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  • The Blue Pool Murders by Rachel McLean

    The Blue Pool Murders by Rachel McLean

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    DCI Lesley Clarke is a busy woman.She's dealing with the reopened investigation into DCI Mackie's death, supporting DS Dennis Frampton through recurring mental health problems, and making plans for her own future.And then prominent crime boss Arthur Kelvin is found dead at a local beauty spot...
  • Tooth for Tooth by J.K. Franko

    Tooth for Tooth by J.K. Franko

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What would YOU do?What would you do if you got away with murder? Would you stop there? Could you?Susie and Roy thought that they committed the perfect crime.Their planning was meticulous. Their execution was flawless. But, there is always a loose end, isn’t there? Always a singing bone.Now, while enemies multiply and suspicions abound, their perfect world begins to crumble...
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    drama  suspense  contemporary  epic  fiction  mystery
  • The Stepchild by Nicole Trope

    The Stepchild by Nicole Trope

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Three-year-old Millie Everleigh disappears on a crisp winter’s day, and nothing is as it seems…It’s the phone call every mother dreads.I’m climbing into the car after a trip to the grocery store. As the engine starts, my phone rings. It’s my stepdaughter, Shelby, who is babysitting my three-year-old little girl Millie.‘I only went upstairs for a second,’ she says through her sobs. ‘She’s gone...
  • Cougar Boss by Kerry Belchambers

    Cougar Boss by Kerry Belchambers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Olivia Williams is a hardworking part-time student who is about to get kicked out of her studio apartment for barely making enough to cover her rent and bills. A last-minute interview lands her a challenging but fruitful job at Amelia Gallagher's mansion and immediately, intimidation sets in...
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    lgbtq  wlw  romantic-love  drama  suspense  mystery  age-gap  grumpy-mc
  • Nightingale by Andrea Bramhall

    Nightingale by Andrea Bramhall

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Charlie Porter meets Hazaar Alim her first year of university, she’s instantly smitten. Hazaar has it all: beauty, talent, and brains. What she doesn’t realize is that Hazaar’s future has already been decided, and Charlie has no place in it.Hazaar desperately wants to break with her traditions and stay with Charlie, but when forced to choose, she chooses her family over love...
    Categorized as:
    dark  drama  family  lgbtq  suspense  wlw  adult  angst
  • Rainey Nights by R.E. Bradshaw

    Rainey Nights by R.E. Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Women are missing and dying in the Triangle area of North Carolina. One woman holds the key to why. With the conclusion of the Y-Man murders nine months ago and her resignation from the FBI, Former Special Agent and Behavioral Analyst, Rainey Bell has finally found peace and contentment she never thought possible, even if she remains a bit paranoid...
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    lgbtq  romantic-love  suspense  wlw  thriller  adult  audiobook  book
  • A Different Kind of Gone by Catherine Ryan Hyde

    A Different Kind of Gone by Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The truth behind a teenage girl’s disappearance becomes something to conceal in a gripping novel about justice, lies, and impossible choices by New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde.When nineteen-year-old Jill Moss goes missing near the Utah-Arizona border, everyone has an opinion. Only Norma Gallagher, a search and rescue volunteer, knows the real story...
  • Frozen Statues by L.E. Fraser

    Frozen Statues by L.E. Fraser

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A gripping psychological thriller with shocking twistsIn the bitter cold of a Canadian winter, seven university freshmen vanish without a trace. Soon afterwards, police discover a ghastly crime scene—the victim is frozen solid and his eyes are missing, replaced with black stones. A week later, they find a second frozen statue at an identical crime scene...
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    suspense  thriller  wlw  family  romantic-love  fiction  mystery  crime
  • The Baltimore Boys by Joël Dicker

    The Baltimore Boys by Joël Dicker

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Swiss Sensation Joel Dicker's compulsive follow-up to the phenomenally bestselling The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair...
  • Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty

    Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate? Aside from a delay, there will be no problems. The flight will be smooth, it will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off. But almost all of them will be forever changed. Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight, something extraordinary happens. People learn how and when they are going to die...
  • Discord by Drethi Anis

    Discord by Drethi Anis

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Brandon: The unthinkable happened; a possibility I had been avoiding my entire life. I should give her up but leaving her behind was no longer an option. Mia: Brandon Cooper was bad news; plain and simple. I should have been scared straight and sworn off my previous obsession. Instead, I turned to him during a vulnerable moment, only to spark his sinful ways all over again...
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    dark  family  contemporary  fiction  gothic  mystery
  • The Devils' Cradle by Darcy Daniel

    The Devils' Cradle by Darcy Daniel

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    On Australia’s island state, more than one species of Tasmanian Devil exists... Beneath the surface of Nina Holt’s perfect marriage lurks a life of terror inflicted upon her by her politically powerful husband Michael and his brother Greg, a sadistic detective. For over a decade they have managed to keep Nina imprisoned, using her to satisfy their every whim...
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    dark  drama  suspense  thriller  abuse  adult  book  contemporary
  • The Love of my Life by Rosie Walsh, Imogen Church

    The Love of my Life by Rosie Walsh, Imogen Church

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghosted comes a love story wrapped in a mystery: an up-all-night page-turner with a dark secret at its coreI have held you at night for ten years and I didn't even know your name. We have a child together. A dog, a house. Who are you?Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she’d do anything for them...
  • Mad Girl by A.A. Dark, Alaska Angelini

    Mad Girl by A.A. Dark, Alaska Angelini

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    **CAUTION-------PITCH BLACK READ** My mother was the Madison Ridge Killer … and I helped her. At nine, I was given a new start—a new life. My adoptive parents did everything they could to help me forget my past, and for a while, they succeeded. But I was never normal. I never truly forgot all I saw or did.Now, twenty years later, I work in the billing department for a small city newspaper...
    Categorized as:
    dark  suspense  wlw  drama  lgbtq  romantic-love  horror  abuse
  • Things We Never Say by Caitlin Weaver

    Things We Never Say by Caitlin Weaver

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Three mothers. Three secrets. One devastating scandal.Anna has always been the quiet one, the soft-spoken mother who kept her head down and her secrets close. But when she's thrown together with Maggie and Rhea on a PTA project, they begin to bond over wine and gossip, and slowly share the truths behind their picture-perfect lives...
  • Exquisite by Sarah Stovell

    Exquisite by Sarah Stovell

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Bo Luxton has it all - a loving family, a beautiful home in the Lake District, and a clutch of bestselling books to her name. Enter Alice Dark, an aspiring writer who is drifting through life, with a series of dead-end jobs and a freeloading boyfriend. When they meet at a writers' retreat, the chemistry is instant, and a sinister relationship develops ..
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    drama  family  lgbtq  suspense  wlw  thriller  adult  audiobook
  • Among the Lesser Gods by Margo Catts

    Among the Lesser Gods by Margo Catts

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    “Tragedy and blessing. Leave them alone long enough, and it gets real hard to tell them apart.”Elena Alvarez is living a cursed life. From the deadly fire she accidentally set as a child, to her mother’s abandonment, and now to an unwanted pregnancy, she knows better than most that small actions can have terrible consequences...
  • The Halo Effect by Anne D. LeClaire

    The Halo Effect by Anne D. LeClaire

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In this tour de force, a father, shaken by tragedy, tries to avenge his daughter’s murder—and restore his family’s shattered life. It was supposed to be a typical October evening for renowned portrait artist Will Light...
  • You Let Me In by Lucy Clarke

    You Let Me In by Lucy Clarke

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Spine-tingling, chilling, and utterly compulsive, YOU LET ME IN is the stunning new novel from Richard & Judy Book Club author, Lucy Clarke Nothing has felt right since Elle rented out her house . . . I’M IN YOUR HOUSE There’s a new coldness. A shift in the atmosphere. The prickling feeling that someone is watching her every move from the shadows...
  • Guarding her Gangster Queen by Persephone Black

    Guarding her Gangster Queen by Persephone Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I fled the Colombo Family as a widow. But I’m coming back as their Queen.I’m done running.And I’m done having Nik Kusek sacrifice everything for my sake. She’s protected me, killed for me, even turned against her own people…Now it’s my turn to step up. I’m ready to claim what belongs to the casino, the Family, and the truth about who really killed the old Don.The problem? Everyone wants me dead...
    Categorized as:
    wlw  dark  lgbtq  suspense  romance  contemporary  mystery  lesbian-mc
  • Guarding her Gangster Girl by Persephone Black

    Guarding her Gangster Girl by Persephone Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The last thing I thought I'd be doing in Vegas was protecting some wannabe gangster girl.But as a rising star in the Consortium, an elite arms-trading organization, I do what I'm told. That's how I find myself gifted as a bodyguard to Brie "Breezy" Colombo, widow of a powerful Mafia Don, after someone takes a shot at her...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  wlw  dark  suspense  contemporary  mystery  steamy  romance
  • Her Perfect Family by Teresa Driscoll

    Her Perfect Family by Teresa Driscoll

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    A gripping psychological thriller from the bestselling author of I Am Watching You. The perfect family? Or the perfect lie?It’s their daughter’s graduation and Rachel and Ed Hartley are expecting it to be one of their family’s happiest days...
  • One Breath Away by Heather Gudenkauf

    One Breath Away by Heather Gudenkauf

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    In her most emotionally charged novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf explores the unspoken events that shape a community, the ties between parents and their children and how the fragile normalcy of our everyday life is so easily shattered.In the midst of a sudden spring snowstorm, an unknown man armed with a gun walks into an elementary school classroom...
  • I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is a Vegan Terrorist: 6 Deadly Social Media Influencers by Dr. Harper

    I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is a Vegan Terrorist: 6 Deadly Social Media Influencers by Dr. Harper

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Explosive Conclusion to the Dr. Harper Therapy seriesI'm a therapist, and I've worked with the wildest internet celebrities… A vigilante who treated humans as factory farm animals. A germaphobe who warned of the next major plague. My own best friend. A rapist who got cancelled online — and in real life. A psychic medium with a disturbing prediction...
  • I Made a Mistake by Jane Corry

    I Made a Mistake by Jane Corry

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    IT STARTED WITH A KISS... AND ENDED WITH MURDER. The darkly addictive new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of I Looked Away, Blood Sisters and My Husband's Wife. --------------------------------------------------------In Poppy Page's mind, there are two types of women in this world: those who are faithful to their husbands, and those who are not...
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    drama  family  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • No Hiding in Boise by Kim Hooper

    No Hiding in Boise by Kim Hooper

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Angie is awakened by a midnight call from an officer with the Boise Police Department, she thinks there must be a misunderstanding. The officer tells her that her husband was involved in a shooting at a local bar, but how can that be possible when her husband is sleeping right next to her? Except when she turns to wake him, he isn’t there...
  • We Are Young by Cat Clarke

    We Are Young by Cat Clarke

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    On the same night Evan's mother marries local radio DJ 'Breakfast Tim', Evan's brand-new step-brother Lewis is found unconscious and terribly injured, the only survivor of a horrific car crash.A media furore erupts, with the finger of blame pointed firmly at stoner, loner Lewis. Everyone else seems to think the crash was drugs-related, but Evan isn't buying it...
  • Every Moment Since: A Novel by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen

    Every Moment Since: A Novel by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A small Southern town. An ordinary Saturday night. A little boy disappears without a trace.Everyone in Wynotte, North Carolina, knows the name Davy Malcor. Knows the video clip of him juggling four balls, "All at the very same time!" Knows the Marty McFly jacket his mother made for his birthday that he wore proudly, and often...
  • Remember Me by Romily Bernard

    Remember Me by Romily Bernard

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the sequel to Find Me, Wick Tate, sarcastic teen hacker, is back and once again dealing with criminals and corrupt cops…and a brooding new love interest. Will Wick persevere when some secrets refuse to stay hidden?Wick had thought her troubles were over.But she should’ve known better...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  realistic  suspense  thriller  book  contemporary  crime
  • Diamonds in the Rough by Michelle Madow

    Diamonds in the Rough by Michelle Madow

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    All-access doesn't mean no problems. The three Diamond sisters survived the summer in style after coming to live with their long-lost billionaire father. But making a place for themselves at their exclusive new Las Vegas private school is throwing them any number of gold-plated curves...
  • The Black Queen by Jumata Emill

    The Black Queen by Jumata Emill

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Nova Albright was going to be the first Black homecoming queen at Lovett High--but now she's dead. Murdered on coronation night. Fans of One of Us Is Lying and The Other Black Girl will love this unputdownable thriller.Nova Albright, the first Black homecoming queen at Lovett High, is dead...
  • Second Chances by Christine Kersey

    Second Chances by Christine Kersey

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Second Chances is the sequel to Over You . This book descriptions contains spoilers for Over You . After surviving an attack by a madman, Jessica's terror turns to joy when Kyle admits that he never stopped loving her after breaking their engagement five years before...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  realistic  suspense  adult  angst  book  contemporary
  • Negeri Para Peri by Avianti Armand

    Negeri Para Peri by Avianti Armand

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Negeri Para Peri adalah kumpulan cerpen tergelap yang pernah saya jumpai. Mata dan darah, yang menjadi citra citra dominan, berleburan dengan hitamnya warna dasar cerpen, membangun kontras kontras penuh kekerasan...
    Categorized as:
    dark  drama  family  adult  anthologies  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • Starstruck by Lesley Davis

    Starstruck by Lesley Davis

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Actress Cassidy “C.J.” Hayes is famous for her role in The Alchemidens , a fantasy show where she plays a kick-ass heroine. Her rising success has brought her quickly under Hollywood’s glaring spotlight. It also gained her the unwelcome attentions of an obsessive fan who wants more than just an autograph. Aiden Darrow is both a well-respected screenwriter and a writer of lesbian romances...
    Categorized as:
    drama  lgbtq  suspense  wlw  adult  book  contemporary  crime
  • Speak of the Devil by Britney King

    Speak of the Devil by Britney King

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the upscale suburb where Vanessa Bolton lives, she's your average suburban housewife.She does her grocery shopping on Tuesday, Thursday mornings are reserved for Pilates, Sundays for church. At home, she's an impeccable housekeeper and a mother with a mediocre track record...
  • The Ninth Session by Deborah Serani

    The Ninth Session by Deborah Serani

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller that brings a unique mix of Psychotherapy, American Sign Language and Coda Culture. Just when you think you have it figured out, think again! Dr. Alicia Reese takes on a new patient. Lucas Ferro suffers with crippling anxiety, and as sessions progress, he begins to share the reasons why he's struggling...
  • Whisper Me This by Kerry Anne King

    Whisper Me This by Kerry Anne King

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Single mother Maisey Addington has always fallen short of her own mother’s expectations—never married, a bit adrift, wasting her high IQ on dead-end jobs. The only thing Maisey’s sure she’s gotten right is her relationship with her twelve-year-old daughter, Elle…until a phone call blows apart the precarious balance of their lives...
  • Summer's Child by Diane Chamberlain

    Summer's Child by Diane Chamberlain

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Publishers Weekly:Twenty years after 11-year-old Daria Cato found a baby abandoned on a beach in Kill Devil Hills, N.C., she is still very much a part of the child's life. Daria's parent's had adopted the infant, but now they are dead and she has accepted responsibility for Shelly--who has grown into a beautiful, slightly handicapped young woman...
  • Working Fire by Emily Bleeker

    Working Fire by Emily Bleeker

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    From the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of When I’m Gone comes a compelling novel of a bond between sisters, tested by tragedy…Ellie Brown thought she’d finally escaped her stifling hometown of Broadlands, Illinois; med school was supposed to be her ticket out...
  • Learning to Breathe by Karen White

    Learning to Breathe by Karen White

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Brenna O'Brien doesn't believe in happy endings. Not since the love of her life, Pierce McGovern, left her years ago without a word. Now, she leads a quiet life surrounded by her four matchmaking sisters, running a historic movie theater and collecting old wartime letters. But she leaves the letters unopened, preferring to imagine their possibilities rather than risk being disappointed...
  • Missing by Susan Lewis

    Missing by Susan Lewis

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It's an early autumn day like any other as Miles Avery drives his wife, Jacqueline, to the station. There's a smattering of rain in the air, the traffic is in its usual snarl, and the radio's churning out the latest news. Nothing remarkable crops up in conversation, nor do either of them appear anything other than their normal selves. At the station, Miles draws up just past the taxi rank...
  • Last One to Lie by J.M. Winchester

    Last One to Lie by J.M. Winchester

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Moving to a new city was supposed to be a fresh start for her family. Now it’s a nightmare. Her little girl was supposed to be at day care when Kelsey arrived to pick her up. But they have no record of her daughter ever being there. And to make matters worse, her husband is missing too—he won’t pick up his phone, and the school he supposedly works at says he never accepted their job offer...
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    dark  drama  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • The Kill Club by Wendy Heard

    The Kill Club by Wendy Heard

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jazz will stop at nothing to save her brother.Their foster mother, Carol, has always been fanatical, but with Jazz grown up and out of the house, Carol takes a dangerous turn that threatens thirteen-year-old Joaquin’s life. Over and over, child services fails to intervene, and Joaquin is running out of time.Then Jazz gets a blocked call from someone offering a solution...
    Categorized as:
    dark  family  lgbtq  realistic  romantic-love  suspense  wlw  thriller
  • Night by Night by Jack Jordan

    Night by Night by Jack Jordan

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    'Wow, it grabs you in the gut from the first few pages and doesn't let go!' Jo Spain, author of The Confession_________________________If you're reading this, I'm dead.Rejected by her family and plagued by insomnia, Rose Shaw is on the brink. But one dark evening she collides with a man running through the streets, who quickly vanishes...
  • Under This Red Rock by Mindy McGinnis

    Under This Red Rock by Mindy McGinnis

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Neely’s monsters don’t always follow her rules, so when the little girl under her bed, the man in her closet, and the disembodied voice that shadows her every move become louder, she knows she’s in trouble.With a history of mental illness in her family, and the suicide of her older brother heavy on her mind, Neely takes a job as a tour guide in the one place her monsters can’t follow—the caverns...
  • Silent Victim by Caroline Mitchell

    Silent Victim by Caroline Mitchell

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Emma’s darkest secrets are buried in the past. But the truth can’t stay hidden for long.Emma is a loving wife, a devoted mother…and an involuntary killer. For years she’s been hiding the dead body of the teacher who seduced her as a teen.It’s a secret that might have stayed buried if only her life had been less perfect...
    Categorized as:
    dark  drama  family  realistic  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook
  • The Marriage by K.L. Slater

    The Marriage by K.L. Slater

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Ten years ago he killed my son. Today I married him.Ten years ago my darling son Jesse was murdered and our perfect family was destroyed. My strong, handsome boy, so full of life, became a memory, a photo I carried with me everywhere.But today I’m finally close to finding happiness again. My ash-blonde hair has been curled into ringlets. Carefully placed white flowers frame my delicate features...
  • Deceptive Innocence: Part 2 by Kyra Davis

    Deceptive Innocence: Part 2 by Kyra Davis

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Part 2 of Deceptive Innocence—the first book in the sensual, thrilling Pure Sin trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Kyra Davis (Just One Night). A beautiful young woman is out for revenge—only to find the man she’s targeting has secrets as dangerous as her own, and a passion she cannot resist...
    Categorized as:
    dark  drama  family  realistic  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Southport Secret by Sage Parker

    The Southport Secret by Sage Parker

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
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  • Allusion by Andi Hyldahl

    Allusion by Andi Hyldahl

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Every year, an anonymous gift is left on eighteen-year-old Lucy's porch. It’s the only gift she receives all year, and it’s exactly what she needs. This year’s gift exposes hidden clues, untangling the undisclosed fates of her parents. Along the way, she finds Toph, a college athlete who’s easy on the eyes and deems to be more useful than suspected...
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