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Shadow's Loss by Mary Stone
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe path to power is paved with blood.In the wake of a landmark election on Shadow Island, the tide of power is set to turn. Newly elected Sheriff Rebecca West stands ready to dismantle the Yacht Club’s ruthless grip over the island. And she isn’t alone. She has her team as well as the newly elected chair of the Select Board by her side.But victory comes at a perilous cost... -
Stolen Justice by Robin James
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWill she take on an entire town to clear the name of a convicted killer? Defense lawyer Cass Leary never backs down from a case. Though after her latest high-profile courtroom win, the ex-mafia attorney thinks she's finally earned a little rest and relaxation... -
Blood Evidence by Robin James
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsShe’s tough as nails when defending criminals. Can a simple test destroy her resolve? Defense lawyer Cass Leary believes wholeheartedly in justice for all. So when her deadbeat dad suddenly reappears begging for help, she throws her better judgment out the window. But Cass’s family drama takes a back seat when a new client’s desperate search for her birth parents flips from happy to horrifying... -
First Degree by Robin James
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis lawyer is her client’s last hope, and her town’s worst nightmare.When a popular cheerleader winds up dead in a ditch, the case lands in defense attorney Cass Leary’s own backyard. Her niece’s boyfriend Cole is charged with first degree murder and the whole Leary family jumps to his defense. The evidence against him is as thin as the ice on Finn Lake... -
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The Girl on the Road by A.J. Rivers
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“You’re going on a date with someone you’ve just met online?There are a bunch of crazies out there. You need to be careful!”After multiple assassination attempts, FBI agent Emma Griffin is on the road to recovery.At times though, her dreams and reality seem to blur together. Leaving her to question aspects of her life... -
Winter's Storm by Mary Stone
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThey survived, but survival won't save them.When the survivors of the massacre at the Riverside Mall are murdered one after the other, the police suspect a serial killer and turn to the FBI. Winter Black is on the case, working to track down the third person involved in the mass shooting that happened the same night she took down The Preacher, the man who killed her parents...Categorized as:
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Devil's Bargain by Robin James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis attorney’s darkest regret just knocked on her front door…Cass Leary thought she was done defending shady mobsters. But when the boss calls in a favor, she realizes her debt has yet to be paid... -
The House in the Woods by Mark Dawson
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFour murders. Two detectives. One mystifying crime. On Christmas Eve, DCI Mackenzie Jones is called to a shooting at a remote farmhouse. Ralph Mallender believes his father lies dead inside. When three more bodies are discovered, it’s clear a festive family gathering has turned into a gruesome tragedy...Categorized as:
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Winter's Web by Mary Stone
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHuman webs are the deadliest...When Ryan O’Connelly—the unwilling accomplice of a bank robber turned mass murderer—slipped out of the FBI’s grasp, no one expected to hear from him again, much less of his own volition...Categorized as:
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The Devil's Cliff Killings by Simon McCleave
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA missing teenager. A web of prison corruption and human trafficking. Can DI Ruth Hunter blow the lid off the case in time to save a sixteen year old girl?Detective Inspector Ruth Hunter has resolved to put the grief of her missing partner behind her and continue to make a life away from London in Snowdonia... -
The Devil's Advocate by Steve Cavanagh
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA deadly prosecutorThey call him the King of Death Row. Randal Korn has sent more men to their deaths than any district attorney in the history of the United States.A twisted ritualistic killingWhen a young woman, Skylar Edwards, is found murdered in Buckstown, Alabama, a corrupt sheriff arrests the last person to see her alive, Andy Dubois... -
Time of Justice by Robin James
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis trial should be a slam-dunk. A faceless powerbroker has other ideas… Small-town prosecutor Mara Brent must be tough as nails to succeed in her male-dominated profession. But she harbors a soft spot for the victims who rely on her courtroom skill, especially the wheelchair-bound rape survivor she’s known for twenty years... -
Killing Season by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsLet it bleed. Watch it burn.The first shot punches through the windshield of an SUV. A head shot. The driver's death is instantaneous.By the time Special Agent Violet Darger arrives in Atlanta, the city teeters toward panic. The vacant streets and restaurants paint an eerie picture. No one dares to venture out.A killer walks among them. A shadow...Categorized as:
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The Courbet Connection by Estelle Ryan
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsForged masterpieces. Kidnapped students. The dark net. Nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard's search for an international assassin is rudely interrupted by an autistic teenager who claims that forged masterpieces are being sold on the dark net--a secret internet few know exists...Categorized as:
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The Solace Farm Killings by Simon McCleave
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA fanatical religious cult. A growing list of missing teenagers... -
Jack and the Giant Killer by Christopher Greyson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsYou said people were safe so he wanted to let them know they’re not. He wants people to be afraid. He wants them to be scared. If you want to catch this killer, let him know that he accomplished his goal. You need to let people know that he’s right—they should be scared because they’re not safe...Categorized as:
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The Girl in the Sand by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsShallow graves scar the desert landscape. A cemetery in the sand. Some of the lost are never found. Thousands of girls go missing every year in Las Vegas. Taken. Bought and sold. Or worse. And now the dead are calling. These lost girls summon FBI Profiler Violet Darger to Sin City -- a new case... -
Cold Truth by Mary Stone, Donna Berdel
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSay the words...In a dark basement, a cold-blooded killer pits friend against friend, torturing one until the other says the horrible words that will end their friend’s suffering. He’s gotten away with murder for years. Until now...Ellie Kline can’t remember most of her kidnapping when she was fifteen, but that night has shaped her life. Instead of cowering, that horrible night made her strong... -
The Second Sign: A Sean Wyatt Archaeological Thriller: 19 by Ernest Dempsey
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor millennia, stories of God’s greatest prophets have inspired Christians across the world, urging them toward the kind of faith that compelled these celebrated sages of old.But one modern madman wants that power for himself, to conquer a world he views as filled with unrepentant sinners as he ushers in a new age of religious rule...Categorized as:
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One Last Kill by Robert Dugoni
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDetective Tracy Crosswhite draws a long-dormant serial killer out of hiding in a nerve-shattering novel by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni.Tracy Crosswhite is reopening the investigation into Seattle’s Route 99 serial killer. After thirteen victims, he stopped hunting and the trail went cold, stirring public outrage... -
The Vecellio Connection by Estelle Ryan
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSadistic smugglers. Hacked cars. The ultimate revenge. Nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard and her team have spent the last year tracking Marcus Gallo, a disgraced Brazilian business tycoon and ruthless killer. Then a hacked car transporting artwork brings a teammate’s past back to distract and haunt them all...Categorized as:
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The Flinck Connection by Estelle Ryan
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA murdered politician. An unsolved art heist. An international conspiracy. A cryptic online message leads nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard to the body of a brutally murdered politician. Despite being ordered not to investigate, Genevieve and her team look into this vicious crime... -
The Morisot Connection by Estelle Ryan
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMurdered criminals. Flawless forgeries. Encrypted operas.The murder of an opera house director forces world-renowned nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard and her team into an impossible position: protecting notorious criminals--from what appears to be a serial killer...Categorized as:
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Mad Jack by Stacy M. Jones
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSomething sinister lurks behind the perfect homes and well-manicured lawns of Mulberry Grove. Wealthy tech investor Jack Harlow, known to the FBI as Mad Jack, has been running a personal development program for the past ten years. Locals call it a cult. Few leave, and those who try, end up dead under mysterious circumstances. Six couples in all over the last five years... -
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Unfinished Business by J.A. Jance
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this heart-pounding and sharply written thriller from J.A. Jance, the “grand master of the genre” (The Providence Journal), Ali Reynolds’s personal life is thrown into turmoil just as two men show up on the scene—a former employee of her husband’s who has just been released from prison and a serial killer who sets his sights a little too close to home... -
Free to Kill by Julie Mellon
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFBI Agent Katie Freeman’s life has been upended. After being reassigned from Louisiana to middle Tennessee, her new bosses suspect that her reassignment is due to an indiscretion with her previous partner. Now, she and her new partner, Michael Powell, are asked to assist on the bewildering case of a woman who was kidnapped, tortured and left for dead on her own front porch... -
The Criminal Lawyer by Thomas Benigno
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsInspired by real crimes. From the author of the number-one best-seller, The Good Lawyer.A serial killer is littering the south shore beach of Long Island with the bones of his female victims stuffed into burlap bags... -
A Cold Killing by Anna Smith
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCrime reporter Rosie Gilmour returns from hiding in Bosnia to a story of a brutal execution. University lecturer Tom Mahoney was shot at point blank range, the killing has all the signs of a hit. But who would want to kill a retired lecturer? Rosie throws herself into the investigation, looking for a witness that has gone missing. A witness that might hold the key to the story... -
Killer Lawyer by Mark Nolan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJake Wolfe is a young lawyer who leads a secret life as a government assassin. Trained by the CIA, Jake now wants a new life of peace and quiet, living on a boat and practicing law. But when his city is shocked by a serial killer and he’s framed for the murder of a friend, Jake must race against time to find the killer before he strikes again...Categorized as:
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The Invitation by A.J. Rivers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen FBI agent Ava James received a call from an ex,she could have never predicted the mayhem that would follow...After receiving an invitation to attend a Christmas themed wedding in the mountains,Ava had planned out her perfect winter escape.However, the getaway turns into a nightmare when she stumbles upon the groom’s sister frozen in the snow...Categorized as:
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A Veronica Lee Thriller Collection Volume Two: A Veronica Lee Thriller Box Set Includes Books 5-8 by Melinda Woodhall
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIf you love twisty thrillers with heart, you'll love the Veronica Lee Thriller Collection Volume Two, Books 5-8, which has been earning rave reviews from thriller lovers looking for their next chilling series... -
Final Breath by Robert F. Barker
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA monstrous killer, safely behind bars – But just how safe is, ‘safe’? An archive of debauchery and murder, poised to ruin reputations, careers, lives A detective running out of time to find what he seeks Eighteen months on from the case that nearly cost him his life, only DCI Jamie Carver knows the incredible extent of the Worshipper Killer’s network of depravity – and the storm that will...Categorized as:
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The Southern Lawyer by Peter O'Mahoney
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAfter more than twenty years away from the law, Joe Hennessy is forced back into the courtroom…Trying to save his vineyard after years of drought, Hennessy returns to practice in the city he walked away from after the murder of his ten-year-old son—Charleston, South Carolina... -
Dark Lava by Toby Neal
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsParadise is threatened by a fight for sacred artifacts.She just wants to disarm the IED.Newly assigned to the bomb squad, Detective Lei Texeira struggles with skills that may be dangerously out of reach, even as a heinous crime strikes close to home and catches her husband in the crossfire.The woman is his. And if he can’t have her, she’ll have to die...Categorized as:
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The Veiled (The Baudin & Dixon Trilogy) by Victor Methos
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEthan Baudin abandoned police work in the midst of corruption and cover up at the Cheyenne PD. Now living in Venice, California, he thinks that life is gone forever. Then his old partner, Kyle Dixon, now chief of police, shows up at his doorstep, asking for his help. A killer is loose in Cheyenne that brutally murders young women and leaves their bodies in public...Categorized as:
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Blood Money by J.M. Dalgliesh
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe fourth stunning book in the bestselling Dark Yorkshire series. Discover the latest explosive, unmissable chapter. A businessman found hanged. A tortured and mutilated loaner. High finance has never been so deadly… DI Nathaniel Caslin is spiralling toward a professional crisis. His biggest case in years has collapsed amid accusations of police intimidation... -
The Stolen Hours by Allen Eskens
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA woman finds herself in a race not only for justice but for her life in this "riveting, hold-your-breath" new mystery from the bestselling author of The Life We Bury (Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author).Lila Nash is on the verge of landing her dream job—working as a prosecutor under the Hennepin County Attorney—and has settled into a happy life with her boyfriend, Joe Talbert... -
Force of Justice by J.J. Miller
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOne of LA’s most powerful men is charged with murder, and criminal attorney Brad Madison is called to defend him.But murder is only the start of their problems…In this first instalment of the Brad Madison novel series, Madison finds himself defending Patrick Strickland against a mounting evidence base... -
Deadly Revenge by Renee Pawlish
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA car found at a park, a woman’s body inside.It appeared Dr. Amy Babbitt had a good life. Did she commit suicide, or did someone want her dead?As Denver Homicide Detective Sarah Spillman delves into Amy’s life, the details don’t add up, but the suspect list does. Everyone is keeping secrets, and someone is willing to kill to keep theirs hidden... -
We Forget Nothing by D.D. Black
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the fragments of a failing mind lie clues to a forgotten evil. Can FBI Task Force S.W.O.R.D. uncover the truth before it disappears forever?In the hushed corridors of the Evergreen Memory Care facility, a young nurse's obsession with true crime leads to a chilling discovery. An elderly patient—his memories fading—speaks of unthinkable acts... -
The Station by Saul Herzog
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Station by Saul Herzog is the stunning next instalment in the series that has taken the publishing industry, and Hollywood rights departments, by storm. This dazzling tour de force is a full standalone novel. From the mind of one of the most creative and versatile writers working in America today, this book will surely go down as a classic of the spy thriller genre...Categorized as:
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Death by Midnight by A.J. Rivers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s a time for celebration.Unfortunately in Twilight Cove, the festivity is masking something ominous...PI Dean Steele has had to solve many strange mysteries throughout his career.This time he is called to the small seaside town to unmask the truth behind a chilling murder...Categorized as:
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The Garden of Secrets by A.J. Rivers
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen a hunter approaches an unattended fire, he sees a hand sticking out of the ground.There's a bracelet around her wrist, adorned with a rose charm.A decade has since passed, and to this day, her identity remains unknown.Dean Steele has spent most of his life in the service of something greater.From serving his country in the military to bringing justice to the evildoers in this world... -
Lethal Lines by Paige Black
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor fans of gripping thrillers and intense police procedurals comes a chilling tale that will keep you on the edge of your seat.Eden Mercer, a determined young officer in Nightfall, Oregon, is making strides to overcome her traumatic past in a fundamentalist cult. With her loyal K-9 partner, Shadow, at her side, she's ready to tackle any challenge... -
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The Fuse by Stacy M. Jones
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFBI Agents Kate Walsh and Declan James are on the hunt for a serial bomber targeting secret societies at Ivy League schools and time is running out. What at first appears to be a freak accident soon spirals into a terrifying situation as college students are killed by deadly explosions in the middle of the night. Their wealth and privilege cannot protect them and may be making them a target... -
A Killer’s Game by Isabella Maldonado
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAn FBI agent with a background in cryptography. A brilliant game maker bent on revenge. A deadly battle of wits and wills. An ingenious thriller from the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Cipher.FBI agent and former military codebreaker Daniela “Dani” Vega witnesses a murder on a Manhattan sidewalk. The victim is chief of staff for a powerful New York senator... -
His Garden of Bones by Vickie McKeehan
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNot all flowers are grown with love. Years earlier, teenage girls began to vanish off the streets of Seattle. Now, they're turning up dead, their mutilated bodies left in prominent locations around the city. Skye Cree suspects there are more... -
Girl, Expendable by Blake Pierce
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFBI Agent Ella Dark has studied serial killers from the time she could read, devastated by the murder of her own sister, and has gained an encyclopedic knowledge of murderers. A murderer obsessed with past serial killers seems to be copycatting their work—but with one curious difference... -
The Runaway by Nick Petrie
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPetrie has a preternatural talent for ratcheting up suspense.--New York Times Book Review When Peter Ash rescues a stranded woman, he finds she's in far deeper trouble than he could ever imagine in the powerful new thriller in this bestselling and award-winning series... -
Rip Tides by Toby Neal
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSurfing in Hawaii can be fame, talent and…murder. Poised to win the prestigious Triple Crown of Surfing, Maui surf star Makoa Simmons washes up tragically dead. Detective Lei Texeira plunges into a high-profile case whose dark and tangled motives reach deep into the elite world of professional surfing on the North Shore of Oahu...Categorized as:
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