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  • Six Graves by Angela Marsons

    Six Graves by Angela Marsons

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It’s a typical teenage bedroom with posters covering the walls and clothes littering the floor. But the girl lying on her bed, wearing a delicate chain around her neck, is lifeless. A circle of red stains her white vest top and Kim feels a sharp stab of sadness...
  • Shadow's Loss by Mary Stone

    Shadow's Loss by Mary Stone

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The 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...
  • One by One by Chris Carter

    One by One by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    'I need your help, Detective. Fire or water?' Detective Robert Hunter of the LAPD's Homicide Special Section receives an anonymous call asking him to go to a specific web address - a private broadcast. Hunter logs on and a show devised for his eyes only immediately begins. But the caller doesn't want Detective Hunter to just watch, he wants him to participate, and refusal is simply not an option...
  • The Sixth Wicked Child by J.D. Barker

    The Sixth Wicked Child by J.D. Barker

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the riveting conclusion of the 4MK trilogy, Barker takes the thriller to an entirely new level. Hear No Evil For Detective Sam Porter, the words “Father, forgive me” conjure memories long forgotten; a past intentionally buried. For Anson Bishop, these three words connect a childhood to the present as he unleashes a truth concealed for decades...
  • City of Scars by J.D. Kirk

    City of Scars by J.D. Kirk

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Some scars never truly heal.Life has been slowly improving for DCI Jack Logan lately. Happily settled down with the woman of his dreams and a dog he begrudgingly tolerates, things are finally going Jack’s way.But, could all that be about to change?When a sadistic killer begins picking off victims on the streets of Inverness, Jack’s boss decides to bring in some outside help...
  • Deadly Fate by Angela Marsons

    Deadly Fate by Angela Marsons

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The woman’s bright blonde hair floats in the breeze. She almost looks like she could be resting on the soft green grass. But her brown eyes stare unblinking up at the sky, and the final cut across her mouth is dark with blood...
  • Triple Cross by James Patterson

    Triple Cross by James Patterson

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Detective Alex Cross hunts down a serial killer who’s murdering entire families—and who will next be coming for Cross.A methodical killer is targeting multigenerational families in and around Washington, DC—striking under cover of darkness, triggering no alarms, leaving no physical evidence of any kind.   Alex isn’t the only one investigating...
  • The Executioner by Chris Carter

    The Executioner by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE CALLER. Inside a Los Angeles church, on the altar steps, lies the blood-soaked body of a priest. Later, the forensic team discover that, on the victim's chest, the figure 3 has been scrawled in blood. At first, Detective Robert Hunter believes that this is a ritualistic killing. But as more bodies surface, he is forced to reassess...
  • Losing Leah Holloway by Lisa Regan

    Losing Leah Holloway by Lisa Regan

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Five years ago, Claire Fletcher escaped her abductor. But some scars never fade, and surviving was just the beginning…When Claire sees a car full of children careen into a river, she rushes to the rescue. But the driver, a mother named Leah Holloway, prefers to drown. For Claire and her ex, Detective Connor Parks, it doesn’t add up...
  • The Death Watcher by Chris Carter

    The Death Watcher by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Pre-order the 13th chilling and adrenaline-packed Robert Hunter thriller, from the #1 Sunday Times and multi-million-copy bestselling author, Chris Carter...
  • The Killing Code by J.D. Kirk

    The Killing Code by J.D. Kirk

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    What would you do if there weren't any consequences?After twenty years on the force, Detective Chief Inspector Jack Logan thinks he has seen it all.He is wrong.When a nurse is murdered on her way home from nightshift, Jack and his team go on the hunt for her killer...
  • The Girl and the Secret Society by A.J. Rivers

    The Girl and the Secret Society by A.J. Rivers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Evil has many faces. This one you will never see coming.This is the bizarre and shocking case of Lakyn Monroe.In the midst of filming her show, Lakyn vanished without a trace.Four months have passed, and the unusual disappearance of the internet celebrity has garnered nationwide attention...
  • The Blossom Twins by Carol Wyer

    The Blossom Twins by Carol Wyer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Their parents thought they were hiding… One beautiful summer’s evening, thirteen-year-old twins Ivy and Erin Westmore snuggle down in a tent in their back garden, giggling and sharing secrets. When their mother goes to wake the girls the next morning, their tent is empty. The alarm is raised and Detective Natalie Ward is put onto the case...
  • Glimpse Of Death by Leslie Wolfe

    Glimpse Of Death by Leslie Wolfe

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Librarian Note: Alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B06XXLFCPC.A RIVETING SERIAL KILLER THRILLERHer beautiful face, serene and immobile, resting on her folded arm. Her long, luscious hair, undulating gently in the evening breeze. Her eyes half-closed, a hint of a smile on her pale lips, as if to welcome an unseen lover...
  • Corpse Road by David J. Gatward, Aubrey Parsons

    Corpse Road by David J. Gatward, Aubrey Parsons

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    * Duration: 7 hours and 9 minutes *To catch the hunter, become the prey.When the body of a female backpacker is found on the Yorkshire moors, the killer seems obvious, the motive clear.If only.Because Grimm and his team are up against not just a murderer, but a predator, and when the key suspect disappears, it's only a matter of time before another body is found...
  • Whip Crack by Alex Smith

    Whip Crack by Alex Smith

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Every time you hear his voice, another child will die.DCI Robert Kett’s family may be whole again, but he is a broken man.Suspended from duty, he takes his girls out of the city for a much-needed holiday on the Norfolk Coast.Instead of the peace he desperately needs, however, Kett finds a community in chaos. Four teenagers are missing, and time is running out before they meet a horrific fate...
  • Thieves on The Fens by Joy Ellis

    Thieves on The Fens by Joy Ellis

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    DI Nikki Galena gets a series of anonymous calls. She is told the place, time, and who will die. But the messages are in a secret language used only by villains. Nikki and her team must decode the riddles and work out where the threats are coming from. Meanwhile, the fens have been hit by a series of “designer burglaries.” It appears that a new gang of thieves are stealing to order...
  • Fatal Witness by Robert Bryndza

    Fatal Witness by Robert Bryndza

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Detective Erika Foster is back in FATAL WITNESS – with a chilling new serial killer case in Robert Bryndza's multi-million bestselling crime thriller series!How do you find a killer who has destroyed all the evidence?Detective Erika Foster is on a late-night walk near her new house in Blackheath when she stumbles upon the brutal murder of Vicky Clarke, a true-crime podcaster...
  • Deadly Motives by Ann Girdharry

    Deadly Motives by Ann Girdharry

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Secrets never stay buried forever...When a nurse is murdered, Detective David Grant recognises the hallmarks of a serial killer called Travis.Twenty-five years ago, Grant caught Travis for the murder of five women and the murderer has been incarcerated ever since...
  • The Killing House by Claire McGowan

    The Killing House by Claire McGowan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Long-buried secrets are being unearthed. And they're very close to home...Forensic psychologist Paula Maguire returns yet again to her hometown to investigate a spine-chilling case in THE KILLING HOUSE, the sixth novel in Claire McGowan's series. The Paula Maguire series is the perfect read for fans of Michael Connelly and Peter May...
  • Flesh and Blood by Caroline Mitchell

    Flesh and Blood by Caroline Mitchell

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A string of suicides. A community in terror. And a chilling conspiracy only DI Amy Winter can crack.A wave of apparent suicides hits a string of seaside resorts, but when a police officer is named as the latest to die, DI Amy Winter suspects there may be more than mere coincidence to these tragic deaths...
  • Dead Ground by M.W. Craven

    Dead Ground by M.W. Craven

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Detective Sergeant Washington Poe is in court, fighting eviction from his beloved and isolated croft, when he is summoned to a backstreet brothel in Carlisle where a man has been beaten to death with a baseball bat...
  • Cold Comfort by Trevor Douglas

    Cold Comfort by Trevor Douglas

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    How do you catch a killer who never leaves a clue? Bridgette Casseldhorf is a rookie detective working her first murder case. The circumstances surrounding the murder of a young woman lead Bridgette to believe it’s the work of a serial killer, but nobody is listening...
  • The Silent Wife by Andy Maslen

    The Silent Wife by Andy Maslen

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Her career on the line and an innocent woman charged with murder. Can she save them both?As bogus corruption charges loom over her, DS Kat Ballantyne finds herself deskbound and stuck with cold cases. Her hated boss, DI Carver, has given her just one week to explain how £50,000 found its way into her bank account. If she can’t, she’ll be lucky to have a desk at all...
  • Won't You Save Me by Wendy Dranfield

    Won't You Save Me by Wendy Dranfield

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Detective Dean Matheson has returned to his hometown to begin his new job and put the traumatic events of his past behind him – but his fresh start won’t last long when the local area is hit by a series of strange disappearances and twisted killings …A nameless girl badly beaten and dumped in front of the mysterious new church. A shocking murder scene discovered in the apartment over the diner...
  • Left For Dead by Caroline Mitchell

    Left For Dead by Caroline Mitchell

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A victim on display. A detective on the rails.Shopping with her sister, DI Amy Winter is admiring a Valentine’s Day window display of a perfect bride encrusted in diamonds and resplendent in lace—until she notices blood oozing from the mannequin’s mouth.This is no stunt. A post-mortem reveals the victim was left to die on her macabre throne for all to see...
  • Signature by Jeff Carson

    Signature by Jeff Carson

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Chief Detective Wolf and Special Agent Kristen Luke are back — and they’re going up against a sadistic killer whose signature works span the Four Corners region of Colorado and are now spilling into Rocky Points. Signature is the latest pulse-thumping thriller in Jeff Carson’s popular David Wolf mystery-thriller series...
  • Shallow Ground by Andy Maslen, Steve West

    Shallow Ground by Andy Maslen, Steve West

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    10 hours, 20 minutes Detective Ford has a cold-blooded killer to catch. But can he escape his own dark secrets?Barely a month since his promotion to Inspector, DI Ford is called in to investigate the murder of a young nurse and her son in a small flat in Salisbury. There are few clues, and no apparent motive, but Ford can sense that there’s a serial killer at work...
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  • Secrets on the Fens by Joy Ellis, Henrietta Meire

    Secrets on the Fens by Joy Ellis, Henrietta Meire

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    One moonlit night, the bodies of two young people are discovered lying entwined on a blanket in the woods. The young man is clutching a red rose. It appears to be a lovers’ suicide pact . . .Until Detective Nikki Galena and DS Joseph Easter look more closely. Romeo and Juliet, as they decide to call them, were murdered somewhere else and brought to the woods...
  • The Roubaud Connection by Estelle Ryan

    The Roubaud Connection by Estelle Ryan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Brutal murders. An ancient treasure. A rogue state.A young acquaintance of nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard begs her to look into the disappearance of his friend...
  • Five Days Post Mortem by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    Five Days Post Mortem by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Her body floats. A bloated thing half atop the river. Naked. Pale. Mouth and eyes open wide. When two fishermen discover a corpse floating in the Clackamas river, profiler Violet Darger heads to rural Oregon to hunt another serial killer. What she discovers in the woods might change the course of her life...
  • Shadow Falls by Wendy Dranfield

    Shadow Falls by Wendy Dranfield

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    You thought your little girl was safe at summer camp. You were wrong…The little girl drags her eyes open, realizing she’s starting to fade. She tries calling out—“Daddy?”—using all her remaining strength...
  • The Talisker Dead by J.M. Dalgliesh

    The Talisker Dead by J.M. Dalgliesh

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Pulling on the threads of your past... is enough to kill you...When a teenage islander goes missing on Burns Night, D.I. Duncan McAdam takes a strong interest despite the apparent lack of concern shown by the boy's father. When a woman's body is soon discovered in Talisker Bay, with a single stab wound to the chest, Duncan and his team realise they have a killer on the island...
  • 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...
  • Unquiet Souls by Liz Mistry

    Unquiet Souls by Liz Mistry

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    What is the link between the abduction of a little girl and a dead prostitute? When the body of a prostitute is found, followed by the discovery of children locked in an attic, DI Gus McGuire, newly returned to work, is given the case. But what at first appears to be a simple murder soon turns into an international manhunt for the members of a twisted child trafficking ring...
  • Dark Water by Caro Ramsay

    Dark Water by Caro Ramsay

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A bitterly cold February in Glasgow. In the attic of a deserted tenement, the body of a man is found hanging, his face disfigured beyond recognition.Around his neck is a sign that reads: I Am Stephen Whyte.Investigating officers DI Anderson and DS Costello believe the dead man was the prime suspect in a decade-old unsolved case.Ten years ago, a young woman was brutally attacked and left for dead...
  • Cross Out by James Patterson

    Cross Out by James Patterson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Detectives Cross and Sampson are tracking a serial killer who's fatally ambushing young men in the “Dead Hours” murders. They don't hear the machine gun fire. At first. “Drop whatever you're doing, Dr. Cross, and head to Reagan Airport,” DC Metro Police dispatch says. “A plane just crashed and exploded on the runway. The chief and the FBI want you and John Sampson there pronto...
  • The Hunter of the Dark by Donato Carrisi

    The Hunter of the Dark by Donato Carrisi

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A brutal killer is on the streets of Rome. He leaves no trace. And shows no mercy.A series of gruesome murders leaves the police force in Rome reeling, with no real clues or hard evidence to follow. Assigned to the case is Sandra Vega, a brilliant forensic analyst, struggling to come to terms with the crimes and her own past...
  • Love You Dead by Peter James

    Love You Dead by Peter James

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    An ugly duckling as a child, Jodie Bentley had two dreams in life—to be beautiful and rich. She's achieved the first, with a little help from a plastic surgeon, and now she's working hard on the second. Her philosophy about money is simple. You can either earn it or marry it. Marrying is easy, it's getting rid of the husband afterwards that's harder, that takes real skill...
  • You Are Dead by Peter James, Daniel Weyman

    You Are Dead by Peter James, Daniel Weyman

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    You are Dead is the eleventh thrilling crime novel in Peter James' Roy Grace series, read aloud by Daniel Weyman.They were marked for deathThe last words Jamie Ball hears from his fiancée, Logan Somerville, are in a terrified mobile phone call. She has just driven into the underground car park beneath the block of flats where they live in Brighton. Then she screams and the phone goes dead...
  • Deadly Pursuit by C.M. Sutter

    Deadly Pursuit by C.M. Sutter

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Fans of James Patterson and Michael Connelly will love C.M. Sutter! A sadistic scene unlike any that Homicide Detective Jesse McCord has ever witnessed unfolds on a park bench in front of him. Jesse knows this isn’t just another Chicago murder...
  • You Made Me by Jamie Millen

    You Made Me by Jamie Millen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Death is one heartbeat away when your stalker is a serial killer.Police detective Claire Wolfe has a secret admirer. But instead of sending flowers, this twisted psychopath murders wealthy, young women...and leaves gruesome messages for Claire on their mutilated corpses.To decode her stalker's obsession, Claire teams up with her lover, Special Agent Robert Cline, FBI forensic profiler Dr...
  • Dark Houses by Helen H. Durrant

    Dark Houses by Helen H. Durrant

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    THE STUNNING NEW CRIME MYSTERY FEATURING D.I. GRECO BY BEST-SELLING AUTHOR HELEN H. DURRANT A young woman is found brutally murdered in an empty house Detective Stephen Greco and his team must piece together her life as quickly as possible. Within twenty-four hours there is another horrific murder using the same method...
  • A Savage Hunger by Claire McGowan

    A Savage Hunger by Claire McGowan

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The fourth in the crime series featuring forensic psychologist Paula Maguire. Victim: Female. Twenty-two years of age. Reason for investigation: Missing person.ID: Alice Morgan. Student. Last seen at a remote religious shrine in Ballyterrin.Alice Morgan's disappearance raises immediate questions for forensic psychologist Paula Maguire...
  • The Creek Killer by Dominika Best

    The Creek Killer by Dominika Best

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    How would you prove you weren’t dead? Jane Smith has been running from danger her whole life. That danger followed her everywhere, leaving a trail of death in its wake. When the mummified bodies of six girls are discovered in the wetlands of Los Angeles, Jane is surprised to learn one of the dead girls bears her name—the name she abandoned twenty-five years ago to go into hiding...
  • Arsonist by Victor Methos

    Arsonist by Victor Methos

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Evil is Released Onto the Streets of San Diego...A series of deadly fires rages across the cityscape, claiming the lives of entire families. Helpless to stop the fires, the SDPD assigns their most famous detective, Jon Stanton, to the case. The evidence points him to a single arsonist committing the horrendous acts...
  • Murder Mile by Lynda La Plante

    Murder Mile by Lynda La Plante

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Prime Suspect meets Ashes to Ashes as we see Jane Tennison starting out on her police career . . .The fourth in the bestselling Jane Tennison thrillers, MURDER MILE is set at the height of the 'Winter of Discontent'. Can Jane Tennison uncover a serial killer? February, 1979, 'The Winter of Discontent'. Economic chaos has led to widespread strikes across Britain...
  • One Left Alive by Helen Phifer

    One Left Alive by Helen Phifer

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    ‘One of those rare books that really is unputdownable . A must read.’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐A gentle breeze blew her blonde hair across her face, her glazed eyes staring blankly into the sunset. Her small frame looked lost hanging from the large oak tree. On the branch next to her was a worn child’s rope swing. She looked too young and beautiful to be dead...
  • What She Left by H.K. Christie

    What She Left by H.K. Christie

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    She’s on her last chance. When the bodies start piling up, she’ll need to save more than her job.Martina Monroe is a single bad day away from losing it all. Stuck catching insurance fraudsters and cheating spouses due to a DUI, the despondent PI yearns to return to more fulfilling gigs...
  • Close Killer by Stacy M. Jones

    Close Killer by Stacy M. Jones

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A killer is targeting American tourists in Edinburgh, Scotland. Three dead solo female travelers were found strangled in the closes off the Royal Mile. FBI Agents Kate Walsh and Declan James are sent to investigate at the height of the Christmas tourist season. Police Scotland is without any leads. No one believes these crimes are the killer’s first – and they aren’t...
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