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Reasonable Fear by Scott Pratt
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThree young women are found floating in a lake. The suspect is one of the richest and most powerful men in Tennessee. "Reasonable Fear" is the fourth of the bestselling Joe Dillard series offered by Scott Pratt. In this novel, Dillard has become the district attorney in Northeast Tennessee... -
![A Steep Price by Robert Dugoni]()
A Steep Price by Robert Dugoni
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni’s thrilling series continues as Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite is plunged into a case of family secrets and murder… “Another outstanding novel from one of the best crime writers in the business... -
![Famished: Part Two: by Ellie Messe]()
Famished: Part Two: by Ellie Messe
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI’m a coward. I just wanted to forget. I just wanted an escape from reality. I didn’t ask for any of this. Hiding the truth just might kill me, but how can I come clean when everything around me is so twisted? Funerals, weddings, secrets…between them all, I’m losing myself. I’m not even sure I know who I am anymore. I missed the memo where families are built on lies... -
![The House of Wolves by James Patterson, Mike Lupica]()
The House of Wolves by James Patterson, Mike Lupica
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJoe Wolf applies a cutthroat determination to his life’s work, from to building a California business empire to parenting three sons and a daughter. Kill or be killed. So when the patriarch takes a deadly cruise on San Francisco Bay, Joe Wolf’s bloodline becomes SFPD’s lifeline. Detective Ben Cantor trails the “pack of wolves” as the siblings vie for control of their legacy of power and assets... -
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![One Way by Tom Barber]()
One Way by Tom Barber
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNYPD Detective Sam Archer is on his way home on a Sunday afternoon in New York City. He’s been out of the field for over three months due to a broken ankle and a nasty case of pneumonia, but has just been given the all clear to get back out there again, starting tomorrow. Archer takes a seat on a bench in the Upper West Side, enjoying a cold drink and soaking up the last remaining sun of the day... -
![Little Broken Things by Cheryl Bradshaw]()
Little Broken Things by Cheryl Bradshaw
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDetective Georgiana Germaine is back on the trail of a cold-blooded killer, and once again, the case hits close to home.Twenty-year-old Olivia Spencer sits at her desk in her mother's bookshop, dreaming about her upcoming wedding. The shop may be closed, but Olivia's not alone, and her dream is about to become her worst nightmare... -
![Crimson Lake Road by Victor Methos]()
Crimson Lake Road by Victor Methos
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsBestselling author Victor Methos’s acclaimed series continues as prosecutor Jessica Yardley races to catch an art-obsessed serial killer before she becomes his next masterpiece.Retiring prosecutor Jessica Yardley can’t turn down one last investigation. This time, it’s a set of murders inspired by a series of grisly paintings called The Night Things... -
![Bedlam by L.J. Ross]()
Bedlam by L.J. Ross
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the international best-selling author of the DCI Ryan mysteries.In a world gone mad, who can you trust?Fresh from a high-profile case in the Paris fashion world, elite forensic psychologist and criminal profiler Dr Alexander Gregory receives a call from the New York State Homicide Squad... -
![30 Days of Justis by John Ellsworth]()
30 Days of Justis by John Ellsworth
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsShe's a daughter he doesn't know he has. Until she calls him...from death row. From USA Today bestselling author John Ellsworth comes another book so thrilling the pages all but turn themselves. Written as a standalone novel. Michael Gresham meets his lost daughter, Cache, in her prison cell. She is scheduled for execution in 30 days. Her other lawyers have given up; there is nothing left to do... -
![The Law Partners by John Ellsworth]()
The Law Partners by John Ellsworth
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsARRESTED FOR A MURDER YOU DIDN'T COMMIT? Michael Gresham is a criminal attorney who defends his clients with an iron will. They know that when he takes their case they are probably going to leave the courthouse a free man or free woman. But what happens when the defender becomes the defendant himself? A law partner will have to step up and do for him what he can't do for himself... -
![The Titan Series Boxed Set by Cristin Harber]()
The Titan Series Boxed Set by Cristin Harber
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Titan Series, books 1-5: Winters Heat, Garrison’s Creed, Westin’s Chase, Gambled, & Chased Winters Heat: After putting her life on the line to protect classified intelligence, military psychologist Mia Kensington is on a cross-country road trip from hell with an intrusive save-the-day hero... -
![Only One Cure by Jenifer Ruff]()
Only One Cure by Jenifer Ruff
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe President's son is dying. Terrorists claim to have the only cure.When a private plane whisks CDC epidemiologist Madeline Hamilton to Washington D.C. for an urgent medical symposium, she knows something significant is underway—but she doesn’t expect to face the most disturbing medical mystery of her career... -
![Blood Dahlia by Victor Methos, MacKenzie Leigh Barmen]()
Blood Dahlia by Victor Methos, MacKenzie Leigh Barmen
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA COPYCAT OF THE MOST FAMOUS MURDER IN HISTORY... A serial murderer nicknamed the Blood Dahlia has been terrorizing the quiet suburbs of Pennsylvania. Brutally mutilating his victims in the fashion of the most famous murder in Hollywood, the killer leaves no trace behind... -
![Where The Dead Fall by M.J. Lee]()
Where The Dead Fall by M.J. Lee
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOne chance encounter, one street side murder, will change everything… The extraordinary new Ridpath crime thrillerManchester has been at peace for twenty years. Not any more.DI Ridpath is in the process of getting his life back together when everything goes wrong... -
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![Kray: Broken Deeds MC by Esther E. Schmidt]()
Kray: Broken Deeds MC by Esther E. Schmidt
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKray and North are like a unit, where there's one, there's the other. When the both of them take a case involving a missing agent, they become more involved than they bargained for. Vienna is willing to do anything to find her sister and bring her home safe. Anything except shacking up with the two bikers who are dead set on solving this case... -
![Airliner Down by John Etzil]()
Airliner Down by John Etzil
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFlight 2262 is bound for paradise, but a rogue terrorist could send it to the bottom of the ocean…Kevin can’t wait to land in Hawaii for a romantic getaway. But when the off-duty pilot takes a glance at his GPS, he’s in for a surprise: the plane is headed to the middle of the Pacific Ocean. And he’s the only one who knows it…Expecting the worst, Kevin heads to the cockpit... -
![Excise by Danielle Girard]()
Excise by Danielle Girard
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMedical examiner Dr. Annabelle Schwartzman was not meant to be idle, which is why she’s back at a murder scene even while reeling from recent chemotherapy treatments. Having undergone a double mastectomy, all she wants to do is dive back into her medical examiner job. It’s a gruesome world, yet Schwartzman takes comfort in its science and precision... -
![Shattered Rhythm by R.B. Hilliard]()
Shattered Rhythm by R.B. Hilliard
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsChaz Jones’ life hasn’t been easy. Meltdown’s newest drummer doesn’t give a damn about anything except for his kit, his sticks and his throne. Music offers him a way out and he takes it, only to discover it isn’t enough. Nothing is ever enough. … Until Olivia Olivia Marshall had her dream job, her dream boyfriend, and her dream life... -
![Little Girl Lost by Cheryl Bradshaw]()
Little Girl Lost by Cheryl Bradshaw
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor the past two years, former detective Georgiana "Gigi" Germaine has been living off the grid, until today, when she hears some disturbing news that shakes her. Georgiana's brother-in-law has been murdered, her seven-year-old niece kidnapped. As the hours waste away, Georgiana races back to a town she left behind, and a former life she's still not ready to face... -
![The Advocate's Felony by Teresa Burrell]()
The Advocate's Felony by Teresa Burrell
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSabre Brown’s phone rings at 2 a.m. It’s her brother Ron. After seven years in the Witness Protection Program, someone has discovered his whereabouts, and has tried to kill him. He’s called to warn Sabre that she is in imminent danger. Sabre and her private investigator, J.P., leave sunny San Diego to search for her brother in the cold, wintry Northwest... -
![Carlos the Ant by John Ellsworth]()
Carlos the Ant by John Ellsworth
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCarlos has a sick daughter and needs money. He's also an upstanding citizen who pays his taxes, puts in his forty hours, doesn't drink and carouse, and loves his wife. Still...he has nowhere else to turn. So Carlos gets money the old-fashioned way--he robs banks. The money comes pouring in but then a new man joins the crew and everything tumbles downhill... -
![Mastermind by Andrew Mayne]()
Mastermind by Andrew Mayne
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsA mysterious electrical storm plunges Manhattan into darkness. As a strange, smothering fog rolls in, all communication crashes. In the blink of an eye, the island seems to vanish into a void.FBI special agent Jessica Blackwood and brilliant scientist Dr. Theo Cray know this isn’t a freak accident. It’s a sinister sleight of hand... -
![Unforgiven by Rebecca Zanetti]()
Unforgiven by Rebecca Zanetti
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRun: Gemma Falls never expected to use her game theory expertise to outrun a killer. But for years, that skill is all that kept her one step ahead of a deadly stalker. When Gemma gets the chance to teach at D.C. University, she hopes she and her young daughter have found a safe harbor... -
![Timber by Courtney Lynn Rose]()
Timber by Courtney Lynn Rose
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTimberCaelan Finnigan is mine.Just because she's technically a clubwh*re, and I haven't claimed her as my ol' lady, doesn't change a thing. She's been mine since she was twenty-three, she just didn't realize it.Even though I swore I'd never take an ol' lady, things are changing. I'm changing. Watching my sister getting married, my older brother having a baby-- I want all that... -
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![Promised to the Killer: A Dark Mafia Romance by B.B. Hamel]()
Promised to the Killer: A Dark Mafia Romance by B.B. Hamel
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHer family tossed her aside like a broken doll.But she's my shining treasure and I'll kill to make her mine.Siena Bastone is going to die. She's the cast-off traitorous daughter of a minor mafia family with deliciously pouty lips and a wicked tongue.But after we spend one unforgettable night of sin in a hotel room, I can't walk away.I pull her from her family's clutches and make her my own... -
![Show and Tell by Amy Shojai]()
Show and Tell by Amy Shojai
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn animal behaviorist and her service dog race a deadly storm to expose a treacherous secret others will kill to protect. A BLACKMAILER returns to sell a deadly cure.A MOTHER’S DENIAL dooms millions of children.AND A DOG shows true loyalty…when he runs away.With her stalker finally caught, animal behaviorist September Day’s PTSD has abated and she’s begun to trust again... -
![Bleed For Her (Steele Raiders MC) by RB Hilliard]()
Bleed For Her (Steele Raiders MC) by RB Hilliard
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsReynolds Walker has had enough drama and heartache to last a lifetime. Finally back on track, she’s looking forward to the quiet life she’s built for herself. When she comes home to discover her almost-fiancé dead and his killers hunting her, she’s left with no choice but to run. Little does she know that the past she’s fought so hard to escape is about to catch up with her... -
![Hidden Obsession by Maddie Wade, India Kells]()
Hidden Obsession by Maddie Wade, India Kells
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn the hot streets of Miami, someone is watching, waiting for the perfect moment to strike at a team member of the Alliance Agency. Cleo Darwin is the stunning violet-haired office manager of the Alliance Agency. She is capable, controlled and respected by the people she works with. But the woman who has such complete control has a secret...Categorized as:
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![Healing What's Mine: Hound Search & Rescue Book 3 by Autum Remington]()
Healing What's Mine: Hound Search & Rescue Book 3 by Autum Remington
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHawk I’ve never felt this way before. Seeing her but never having her is torture that even rivals my past... well, almost. I’m too dark, too broken. I never want to bring her into the nightmare that is my life. Just when I think I have found the one to chase away the darkness and heal my broken soul, someone tries to take what’s mine. I find I will stop at nothing to bring them down... -
![Hero's Flight by Janie Crouch]()
Hero's Flight by Janie Crouch
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAir Force Combat Controller Derek Bollinger knows what it is to feel that every breath might be his last. Enduring hell in an enemy prison for five weeks taught him that.The only thing that got him through it was the thought of his family, his hometown of Oak Creek, Wyoming, and especially of Becky Mackay.He survived, but with blood on his hands. His own. His friends’ who died beside him... -
![Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino]()
Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn exciting new series character ...Gia Santella is a fast-driving, hard-drinking, karate-trained free spirit, who is gorgeous, sexy, and a young heiress. She also has a fierce temper and zero tolerance for people in power preying on the vulnerable ... especially when the injustice takes place in her neighborhood... -
![In Good Faith by Scott Pratt]()
In Good Faith by Scott Pratt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA family is slaughtered in rural Tennessee. Two goth teens stand accused of the murders, and now it's up to prosecutor Joe Dillard to convict them. A former defense attorney who spent way too much time defending people he knew were guilty, Joe is determined to win this case to atone for his past... -
![Justice Served by Radclyffe]()
Justice Served by Radclyffe
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe hunt for an informant in the ranks draws Lieutenant Rebecca Frye, her lover Doctor Catherine Rawlings, and Officer Dellon Mitchell into a deadly game of hide and seek with an underworld kingpin who traffics in human souls... -
![Confessions of an Accidental Lawyer by Michael Stockham]()
Confessions of an Accidental Lawyer by Michael Stockham
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBattling against a Texas prison, a young lawyer fights for a fair trial in a prison-friendly town as witnesses and evidence evaporate.Scarred physically and emotionally by a botched delivery, his wife struggles to realize their dream of a healthy baby and a happy family.Trapped in solitary confinement, an inmate fights for medicine to keep his failing heart pumping... -
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![Hide and Seek by James Patterson]()
Hide and Seek by James Patterson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsMaggie Bradford is on trial for murder - in the celebrity trial of the decade.As one of the world's best-loved singer-songwriters, she seems to have it all. So how could she have murdered not just one, but two of her husbands?Will Shephard was Maggie's second husband.A magnificent athlete and film star, he was just as famous... -
![Sakharov the Bear by John Ellsworth]()
Sakharov the Bear by John Ellsworth
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR JOHN ELLSWORTH A Legal Thriller - in a Russian Courtroom Drama Two CIA field operators obtain a bill of lading from an arms supplier in Moscow. Tracing the origin and destination of the weapons there is reason to believe a massive arms shipment has come into the U.S. through the Port of Long Beach... -
![Gone Daddy Gone by Cheryl Bradshaw]()
Gone Daddy Gone by Cheryl Bradshaw
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA single moment is about to change Sloane Monroe's life forever. On an early winter morning, college student Shelby McCoy walks the quiet, snowy path back home. A tree branch snaps in the distance. Then another. A man is there with her, following close behind, whispering her name. She looks back, sees him gaining on her, and runs... -
![Dead Lawyer on Aisle 11 by John Ellsworth]()
Dead Lawyer on Aisle 11 by John Ellsworth
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSOMEONE IS KILLING OFF LAWYERS IN THE U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE Michael Gresham is assigned to prosecuting the case against the at-large killer. When Michael's team has tried everything else to find the killer, they turn to twelve-year old Annie Gresham to create a criminal profile. Annie, the savant daughter of Michael Gresham, gathers together all the known evidence and begins mining the data... -
![I See You: Assumed Identities and Psychological Suspense by Patricia MacDonald]()
I See You: Assumed Identities and Psychological Suspense by Patricia MacDonald
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHannah, Adam and adorable young Sydney Wickes are living under assumed identities in West Philadelphia. Although she s found it hard to adjust to life in the city, at least Hannah and her family are safe and slowly beginning to build new lives for themselves... -
![The Burying Place by Brian Freeman]()
The Burying Place by Brian Freeman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA stunning, clever and unputdownable thriller for fans of Harlan Coben and Michael ConnellyLieutenant Jonathan Stride is quietly recovering from injuries sustained on his latest case when a rich doctor's baby is kidnapped and his peace is shattered... -
![Do You Remember? by Freida McFadden]()
Do You Remember? by Freida McFadden
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsTess Strebel can’t recognize her own face.She can’t recognize her home. Her bedroom is unfamiliar. And she can’t remember the handsome stranger lying next to her in bed. A stranger who claims he’s her husband.Tess reads a letter in her own handwriting, composed during a rare lucid day, explaining her life as it now exists: She was in a terrible car accident one year ago... -
![The Abduction by Mark Gimenez]()
The Abduction by Mark Gimenez
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsBen Brice lives alone in the New Mexico wilderness where he battles memories of Vietnam with oceans of Jim Beam. Miles away in Texas, his estranged son, John, an Internet geek-turned-billionaire, half watches his daughter Gracie's soccer game while conducting business on his cell phone. When her mother Elizabeth arrives, the coach reports that her uncle has already collected Gracie... -
![Broken Skin by Stuart MacBride]()
Broken Skin by Stuart MacBride
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsNearly bouncing back from a transfer, Detective Sergeant Logan McRae is still looking at nothing but dead ends. His only chance of escaping his current post is to get noticed. Not that any of the cases he’s working on are the type that you want to get noticed for. For starters, someone dumped a dying man outside the hospital. McRae’s boss D.I... -
![The Mercy of Snakes by Dean Koontz]()
The Mercy of Snakes by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA 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... -
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![Last Patient of the Night by Gary Gerlacher]()
Last Patient of the Night by Gary Gerlacher
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 28 ratings"Last Patient of the Night is M*A*S*H* meets Detective Harry Bosch. It's a thriller that won't disappoint." –Gregory D. Lee, author of An International ThrillerThe death of a nameless young woman in his emergency room spurs physician AJ Docker to seek answers... -
![Right Side Up (MMG) by R.B. Hilliard]()
Right Side Up (MMG) by R.B. Hilliard
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLife goes on after tragedy…or does it? After wreaking havoc in their lives, Dooley Shane is finally dead. However, it seems he’s left his mark on the MMG. While Dillon and Isabella were falling in love in One More Time, the rest of the gang was picking up the pieces. Nothing is ever as it seems….Sometimes, it’s so much more. Max McLellan’s life is spinning out of control... -
![Execution Is Everything: The Girl by Nick Warren]()
Execution Is Everything: The Girl by Nick Warren
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen you have 10 seconds to live, Execution Is Everything. Dr. Jon Kaine has flown into New York to commit a crime, but that’s not the problem. The problem is the late-night bar he hides out in, the gang that runs it, and the beautiful woman who follows him inside... -
![Viral Intent by Judith Lucci]()
Viral Intent by Judith Lucci
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn unidentified virus in the CCMC Emergency Department is killing dozens of people, a horrific death of a popular politician in the French Quarter has the NOPD hopping, and internet chatter suggesting the unspeakable has chilled the hearts of law enforcement all over the world. Read how Alex and Jack learn to play well with the CDC, FBI, and Secret Service to save the streets of New Orleans... -
![All In: Paying His Way by Lane Hart]()
All In: Paying His Way by Lane Hart
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings***This novella has a HEA and can be read as a standalone.*** One girl. Too young, too sweet, and too much of a past with my little brother. They share a son. I shouldn’t think twice about Maggie Frasier. When she needs my help though, there’s no way I can ignore her and my nephew. They don’t have anyone else to turn to since my brother refuses to own up to his responsibility... -
![Twisted by Release by B.B. Hamel]()
Twisted by Release by B.B. Hamel
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA dark mafia...Categorized as:
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