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  • The Accomplice by Steve Cavanagh

    The Accomplice by Steve Cavanagh

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    THE MOST HATED WOMAN IN AMERICAThe Sandman killings have been solved. Daniel Miller murdered fourteen people before he vanished. His wife, Carrie, now faces trial as his accomplice. The FBI, the District Attorney, the media and everyone in America believe she knew and helped cover up her husband's crimes.THE LAWYEREddie Flynn won't take a case unless his client is innocent...
  • One Last Child by Anni Taylor

    One Last Child by Anni Taylor

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Winner, Audiofile Earphones Award 2020 - narration by Caroline Lee.Five long-missing children are about to be RETURNED.It was summer in the mountains when five small children vanished from their nursery school picnic. The heat was stifling that day, the tinkle of an ice-cream van in the air....Three-and-a-half years later, in the dead of winter, the children are returned to their families..
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    crime  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  drama
  • Reasonable Fear by Scott Pratt

    Reasonable Fear by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Three young women are found floating in a lake. The suspect is one of the richest and most powerful men in Tennessee. "Reasonable Fear" is the fourth of the bestselling Joe Dillard series offered by Scott Pratt. In this novel, Dillard has become the district attorney in Northeast Tennessee...
  • The Lullaby Man by Anni Taylor

    The Lullaby Man by Anni Taylor

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

    The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    “Don’t go in the guest bedroom.” A shadow falls on Douglas Garrick’s face as he touches the door with his fingertips. “My wife… she’s very ill.” As he continues showing me their incredible penthouse apartment, I have a terrible feeling about the woman behind closed doors...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  mystery  psychological
  • A Narrow Margin of Error by Faith Martin

    A Narrow Margin of Error by Faith Martin

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Ex-DI Hilary Green, now working as a civilian consultant to her former Thames Valley bosses, is happy to be handed another cold case murder file...
  • Fifty-Fifty by Steve Cavanagh

    Fifty-Fifty by Steve Cavanagh

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Alexandra Avellino has just found her father's mutilated body, and needs the police right away. She believes her sister killed him, and that she is still in the house with a knife. Sofia Avellino has just found her father's mutilated body and needs the police right away. She believes her sister, Alexandra did it, and that she is still in the house, locked in the bathroom...
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    crime  legal  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • The Girl in the Manor by A.J. Rivers

    The Girl in the Manor by A.J. Rivers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The sound of a blood curdling scream echoed through the manor. Her pleas ignored, her screams unheard...
  • Witness 8 by Steve Cavanagh

    Witness 8 by Steve Cavanagh

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    This riveting psychological thriller from master of twists Steve Cavanagh, author of the “unguessable and unputdownable” (Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Kill For Me, Kill for You, What if the witness was more twisted than the killer?Something is wrong with Ruby Johnson...
  • The Hidden One by Linda Castillo

    The Hidden One by Linda Castillo

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The discovery of an Amish bishop's remains leads chief of police Kate Burkholder to unearth a chilling secret in The Hidden One, a new thriller from bestselling author Linda Castillo.Over a decade ago, beloved Amish bishop Ananias Stoltzfus disappeared without a trace. When skeletal remains showing evidence of foul play are unearthed, his disappearance becomes even more sinister...
  • One Last Kill by Robert Dugoni

    One Last Kill by Robert Dugoni

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Detective Tracy Crosswhite draws a long-dormant serial killer out of hiding in a nerve-shattering novel by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni.Tracy Crosswhite is reopening the investigation into Seattle’s Route 99 serial killer. After thirteen victims, he stopped hunting and the trail went cold, stirring public outrage...
  • The Surrogate's Gift by L.G. Davis

    The Surrogate's Gift by L.G. Davis

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Her one good deed is about to turn into her worst nightmare.Becoming a surrogate for Marcia and Travis Thorpe is Grace’s chance to overcome her inner demons.Nothing can go wrong. Her life depends on it.Determined to focus on the pregnancy, she drops everything and accepts the Thorpes’ offer to move in with them until the baby is born. A simple decision. One big mistake...
  • Paper Roses by Karen Ann Hopkins, Brittany Pressley

    Paper Roses by Karen Ann Hopkins, Brittany Pressley

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Some Amish communities aren’t so cozy. Paper Roses is the electrifying new addition to the Serenity’s Plain Secrets’ mystery/crime thriller series. While an archeological team digs up Blood Rock’s sinister past, a forbidden romance begins, and Serenity races to stop a serial killer before he strikes again...
  • The Wife Upstairs by Freida McFadden

    The Wife Upstairs by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Victoria Barnett has it all.A great career. A handsome and loving husband. A beautiful home in the suburbs and a plan to fill it with children. Life is perfect—or so it seems.Then she’s in a terrible accident… and everything falls apart.Now Victoria is unable to walk. She can’t feed or dress herself. She can’t even speak. She is confined to the top floor of her house with twenty-four-hour care...
  • The Girl Next Door by A.J. Rivers

    The Girl Next Door by A.J. Rivers

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sherwood is a sleepy little town. A town full of friendly faces, and even friendlier neighbors.Which is why FBI agent Emma Griffin isn't surprised when her new neighbor starts stopping by to chat.Turns out her neighbor has a dark past and secrets that made her run...
  • The Cutting Place by Jane Casey

    The Cutting Place by Jane Casey

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Rumours…Everyone’s heard the rumours about elite gentlemen’s clubs, where the champagne flows freely, the parties are outrageous…and what goes on behind closed doors is darker than you could possibly imagine.Scandals…Paige Hargreaves was a young journalist working on a story about a club for the most privileged men in London. She was on the brink of exposing a shocking scandal...
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    crime  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • The Girl and the Hunt by A.J. Rivers

    The Girl and the Hunt by A.J. Rivers

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Catch me.The words that taunted FBI Agent Emma Griffin on the blood-soaked train ride from Sherwood continue to follow her.Drawn to Feathered Nest, she discovers that the horror is far from over and whoever is behind the dare has no intention of his brutal game slowing down any time soon...
  • 12 Months to Live by James Patterson, Mike Lupica

    12 Months to Live by James Patterson, Mike Lupica

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Criminal attorney Jane F. Smith, tough as nails, has received a terminal diagnosis and doesn't have much time. Is her own client trying to kill her first?Her name is Jane Smith. To friends and foes, she's Jane Effing Smith.  Why? Because she's the best criminal defense attorney in the Hamptons—the elite world of New York's rich and infamous...
  • Law of Five by Robin Mahle

    Law of Five by Robin Mahle

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

    The Stolen Hours by Allen Eskens

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A woman finds herself in a race not only for justice but for her life in this "riveting, hold-your-breath" new mystery from the bestselling author of The Life We Bury (Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author).Lila Nash is on the verge of landing her dream job—working as a prosecutor under the Hennepin County Attorney—and has settled into a happy life with her boyfriend, Joe Talbert...
  • The Advocate's Felony by Teresa Burrell

    The Advocate's Felony by Teresa Burrell

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sabre Brown’s phone rings at 2 a.m. It’s her brother Ron. After seven years in the Witness Protection Program, someone has discovered his whereabouts, and has tried to kill him. He’s called to warn Sabre that she is in imminent danger. Sabre and her private investigator, J.P., leave sunny San Diego to search for her brother in the cold, wintry Northwest...
  • Last Breath by Mary Stone

    Last Breath by Mary Stone

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Welcome to the deadliest show on Earth...When the Ruby Red Spectacle Circus rolls into town, chaos and death follow in its wake. At first, the accidents seem coincidental, but as the body count rises, it becomes clear that a killer is lurking within the big top’s shadows.Smoke and mirrors concealing love and hate...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  female-mc  mystery  fiction  murder  horror
  • None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell

    None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    From the #1  New York Times  bestselling author known for her “superb pacing, twisted characters, and captivating prose” ( BuzzFeed ), Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast...
  • The Locked Box by Elle Gray, K.S. Gray

    The Locked Box by Elle Gray, K.S. Gray

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    What secrets does the hidden box hold? In a dark room, aboard a large cargo ship, a man sits shackled in place.As time passes his situation grows far more desperate.Unbeknownst to him, his partner Olivia Knight has traveled across the Atlantic to a small coastal town.There in Newhaven, England all is seemingly idyllic...
  • The Juror by George Dawes Green

    The Juror by George Dawes Green

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    This is a psychological thriller about a young woman threatened by the Mafia who must return a verdict of 'not guilty' to ensure the safety of her son. The book has been turned into a movie, featuring Alec Baldwin and Demi Moore...
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    crime  legal  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  drama
  • His Garden of Bones by Vickie McKeehan

    His Garden of Bones by Vickie McKeehan

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

    Blake Pierce Mystery Bundle: Before He Kills / Cause to Kill by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A two-book mystery bundle by #1 bestselling author Blake Pierce, author of ONCE GONE, a #1 bestseller on Amazon with over 350 five star reviews!Here is a bundle of the first books in two Blake Pierce series—the Mackenzie White and Avery Black series—all here in one convenient place. This bundle offers a great introduction to Blake Pierce’s series with over 140,000 words of reading...
  • The Girl and the Deadly Express by A.J. Rivers

    The Girl and the Deadly Express by A.J. Rivers

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    On board an unstoppable train the truth of the past finally unfolds, but will it be at the expense of everyone’s life on board the deadly express?FBI agent Emma Griffin is starting to get her life back on track.But as she gets used to the changes in her career and settling into her personal life, questions about her past continue to haunt her...
  • Into the Labyrinth by Donato Carrisi

    Into the Labyrinth by Donato Carrisi

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    As dark and gripping as ever, this is Donato Carrisi's latest thriller.A young woman wakes up in a hospital bed, disoriented and with a broken leg. The room she is in has no windows, only a huge mirror lining one wall, although she can't see her reflection in it. With her is a man who introduces himself as Dr White, a criminal profiler...
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    crime  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • The Abduction by Mark Gimenez

    The Abduction by Mark Gimenez

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Ben Brice lives alone in the New Mexico wilderness where he battles memories of Vietnam with oceans of Jim Beam. Miles away in Texas, his estranged son, John, an Internet geek-turned-billionaire, half watches his daughter Gracie's soccer game while conducting business on his cell phone. When her mother Elizabeth arrives, the coach reports that her uncle has already collected Gracie...
  • City Dark by Roger A. Canaff

    City Dark by Roger A. Canaff

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A vanished mother, the grip of darkness, a lifelong mystery. Forty years later, a prosecutor faces them all again, this time as a murder suspect in a pulse-pounding legal thriller of psychological suspense.On a steaming night in 1977, New York City is plunged into darkness and two boys, Joe and Robbie, are abandoned by their mother, Lois...
  • The Perfect Getaway by Elle Gray, K.S. Gray

    The Perfect Getaway by Elle Gray, K.S. Gray

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One by one the guests at the Misty Pines Ski Lodge are dropping dead…After an action-packed year of fighting crime, FBI Agent Olivia Knight is ready for a relaxing getaway with her partner Brock.But trouble has a way of finding her everywhere...Her arrival at the ski lodge is welcomed by chaos with the death of a female guest...
    Categorized as:
    crime  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  fiction  investigator  mystery
  • Did I Kill My Husband? by A.J. Campbell

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

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

    Every Pretty Thing by Chris Mooney

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In Every Pretty Thing serial killer hunter Darby McCormick finds herself in Montana, looking for a friend. Little does she realise that a murderer is waiting for her . . .She came to find her friend.Instead she found a killer.Serial killer expert Darby McCormick gets a call from FBI Agent Jackson Cooper, who has been contacted by a woman who's been in hiding for twenty years...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  mystery  psychological
  • The Woman on the Ledge by Ruth Mancini

    The Woman on the Ledge by Ruth Mancini

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Obsession. Intrigue. Revenge. Whose secrets are you keeping? And why?A woman falls to her death from a London bank’s twenty-fifth-floor roof terrace.You’re arrested for her murder.You tell the police that you had only met the victim the previous night at your office party. She was threatening to jump from the roof, but you had talked her down.You’ve got nothing to do with this tragedy...
  • Corrupted by Sin by Kennedy Layne

    Corrupted by Sin by Kennedy Layne

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A chilling confession unleashes deadly secrets…In downtown D.C., an emergency surgery is performed on a prominent psychiatrist following a multi-car accident. The ICU nurse on duty has heard many interesting utterances from her groggy patients over the years...
  • The Cut by Chris Brookmyre

    The Cut by Chris Brookmyre

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick'Strikingly original and definitively Brookmyre - there's nothing he can't do'Mick Herron'I recommend The Cut SO HIGHLY! A fast-paced thriller, lovely characters, [and] it kept me guessing'Marian KeyesThe supremely entertaining, moving, and unpredictable new thriller from multi-award-winning bestseller Chris Brookmyre is a wholly original masterpiece and the best...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  mystery
  • 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...
  • Where All the Dead Lie by J.T. Ellison

    Where All the Dead Lie by J.T. Ellison

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Read book seven in New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison’s heart-racing, fan-favorite Taylor Jackson series! The headshot didn’t kill Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson.But it will crack her psyche and take her to the very edge. In her showdown with the murderous Pretender, a bullet taken at close range severed the connection between Taylor’s thoughts and speech...
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    crime  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    crime  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  family
  • 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...
  • The Married Couple by Maria Frankland

    The Married Couple by Maria Frankland

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    My wife is dead. No one believes that I’m innocent – and honestly, if I were them, I wouldn’t either. Everything you ever read, anything that makes the news? It’s always the husband. Beautiful, bright-eyed Michelle Jackson, a loving wife and mother, has been killed. Her husband Paul is accused of murdering her. Their little girl Emily, numb with grief, is refusing to speak...
  • Killer Takes All by Erica Spindler

    Killer Takes All by Erica Spindler

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The White Rabbit beckons you to follow him, down the rabbit hole, into his world. He's a deceiver, a trickster. You won't know what is truth and what is a lie. He aims to best you. Beat you. And when he does, you die. A friend's brutal murder turns former homicide detective Stacy Killian's life upside down...
  • The Stepdaughter by Georgina Cross

    The Stepdaughter by Georgina Cross

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It’s a normal afternoon when I walk out the patio doors of our kitchen to check on Mia, my stepdaughter, who is swimming in our backyard pool. But she’s gone. My heart stops when I see the back gate is open, her pink, fluffy towel lying folded on a chair. I was just feet away...
  • Dead On Time by W.L. Knightly

    Dead On Time by W.L. Knightly

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Professor Whit Filmore thought he’d left his life as a detective behind to focus on teaching, but after a personal realization changed his life, he discovered his heightened senses help him pick up on clues that others can’t...
  • The Picture on the Fridge by Ian W. Sainsbury, Matthew Lloyd Davies

    The Picture on the Fridge by Ian W. Sainsbury, Matthew Lloyd Davies

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Mags Barkworth still suffers the effects of a life-changing tragedy over a decade ago. She knows her husband loves her. She knows he would never do anything to hurt her, or their daughter...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  mystery
  • With Friends Like These by Keri Beevis

    With Friends Like These by Keri Beevis

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A reunion of friends in remote Scotland turns into a terrifying ordeal in this twisting crime thriller by the international bestselling author of Dying To Tell, Every Little Breath and The People Next Door.Billy Maguire, on his way to Scotland for a reunion with his university friends, stops for a few drinks en route...
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    crime  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  dark
  • You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego

    You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego

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

    Heartbreaker by Tania Carver

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After years of abuse, Gemma Adderley has finally found the courage to leave her violent husband. She has taken one debilitating beating too many, endured one esteem-destroying insult too much. Taking her seven-year-old daughter Carly, she leaves the house, determined to salvage what she can of her life...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  thriller  mystery  fiction  psychological  book  adult
  • Fear Dreams by J.A. Schneider

    Fear Dreams by J.A. Schneider

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A sensitive woman fearing insanity... Liddy Barron was injured in a hit-and-run accident that left her with recurring nightmares, gaps in her memory, and an increasing obsession in the disappearance of a coed named Sasha Perry. Was Sasha murdered? Liddy's turmoil grows as she begins seeing ghostly images. Her husband Paul tries to help but insists it's just her imagination..
    Categorized as:
    crime  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  alpha-mc  book  fiction
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