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  • Damned by Jana Deleon

    Damned by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When young priest Nicolas Chatry took his vows, he thought the hardest thing he’d have to deal with was accomplishing his duties from a wheelchair. Until a murderer steps into the confessional. Unable to recognize the voice or maneuver quickly enough to get a look at the killer, Nicolas has no way of identifying who admitted to such a horrific deed...
  • What Lies Beneath by E.M. Smith, L.T. Vargus

    What Lies Beneath by E.M. Smith, L.T. Vargus

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Some secrets don’t stay buried.Three elaborately staged victims. No clues. A public verging on panic.FBI profiler Victor Loshak heads to Kansas City to hunt another serial killer. But something about this case is all wrong.The three corpses lie posed. Face up. A glove laid to cover each right eye.The victims seem to be selected at random. Suburban. Upper middle class. Squeaky clean...
  • 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...
  • Two Footsteps by Belle Brooks, Karen Harper

    Two Footsteps by Belle Brooks, Karen Harper

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "My life is in the Wolf's hands." He is the Wolf. I am his Red. The game has begun and he wants me dead. But who is the Wolf? And why has he chosen me? He whistles a tune that's haunting. He glares at me through eyes that are vacant. I feel his heart beating, yet I know he has no soul. He moves like the wind...I can't hear his footsteps. I want this to end. He's playing with my mind...
  • 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...
  • Dark Rivers of the Heart / Sole Survivor / Intensity by Dean Koontz

    Dark Rivers of the Heart / Sole Survivor / Intensity by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dean Koontz is one of the world's top-selling authors with total worldwide sales of his novels at 225 million copies! He achieves what few writers can: he creates books that consistently jump to the top of the bestseller lists in both hardcover and paper...
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    crime  survival  suspense  action-adventure  adult  book  dark  fiction
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Upheaval by T.L. Payne

    Upheaval by T.L. Payne

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After surviving the prison riots and deadly skirmishes with the wanna-be dictator of Texas County, Maddie and her group are left with dwindling resources, unprepared for the harsh winter ahead. Old friends pitch in to help until a more deadly foe arrives to put all of their lives at risk. A daring mission to St. Louis for precious lifesaving supplies has deadly consequences...
  • 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...
  • Quick Fixes: Tales of Repairman Jack by F. Paul Wilson

    Quick Fixes: Tales of Repairman Jack by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Who do the world’s most exciting authors turn to when they need a shot of adrenaline? F. Paul Wilson’s Repairman Jack! "One of the all-time great characters in one of the all-time great series." — Lee Child“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...
  • Some Shall Break by Ellie Marney

    Some Shall Break by Ellie Marney

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This sequel to the New York Times bestselling None Shall Sleep is an equally electrifying, chilling thriller that brings us back into the lives of junior FBI consultants Travis Bell and Emma Lewis with a new case that may unravel everything they’ve been working for...
  • Uprising by T.L. Payne

    Uprising by T.L. Payne

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Texas County, Missouri is a powder keg ready to blow.As winter approaches, small-town issues become big trouble.Maddie Langston and her group of post-apocalyptic survivors are stretched thin.Vengeful old foes take advantage of weakened defenses. Without support, as supplies dwindle, citizens are forced to take matters into their own hands...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • When Smiles Fade by Paige Dearth

    When Smiles Fade by Paige Dearth

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Alternate cover edition.ASIN: B00B8XPVL6Young Emma Murphy kills people, but only if they deserve to die.Emma's father's coldblooded beatings and the ultimate abuse to which he subjects her, lays the foundation of the person she becomes. As she matures into a resourceful teenager, she is unwilling and unable to stifle her desire for revenge...
  • All the Rage by F. Paul Wilson

    All the Rage by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Can you imagine a new chemical compound, a non-addictive designer drug that heightens your assertiveness, opens the door to your primal self, giving you an edge wherever you compete? Whether on the street or the football field, in a classroom or a boardroom. Wouldn’t you be tempted to try it . .
  • The Analyst by John Katzenbach

    The Analyst by John Katzenbach

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    'Happy fifty-third birthday, Doctor. Welcome to the first day of your death. You ruined my life. And now I fully intend to ruin yours.'You have exactly one fortnight, starting tomorrow morning at 6 a.m., to discover who I am. When you succeed you must purchase one of those tiny ads at the bottom of the New York Times front page, and print my name there.'If you do not succeed, then ..
  • Covenant by Brandon Massey

    Covenant by Brandon Massey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the award-winning author of Dark Corner and The Other Brother comes an unforgettable thriller of family secrets, toxic faith, and high-tech suspense. On a golden summer morning, fifteen-year-old Anthony Thorne is on a fishing boat with his father, rods cast into the lake, when the crack of a rifle shatters the silence. His father slumps forward, blood leaking from his chest...
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    crime  suspense  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  horror  murder
  • Saint/Sinner by Sam Sisavath

    Saint/Sinner by Sam Sisavath

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    THERE IS NO REST FOR THE WICKED.After spending ten years of her life hunting her sister’s killer and barely surviving, Allie Krycek is ready to move on. She’s got a new job, in a new city, with a new man in her life. Things are finally looking up.Too bad there are people determined to ruin Allie’s second chance...
  • The Woodcutter by Reginald Hill

    The Woodcutter by Reginald Hill

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "Thefertility of Hill's imagination, the range of his power, the sheer quality ofhis literary style never ceases to delight." —Val McDermid,author of Fever of the BoneIn a stand-alone psychological thrillerfrom acclaimed mystery master Reginald Hill, a mysterious ex-con returns to hisremote childhood home on a deadly hunt for revenge...
  • Last of the Magpies by Mark Edwards

    Last of the Magpies by Mark Edwards

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The chilling conclusion to the #1 bestseller The Magpies. Twelve months ago, Jamie Knight walked straight into Lucy Newton’s trap. Both Jamie and his ex-wife Kirsty barely survived. Now, with the police investigation into Lucy’s disappearance going nowhere, Jamie teams up with a true crime podcaster to track down his nemesis...
  • Long After Midnight by Iris Johansen

    Long After Midnight by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    She wanted to save lives.  The killer wanted to end hers.The first warning was triggered hundreds of miles away.  The second warning exploded only yards from where she and her son stood.  Now Kate Denby realizes the frightening truth:  She is somebody's target.Danger has arrived in Kate's backyard with a vengeance...
  • The Survivors Club by Lisa Gardner

    The Survivors Club by Lisa Gardner

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    One of today's most electrifying suspense novelists, "New York Times" bestselling author Lisa Gardner returns with a shattering thriller that dares to play on our deepest vulnerabilities. In this masterful new novel, the killer may very well be the one you sympathize with the most... THE FIRST RULE IS NEVER BLAME THE VICTIM.They survived what no woman should ever have to endure...
  • Hide by Patti Larsen

    Hide by Patti Larsen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Reid isn’t sure if he’s grateful to be alive. He’s managed to save a small group of kids from the hunters, but only by trapping them all underground without food or water or a way out. If starvation doesn’t kill them, thirst will. Still, they are out of the hunter’s reach and that’s something. Reid refuses to stop trying, even when the kids find out they aren’t alone in the mine after all...
  • #NoEscape (Volume 3) by Gretchen McNeil

    #NoEscape (Volume 3) by Gretchen McNeil

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The #murder and mayhem continue in this prequel companion novel to the grisly, campy social media insanity that is #MurderTrending and #MurderFunding. Gretchen McNeil brings her signature wit and merciless kills to this gruesome yet hilarious, wildly topical young adult novel.Twenty years before Dee Guerra and the Death Row Breakfast Club took down The Postman and Alcatraz 2...
  • Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man by Ed McBain

    Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man by Ed McBain

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The criminals who invade the 87th Precinct aren't particularly known for their intelligence. Their crimes are usually brutal, stupid, and rash. But every once in a while, the 87th gets a good bad guy to hunt down."WITH YOUR ASSISTANCE, I'M GOING TO STEAL $500,000 ON THE LAST DAY OF APRIL." So wrote the Deaf Man, the 87th Precinct's own private nemesis...
  • Blood Brother by Jack Kerley

    Blood Brother by Jack Kerley

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Detective Carson Ryder's sworn duty is to track killers down. He's never revealed the fact that his brother, Jeremy, is one of America's most notorious killers - albeit imprisoned. Now though, his brother's escaped and is at large in New York. With Jeremy the chief suspect in a series of horrifying mutilation-murders, a mysterious video demands Ryder be brought into help...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • The Housemates by Iain Rob Wright

    The Housemates by Iain Rob Wright

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    TEN DAYS, TWELVE COMPETITORS, TWO MILLION POUNDS IN CASH.What at first appears to be a wonderful opportunity for Damien Banks turns out to be the worst nightmare he can imagine. Trapped inside a house with eleven strangers, and a booming voice known only as ‘The Landlord’ controlling his every move, Damien will be forced to compete not only for the money, but for his life...
  • Flight of the Storks by Jean-Christophe Grangé

    Flight of the Storks by Jean-Christophe Grangé

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Every year the storks set off on their miraculous 12,000-mile migration from Northern Europe to Central Africa. Then one year, inexplicably, they do not return. At the invitation of the wealthy Swiss ornithologist Max Boehm, a young French academic, Louis Antioch, agrees to undertake a journey tracing the flight of the storks in an attempt to solve the mystery of the birds' disappearance...
  • Dear Child: A Novel by Romy Hausmann

    Dear Child: A Novel by Romy Hausmann

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A woman held captive finally escapes—but can she ever really get away?Gone Girl meets Room in this page-turning, #1 internationally bestselling thriller from one of Germany’s hottest new talentsA windowless shack in the woods. A dash to safety. But when a woman finally escapes her captor, the end of the story is only the beginning of her nightmare.She says her name is Lena...
  • Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates

    Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    From bestselling author Darcy Coates comes Dead of Winter, a remote cabin in the snowy wilderness thriller that will teach you to trust no one. There are eight strangers. One killer. Nowhere left to run.When Christa joins a tour group heading deep into the snowy expanse of the Rocky Mountains, she's hopeful this will be her chance to put the ghosts of her past to rest...
  • The Drowning Game by L.S. Hawker, Amanda Dolan

    The Drowning Game by L.S. Hawker, Amanda Dolan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    They said she was armed.They said she was dangerous.They were right.Petty Moshen spent eighteen years of her life as a prisoner in her own home, training with military precision for everything, ready for anything. She can disarm, dismember, and kill and now, for the first time ever, she is free...
  • 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...
  • Rogue by Mark T. Sullivan

    Rogue by Mark T. Sullivan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Mark Sullivan has created a propulsive, compelling new thriller. Rogue, is one part Bourne Identity and one part Mission: Impossible, but readers will also love the nod to Hitchcock’s It Takes a Thief. Two years ago, Robin Monarch was a top level CIA operative—perhaps the best they had when it came to black bag operations...
  • The Loch Ness Legacy by Boyd Morrison

    The Loch Ness Legacy by Boyd Morrison

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    During a trek to Loch Ness, Scotland, a young Charles Darwin encounters a mysterious and terrifying creature that provides a spark for his evolutionary theory.Almost two hundred years later and across the Channel in Paris, the Eiffel Tower is under attack...
  • D.O.G.S by M.A. Bennett

    D.O.G.S by M.A. Bennett

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After the dramatic events of the last few weeks, Greer Macdonald is trying to concentrate on her A levels. Stuck for a play to direct for her drama exam, she gets help from an unexpected quarter . . .A priceless lost play, buried by time, is pushed under her door. It is Ben Jonson's The Isle of Dogs, a play considered so dangerous in Elizabethan times that every copy was burned . . . except one...
  • Outbreak by Robert Tine

    Outbreak by Robert Tine

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Based on the film of the same name starring Dustin Hoffman, this is the story of a doctor fighting a virus created by the British secret service in Africa. He begins to notice that people in the US are dying of a similar mysterious illness. As he begins to investigate he uncovers foul play...
  • This Time You Lose by Chris Stralyn

    This Time You Lose by Chris Stralyn

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What would you do if street thugs invaded your home? What if you're a daycare provider, caring for a dozen children at the time? Lisa Kaamp, a most unlikely heroine, faces just such a nightmare in This Time You Lose , the suspense driven story of one woman's struggle to survive when she and the children she cares for become victims of a home invasion gone terribly wrong...
  • Nothing Good Happens After Midnight: A Suspense Magazine Anthology by Jeffery Deaver, Heather Graham

    Nothing Good Happens After Midnight: A Suspense Magazine Anthology by Jeffery Deaver, Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The sun sets. The moon takes its place, illuminating the most evil corners of the planet. What twisted fear dwells in that blackness? What legends attach to those of sound mind and make them go crazy in the bright light of day? Only Suspense Magazine knows..
  • Sunblind by Michael McBride

    Sunblind by Michael McBride

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When U.S. Border Patrol Agent Christian Rivera discovers the body of an undocumented alien in the middle of the vast Sonoran Desert with three enigmatic words carved into her flesh, presumably by her own hand, it triggers a frantic search for the remainder of her party, a group of twenty-five men and women who have inexplicably vanished into the desert...
  • Soft Target by Iain Rob Wright

    Soft Target by Iain Rob Wright

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nowhere is safe from evil...When an elderly suicide bomber strikes a quiet English village, a once proud nation is brought to its knees. Yet this first attack is just the start of something far greater and much much worse. The days to follow will determine if the United Kingdom has a future, or if it will be reduced to anarchy and ashes...
  • Untouchable by Gerald Seymour

    Untouchable by Gerald Seymour

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Albert William Packer is the supreme baron of London crime. He rules his manor with a cruel, ruthless fist. To those around him, on whatever side of the law, he is the Untouchable.When another criminal case against him collapses, Packer turns his attention to expanding his heroin empire abroad...
  • Run by Jeremy Bates

    Run by Jeremy Bates

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CAN'T HIDEDuring a camping trip to the Catskill Mountains, Charlotte's boyfriend Luke, a former soldier suffering PTSD, goes on a rampage, nearly killing Charlotte and her two friends. A year later Charlotte is a graduate student in the small college town of Ashenville, North Carolina...
  • The Final Scene by Steph Nelson

    The Final Scene by Steph Nelson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The cabin is unlocked, but there’s no escape. When Brooke was kidnapped on her way home from work, she thought her life was over.That was ten years ago.She’s been held captive in an isolated cabin on the Oregon coast ever since, scrambling to follow her kidnappers’ twisted instructions to the letter. Because the price of a mistake is death.But when a new victim shows up, everything changes...
  • Never Let You Go by Chevy Stevens

    Never Let You Go by Chevy Stevens

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Eleven years ago, Lindsey Nash escaped into the night with her young daughter and left an abusive relationship. Her ex-husband, Andrew, was sent to jail and Lindsey started over with a new life.Now, Lindsey is older and wiser, with her own business and a teenage daughter who needs her more than ever...
  • Eyeshot by Taylor Adams

    Eyeshot by Taylor Adams

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    James and Elle Eversman are a young couple travelling through the Mojave desert on their way to a new life. When their car mysteriously breaks down they are stranded in the middle of nowhere without much water and no cell-phone reception.A mile away a deadly sniper has them in his cross-hairs. They are pinned down behind their broken-down car, surrounded by open ground in all directions...
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