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  • The Lost Sister by Elle Gray

    The Lost Sister by Elle Gray

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The truth will set you free.For FBI Agent Blake Wilder the price of that truth requires the ultimate sacrifice.Blake Wilder lives with reoccurring nightmares from her grim and mysterious past.Fourteen years ago, her entire family was taken from her.Her parents murdered, and her sister taken...
  • No More Lies by Elle Gray

    No More Lies by Elle Gray

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "MOM?! DAD?!Who would do this?”Sixteen years ago, young Blake Wilder arrived home to find her parents brutally murdered. As the devastated Blake frantically searched her house for her baby sister. She soon realized the young girl was missing, nowhere to be found...
  • The House on the Hill by Elle Gray

    The House on the Hill by Elle Gray

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When a family of 4 goes missing seemingly in the dead of night, Blake Wilder and her team are called to find the young family and determine the reason for their sudden disappearance.Change is the only constant in life. It’s a lesson FBI Agent Blake Wilder is having to learn all over again. Summoned to DC by a Bureau legend, Blake is excited, imagining big things on the horizon for her team...
  • 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...
  • Triple Cross by James Patterson

    Triple Cross by James Patterson

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Detective Alex Cross hunts down a serial killer who’s murdering entire families—and who will next be coming for Cross.A methodical killer is targeting multigenerational families in and around Washington, DC—striking under cover of darkness, triggering no alarms, leaving no physical evidence of any kind.   Alex isn’t the only one investigating...
  • The Unlucky Girl by Elle Gray

    The Unlucky Girl by Elle Gray

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In Las Vegas the booze is always flowing, and sinful indulgence is endless.If you’re lucky, a hangover is the only thing you’re left with.But for two unlucky girls the outcome of a simple mix up turns into a case of kidnapping, extortion, and fatal consequences…After finally closing the chapter of Blake’s painful past...
  • Night at the Asylum by Elle Gray

    Night at the Asylum by Elle Gray

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    You better watch your back. You better do your best to hide.Because at Whitehorn there are strange forces at play.Someone or something is watching.And the bizarre death within a secured room is only the beginning...Within a short period of time FBI agent Blake Wilder has had to overcome many life altering events...
  • In Cold Blood by Caroline Mitchell

    In Cold Blood by Caroline Mitchell

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    WHEN THE HUNTER BECOMES THE HUNTED…DI Amy Winter faces her toughest case yet as a serial killer couple kidnap and hunt their prey. After capture, the victims are released from an unknown location each day. But freedom does not come easily as the victim’s injuries become more severe, and if they haven’t escaped by day four, they won’t live to see the fifth...
  • A Time to Die by Elle Grey

    A Time to Die by Elle Grey

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Tick. Tock.When a series of bombings rock the Pacific Northwest, FBI Agent Blake Wilder leaps into action.The investigation though, brings her back into contact with an ATF agent she has clashed violently with in the past.Their theories clash as hard as their personalities and Blake opts to run her own concurrent investigation. What she uncovers is a twisted tale twenty years in the making...
  • The Girl and the Secret Society by A.J. Rivers

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

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

    The Missing Woman by Elle Gray

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Just breathe.It will all be OK.An uncontrollable flame feeds on destruction.It sucks the oxygen out of a room, the air in your lungs.Left in its monster form, the only outcome will be death...After the loss of her family, FBI agent Blake Wilder felt like an empty vessel...
  • Think Twice by Harlan Coben

    Think Twice by Harlan Coben

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Myron Bolitar and Windsor Horne Lockwood III​ reunite to find a dead man come back to life in this gripping thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I Will Find You.Former basketball star Myron Bolitar has barely restarted his agency for sports stars and celebrities when two federal agents walk into his office, asking for answers...
  • Whip Crack by Alex Smith

    Whip Crack by Alex Smith

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

    Love, Lies, and Suicide by Elle Gray, K.S. Gray

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    “You can’t always get what you want.”“But, if you try, you might find…”You’ll get exactly what’s coming for you.FBI agent Olivia Knight has seen the realities of what happens when nightmares come to life.When she’s called to investigate a case of an apparent murder-suicide in an affluent community...
  • The Good Daughter by Elle Gray, K.S. Gray

    The Good Daughter by Elle Gray, K.S. Gray

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In an affluent neighborhood.Twin daughters Raleigh and Eve are excited to graduate from high school.Wanting to celebrate, Raleigh does her best to convince her bookworm sister to go out to a party.That night while their parents were out of town, one daughter went out and one vanished.A decade has passed and to this day what occurred that night at the Valentine's residence has remained a mystery..
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    crime  investigator  suspense  adult  book  fiction  kidnapping  murder
  • If She Ran by H.K. Christie

    If She Ran by H.K. Christie

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

    The Missing Daughter by Elle Gray

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When a congressman's daughter goes missing,FBI agent Blake Wilder and her team are sent to Iowa to find the missing girl.Already dealing with a mysterious figure who keeps sending her body parts, now Blake finds herself under attack from within her own unit...
  • Memories of the Falls by Elle Gray

    Memories of the Falls by Elle Gray

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It’s summertime at the Falls, and this season revenge tastes even sweeter…Sheriff Spenser Song thought she would get a much-needed break after aiding FBI agent Blake Wilder on an international trafficking ring.Shortly upon her return to the Falls and to Ryker, the place is once again in an uproar.When the town’s star athletes are found dead due to a drug overdose...
  • Trapper Road by Rachel Caine, Carrie Ryan

    Trapper Road by Rachel Caine, Carrie Ryan

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

    Five Days Post Mortem by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Her body floats. A bloated thing half atop the river. Naked. Pale. Mouth and eyes open wide. When two fishermen discover a corpse floating in the Clackamas river, profiler Violet Darger heads to rural Oregon to hunt another serial killer. What she discovers in the woods might change the course of her life...
  • The Final Vow by M.W. Craven

    The Final Vow by M.W. Craven

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The next unmissable novel* in the Sunday Times bestselling, multi-award-winning Washington Poe series. Poe and Tilly be prepared for the most twisted thrill-ride so far . . .An invisible killer with a 100% success rate. No one is safe. Not even those closest to Washington Poe . . .A shooting at Gretna Green. A bride is murdered on her wedding day, seconds after she slips on her new ring...
  • Cross Out by James Patterson

    Cross Out by James Patterson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Detectives Cross and Sampson are tracking a serial killer who's fatally ambushing young men in the “Dead Hours” murders. They don't hear the machine gun fire. At first. “Drop whatever you're doing, Dr. Cross, and head to Reagan Airport,” DC Metro Police dispatch says. “A plane just crashed and exploded on the runway. The chief and the FBI want you and John Sampson there pronto...
  • The Stolen by Dan Padavona

    The Stolen by Dan Padavona

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The night Sutter and Monica Steen leave for dinner, they never return home.Two weeks later, the police drag their bodies out of the river, sending the town into a panic.The Black River killer is back. Nobody is safe.When another person goes missing, Jefferson Gildon, a police detective with a checkered past, leads the investigation...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  pulp  serial-killers
  • Becoming the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar

    Becoming the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A riveting, haunting sequel to the New York Times bestselling thriller Chasing the Boogeyman—a tale of obsession and the adulation of evil, exploring modern society’s true-crime obsession with unflinching honesty, sparing no one from the glare of the spotlight...
  • Chosen Prey by John Sandford

    Chosen Prey by John Sandford

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A New York Times bestseller! Lucas Davenport returns in the most harrowing and unexpected Prey novel yet—the story of a congenial man, and his most uncongenial obsession...An art history professor and writer and cheerful pervert, James Qatar had a hobby: he took secret photographs of women and turned them into highly sexual drawings. One day, he took the hobby a step further and..
  • No Way Back by Rick Mofina, Christian Rummel

    No Way Back by Rick Mofina, Christian Rummel

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    San Francisco crime reporter Tom Reed is burned out. On the day he decides to finally quit the news business, a sensational story breaks. A heart-stopping robbery-homicide at a jewelry store. The suspects have shot and killed a police officer before fleeing with a female hostage. Reed rushes to the scene, his passion resurrected for one last big story...
  • Darkness Falls by Robert Bryndza

    Darkness Falls by Robert Bryndza

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling series.Kate Marshall’s investigation into a journalist’s disappearance sends her down an unexpectedly twisted path in a riveting thriller by the author of Shadow Sands.Kate Marshall’s fledgling PI agency takes off when she and her partner, Tristan Harper, are hired for their first big case. It’s a cold one...
  • A Cold Killing by Anna Smith

    A Cold Killing by Anna Smith

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

    The Girls in the Falls by Elle Gray

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    After answering the job posting for Sweetwater Falls, former FBI agent Spenser Song thought that she had finally escaped her painful past. Unfortunately, she quickly learned some things you just can’t ever run away from…When a local girl goes missing and another one turns up dead, Spenser finds clues that connect to a grim reminder of another fatal mistake in her past...
  • Love You Dead by Peter James

    Love You Dead by Peter James

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    An ugly duckling as a child, Jodie Bentley had two dreams in life—to be beautiful and rich. She's achieved the first, with a little help from a plastic surgeon, and now she's working hard on the second. Her philosophy about money is simple. You can either earn it or marry it. Marrying is easy, it's getting rid of the husband afterwards that's harder, that takes real skill...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  killer
  • You Are Dead by Peter James, Daniel Weyman

    You Are Dead by Peter James, Daniel Weyman

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    You are Dead is the eleventh thrilling crime novel in Peter James' Roy Grace series, read aloud by Daniel Weyman.They were marked for deathThe last words Jamie Ball hears from his fiancée, Logan Somerville, are in a terrified mobile phone call. She has just driven into the underground car park beneath the block of flats where they live in Brighton. Then she screams and the phone goes dead...
  • Broken Prey by John Sandford

    Broken Prey by John Sandford

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The first body is of a young woman, found on a Minneapolis riverbank, her throat cut, her body scourged and put on display. Whoever did this, Lucas Davenport knows, is pushed by brain chemistry. There is something wrong with him. This isn’t a bad love affair.The second body is found three weeks later, in a farmhouse six miles south. Same condition, same display—except this time it is a man...
  • The Locked Door by Freida McFadden

    The Locked Door by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Some doors are locked for a reason…While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement.Until the day the police arrived at their front door.Decades later, Nora’s father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  killer
  • Blood of Others by Rick Mofina

    Blood of Others by Rick Mofina

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The disappearance and murder of a lonely San Francisco insurance clerk puts a relentless crime reporter and legendary homicide cop on separate tracks in their pursuit of a killer.The suspect lures solitary women out of their quiet worlds and into his nightmare as he races the clock and travels the globe searching for the one woman who will forgive the unforgivable...
  • What She Left by H.K. Christie

    What She Left by H.K. Christie

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

    The Lonely Girls by Stacy Green

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The room spun and my legs gave way as I looked at my name scrawled in blood-colored lipstick on the mirror above the girl’s broken body. Was this young girl dead because of me?When the body of a vulnerable teenage girl is found on a remote farm in the Maryland hills, Private Investigator Lucy Kendall knows her past has come back to haunt her...
  • Black Widow by Kristi Belcamino

    Black Widow by Kristi Belcamino

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Mediterranean cruise. A fascinating new friend. An assassin playing a deadly game of revenge. Vigilante heiress Gia Santella has everything that money can buy. It’s what she can’t buy—love, companionship, friendship—that eludes her. When Gia is forced to take a luxury cruise, she sets aside her vigilante ways...
  • The Fuse by Stacy M. Jones

    The Fuse by Stacy M. Jones

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

    Psychopath by Jeff Menapace

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The final game is here… A decade has passed. The Lambert family is thriving. Amy Lambert is a successful entrepreneur and in a promising relationship with Allan Brown. Caleb Lambert is a respected member of the United States Marine Corps. Carrie Lambert is a flourishing college student. Or so they wish. Nothing could be further from the truth...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  murder
  • His Garden of Bones by Vickie McKeehan

    His Garden of Bones by Vickie McKeehan

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Not all flowers are grown with love. Years earlier, teenage girls began to vanish off the streets of Seattle. Now, they're turning up dead, their mutilated bodies left in prominent locations around the city. Skye Cree suspects there are more...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  female-mc  fiction  mystery
  • Spider's Truth by Christa Yelich-Koth

    Spider's Truth by Christa Yelich-Koth

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A psychological detective thriller.Some people can’t let go of a grudge. Homicide Detective Sean Trann is learning this the hard way. He made the mistake of interrupting the killing spree of Boston’s most notorious serial killer, Spider. Intent on finishing what he started and infuriated at Sean’s previous involvement, Spider has decided to use those closest to Sean as pieces in his twisted game...
  • Her Deadly Homecoming by Tony Urban, Drew Strickland

    Her Deadly Homecoming by Tony Urban, Drew Strickland

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Three girls. Brutally murdered. Eyelids surgically removed.Their killer never caught.Eighteen years later… a new victim is found.Carolina McKay thought she’d escaped her past. The murders that wrecked her youth. Her family. But most of all, her hometown...
  • Ten Little Girls by Willow Rose

    Ten Little Girls by Willow Rose

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

    Il était deux fois by Franck Thilliez

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

    Death is in the Details by Heather Sunseri

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A woman haunted by her past. A killer who won't let her forget.Faith Day's condition curses her to recall her mother’s fiery murder like it was yesterday. And when the forensic photographer’s convicted stepbrother is somehow cleared 12 years later and released from prison, Faith wonders if he'll put an end to her tortured memories...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  thriller  abuse  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Know No Evil by Graeme Hampton

    Know No Evil by Graeme Hampton

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Old crimes don’t stay buried forever… It’s high summer, and London sizzles in the grip of a heatwave. But when the body of young mother, Leanne Wyatt, is discovered in an East London park, the heat rises to boiling point for D.I. Matthew Denning...
  • Revenge at Sea by Brian O'Sullivan

    Revenge at Sea by Brian O'Sullivan

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Quint Adler is a small-town crime reporter with loftier aspirations. Stuck in a hospital bed on his 40th birthday, he overhears a sinister conversation.Sensing an opportunity, Quint starts his own investigation, bypassing local law enforcement in the process. His inquiries lead him to the scene of a savage murder. And a second one, even more barbaric.Then things spiral out of control...
  • Hunting Delilah by Anne Baines

    Hunting Delilah by Anne Baines

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Con artist. Get-away driver. Thief. Delilah makes her own way in a crooked world.Desperate for money after a heist goes south, Delilah breaks into a rich man's home. But instead of cash and jewels, she discovers a severed head and a serial killer...
  • The Dead Man by Joel Goldman

    The Dead Man by Joel Goldman

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    If you like John Grisham's twists and turns and James Patterson's page-turning thrills, you'll love Joel Goldman's The Dead Man, the second book in the Jack Davis Thriller series! "A masterful blend of rock-solid detective work and escalating dread. The Dead Man is both a top-notch thriller and a heart-rendering story of loss, courage and second chances. I loved it...
  • The Murder Game by Beverly Barton

    The Murder Game by Beverly Barton

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    New Game The game is simple--he is the Hunter. They are the Prey. He gives them a chance to escape. To run. To hide. To outsmart him. But eventually, he catches them. And that's when the game gets really terrifying... New RulesPrivate investigator Griffin Powell and FBI agent Nicole Baxter know a lot about serial killers--they took one down together...
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