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  • The Last Remains by Elly Griffiths

    The Last Remains by Elly Griffiths

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The discovery of a missing woman's bones forces Ruth and Nelson to finally confront their feelings for each other as they desperately work to exonerate one of their own.When builders discover a human skeleton while renovating a café, they call in archaeologist Dr...
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    crime  family  adult  book  female-author  fiction  mystery  suspense
  • Beyond the Point by Damien Boyd

    Beyond the Point by Damien Boyd

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    DI Nick Dixon is on the hunt for a vicious serial killer, following a trail of fingerprints and DNA across west Somerset.When the body of a young woman is found on the building site of a nuclear power station, work grinds to a halt. The body bears all the hallmarks of yet another random murder at the hands of the escaped killer. Then Dixon finds a motive...
  • 聖母 by Rikako Akiyoshi, 秋吉理香子

    聖母 by Rikako Akiyoshi, 秋吉理香子

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
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  • Dead Level by Damien Boyd

    Dead Level by Damien Boyd

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the early hours of Christmas Eve, the wife of parliamentary candidate Tom Perry is brutally murdered in an apparent burglary gone wrong.With the by-election campaign about to start in earnest, and the festive season in full swing, torrential rain brings with it flood warnings on the Somerset Levels...
  • No More Lies by Rachel Abbott

    No More Lies by Rachel Abbott

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
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    crime  adult  book  fiction  murder  mystery
  • 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...
  • The Mother's Day Mishap by Kathi Daley

    The Mother's Day Mishap by Kathi Daley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    If you love small towns, endearing relationships, food, animals, and a touch of murder, you will love this new mystery series by Kathi Daley, author of the popular Zoe Donovan Cozy Mystery Series. It's Mother's Day in White Eagle Montana and spring has come to the small foothills community...
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    crime  family  adult  animals  book  contemporary  cozy  culinary
  • Negeri Para Bedebah by Tere Liye

    Negeri Para Bedebah by Tere Liye

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Di negeri para bedebah, kisah fiksi kalah seru dibanding kisah nyata.Di negeri para bedebah, musang berbulu domba berkeliaran di halaman rumah.Tetapi setidaknya, Kawan, di negeri para bedebah, petarung sejati tidak akan pernah berkhianat...
  • Mercy by Victor Methos

    Mercy by Victor Methos

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Brigham Theodore is a courtroom brawler, a criminal defense attorney who spends his time slugging it out with the government in court. A year after winning his biggest case, he finds himself at a new firm defending clients of every kind. Drug dealers, gangsters, con men and thugs are the people he defends every day. For him, the fight is what matters...
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    crime  family  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  legal  mystery
  • Stolen Children by Michael Wood

    Stolen Children by Michael Wood

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A gripping and addictive new crime thriller you need to read in 2020 ‘She is the perfect heroine’ Elly Griffiths The addictive new crime thriller featuring DCI Matilda Darke. Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons. ‘DCI Matilda Darke is going places’ James Oswald Some cases won’t die.A young boy walks into a police station in France...
  • The Game by Linda Calvey

    The Game by Linda Calvey

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Perfect for fans of Kimberley Chambers and Jessie Keane, this gangland thriller shows how far one woman will go to protect her family's empire.___________She built an empire. Now she needs to protect it.From the dark underbelly of London to the scorching Spanish riviera, Ruby Murphy has built a crime syndicate to be feared.When her husband is murdered in cold blood, she is devastated...
  • Negeri di Ujung Tanduk by Tere Liye

    Negeri di Ujung Tanduk by Tere Liye

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Di Negeri di Ujung Tanduk kehidupan semakin rusak. Bukan karena orang jahat semakin banyak, tapi semakin banyak orang yang memilih tidak peduli lagi. Di Negeri di Ujung Tanduk para penipu menjadi pemimpin, para pengkhianat menjadi pujaan. Bukan karena tidak ada lagi yang memiliki teladan, tapi mereka memutuskan menutup mata dan memilih hidup bahagia sendirian...
  • The Boy Under the Table by Nicole Trope

    The Boy Under the Table by Nicole Trope

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Tina is a young woman hiding from her grief on the streets of the Cross. On a cold night in the middle of winter she breaks all her own rules when she agrees to go home with a customer.What she finds in his house will change her life forever.Across the country Sarah and Doug are trapped in limbo, struggling to accept the loss that now governs their lives...
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    crime  family  abuse  adult  book  contemporary  dark  fiction
  • The Know by Martina Cole

    The Know by Martina Cole

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Joanie Brewer' s children meant the world to her. She'd do anything to protect them, even resorting to prostitution and petty crime in order to feed and clothe them. So when her beautiful teenage daughter is raped and murdered, only one thing will stop Joanie's pain - seeing her daughter's killer brought to justice. Joanie knows who he is and she'll do whatever it takes to nail him..
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    crime  family  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  mystery
  • An Engineered Injustice by William L. Myers Jr.

    An Engineered Injustice by William L. Myers Jr.

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What if the deadliest train wreck in the nation’s history was no accident?When a passenger train derails in North Philadelphia with fatal results, idealistic criminal defense attorney Vaughn Coburn takes on the most personal case of his young career. The surviving engineer is his cousin Eddy, and when Eddy asks Vaughn to defend him, he can’t help but accept...
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    crime  family  mystery  fiction  legal  suspense  audiobook  thriller
  • Hidden Valley by Annie Seaton

    Hidden Valley by Annie Seaton

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Happily working on her family’s macadamia farm in the rolling hills of northern New South Wales, Dee Peters receives an enigmatic letter hinting of family secrets, and the prospect of her inheriting a cattle station in the Northern Territory outback...
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    crime  family  romance  suspense  contemporary  mystery  fiction  cozy
  • A Cross to Bear by Vince Vogel

    A Cross to Bear by Vince Vogel

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    "They burned it down once…They should burn it down again." Once the star of Scotland Yard, burnt out East London detective Jack Sheridan is now a washed up cop working a low end station, estranged from his family and haunted by his past...
  • Book Club Blackmail by Dianne Harman

    Book Club Blackmail by Dianne Harman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Have you ever been blackmailed?How would you feel if you were?We all have secrets we don’t want others to know about.Several members of the book club did.But how did someone find out about those secrets?The blackmailer demanded $3,000 from each of them.Or the secrets they’d carefully kept would become public knowledge...
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    crime  family  cozy  mystery  audiobook  fiction  female-mc  romance
  • Deadly Holiday by Alexa Grace

    Deadly Holiday by Alexa Grace

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It is four days before Christmas and all is not quiet as the characters you grew to love in The Deadly Trilogy books fight their inner demons, deception, and pray for miracles in this action-packed novella. Shawn Isaac is a bright five-year-old who has experienced more than his share of domestic violence and abuse...
  • Under a Black Sky by Inger Wolf

    Under a Black Sky by Inger Wolf

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Thrilling Scandinavian mystery From an international best-selling author Anchorage, Alaska: A prominent Danish volcano scientist, Asger Vad and his wife and son, are found shot on the outskirts of the city.The killer has placed the victims around a table on which there is a doll house with four small dolls and a pile of volcano ashes. However, one person is missing at the table...
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    crime  family  adult  book  fiction  killer  law-enforcement  mystery
  • Burglar Bill by Allan Ahlberg

    Burglar Bill by Allan Ahlberg

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Everything in Burglar Bill's life is stolen, from the toast, marmalade and coffee he has for breakfast to the bed he sleeps in. One night when he is out burgling, he comes across a box with holes in the lid on a doorstep. He picks it up of course and when he gets home he discovers, to his horror, that he has stolen a baby...
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    crime  family  book  children  cozy  female-author  fiction  humor
  • #taken by Tony Parsons

    #taken by Tony Parsons

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    They thought they were kidnapping the mistress of one of London’s most powerful gangsters. But they’ve taken the wrong woman. And crossed the wrong detective...
  • The Brighton Mermaid by Dorothy Koomson

    The Brighton Mermaid by Dorothy Koomson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Brighton Beach, 1993Teenagers Nell and Jude find the body of a young woman and when no one comes to claim her, she becomes known as the Brighton Mermaid. Nell is still struggling to move on when, three weeks later, Jude disappears.Twenty-five years on, Nell is forced to quit her job to find out who the Brighton Mermaid really was - and what happened to her best friend that summer...
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    crime  family  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery  poc-mc
  • Darkening Skies by Bronwyn Parry

    Darkening Skies by Bronwyn Parry

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Award-winning investigative reporter Jennifer Barrett never planned to return to Dungirri, the dying town she’d escaped at seventeen...
  • Shift Burn by Jerusha Jones

    Shift Burn by Jerusha Jones

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After weeks of fire danger warnings and several wildfire flare-ups, the residents of Sockeye County, Washington, are on edge. When a fire threatens the Imogene Museum, curator Meredith Morehouse realizes the frequency and increasing size of the conflagrations aren’t as random as they seem...
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    crime  family  action-adventure  adult  book  cozy  female-mc  fiction
  • Mysterious Abduction by Rita Herron

    Mysterious Abduction by Rita Herron

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’ll never give up on finding her baby. And neither will the sheriff of Whistler.For five years, Cora Reeves has searched for her baby, who went missing in a fire—a baby she swears is still out there. When the private investigator sniffing out clues ends up dead, Sheriff Jacob Maverick’s on the cold case. As old evidence takes on new meaning, Jacob is deperate to ensure Cora’s safety...
  • The Night She Vanished by Wendy Dranfield

    The Night She Vanished by Wendy Dranfield

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My parents seem to be the perfect couple. But no one knows what I know... Everyone in the small Midwestern town of Henderson looks up to my perfect parents. With dependable jobs as a midwife and the town sheriff, they help this close-knit community feel safe. But the locals didn't grow up in my parents' house. They don't know what I know. And they wouldn't believe me if I told them..
  • Trust Nobody by June Hampson

    Trust Nobody by June Hampson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It is 1962 and Daisy Lane, whose husband Kenny is in jail for robbery, runs and lives over the family's cafe in Gosport with Kenny's older brother Eddie. Daisy looks out for pretty, vulnerable, 16-year-old Suze, who works in the cafe and, along with prostitute Vera, who also shares the house, the women form a strong and lasting bond...
    Categorized as:
    crime  family  adult  book  epic  fiction  mystery  noir
  • Missing by Erin Kinsley

    Missing by Erin Kinsley

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A MOTHER WALKS INTO THE SEA . . . AND NEVER COMES BACK. WHY?One perfect summer day, mother of two Alice walks into the sea . . . and never comes back.Her daughters - loyal but fragile Lily, and headstrong, long-absent Marietta - are forcibly reunited by her disappearance.Meanwhile, with retirement looming, DI Fox investigates cold cases long since forgotten...
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    crime  family  adult  book  fiction  law-enforcement  mystery  suspense
  • A Field of Poppies by Sharon Sala

    A Field of Poppies by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Two families. One secret. Separated by a river and twenty years of lies. Five minutes changed Poppy Sadler’s life forever. Tick. The hospital called. Her mother’s battle with cancer was finally over. Tock. The police showed up at her door. Her father’s body has just been pulled from the River. Tick. Murdered. Tick, Tock. Five minutes and a secret is coming undone...
  • Secrets Mothers Keep by Anya Mora

    Secrets Mothers Keep by Anya Mora

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    On Friday night in the clay fields of Bethel Creek, seventeen-year-old Daniel Reyes is found brutally attacked and left for dead. 
On Saturday morning, Cora Maxwell finds her teenage son’s clothes covered in blood.
A small town torn apart by a horrific hate crime. 
An investigative reporter hell bent on finding the truth. 
A mother’s worst nightmare...
  • Rampage by John Sandford

    Rampage by John Sandford

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    John Sandford and Michele Cook complete their New York Times bestselling thriller series in this explosive finale! Fans of James Dashner, Harlan Coben, and James Patterson will love this nail-biting trilogy. Shay Remby and her band of renegade activists have got the corrupt Singular Corporation on the run. Their expos' is finally working...
  • The Thorn Girl by Laura Elliot

    The Thorn Girl by Laura Elliot

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A swallow flutters its wings into a dimly lit attic as Adele Foyle stumbles across the secret diary of the mother she has never met, and a shocking account of a crime committed over twenty-five years ago...
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    crime  family  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc  fiction  mystery
  • The Advocate's Conviction by Teresa Burrell

    The Advocate's Conviction by Teresa Burrell

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sabre Orin Brown's clients keep disappearing. With seemingly no connection between the cases, Sabre enlists the help of her southern PI friend, JP, and her best friend, Bob, to find each of them--before it's too late.In her race against the clock, Sabre must determine whether contemporary horrors are being buried in the shadow of dark traditions--or if it's something else at work...
    Categorized as:
    crime  family  adult  book  drama  fiction  legal  murder
  • Liar Liar by L.G. Davis

    Liar Liar by L.G. Davis

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He swore he would always protect me, that he would take my darkest secret to the grave. But I’m starting to think he hasn’t told me his…My husband and I are the dream couple: deeply in love, the envy of all our friends and neighbours. He surprises me with flowers, I make him his favourite meals and prepare picnics to enjoy with our son. It’s little gestures like this that keep our romance alive...
  • In His Blood by Kate Bold

    In His Blood by Kate Bold

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    FBI Special Agent Eve Hope can’t escape the shadow of her notorious serial killer father—though he is jailed, the puzzle of the loving father of her childhood haunts her, and now, assigned to a copycat case, she is forced to face her worst memories...
  • The Orphan House by Ann Bennett

    The Orphan House by Ann Bennett

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Two women uncover the secrets of the past in this emotional and poignant story that’s perfect for fans of Lisa Wingate and Kristina McMorris. 1934: Connie Burroughs loves living in the orphanage that her father runs in the English countryside...
  • Lost Child by D.S. Butler

    Lost Child by D.S. Butler

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    She only turned her back for a moment but that was all it took.Two years ago, Beth Farrow turned her back on her three-year-old niece, Jenna, for just a few seconds. She disappeared without a trace...
  • The Child Taker & Slow Burn by Conrad Jones

    The Child Taker & Slow Burn by Conrad Jones

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    2 top ten 'unputdownable' thrillers in one special edition download. How far would you go to get your children back......?A stand alone novel based on high profile child abductions, which have been followed by millions of concerned parents on the news. 5 year old twins are abducted from a tent in the Lake District and the hunt for a dangerous paedophile ring begins...
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    crime  family  adult  book  fiction  mystery  suspense  thriller
  • Redemption Lake by Susan Clayton-Goldner

    Redemption Lake by Susan Clayton-Goldner

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Tucson, 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...
  • The Protest by Rob Rinder

    The Protest by Rob Rinder

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A world-famous artist. A fatal brush with death.At a star-studded opening night for the Royal Academy’s celebration of renowned artist Max Bruce, someone is hiding a dark secret.As the night reaches its climax and Max addresses his admirers, the occasion takes a shocking turn when a protester runs from the crowd and sprays the artistwith blue paint...
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    crime  family  fiction  mystery  audiobook  legal  thriller  murder
  • The Enigma of Garlic: 44 Scotland Street Series by Alexander McCall Smith

    The Enigma of Garlic: 44 Scotland Street Series by Alexander McCall Smith

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The latest installment in the charming and congenial 44 Scotland Street series finds all our favorite residents of Scotland's most celebrated address up to their usual hilarious hijinks.It's the most anticipated event of the decade--Big Lou and Fat Bob's wedding--and everyone is invited! But the relative peace and tranquillity of 44 Scotland Street is about to be disrupted...
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    crime  family  adult  animals  book  comedy  cozy  fiction
  • Stone Girl by Eleni Hale

    Stone Girl by Eleni Hale

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’m at the police station. There’s blood splattered across my face and clothes. In this tiny room with walls the colour of winter sky I hug a black backpack full of treasures. Only one thing is certain . . . no one can ever forgive me for what I’ve done.An unspeakable event changes everything. No more Mum, school or bed of her own...
    Categorized as:
    family  crime  young-adult  contemporary  fiction  dark  mystery  grief
  • No Limits by Ellie Marney

    No Limits by Ellie Marney

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New Australian YA romantic crime from the author of the award-winning Every series... Boozer, brawler, ladies' man - nineteen-year-old Harris Derwent is not a good guy.His one attempt to play the hero - helping out his old flame, Rachel Watts - has landed him in hospital. Now injured, broke and unemployed, he's stuck back in the country, at his father's mercy...
  • The Killer's Daughter by Kate Wiley

    The Killer's Daughter by Kate Wiley

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the backseat, the baby started to cry. He turned the radio down and the Fleetwood Mac song faded away as he faced towards the little girl. “Shh, shh baby. Daddy will be right back,” he said, leaving the car running as he disappeared into the trees.Twenty years ago Ed Finch – America’s most notorious serial killer – used the Bay Area as his hunting ground...
  • The Captive by M.V. Kasi

    The Captive by M.V. Kasi

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She is kidnapped and held hostage at an unknown location by a brutal, mysterious man who causes conflicting feelings...Nina Bhupati is envied by many. Her husband is a rich, powerful man who never misses a chance to show the world how much he loves her.But Nina's fairytale blew apart when she is kidnapped...
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    crime  family  adult  book  captivity  contemporary  dark  fiction
  • The Killer’s Family by Miranda Smith

    The Killer’s Family by Miranda Smith

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    We should never have kept our father’s secret.Before, my sisters and I were close. Now, a year after our father’s funeral, we barely speak to each other. Molly won’t accept the truth. Rachel can’t forgive him. And I spend all my time digging through his life, trying to understand.Then we hear the news. A woman has been found by the docks, her wedding ring stolen...
  • Cry Mercy by Mariah Stewart

    Cry Mercy by Mariah Stewart

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes a novel of sexy romantic suspense for fans of Nora Roberts, Catherine Coulter, and Karen Robards.After Ann Nolan, a California beat cop, adopts the daughter of a notorious drug dealer, the ruthless father vows to take back his only child...
  • Cause for Alarm by Erica Spindler

    Cause for Alarm by Erica Spindler

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Cause For Alarm by Erica Spindler released on Jan 25, 1999 is available now for purchase...
  • The Curfew by T.M. Logan

    The Curfew by T.M. Logan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Your son said he was home. WHY DID HE LIE? It's time to preorder the brand new up-all-night thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Richard and Judy pick The Holiday, now a major TV Drama.I should have known something was wrong. I should have sensed it. Felt it in the air, like the build-up of pressure before a thunderstorm, that heavy, loaded calm...
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