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  • Autumn's Fear by Mary Stone

    Autumn's Fear by Mary Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Don’t fear the dark. It’s the light that blinds...and kills.Forensic and criminal psychologist Dr. Autumn Trent is trying to find her groove in her transition to the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit. But can her soft heart continue to take a beating? Will her impulsive spirit continue to get her in trouble? Probably...
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    female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  alpha-mc  book  dark  family
  • The Girl and the Cursed Lake by A.J. Rivers

    The Girl and the Cursed Lake by A.J. Rivers

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    There are nightmares in this world you cannot escape.For Dean, the haunting of his past is one he cannot leave behind…How much of the past do you carry with you?It's a question FBI Agent Emma Griffin has dealt with throughout her career.This time is different...
  • The Lullaby Man by Anni Taylor

    The Lullaby Man by Anni Taylor

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A decade ago, The Lullaby Man preyed upon young girls in Tallman's Valley. He stole into their lives, whispered in their ears, spoke of love...But only the girls themselves ever knew about him. Abby Wakeland was fourteen then. Now twenty-four, she's found the courage to tell her mother--Senior Detective Kate Wakeland--about what happened...
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    female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  book  crime  family  fiction
  • Leaving Cub Creek by Grace Greene

    Leaving Cub Creek by Grace Greene

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the heart of Virginia, where the forests hide secrets and the creeks run strong and deep ~ Libbie Havens never fit in. She bought the old Carson place on Cub Creek and moved to the Virginia countryside to prove she could live on her own terms. In the process, she learned some truths about herself and found love ~ but love, acceptance and belonging can be easier to find than to keep...
  • The Surrogate's Gift by L.G. Davis

    The Surrogate's Gift by L.G. Davis

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Her one good deed is about to turn into her worst nightmare.Becoming a surrogate for Marcia and Travis Thorpe is Grace’s chance to overcome her inner demons.Nothing can go wrong. Her life depends on it.Determined to focus on the pregnancy, she drops everything and accepts the Thorpes’ offer to move in with them until the baby is born. A simple decision. One big mistake...
  • The Moonlighters Collection: Truth Stained Lies, Distortion, Twisted Innocence by Terri Blackstock

    The Moonlighters Collection: Truth Stained Lies, Distortion, Twisted Innocence by Terri Blackstock

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Terri Blackstock’s bestselling Moonlighters trilogy—now available in one volume! Truth Stained Lies When truth doesn’t make sense, will lies prevail? Distortion A husband’s lies can have deadly consequences. Twisted Innocence Holly Cramer’s past choices have finally caught up to her, but she never expected them to endanger her baby...
  • Cross Fire by C.C. Warrens

    Cross Fire by C.C. Warrens

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Holly's worst nightmare steps back into her life, she has to decide whether to stand and fight or flee and survive...
  • The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark

    The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She's back.Meg Williams. Maggie Littleton. Melody Wilde. Different names for the same person, depending on the town, depending on the job. She's a con artist who erases herself to become whoever you need her to be—a college student. A life coach. A real estate agent. Nothing about her is real...
  • Law of Five by Robin Mahle

    Law of Five by Robin Mahle

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The nationwide manhunt for a killer begins and the media quickly dubs him the “Highway Hunter.” Bodies left roadside on display with horrific markings; a calling card. But this case is miles away from Katie Reid and her life with Detective Marshall Avery.That is, until she gets the call from her old friend and reporter, Marc Aguilar, who believes that the killer could be coming their way...
  • Run Away With Me by Daniel Hurst

    Run Away With Me by Daniel Hurst

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    You can run but you can't hide...Laura is feeling content with her life. She is married, she has a good home and she is due to give birth to her first child any day now. But her perfect world is shattered when her husband comes home flustered and afraid. He's made a terrible mistake. He's done a bad thing. And now the police are going to be looking for him...There's only one way out of this...
  • First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

    First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist.The identity comes to Evie Porter. Once she’s given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it...
  • Signs of Life by Creston Mapes

    Signs of Life by Creston Mapes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rogan Sneed . . . Portland’s Worst NightmareWhen a mass shooting rips through Portland's Pioneer Square, high school teacher Tyson Cooper races to the scene, only to find his beloved lies among the fallen. Shattered and seething, Cooper vows vengeance against the 19-year-old shooter Rogan Sneed, no matter the cost...
  • His Garden of Bones by Vickie McKeehan

    His Garden of Bones by Vickie McKeehan

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Not all flowers are grown with love. Years earlier, teenage girls began to vanish off the streets of Seattle. Now, they're turning up dead, their mutilated bodies left in prominent locations around the city. Skye Cree suspects there are more...
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    female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  book  crime  fiction  mystery
  • Charm Artist by Creston Mapes

    Charm Artist by Creston Mapes

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After the Portland terrorist attack, the kidnapping of his daughter, and the domestic violence case that almost killed him, Portland Police Investigator Wayne Deetz and his wife Joanie escape for a long overdue vacation in Sedona, Arizona, to make some monumental career decisions...
  • Do You Remember? by Freida McFadden

    Do You Remember? by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Tess Strebel can’t recognize her own face.She can’t recognize her home. Her bedroom is unfamiliar. And she can’t remember the handsome stranger lying next to her in bed. A stranger who claims he’s her husband.Tess reads a letter in her own handwriting, composed during a rare lucid day, explaining her life as it now exists: She was in a terrible car accident one year ago...
  • Did I Kill My Husband? by A.J. Campbell

    Did I Kill My Husband? by A.J. Campbell

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The police officer’s voice is steady as he tells me the news. ‘Your husband is in hospital.’ My heart pounds. I think about my children, safely tucked up in bed. What will happen to us if he loses his life? And more importantly… do the police know where I really was tonight?Everybody thinks Michael and I are the perfect couple. But everybody is wrong...
  • Uccidimi (Blood Bonds) by Chiara Cilli

    Uccidimi (Blood Bonds) by Chiara Cilli

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Non avrei mai immaginato che la mia vita sarebbe finita così.Non avrei mai creduto che la mia vita sarebbe dipesa dalla sua.Ero pronta a morire per mano dell'uomo che mi aveva distrutto.Ero pronto a uccidere la donna che si era presa tutto me stesso.Ma la mia sofferenza non è ancora terminata.Ma me l'hanno portata via.Sta venendo a riprendermi, lo sento.Me la riprenderò, a qualsiasi costo...
  • 20 Minutes in the Park by Daniel Hurst

    20 Minutes in the Park by Daniel Hurst

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    On a sunny Sunday afternoon in Hyde Park, there's more than just the sounds of nature in the air.There's the threat from the mysterious murderer roaming the footpaths. There's the music from the festival where a recently released criminal is about to unleash havoc. And there's the chance at revenge for a heroic couple who never thought they would get it...20 Minutes. 20 People...
  • Beneath These Walls by Shade Owens

    Beneath These Walls by Shade Owens

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Six months ago, my husband tried to kill me.Now, my sons and I are living in an old Victorian house passed down to me by my uncle. The house may be big, but the town is small... it's safe, which is something I haven't felt in a very long time. And best of all, it's very far away from my ex.As soon as we move in, however, I discover that this house has an eerie reputation...
  • The Concierge by Miranda Rijks

    The Concierge by Miranda Rijks

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They hired an assistant to help them. But she has other plans.High-flying duo Goldie and Braun Delucci run a major film production company. But recently their gilded lives were touched by tragedy when one of their leading actors, Ally, died in a car crash.What the Deluccis don’t realise is that their newly hired private assistant is actually Ally’s sister...
  • One Little Lie by Christopher Greyson

    One Little Lie by Christopher Greyson

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    THE TRUTH COULD COST HER EVERYTHING.Kate had high hopes when she moved to her husband‘s hometown, but her domestic bliss was short-lived. Blindsided by her spouse’s very public affair with his high school sweetheart and a painful divorce, Kate’s determined to hold onto custody of her kids and pull herself together...
  • The Perfect Getaway by Kiersten Modglin

    The Perfect Getaway by Kiersten Modglin

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It was the trip of a lifetime…until someone ended up dead. When four couples receive invitations to try out a luxury island resort, they are excited for a week of relaxation and reconnecting.For some, it’s the honeymoon they never had the chance to take.For others, it’s a last-ditch attempt to save their crumbling marriage...
  • Want to Know a Secret? by Freida McFadden

    Want to Know a Secret? by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Everyone has secrets.YouTube baking sensation April Masterson knows the secret to the perfect gooey brownies. Or how to make key lime squares that will melt in your mouth. But if you keep watching her offline, you may find out some other secrets about April. Secrets she’d rather you didn’t know...
  • Stone Cold Fox by Rachel Koller Croft

    Stone Cold Fox by Rachel Koller Croft

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A perfectly wicked debut thriller about an ambitious woman who, after a lifetime of conning alongside her mother, wants to leave her dark past behind and marry the heir to one of the country's wealthiest families.Like any enterprising woman, Bea knows what she’s worth and is determined to get all she deserves—it just so happens that what she deserves is to marry rich. Filthy rich...
  • Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda

    Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The new thrilling novel from Megan Miranda, the instant New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls, The Last to Vanish, and The Only Survivors.When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake’s longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she’s warily drawn back to the town—and people—she left behind almost a decade earlier...
  • You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego

    You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An exclusive thriller writer’s retreat hosted on a private island turns lethal when one of the authors is found murdered in this twisty locked room mystery.When renowned anonymous author J. R...
  • Loving Mothers by Miranda Smith

    Loving Mothers by Miranda Smith

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A sixteen-year-old girl goes out on a crisp fall evening and never comes home. It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. Everyone holds their children tighter. But two of these loving mothers are hiding something terrible…StellaMoving to this neighborhood was meant to be a fresh start for my son and me. As I sip wine at the block’s Halloween party, I finally feel myself relax...
  • Gone Tonight by Sarah Pekkanen

    Gone Tonight by Sarah Pekkanen

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Catherine Sterling thinks she knows her mother. Ruth Sterling is quiet, hardworking, and lives for her daughter. All her life, it's been just the two of them against the world. But now, Catherine is ready to spread her wings, move from home, and begin a new career. And Ruth Sterling will do anything to prevent that from happening.Ruth Sterling thinks she knows her daughter...
  • The Next Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine

    The Next Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Daphne and Amber Parrish are thrust back into each other’s lives upon the resurgence of a long-forgotten threat, forcing a vicious game of cat and mouse where everything is on the line, in this thrilling sequel to the million-copy-bestselling Reese’s Book Club pick The Last Mrs. Parrish.Amber Patterson Parrish has come a long way from being an invisible wallflower...
  • Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell

    Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Jewell—three women are connected by one man in this kaleidoscopic thriller.Restauranteur Paddy Swann was the life of the party until the day a man pushed him in the path of an oncoming train, leaving his twenty-something daughter Ash and wife Nina devastated...
  • Every Breath You Take by Miranda Rijks

    Every Breath You Take by Miranda Rijks

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Has her husband really left her? Or is someone playing a deadly game?When Eva’s husband Samuel doesn’t come home from a boys’ night out, she thinks he’s sleeping off his hangover at a friend’s house. So she waits. And waits...Eventually, he sends her a text – he’s met someone else and needs a few days to get his head together. Eva is devastated...
    Categorized as:
    thriller  suspense  fiction  psychological  book  adult
  • Mother and Daughter by James Caine

    Mother and Daughter by James Caine

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She has my daughter. I know it.I just can’t prove it.All I ever wanted was to give my sweet Gracie everything I never had. I'm failing miserably though.The happiest my daughter seems is when she’s with Annie Meadows, an odd but endearing daycare teacher all the children love.One evening, I'm late picking up Gracie from daycare, but she’s not waiting for me...
    Categorized as:
    thriller  female-mc  psychological  fiction  book  adult
  • Water Walker - Episode 1 by Ted Dekker

    Water Walker - Episode 1 by Ted Dekker

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    **This is EPISODE ONE of a serialized novel** WATER WALKER is the mind-bending thrill ride from New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker which can be experienced THREE different ways. You choose: 1. As an episodic story. Read WATER WALKER as four shorter sequential "episodes" much like your favorite TV show. The ride starts with Episode 1. Think of it as the pilot...
  • Mirrors by Ted Dekker

    Mirrors by Ted Dekker

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The journey that began with IDENTITY, Book One of Eyes Wide Open, continues with the second episodic book, Mirrors.Who am I? My name is Christy Snow. I'm seventeen and I'm about to die. I'm buried in a coffin under tons of concrete. No one knows where I am. My heart sounds like a monster with clobber feet, running straight toward me...
  • Delta County by J.L. Hyde

    Delta County by J.L. Hyde

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    WHO SAYS YOU CAN’T GO HOME?The greatest days of Heather Matthews’ life have taken place in Delta County. Unfortunately, so have the worst.Ten years after an unspeakable tragedy took the lives of the two people she loved the most, Heather returns to her hometown for a class reunion with her high school sweetheart, who is now her husband...
  • My Husband’s Secret by L.G. Davis

    My Husband’s Secret by L.G. Davis

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I thought I knew my husband. I was wrong...I have the perfect life: a loving marriage, and an adorable little daughter, Mia, who is always full of smiles. But when my husband Keith is hit by a car, my whole world is turned upside down. With my heart breaking in his cold white hospital room, I hold his hand and tell him how much I love him...
  • Their Little Secrets by Vanessa Garbin

    Their Little Secrets by Vanessa Garbin

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A peaceful suburban neighbourhood is shaken to the core when a teenage girl goes missingSara felt she had turned her life around by marrying Edward. But their relationship comes under strain as they struggle to fulfil their dream of becoming parents.Yet when their best friends’ daughter suddenly disappears and her husband begins to act suspiciously, Sara feels her world is collapsing around her...
  • The Family Home by Miranda Smith

    The Family Home by Miranda Smith

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    There’s a dead man in my apartment. Only me and my ex have a key. But neither of us would have done this. We have too much to lose...I wake on the sofa, my head throbbing. How did I get here? In the darkness, I make my way to my bedroom. I turn on the lights. And then I scream.There’s a body in my bed. And I know this man: we went on two dates together...
  • Don't Believe Her by Nicola Sanders

    Don't Believe Her by Nicola Sanders

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Everyone believes her. Except you.My life has never been better. I have a beautiful little girl, and I am engaged to be married to the man I’ve had a crush on since I can remember.So when Nick, my handsome fiancé, announces that his sister Carla is finally coming home, it’s truly the icing on the cake.Carla was my best friend growing up until she ran away at sixteen...
  • The Passenger by Daniel Hurst

    The Passenger by Daniel Hurst

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    She takes the same train every day. But this is a journey she’ll never forget.Amanda is a hardworking single mum, completely focused on her job and her daughter, Louise. She’s been saving for years and now, finally, she can afford to give up work and chase her dream.But then, on her commute home from London to Brighton, she meets a charming stranger - who seems to know everything about her...
  • Not My Mother by Miranda Smith

    Not My Mother by Miranda Smith

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What if the person you trust most in the world is lying to you?I’d heard of the Baby Caroline case, of course. When a baby is snatched from her mother’s arms, the whole country knows about it. I knew about the parents left lying by the swimming pool, the open window in the nursery. But I never dreamed it had anything to do with me.Today, my beautiful daughter turned one...
  • The Sleepwalker by Ian Blackwood

    The Sleepwalker by Ian Blackwood

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ellie has a problem. The monster in her dreams has come to life.Dr. Ellie Thompson has always been haunted by her nightmares. But now they're bleeding into reality. She wakes to find there really is glass in her foot, a knife under her pillow...
  • After She Left by Claire Amarti

    After She Left by Claire Amarti

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Abigail Gibson is gone. The morning after Christmas Day, she walks out of her home in the leafy suburbs of Westchester, New York, leaving behind a strange note on the kitchen table… and her ten-year-old son, Sam.When her sister Gillian gets the call, she can barely believe it...
  • The Wife Lie by Anya Mora

    The Wife Lie by Anya Mora

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    My husband is missing.And his wife is on my doorstep.The wife I never knew he had.Does that mean my husband's out looking for wife number three?The more I dig... the more I find.Ledger Stone is not the man I thought I knew.What I'd thought was a whirlwind romance has turned out to be a hurricane laced with lies.It started with one...
  • The Perfect Father by Charlotte Duckworth

    The Perfect Father by Charlotte Duckworth

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the author of Unfollow Me comes a dark, surprising suspense of toxic relationships and family secrets . . . The perfect husband... After a difficult pregnancy, Esther is grateful that her forward-thinking husband Robin offers to put his career on hold so that she can return to the job she loves. The perfect father..
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  book  crime  family  fiction
  • The Phantom Child by A.J. Wills

    The Phantom Child by A.J. Wills

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Is her child really missing? Or did he never exist at all?With cracks beginning to show in her marriage, Karina thinks a short break to a luxury villa in Turkey with her husband, Ronan, and their four-year-old son, Jacob, is just what the family needs.It’ll be a chance to relax, enjoy some good food, and more importantly to reconnect with the people she loves the most...
  • The Last Safe Place by Ninie Hammon

    The Last Safe Place by Ninie Hammon

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    YOU CAN RUN FROM A STALKER, BUT YOU CAN'T ESCAPE THE DEMONS IN YOUR PAST Gabriella Carmichael writes a novel about demons and one of them crawls up out of the pages, tries to kidnap her and murder her son. In the deepest, darkest midnight of her soul, an acclaimed poet abandons the lyric beauty that feeds her spirit to lash out at life and the world with contemporary fiction...
  • Multiple Motives by Kassandra Lamb

    Multiple Motives by Kassandra Lamb

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Psychotherapist Kate Huntington helps other people cope with the horrible things that have happened to them, but she herself has led a charmed life... so far. Now a killer with a mysterious grudge against her and her closest friend, lawyer Rob Franklin, is threatening everyone and everything that she holds dear...
  • You're All Mine by Ruth Harrow

    You're All Mine by Ruth Harrow

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The worst secrets are often hidden by the shiniest facade... Heather lives in her dream house, has a handsome husband and a successful career. Famous in her field, she has legions of devoted followers on social media. But all is not as rosy as the Pinterest-perfect picture she lets them see. Behind closed doors lurks a more sinister story...
  • The Dinner Guests by Kiersten Modglin

    The Dinner Guests by Kiersten Modglin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Six friends.A lifetime of secrets.One terrifying game.When a group of friends receives unexpected invitations to a dinner party, they see it as a chance to finally meet the bizarre and reclusive new neighbor whose home is enshrouded in layers of security.As the drinks are poured and dinner is served, the group begins to realize things are not what they seem...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  psychological
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