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  • A Whisper of Sorrows by J.D. Kirk

    A Whisper of Sorrows by J.D. Kirk

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The hunter has become the hunted.Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan caught the twisted child killer known as Mister Whisper.Two days ago, Mister Whisper escaped.Now, Jack must track down the most ruthless enemy he has ever faced before he can strike again. But, after ten years behind bars, it isn't just murder that Mister Whisper has in mind.It's revenge...
  • 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  thriller  adult  book  fiction  mystery  psychological  suspense
  • Lying Beside You by Michael Robotham

    Lying Beside You by Michael Robotham

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    If I could tell you one thing about my brother, it would be this. Two days after his nineteenth birthday, he killed our parents and twin sisters because he heard voices in his head. As defining events go, nothing else comes close for Elias, or for me.As a boy, Cyrus Haven survived a family massacre and slowly pieced his life back together...
  • The Llangollen Killings: A Snowdonia Murder Mystery by Simon McCleave

    The Llangollen Killings: A Snowdonia Murder Mystery by Simon McCleave

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    DI Ruth Hunter and the Llancastell CID team investigate a murder in...
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    crime  thriller  murder  mystery  psychological  noir  fiction  book
  • Last Breath by Robert Bryndza

    Last Breath by Robert Bryndza

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    He’s your perfect date. You’re his next victim. When the tortured body of a young woman is found in a dumpster, her eyes swollen shut and her clothes soaked with blood, Detective Erika Foster is one of the first at the crime scene. The trouble is, this time, it’s not her case...
  • Dark Water by Robert Bryndza

    Dark Water by Robert Bryndza

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Beneath the water the body sank rapidly. She would lie still and undisturbed for many years but above her on dry land, the nightmare was just beginning. When Detective Erika Foster receives a tip-off that key evidence for a major narcotics case was stashed in a disused quarry on the outskirts of London, she orders for it to be searched...
  • Born Evil by Kimberley Chambers

    Born Evil by Kimberley Chambers

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A wonderfully tough, funny and heartbreaking second novel from the author of Billie Jo. On a nice cul-de-sac in leafy Rainham, June Dawson’s world is turned upside down when her daughter Debbie’s child by her drug-addict boyfriend turns the family inside out...
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    crime  thriller  adult  angst  book  fiction  mystery  psychological
  • Cold Blood by Robert Bryndza

    Cold Blood by Robert Bryndza

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    She fell in love with a killer, now she’s one too.The suitcase was badly rusted, and took Erika several attempts, but it yielded and sagged open as she unzipped it. Nothing could prepare her for what she would find inside…When a battered suitcase containing the dismembered body of a young man washes up on the shore of the river Thames, Detective Erika Foster is shocked...
  • Sleeping Beauties by Jo Spain

    Sleeping Beauties by Jo Spain

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    'Five stars' Amazon reviewer 'What a read!' Amazon reviewer ' I was engrossed right from the start and read it in one long, very satisfied sitting' Amazon reviewer THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WITH OUR BLESSING AND BENEATH THE SURFACE RETURNS WITH A BRAND NEW SERIAL-KILLER THRILLER. The inspector frowned and examined the earth under the trees. As he scanned the glade, his stomach lurched...
  • The Crossing by Matt Brolly

    The Crossing by Matt Brolly

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In a small town full of secrets, everyone’s a suspect.When a body is discovered, bled dry on a beach, the sleepy seaside town of Weston-super-Mare wakes up to a nightmare. For Detective Inspector Louise Blackwell, recently transferred to the town she last saw as a child, it’s her first case on the job...
  • None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell

    None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    From the #1  New York Times  bestselling author known for her “superb pacing, twisted characters, and captivating prose” ( BuzzFeed ), Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast...
  • Bryant & May and the Burning Man by Christopher Fowler

    Bryant & May and the Burning Man by Christopher Fowler

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    No case is too curious for Arthur Bryant and John May, London’s most ingenious detectives. But with their beloved city engulfed in turmoil, they’ll have to work fast to hold a sinister killer’s feet to the fire.   In the week before Guy Fawkes Night, London’s peaceful streets break out in sudden unrest...
  • The Perfect Block by Blake Pierce

    The Perfect Block by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In THE PERFECT BLOCK (Book #2), rookie criminal profiler Jessie Hunt, 29, picks up the pieces of her broken life and leaves suburbia to start a new life in downtown Los Angeles. But when a wealthy socialite is murdered, Jessie, assigned the case, finds herself back in the world of picture-perfect suburbia, hunting a deranged killer amidst the false facades of normalcy and sociopathic women...
  • The Descent by Matt Brolly

    The Descent by Matt Brolly

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Were they pushed to the edge—or over it? In the quiet coastal town of Weston-super-Mare, a body is discovered at the foot of a cliff just months after a near-identical tragedy—and Detective Inspector Louise Blackwell can’t believe it could be a coincidence.Next to the body, she discovers a note that echoes one found beside the first: Death is not the end...
  • Playing Nice by J.P. Delaney

    Playing Nice by J.P. Delaney

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    What if you found out that your family isn't yours at all? How far would you go to protect them? A gripping new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of The Girl Before. . . .Pete Riley answers the door one morning and lets in a parent's worst nightmare...
  • 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  thriller  adult  book  fiction  mystery  psychological  suspense
  • The Cut by Chris Brookmyre

    The Cut by Chris Brookmyre

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick'Strikingly original and definitively Brookmyre - there's nothing he can't do'Mick Herron'I recommend The Cut SO HIGHLY! A fast-paced thriller, lovely characters, [and] it kept me guessing'Marian KeyesThe supremely entertaining, moving, and unpredictable new thriller from multi-award-winning bestseller Chris Brookmyre is a wholly original masterpiece and the best...
  • Waanzin by Wulf Dorn

    Waanzin by Wulf Dorn

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sie liebt. Sie lauert. Sie tötet.Ein Rosenstrauß ohne Absender. Geschenke vor der Haustür. Briefe unter dem Scheibenwischer ... Der Psychiater Jan Forstner wird von einer Unbekannten mit Liebesbezeugungen überhäuft. Anfangs glaubt Jan noch an die harmlose Schwärmerei einer ehemaligen Patientin...
  • Liar Liar by L.G. Davis

    Liar Liar by L.G. Davis

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He swore he would always protect me, that he would take my darkest secret to the grave. But I’m starting to think he hasn’t told me his…My husband and I are the dream couple: deeply in love, the envy of all our friends and neighbours. He surprises me with flowers, I make him his favourite meals and prepare picnics to enjoy with our son. It’s little gestures like this that keep our romance alive...
  • Messiah by Boris Starling

    Messiah by Boris Starling

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A former reporter and a specialist in kidnap negotiations releases a debut serial killer novel that reveals the making of a mass murderer. Three bodies are found with their tongues cut out and replaced with silver spoons. The killer's motives and methods are so elusive that talented investigator Red Metcalf must search the darkest corners of his own soul to stop the killings...
  • The Pact by Sharon J. Bolton

    The Pact by Sharon J. Bolton

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A golden summer, and six talented friends are looking forward to the brightest of futures - until a daredevil game goes horribly wrong, and a woman and two children are killed.18-year-old Megan takes the blame, leaving the others free to get on with their lives. In return, they each agree to a 'favour', payable on her release from prison.Twenty years later Megan is free.Let the games begin . .
  • No Mark Upon Her by Deborah Crombie

    No Mark Upon Her by Deborah Crombie

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Deborah Crombie makes her mark with this absorbing, finely hued tale of suspense - a deeply atmospheric and twisting mystery full of deadly secrets, salacious lies, and unexpected betrayals involving the mysterious drowning of a Met detective - an accomplished rower - on the Thames...
  • The Picture on the Fridge by Ian W. Sainsbury, Matthew Lloyd Davies

    The Picture on the Fridge by Ian W. Sainsbury, Matthew Lloyd Davies

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Mags Barkworth still suffers the effects of a life-changing tragedy over a decade ago. She knows her husband loves her. She knows he would never do anything to hurt her, or their daughter...
  • A Song of Isolation by Michael J. Malone

    A Song of Isolation by Michael J. Malone

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In this breathtakingly brutal and intensely topical psychological thriller, a man is accused of child sexual abuse, and his life and that of his actress girlfriend are thrown into turmoil... Film star Amelie Hart is the darling of the silver screen, appearing on the front pages of every newspaper. But at the peak of her fame she throws it all away for a regular guy with an ordinary job...
  • Watch Him Die by Craig Robertson

    Watch Him Die by Craig Robertson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    NOMINATED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE 2020 FOR SCOTTISH CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Truly difficult to put down’ Daily Mail  'High-concept plot keeps the 'tecs and the reader on their toes’ Sunday Times Crime Club 'Robertson is a master storyteller . . . never less than gripping’ Scotsman 'Devilishly clever . .
  • The Lost Girl by Tania Carver

    The Lost Girl by Tania Carver

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The terrifying new thriller in the Brennan and Esposito series - are you brave enough to read it?When three men are found hanged in locations around Colchester, Detective Inspector Phil Brennan gets the shock of his life...
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    crime  thriller  fiction  mystery  psychological  book  adult
  • 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  thriller  mystery  fiction  suspense  psychological  book  adult
  • My Perfect Marriage by A.J. Campbell

    My Perfect Marriage by A.J. Campbell

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    * Previously titled How Can I Trust You?My husband is accused of killing my best friend. Can I trust anything he says?It feels like all the air has been knocked out of me. My best friend is dead, killed at her own daughter’s birthday party. All I want to do is run into my husband’s loving arms. But he’s in handcuffs, covered in her blood...
  • Miserable Lies by Nolon King

    Miserable Lies by Nolon King

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    How many wrongs make a right?Deputy Chief Quentin “Port” Porter is famous for catching the infamous Magistrate Killer, Linus Cole, whose murder spree included his best friend and partner, Miles Tate.Port’s heroics caught the nation’s imagination, inspiring film and television, and skyrocketing his career while making him famous and wealthy...
  • The Soul Breaker by Sebastian Fitzek

    The Soul Breaker by Sebastian Fitzek

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    International number one bestseller Sebastian Fitzek plunges readers into the depths of their own souls in a new high-concept thriller.The Soul Breaker destroys his victims.He doesn't kill them, or mutilate them. But he leaves them completely dead inside, paralysed and catatonic. His only trace a note left in their hands.There are three known victims when suddenly the abductions stop...
  • Bitter Business by Valerie Keogh

    Bitter Business by Valerie Keogh

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nicola doesn’t want to help the police again. But this time a child is missing and Sean and Tom know she can help.Unfortunately, so too does DI Jane O’Neill. It’s her case. The child is the son of an eminent politician and Jane has her eye on the next rung of her career...
  • Close Your Eyes by Teresa Driscoll

    Close Your Eyes by Teresa Driscoll

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Finding missing children is Matthew’s job—but this time it’s his own daughter who’s disappeared.When private investigator Matthew Hill picks up the call from his wife, Sally, his world comes crashing down. Their eight-year-old daughter, Amelie, is missing. One second, she was there, the next, she was gone.It’s the very nightmare they’ve been dreading...
  • The Girls Who Disappeared by Claire Douglas

    The Girls Who Disappeared by Claire Douglas

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Three missing girls. A twenty year mystery. A woman on the verge of discovering the truth . . .In a rural Wilshire town lies The Devil's Corridor. A road which has witnessed eerie happenings from unexplained deaths to the sounds of a child crying at night.But nothing more puzzling than the Olivia Rutherford case. Four girls drove home but after their car crashed only Olivia was found...
  • Jaque al psicoanalista by John Katzenbach, Laura Paredes

    Jaque al psicoanalista by John Katzenbach, Laura Paredes

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    (La continuación de El Psicoanalista.)Han pasado cinco años desde que el doctor Starks acabó con la pesadilla que casi le cuesta la vida y que arrasó con todo lo que había sido hasta entonces, descubriéndole las facetas más oscuras del alma humana, también la suya...
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    crime  thriller  adult  book  fiction  mystery  psychological  suspense
  • A Game of Lies by Clare Mackintosh

    A Game of Lies by Clare Mackintosh

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Clare Mackintosh They say the camera never lies. But on this show, you can't trust anything you see. Stranded in the Welsh mountains, seven reality show contestants have no idea what they've signed up for. Each of these strangers has a secret. If another player can guess the truth, they won't just be eliminated - they'll be exposed live on air...
  • Mummy's Favourite by Sarah Flint

    Mummy's Favourite by Sarah Flint

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    He's watching... He's waiting... Who's next? Buried in a woodland grave are a mother and her child. One is alive. One is dead.DC ‘Charlie’ Stafford is assigned by her boss, DI Geoffrey Hunter to assist with the missing persons investigation.As more pairs go missing, the pressure mounts. Leads are going cold...
  • The One by Audrey J. Cole

    The One by Audrey J. Cole

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    To save their marriage, Sloane must forgive her husband’s affair. Instead, she tries a more tempting option—settling the score. But will it prove to be a deadly mistake?ER doctor Sloane Marks is shattered when she learns her husband Ethan slept with his partner at Seattle Homicide...
  • Memento mori by César Pérez Gellida

    Memento mori by César Pérez Gellida

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Versos, canciones y trocitos de carneSeptiembre de 2010. Aquella mañana de domingo nada le hacía presagiar al inspector de homicidios de Valladolid Ramiro San­cho que acababa de dar comienzo una pesadilla que lo dejaría marcado para el resto de sus días...
    Categorized as:
    crime  thriller  adult  book  fiction  mystery  noir  psychological
  • The Night She Died by Jenny Blackhurst

    The Night She Died by Jenny Blackhurst

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The bone-chilling new novel from Jenny Blackhurst, the #1 eBook-bestselling author of HOW I LOST YOU, BEFORE I LET YOU IN and THE FOSTER CHILD. If you love dark, twisty thrillers, you'll love THE NIGHT SHE DIED.On her own wedding night, beautiful and complicated Evie White leaps off a cliff to her death...
  • Denial by Peter James

    Denial by Peter James

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A young editor & a psychiatrist are devastated by the realisation that the man they considered to be mad actually holds the most terrifying truth of all. The man believes that God does exist and what's more he has the proof...
  • Watch Me by Angela Clarke

    Watch Me by Angela Clarke

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    YOU HAVE SIX SECONDS TO READ THIS MESSAGE… The body of a 15-year-old is found hours after she sends a desperate message to her friends. It looks like suicide, until a second girl disappears. This time, the message is sent directly to the Metropolitan Police – and an officer’s younger sister is missing. DS Nasreen Cudmore and journalist Freddie Venton will stop at nothing to find her...
  • To Catch a Killer by Emma Kavanagh

    To Catch a Killer by Emma Kavanagh

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    NO ONE KNOWS THE MIND OF A KILLER LIKE EMMA KAVANAGH.I've been watching you DS Alice Parr.I saw you trying to save the poor young woman you found in the park.The woman I tried to kill.I've been waiting for you to find her family. To find someone who cares about her.But you can't can you?You've never had a case like this.I know everything about you. You know nothing about me...
  • Deadly Secrets and Lies by Stacy Claflin, Sarah A. Denzil

    Deadly Secrets and Lies by Stacy Claflin, Sarah A. Denzil

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is an exciting multi-author bundle that will keep you turning the pages well into the night! Watch Your Back by Stacy Rosy Hills — with its peaceful ambiance and friendly neighbors — seems like the perfect place for Ariana and Damon to start over and heal from their pasts. But when their neighbor Rita disappears, they realize their new community may hide a killer…One For Sorrow by Sarah A...
  • Never Coming Home by Evonne Wareham

    Never Coming Home by Evonne Wareham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Kaz Elmore is told her five-year-old daughter Jamie has died in a car crash, she struggles to accept that she’ll never see her little girl again. Then a stranger comes into her life offering the most dangerous substance in the world: hope...
  • First Night of Summer by Landon Parham

    First Night of Summer by Landon Parham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    WHEN TRAGEDY STRIKES, a father discovers that a journey of misfortune is sometimes the path to deliverance. The quaint mountain town of Ruidoso, New Mexico, is the perfect place for Isaac Snow to raise his family. But when eight-year-old daughters, Caroline and Josie, commit an innocent act of heroism, media coverage attracts the wrong kind of attention...
    Categorized as:
    crime  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  psychological
  • Speak of the Devil by Britney King

    Speak of the Devil by Britney King

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the upscale suburb where Vanessa Bolton lives, she's your average suburban housewife.She does her grocery shopping on Tuesday, Thursday mornings are reserved for Pilates, Sundays for church. At home, she's an impeccable housekeeper and a mother with a mediocre track record...
  • Someone's There by C.J. Grayson

    Someone's There by C.J. Grayson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jack Haynes rings his wife's missing phone, but when he remembers seeing it downstairs earlier in the kitchen, he goes to hang up, only for it to be answered by strangers who've broken into the house. The strangers are looking for something specific, something which involves his daughter, Lucy, who's witnessed a murder the night before in the woods...
    Categorized as:
    crime  thriller  mystery  suspense  psychological  fiction  book  adult
  • Remember Me by Amy McLellan

    Remember Me by Amy McLellan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    How do you find a killer when you can't recognise a face?Last night my sister was murdered. The police think I killed her.I was there. I watched the knife go in. I saw the man who did it.He's someone I know. But he won't be caught.Because he knows I have prosopagnosia - I can't recognise faces.But if I don't find him, I'll be found guilty of murder...
    Categorized as:
    crime  thriller  mystery  fiction  psychological  family  book  adult
  • El mentiroso by Mikel Santiago

    El mentiroso by Mikel Santiago

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Hay novelas imposibles de abandonar una vez leídas las primeras páginas. Historias que reinventan el suspense y hacen dudar al lector cada vez que termina un capítulo. En este thriller absolutamente original y adictivo, Mikel Santiago rompe los límites de la intriga psicológica con un relato que explora las frágiles fronteras entre el recuerdo y la amnesia, la verdad y la mentira...
  • When You Are Mine by Michael Robotham

    When You Are Mine by Michael Robotham

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In this page-turning psychological thriller a young female police officer faces danger on all fronts—from a clever victim of abuse, her colleagues on the force, and even her own mobster father.Philomena McCarthy is a young, ambitious police office with the elite Metropolitan Police in London...
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