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Lost Angels by Stacy Green
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen Special Agent Nikki Hunt is called to the Boundary Waters near Stillwater, Minnesota, it’s not just the cold that shocks her to her core: the body of a young woman has been found frozen beside a remote lake... -
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Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father told her to do, to put him out with the rubbish when he died.Now Sally is the centre of attention, not only from the hungry media and worried police, but also a sinister voice from a past she has no memory of... -
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L'Affaire Alaska Sanders by Joël Dicker
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAvril 1999. Mount Pleasant, une paisible bourgade du New Hampshire, est bouleversée par un meurtre. Le corps d'une jeune femme, Alaska Sanders, est retrouvé au bord d'un lac. L'enquête est rapidement bouclée, la police obtenant les aveux du coupable et de son complice.Onze ans plus tard, l'affaire rebondit... -
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![The Stepchild by Nicole Trope]()
The Stepchild by Nicole Trope
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThree-year-old Millie Everleigh disappears on a crisp winter’s day, and nothing is as it seems…It’s the phone call every mother dreads.I’m climbing into the car after a trip to the grocery store. As the engine starts, my phone rings. It’s my stepdaughter, Shelby, who is babysitting my three-year-old little girl Millie.‘I only went upstairs for a second,’ she says through her sobs. ‘She’s gone... -
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Tangled Web by Wendy Saunders
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCassandra Grayson leads a quiet life managing a library in Queens, NY. There's only one thing missing... her sister.Cassandra hasn't seen her sister since the night their wealthy, prominent father died from a massive heart attack. She had only been five years old at the time and can barely recall the events of that night... -
![Anima by Wajdi Mouawad]()
Anima by Wajdi Mouawad
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA man, returning home one evening after work, discovers his wife brutally murdered, lying in a pool of blood. A cat, their cat, a domesticated animal, tells the man the macabre tale of what happened, and in the second chapter, birds at the window continue the tale... -
![Creole Belle by James Lee Burke]()
Creole Belle by James Lee Burke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“America’s best novelist” James Lee Burke returns with another New York Times bestselling entry in the Dave Robicheaux thriller series (The Denver Post)... -
![Faceless by Martina Cole]()
Faceless by Martina Cole
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEleven years ago Marie Carter was convicted of killing her two best friends. And she's paid the price. Now she is being released from prison. It's time to go home. But life has moved on, and Marie has nowhere to go. Her parents have disowned her; her friends have abandoned her; even her kids don't want to know... -
![In the Heat of the Moment by Viveca Sten]()
In the Heat of the Moment by Viveca Sten
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhat’s a lie among friends? It’s murder—in this riveting thriller by Viveca Sten, bestselling author of Tonight You’re Dead… It’s Midsummer’s Eve, the celebration of the longest day of the year, and on Sandhamn it’s the longest party of the year. But the fun comes to a dead halt when a young reveler is murdered, a teenage girl is found drugged and dazed on the beach, and other young women vanish... -
![La casa delle voci by Donato Carrisi]()
La casa delle voci by Donato Carrisi
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsPietro Gerber non è uno psicologo come gli altri. La sua specializzazione è l'ipnosi e i suoi pazienti hanno una cosa in comune: sono bambini. Pietro è il migliore di tutta Firenze, dove è conosciuto come l'addormentatore di bambini. Ma quando riceve una telefonata da parte di una collega australiana che gli raccomanda una paziente, Pietro reagisce con perplessità e diffidenza... -
![Fractured Souls by Neva Altaj]()
Fractured Souls by Neva Altaj
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsAsyaI can't go back to my family.I'm not worthy of them,Could never be one of them again.The sister they know, love, and remember,Doesn't exist.Not anymore.Until him....The one who took me in,Healed me from my demons,My fears,My scars,Piecing me back,Bit by bit. PavelI don't get close to people,And I certainly don't need anyone. Until her...Now, she's all I want,All I need... -
![The List by Velvet Vaughn]()
The List by Velvet Vaughn
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the author of The Fan and Committed is the first romantic suspense novel in the COBRA Securities series. The List is an intriguing mixture of pulse-pounding suspense and sizzling passion. It was just supposed to be a game... What started out as a harmless game between friends has turned deadly real. Fourteen men are dead, all from apparent accidents... -
![You Beneath Your Skin by Damyanti Biswas]()
You Beneath Your Skin by Damyanti Biswas
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt’s a dark, smog-choked New Delhi winter. Indian American single mother Anjali Morgan juggles her job as a psychiatrist with caring for her autistic teenage son. She is in a long-standing affair with ambitious police commissioner Jatin Bhatt – an irresistible attraction that could destroy both their lives... -
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![The Devils' Cradle by Darcy Daniel]()
The Devils' Cradle by Darcy Daniel
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOn Australia’s island state, more than one species of Tasmanian Devil exists... Beneath the surface of Nina Holt’s perfect marriage lurks a life of terror inflicted upon her by her politically powerful husband Michael and his brother Greg, a sadistic detective. For over a decade they have managed to keep Nina imprisoned, using her to satisfy their every whim... -
![Hell's Half Acre by Will Christopher Baer]()
Hell's Half Acre by Will Christopher Baer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsKidnapping, snuff films, amputee geeks and a requiem of lost love.Cast adrift after the blood symphony of Penny Dreadful, Phineas Poe is looking for answers in the form of a woman. He tracks Jude to San Francisco, where he finds her involved with John Ransom Miller, a wealthy sociopath with a mysterious hold over her... -
![The Silent Girl by Michael Hjorth, Hans Rosenfeldt]()
The Silent Girl by Michael Hjorth, Hans Rosenfeldt
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn idyllic white, two-storey, beautiful house in Sweden. Inside, a family has been brutally murdered – mother, father and two young children all shot in broad daylight. And the killer has got away.Sebastian Bergman has been brought in to solve the crime, but with no credible suspects, he is at a dead end.Until he discovers that there was a witness to the crime... -
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Playdate by Alex Dahl
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt was meant to be your daughter's first sleepover. Now it's an abduction.Lucia Blix went home from school for a playdate with her new friend Josie. Later that evening, Lucia's mother Elisa dropped her overnight things round and kissed her little girl goodnight.That was the last time she saw her daughter.The next morning, when Lucia's dad arrived to pick her up, the house was empty... -
![Lupa nera by Juan Gómez-Jurado]()
Lupa nera by Juan Gómez-Jurado
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsRestare viva non è mai stato tanto difficile. Dopo Regina Rossa, che ha incoronato Antonia Scott come la nuova protagonista assoluta del thriller spagnolo, il secondo capitolo della trilogia bestseller di Juan Gómez-Jurado. Antonia Scott e Jon Gutiérrez sono ancora alla ricerca di Sandra Fajardo, quando Mentor li convoca per un altro caso al momento più pressante... -
![Redemption Lake by Susan Clayton-Goldner]()
Redemption Lake by Susan Clayton-Goldner
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTucson, Arizona – Eighteen-year-old Matt Garrison is harboring two terrible secrets: his involvement in the drowning death of his 12-year-old cousin, and a night of drunken sex with his best friend’s mother, Crystal, whom he finds dead in a bathtub of blood. Guilt forces Matt to act on impulse and hide his involvement with Crystal.Detective Winston Radhauser knows Matt is hiding something... -
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Dead in the Water by Britney King
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE PERFECT NEIGHBORS. THE PERFECT COVER. A GRIPPING ROMANTICS SUSPENSE THRILLER He’s a contract killer. She likes to even the score. Smack dab in the middle of suburbia, few married couples are as competitive as Jude and Kate. But then, most married couples don't keep score in the form of body counts. Each hell-bent on a silent pact to out-do the other, the games begin... -
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Malady by Trisha Wolfe
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom USA Today bestselling author Trisha Wolfe comes the dark and twisted finale of the duet that will leave you breathless.Blakely Vaughn is no longer shrouded from a world of feeling. She’s been thrust into the light, emotions assailing her and making her question her sanity as she hunts the man responsible—the bastard who made her feel.When Dr... -
![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...Categorized as:
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The Hunter by Tana French
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die.Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace... -
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![Hard Time by A.J. Carella]()
Hard Time by A.J. Carella
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen it comes to family, Kat will do anything. Even if that means going against everything she believes in, and risking her already fragile relationship with the man she loves. Faced with a problem that is too much for her alone, she enlists the help of her one time partner, Kyle. Together they must uncover a deadly secret before any more innocent lives are lost... -
![The Art of Murder by José Carlos Somoza]()
The Art of Murder by José Carlos Somoza
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn 2006, the art world has moved far beyond sheep in formaldehyde and the most avant-garde movement is to use living people as artwork. Undergoing weeks of preparation to become 'canvases', the models are required to stay in their pose for ten to twelve hours a day and, as art pieces, they are also for sale... -
![The Perfect Family Man by M.M. DeLuca]()
The Perfect Family Man by M.M. DeLuca
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFive years ago, my little boy went missing. Now my husband’s vanished, too.I wish I could say that the tragedy of little Jack disappearing brought me and Nate closer together. But my husband is more distant from me now than he’s ever been. Perhaps that’s why I don’t ask him exactly where he’s going when he sets off on another business trip... -
![Around The Bend by Britney King]()
Around The Bend by Britney King
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIf you were to pass me on the street, you probably wouldn’t even look twice. I’m that normal. I’m just like you, only wealthier. I have it all. The kids, the family, the dog, a house on the hill. Hell—I’m so cliché, I even have a white picket fence. I guess you could say that I’ve dotted my I’s and crossed my T’s... -
![Tahoe Deathfall by Todd Borg]()
Tahoe Deathfall by Todd Borg
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen 14-year-old Jennifer Salazar approaches Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna, she explains that her identical twin sister Melissa died 8 years before on their 6th birthday. Now, at the ripe old age of 14, Jennifer has come to believe that her sister's death was not the accident that everyone says. When McKenna investigates, he uncovers a long-buried secret that is still driving a murderer to kill... -
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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... -
![Dead Souls by Ian Rankin]()
Dead Souls by Ian Rankin
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWeary, wary, hard-drinking Detective John Rebus returns. As complex and unpredictable as the brooding mists that envelop his Edinburgh beat, Rebus is ever resourceful and determined-but this time, vulnerable and challenged as never before, with complications in his personal life, and events that shake him to the depths of his being... A colleague's suicide. Pedophiles. A missing child... -
![Surface by Olivier Norek]()
Surface by Olivier Norek
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNoémie Chastain, capitaine en PJ parisienne, blessée en service d’un coup de feu en pleine tête, se voit parachutée dans le commissariat d’un village perdu, Avalone, afin d’en envisager l’éventuelle fermeture. Noémie n’est pas dupe : sa hiérarchie l’éloigne, son visage meurtri dérange, il rappelle trop les risques du métier.. -
![The Accident by Natalie Barelli]()
The Accident by Natalie Barelli
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIf only she'd said no... Katherine knew she’d had too many drinks, but they were only going a short distance. And as Eve pointed out, it was late, there was no traffic anyway... Now, Katherine would do anything to turn back the clock. If anyone ever found out about the accident, it would ruin Katherine’s life... -
![A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away by Christopher Brookmyre]()
A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away by Christopher Brookmyre
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBack when they were students, just like everybody else, Ray Ash and Simon Darcourt had dreams about what they'd do when they grew up. In both their cases, it was to be rock stars. Fifteen years later, their mid-thirties are bearing down fast, and just like everybody else, they're having to accept the less glamorous hands reality has dealt them... -
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![Love Story, With Murders by Harry Bingham]()
Love Story, With Murders by Harry Bingham
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe second novel featuring recovering psychotic DC Fiona Griffiths opens with as intriguing a pair of murders as you could imagine. Firstly, part of a human leg is discovered in a woman's freezer, bagged up like a joint of pork. Other similarly gruesome discoveries follow throughout a cosy Cardiff suburb, with body parts turning up in kitchens, garages and potting sheds... -
![The Devil Knows You're Dead by Lawrence Block]()
The Devil Knows You're Dead by Lawrence Block
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe police think yuppie lawyer Glenn Holtzmann was randomly blown away by a deranged derelict. The accused's brother thinks otherwise-and hires Matt Scudder to prove the crazed Vietnam vet innocent. But Scudder's investigation is leading the tormented p.i. into the darkest corners of his own soul. And it threatens to destory everything he believes in... and everyone he loves... -
![Desperation Road by Michael Farris Smith]()
Desperation Road by Michael Farris Smith
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the vein of Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone and the works of Ron Rash, an Amazon Best Book of the Month set in a tough-and-tumble Mississippi town where drugs, whiskey, guns, and the desire for revenge violently intersect. For eleven years the clock has been ticking for Russell Gaines as he sits in Parchman Penitentiary in the Mississippi Delta... -
![What Goes Around by Julie Corbin]()
What Goes Around by Julie Corbin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMulholland Books 1st Edition Paper Back(April... -
![Eden by Candice Fox]()
Eden by Candice Fox
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'I fool myself that Eden has a heart – that she would at least have trouble killing me...'Most police duos run on trust, loyalty, and the desire to see killers in court. But Detective Frank Bennett's partner, the enigmatic Eden Archer, has nothing to offer him but darkness and danger. She doesn't mind catching killers – but it's not the courthouse where her justice is served... -
![Don't Turn Out the Lights by Bernard Minier]()
Don't Turn Out the Lights by Bernard Minier
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“You did nothing.”Christine Steinmeyer thought the anonymous suicide note she found in her mailbox on Christmas Eve wasn’t meant for her. But the man calling in to her radio show seems convinced otherwise.“You let her die. . . .”That’s only the beginning. Bit by bit, her life is turned upside down... -
![Down in the Zero by Andrew Vachss]()
Down in the Zero by Andrew Vachss
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAndrew Vachss has reinvented detective fiction for an age in which guilty secrets are obsolete and murder isn't even worth a news headline. And in the person of his haunted, hell-ridden private eye Burke, Vachss has given us a new kind of hero: a man inured to every evil except the kind that preys on children... -
![The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun by Sébastien Japrisot]()
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun by Sébastien Japrisot
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDany Longo is blonde, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why she is going there... -
![The Breakdown by Arianne Richmonde]()
The Breakdown by Arianne Richmonde
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOne day she had the perfect life. The next it was gone…I stand at the very edge of the cliff face, looking at the roaring ocean below my feet. I’m in no danger, in fact my husband and his sister talk just feet away from me, watching my every move.Behind them sits a place my husband refers to as our summer house. Apparently it’s my favorite place in the world, not that I can remember...Categorized as:
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![The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose]()
The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen an acclaimed author dies at the Regency Grand Hotel, it's up to a fastidious maid to uncover the truth, no matter how dirty—in a standalone novel featuring Molly Gray, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid, a Good Morning America Book Club Pick.Molly Gray is not like anyone else... -
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![His Double Life by Nicole Trope]()
His Double Life by Nicole Trope
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLoving father. Loyal husband. Liar? In our large family home on a peaceful, tree-lined street, I clear away the breakfast things whilst my husband ignores me, his eyes on his phone. Leo comes home from conferences with flowers for me and hugs for our twin ten-year-old boys, but each time I smell an unfamiliar perfume on his shirt. I know all about his affairs and it’s tearing my heart in two... -
![Beasts of the Earth: A Novel by James Wade]()
Beasts of the Earth: A Novel by James Wade
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJames Wade, whose first two novels were praised as rhapsodic and haunting, delivers his most powerful work to date--a chilling parable about the impossible demands of hate and love, trauma and goodness, vividly set in the landscapes of Texas and Louisiana... -
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Error in Diagnosis by Mason Lucas
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsInnocent lives are put in jeopardy in this terrifying new thriller that asks the question: Are we prepared for the next epidemic?A mysterious illness with disturbing symptoms is plaguing women across the United States. It begins with memory loss and confusion and ends with the patient falling into a coma... -
![Speak of the Devil by Britney King]()
Speak of the Devil by Britney King
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn 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... -
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Scrublands by Chris Hammer
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn an isolated country town afflicted by interminable drought, a charismatic and dedicated young priest calmly opens fire on his congregation, shooting dead five parishioners before being gunned down himself. A year later, accompanied by his own demons from war-time reporting, journalist Martin Scarsden arrives in Riversend... -
![The Family Across the Street by Nicole Trope, Taryn Ryan]()
The Family Across the Street by Nicole Trope, Taryn Ryan
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratings8 hours, 5 minutes In a normal family, in a normal house, on a normal street, everything is about to go horribly wrong…Today was meant to be an ordinary day.A perfect summer morning, the weatherman predicting record highs. The children getting ready for school, five-year-old George packing his marbles and his twin sister Sophie, younger by three minutes, cradling her Polly Pocket doll...
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