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  • Sweet Dreams by Kristen Ashley

    Sweet Dreams by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    She's ready for the ride of her life . . .Lauren Grahame is looking to reinvent herself. After leaving her cheating husband, Lauren moves to Carnal, Colorado, and gets a job as a waitress in a biker bar called Bubba's. It's a nothing job in a nowhere joint . . . until Tatum Jackson walks in. Lauren has never seen a man with such good looks, muscles, and attitude...
  • Saving Meadow by Riley Edwards

    Saving Meadow by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A sexy FBI suspense thriller romance Meadow The road was long, it was painful, and it was raw. It has taken me four years to come to terms with my new reality. A life in which I live with the daily reminders of a vicious attack that has left me scarred both emotionally and physically...
  • A Merciful Silence by Kendra Elliot

    A Merciful Silence by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the fourth book of the Wall Street Journal bestselling series, FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick must unlock the mystery of a mass murder, and the secrets of its silent witness… For Mercy Kilpatrick, returning to rural Oregon has meant coming to terms with her roots. Raised as a prepper, Mercy is now relying on her survivalist instincts to defend her town from the people the law can’t reach...
  • Where the Blame Lies by Mia Sheridan

    Where the Blame Lies by Mia Sheridan

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Abducted. Terrorized. Imprisoned. At nineteen-years-old, college student Josie Stratton was kidnapped by a madman and held shackled for ten months in an abandoned warehouse before she finally escaped her hellish prison...
  • The Unknown Beloved by Amy Harmon

    The Unknown Beloved by Amy Harmon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Chicago, 1923: Ten-year-old Dani Flanagan returns home to find police swarming the house, her parents dead. Michael Malone, the young patrolman assigned to the case, discovers there’s more to the situation - and to Dani Flanagan herself - than the authorities care to explore. Malone is told to shut his mouth, and Dani is sent away to live with her spinster aunts in Cleveland...
  • Concealed Cargo: Children for Sale by Jodi Burnett

    Concealed Cargo: Children for Sale by Jodi Burnett

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Special Agent Clay Jennings and his K9 partner, Ranger, take to the streets of Denver to fight human trafficking, he is shocked by the inordinate number of stolen innocents who’ve been forced into the sex trade. With each new face, his resolve to help these children escape their personal horror grows stronger...
  • See Her Die by Melinda Leigh

    See Her Die by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Sheriff Bree Taggert is both hunter and hunted in #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s blood-freezing thriller of murder, rage, and revenge.New sheriff Bree Taggert is called to a shooting in a campground shuttered for the winter. But she arrives to find a perplexing crime. There is no shooter, no victim, and no blood...
  • Hide and Seek by Mary Burton

    Hide and Seek by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    She’s hunting. He’s watching. Special Agent Macy Crow is a survivor. After a vicious hit-and-run nearly kills her, she gets right back to work, and now she’s gunning for a spot on the FBI’s elite profiling team. As an audition, she offers to investigate the recently discovered bones of Tobi Turner, a high school girl who disappeared fifteen years ago...
  • The Hangman by Mary Burton

    The Hangman by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Julia Vargas is a cop with a mission. When she’s not chasing down bad guys, Julia dedicates her time to investigating the Hangman serial killer…the same unsolved case that her father, Jim Vargas, was working on when he supposedly shot and killed himself three decades before. While rumors continue to swirl around her father’s death, Julia attempts to hunt down the truth...
  • Edge of Darkness by Karen Rose

    Edge of Darkness by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The fourth and final book in Karen Rose's nail-biting Cincinnati Series revisits your favourite characters battling crime in the city's dark underbelly. Fans of Tess Gerritsen, James Patterson and Karin Slaughter will not be able to tear themselves away from this explosive thriller. Homicide detective Adam Kimble is no stranger to battling demons...
  • Silenced in the Falls by Elle Gray

    Silenced in the Falls by Elle Gray

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    To be young, wild, and carefree.The true essence of Taft High’s Spring dance.But there’s a price for the naivety of youth.A high price that could cost your blood, soul, and your silence.Sweetwater Falls is a charming town with all sorts of characters.From chaperoning the school dance with Ryker to putting drunk drivers behind bars...
  • Mine to Protect by Kennedy L. Mitchell

    Mine to Protect by Kennedy L. Mitchell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "Outstanding!! Mystery, intrigue, action and an edge of your seat nail biter." "Holy Moly Mine to Protect was exciting, and suspenseful and oh so sexy." A standalone, romantic thriller novel where obsession is the name of the game. Recruited to the FBI Cas Mathews has one focus - catch the killer...
  • Riddle Me This by Gina LaManna

    Riddle Me This by Gina LaManna

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Detective Kate Rosetti is not a big fan of February 14th. Even worse than gigantic bouquets of roses and buckets of chocolate, however, are the love notes she’s been receiving from the murderer who very nearly stole her life.Unfortunately, a peaceful Valentine’s Day isn’t in the cards for Kate Rosetti...
  • Cold Hearted by Toni Anderson

    Cold Hearted by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Hunting For A Killer...Who Doesn't Play By The Rules. Detective Erin Donovan expects life to quiet down after the arrest and conviction of a serial rapist who terrified her university town last summer. Then two young women are brutally slain and the murders bear all the hallmarks of the campus rapist...
  • Broken Hearts by Stella Hart

    Broken Hearts by Stella Hart

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I love him, and it’s killing me… I never thought this would happen, but here I am—a willing captive to the most sinfully-handsome serial killer the world has ever seen. I belong to him now, the man who is both my savior and my downfall. The man who will probably destroy me one day, just like he’s destroyed so many others before me. If I want to live, I have to be a good girl...
  • Vulnerable by Mary Burton

    Vulnerable by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Smallest Mistake Three went in; one came out. For five years, no trace has been found of two high-school friends who went hiking in the woods near Nashville. The third teen, Amber Ryder, was discovered at the bottom of a ravine with a broken arm, head trauma--and zero memory of the horror that put her there...
  • Pretty Stolen Dolls by Ker Dukey

    Pretty Stolen Dolls by Ker Dukey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From bestselling authors Ker Dukey & K Webster comes the heart-stopping, internationally bestselling crime thriller Pretty Stolen Dolls.Have you ever had to make a decision that haunts you every single day for the rest of your life—the life you stole back? I have...
  • Every Dark Corner by Karen Rose

    Every Dark Corner by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Every Dark Corner is the nail-biting new thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Karen Rose, and Book 3 in the Cincinnati series, following on from Closer Than You Think and Alone in the Dark. When FBI Special Agent Griffin "Decker" Davenport wakes from his coma, he is desperate to find the missing children he knows are in danger...
    Categorized as:
    angst  crime  dark  law-enforcement  suspense  abuse  adult  audiobook
  • Cold Justice Series Box Set: Volume I: Books 1-3 by Toni Anderson

    Cold Justice Series Box Set: Volume I: Books 1-3 by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Now you can get the first three books of the Cold Justice Series in one bundle! Justice isn’t always black or white. Sometimes it’s cold and dark. A Cold Dark Place: Former CIA assassin Alex Parker works for The Gateway Project, a clandestine government organization hell-bent on taking out serial killers and pedophiles before they enter the justice system...
  • Bleeding Hearts by Stella Hart

    Bleeding Hearts by Stella Hart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dexter crossed with 50 Shades: enter a world filled with dark secrets, twisted lies, and dirty desires... I’m coming for her… I’ve watched her, I’ve hunted her, and now I’m here to claim her. Celeste Riley, my pretty little angel. Soon to be my pretty little captive. She pretends she’ll never want a killer like me, but we both know that isn’t true...
  • I'm Watching You by Karen Rose

    I'm Watching You by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here: I'm Watching YouI KNOW THEIR CRIMESStar prosecutor Kristen Mayhew has a dangerous secret admirer. He seems to knows her every thought, her every move. He sends her letters. And he kills the criminals she herself is powerless to stop...
  • Forgotten Legacy by Robin Perini

    Forgotten Legacy by Robin Perini

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Forgotten secrets. Forgotten lies. A family legacy…A determined killer. On the outskirts of Singing River, Wyoming, a couple dies in a fire that ravages their remote mountain home. Everyone believes it’s a tragic accident—except FBI profiler Riley Lambert. She isn’t convinced, and neither is her fiancé, ex–Navy SEAL turned sheriff Thayne Blackwood...
  • Cold & Deadly by Toni Anderson

    Cold & Deadly by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Hostage Negotiators can talk themselves out of anything—except falling in love.FBI Supervisory Special Agent Dominic Sheridan is an accomplished expert in the Crisis Negotiation Unit. Practiced, professional, used to dealing with high-stake situations under tense conditions, Dominic is a master at manipulating people...
  • You Can Run by Rebecca Zanetti

    You Can Run by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fans of Laura Griffin and Jayne Ann Krentz won’t want to miss this brand new thriller series by New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Zanetti, as FBI Special Agent Laurel Snow, a rising star profiler, strives to stay one step ahead of the criminal mind—and discovers that her own demons may be the hardest to outrun… Laurel Snow wouldn’t call hunting a serial killer a vacation, but with a pile...
  • You Can Hide by Rebecca Zanetti

    You Can Hide by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Set against the atmospheric backdrop of rural Pacific Northwest, New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Zanetti’s thrilling suspense series follows FBI Special Agent Laurel Snow as she strives to navigate her complicated family life when her newly discovered sociopathic half-sister becomes the target of a dangerous killer...
  • Midnight Obsession by Melinda Leigh

    Midnight Obsession by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s edgy new thriller, Louisa Hancock thought she was safe…but there’s a new killer in town.When a mysterious package lands on Louisa Hancock’s doorstep, the Philadelphia museum curator can hardly anticipate the nightmare that’s about to envelop her...
  • She Can Scream by Melinda Leigh

    She Can Scream by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In one moment, high school teacher and single mother Brooke Davenport interrupts a vicious assault, saves a young woman’s life, and attracts the attention of a serial killer. Sixteen years ago, Brooke lost her roommate to a brutal murder. Now she teaches women’s self-defense, still trying to heal from the guilt and grief that plague her...
  • I See You by Mary Burton

    I See You by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton comes a gritty, suspenseful story in the Criminal Profiler series. FBI special agent Zoe Spencer uses skeletal remains to recreate the faces of murder victims through sculpture. Though highly scientific, the process is also sensitive and intimate; she becomes attached to the individuals she identifies, desperate to find justice for each...
  • The Devil's Spare Change by Samantha A. Cole

    The Devil's Spare Change by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    FBI agent Sean Malone put in a transfer to return home to North Carolina in order to be closer to his expanding family. What he didn’t expect was a pleasant surprise from his youth. Little Gracie Whitman is all grown up now and drop-dead gorgeous, and he finds himself thinking about her in ways he’d never done before...
  • Constant Risk by Janie Crouch

    Constant Risk by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The hunters Become the hunted. Deputy Tanner Dempsey and Bree Daniels are tasked with unraveling a deadly mystery in Dallas—one that involves transmitting live feeds of victims trapped in tanks as they fill with water. Bree’s computer genius is their only hope at solving the crime...
  • Cold Fury by Toni Anderson

    Cold Fury by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Seven years ago, Hope Harper was a star defense attorney with a great life and a beautiful family—until she got the wrong defendant released, and he turned around and viciously slaughtered her husband and child. Since then, the only thing Hope cares about is locking bad guys behind bars where they can’t hurt anyone else...
  • Unholy Bonds : A Dark Serial Killer Romantic Suspense by Maya Raine

    Unholy Bonds : A Dark Serial Killer Romantic Suspense by Maya Raine

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Three serial killers connected by an unholy thread, tangled in a twisted chase for revenge and blood. In this game of hunters, who will become the ultimate prey?***He is every sin she wants to commit. Yara West spends her day as a Medical Examiner. At nights, she dons the mask of a twisted killer to satiate the demons in her head...
  • Pretty New Doll by Ker Dukey

    Pretty New Doll by Ker Dukey

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Benny, broken, hurting, and aloneLost his dolly, his love, his home.Injured and searching, reborn anew,He finds himself befriended by one who’s true.Learning about the world, urges, and lust.Finding a new future, a new dolly, is a must.Then out of old pain, fresh prospects come to life,Benny’s sick mind summons him, so his hand takes the knife...
  • Merciless by Mary Burton

    Merciless by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In this riveting linked novel, rising romantic suspense star Burton deftly heightens the suspense that began in "Senseless." No Pity. Each skeleton is flawless—gleaming white and perfectly preserved, a testament to his skill. Every scrap of flesh has been removed to reveal the glistening bone beneath. And the collection is growing… No Compassion...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  kidnapping  law-enforcement  suspense  abuse  adult  book
  • You Can't Hide by Karen Rose

    You Can't Hide by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0446616893 / 9780446616898 is located here Terror has forever changed the life of psychiatrist Tess Ciccotelli. Someone is tormenting her patients, pushing them to commit suicide, and setting her up to take the blame. But Tess can't break her oath to protect her patients' privacy at all costs...
  • Burn You Twice by Mary Burton, Melissa Moran

    Burn You Twice by Mary Burton, Melissa Moran

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    8 hours, 56 minutesFire can destroy the past. It can also uncover secrets in this novel of searing suspense by New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton.Ten years ago as an undergrad, Joan Mason escaped an arsonist’s fire. Shaken, she fled the small collegiate Montana town, leaving behind friends and not looking back...
  • Count to Ten by Karen Rose

    Count to Ten by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In all his years in the Chicago Fire Department, Lieutenant Reed Solliday ahs never experienced anything like this recent outbreak of house fires - devastating, vicious and in one case, homicidal. He has another problem - his new partner, Detective Mia Mitchell. She's brash, bossy, and taking the case in a direction he never imagined...
  • The Silent Dolls by Rita Herron

    The Silent Dolls by Rita Herron

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Silent tears trickle down her cheeks as she curls inside the tiny cave-like space. She lies on her side, darkness all around her, rubbing her fingers over the little wooden doll he’d carved. He told her to be quiet, not to cry or scream. Not to be a baby. Her throat was raw, her eyes swollen shut. She wanted her mommy and daddy. She wanted to go home...
  • Deep Spiral by Cole McCade

    Deep Spiral by Cole McCade

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ABOUT THIS EPISODE A deadly, unstable shooter. A trap Malcolm and Seong-Jae can't escape. And more than one life on the line as they find themselves facing down one of the Golden Ratio Killer's proxies in a high-stakes hostage situation that could ramp up the serial murderer's mathematical body counts exponentially. And if Malcolm and Seong-Jae aren't careful, they'll be among the tally...
    Categorized as:
    angst  crime  dark  law-enforcement  suspense  adult  age-gap  book
  • Black Hearts: A Dark Captive Romance by Stella Hart

    Black Hearts: A Dark Captive Romance by Stella Hart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It takes a monster to destroy a monster. My enemies have taken Celeste. Kidnapped her to torture and kill her. I won’t stop looking for her. Won’t give up on her. I’ll destroy anyone and anything that gets in my way, and the punishment for those who have taken her will be brutal and unmerciful. She belongs with me. She belongs to me. I’m never letting go. Ever...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  kidnapping  obsession  stalking  suspense  adult  age-gap
  • The Invitation by A.J. Rivers

    The Invitation by A.J. Rivers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When FBI agent Ava James received a call from an ex,she could have never predicted the mayhem that would follow...After receiving an invitation to attend a Christmas themed wedding in the mountains,Ava had planned out her perfect winter escape.However, the getaway turns into a nightmare when she stumbles upon the groom’s sister frozen in the snow...
  • Beautifully Broken Pieces by Catherine Cowles

    Beautifully Broken Pieces by Catherine Cowles

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    A woman who’s lost everything. Taylor is looking for peace and quiet away from the memories of all she’s lost. A small mountain town where no one knows her seems like the perfect escape. A man battling the ghosts of his past. Walker loves his life just the way it is. His town, his family, his brothers in blue. Everything simple and easy—until a chance encounter changes it all...
  • Vile by Debra Webb

    Vile by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Deputy Chief Jess Harris knows her time is running out. Somehow she must protect the people she loves and any more innocent victims from the serial killer obsessed with her...
  • Vicious by Debra Webb

    Vicious by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book 7 in the Faces of Evil series. Serial killer Eric Spears is far from done. He has chosen his next victim and Deputy Chief Jess Harris knows it's only a matter of time until he comes for her. The murders are vicious, the killer relentless...
  • Heinous by Debra Webb

    Heinous by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The body count is rising. The serial killer obsessed with Birmingham’s Deputy Chief Jess Harris is getting closer, and he knows Jess’s secret. Can she protect the child she carries and the people she loves from Eric Spears and his followers? The body farm discovered in a small Alabama town has many buried secrets...
  • Shut Up and Drive by L.M. Krier

    Shut Up and Drive by L.M. Krier

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A serial sex attacker is spreading fear in Stockport and DI Ted Darling and his team are on the case.The man randomly targets young women and abducts them from busy supermarket car parks. He's armed with a knife and is clearly highly trained in how to handle it.Ever-dwindling police resources make the manhunt harder, even though the attacker clearly doesn't care whether or not he's caught...
  • The Annihilator by RuNyx

    The Annihilator by RuNyx

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The highly anticipated fifth book in the bestselling Dark Verse series.𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝗯𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝘅𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻?She lives in the shadows. He rules them.She's the moon, and he the dark night encompassing her. She's surrounded by demons, and he's the biggest devil of them all. And she's his...
  • For You by Kristen Ashley

    For You by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ASIN B004S81POK.Lieutenant Alexander Colton and February Owens were high school sweethearts. Everyone in their small town knew from the moment they met they were meant for each other. But something happened and Feb broke Colt’s heart then she turned wild and tragedy struck...
  • All the Dead Girls by Rita Herron

    All the Dead Girls by Rita Herron

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When a violent storm hits Graveyard Falls, it unearths the unimaginable: skeletons of teenage girls, each dressed in white and holding a candle. It’s clear to FBI agent Beth Fields that this is the work of a long-standing killer—but could it be the one she escaped years ago? She has no memory of the man who held her captive and murdered her friend...
  • Psychopath's Prey by V.F. Mason

    Psychopath's Prey by V.F. Mason

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Once upon a time she became mine. Mine to hunt. A criminal psychologist and a serial killer. The love between them shouldn’t exist. Or so the world thinks. Her mission is to find him. His single obsession is to catch her. The hunter and the prey. Let the games begin, and may the stronger one win. Warning: Dark Romance...
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