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  • The Hit List by Elle Gray

    The Hit List by Elle Gray

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a deadly bomb goes off in a small town outside of Dallas, FBI agent Blake Wilder and her team are called to the case.Could this crime be a case of terrorism or is it murder disguised within a massive disaster? Soon Blake’s unit discovers a plot that’s far more complex.And when they unearth a revenge plot spurred on by a massive conspiracy...
  • 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...
  • Winter's Redemption by Mary Stone

    Winter's Redemption by Mary Stone

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Preacher is killing again...The serial killer who slaughtered Winter’s parents has come out of retirement, leaving bloody victims in his wake. Special Agent Winter Black has spent her entire life preparing for this moment, and she intends to end the man who took everything from her and solve the disappearance of her little brother—no matter the cost...
  • The House of Wolves by James Patterson, Mike Lupica

    The House of Wolves by James Patterson, Mike Lupica

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Joe Wolf applies a cutthroat determination to his life’s work, from to building a California business empire to parenting three sons and a daughter. Kill or be killed. So when the patriarch takes a deadly cruise on San Francisco Bay, Joe Wolf’s bloodline becomes SFPD’s lifeline. Detective Ben Cantor trails the “pack of wolves” as the siblings vie for control of their legacy of power and assets...
  • One Way by Tom Barber

    One Way by Tom Barber

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    NYPD Detective Sam Archer is on his way home on a Sunday afternoon in New York City. He’s been out of the field for over three months due to a broken ankle and a nasty case of pneumonia, but has just been given the all clear to get back out there again, starting tomorrow. Archer takes a seat on a bench in the Upper West Side, enjoying a cold drink and soaking up the last remaining sun of the day...
  • Little Broken Things by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Little Broken Things by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Detective Georgiana Germaine is back on the trail of a cold-blooded killer, and once again, the case hits close to home.Twenty-year-old Olivia Spencer sits at her desk in her mother's bookshop, dreaming about her upcoming wedding. The shop may be closed, but Olivia's not alone, and her dream is about to become her worst nightmare...
  • Dawn Girl by Leslie Wolfe

    Dawn Girl by Leslie Wolfe

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A GRIPPING SERIAL KILLER THRILLERHer blue eyes wide open, glossed over. A few specks of sand clung to her long, dark lashes. Her beautiful face, immobile, covered in sparkling flecks of sand. Her lips slightly parted as if to let a last breath escape...
  • Bedlam by L.J. Ross

    Bedlam by L.J. Ross

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From the international best-selling author of the DCI Ryan mysteries.In a world gone mad, who can you trust?Fresh from a high-profile case in the Paris fashion world, elite forensic psychologist and criminal profiler Dr Alexander Gregory receives a call from the New York State Homicide Squad...
  • 30 Days of Justis by John Ellsworth

    30 Days of Justis by John Ellsworth

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    She's a daughter he doesn't know he has. Until she calls him...from death row. From USA Today bestselling author John Ellsworth comes another book so thrilling the pages all but turn themselves. Written as a standalone novel. Michael Gresham meets his lost daughter, Cache, in her prison cell. She is scheduled for execution in 30 days. Her other lawyers have given up; there is nothing left to do...
  • The Law Partners by John Ellsworth

    The Law Partners by John Ellsworth

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    ARRESTED FOR A MURDER YOU DIDN'T COMMIT? Michael Gresham is a criminal attorney who defends his clients with an iron will. They know that when he takes their case they are probably going to leave the courthouse a free man or free woman. But what happens when the defender becomes the defendant himself? A law partner will have to step up and do for him what he can't do for himself...
  • Gray After Dark by Noelle W. Ihli

    Gray After Dark by Noelle W. Ihli

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A merciless wilderness. A harrowing attack. A desperate escape.When a tragic accident sidelines Miley's dreams of Olympic gold, she takes a summer job at a mountain guest lodge.The Frank Church Wilderness is remote, but it’s the perfect place to train and recover. Local lore about a staffer who died years ago doesn’t scare her. But it should...
  • Only One Cure by Jenifer Ruff

    Only One Cure by Jenifer Ruff

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The President's son is dying. Terrorists claim to have the only cure.When a private plane whisks CDC epidemiologist Madeline Hamilton to Washington D.C. for an urgent medical symposium, she knows something significant is underway—but she doesn’t expect to face the most disturbing medical mystery of her career...
  • Per Addestrarti by Chiara Cilli

    Per Addestrarti by Chiara Cilli

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Credevo di sapere chi fossi. Cosa fossi.Credevo di non avere più scampo, che la mia resistenza fosse ormai giunta al termine.Poi ho sentito la sua voce pronunciare il mio nome.Poi i suoi occhi hanno risposto al richiamo dei miei.Non ha paura di me. Si avvicina. Mi parla. Mi tocca come se le appartenessi. È folle.Lui è l’unica chance che ho per restare viva. Devo far sì che gli importi di me...
  • The Final Hour by Tom Wood

    The Final Hour by Tom Wood

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The enigmatic assassin Victor returns in an explosive thriller from the international bestselling author of A Time to Die and The Darkest Day. SOMETIMES THE ONLY WAY TO LIVE... Victor is the ultimate predator. He surfaces to kill, then disappears into thin air. But he's a disposable commodity for the powerful people he works for--both the good guys and the bad. And no one has his back...
  • 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...
  • Fortunate Son by Andrew Bridgeman

    Fortunate Son by Andrew Bridgeman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A deadly prophecy must be stopped before all is lost. Trust none, sacrifice words to live (or die) by in this edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller of deceit and intrigue...
  • Dark Night of the Soul by Kristi Belcamino, Sonja Field

    Dark Night of the Soul by Kristi Belcamino, Sonja Field

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Gia Santella, the fast-driving, hard-drinking, karate-trained free spirit, has finally put her dark past behind her. UNFORTUNATELY, the past isn't done with her yet. The third book in a new, exciting series featuring an unforgettable new character by the Anthony, Barry & Macavity finalist and crime writer ..
  • Naked Prey by John Sandford

    Naked Prey by John Sandford

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Lucas Davenport finds some changes — and some nasty surprises — in store, in the chilling new novel by the number-one-bestselling author.After thirteen years and thirteen Prey novels, John Sandford's writing is as fresh as ever. His last book, Mortal Prey, was "a model of the genre" (People) and "the cop novel of the year" (Kirkus Reviews)...
  • One By One by Freida McFadden

    One By One by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    One by one, they will get what they deserve...A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not how Claire Matchett expected to spend her vacation.She thought this would be a break from the stresses of work and raising her young children. A chance to repair her damaged marriage. A week of hiking and hot tubs with two other couple friends. It sounded like heaven...
  • Little Girl Lost by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Little Girl Lost by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    For the past two years, former detective Georgiana "Gigi" Germaine has been living off the grid, until today, when she hears some disturbing news that shakes her. Georgiana's brother-in-law has been murdered, her seven-year-old niece kidnapped. As the hours waste away, Georgiana races back to a town she left behind, and a former life she's still not ready to face...
  • Twelve Years Gone by K.J. Kalis

    Twelve Years Gone by K.J. Kalis

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Twelve years gone…Sarah Schmidt went out for a hike a month before heading to college on a cross-country scholarship. She never came back.In the twelve years she’s been gone, the local police have done little to help the family, leaving them with the desperate knowledge that Sarah could still be alive, somewhere, somehow...The family hasn’t given up their hope for revenge, or at least answers...
  • Missed Connections by Alexandria Clarke

    Missed Connections by Alexandria Clarke

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    How far would you go for revenge? Veronica Bauer isn’t above homicide. Twelve years after a ruthless attack killed her mother and put her father in prison, she embarks on a mission to bring the real culprits to justice. As bodies start to drop, Detective Sheila Arden is assigned to the gruesome case, but she soon discovers that the truth is more complicated than she thought...
  • Secret Prey by John Sandford

    Secret Prey by John Sandford

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The company chairman lay dead in the woods, his orange hunting jacket punctured by a bullet at close range. Around him stood the four executives with whom he had been hunting, each with a reason not to be sorry about the man's death. A classic murder mystery, it would seem: the kind where the detective gathers everyone together at the end and solves the case...
  • 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...
  • Carlos the Ant by John Ellsworth

    Carlos the Ant by John Ellsworth

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Carlos has a sick daughter and needs money. He's also an upstanding citizen who pays his taxes, puts in his forty hours, doesn't drink and carouse, and loves his wife. Still...he has nowhere else to turn. So Carlos gets money the old-fashioned way--he robs banks. The money comes pouring in but then a new man joins the crew and everything tumbles downhill...
  • The Gone Sister by Thomas Fincham

    The Gone Sister by Thomas Fincham

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    FROM THOMAS FINCHAM, THE NEW VOICE IN CRIME AND SUSPENSE GENRE.  A MYSTERY THAT WILL KEEP YOU GUESSING UNTIL THE FINAL PAGES.  How do you find someone who doesn’t exist?  Isaiah Whitcomb is found dead in a parked car. Isaiah is a promising athlete and he also happens to be Detective Greg Holt’s nephew. It’s personal for Holt and he will stop at nothing to find who is behind his nephew’s murder...
  • Don't Make a Sound by David Jackson

    Don't Make a Sound by David Jackson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    You can't choose your family. Or can you? Meet the Bensons. A pleasant enough couple. They keep themselves to themselves. They wash their car, mow their lawn and pass the time of day with their neighbours. And they have a beautiful little girl called Daisy.There's just one problem. Daisy doesn't belong to the Bensons. They stole her...
  • In the Tall World by Angel N. Van Atta

    In the Tall World by Angel N. Van Atta

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mella finds herself in a whole new world, surrounded by all new things and people. Life was often scary back in the tall trees in that tiny little house, but it was all she knew, and that brought her comfort. Now, separated from her Momma, and her baby brother Pete, Mella has to find out how to make her way in this strange new home with all new rules and people...
  • Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino

    Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An exciting new series character ...Gia Santella is a fast-driving, hard-drinking, karate-trained free spirit, who is gorgeous, sexy, and a young heiress. She also has a fierce temper and zero tolerance for people in power preying on the vulnerable ... especially when the injustice takes place in her neighborhood...
  • The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean

    The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A woman being held captive is willing to risk everything to save herself, her unborn child, and her captor’s latest victim in this claustrophobic thriller in the tradition of Misery and Room. On an isolated farm in the United Kingdom, a woman is trapped by the monster who kidnapped her seven years ago...
  • Hope to Die by James Patterson

    Hope to Die by James Patterson

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career. Cross's family – his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious children--have been ripped away. Terrified and desperate, Cross must give this mad man what he wants if he has any chance of saving the most important people in his life...
  • Confessions of an Accidental Lawyer by Michael Stockham

    Confessions of an Accidental Lawyer by Michael Stockham

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Battling against a Texas prison, a young lawyer fights for a fair trial in a prison-friendly town as witnesses and evidence evaporate.Scarred physically and emotionally by a botched delivery, his wife struggles to realize their dream of a healthy baby and a happy family.Trapped in solitary confinement, an inmate fights for medicine to keep his failing heart pumping...
  • Take Your Breath Away by Linwood Barclay, Joe Knezevich

    Take Your Breath Away by Linwood Barclay, Joe Knezevich

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Find You First and Elevator Pitch comes a gripping psychological thriller about a formerly missing woman who has suddenly returned under mysterious circumstances.One weekend, while Andrew Mason was on a fishing trip, his wife, Brie, vanished without a trace...
  • A Caller's Game by J.D. Barker

    A Caller's Game by J.D. Barker

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    DIE HARD meets TALK RADIO in this heart-pounding, relentlessly fast-paced thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Fourth Monkey—master of suspense, J.D. Barker. "I'm going to offer you a choice." Controversial satellite radio talk show host, Jordan Briggs, has clawed her way to the top of the broadcast world...
  • Sakharov the Bear by John Ellsworth

    Sakharov the Bear by John Ellsworth

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    FROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR JOHN ELLSWORTH A Legal Thriller - in a Russian Courtroom Drama Two CIA field operators obtain a bill of lading from an arms supplier in Moscow. Tracing the origin and destination of the weapons there is reason to believe a massive arms shipment has come into the U.S. through the Port of Long Beach...
  • The Bartender by Brian O'Sullivan

    The Bartender by Brian O'Sullivan

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Olive is a Los Angeles bartender who has been unlucky in love. She hopes that will change when one of the best-looking men she's ever seen walks into her bar. But he’s not what he seems.   Austin is tall, charismatic, and compellingly attractive. But unbeknownst to the smitten Olive, Austin is not dating her for her beauty, but merely for her usefulness...
  • The Things you find in Rockpools by Gregg Dunnett

    The Things you find in Rockpools by Gregg Dunnett

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Why has Billy Wheatley become a favorite character for thousands of readers? Eleven-year-old Billy lives a lonely life with his father in a windswept clifftop house. Until a tourist girl vanishes from the beach below. A huge police search takes over the island, but fails to uncover what happened. And Billy can’t resist getting involved...
  • Stranger in the Woods by Anni Taylor

    Stranger in the Woods by Anni Taylor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Photographer Isla Wilson is thrilled she’s landed her dream job, but the clients who hired her are getting stranger by the day. It sounded so perfect - a month‘s assignment at the misty, sprawling Scottish Highlands property of brilliant architect Alban McGregor, and his wife, Jessica. But deep in the woods, there is a chilling playhouse...
  • From Cradle to Grave by Patricia MacDonald

    From Cradle to Grave by Patricia MacDonald

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A nail-biting novel of domestic suspense from a best-selling author - When Morgan Adair arrives at the small seaside town of West Briar on the Long Island shore, she is looking forward to attending the baptism of her new godson, Drew. Morgan and Drew's mother, Claire, have been friends since childhood, and Morgan was delighted when Claire married the handsome Guy Bolton...
  • The Burying Place by Brian Freeman

    The Burying Place by Brian Freeman

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A stunning, clever and unputdownable thriller for fans of Harlan Coben and Michael ConnellyLieutenant Jonathan Stride is quietly recovering from injuries sustained on his latest case when a rich doctor's baby is kidnapped and his peace is shattered...
  • Her Perfect Secret by T.J. Brearton

    Her Perfect Secret by T.J. Brearton

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A gripping psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Gone.It’s him.Tom. The boy whose mother I helped put in prison for life.I recognize the sharp nose and flare to the nostrils. His thick eyebrows and defined cheekbones. But mostly it’s the eyes. Sea green.But my daughter, Joni, keeps calling him Michael. And they’re here at the lake house telling us they’re getting married...
  • Do You Remember? by Freida McFadden

    Do You Remember? by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Tess Strebel can’t recognize her own face.She can’t recognize her home. Her bedroom is unfamiliar. And she can’t remember the handsome stranger lying next to her in bed. A stranger who claims he’s her husband.Tess reads a letter in her own handwriting, composed during a rare lucid day, explaining her life as it now exists: She was in a terrible car accident one year ago...
  • 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...
  • The Silence Between Breaths by Cath Staincliffe

    The Silence Between Breaths by Cath Staincliffe

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Eight people, one deadly secret.Passengers boarding the 10.35 train from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston are bound for work, assignations, reunions, holidays or new starts, with no idea that their journey is about to be brutally curtailed...
  • The Perfect Lie by Blake Pierce

    The Perfect Lie by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    THE PERFECT LIE is book #5 in a new psychological suspense series by bestselling author Blake Pierce, whose #1 bestseller Once Gone (a free download) has over 1,000 five-star reviews.When a gorgeous, popular gym trainer is found murdered in a wealthy suburban town, criminal profiler and FBI agent Jessie Hunt, 29, is called in to find out who killed her...
  • The President's Henchman by Joseph Flynn

    The President's Henchman by Joseph Flynn

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    According to the polls, it's only a matter of time - and not that long a time - before the United States elects its first female president. Which will make her husband - what? Well, if he's the ex-cop who solved the murder of the president's first husband and brought the killers to justice ... and if he's not the kind of guy to stand on formality ..
  • All He Has Left by Chad Zunker

    All He Has Left by Chad Zunker

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Power, money, and dark family secrets are a killer combination in a propulsive novel of suspense by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Family Money.After Jake Slater’s wife dies in a tragic hit-and-run, all he has left is his daughter, Piper―nearly lost, too, in a brutal custody battle with his wealthy in-laws...
  • Point of Balance: A Thriller by Juan Gómez-Jurado

    Point of Balance: A Thriller by Juan Gómez-Jurado

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In this superbly written, nail-biting thriller, a top neurosurgeon is forced to choose between ending the life of the most important person in America or guaranteeing his own daughter’s horrifying death.I am no saint, no martyr, no terrorist, no madman, and no murderer…I am a father. That’s my story. Dr...
  • Want to Know a Secret? by Freida McFadden

    Want to Know a Secret? by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Everyone has secrets.YouTube baking sensation April Masterson knows the secret to the perfect gooey brownies. Or how to make key lime squares that will melt in your mouth. But if you keep watching her offline, you may find out some other secrets about April. Secrets she’d rather you didn’t know...
  • Soon to Be Mine by K.J. Kalis

    Soon to Be Mine by K.J. Kalis

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When a dead car battery turns into something far more devious…Terrorized by a man who won’t leave her alone, Federal prosecutor Nicole Strickland doesn’t know what to do. Everywhere she turns, she feels eyes on her, watching. Her brother, FBI Agent Cash Strickland, knows she needs help, but there’s no actionable proof to stop the man that’s hunting her...
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