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  • The Betrayer by Kimberley Chambers

    The Betrayer by Kimberley Chambers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Based in Stepney, this book is set on a rough and ready Council Estate, in the heart of London's East End. A story that starts in 1975 ends in 2005, it tells the trials and tribulations of the Hutton family. Maureen - the gutsy mum, separated from her alcoholic husband, she scrimps and saves for years to bring up her children and instil life's good values in them...
  • Our Stolen Pieces by James Hunt

    Our Stolen Pieces by James Hunt

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When the morning after a slumber party reveals two missing girls, a newly minted Detective and a young veteran are assigned the case. Recently partnered, the pair of detectives must set aside their troubled pasts to recover the pair of girls who may have been coerced by a stranger who had kidnapped before...
  • Missing Child by Patricia MacDonald

    Missing Child by Patricia MacDonald

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Heart-pounding domestic suspense from an internationally bestselling author. Caitlin's son has disappeared from school, but she has a secret from her past about to catch up with her...
  • Martin Swans Diary: Black Water Crossing by Kyle Keyes

    Martin Swans Diary: Black Water Crossing by Kyle Keyes

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Martin Swan was not a terrorist, nor a truck driver. He only replied to the want-ad because the wording linked Florida with Washington DC and wanted someone who could speak Arabic. The year was 2008. Jobs were scarce, gas prices high. The back page ad called for a big rig driver with a clean record, who could be at Black Water Crossing the day before Halloween...
  • One Way by Tom Barber

    One Way by Tom Barber

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    NYPD Detective Sam Archer is on his way home on a Sunday afternoon in New York City. He’s been out of the field for over three months due to a broken ankle and a nasty case of pneumonia, but has just been given the all clear to get back out there again, starting tomorrow. Archer takes a seat on a bench in the Upper West Side, enjoying a cold drink and soaking up the last remaining sun of the day...
  • The Schemer by Kimberley Chambers

    The Schemer by Kimberley Chambers

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The heir to Martina Cole’s crown with a story of murder, the underworld, violence and treachery. It’s 1983 and Stephanie Crouch’s life is dull. She is desperate to escape the run-down, pokey council house she shares with her overbearing family, but at fourteen years old she has nowhere to go...
  • The Woman at 72 Derry Lane by Carmel Harrington

    The Woman at 72 Derry Lane by Carmel Harrington

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Take the warmth and wit of Maeve Binchy and the secrets and twists of a Liane Moriarty and you get the utterly original and compelling voice of Carmel Harrington, a voice that has captured the hearts of readers around the world. Set on a beautiful leafy street in Dublin, the novel explores the unlikely friendship between two neighbours...
  • Bedlam by L.J. Ross

    Bedlam by L.J. Ross

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From the international best-selling author of the DCI Ryan mysteries.In a world gone mad, who can you trust?Fresh from a high-profile case in the Paris fashion world, elite forensic psychologist and criminal profiler Dr Alexander Gregory receives a call from the New York State Homicide Squad...
  • Vicious Circle by C.J. Box

    Vicious Circle by C.J. Box

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, C.J. BOX! The past comes back to haunt game warden Joe Pickett and his family with devastating effect in the thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author C. J. Box. The plane circled in the dark. Joe Pickett could just make out down below a figure in the snow and timber, and then three other figures closing in. There was nothing he could do about it...
  • Per Addestrarti by Chiara Cilli

    Per Addestrarti by Chiara Cilli

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Credevo di sapere chi fossi. Cosa fossi.Credevo di non avere più scampo, che la mia resistenza fosse ormai giunta al termine.Poi ho sentito la sua voce pronunciare il mio nome.Poi i suoi occhi hanno risposto al richiamo dei miei.Non ha paura di me. Si avvicina. Mi parla. Mi tocca come se le appartenessi. È folle.Lui è l’unica chance che ho per restare viva. Devo far sì che gli importi di me...
  • Their Lost Daughters by Joy Ellis

    Their Lost Daughters by Joy Ellis

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    TWO GIRLS GO TO A PARTY, ONLY ONE RETURNS ALIVEToni, the surviving teenager, is found delirious, wandering the muddy fields. She has been drugged and it’s uncertain whether she’ll survive. She says she saw her friend Emily being dragged away from the party. But no one knows who Emily is or even if she’s still alive. . .Meanwhile the drowned body of another girl has been found on an isolated beach...
  • The Shadow Box by Luanne Rice

    The Shadow Box by Luanne Rice

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    An Amazon Charts bestseller.The Amazon Charts bestselling author of Last Day delivers a haunting thriller about how far one wife is willing to go to expose the truth—and the lengths someone will go to stop her.After artist Claire Beaudry Chase is attacked and left for dead in her home on the Connecticut coast, she doesn’t know who she can trust...
  • The Girl Who Wants by Amy Vansant

    The Girl Who Wants by Amy Vansant

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Shee wants a home.Shee McQueen grew up skip tracing and hunting military criminals with her father, Mick, until someone put a bounty on her head, forcing her underground. Resurfacing years later, she returns to her family’s hotel in Jupiter Beach, FL, to find Mick in a coma, shot in the head by an unknown sniper.Shee wants answers...
  • A Summer of Good-Byes (Blue Triangle Press Book 2) by Fred Misurella

    A Summer of Good-Byes (Blue Triangle Press Book 2) by Fred Misurella

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    PASSION IN PROVENCE: Ben and Lee Alto follow Van Gogh’s 19th century path to Provence, hoping to find inspiration for their own lives and give their son, Misha, some insight into a world completely different from their own. They find art, of course, and a world of beautiful landscapes, warm temperatures, and, yes, wonderful food...
  • The Guilty Ones by Joy Ellis

    The Guilty Ones by Joy Ellis

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    THE MOST DIFFICULT CASE OF DETECTIVE JACKMAN’S LIFE. WHO ARE THE GUILTY ONES AND IS ANYONE REALLY INNOCENT? THIS TIME IT’S VERY PERSONAL FOR JACKMAN. Jackman’s sister-in-law Sarah disappears to London and throws herself into the river. What drove her to this? She was a woman with a seemingly happy home life and two beloved sons. DI Jackman and DI Evans dig into Sarah’s life...
  • A Very Bad Thing by J.T. Ellison

    A Very Bad Thing by J.T. Ellison

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison comes a taut thriller about one author at the pinnacle of her career, whose past threatens to destroy everything she has—and everyone she knows.A great writer knows when to deliver a juicy plot twist. But for one author, the biggest twist of all is her own murder...
  • The Perfect Son by Freida McFadden, Suzie Althens

    The Perfect Son by Freida McFadden, Suzie Althens

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    7 hours, 30 minutes "Mrs. Cass, we were hoping your son could answer a few questions about the girl who disappeared last night..."Erika Cass has a perfect family and a perfect life. Until the evening when two detectives show up at her front door.A high school girl has vanished from Erika's quiet suburban neighborhood. The police suspect the worst--murder...
  • In Good Faith by Scott Pratt

    In Good Faith by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A family is slaughtered in rural Tennessee. Two goth teens stand accused of the murders, and now it's up to prosecutor Joe Dillard to convict them. A former defense attorney who spent way too much time defending people he knew were guilty, Joe is determined to win this case to atone for his past...
  • When Smiles Fade by Paige Dearth

    When Smiles Fade by Paige Dearth

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Alternate cover edition.ASIN: B00B8XPVL6Young Emma Murphy kills people, but only if they deserve to die.Emma's father's coldblooded beatings and the ultimate abuse to which he subjects her, lays the foundation of the person she becomes. As she matures into a resourceful teenager, she is unwilling and unable to stifle her desire for revenge...
  • ΔΙΠΛΗ ΤΑΥΤΟΤΗΤΑ by Danielle Girard

    ΔΙΠΛΗ ΤΑΥΤΟΤΗΤΑ by Danielle Girard

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The acclaimed author of Chasing Darkness, Savage Art, and Ruthless Game is back with a thrilling new novel... When computer programmer Cody O'Brien's son is kidnapped in broad daylight, Cody's greatest fear is knowing the true motive behind it... A former FBI agent with a new identity, Cody knows that old secrets-and vendettas-die hard...
  • The Analyst by John Katzenbach

    The Analyst by John Katzenbach

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    'Happy fifty-third birthday, Doctor. Welcome to the first day of your death. You ruined my life. And now I fully intend to ruin yours.'You have exactly one fortnight, starting tomorrow morning at 6 a.m., to discover who I am. When you succeed you must purchase one of those tiny ads at the bottom of the New York Times front page, and print my name there.'If you do not succeed, then ..
  • Gone for Good by Harlan Coben

    Gone for Good by Harlan Coben

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins' affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman--a girl Will had once loved--was found brutally murdered in her family's basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein. With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished...
  • Memory Man by David Baldacci

    Memory Man by David Baldacci

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Amos Decker's life changed forever--twice.The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field for good, and left him with an improbable side effect--he can never forget anything...
  • Never Tell by Lisa Gardner

    Never Tell by Lisa Gardner

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner returns with an unpredictable thriller that puts fan favorites D. D. Warren and Flora Dane on a shocking new case that begins with a vicious murder and gets darker from there.A man is dead, shot three times in his home office. But his computer has been shot twelve times, and when the cops arrive, his pregnant wife is holding the gun.D. D...
  • Widow Town by Joe Hart

    Widow Town by Joe Hart

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the future there is no such thing as a serial killer.A breakthrough research project has detected an active gene present in all known psychopaths and developed a vaccine to make it completely dormant. People are inoculated at birth. Society has rejoiced the extinction of the sociopathic mind. There hasn’t been a serial killing in America in over forty years...
  • The Silence Between Breaths by Cath Staincliffe

    The Silence Between Breaths by Cath Staincliffe

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Eight people, one deadly secret.Passengers boarding the 10.35 train from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston are bound for work, assignations, reunions, holidays or new starts, with no idea that their journey is about to be brutally curtailed...
  • Never Come Back by Joe Hart

    Never Come Back by Joe Hart

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Needing to help the most vulnerable is in Nora McTavish’s DNA. Living within the echoes of her own traumatic past, she spends her days as a family advocate providing comfort and justice for those without anyone else to turn to. So when a long lost childhood friend calls asking for help and promising clues to the location of Nora’s missing mother, she has no choice but to say yes...
  • Payback by Kimberley Chambers

    Payback by Kimberley Chambers

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Butlers are not a family to be messed with. Top dogs in the East End, they trample on anybody who gets in their way.Vinny Butler has upset many people on his rise up the criminal ladder. His best pal, mum, brother, dad, aunt, son and his girlfriend's father all hold grudges against him...
  • The Woodcutter by Reginald Hill

    The Woodcutter by Reginald Hill

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "Thefertility of Hill's imagination, the range of his power, the sheer quality ofhis literary style never ceases to delight." —Val McDermid,author of Fever of the BoneIn a stand-alone psychological thrillerfrom acclaimed mystery master Reginald Hill, a mysterious ex-con returns to hisremote childhood home on a deadly hunt for revenge...
  • The Vacation by John Marrs

    The Vacation by John Marrs

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Vacation is a compulsive, holiday-set thriller from John Marrs, the author of The One, now a Netflix Original Series.How far would you run to escape your past?Venice Beach, Los Angeles. A paradise on earth.Tourists flock to the golden coast and the promise of Hollywood.But for eight strangers at a beach front hostel, there is far more on their mind than an extended vacation...
  • Last of the Magpies by Mark Edwards

    Last of the Magpies by Mark Edwards

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The chilling conclusion to the #1 bestseller The Magpies. Twelve months ago, Jamie Knight walked straight into Lucy Newton’s trap. Both Jamie and his ex-wife Kirsty barely survived. Now, with the police investigation into Lucy’s disappearance going nowhere, Jamie teams up with a true crime podcaster to track down his nemesis...
  • Boetedoening (O'Loughlin by Michael Robotham

    Boetedoening (O'Loughlin by Michael Robotham

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Ray Hegarty, a highly respected former detective, lies dead in his daughter Sienna's bedroom. She is found covered in his blood. Everything points to her guilt, but psychologist Joe O'Loughlin isn't convinced.Fourteen-year-old Sienna is Joe's daughter's best friend ? Joe has watched her grow up and seen the troubled look in her eyes...
  • The Ugly Duckling by Iris Johansen

    The Ugly Duckling by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    If fate suddenly made you more beautiful than you ever dreamed possible, would it be the beginning of a fairy tale, or your worst nightmare?The brutal attack should have killed anybody, but Nell Calder did more than survive. She emerged a woman transformed, with an exquisite beauty found only in fairy tales. Nell Calder deserved a happy ending. Instead, her descent into terror has just begun...
  • Trespassing by Brandi Reeds

    Trespassing by Brandi Reeds

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In a novel of mounting psychological suspense, a young mother follows a dangerous path to find her missing husband.Veronica Cavanaugh’s grasp on the world is slipping. Her latest round of fertility treatments not only failed but left her on edge and unbalanced. And her three-year-old daughter, Elizabella, has a new imaginary friend, who seems much more devilish than playful...
  • Turning Angel by Greg Iles

    Turning Angel by Greg Iles

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    After winning the most dangerous case of his career, prosecutor Penn Cage decides to remain in his Southern hometown to raise his young daughter in a safe haven. But nowhere is truly safe -- not from long-buried secrets, or murder....When the nude body of prep school student Kate Townsend is found near the Mississippi River, Penn's best friend, Drew Elliott, is desperate for his counsel...
  • Alex Cross, Run by James Patterson

    Alex Cross, Run by James Patterson

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Detective Alex Cross arrests renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls. Now, his life ruined, Creem is out of jail, and he's made sure that no one will recognize him--by giving himself a new face.A young woman is found hanging from a sixth-floor window, and Alex is called to the scene. The victim recently gave birth, but the baby is nowhere to be found...
  • 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...
  • The Princess of Greektown by Suzanne Jenkins

    The Princess of Greektown by Suzanne Jenkins

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Thirty years ago, Terry Smith was Detroit’s top news anchor. She set the standard for excellence in investigative journalism, staying at the news desk long after her time should have been over. Just as Terry’s son-in-law is murdered in the city, Detective Jill Zannos faces upheaval in her own life...
  • Swallow Lane by Marie Snow, Jordan Marie

    Swallow Lane by Marie Snow, Jordan Marie

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It was supposed to be a fresh start.
A new life.
That’s what I told myself anyway when I moved with my son Matthew to Liars Island from Stillwake.
Too much conflict and heartache had been a constant in our life, especially with my son. And although my Matthew was grown, I’d always see him as my little boy and the one person I needed to protect above all else...
  • The Wild Between Us by Amy Hagstrom

    The Wild Between Us by Amy Hagstrom

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The rescue of two missing boys in the Sierra Nevada mountains relies on unraveling the mysteries of the past in an addictive novel of heartrending suspense. After inheriting his uncle’s lodge, Silas Matheson hopes the grandeur of the California Sierra Nevada will be a fresh start for his two young sons, and a chance to finally face his demons...
  • Can't Find My Way Home by Carlene Thompson

    Can't Find My Way Home by Carlene Thompson

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Brynn Wilder must confront a dark and dangerous walk back into her traumatic past Eighteen years ago, twelve-year-old Brynn Wilder’s life changed forever when her father and a teenage girl were severely injured in a brutal attack in the woods...
  • This is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau

    This is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau, author of Palimpsest: A Collection of Contemporary Horror, follows the gut-wrenching journey of Miller and her estranged mother, Sylvie, who have always had a tense relationship. After Miller's father dies, she agrees to a girls' vacation away from the city to reconnect with the only family she has left...
  • Miss Polly had a Dolly by Willow Rose

    Miss Polly had a Dolly by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A bone-chilling tale from the Queen of Scream Not for the faint-hearted Miss Polly had a dolly. A beautiful daughter that she called her Baby Doll. Every day she dressed her in dresses and brushed her hair before they went outside to show off to the neighbors...
  • Never Far Away by Michael Koryta

    Never Far Away by Michael Koryta

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Once a wife, mother, and witness to a gruesome crime, Nina Morgan has been in hiding for a decade as Leah Trenton. She left behind her Midwestern roots to move to the northernmost tip of Maine. She also left behind a family...
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  • Straight by Dick Francis

    Straight by Dick Francis

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A jockey becomes the sole inheritor of his late brother's business, horse, mistress, and enemies...
  • Iron House by John Hart

    Iron House by John Hart

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    An old man is dying.          When the old man is dead they will come for him.          And they will come for her, to make him hurt. John Hart delivers his fourth novel -- a gut-wrenching, heart-stopping thriller no reader will soon forget.He would go to Hell     At the Iron Mountain Home for Boys, there was nothing but time...
  • Cape Fear by John D. MacDonald

    Cape Fear by John D. MacDonald

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    How far would you go to save your family? In John D. MacDonald's iconic masterwork of suspense, the inspiration for not one but two Hollywood hits, a mild-mannered family is tormented by an obsessed criminal--and with the authorities powerless to protect them, they must take the law into their own hands...
  • The Devil's Punchbowl by Greg Iles

    The Devil's Punchbowl by Greg Iles

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From "New York Times" bestselling author Greg Iles comes his most electrifying thriller yet. "The Devil's Punchbowl" reveals a world of depravity, sex, violence, and the corruption of a Southern town.As a prosecuting attorney in Houston, Penn Cage sent hardened killers to death row. But it is as mayor of his hometown -- Natchez, Mississippi -- that Penn will face his most dangerous threat...
  • The Praying Mantis Bride by Dean Koontz

    The Praying Mantis Bride by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A deadly black widow has eliminated three husbands and counting. But Nameless knows her one weakness. To bring truth and its consequences to her crimes, the vigilante must spin a web of his own in part three of the Nameless series.Lucia—current last name, Rickenbah—has made a fortune by marrying rich men who tend to drop dead. But the superstitious blonde believes in more than money and murder...
  • Dear Child: A Novel by Romy Hausmann

    Dear Child: A Novel by Romy Hausmann

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A woman held captive finally escapes—but can she ever really get away?Gone Girl meets Room in this page-turning, #1 internationally bestselling thriller from one of Germany’s hottest new talentsA windowless shack in the woods. A dash to safety. But when a woman finally escapes her captor, the end of the story is only the beginning of her nightmare.She says her name is Lena...
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