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Resurrection Walk by Michael Connelly
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsDefense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. After getting a wrongfully convicted man out of prison, he is inundated with pleas from incarcerated people claiming innocence. He enlists his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, to weed through the letters, knowing most claims will be false... -
![Her Silent Cry by Lisa Regan]()
Her Silent Cry by Lisa Regan
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRound and round she goes, blonde pigtails flying, her high-pitched giggle catching on the wind. But as the ride slows to a stop, her seat is suddenly empty. Little Lucy is gone…When seven-year-old Lucy Ross is snatched from the carousel in Denton city park, Detective Josie Quinn joins the frantic search... -
![In This Bright Future by Peter Grainger]()
In This Bright Future by Peter Grainger
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsTwo weeks of rest and recuperation – that’s what the doctor ordered. Detective Sergeant DC Smith could listen to some music, make some of his own and maybe even catch up on his reading; he is almost looking forward to it. And then there is a knock on the door...Categorized as:
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![Vražedná lhůta by Andreas Gruber]()
Vražedná lhůta by Andreas Gruber
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsKdyž do 48 hodin zjistíte, proč jsem tu ženu unesl, zůstane naživu. Pokud ne, zemře.Tímto poselstvím začíná perverzní hra sériového vraha. Nechává své oběti vyhladovět, utopit v inkoustu nebo je zaživa zalije do betonu. Mnichovská komisařka Sabine Nemezová zoufale hledá nějaké vysvětlení, motiv... -
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![Hysteria by L.J. Ross]()
Hysteria by L.J. Ross
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DCI RYAN MYSTERIES In a beautiful world, murder is always ugly… Recently returned from his last case in Ireland, elite forensic psychologist and criminal profiler Dr Alexander Gregory receives a call from the French police that he can’t ignore... -
![No Way Out by Allison Brennan]()
No Way Out by Allison Brennan
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom Allison Brennan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cut and Run, comes a new e-novella, No Way Out: FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid faces her worst fear when her husband goes missing Nine years ago, mercenary Kane Rogan and photojournalist Siobhan Walsh risked their lives to rescue Hestia Juarez, a thirteen-year-old girl being forced to marry a much older man to expand her father’s crime family... -
![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... -
![Too Many Clients by Rex Stout]()
Too Many Clients by Rex Stout
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA bidding war for his services interrupts Nero Wolfe's attempts to solve the case of the businessman who died in his love nest--a case in which the police seem oddly uninterested. Reissue... -
![De test by Michael Hjorth]()
De test by Michael Hjorth
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn een verlaten schoolgebouw wordt het lichaam van een Zweedse televisieberoemdheid gevonden. Hij is vastgebonden op een stoel in een hoek van het klaslokaal en door zijn hoofd geschoten.Het is het begin van een reeks moorden op mediapersoonlijkheden die hun gebrek aan kennis met de dood moeten bekopen... -
![Without Due Process by J.A. Jance]()
Without Due Process by J.A. Jance
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhat kind of monster would break into a man's home at night, then slaughter him and his family? The fact that the dead man was a model cop who was loved and respected by all only intensifies the horror. But the killer missed someone: a five-year-old boy who was hiding in the closet. Now word is being leaked out that the victim was "dirty." But Seattle P.D. Homicide Detective J.P... -
![The Baltimore Boys by Joël Dicker]()
The Baltimore Boys by Joël Dicker
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsSwiss Sensation Joel Dicker's compulsive follow-up to the phenomenally bestselling The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair... -
![Whisper My Name by Maureen Smith]()
Whisper My Name by Maureen Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a beautiful professor joins forces with a sexy detective to find a serial killer, shes caught in a web of danger and desire as she becomes the murderers next target. Original... -
![His Other Lie by Ava Strong]()
His Other Lie by Ava Strong
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsStella Fall, still reeling from the trauma of her deceitful fiancé and her failed engagement, has decided to pursue her dreams, follow in her father’s footsteps, and throw herself into law enforcement. Upon graduating from the FBI’s academy, she isf placed in the FBI’s Connecticut field office... -
![The Center Cannot Hold: A Ray Elkins Thriller by Aaron Stander]()
The Center Cannot Hold: A Ray Elkins Thriller by Aaron Stander
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIn the depths of winter, Cedar County is on occasion literally frozen in place. Roads are impassable; the area schools are closed for days at a time. And the bad guys and gals, they’re hunkered down like everyone else until the weather breaks. But this winter isn’t the usual. There’s arson and murder...Categorized as:
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![Dead Certain by Mariah Stewart]()
Dead Certain by Mariah Stewart
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes a novel of sexy romantic suspense for fans of Nora Roberts, Catherine Coulter, and Karen Robards. Three devious prisoners vow murderous revenge. Now the second is free. With her stalker captured, antiques dealer Amanda Crosby can finally sleep at night...Categorized as:
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![A Memento for Istanbul by Ahmet Ümit]()
A Memento for Istanbul by Ahmet Ümit
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA thrilling take which moves back and forth through time, from the early days of Byzantium to the thriving metropolis of Istanbul... A corpse is discovered at the base of the statue of Ataturk in old Istanbul, an antique coin left in its hand... But it's not to be the last corpse and the bodies soon begin to pile up... And so the hunt for the killers begins.. -
![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... -
![Minor in Possession by J.A. Jance]()
Minor in Possession by J.A. Jance
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA gripping story of buried truths, deceit, and sudden, brutal death from the New York Times bestselling author of "Long Time Gone." All manner of sinners and sufferers come to the rehab ranch in Arizona when they hit rock bottom. For Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont, there is a deeper level of Hell here: being forced to room with teenage drug dealer Joey Rothman... -
![Name Withheld by J.A. Jance]()
Name Withheld by J.A. Jance
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAs Beau wrestles at home with his own dying ex-wife and the vindictive former spouse of his best friend, his office time is spent trying to discover who murdered a very nasty bio-tech executive...Categorized as:
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![Failure to Appear by J.A. Jance, Gene Engene]()
Failure to Appear by J.A. Jance, Gene Engene
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA desperate father's search for his runaway daughter has led him to the last place he ever expected to find her: backstage at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. But the murders in this dazzling world of make-believe are no longer mere stagecraft, and the blood is all too real. The hunt for his child has plunged former Seattle Homicide Detective J.P...Categorized as:
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![Payment in Kind by J.A. Jance]()
Payment in Kind by J.A. Jance
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt looks like a classic crime of passion to Detective J.P Beaumont: two corpses found lovingly entwined in a broom closet of the Seattle School District building. The prime suspect, Pete Kelsey, admits his slain spouse was no novice at adultery, yet he swears he had nothing to do with the brutal deaths of the errant school official and her clergyman-turned-security guard companion... -
![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... -
![Mountain Home by Bracken MacLeod]()
Mountain Home by Bracken MacLeod
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLyn works at an isolated roadside diner. When a retired combat veteran stages an assault there her world is turned upside down. Surviving the sniper’s bullets is only the beginning of Lyn's nightmare. Navigating hostilities, she establishes herself as the disputed leader of a diverse group of people that are at odds with the situation and each other... -
![Too Far to Fall by Shane Sawyer]()
Too Far to Fall by Shane Sawyer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA pretty little townAn inheritanceA break-inA bodyEdie Doyle may be new in town, but she’s about to uncover long-held secrets. Secrets someone will do anything to protect.When her Great Aunt Jane dies, Edie inherits her house—and a load of trouble. The frozen corpse is just the beginning...Categorized as:
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![The Hunter by Tana French]()
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...Categorized as:
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![This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead]()
This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of In My Dreams I Hold a Knife and Midnight is the Darkest Hour comes a chilling, compulsive story of five amateur sleuths, whose hunt for an elusive killer catapults them into danger as the world watches.It's the most famous crime in modern history. But only she knows the true story... -
![White Dog by Peter Temple]()
White Dog by Peter Temple
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJack Irish—gambler, cook and cabinetmaker, finder of people who don’t want to be found—has a new job, hunting for evidence that might save the beautiful sculptor Sarah Longmore from a murder rap.Jack soon discovers there was nothing straightforward about Mickey Franklin’s death, and falls headlong into a world of shady deals, sexual secrets and country rednecks...Categorized as:
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![Winter Frost by R.D. Wingfield]()
Winter Frost by R.D. Wingfield
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDenton is having more than its fair share of crime. A serial killer is murdering local prostitutes; a man demolishing his garden shed uncovers a long-buried skeleton; there is an armed robbery at a local minimart and a ram raid at a jewellers... -
![Privileged Witness by Rebecca Forster]()
Privileged Witness by Rebecca Forster
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThough attorney Josie Baylor-Bates swore off rich clients years ago, she succumbs to Grace McCreary's plea for help. The sister of a Senate hopeful-Josie's former lover-Grace is accused of murdering her disturbed sister-in-law. As Josie steps back into the world of privilege and power to prove her own worth and her client's innocence, she risks everything she now holds dear... -
![A Mersey Killing: When Liverpool Rocked, And The Music Died by Brian L. Porter]()
A Mersey Killing: When Liverpool Rocked, And The Music Died by Brian L. Porter
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA skeleton and a missing woman. A doomed romance. A mystery spanning two generations. Liverpool, 1961. A group of young men come together seeking fame and fortune, as the fledgling sounds of the Swinging Sixties take root in the city. Very soon, Liverpool will become synonymous with the groups and music that will shape a generation. Liverpool, 1999... -
![A Touch Of Frost by R.D. Wingfield]()
A Touch Of Frost by R.D. Wingfield
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDetective Inspector Jack Frost, offically on duty, is nevertheless determined to sneak off to a colleague's leaving party. But first the corpse of a well-known local junkie is found blocking the drain of a Denton public lavatory - and then, when Frost attempts to join the revels later on, the nubile daughter of a wealthy businessman is reported missing... -
![The Third Grave by Lisa Jackson]()
The Third Grave by Lisa Jackson
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA thrilling new crime novel from the bestselling author of You Betrayed Me, perfect for fans of Sandra Brown and Iris Johansen! Return to the dark side of Savanna, Georgia where a crime writer and her detective husband are working a cold case, and hot on the trail of a killer who’s work isn’t done... -
![A Grain of Truth by Zygmunt Miloszewski]()
A Grain of Truth by Zygmunt Miloszewski
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt is spring 2009, and prosecutor Szacki is no longer working in Warsaw—he has said goodbye to his family and to his career in the capital and moved to Sandomierz, a picturesque town full of churches and museums. Hoping to start a "brave new life," Szacki instead finds himself investigating a strange murder case in surroundings both alien and unfriendly... -
![Silent Witness by Rebecca Forster]()
Silent Witness by Rebecca Forster
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsJosie Baylor-Bates has a full plate caring for a troubled teen, but it's about to get fuller when her ex-cop lover, Archer, is accused of murdering his disabled stepson - a son Josie never knew he had. When Timothy Wren died at California's oldest amusement park it appeared to be a tragic accident. But now Timothy's biological father and the district attorney are out for blood... -
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![Widowmaker by Paul Doiron]()
Widowmaker by Paul Doiron
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Paul Doiron's Widowmaker, When a mysterious woman in distress appears outside his home, Mike Bowditch has no clue she is about to blow his world apart. Amber Langstrom is beautiful, damaged, and hiding a secret with a link to his past.. She claims her son Adam is a wrongfully convicted sex offender who has vanished from a brutal work camp in the high timber around the Widowmaker Ski Resort... -
![Bones of Betrayal by Jefferson Bass]()
Bones of Betrayal by Jefferson Bass
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBones of Betrayal is the fourth heart-racing “Body Farm” thriller from the world’s top forensic anthropologist. Kathy Reichs calls author Jefferson Bass, “the real deal,” and his hero Bill Brockton has already taken his rightful place alongside Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta and the investigators on TV’s “C.S.I... -
![Bitter Roots by C.J. Carmichael]()
Bitter Roots by C.J. Carmichael
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsDispatcher Zak Waller prefers working behind the scenes in the Sheriff’s Office of Lost Trail, Montana, but when a newcomer to the sparely populated town is brutally murdered—and the Sheriff is quick to pin the death on an unknown outsider—Zak starts his own private sleuthing... -
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Hotel by Arthur Hailey
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDuring five days in the midst of a hot, steamy Louisiana summer, the lives of a colorful cast of characters intertwine in a series of public, private, and personal dramas at the famed St. Gregory luxury hotel...Categorized as:
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![Flesh and Bone by Jefferson Bass]()
Flesh and Bone by Jefferson Bass
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAnthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton founded Tennessee's world-famous Body Farm—a small piece of land where corpses are left to decay in order to gain important forensic information. Now, in the wake of a shocking crime in nearby Chattanooga, he's called upon by Jess Carter—the rising star of the state's medical examiners—to help her unravel a murderous puzzle... -
![Last Night by Luanne Rice]()
Last Night by Luanne Rice
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFrom the Amazon Charts and New York Times bestselling author of The Shadow Box and Last Day comes a breathtaking thriller about a family shaken by lies, vengeance, and a cold-blooded crime.A fierce blizzard is burying the eastern seaboard, but on the icy Rhode Island shore renowned artist Maddie Morrison finds warm sanctuary from a contentious divorce at the legendary Ocean House... -
![Long Gone by Paul Pilkington]()
Long Gone by Paul Pilkington
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe brand new mystery series from the author of the bestselling Emma Holden Trilogy and Kindle Number One Someone to Save You...A missing girl... Natalie Long is missing. About to board a high speed train from London’s Paddington station, she has vanished without a trace.Just two days earlier, things were so different... -
![Całe zdanie nieboszczyka by Joanna Chmielewska]()
Całe zdanie nieboszczyka by Joanna Chmielewska
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTo pierwsza powieść Joanny Chmielewskiej o charakterze przygodowym. W nielegalnej szulerni Joanna zostaje przypadkowo wzięta za inną osobę. Na skutek tej pomyłki to jej właśnie umierający mężczyzna powierza wskazówkę do odnalezienia cennego skarbu.. -
![Anonima de miercuri by Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu]()
Anonima de miercuri by Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAl patrulea roman din seria MELANIA LUPUDupă ce a fost amnistiată, Melania Lupu și-a reluat viața obișnuită, cu toate tabieturile ei, în garsoniera din strada Toamnei. Iar de când l-a recuperat și pe Mirciulică, găzduit provizoriu de niște prieteni, bătrâna a avut sentimentul că viața e într-adevăr frumoasă... -
![Death in Pieces by Bilinda P. Sheehan]()
Death in Pieces by Bilinda P. Sheehan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen forensic psychologist Harriet Quinn receives the random pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, she knows they hold the key to identifying a sadistic killer’s next victim.A victim who hasn’t yet been taken.Racing to identify the intended target, she realises that she has been chosen as Puzzle Master in a deadly game concocted by a twisted serial killer... -
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![The Bones Will Speak by Carrie Stuart Parks]()
The Bones Will Speak by Carrie Stuart Parks
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsForensic artist Gwen Marcey has become the target of a serial killer who believes he's been appointed God's executioner.In Copper Creek, Montana, Gwen Marcey is struggling to put together her life after cancer and divorce. When her dog retrieves a skull of a murder victim and leads her to the victim's grave, Gwen uses her forensic art ability to identify a serial killer... -
![Girl, Alone by Blake Pierce]()
Girl, Alone by Blake Pierce
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFBI Agent Ella Dark, 29, is given her big chance to achieve her life’s dream: to join the Behavorial Crimes Unit. Ella has a hidden obsession: she has studied serial killers from the time she could read, devastated by the murder of her own sister. With her photographic memory, she has obtained an encyclopedic knowledge of every serial killer, every victim and every case... -
![The Final Judgment by Richard North Patterson]()
The Final Judgment by Richard North Patterson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA young man is brutally murdered. His distraught girlfriend is the prime suspect. Her aunt, Caroline Masters, about to take up a top job in the US Court of Appeals, decides to defend the young woman in the murder trial... -
![Birds of Prey by J.A. Jance]()
Birds of Prey by J.A. Jance
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhile accompanying his grandmother and her new husband to Alaska, J.P. Beaumont finds himself investigating the murder of a middle-aged divorcée aboard a cruise ship, a crime in which the only witness is an Alzheimer's patient... -
![Never Coming Back by Tim Weaver]()
Never Coming Back by Tim Weaver
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA bestseller in the UK, this gripping thriller of a family that vanishes into thin air is Tim Weaver’s American debut Emily Kane arrives at her sister Carrie’s house to find the front door unlocked, dinner on the table, and the family nowhere to be found—Carrie, her husband, and two daughters have disappeared... -
![Clean Cut by Lynda La Plante]()
Clean Cut by Lynda La Plante
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis novel contains a terrifying journey for DI Anna Travis and DCI James Langton as they try to nail not one but two murderers who send them running for their lives...
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