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The Death Sculptor by Chris Carter
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsA student nurse has the shock of her life when she discovers her patient, prosecutor Derek Nicholson, brutally murdered in his bed. The act seems senseless - Nicholson was terminally ill with only weeks to live. But what most shocks Detective Robert Hunter is the calling card the killer left behind... -
![The Night Window by Dean Koontz]()
The Night Window by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 20 ratings#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz brings Jane Hawk's one-woman war to an explosive climax as the rogue FBI agent wages her final battle against a terrifying conspiracy--for vengeance, for justice, and for humanity's freedom."Jane Hawk is arguably the best character Koontz has created. Simply put, wow...Categorized as:
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![The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty]()
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 73 ratingsFour decades after it first terrified the world, William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist is back! An extraordinary classic work of horror and dark paranormal suspense. In this stunning 40th Anniversary Edition, a desperate mother and two priests fight to free the soul of a little girl from a supernatural entity of pure malevolence... -
![Crooked River by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child]()
Crooked River by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratings#1 New York Times bestselling authors Doug Preston and Lincoln Child return with their next blockbuster Pendergast novel as he and Junior Agent Coldmoon race to uncover the mystery of several blue-shoe-clad severed feet found floating in the Atlantic... -
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![Der Insasse by Sebastian Fitzek]()
Der Insasse by Sebastian Fitzek
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsVor einem Jahr verschwand der kleine Max Berghoff.Nur der Täter weiß, was mit ihm geschah.Doch der sitzt im Hochsicherheitstrakt der Psychiatrie und schweigt.Max' Vater bleibt nur ein Weg, um endlich Gewissheit zu haben: Er muss selbst zum Insassen werden.Der InsasseUm die Wahrheit zu finden, muss er seinen Verstand verlieren... -
![Sul lato selvaggio by Tiffany McDaniel]()
Sul lato selvaggio by Tiffany McDaniel
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSix women—mothers, daughters, sisters—gone missing. Inspired by the unsolved murders of the Chillicothe Six, this harrowing novel tells the story of two sisters, both of whom could be the next victims, from the internationally best-selling author of Betty."Capture[s] what goes horribly wrong when women don’t fit a customary victim profile.. -
![The Last Party by A.R. Torre]()
The Last Party by A.R. Torre
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA loving mother. A notorious murderer. They both have reasons to hide their secrets in a novel of escalating shock and suspense by New York Times bestselling author A. R. Torre.Perla Wultz lives with her husband, Grant, and their precious daughter, Sophie, in a gated Pasadena community. Affluent, sociable, and accomplished, Perla plays the part of loving wife and mother to perfection... -
![Absolute Fear by Lisa Jackson]()
Absolute Fear by Lisa Jackson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsEvery Serial Killer... A serial killer is stalking the streets of New Orleans. The victims are killed in a ritual fashion, a series of numbers tattooed into their bodies. There are no clues, no connections except one: a crumbling old asylum that was once the scene of unspeakable madness--and is now the calling card of a new kind of fear. Is Searching For.. -
![Kill the Father by Sandrone Dazieri]()
Kill the Father by Sandrone Dazieri
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratings'The rock cast a sharp, dark shadow over a shape huddled on the ground. Please don’t let it be the boy, Colomba thought. Her silent prayer didn’t go unanswered. The corpse belonged to the mother.'THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN STOP HIM IS THE ONE WHO GOT AWAY...Dante Torre spent eleven young years in captivity - held by a man known only as The Father - before outwitting his abductor... -
![Divided House by J.M. Dalgliesh]()
Divided House by J.M. Dalgliesh
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe public face. A private reality. Sometimes, the dead have a lot to hide...DI Nathaniel Caslin's life is a mess. He works the minimum, abuses substances to survive the day and drinks his nights away. A once-promising career is in freefall.Investigating the death of an ex-serviceman in police custody, reveals the disappearance of a young family. No-one noticed. No-one seems to care...Categorized as:
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![Never Lie by Freida McFadden]()
Never Lie by Freida McFadden
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsNewlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams.But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate… with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end... -
![Tell Me Lies by Teresa Driscoll]()
Tell Me Lies by Teresa Driscoll
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom bestselling author Teresa Driscoll comes a chilling thriller of past secrets and present terror. Deep in a rural hideaway, it’s only the owls watching them…right? After a betrayal that sent their marriage into freefall, Hannah and Sam are desperate for a fresh start with their eight-year-old daughter Lily―and where better than picture-perfect Owl Cottage in beautiful Cornwall... -
![The Only One Left by Riley Sager]()
The Only One Left by Riley Sager
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsAt seventeen, Lenora HopeHung her sister with a rope Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it... -
![Three Strikes by Kate Kessler]()
Three Strikes by Kate Kessler
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThree Strikes is the new novel in a thriller series where a criminal psychologist uses her own dark past to help law enforcement catch dangerous killers.Thanksgiving is approaching, and Audrey Harte has a lot to be thankful for -- her mother has recovered from surgery, her relationship with Jake is solid, her father is relatively sober, and her career is evolving in an exciting direction... -
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![Black for Remembrance by Carlene Thompson]()
Black for Remembrance by Carlene Thompson
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCaroline Webb knows what it means to lose the person you love most. Twenty years ago, her five-year-old daughter, Hayley, was the light of her life, her treasure, her angle. Then came the terrible day when Hayley was kidnapped from her favorite swing. More than a month passed before her burned, lifeless body was found. All that remained was the silence of Caroline's heartache--and her guilt.. -
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Vicious by Kevin O'Brien
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNO MOTIVE For more than two years, he held Seattle in a terror grip. A cold-blooded killer who abducted young mothers right in front of their sons and murdered them execution style. Then, as suddenly as the killings began, they seemed to stop.NO MERCY Susan Blanchette is looking forward to a relaxing weekend getaway with her fianc�, Allen, and young son, Matthew... -
![Don't Scream by Wendy Corsi Staub]()
Don't Scream by Wendy Corsi Staub
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDon't Tell A Soul. . . In a remote, heavily wooded area near the Berkshires of Massachusetts, Rachel Lorant died on her birthday. But she didn't die alone. That night, her four sorority sisters make a solemn, trembling pledge. They will never reveal what has just happened in those woods--ever. Instead, they will take their terrible secret to their graves. . . Don't Think About The Past. . -
![Either Side of Midnight by Tori de Clare]()
Either Side of Midnight by Tori de Clare
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWHAT IF THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE TURNED INTO YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE? When nineteen-year-old Naomi Stone is snatched from her husband at knifepoint on the night of their wedding and taken to a deserted cemetery, she knows her life is finished. Drugged and disorientated, she loses consciousness as she lies in an open grave with a gun to her head... -
![The Islanders by Caroline Mitchell]()
The Islanders by Caroline Mitchell
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsShe thinks the island will keep her safe—she is wrong.Traumatised by the death of a child in her care, top London paediatrician Claire seeks refuge on remote Selkie Island in the wilds of the Irish Sea with her husband Daniel and their baby daughter Kitty... -
![You're Family Now by Jack Stainton]()
You're Family Now by Jack Stainton
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratings⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘ EPIC!! EPIC!! EPIC!! This book had EVERYTHING I love in a book!! ' Goodreads ReviewerHe only had to do one thing. Love her family…Matt Walker was a chancer; he’d spent his entire profession chasing the next job. His personal life took on a similar mantra; a succession of one-night stands and brief relationships. Life was slowly drifting him by... -
![You Let Me In by Lucy Clarke]()
You Let Me In by Lucy Clarke
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsSpine-tingling, chilling, and utterly compulsive, YOU LET ME IN is the stunning new novel from Richard & Judy Book Club author, Lucy Clarke Nothing has felt right since Elle rented out her house . . . I’M IN YOUR HOUSE There’s a new coldness. A shift in the atmosphere. The prickling feeling that someone is watching her every move from the shadows... -
![The Soul Breaker by Sebastian Fitzek]()
The Soul Breaker by Sebastian Fitzek
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsInternational 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... -
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White Fire by Douglas Preston
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsPub Date: 2014-12-01 Pages: 360 Language: Chinese Publisher: Chongqing Publishing House White Fire FBI agent Pendergast came to Colorado. a famous ski resort. ready to rescue his protector g Li. At this point. the serial arson murder occurred on the town. the murderer's goal is worth one million US dollars mansion...Categorized as:
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![The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson]()
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 58 ratingsThe Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery:" with twenty-four equally unusual stories...Categorized as:
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![What She Forgot by S.W. Vaughn]()
What She Forgot by S.W. Vaughn
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings* This is an updated edition of this Kindle edition. *She'll do anything to get her daughter back. But can she uncover the dark secrets of her past in time to save her child? A gripping psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist. Madeline was sixteen when she was taken by the Singing Woods Killer, slated to become his fifth victim. She escaped, killing him in the process...Categorized as:
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![A Private Cathedral: A Dave Robicheaux Novel by James Lee Burke]()
A Private Cathedral: A Dave Robicheaux Novel by James Lee Burke
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAfter finding himself caught up in one of Louisiana’s oldest and bloodiest family rivalries, Detective Dave Robicheaux must battle the most terrifying adversary he has ever encountered: a time-traveling superhuman assassin.The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime enemies in the New Iberia criminal underworld and show each other no mercy... -
![In Silence by Erica Spindler]()
In Silence by Erica Spindler
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen Avery Chauvin returns to her Louisiana hometown after her father's suicide, she discovers clippings of a fifteen-year-old murder and learns about recent disappearances and murders that lead her to start an investigation... -
![The Birds and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier]()
The Birds and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsHow long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew...A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's sense of dominance over the natural world...Categorized as:
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![The People Next Door by Keri Beevis]()
The People Next Door by Keri Beevis
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"Hooked from the start . . . absolutely brilliant. Wish I could rate it higher . . . Just wow!" --Amazon reviewer, five starsHer new house has a mysterious past--and her new life in the English countryside is about to take a dark turn . . .When Ellie and Ash move into a beautiful old house in rural Norfolk, England, they believe they've found their perfect home... -
![Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney]()
Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe New York Times bestselling Queen of Twists returns…with a family reunion that leads to murder.After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker’s entire family is assembling for Nana’s 80th birthday party in Nana’s crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours... -
![The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane by Laird Koenig]()
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane by Laird Koenig
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAlone in the darkened house, with only fire's glow and thirteen flickering candles for illumination, silent except for the mounting chords of a Liszt concerto, Rynn was preparing a solemn celebration. Until a knock at the door shattered sanctuary.Rynn is the little girl who lives in the house at the end of the lane with her father-or so she says... -
![A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers]()
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFood critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. Discerning, meticulous, and very, very smart, Dorothy’s clear mastery of the culinary arts make it likely that she could, on any given night, whip up a more inspired dish than any one of the chefs she writes about... -
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The Night Bird by Brian Freeman
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsHomicide detective Frost Easton doesn’t like coincidences. When a series of bizarre deaths rock San Francisco—as seemingly random women suffer violent psychotic breaks—Frost looks for a connection that leads him to psychiatrist Francesca Stein. Frankie’s controversial therapy helps people erase their most terrifying memories…and all the victims were her patients... -
![The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz]()
The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe Plot meets Please Join Us in this psychological suspense debut about a young author at an exclusive writer’s retreat that descends into a nightmare.Alex has all but given up on her dreams of becoming a published author when she receives a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: attend an exclusive, month-long writing retreat at the estate of feminist horror writer Roza Vallo... -
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![Eyeshot by Taylor Adams]()
Eyeshot by Taylor Adams
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsJames and Elle Eversman are a young couple travelling through the Mojave desert on their way to a new life. When their car mysteriously breaks down they are stranded in the middle of nowhere without much water and no cell-phone reception.A mile away a deadly sniper has them in his cross-hairs. They are pinned down behind their broken-down car, surrounded by open ground in all directions... -
![The Skin Gods by Richard Montanari]()
The Skin Gods by Richard Montanari
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Richard Montanari's The Echo Man.With the breakneck pacing and intricate plotting of his most recent novel, The Rosary Girls, Richard Montanari established himself as one of the most exciting suspense writers working today... -
![Smilin' Sam's Corn Maze by Stephanie Perry Scissom]()
Smilin' Sam's Corn Maze by Stephanie Perry Scissom
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen her seven-year-old daughter Lizzy disappeared into a corn maze on Halloween night in 1984, Catherine Bryant didn’t think she’d survive the loss.For nearly forty years, Catherine has struggled with her grief and guilt, so when her doctor delivers a fatal diagnosis, it’s almost a relief.But something is happening to Catherine... -
![The Skeleton Key by Erin Kelly]()
The Skeleton Key by Erin Kelly
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA reunion leads to tragedy, and the unravelling of dark family secrets . . .It is the summer of 2021 and Nell has come home at her family's insistence to celebrate an anniversary. Her father, Sir Frank Churcher, is regarded as a cult figure by many. Fifty years ago he wrote The Golden Bones... -
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![Her Final Breath by J.S. Donovan]()
Her Final Breath by J.S. Donovan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJ.S Donovan brings you the complete collection of the highly-rated "The Chosen" and "Secret Memories" Series.The ChosenA violent murder stirs a small Midwestern town. An unseen evil acts according to its own will. A woman with a mysterious gift risks it all to learn the truth...Categorized as:
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![Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn]()
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 86 ratingsGillian Flynn is TV critic for US magazine Entertainment Weekly, but after the highly impressive thriller debut that is Sharp Objects, she may have to re-think the day job - particularly as such masters of the thriller as Harlan Coben and Stephen King are falling over each other to praise her novel... -
![Viskningar i mörkret by Amanda Stevens]()
Viskningar i mörkret by Amanda Stevens
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWork is a welcome refuge for New Orleans homicide detective Evangeline Theroux. Feeling suffocated by her new baby, in whose eyes she sees only her dead husband, she throws herself into a high-profile murder case. Reclusive writer Lena Saunders offers Evangeline a provocative theory about the crime: it is the work of a lunatic vigilante... -
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Buzz Cut by James W. Hall
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA brutal hijacker, a missing heiress, and a luxury liner racing toward disaster...In the quiet shallows of the Florida Keys, Thorn has made a home, tying fishing flies and trying to forget the violence of his past. Now Key Largo is his world. He fishes it, breathes it, makes love in it. Until a phone call from Miami changes everything plunging Thorn into the deep waters of madness and revenge..Categorized as:
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![Seat 7A by Sebastian Fitzek]()
Seat 7A by Sebastian Fitzek
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIt's irrational.You know that, you’ve checked the statistics. Flying is safer than driving — nineteen times safer.You also know that should something happen, seat 7A, according to the numbers, is the worst place to be sitting.But here you are, in seat 7A, buckled up for take off, unable to shake off the feeling of dread, the feeling that something is about to go very wrong.Irrational, perhaps... -
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![Are You Awake? by Claire McGowan]()
Are You Awake? by Claire McGowan
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of What You Did comes a chilling story about a missing girl and two potential witnesses. They both think they saw her. But can they trust their own eyes?Mary hasn’t slept in what feels like years. Her two young children never let her rest, and so one exhausting night, in the middle of a London heatwave, she escapes to a nearby park for some air.Tim can’t sleep... -
![Suffer by E.E. Borton, Emily Sutton-Smith]()
Suffer by E.E. Borton, Emily Sutton-Smith
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKate Freeman opened the front door of her vacation villa to a wolf in sheep's clothing. A few moments later, fifty thousand paralyzing volts shot through her body. Her world went dark; and when she awoke, her family was torn apart forever... -
![Father of Lies by Brian Evenson]()
Father of Lies by Brian Evenson
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAt the urging of his wife, Provost Fochs reluctantly agrees to see a therapist, Dr. Feshtig. Through the therapist's detailed notes, correspondence from the church, and the provost himself, the provost's sickness emerges and the reader is drawn into the disturbing inner workings of a violent pedophile.The provost relays his crimes in excruciating detail... -
![The Scold's Bridle by Minette Walters]()
The Scold's Bridle by Minette Walters
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsBITTER HARRIDAN...Few tears fall when rich, spiteful old Mathilda Gillespie's bloody corpse is found in her bathtub, her wrists slit and the ancient scold's bridle clamped on her head. It seems Mathilda's favorite heirloom was also an instrument of torture from the Middle Ages, an iron cage used to gag yapping women... -
![The Ripper Gene by Michael Ransom]()
The Ripper Gene by Michael Ransom
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSilver Falchion Award for Best Horror (2016) and Best Serial Killer Mystery (2016). A neuroscientist-turned-FBI-profiler discovers a gene that produces psychopaths in The Ripper Gene, a thrilling debut novel from Michael Ransom.Dr... -
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All The Pretty Girls by J.T. Ellison
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsSome secrets should stay buried.When a local girl falls prey to a sadistic serial killer, Nashville Homicide Lieutenant Taylor Jackson and her lover, FBI profiler Dr. John Baldwin, find themselves in a joint investigation pursuing a vicious murderer...
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