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  • The Girl and the Secret Society by A.J. Rivers

    The Girl and the Secret Society by A.J. Rivers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Evil has many faces. This one you will never see coming.This is the bizarre and shocking case of Lakyn Monroe.In the midst of filming her show, Lakyn vanished without a trace.Four months have passed, and the unusual disappearance of the internet celebrity has garnered nationwide attention...
  • The Blossom Twins by Carol Wyer

    The Blossom Twins by Carol Wyer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Their parents thought they were hiding… One beautiful summer’s evening, thirteen-year-old twins Ivy and Erin Westmore snuggle down in a tent in their back garden, giggling and sharing secrets. When their mother goes to wake the girls the next morning, their tent is empty. The alarm is raised and Detective Natalie Ward is put onto the case...
  • Concealed Cargo: Children for Sale by Jodi Burnett

    Concealed Cargo: Children for Sale by Jodi Burnett

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Special Agent Clay Jennings and his K9 partner, Ranger, take to the streets of Denver to fight human trafficking, he is shocked by the inordinate number of stolen innocents who’ve been forced into the sex trade. With each new face, his resolve to help these children escape their personal horror grows stronger...
  • Stalker on the Fens by Joy Ellis

    Stalker on the Fens by Joy Ellis

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    DETECTIVE NIKKI GALENA’S FRIEND THINKS SHE HAS A DEADLY STALKERDI Nikki Galena’s friend Helen Brook is involved in a serious accident where she is trapped in a collapsed cellar. After her hard-won recovery, Helen is still getting flashbacks to a man she says was down there with her and who confessed to a murder. But no trace of this man can be found...
  • Whip Crack by Alex Smith

    Whip Crack by Alex Smith

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Every time you hear his voice, another child will die.DCI Robert Kett’s family may be whole again, but he is a broken man.Suspended from duty, he takes his girls out of the city for a much-needed holiday on the Norfolk Coast.Instead of the peace he desperately needs, however, Kett finds a community in chaos. Four teenagers are missing, and time is running out before they meet a horrific fate...
  • Fatal Witness by Robert Bryndza

    Fatal Witness by Robert Bryndza

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Detective Erika Foster is back in FATAL WITNESS – with a chilling new serial killer case in Robert Bryndza's multi-million bestselling crime thriller series!How do you find a killer who has destroyed all the evidence?Detective Erika Foster is on a late-night walk near her new house in Blackheath when she stumbles upon the brutal murder of Vicky Clarke, a true-crime podcaster...
  • Deadly Motives by Ann Girdharry

    Deadly Motives by Ann Girdharry

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Secrets never stay buried forever...When a nurse is murdered, Detective David Grant recognises the hallmarks of a serial killer called Travis.Twenty-five years ago, Grant caught Travis for the murder of five women and the murderer has been incarcerated ever since...
  • The Killing House by Claire McGowan

    The Killing House by Claire McGowan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Long-buried secrets are being unearthed. And they're very close to home...Forensic psychologist Paula Maguire returns yet again to her hometown to investigate a spine-chilling case in THE KILLING HOUSE, the sixth novel in Claire McGowan's series. The Paula Maguire series is the perfect read for fans of Michael Connelly and Peter May...
  • The Silent Wife by Andy Maslen

    The Silent Wife by Andy Maslen

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Her career on the line and an innocent woman charged with murder. Can she save them both?As bogus corruption charges loom over her, DS Kat Ballantyne finds herself deskbound and stuck with cold cases. Her hated boss, DI Carver, has given her just one week to explain how £50,000 found its way into her bank account. If she can’t, she’ll be lucky to have a desk at all...
  • Silenced Girls: An absolutely addictive mystery thriller by Roger Stelljes

    Silenced Girls: An absolutely addictive mystery thriller by Roger Stelljes

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She moved far away to try and forget her past. A past that would seep back in when she least expected it and crushed her soul over and over. She tried to keep the evidence packed away in boxes high up on a closet shelf like carefully packing away a tragic part of her life. As if sealing the boxes, was sealing away a time in her life she desperately wanted to go back and change...
  • Riddle Me This by Gina LaManna

    Riddle Me This by Gina LaManna

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Detective Kate Rosetti is not a big fan of February 14th. Even worse than gigantic bouquets of roses and buckets of chocolate, however, are the love notes she’s been receiving from the murderer who very nearly stole her life.Unfortunately, a peaceful Valentine’s Day isn’t in the cards for Kate Rosetti...
  • The Secret Admirer by Carol Wyer

    The Secret Admirer by Carol Wyer

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ‘I tried to talk to you today but you snubbed me and walked away. It wasn’t wise to give me the brush-off, Gemma. I can be a truly good friend but I also make the perfect enemy.’ Sasha’s eighteen-year-old daughter Gemma was all she had in the world. Sasha fell pregnant with Gemma when she was still at school, and the two are as close as sisters...
  • If She Ran by H.K. Christie

    If She Ran by H.K. Christie

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Three months. Three missing women. One PI determined to discover the truth.Back from break, PI Martina Monroe clears the air with her boss at Drakos Security & Investigations and is ready to jump right into solving cold cases for the CoCo County Sheriff’s Department...
  • Shadow's Siege by Mary Stone

    Shadow's Siege by Mary Stone

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Shadow Island is under siege.Just a few short months ago, Sheriff Rebecca West thought her toughest battles were behind her. But nothing could have prepared her for the turmoil she’s faced since coming to Shadow Island. Attempts on her life. Heartbreak. Betrayal. And that’s just the beginning.The worst is yet to come...
  • Aberration by Lisa Regan

    Aberration by Lisa Regan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    FBI analyst Kassidy Bishop is assigned to the “For You” killer’s task force after a series of sadistic murders bearing the same signature arise in different parts of the country.The homicides are both calculated and savage, occurring in different states, but bearing the same signature: the words “for you” scribbled at each crime scene...
  • Trapper Road by Rachel Caine, Carrie Ryan

    Trapper Road by Rachel Caine, Carrie Ryan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sometimes danger comes from the most unexpected places.Gwen Proctor has always been willing to do anything it takes to protect her kids. But there are some things even she can’t protect them from. When a violent incident at Connor’s school brings the press to Gwen’s doorstep, she agrees to take a case out of town hoping to keep her family out of the crushing media spotlight...
  • Once Lost by Blake Pierce

    Once Lost by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Still reeling from her former partner Lucy’s death and from her partner Bill’s PTSD, FBI Special Agent Riley Paige does her best to try to keep herself stable and to patch together her family life. She has to decide what to about April’s boyfriend, recovering from his abusive father, and about Blaine, who is ready for their relationship to move ahead...
  • Shadow's Force by Mary Stone

    Shadow's Force by Mary Stone

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Which is more dangerous...Mother or Human Nature?Twelve hours earlier, Interim Sheriff Rebecca West was enjoying a casual lunchtime burger. Now she’s preparing for a hurricane headed straight for Shadow Island. While hauling sandbags and calming town officials, the last thing she needs is a stunned man stumbling into the sheriff’s department.Covered in blood...
  • Autumn's Chase by Mary Stone

    Autumn's Chase by Mary Stone

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Some evils never die—they evolve.FBI Special Agent Autumn Trent is desperate for something to focus on besides the lingering emotional fallout of their last two cases. And the growing distance between her and Aiden Parrish, her supervisor and boyfriend. So when a new case lands on her desk, she jumps at the distraction...
  • The Sleepover by Carol Wyer

    The Sleepover by Carol Wyer

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Roxy had a secret. Now she’s gone. When fourteen-year-old Roxy says she’s going for a sleepover at her best friend Ellie’s house, Cathy sees no reason to check her daughter’s story. The two families are neighbours, and the girls are in and out of each other’s homes every day. It is a decision she will regret...
  • Her Last Whisper by Jennifer Chase

    Her Last Whisper by Jennifer Chase

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Katie focuses her mind, trying to keep another anxiety attack at bay. The victim’s long brown hair is slick and wet, her body rigid in the grass...
  • Taker of Lives by Leslie Wolfe

    Taker of Lives by Leslie Wolfe

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A GRIPPING CRIME THRILLER How can you outrun a killer you won’t see coming?They are the most violent, blood-thirsty, and vicious of criminals. While hunting for them, FBI profilers call these monsters UNSUBS, short for unknown subjects of ongoing investigations...
  • A Cold Killing by Anna Smith

    A Cold Killing by Anna Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Crime reporter Rosie Gilmour returns from hiding in Bosnia to a story of a brutal execution. University lecturer Tom Mahoney was shot at point blank range, the killing has all the signs of a hit. But who would want to kill a retired lecturer? Rosie throws herself into the investigation, looking for a witness that has gone missing. A witness that might hold the key to the story...
  • Lady's Well by L.J. Ross

    Lady's Well by L.J. Ross

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE WATER...When the ancient waters of Lady’s Well in the rural village of Holystone begin to run red, it seems to be a nasty Hallowe’en prank and nothing more. But things take a sinister turn when the entire village suffers severe poisoning, and one old man turns up dead...
  • Unsolved by James Patterson

    Unsolved by James Patterson

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Avid fans of million-copy bestselling author Robert Bryndza's serial killer thrillers following the cases of Detective Erika Foster will be thrilled by the prospect of Unsolved, which also features a determined female lead as she pieces together clues to bring down an elusive serial...
  • Before Evil by Alex Kava

    Before Evil by Alex Kava

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Special Agent Maggie O'Dell doesn't need to set foot at a crime scene to catch a serial killer. From her small Quantico office, she's profiled criminals using just Polaroids and faxed copies of evidence from homicide detectives across the country.Then comes Albert Stucky . . . and nothing will ever be the same...
  • Once Cold by Blake Pierce

    Once Cold by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    There is one cold case that has plagued Special Agent Riley Paige for her entire career, dwelling at the corners of her consciousness, forcing her to return to it again and again. The only case she has never solved, she has finally put it out of her mind. Until she gets a call from the murdered victim’s mother...
  • Once Stalked by Blake Pierce

    Once Stalked by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When two soldiers are found dead on a huge military base in California, apparently killed by gunshot, military investigators are stumped. Who is killing its soldiers, inside the secure confines of its own base?And why?The FBI is called in, and Riley Paige is summoned to take the lead...
  • Once Forsaken by Blake Pierce

    Once Forsaken by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Special Agent Riley Paige finally decides to take a well-needed rest from the FBI, a request for help comes from the most unlikely source: her own daughter. April’s best friend is devastated by the death of her sister, a freshman at Georgetown. Worse, she is convinced that the suicide was staged, and that her sister was murdered at the hands of a serial killer...
  • The Creek Killer by Dominika Best

    The Creek Killer by Dominika Best

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    How would you prove you weren’t dead? Jane Smith has been running from danger her whole life. That danger followed her everywhere, leaving a trail of death in its wake. When the mummified bodies of six girls are discovered in the wetlands of Los Angeles, Jane is surprised to learn one of the dead girls bears her name—the name she abandoned twenty-five years ago to go into hiding...
  • Last Lullaby by Carol Wyer

    Last Lullaby by Carol Wyer

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Charlotte’s baby is safe. But is she? When the body of young mother Charlotte Brannon is discovered by her husband in their immaculate, silver bedroom, Detective Natalie Ward is first on the scene. The killer has left a chilling calling card: the word ‘Why?’ written on the wall in blood...
  • Darkness First by James Hayman

    Darkness First by James Hayman

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The mutilated body of a young woman. The town doctor lying comatose in the road. A hundred and fifty tablets of Canadian OxyContin. This is the havoc that a merciless killer has wreaked on a sleepy Maine seaport.As detectives Maggie Savage and Michael McCabe investigate, they realize the man they are after does not exist. Nobody knows his real name. Nobody has seen his face...
  • The Dare by Carol Wyer

    The Dare by Carol Wyer

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Jane’s daughter is a good girl. What is she hiding? When thirteen-year-old Savannah Hopkins doesn’t come straight home from school, as she always does, her mother Jane immediately raises the alarm. Leading the investigation is Detective Natalie Ward whose daughter Leigh is the same age as Savannah...
  • The Taken Ones by Jess Lourey

    The Taken Ones by Jess Lourey

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Two girls vanished. A woman buried alive. Between two crimes—decades of secrets yet to be unearthed in a pulse-pounding novel by the Edgar Award–nominated author of Unspeakable Things.Summer 1980: With no fear of a local superstition, three girls go into a Minnesota wood. Only one comes out. Dead silent. Memory gone. No trace of her friends. The mystery of the Taken Ones captures the nation...
  • What She Left by H.K. Christie

    What She Left by H.K. Christie

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    She’s on her last chance. When the bodies start piling up, she’ll need to save more than her job.Martina Monroe is a single bad day away from losing it all. Stuck catching insurance fraudsters and cheating spouses due to a DUI, the despondent PI yearns to return to more fulfilling gigs...
  • Close Killer by Stacy M. Jones

    Close Killer by Stacy M. Jones

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A killer is targeting American tourists in Edinburgh, Scotland. Three dead solo female travelers were found strangled in the closes off the Royal Mile. FBI Agents Kate Walsh and Declan James are sent to investigate at the height of the Christmas tourist season. Police Scotland is without any leads. No one believes these crimes are the killer’s first – and they aren’t...
  • We Forget Nothing by D.D. Black

    We Forget Nothing by D.D. Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the fragments of a failing mind lie clues to a forgotten evil. Can FBI Task Force S.W.O.R.D. uncover the truth before it disappears forever?In the hushed corridors of the Evergreen Memory Care facility, a young nurse's obsession with true crime leads to a chilling discovery. An elderly patient—his memories fading—speaks of unthinkable acts...
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  • The Magpie by Marrisse Whittaker

    The Magpie by Marrisse Whittaker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A killer who runs rings around the police. A detective who is out of control. Meet DSI Wilde. Wilde by name. Wild by nature. DSI Billie Wilde is on a mission to catch the killer responsible for a horrific showcase of murders, in order to prove that she’s still at the top of her game...
  • The Fuse by Stacy M. Jones

    The Fuse by Stacy M. Jones

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    FBI Agents Kate Walsh and Declan James are on the hunt for a serial bomber targeting secret societies at Ivy League schools and time is running out. What at first appears to be a freak accident soon spirals into a terrifying situation as college students are killed by deadly explosions in the middle of the night. Their wealth and privilege cannot protect them and may be making them a target...
  • An Eye for an Eye by Carol Wyer

    An Eye for an Eye by Carol Wyer

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A killer running rings around the police. A detective spiralling out of control.DI Kate Young is on leave. She’s the force’s best detective, but her bosses know she’s under pressure, on medication and overcoming trauma. So after her bad judgement call leads to a narrowly averted public disaster, they’re sure all she needs is a rest...
  • 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...
  • The Girl Hunter by Leslie Wolfe

    The Girl Hunter by Leslie Wolfe

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    His pale skin is covered with the dirt I threw over his still-warm body. His hands, marked by a struggle that ended in blood, rest over his chest. His once vibrant, loving eyes are now forever closed. I am the one who consigned my husband to the damp earth of the Glades.Seven months ago, I lost everything.I used to have it all. A successful career in television...
  • The Pier by Matt Brolly

    The Pier by Matt Brolly

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    DI Blackwell will do anything to keep her niece safe. And the bomber knows it.When a local school is the target of a bomb threat, DI Louise Blackwell finds herself embroiled in her most personal case to date...
  • You Are Next by Jamie Millen

    You Are Next by Jamie Millen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A fatal attack shatters Claire Wolfe ’s dreams of a new life in Quantico. A twisted serial killer is hunting FBI agents and has her unlucky victims begging for death.With her fiancé , Special Agent Robert Cline, and forensic profiler , Dr. Sally Fleischer, Claire makes a startling discovery. This ruthless murderess has a deadly secret …and more names on her list.But Claire’s warnings go unheeded...
  • Once Trapped by Blake Pierce

    Once Trapped by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In this dark psychological thriller, a wealthy husband turns up dead, and his abused wife is charged with the crime. She calls Riley for help—and yet it seems clear she is guilty...
  • Once Buried by Blake Pierce

    Once Buried by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A serial killer is killing victims with rapid speed, and in each crime scene, he leaves an unusual signature: an hourglass. Its sand is designed to fall for 24 hours—and when its empty, a new victim appears. Amidst intense media pressure, and in a frantic race against time, FBI Special Agent Riley Paige is summoned, with her new partner, to crack the case...
  • Girl, Expendable by Blake Pierce

    Girl, Expendable by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    FBI Agent Ella Dark has studied serial killers from the time she could read, devastated by the murder of her own sister, and has gained an encyclopedic knowledge of murderers. A murderer obsessed with past serial killers seems to be copycatting their work—but with one curious difference...
  • Ten Little Girls by Willow Rose

    Ten Little Girls by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Every Mother's Worst Fear! Imagine waiting for the school bus, waiting for your daughter to come home, looking forward to spending the afternoon with her, but as the bus stops and the children start to come out, your daughter isn't there. Ten little girls go missing on the same day in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Ten little girls all from the same school...
  • Il était deux fois by Franck Thilliez

    Il était deux fois by Franck Thilliez

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    En 2008, Julie, dix-sept ans, disparaît en ne laissant comme trace que son vélo posé contre un arbre. Le drame agite Sagas, petite ville au cœur des montagnes, et percute de plein fouet le père de la jeune fille, le lieutenant de gendarmerie Gabriel Moscato. Ce dernier se lance alors dans une enquête aussi désespérée qu'effrénée.Jusqu'à ce jour où ses pas le mènent à l'hôtel de la Falaise..
  • Once Pined by Blake Pierce

    Once Pined by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ONCE PINED is book #6 in the bestselling Riley Paige mystery series, which begins with the #1 bestseller ONCE GONE (Book #1)-a free download with over 700 five star reviews!Men and women are turning up dead in the outskirts of Seattle, poisoned by a mysterious chemical...
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