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  • Careful little eyes: An addictive, horrifying serial killer thriller by Willow Rose

    Careful little eyes: An addictive, horrifying serial killer thriller by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent edition hereIan Marks is terrified of ghosts. Especially of the one that has just moved into his shed in the back yard of his house in New Orleans. Everyone else thinks he is just a drunk, but when his girlfriend is killed at night by a man with an axe, he knows he was right to be afraid...
  • St. Benet's by David Blake

    St. Benet's by David Blake

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A girl thrown from a church tower, a man sacrificed to Satan, and a priest murdered at the hands of the Devil. When the body of an old man is found lying in the ruins of St Benet’s Abbey, his throat cut, a knife resting in his open hand, DI John Tanner and DC Jenny Evans are given no choice but to accept a ruling of death by misadventure...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  female-mc  fiction
  • You Can't Hide by Willow Rose

    You Can't Hide by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent edition hereA new reign of terror has fallen on the unsuspecting residents of Cocoa Beach. They think their worst nightmare is the environmental catastrophe causing the thousands of dead fish in the river until the first body turns up among the dead fish.Young girls are being kidnapped.Behind these kidnappings stands a ghostly person who calls himself the Boxer...
  • You Can Run by Willow Rose

    You Can Run by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It's not the kind of thing you'd expect to happen on an ordinary Saturday morning. Her kids are arguing and her husband is still sleeping. Lisa is tired and wonders why her husband keeps working late...
  • Spirit Caller by H.P. Bayne

    Spirit Caller by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One night. One last enemy. One chance to stop him forever. It’s all come down to this. More than two years after Sully took desperate measures to escape his enemies, he finds himself headed for an inevitable showdown with the most dangerous of them. Years of murder and deceit are catching up to Lowell, and the ghosts of those he killed are not about to rest until they’ve watched him fall...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  ghosts  horror  mystery
  • Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not by Dean Koontz

    Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Instinct and violent visions compel Nameless to embark on an unplanned mission to help a desperate mother and daughter on the run. Why is this rescue so strangely familiar to a man with no memories?Evie and her daughter, Asteria, are fleeing an abusive cult when they meet a stranger in an abandoned Arizona shopping mall. Fate hasn’t set Nameless on their trail...
  • Shattered / Whispers / Watchers by Dean Koontz

    Shattered / Whispers / Watchers by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Three more electrifying thrillers by the new king of the genre. The New York Times #1 bestselling author's terrifying masterpieces: Watchers (his personal favorite), Whispers and Shattered, now for the first time in one hardcover edition...
  • Gentle Is the Angel of Death by Dean Koontz

    Gentle Is the Angel of Death by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    To some he’s a medical genius. To others, a twisted angel of mercy with a necessary solution to what he sees as an ugly dilemma. Only one man can help Dr. Death face the evil of his ways.Henry Siphuncle has a selfless mission: releasing his patients forever from their distasteful imperfections. It’s for their own good. And the world’s. Even Henry’s own wife didn’t survive his disgust...
  • The Pendergast Files:  (Relic, Reliquary) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    The Pendergast Files: (Relic, Reliquary) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This discounted ebundle includes: Relic, ReliquaryThe books that introduced the world to Douglas Preston’s and Lincoln Child’s FBI Special Agent Pendergast. Hidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by those who walk the streets above. There lies the ultimate secret of the Museum Beat...
  • The Forgotten Cottage by Helen Phifer

    The Forgotten Cottage by Helen Phifer

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Forgotten Cottage, the eagerly-awaited and chillingly terrifying new book in Helen Phifer’s best-selling ‘Annie Graham’ series. Annie Graham has fought her demons, and is ready to leave them behind. Her new cottage seems like the new start she’s craved: quiet and quaint, it’s empty of the memories which have haunted her for so long...
  • The Dark at the End by F. Paul Wilson

    The Dark at the End by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Bound by his promise to Glaeken, Jack has refrained from making any direct moves against Rasalom.  But things have changed so there's nothing holding Jack in check any longer.  Other changes are occurring as well.  Jack is healing at an accelerated rate--much like Glaeken did when he was immortal. This can only mean that Glaeken's time is almost up and when he dies, Jack takes his place...
  • The Mercy of Snakes by Dean Koontz

    The Mercy of Snakes by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A series of suspicious deaths in a retirement home draws Nameless into the confidence of a terrified former resident—and into the dark heart of a shocking conspiracy. In part five of the Nameless series, it’s time to hunt.Oakshore Park is Michigan’s most exclusive assisted-living community. Presided over by two killer angels of mercy, it’s also the go-to facility in assisted dying...
  • The Death Card by Dianne Harman

    The Death Card by Dianne Harman

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Seth Williams, the bumbling and incompetent police chief of Red Cedar, calls Liz Lucas and asks her to help him solve the murder of his deputy, Leroy. He’s worried he might be a suspect because Leroy was going to run against him in the upcoming police chief election...
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    crime  organized-crime  suspense  adult  animals  audiobook  book  cozy
  • The Victim by Jonas Saul

    The Victim by Jonas Saul

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In Book Five, Sarah Roberts is The Victim.Sarah is killed in a horrible car accident, the DNA found in the car verified as hers. But the government men at the Sophia Project have faked her death to keep her to themselves.After her funeral, she shows up in the food court of a busy mall where a violent exchange takes place. Things go wrong fast...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  paranormal
  • Dark City by F. Paul Wilson

    Dark City by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Dark City is the second of a new prequel trilogy, Repairman Jack: The Early Years by F. Paul Wilson.It's February 1992. Desert Storm is raging in Iraq but twenty-two-year-old Jack has more pressing matters at home. His favorite bar, The Spot, is about to be sold out from under Julio, Jack's friend...
  • Easy as One Two Three by Willow Rose

    Easy as One Two Three by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent editionMads and Signe are very young when they get married. They are ready to take on the world, starting with their honeymoon to Egypt. Two years later, Mads is in a coma, and Signe has vanished from the face of the earth.Meanwhile, Emma Frost is looking for her daughter whom the police believe is guilty of the hit and run that left Mads Schou brain dead...
  • Fatal Error by F. Paul Wilson

    Fatal Error by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "Repairman Jack is one of my favorite characters--I'm full of happy anticipation every time I hold a new RJ novel in my hands."--Charlaine Harris, creator of "True Blood" The End of the World is at hand!Munir Habib's life has become a nightmare. His tormentor has warned Munir not to report the kidnapping of his family, or else they will pay a terrible price...
  • Bloodline by F. Paul Wilson

    Bloodline by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Jack has been on hiatus since the events in Harbingers. With his lover Gia's encouragement he dips a toe back into the fix-it pool. Christy Pickering's eighteen-year-old daughter is dating Jerry Bethlehem, a man twice her age. Christy sensed something shady and sinister about him, so she hired a private investigator to look into his past. But the PI isn't returning her calls...
  • The River by Noelle W. Ihli

    The River by Noelle W. Ihli

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A short post-script to Ask for Andrea by Noelle W. Ihli. Learn what happened to April...
  • The Reaper's Game by Layton Green

    The Reaper's Game by Layton Green

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Is it murder from beyond the grave . . . or the final ruse of a twisted serial killer?Three years ago, a deranged murderer dubbed the Halloween Killer butchered half a dozen people in New Orleans. He was caught and sentenced to die. Just before his execution, the Halloween Killer vowed to take revenge on the district attorney who put him behind bars...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  investigator  mystery
  • Touching the Dead by Wendy Cartmell

    Touching the Dead by Wendy Cartmell

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A mummified body washed up on a beach near Chichester.A tormented detective cursed with a gift she didn't want. When the autopsy reveals the victim's heart was torn from her body, Detective Inspector Jo Wolfe and her team wonder if someone is continuing the work of Anubis, the Egyptian God of Death.  With the body count rising, Jo must touch the dead, to help her solve the case...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  ghosts  horror  mystery
  • Good Neighbors by Russell C. Connor

    Good Neighbors by Russell C. Connor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Winner of the Silver Medal for Horror in the 2016 Independent Publishing Awards HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS? Elliot Jefferson moved to the isolated Estates of North Hills to work on his sobriety and avoid other people at all costs. But when the electric transformers around the complex begin emitting a horrible buzz that he calls ‘the Squall,’ neither is easy to achieve...
  • The Traveller and Other Stories by Stuart Neville

    The Traveller and Other Stories by Stuart Neville

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A darkly glittering collection of Northern Irish noir by Stuart Neville, Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winning author Since his debut novel, the modern classic The Ghosts of Belfast, was published a decade ago, Stuart Neville has published eight other critically acclaimed novels and achieved international recognition as one of crime fiction’s great living writers...
  • The Artifact by Brian Hill

    The Artifact by Brian Hill

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A 4000-year-old Egyptian artifact, pulled from a mythical pharaoh’s tomb.A British aristocrat with mysterious intentions.A young thief without a past.A shady spiritualist in hiding.A Native American private investigator, trying to keep his business afloat.Who is the victim?Who is the criminal?Who is the monster?It’s 1984, and Rev Parata is a hard-nosed, Native-American P.I...
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    crime  thriller  suspense  horror  paranormal  myths  mystery  fiction
  • Within the Shadows by Brandon Massey

    Within the Shadows by Brandon Massey

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Be Careful What You Wish For At just thirty-one, Andrew Wilson has it all: close friends, a great house in an Atlanta suburb, and a successful career as a mystery writer. Only one thing is missing—a special person to share it with. Then one day he meets someone new, a woman who seems almost too good to be true...
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    crime  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Deadly Animals by Marie Tierney

    Deadly Animals by Marie Tierney

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Finding a dead body is not normal. But Ava is not a normal teenager. In this chilling debut mystery, only the obsessive spirit of youth can save a sleepy town from the savagery within.Fourteen-year-old Ava Bonney is unlike other children. She has an obsessive interest in the rate at which dead animals decompose...
  • What Lies Below by Barbara Taylor Sissel

    What Lies Below by Barbara Taylor Sissel

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Everyone has nightmares. One woman is living hers… Gilly O’Connell’s nightmares aren’t just bad dreams; they’re glimpses of terrifying realities to come. Gilly has spent her entire life trying to suppress the foreboding visions. So when a dismissed premonition leads to her husband’s murder, she buries the guilt and pain of the unsolved crime in the only way she knows how—she runs from it...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  family  female-mc
  • The Neighbor by London Clarke

    The Neighbor by London Clarke

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Claire Vogel is a recently divorced mother of four girls and a successful counselor living in a planned and prestigious community. She knows all her neighbors, and they know her. But Claire has a secret. To cope with hidden, deep-rooted pain, she often participates in risky, reckless behavior...
  • Ashes to Ashes:  The Dragon's Flame by John Saul

    Ashes to Ashes: The Dragon's Flame by John Saul

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When library assistant Rebecca Morrison comes across a beautifully ornate cigarette lighter in the shape of a fire breathing dragon, she gives it to her cousin, unwittingly igniting an evil that can only originate from the terrifying Blackstone Asylum. This is third installment in "The Blackstone Chronicles", Saul's serial novel about the horrors that plague a small New England town...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  pulp
  • Peek A Boo, I See You by Willow Rose

    Peek A Boo, I See You by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent editionThe body of a woman found in front of Nordby City Hall has a message for Emma Frost carved into the skin. Behind this ruthless murder stands a ghostly figure that likes to play childish games. Soon, this killer brings a reign of terror to the small Danish Island and especially to the life of Emma Frost...
  • Reprisal by F. Paul Wilson

    Reprisal by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In Reborn (6/90), Jim discovered the ancient evil that lurked within his past. Now Jonah, his only son, is the bearer of the horror. Jonah is biding his time, keeping his true identity a secret and waiting for the time when he can carry out the mission he was born for: to bring about the end of the world...
  • Time to Die by Caroline Mitchell

    Time to Die by Caroline Mitchell

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He will predict your life… and your death.Don’t ever cross his palm with silver. He will reveal your most shameful secrets. He will predict your death. He is hiding a secret. He is hiding a monster. And all his predictions come true.Investigating a series of chilling murders, Detective Jennifer Knight finds herself tracking a mysterious tarot card reader known only as The Raven...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  female-mc  fiction
  • Seven, Eight... Gonna Stay Up Late by Willow Rose

    Seven, Eight... Gonna Stay Up Late by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She thought she could keep it a secret. Just fourteen years old, Amalie thought she could take off and go to the festival with her best friend without anyone knowing it - without her parents finding out. She thought she was safe when she met a man offering her drugs. She thought she was safe when she went alone to her tent to take the pills...
  • Miss Polly had a Dolly by Willow Rose

    Miss Polly had a Dolly by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A bone-chilling tale from the Queen of Scream Not for the faint-hearted Miss Polly had a dolly. A beautiful daughter that she called her Baby Doll. Every day she dressed her in dresses and brushed her hair before they went outside to show off to the neighbors...
  • Let Me In by Claire McGowan

    Let Me In by Claire McGowan

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the bestselling author of What You Did comes the story of a young couple who are about to discover that in a house full of secrets there’s nowhere to hide…For Helen and George, the remote fixer-upper in Cornwall was supposed to be a dream home, and a way to leave behind the problems they’re both running from. But something about the place feels wrong from day one...
  • The Mirror Man by Lars Kepler

    The Mirror Man by Lars Kepler

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Jenny is abducted in broad daylight and taken to a dilapidated, isolated house where she is chained and caged along with several other girls. Their captor is unpredictable, and as wily as he is cruel: he foils every one of their desperate attempts to escape . . . and once caught they rarely survive their punishment...
  • The Midnight Man by Caroline Mitchell

    The Midnight Man by Caroline Mitchell

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From number one bestselling author Caroline Mitchell, comes the first chilling Slayton thriller for fans of C. J. Tudor and Stephen King.If you open your door to the Midnight Man, hide with a candle wherever you can. Try not to scream as he draws near, because one of you won't be leaving here...On Halloween night in Slayton, five girls go to Blackhall Manor to play the Midnight Game...
  • The Asylum Confessions: Cults by Jack Steen

    The Asylum Confessions: Cults by Jack Steen

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    They arrive alive. They leave dead.But first, they give me their deathbed confessions and this time - it's all about those involved in cults.There will be 5 confessions within this book, and trust me...it's going to be a wild ride:PATIENT 983 - thought she gave birth to the antichrist.PATIENT 962 - his nickname was the Candyman..
  • Deep Shadow by Randy Wayne White

    Deep Shadow by Randy Wayne White

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Doc Ford wrestles more than one kind of demon, in the stunning novel from the "New York Times"-bestselling author. Many dangers lurk in the deep-the worst of them are human. Thirty minutes into what should have been an easy, beginner-level dive in a remote Florida lake, the rim of a cave collapses, trapping two of Doc Ford's friends...
  • The Intruders by Louise Jensen

    The Intruders by Louise Jensen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It should be the perfect a manor house available rent free in exchange for a bit of housesitting. But when Cass and James dig deeper, they find the place has been abandoned since a robbery left almost all the inhabitants dead almost thirty years ago. But they’ve got to save for a deposit somehow, so they move in, and things quickly take a strange turn...
  • Flashback by Michael Palmer

    Flashback by Michael Palmer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Toby is eight years old. He had a routine operation. It was fine. Now he's gone home to terror. Months have passed. But Toby still bursts into tortured screams. Because something is very wrong. Toby can remember evey moment of the operation. All the trauma. All the pain. He relives evrey horrifying detail of surgery while he's awake...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  medical
  • Tweedledum and Tweedledee by Willow Rose

    Tweedledum and Tweedledee by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent editionIn the middle of the night, Alberto Alonzo sneaks out to play at the casino with his mother's credit card in his hand. The next morning he is gone, and no one knows where he is, and, for his family, a real-life nightmare unfolds.Emma Frost is with her family on a cruise in the Mediterranean Sea when the boy goes missing from the ship...
  • Strangers by Michaelbrent Collings

    Strangers by Michaelbrent Collings

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    You wake up in the morning to discover that you have been sealed into your home. The doors are locked, the windows are barred. THERE'S NO WAY OUT.A madman is playing a deadly game with you and your family. A game with no rules, only consequences...
  • Hidden Bones by Vivian Barz

    Hidden Bones by Vivian Barz

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Amazon Charts bestselling author Vivian Barz pits Susan Marlan and Eric Evans against a new menacing adversary in this suspenseful sequel to her acclaimed debut, Forgotten Bones. Two months have passed, and the horrors of Death Farm still torment police officer Susan Marlan and college professor Eric Evans...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  ghosts
  • The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane by Laird Koenig

    The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane by Laird Koenig

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Alone in the darkened house, with only fire's glow and thirteen flickering candles for illumination, silent except for the mounting chords of a Liszt concerto, Rynn was preparing a solemn celebration. Until a knock at the door shattered sanctuary.Rynn is the little girl who lives in the house at the end of the lane with her father-or so she says...
  • The Crypt by Jonas Saul

    The Crypt by Jonas Saul

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Crypt, Sarah Roberts Book 3, opens with Sarah Roberts walking the streets of Budapest in search of a weapon.A strange man in a fedora has been following her. Before she can find out who he is she’s arrested and brought to a Hungarian jail. After her release, she’s ordered out of the country. The man in the fedora shows up at her hotel...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  paranormal
  • Dark Corners by Liz Schulte

    Dark Corners by Liz Schulte

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ella Reynolds knew from the first moment she walked into the old house someone or something was watching her. Waiting. Her husband's violent murder sent her spiraling into a world of grief and isolation, but Ella isn't alone. Who or what is responsible for her husband's death is still with her. Darkness has engulfed the past year of Ella's life...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction
  • Host by Peter James

    Host by Peter James

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Like Dr Frankenstein, brilliant scientist Joe Messenger will stop at nothing in his quest for immortality ..
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • Final Breath by Kevin O'Brien

    Final Breath by Kevin O'Brien

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Once A Killer's Chosen You. . . At first, the deaths seem random. A young Portland couple brutally murdered in a game gone awry. . .a Chicago woman who plummeted to her death from an office building. . .an aspiring screenwriter asphyxiated in his New York apartment. But the macabre souvenirs television reporter Sydney Jordan receives hint at a connection that is both personal and terrifying...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  female-mc  fiction  high-school
  • Alchemist by Peter James

    Alchemist by Peter James

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As chilling as Stephen King as credible as Michael Crichton - a gripping novel of terror and...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  medical
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