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  • Mania by Victor Methos

    Mania by Victor Methos

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Jon Stanton finds his life unraveling. His fiancé has left him. His panic attacks are growing more acute. He's attacking his job with ferocity and violence. After nearly killing a human trafficker after he had surrendered, Stanton realizes he's losing control. And knows it all stems from one incident: the disappearance of his sister Elizabeth twenty-seven years ago...
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    hard-boiled  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  murder  mystery
  • Pied Sniper by Camilla Chafer

    Pied Sniper by Camilla Chafer

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When social media queen, Tiffany Rose is shot and kidnapped live on air, the crime grips the nation. Private Investigator Lexi Graves races to her aid but she's too late. The kidnappers are long gone and the only witness is a tiny, frightened dog named Elf. Even worse, Lexi and her best friend, Lily are arrested at the crime scene as prime suspects...
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    suspense  adult  book  cozy  fiction  mystery
  • Justice by D. Camille

    Justice by D. Camille

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “The fool speaks, the wise man listens.” ~Ethiopian Proverb The saga continues…Justice Black is the heir to the Black legacy. Now ready to show that he’s more than the rich, handsome playboy…Justice sets out to prove that he can handle his own...
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    suspense  mystery  politics  fiction  book  adult
  • Unwavering Security by Christy Barritt

    Unwavering Security by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
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    suspense  christian  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • The Healer by Kiersten Modglin

    The Healer by Kiersten Modglin

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    His job is to heal the broken...she may be what breaks him. Jesse Jesse Mathis’ life was in shambles. He lost the woman he loved just months before their wedding, his career as a surgeon was at an all time low, and his forbidden feelings for his best friend were growing more confusing by the day...
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    suspense  adult  book  fiction  mystery  romance
  • Never Cry Mercy by L.T. Ryan

    Never Cry Mercy by L.T. Ryan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Even a drifter has to stop once in a while... Jack Noble has crossed the country, never staying too long in one spot. He's not running or hiding. He's buying time. Simply living until the day he can disappear and provide his daughter with a normal life. But when his Jeep dies outside a small Texas town, he finds a reason to stick around for a couple days. An old friend...
  • Death Leaves a Shadow: A Marlowe Black Mystery by Gabriel F.W. Koch

    Death Leaves a Shadow: A Marlowe Black Mystery by Gabriel F.W. Koch

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Then comes the brutal announcement that his pregnant fianc�e has committed suicide. Marlowe simply cannot accept the official verdict, and as anguish and rage replace the love he once felt, he is driven by a madness that forces him to question his own integrity while he hunts an elusive killer."Koch is an author who has his priorities in order...
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    hard-boiled  contemporary  drama  epic  fiction  mystery
  • Clint Wolf Boxed Set: Books 4 - 6 by BJ Bourg

    Clint Wolf Boxed Set: Books 4 - 6 by BJ Bourg

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Books 4-6 (But Not Forever, But Not For Naught, and But Not Forbidden) of the Clint Wolf Mystery Series by award-winning author BJ Bourg now available as a boxed set! BUT NOT FOREVER After a year of working as a tour guide in the swamps of Louisiana--and the day after a man’s body is found in a canal--former Police Chief Clint Wolf realizes he can’t stay away from law enforcement work...
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    hard-boiled  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  mystery
  • The Final Vow by M.W. Craven

    The Final Vow by M.W. Craven

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The next unmissable novel* in the Sunday Times bestselling, multi-award-winning Washington Poe series. Poe and Tilly be prepared for the most twisted thrill-ride so far . . .An invisible killer with a 100% success rate. No one is safe. Not even those closest to Washington Poe . . .A shooting at Gretna Green. A bride is murdered on her wedding day, seconds after she slips on her new ring...
  • The Spike by Matthew Iden

    The Spike by Matthew Iden

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Retired DC homicide cop Marty Singer witnesses a horrific murder and the family of the victim hires him to find the killer. But when he peels back the cover on the case, Marty discovers a rotten core of corruption, graft, and violence that runs from the lowest city street to the top of the political food chain...
  • But Not Forever by B.J. Bourg

    But Not Forever by B.J. Bourg

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After a year of working as a tour guide in the swamps of Louisiana--and the day after a man’s body is found in a canal--former Police Chief Clint Wolf realizes he can’t stay away from law enforcement work forever...
  • Mad Jack by Stacy M. Jones

    Mad Jack by Stacy M. Jones

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Something 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...
  • The Depth of Darkness by L.T. Ryan, Sean Patrick Hopkins

    The Depth of Darkness by L.T. Ryan, Sean Patrick Hopkins

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Detective Mitch Tanner's life hangs in the balance. He clings to the daughter in his care. He agonizes over the disappearance of his son and estranged wife. Twelve months has yet to turn up a solid lead.While investigating the apparent accidental death of Dusty Anne Miller, Mitch and his partner Sam Foster find themselves in the middle of a fiendish plan that strikes too close to home...
  • 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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    suspense  contemporary  drama  epic  fiction  mystery
  • The Blood Road by Stuart MacBride

    The Blood Road by Stuart MacBride

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Some things just won’t stay buried…Logan McRae’s personal history is hardly squeaky clean, but now that he works for Professional Standards it’s his job to police his fellow officers.When Detective Inspector Bell turns up dead in the driver’s seat of a crashed car it’s a shock to everyone. Because Bell died two years ago, they buried him. Or they thought they did...
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    hard-boiled  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction  humor
  • Murder Served Cold by Nancy Skopin

    Murder Served Cold by Nancy Skopin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    PI Nicoli 'Nikki' Hunter is blindsided when someone close to her is murdered, and their body dumped in an alley. Detective Bill Anderson catches the homicide and, knowing Nikki, doesn't even attempt to discourage her from conducting her own investigation, which, in this case, takes a village...
  • Emma Frost: Volume  7-9 by Willow Rose

    Emma Frost: Volume 7-9 by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent edition˃˃˃ EASY AS ONE TWO THREE:Mads and Signe are very young when they get married. They are ready to take on the world starting with their honeymoon to Egypt. Two years later, Mads is in a coma and Signe has vanished from the face of the earth...
  • Blessing of the Lost Girls by J.A. Jance

    Blessing of the Lost Girls by J.A. Jance

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Returning to her southwest roots, New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance presents a riveting new Walker Family suspense novel in which human remains found in Cochise County have federal investigator Dan Pardee, Brandon Walker's son-in-law, stepping into Sheriff Joanna Brady's jurisdiction...
  • James 516: A London Carter Novel by B.J. Bourg

    James 516: A London Carter Novel by B.J. Bourg

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The 2016 EPIC eBook Awards Winner for Best Mystery! The Magnolia Parish Sheriff’s Office is on high alert after a deadly sniper begins executing high-ranking cops. Sheriff Burke puts his best sniper, London Carter, and his internal affairs officer, Bethany Riggs, on the case. Pressure mounts and panic sets in as the body count rises and the killer becomes more embolden...
  • Hey You, Pretty Face by Linda Coles

    Hey You, Pretty Face by Linda Coles

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    An abandoned baby. Three girls stolen in the night. Two connected cases?London, Winter, 1999. When an abandoned newborn baby is discovered, DC Jack Rutherford becomes involved.Covering the holiday period almost singlehandedly, resources are at breaking point and he’s pushed to his limit...
  • The Blind Trust by Colin Conway

    The Blind Trust by Colin Conway

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A quiet death in a small town. A double homicide in the big city. Only a murderer knows they’re connected. Whitman County Sheriff Tom Jessup wants a nice, safe county. Unfortunately, things are about to get deadly. A seemingly normal death points Jessup north where he finds Detectives Quinn Delaney and Marci Burkett investigating a double murder...
  • The Love Killings by Robert Ellis

    The Love Killings by Robert Ellis

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    For the past six weeks, LAPD detective Matt Jones has been recovering from the wrong end of a hit man’s bullet. Before he can look for payback, Jones finds himself enlisted in the manhunt for an old foe. Dr. George Baylor, the serial killer who escaped after murdering three coeds in LA, resurfaces on the East Coast...
  • Body Breaker by M.W. Craven

    Body Breaker by M.W. Craven

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    'This is high quality crime writing' A A DhandThe second dark and twisted thriller in the Avison Fluke series by M. W. Craven, the acclaimed author of The Puppet Show.Investigating how a severed hand ends up on the third green of a Cumbrian golf course is not how Detective Inspector Avison Fluke has planned to spend his Saturday...
  • Sociopath by Victor Methos

    Sociopath by Victor Methos

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    THE MURDER OF A FEDERAL AGENT...Retired detective Jon Stanton is enjoying his new life when a single call shatters his peace: one of his oldest friends, a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has been murdered in a small town in Utah. Investigating a double homicide, Stanton believes he had gotten too close to the killer and paid the ultimate price...
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    hard-boiled  suspense  adult  book  crime  dark  fiction  horror
  • Born in a Burial Gown by M.W. Craven

    Born in a Burial Gown by M.W. Craven

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Detective Inspector Avison Fluke is a man on the edge. He has committed a crime to get back to work, concealed a debilitating illness and is about to be made homeless. Just as he thinks things can’t get any worse, the body of a young woman is found buried on a wet, Cumbrian building site. Shot once in the back of the head, execution style, it is a cold, calculated murder...
  • Past Crimes by G.K. Parks

    Past Crimes by G.K. Parks

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Eight years ago, he covered up a murder. Now Alexis Parker has to prove he didn't do it. Except, she's not convinced he isn't guilty.Ever since Alex went to work for Lucien Cross, nothing's been the same. She's always been wary of him. Now, she finally knows why.The police discovered a body and enough evidence to put Cross in a cell for the rest of his life. He won't offer an explanation...
  • Hairspray and Lighter by J. Jupes

    Hairspray and Lighter by J. Jupes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All Detective Eckerly wanted to do that day was place a bet on a horse. He didn't expect Darlene Johnson to walk into his office with her chocolate box. And certainly didn't expect what followed. . Book One of the Detectives That Don't Fit Series...
  • Escape from Danger by Linsey Lanier

    Escape from Danger by Linsey Lanier

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It doesn’t matter if you’re innocent...when the guilty come to kill you.Not long ago Special FBI Agent Simon Sloan found his boss dead in his Washington DC office. He left a letter warning Sloan with one word—Run!And so Sloan did. But he took someone with him.Now he regrets that decision.PI Janelle Wesson can’t believe she left her job at the Parker Agency for this...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  adult  book  fiction  mystery
  • Catherine Coulter CD Collection: Eleventh Hour, Blindside, and Blowout by Catherine Coulter, Sandra Burr

    Catherine Coulter CD Collection: Eleventh Hour, Blindside, and Blowout by Catherine Coulter, Sandra Burr

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Eleventh Hour: When FBI agent Dane Carver's twin brother, Father Michael Joseph, is brutally murdered in his San Francisco church, husband-and-wife agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich take a personal interest in the investigation...
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    suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  mystery
  • Catherine Coulter the FBI Thrillers Collection Books 11-15 by Catherine Coulter

    Catherine Coulter the FBI Thrillers Collection Books 11-15 by Catherine Coulter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Five FBI Thrillers featuring FBI Agents Savage and Sherlock #11-15: Double Take, Tailspin, Knockout, Whiplash, and Split Second...
  • Athora by Kostas Krommydas, Κώστας Κρομμύδας

    Athora by Kostas Krommydas, Κώστας Κρομμύδας

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A tourist is found dead in Istanbul, the victim of what appears to be a ritual killing. An elderly man is murdered in the same manner, in his house by Lake Como. The third murder is the most perplexing of all: the priest of a small, isolated Greek island lies dead in the sanctuary, his body ritualistically mutilated...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  adult  book  cozy  fiction  mystery
  • Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino

    Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An 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...
  • Bad to the Bone by Tony J. Forder

    Bad to the Bone by Tony J. Forder

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Looking for an unmissable crime thriller? A skeletal body is unearthed in a wooded area of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. DI James Bliss, together with DC Penny Chandler, investigate the case and discover that the young, female victim had been relocated from its original burial site...
  • The Dead Man by Joel Goldman

    The Dead Man by Joel Goldman

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    If you like John Grisham's twists and turns and James Patterson's page-turning thrills, you'll love Joel Goldman's The Dead Man, the second book in the Jack Davis Thriller series! "A masterful blend of rock-solid detective work and escalating dread. The Dead Man is both a top-notch thriller and a heart-rendering story of loss, courage and second chances. I loved it...
  • Buried Alive by G.K. Parks

    Buried Alive by G.K. Parks

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A questionable alliance has private investigator Alexis Parker concerned not only for her client’s safety but for her own... Supervising a new branch of Cross Security was never on Alex’s to-do list, but given her boyfriend’s current job commitments and her boss’s insistence to expand the business, she doesn’t have much of a choice...
  • Crisis of Conscience by G.K. Parks

    Crisis of Conscience by G.K. Parks

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It’s open season on federal agents, and Alexis Parker is the primary target.What happens when allies can't be trusted? Federal agent Alexis Parker is about to find out. After taking some personal time, Alex is back at work and embroiled in an investigation to uncover a traitor inside the Office of International Operations...
  • Warning Signs by G.K. Parks

    Warning Signs by G.K. Parks

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Secrets prove deadly in Alexis Parker's latest case...Alexis Parker is used to humdrum work assignments. Running background checks and tailing cheating spouses is common place for her and most of the private investigators at Cross Security. But she doesn't particularly enjoy digging up other people's dirt and shining a light on their nastier habits. However, it's a paycheck...
  • Misplaced Trust by G.K. Parks

    Misplaced Trust by G.K. Parks

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With the shake-up at the OIO, Alexis Parker is assigned to assist the DEA on a long-term undercover operation across the country. Being away from home might be just what Alex needs to regain some perspective, especially when Martin's been so distant lately. But this assignment might be more than either of them bargained for since the death toll continues to rise while hard evidence remains zilch...
  • The Long Game by G.K. Parks

    The Long Game by G.K. Parks

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A con artist. A serial killer. And ten million dollars. This time, everything is at stake. When a man is murdered in front of Alexis Parker, it sends the private investigator into a tailspin that leads to a case of million dollar proportions. In order to get her mind off death, Alex agrees to help Don Klassi, a Martin Technologies board member, with a personal problem...
  • El juego del alma by Javier Castillo

    El juego del alma by Javier Castillo

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Nueva York, 2011. Una chica de quince años aparece crucificada en un suburbio a las afueras. Miren Triggs, periodista de investigación del Manhattan Press, recibe de manera inesperada un extraño sobre. En su interior, la polaroid de otra adolescente amordazada y maniatada, con una sola anotación: «GINA PEBBLES, 2002»...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • Women's Murder Club 8 Book Set Pack by James Patterson

    Women's Murder Club 8 Book Set Pack by James Patterson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
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    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  audiobook  law-enforcement
  • The Deadline: A Mystery by Ron Franscell

    The Deadline: A Mystery by Ron Franscell

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A dying convict's last request thrusts small-town newspaperman Jefferson Morgan into a deadly maelstrom as he explores a fifty-year-old case of child murder -- a wound his town still isn't ready to scrape open...
  • And Come Day's End: A Michael McKaybees Mystery by Gabriel F.W. Koch

    And Come Day's End: A Michael McKaybees Mystery by Gabriel F.W. Koch

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lenny Oliver’s secrets ended his life—lies he dressed up in detailed and occasionally elaborate finery. But only the secret holder is fooled in the long run, as Lenny discovered in a dark alley in the Wall Street neighborhood. Michael McKaybees is a private investigator working in New York’s five boroughs...
    Categorized as:
    hard-boiled  contemporary  drama  fiction  mystery
  • I'll Be Seeing You / Remember Me / Let Me Call You Sweetheart by Mary Higgins Clark

    I'll Be Seeing You / Remember Me / Let Me Call You Sweetheart by Mary Higgins Clark

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The fourth RHVP collection of bestsellers from the #1 New York Times bestselling " Queen of Suspense." RHVP has sold three-quarters of a million copies of the other omnibus editions. This new one contains three of her most popular novels, each netting over 500,000 copies in hardcover and over 1.5 million in paperback...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  fiction  mystery
  • ESCORT GIRL: part 2 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    ESCORT GIRL: part 2 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An Amazon exclusive! In this romantic mystery, a young woman who works for a PR firm is chaperone, babysitter, and therapist to VIPS who come to Atlanta to promote their movies, music, books, TV shows, politics, and products..
    Categorized as:
    suspense  adult  book  fiction  humor  mystery
  • Blood Moon by Michael Lister

    Blood Moon by Michael Lister

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A daring escape. A race against time. Locked in with a vicious, relentless killer. Can John save the life of the woman he loves? The stakes have never been higher. Success seems impossible. Failure unimaginable. Behold what happens beneath the Blood Moon! A Suspenseful Mystery Adventures with one of crime fiction's most fascinating and unique detectives...
  • Local Hero by Rodney Riesel

    Local Hero by Rodney Riesel

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In Local Hero, ex-gunman for hire, Ben Dunning, is approached by a mysterious man and offered one last job. Ben quickly realizes it to be an impossible task and refuses the strangers request. Ben is soon given an offer her can't refuse...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  cozy  fiction  book  adult
  • The Southport Secret by Sage Parker

    The Southport Secret by Sage Parker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  contemporary  fiction  book  adult
  • Crimson Security by Evie Nichole

    Crimson Security by Evie Nichole

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dark, dangerous, and deadly when crossed. Things are bound to get hot when the men of Crimson Security are involved. Book 1 My name is Darby Connors and I’m in deep. Maybe too deep for me to make it out alive. It isn’t the first time I’ve been in trouble while doing my job, but this time feels different. Something is coming for me. Someone is coming for me...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  dark  mystery
  • Thirteen for Dinner by Kathleen Lopez

    Thirteen for Dinner by Kathleen Lopez

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The exclusive dinner party event of the season...where the guests are dying to leave.Eccentric and elderly socialite, Elizabeth Headstrom, hosts an annual lavishly themed party at her family’s sprawling estate. Always fascinated with anything supernatural, Elizabeth determined this year’s theme would center around a particular superstition...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  contemporary  epic  fiction  mystery
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