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  • The Reign Of Kings by Candice M. Wright

    The Reign Of Kings by Candice M. Wright

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Raised by a family of cops who see the world in black and white,I grew up with a defiant streak a mile long,And an immunity to gun-toting alpha males.That is until I find myself at the Carnage clubhouse,At the mercy of their Kings.Now my black and white world is a dirty shade of gray,And my immunity to alpha males has disappeared along with my underwear...
  • The Unknown Beloved by Amy Harmon

    The Unknown Beloved by Amy Harmon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Chicago, 1923: Ten-year-old Dani Flanagan returns home to find police swarming the house, her parents dead. Michael Malone, the young patrolman assigned to the case, discovers there’s more to the situation - and to Dani Flanagan herself - than the authorities care to explore. Malone is told to shut his mouth, and Dani is sent away to live with her spinster aunts in Cleveland...
  • Concealed Cargo: Children for Sale by Jodi Burnett

    Concealed Cargo: Children for Sale by Jodi Burnett

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Special Agent Clay Jennings and his K9 partner, Ranger, take to the streets of Denver to fight human trafficking, he is shocked by the inordinate number of stolen innocents who’ve been forced into the sex trade. With each new face, his resolve to help these children escape their personal horror grows stronger...
  • The Hangman by Mary Burton

    The Hangman by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Julia Vargas is a cop with a mission. When she’s not chasing down bad guys, Julia dedicates her time to investigating the Hangman serial killer…the same unsolved case that her father, Jim Vargas, was working on when he supposedly shot and killed himself three decades before. While rumors continue to swirl around her father’s death, Julia attempts to hunt down the truth...
  • Forever Mine by Linsey Lanier

    Forever Mine by Linsey Lanier

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An old friend. A bad smell. A body stuffed into a wall. You'll never escape. After she left her abusive husband thirteen years ago, Miranda Steele became a fighter. Over the years, she picked up martial arts and street fighting tactics, and now that she works for the Parker Investigative Agency, she can handle a weapon. But the battle with her inner demons? Not so easy...
  • Thin Ice by Linsey Lanier

    Thin Ice by Linsey Lanier

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Take what matters most to her," said the voice. And he knew he would. He had to. Thirteen years ago, Miranda Steele’s abusive husband stole her baby and gave it up for adoption. Then he kicked Miranda out of his house. So she remade herself. Thirteen years later, the feisty, stubborn skeptic came to Atlanta hoping to find her daughter...
  • Silenced in the Falls by Elle Gray

    Silenced in the Falls by Elle Gray

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    To be young, wild, and carefree.The true essence of Taft High’s Spring dance.But there’s a price for the naivety of youth.A high price that could cost your blood, soul, and your silence.Sweetwater Falls is a charming town with all sorts of characters.From chaperoning the school dance with Ryker to putting drunk drivers behind bars...
  • The Heir of Shadows: An Underestimated Novel Book 4 by Candice Wright

    The Heir of Shadows: An Underestimated Novel Book 4 by Candice Wright

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    There was a little girl, who had a little gun, pointed right at the center of her forehead.When she was good, she was very, very goodBecause if she was bad, she was dead...
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    crime  justice  vigilante  adult  biker  book  contemporary  dark
  • Riddle Me This by Gina LaManna

    Riddle Me This by Gina LaManna

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Detective Kate Rosetti is not a big fan of February 14th. Even worse than gigantic bouquets of roses and buckets of chocolate, however, are the love notes she’s been receiving from the murderer who very nearly stole her life.Unfortunately, a peaceful Valentine’s Day isn’t in the cards for Kate Rosetti...
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    crime  adult  amateur-sleuth  animals  audiobook  book  cozy  female-mc
  • Atone by Cassandra Robbins

    Atone by Cassandra Robbins

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I don’t apologize or regret the destruction I’m about to cause. I’m at peace with what I must do… nothing can or will stand in my way. Not even the raven-haired beauty with golden eyes who haunts my dreams.No one is innocent in the story of my life. Fairy tales don’t exist!I. Make. No. Excuses.Everyone needs to atone, and I’m the man who is going to see to it...
  • Vulnerable by Mary Burton

    Vulnerable by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Smallest Mistake Three went in; one came out. For five years, no trace has been found of two high-school friends who went hiking in the woods near Nashville. The third teen, Amber Ryder, was discovered at the bottom of a ravine with a broken arm, head trauma--and zero memory of the horror that put her there...
  • She Can Hide by Melinda Leigh

    She Can Hide by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Abby Foster just wants a quiet, normal life. The high school teacher left everything about her past behind when she moved to the mountains of Pennsylvania, but only three years after surviving a brutal attack, Abby awakes in an icy river, facing death once again. This time, though, she doesn’t have to face it alone—if she can manage to trust the sexy cop who just risked his life to save her...
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    crime  adult  amnesia  audiobook  book  contemporary  drama  fiction
  • Cold Justice Series Box Set: Volume I: Books 1-3 by Toni Anderson

    Cold Justice Series Box Set: Volume I: Books 1-3 by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Now you can get the first three books of the Cold Justice Series in one bundle! Justice isn’t always black or white. Sometimes it’s cold and dark. A Cold Dark Place: Former CIA assassin Alex Parker works for The Gateway Project, a clandestine government organization hell-bent on taking out serial killers and pedophiles before they enter the justice system...
  • Forgotten Legacy by Robin Perini

    Forgotten Legacy by Robin Perini

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Forgotten secrets. Forgotten lies. A family legacy…A determined killer. On the outskirts of Singing River, Wyoming, a couple dies in a fire that ravages their remote mountain home. Everyone believes it’s a tragic accident—except FBI profiler Riley Lambert. She isn’t convinced, and neither is her fiancé, ex–Navy SEAL turned sheriff Thayne Blackwood...
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    crime  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  female-mc  fiction  killer
  • The Vecellio Connection by Estelle Ryan

    The Vecellio Connection by Estelle Ryan

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sadistic smugglers. Hacked cars. The ultimate revenge. Nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard and her team have spent the last year tracking Marcus Gallo, a disgraced Brazilian business tycoon and ruthless killer. Then a hacked car transporting artwork brings a teammate’s past back to distract and haunt them all...
  • Code Name: Cowboy by Heather Slade

    Code Name: Cowboy by Heather Slade

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Code Garrison “Cowboy” Cassidy Winslow Greer Take the ski champion to new peaks.COWBOYBeing quiet and reserved makes cracking cases and taking down enemies—one vile and malicious criminal at a time—easy for a stealthy agent like me. But when I meet Winslow, it requires every bit of my reserve to take it slow...
  • Unholy Bonds : A Dark Serial Killer Romantic Suspense by Maya Raine

    Unholy Bonds : A Dark Serial Killer Romantic Suspense by Maya Raine

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Three serial killers connected by an unholy thread, tangled in a twisted chase for revenge and blood. In this game of hunters, who will become the ultimate prey?***He is every sin she wants to commit. Yara West spends her day as a Medical Examiner. At nights, she dons the mask of a twisted killer to satiate the demons in her head...
  • A Killer Among Us (Women of Justice) by Lynette Eason

    A Killer Among Us (Women of Justice) by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When they are thrown into a grisly murder case, hostage negotiator Kit Kenyon and detective Noah Lambert soon realize they are on the hunt for a serial killer. The stakes are raised when they discover he may be hunting one of them too...
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    crime  adult  audiobook  book  christian  contemporary  cozy  fiction
  • When a Heart Stops by Lynette Eason

    When a Heart Stops by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Spunky and outgoing, nothing much bothers medical examiner Serena Hopkins--except for the thought of falling in love again. But when a serial killer is picking off her former classmates, Serena's life becomes intertwined with her old high school crush, FBI agent Dominic Allen...
  • Shoot the Breeze by Gina LaManna

    Shoot the Breeze by Gina LaManna

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Welcome to St. Paul, Minnesota—home to strong coffee, deadly winters, and Detective Kate Rosetti—a rising star in the local homicide department. When a young woman turns up dead along the Mississippi River in her latest assignment, Detective Rosetti quickly realizes it’s the work of a notorious cross-country serial killer...
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    crime  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy  culinary  fiction
  • Every Little Breath by Keri Beevis

    Every Little Breath by Keri Beevis

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I was nineteen when I discovered my boyfriend’s father was a serial killer. I stumbled upon his latest victim tied up in the basement of the house he was renovating, and it was my evidence that helped convict him to a life in prison.My boyfriend never forgave me for turning against his dad and a couple of years later took his own life. That was fifteen years ago...
  • Scream for Me by Karen Rose

    Scream for Me by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    For her exciting debut in hardcover, New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose delivers a heart-stopping suspense novel that picks up where DIE FOR ME left off, with a detective determined to track down a brutal murderer...
  • Vile by Debra Webb

    Vile by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Deputy Chief Jess Harris knows her time is running out. Somehow she must protect the people she loves and any more innocent victims from the serial killer obsessed with her...
  • Vicious by Debra Webb

    Vicious by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book 7 in the Faces of Evil series. Serial killer Eric Spears is far from done. He has chosen his next victim and Deputy Chief Jess Harris knows it's only a matter of time until he comes for her. The murders are vicious, the killer relentless...
  • Heinous by Debra Webb

    Heinous by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The body count is rising. The serial killer obsessed with Birmingham’s Deputy Chief Jess Harris is getting closer, and he knows Jess’s secret. Can she protect the child she carries and the people she loves from Eric Spears and his followers? The body farm discovered in a small Alabama town has many buried secrets...
  • Legacy Of Hunters Ridge by Sarah Barrie

    Legacy Of Hunters Ridge by Sarah Barrie

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She dazzled with Secrets of Whitewater Creek, now Sarah Barrie kicks off a brand-new trilogy about small towns, secrets, and the love that saves lives. Successful horse trainer Alissa Morgan-Jones has the world at her feet, until a tragic fire destroys everything. Widowed, in debt and under suspicion for arson, Alissa’s life is in tatters...
    Categorized as:
    crime  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc  fiction  murder  mystery
  • Remy by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Remy by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After two confidential informants are murdered by a drug lord the DEA has spent months trying to bust, agent Avery Carmichael is ordered to go undercover.She’s going to need some help infiltrating the outlaw world, which is where the hottest, most infuriating man she’s ever met comes in. Remy Fulton is the president of the newest Savage Kings MC chapter in Rockland, Virginia...
  • Layered Lies by Kaylie Hunter

    Layered Lies by Kaylie Hunter

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two years after her son was abducted, Kelsey Harrison rebuilds a new life for herself. She opens a store, makes new friends, and settles into a peaceful existence. At least, that’s what she hopes the world believes.Behind closed doors, Kelsey hunts her enemies, living a life of lies. She hasn’t forgotten, hasn’t forgiven. She searches for answers still...
  • First Cut by J.T. Bishop

    First Cut by J.T. Bishop

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A serial killer returns to taunt the woman once determined to catch him.In this gripping thriller, former detective Jill Jacobs must confront the Makeup Artist, an elusive psychopath whose trail of terror left seven dead and whose obsession almost destroyed her...
  • Dead End by Nancy Mehl

    Dead End by Nancy Mehl

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a body is discovered in a field in Iowa, the police uncover fourteen additional corpses ranging from 20 years old to recent. The remains point to a serial killer with an MO the authorities have seen before--Ed Oliphant, a man who has been in prison for over 20 years . . . and is Special Agent Kaely Quinn's father...
  • Beneath the Surface by Lynn H. Blackburn, Lynn Huggins Blackburn

    Beneath the Surface by Lynn H. Blackburn, Lynn Huggins Blackburn

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After a harrowing experience with an obsessed patient, oncology nurse practitioner Leigh Weston needed a change. She thought she'd left her troubles behind when she moved home to Carrington, North Carolina, and took a job in the emergency department of the local hospital. But when someone tampers with her brakes, she fears the past has chased her into the present...
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    crime  adult  audiobook  book  christian  contemporary  fiction  killer
  • Good Little Girls by Rita Herron

    Good Little Girls by Rita Herron

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fear becomes a woman’s greatest weapon in a heart-pounding novel of suspense from the USA Today bestselling author of Pretty Little Killers. Tinsley Jensen survived the torturous clutches of an elusive masked killer dubbed the Skull, only to be held hostage by her nightmares. She’s terrified of leaving her cottage on Seahawk Island, knowing that the madman is still out there...
    Categorized as:
    crime  justice  vigilante  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  dark
  • The Gift by Kate Anslinger

    The Gift by Kate Anslinger

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    AMAZON BEST SELLER One look in a criminal’s eyes and she witnesses their crimes. Grace McKenna is not your average police officer. She is haunted by the unsettling images she sees when she locks eyes with a criminal, her vision flooded with clues that force her to solve cases on her own. A sullen boy, a tormented woman, a breathless man, a thousand pieces of shattered green glass...
  • Senseless by Mary Burton

    Senseless by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Every Serial Killer Knows. . . The vicious burns scarring the victims' flesh reveal the agony of their last moments. Each woman was branded with a star, then stabbed through the heart. With every death, a vengeful killer finds a brief, blissful moment of calm. But soon it's time for the bloodshed to start again. . . The Perfect Time. .
    Categorized as:
    crime  abuse  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction  killer
  • No Escape by Mary Burton

    No Escape by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    He Was Taught How To Kill Even behind bars, serial killer Harvey Day Smith exudes menace. Psychologist Jolene Granger has agreed to hear his dying confession, vowing not to let the monster inside her head...
    Categorized as:
    crime  adult  book  contemporary  dark  fiction  kidnapping  killer
  • Bloodthirsty by Cassandra Featherstone

    Bloodthirsty by Cassandra Featherstone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “Forgive me.”Those were Professor Arnaud’s final words before I sliced through his neck. His was the first head I took, but it wouldn’t be the last.Severing my connections to l’Academie d’Invisible was harder, but eventually, I escaped and built a reputation of my own.Infamy suits me, and the harsh lessons of my childhood have served me well. I’m untouchable, undetectable, and untraceable...
  • Corrupting Ivy by Ann-Marie Davis

    Corrupting Ivy by Ann-Marie Davis

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I wanted to stay hidden… anonymous.  But fate had other plans. After stumbling upon a grim scene that threw me into the spotlight, my life is turned upside down, and I’m no longer safe. Then he walked in. The one everyone warned me about.He's rumored to have more demons than Hell.But the devil can be oh so tempting… WARNING: This book is a DARK/ANTI HERO romance...
  • Stitch by Emmaleigh Loader

    Stitch by Emmaleigh Loader

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Adley:Nobody thinks that a pretty woman holds dark secrets, but then again, the world only sees what we allow it to.I was raised by very bad people.I learned to do very bad things—things that others would see as depraved.I was fine living my life in the shadows, going unseen…Until he stepped from the abyss...
    Categorized as:
    crime  vigilante  justice  romance  dark  abuse  contemporary  steamy
  • Awakening the Beast by Jodie King

    Awakening the Beast by Jodie King

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Wren - The night I lost him, everything I cherished turned into ashes along with that fire, swallowed by the inferno that scarred my heart and mind. I became who they call ‘The Queen of Darkness’, mimicking the love of my life, Arlo Hayes, lost in the abyss of trauma and hatred. Now, as he stands before me, the happiness I should feel wars with the despair that has settled deep within me...
  • Starlet: A Dark Hollywood Mafia Romance by Cora Kenborn

    Starlet: A Dark Hollywood Mafia Romance by Cora Kenborn

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling Author Cora Kenborn comes a dark and twisted enemies to lovers retelling of Anastasia. They call me America’s Sweetheart. Hollywood royalty. The last of an era. Sole survivor of LA’s most infamous crime. I’m not any of those things. He forced me into the spotlight. The liar with a perfect smile and cold blue eyes. But Alexandra Romanov’s fate won’t be mine...
  • Profile of Terror by Alexa Grace

    Profile of Terror by Alexa Grace

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A missing coed named Abby Reece. Two clever thrill killers are committing the most brutal, public, and horrifying abductions and murders in the county’s history. The killers, known as the Gamers, have done this before, and are now upping their evil game to a new level. The question is — can they be stopped before they kill again? Things get complicated...
  • Senseless & Merciless Bundle by Mary Burton

    Senseless & Merciless Bundle by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Senseless & Merciless Bundle Senseless Every Serial Killer Knows. . . The vicious burns scarring the victims' flesh reveal the agony of their last moments. Each woman was branded with a star, then stabbed through the heart. With every death, a vengeful killer finds a brief, blissful moment of calm. But soon it's time for the bloodshed to start again. . . The Perfect Time. .
  • In the Shadows by J.A. Owenby

    In the Shadows by J.A. Owenby

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When you finally meet the monster hiding under your bed.One, two, I’m coming for you.She’s my obsession.Three, four, kneel on the floor.I want to possess her in every way.Five, six, I’m up to my old tricks.She knows me as The Portland Serial K!ll3r.Seven, eight, lay in wait.Little does she know I’m watching her.Nine, ten, never to be seen again.Welcome to your worst nightmare, Little Lamb...
  • Sole Survivor by Candice M. Wright

    Sole Survivor by Candice M. Wright

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There’s a murderer on the loose.One who kills without hesitation and remorse.When Rue Anderson, the killer’s tenth victim, is found in a shallow grave at a children’s park, it sends shockwaves through the local community and sparks a media frenzy.But there is a difference between Rue and the nine victims that came before her.Rue survived...
  • Deadly Obsession by Maggie Shayne

    Deadly Obsession by Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A cold-blooded killer with a burning obsession… Rachel de Luca has a bad feeling about the new woman in Detective Mason Brown's life, the nurse taking care of him after he's injured in the line of duty. She'd like to think it's just jealousy, but intuition tells her it's something more, maybe something dangerous...
  • Stolen: A Cassidy & Spenser Thriller by Carey Baldwin

    Stolen: A Cassidy & Spenser Thriller by Carey Baldwin

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Is she missing…or a murderer? When Laura Chaucer, daughter of a U.S. senator, vanishes from her college campus, celebrated FBI profilers Special Agent Atticus Spenser and forensic psychiatrist Dr. Caitlin Cassidy are called in. Thirteen years ago, Laura and her nanny disappeared from her family’s Denver home. Laura was found alive, but her nanny wasn’t so lucky… and the killer was never caught...
    Categorized as:
    crime  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  murder  mystery
  • Defenseless by Tamsen Schultz

    Defenseless by Tamsen Schultz

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A murdered woman, a powerful politician, and a witness who’s no longer willing to stay in the shadows. Eighteen years ago, Bela Houseman became a loose end. The powerful man who murdered her mother knows who she is and exactly what she saw that night. Giving up everything she’s ever known, including her own name, is the only way to protect herself...
  • Love and Rage by Kaylie Hunter

    Love and Rage by Kaylie Hunter

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Run? Living the rest of my life in hiding?Or fight back? Starting with the man who hurt me in the worst of ways…After everything I survived, am I strong enough to do either? Am I strong enough to walk away from the protection that my family offered? The loving arms of my only son?And, if I fight, while already injured and barely holding on to reality, can I survive yet another war?Her enemies...
  • 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...
  • Dying Scream by Mary Burton

    Dying Scream by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The killing just won’t stop as a ruthless psychopath revisits his greatest obsession—but this time, a Richmond, Virginia, homicide detective is determined to stop him in his bloody tracks . . .   An aspiring artist. A high-school senior. A stripper. Three missing women with only one thing in common—wealthy Craig Thornton knew them all. For that, they paid the ultimate price...
    Categorized as:
    crime  adult  book  dark  fiction  kidnapping  murder  mystery
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