Mitch Rapp has worked for a number of presidents over his career, but Anthony Cook is unlike any he’s encountered before. Cunning and autocratic, he feels no loyalty to America’s institutions and is distrustful of the influence Rapp and CIA director Irene Kennedy have in Washington...
  • Final Option by Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison

    Final Option by Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In Final Option, Juan Cabrillo fights the worst enemy from his past to the terrifying and unexpected ending created by the Grand Master of Adventure, Clive Cussler, in the latest action-packed thriller in his #1 New York Times-bestselling series...
  • The Wrong Side by Robert Bailey

    The Wrong Side by Robert Bailey

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A battle-worn lawyer fights for a young man’s life in this criminally enthralling legal thriller.Teen pop star Brittany Crutcher is found dead in small-town Tennessee. For attorney Bocephus Haynes, it’s just another night in Pulaski. Bo swore off criminal work after his last case, but the beloved singer’s murder demands answers...
  • Code Red by Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn

    Code Red by Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Mitch Rapp makes a mortal enemy of Russia in this high-octane and “ripped straight from next week’s headlines” (The Real Book Spy) installment in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Mitch Rapp hates owing anyone a favor—especially when it’s the world’s most powerful crime lord. But when Damian Losa calls, Mitch is honor bound to answer...
  • The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden

    The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    “Don’t go in the guest bedroom.” A shadow falls on Douglas Garrick’s face as he touches the door with his fingertips. “My wife… she’s very ill.” As he continues showing me their incredible penthouse apartment, I have a terrible feeling about the woman behind closed doors...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  mystery  psychological
  • Total Mayhem by John Gilstrap

    Total Mayhem by John Gilstrap

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In bestselling author John Gilstrap’s ticking time bomb of a thriller, freelance operative Jonathan Grave penetrates a terrorist cell to stop the detonation of total mayhem on home ground . . .   America is under fire. One by one, simultaneous terror attacks have left the country reeling. The perpetrators are former Special Forces operatives working for ISIS...
  • Full Black by Brad Thor

    Full Black by Brad Thor

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor brings readers his darkest and most intriguing thriller yet—a terrifying story of espionage and betrayal—brilliantly paced with superb nonstop action.Born in the shadows and kept from heads of state, there are some missions so deadly, so sensitive, that they simply don’t exist...
  • 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...
  • Dark Lies by Elliot York

    Dark Lies by Elliot York

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Relax, this won’t be so bad.After all, this isn’t the first time you’ve died.She was the girl everyone wanted but no one could have—no one but him. They’d loved each other. Becca’s suicide at age 18 broke Logan. The heartache never fully healed. But nothing could have prepared him for the shock of what came next.At age 39, Logan Cooper’s hard-earned detective career is hanging on by a mere thread...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  audiobook  fiction  mystery  book  adult
  • The Silver Wolf by Rob Sinclair

    The Silver Wolf by Rob Sinclair

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A fast paced and unmissable thriller from the international bestselling James Ryker series Ryker wants blood, and one way or another he’ll get it...Still tormented by the disappearance of his wife, ex-intelligence agent James Ryker sets out on a personal mission of revenge, prepared to go to any lengths in search of the truth...
  • Fortunate Son by Andrew Bridgeman

    Fortunate Son by Andrew Bridgeman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A deadly prophecy must be stopped before all is lost. Trust none, sacrifice words to live (or die) by in this edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller of deceit and intrigue...
  • The Last Refuge by Ben Coes

    The Last Refuge by Ben Coes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    With time running out to stop the nuclear destruction of Tel Aviv, Dewey Andreas must defeat his most fearsome opponent yet.Off a quiet street in Brooklyn, New York, Israeli Special Forces commander Kohl Meir is captured by operatives of the Iranian secret service, who smuggle Meir back to Iran, where he is imprisoned, tortured, and prepared for a show trial...
  • Situation Room by Jack Mars, K.C. Kelly

    Situation Room by Jack Mars, K.C. Kelly

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    SITUATION ROOM is book #3 in the bestselling Luke Stone thriller series, which begins with ANY MEANS NECESSARY (book #1), a free download with over 60 five star reviews! A cyberattack on an obscure U.S. dam leaves thousands dead and the government wondering who attacked it, and why...
  • The Bourne Evolution by Brian Freeman

    The Bourne Evolution by Brian Freeman

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    America's most enduring hero, Jason Bourne, returns--with old skills and new plot twists--in a propulsive, action-packed addition to the Bourne canon. After the death of his wife in a mass shooting, secret agent Jason Bourne is convinced that there is more to her murder than it seems. Worse, he believes that the agency that trained him and made him who he is--Treadstone--is behind the killing...
  • The Forgotten Soldier by Brad Taylor

    The Forgotten Soldier by Brad Taylor

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The ninth thriller in the New York Times bestselling Pike Logan series by Brad Taylor, a retired Delta Force commander who has lived for more than twenty years in the world about which he writes. For years, the extralegal counterterrorist unit known as the Taskforce has worked in the shadows, anticipating and preventing attacks around the globe...
  • Nighthawk by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown

    Nighthawk by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    NUMA crew leaders Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala must beat the clock to stop the world’s most dazzling new technological advance from becoming mankind’s last in this action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times–bestselling grand master of adventure...
  • The Widow's Strike by Brad Taylor

    The Widow's Strike by Brad Taylor

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Invented by nature but genetically manipulated by man, a mutation of the H5N1 virus—aka the “bird flu”—has fallen into the wrong hands. Angered by sanctions placed against its nuclear program, a rogue state is determined to release it. Their chosen method: one of the Black Widows—female suicide terrorists of Chechen descent who have the highest kill rate of any terrorist organization...
  • Debris Line by Matthew FitzSimmons

    Debris Line by Matthew FitzSimmons

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The stakes are higher than ever as the Wall Street Journal bestselling series continues.Lying low on the sun-kissed coast of Portugal is a far cry from twenty-four-hour lockdown in a CIA black-site prison. But even in paradise, Gibson Vaughn is a long way from being home free. With the feds hot on his heels, he and his crew of fellow fugitives know they can’t hide in a sunny beach town forever...
  • Mimik by Sebastian Fitzek

    Mimik by Sebastian Fitzek

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Ein winziges Zucken im Mundwinkel, die kleinste Veränderung in der Pupille reichen ihr, um das wahre Ich eines Menschen zu „lesen“: Hannah Herbst ist Deutschlands erfahrenste Mimikresonanz-Expertin, spezialisiert auf die geheimen Signale des menschlichen Körpers. Als Beraterin der Polizei hat sie schon etliche Gewaltverbrecher überführt...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  fiction  mystery  audiobook  book  adult
  • Next Exit, Three Miles by C.W. Browning

    Next Exit, Three Miles by C.W. Browning

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Alina Maschik was one of the best. She never missed. Yet, two years ago in Cairo, she missed her shot at one of the world’s most wanted terrorists. Now, he’s back. This time, he’s on US soil.Given the opportunity to redeem herself, Alina’s objective is simple: find the terrorist and complete her mission...
  • Vecchie conoscenze by Antonio Manzini

    Vecchie conoscenze by Antonio Manzini

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Rocco Schiavone indaga sull’omicidio di una professoressa in pensione. E intanto l’ombra del passato si fa pressante: la pena per Sebastiano, l’amico fraterno che non ha mai smesso di dare la caccia a Enzo Baiocchi, che gli ha assassinato la moglie, lo rende inquieto e gli ruba il sonno...
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    crime  noir  thriller  fiction  mystery  book  adult
  • The Assassin's List by Scott Matthews

    The Assassin's List by Scott Matthews

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    THE ASSASSIN'S LIST is book one in the Adam Drake series - a headline-current thriller about homegrown jihadist assassins and a timid, too-PC government. The assassination of the Secretary of Homeland Security is planned at a decommissioning ceremony at an Army Chemical Depot...
  • Killing Moon by Jo Nesbø

    Killing Moon by Jo Nesbø

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the thirteenth novel in the New York Times best-selling series, brilliant rogue police investigator Harry Hole is back, this time as an outsider assembling his own team to help find a serial killer.Harry has gone to Los Angeles to drink himself to death, in the wake of his life back in Oslo falling to pieces...
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    crime  noir  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  mystery
  • 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...
  • Le chasseur de regards by Sebastian Fitzek

    Le chasseur de regards by Sebastian Fitzek

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Alexander Zorbach, reporter dans un grand quotidien berlinois, a temporairement permis de mettre un terme aux agissements du tristement célèbre Voleur de regards, un psychopathe ayant assassiné de manière bestiale quatre femmes et trois enfants – à qui il avait chacun prélevé un œil – et à sauver in extremis deux futures victimes.Mais le journaliste a dû pour cela payer le prix fort...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  mystery
  • The Insider Threat by Brad Taylor

    The Insider Threat by Brad Taylor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In the eighth action-packed thriller in the New York Times bestselling Pike Logan series, ISIS, the most maniacal terrorist organization the modern world has ever seen, is poised to make their most audacious strike yet. The United States has anticipated and averted countless attacks from terrorist groups—thanks in large part to the extralegal counterterrorist unit known as the Taskforce...
  • La nena by Carmen Mola

    La nena by Carmen Mola

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    SIN LÍMITES Vuelve Carmen Mola, el último fenómeno de la novela negra española (150.000 lectores) y su autora más audaz y enigmática, con una entrega aún más revulsiva, violenta y sorprendente. «Nadie regresa del infierno indemne.» Es la noche del fin de año chino, empieza el año del cerdo...
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    crime  noir  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • La casa delle voci by Donato Carrisi

    La casa delle voci by Donato Carrisi

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Pietro Gerber non è uno psicologo come gli altri. La sua specializzazione è l'ipnosi e i suoi pazienti hanno una cosa in comune: sono bambini. Pietro è il migliore di tutta Firenze, dove è conosciuto come l'addormentatore di bambini. Ma quando riceve una telefonata da parte di una collega australiana che gli raccomanda una paziente, Pietro reagisce con perplessità e diffidenza...
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    crime  noir  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper

    Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Everybody Knows is a propulsive LA crime thriller about Mae Pruett, a "black-bag publicist" - she doesn't get the good news out, she keeps the bad news in – who works for “The Beast,” her name for the loose collection of lawyers, publicists and private security firms who protect and serve the wealthy and depraved of Los Angeles...
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    crime  noir  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • Every Pretty Thing by Chris Mooney

    Every Pretty Thing by Chris Mooney

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In Every Pretty Thing serial killer hunter Darby McCormick finds herself in Montana, looking for a friend. Little does she realise that a murderer is waiting for her . . .She came to find her friend.Instead she found a killer.Serial killer expert Darby McCormick gets a call from FBI Agent Jackson Cooper, who has been contacted by a woman who's been in hiding for twenty years...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  mystery  psychological
  • 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
  • Kamer 19 by Marc Raabe

    Kamer 19 by Marc Raabe

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Op het openingsevenement van de Berlinale zorgt een snuff-movie voor een massale schok. Ruim 1800 sterren en beroemdheden zien hoe een gruwelijke moord op camera is vastgelegd. Het slachtoffer is de dochter van burgemeester Otto Keller. De dader dreigt dat het niet bij deze moord zal blijven. Rechercheur Tom Babylon en psychologe Sita Johanns staan met hun onderzoek naar de moord onder hoge druk...
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    crime  thriller  noir  audiobook  fiction  mystery  book  adult
  • Terminal Velocity by M.P. Woodward, Tom Clancy

    Terminal Velocity by M.P. Woodward, Tom Clancy

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A string of savage murders in the United States seems unrelated until the FBI makes a shocking discovery: a decade ago, all of the murder victims were involved in a raid to eliminate the Umayyad Revolutionary Council, a vicious terror group that—were it not for John Clark and the Campus—would have perpetrated the most devastating attack against critical American infrastructure in history...
  • Sharko by Franck Thilliez

    Sharko by Franck Thilliez

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    " Sharko comparait toujours les premiers jours d'une enquête à une partie de chasse. Ils étaient la meute de chiens stimulés par les cors, qui s'élancent à la poursuite du gibier. À la différence près que, cette fois, le gibier, c'était eux. " Eux, c'est Lucie Henebelle et Franck Sharko, flics aux 36 quai des Orfèvres, unis à la ville comme à la scène, parents de deux petits garçons...
  • The President's Henchman by Joseph Flynn

    The President's Henchman by Joseph Flynn

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    According to the polls, it's only a matter of time - and not that long a time - before the United States elects its first female president. Which will make her husband - what? Well, if he's the ex-cop who solved the murder of the president's first husband and brought the killers to justice ... and if he's not the kind of guy to stand on formality ..
  • The Case Against William by Mark Gimenez

    The Case Against William by Mark Gimenez

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Criminal defence lawyers must make their peace with one harsh fact of life: most of their clients are guilty. Yet when William Tucker, a celebrated and self-centered star college football player, is suddenly arrested and charged with the brutal rape and murder of a college coed two years before, his broken-down, drunken estranged father Frank can't believe he's guilty...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  legal  mystery
  • The Child Taker & Slow Burn by Conrad Jones

    The Child Taker & Slow Burn by Conrad Jones

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    2 top ten 'unputdownable' thrillers in one special edition download. How far would you go to get your children back......?A stand alone novel based on high profile child abductions, which have been followed by millions of concerned parents on the news. 5 year old twins are abducted from a tent in the Lake District and the hunt for a dangerous paedophile ring begins...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  family  fiction  mystery
  • Point of Balance: A Thriller by Juan Gómez-Jurado

    Point of Balance: A Thriller by Juan Gómez-Jurado

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In this superbly written, nail-biting thriller, a top neurosurgeon is forced to choose between ending the life of the most important person in America or guaranteeing his own daughter’s horrifying death.I am no saint, no martyr, no terrorist, no madman, and no murderer…I am a father. That’s my story. Dr...
  • White Death by Ken McClure

    White Death by Ken McClure

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    White Death is the seventh thriller by Ken McClure to feature the ex-special forces medic Steven Dunbar. The governments of the western world know a terrorist biological attack will happen sooner rather than later...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  medical  mystery
  • Scratch Deeper by Chris Simms

    Scratch Deeper by Chris Simms

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Introducing feisty Detective Constable Iona Khan – the first in a thrilling new crime series. In sun-soaked Mauritius, a retired Law Lord is brutally murdered, while in rain-sodden Manchester, the Labour Party conference is beginning...
  • 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...
  • Out on the Rim by Ross Thomas

    Out on the Rim by Ross Thomas

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Would you be wary if someone gave you the assignment of delivering five million dollars to a Philippine terrorist—never mind from whom or why? Booth Stallings, a terrorism expert just fired from his job at a bashful organization that never admitted its mount in the Washington merry-go-round, is wary...
  • Heartbreaker by Tania Carver

    Heartbreaker by Tania Carver

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After years of abuse, Gemma Adderley has finally found the courage to leave her violent husband. She has taken one debilitating beating too many, endured one esteem-destroying insult too much. Taking her seven-year-old daughter Carly, she leaves the house, determined to salvage what she can of her life...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  mystery  fiction  psychological  book  adult
  • Who Painted My Money White? by Sree Iyer

    Who Painted My Money White? by Sree Iyer

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A ship carrying 2 containers, each containing Rs.5000 crores in 500- and 1000-rupee notes, docks in the dark of night at Kochi. The money is quickly distributed to members of a minority community using a network of 100 Chartered accountants. The bulk of the money finds its way back into fake firms, shell corporations and charities with the sole aim of destabilizing the country...
  • Road by John Sweeney

    Road by John Sweeney

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When a child is kidnapped by his unstable mother, the father turns to Joe Tiplady—offering him a lot of money to find the boy and bring him back. It soon becomes clear that Joe will have to earn every cent: mother and son are in war-torn Syria, and they’ve willingly joined the ranks of ISIS...
  • 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
  • Terminal Rage by A.M. Khalifa

    Terminal Rage by A.M. Khalifa

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In this critically acclaimed and bestselling international thriller, FBI hostage-negotiator Alexander Blackwell is dragged out of a dishonorable retirement to negotiate with a terrorist leader who has taken hostages in a Manhattan skyscraper...
  • The Absence of Guilt by Mark Gimenez

    The Absence of Guilt by Mark Gimenez

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Mark Gimenez, author the massive international bestseller The Colour of Law, is back as superstar lawyer Scott A. Fenney takes the stand for an impossible case.An ISIS attack on America is narrowly averted when the FBI uncovers a plot to detonate a weapon of mass destruction in Dallas, Texas during the Super Bowl...
  • How to Disappear by Gillian McAllister

    How to Disappear by Gillian McAllister

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    You can run, you can hide, but can you ever really disappear? . . . Lauren's daughter Zara witnessed a terrible crime. But speaking up comes with a price, and when Zara's identity is revealed online, it puts a target on her back.The only choice is to disappear.From their family, their friends, even from Lauren's husband.No goodbyes. Just new names, new home, new lives...
  • Dress Her in Indigo by John D. MacDonald

    Dress Her in Indigo by John D. MacDonald

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A wealthy old man laid up in the hospital is desperate to understand the last months of his daughter's life before she was killed in a car crash in Mexico. It was puzzling. She'd cleaned out her considerable bank account, left Miami and hadn't been heard from again...
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