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  • Autumn's Fear by Mary Stone

    Autumn's Fear by Mary Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Don’t fear the dark. It’s the light that blinds...and kills.Forensic and criminal psychologist Dr. Autumn Trent is trying to find her groove in her transition to the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit. But can her soft heart continue to take a beating? Will her impulsive spirit continue to get her in trouble? Probably...
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    dark  suspense  thriller  adult  alpha-mc  book  family  female-mc
  • One Last Child by Anni Taylor

    One Last Child by Anni Taylor

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Winner, Audiofile Earphones Award 2020 - narration by Caroline Lee.Five long-missing children are about to be RETURNED.It was summer in the mountains when five small children vanished from their nursery school picnic. The heat was stifling that day, the tinkle of an ice-cream van in the air....Three-and-a-half years later, in the dead of winter, the children are returned to their families..
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    drama  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  crime  female-mc
  • Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent

    Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father told her to do, to put him out with the rubbish when he died.Now Sally is the centre of attention, not only from the hungry media and worried police, but also a sinister voice from a past she has no memory of...
  • The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden

    The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    “Don’t go in the guest bedroom.” A shadow falls on Douglas Garrick’s face as he touches the door with his fingertips. “My wife… she’s very ill.” As he continues showing me their incredible penthouse apartment, I have a terrible feeling about the woman behind closed doors...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  crime  fiction  mystery  psychological
  • Martin Swans Diary: Black Water Crossing by Kyle Keyes

    Martin Swans Diary: Black Water Crossing by Kyle Keyes

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Martin Swan was not a terrorist, nor a truck driver. He only replied to the want-ad because the wording linked Florida with Washington DC and wanted someone who could speak Arabic. The year was 2008. Jobs were scarce, gas prices high. The back page ad called for a big rig driver with a clean record, who could be at Black Water Crossing the day before Halloween...
  • The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

    The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    “Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I’ll soon learn that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than my own…Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom...
  • The Surrogate's Gift by L.G. Davis

    The Surrogate's Gift by L.G. Davis

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Her one good deed is about to turn into her worst nightmare.Becoming a surrogate for Marcia and Travis Thorpe is Grace’s chance to overcome her inner demons.Nothing can go wrong. Her life depends on it.Determined to focus on the pregnancy, she drops everything and accepts the Thorpes’ offer to move in with them until the baby is born. A simple decision. One big mistake...
  • Cross Fire by C.C. Warrens

    Cross Fire by C.C. Warrens

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Holly's worst nightmare steps back into her life, she has to decide whether to stand and fight or flee and survive...
  • I Looked Away by Jane Corry

    I Looked Away by Jane Corry

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    YOU MADE A MISTAKE. BUT THEY'RE SAYING IT'S MURDER.From the Sunday Times bestselling author of My Husband's Wife, comes a beautifully written psycholgocial thriller for fans of Lisa Jewell and Clare Mackintosh.Every Monday, 49-year-old Ellie looks after her grandson Josh. She loves him more than anyone else in the world. The only thing that can mar her happiness is her husband's affair...
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    drama  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • Eye for Eye by J.K. Franko

    Eye for Eye by J.K. Franko

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What would YOU do if someone hurt the one you love?Roy and Susie are the perfect couple, an ideal family living a fairy-tale life... until their teenage daughter is senselessly killed.Just as they’re managing to put that tragic loss behind them, a complete stranger approaches Roy in a bar with a drunken proposal—he invokes their daughter’s memory to ask Roy to kill a man...
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    drama  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  crime  earth
  • 20 Minutes Around The Bonfire by Daniel Hurst

    20 Minutes Around The Bonfire by Daniel Hurst

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fireworks. Flames. Fate.The seventh book in the bestselling 20 Minute Series sees the citizens of London descend on Battersea Park for the annual 5th November celebrations...
  • The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark

    The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She's back.Meg Williams. Maggie Littleton. Melody Wilde. Different names for the same person, depending on the town, depending on the job. She's a con artist who erases herself to become whoever you need her to be—a college student. A life coach. A real estate agent. Nothing about her is real...
  • God's Gift To Women - Special Edition by Michael Baisden

    God's Gift To Women - Special Edition by Michael Baisden

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    God's Gift To Women - Special Edition How Much Is One Night Of Passion Really Worth? A widower and father to ten-year-old Samantha, Julian wants nothing more than to settle down again with the right woman. Just when he thinks he's found her in Dr...
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    dark  suspense  adult  book  fiction  psychological  stalking  romance
  • The Stepchild by Nicole Trope

    The Stepchild by Nicole Trope

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Three-year-old Millie Everleigh disappears on a crisp winter’s day, and nothing is as it seems…It’s the phone call every mother dreads.I’m climbing into the car after a trip to the grocery store. As the engine starts, my phone rings. It’s my stepdaughter, Shelby, who is babysitting my three-year-old little girl Millie.‘I only went upstairs for a second,’ she says through her sobs. ‘She’s gone...
  • My Wife's Secrets by Wendy Owens

    My Wife's Secrets by Wendy Owens

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Everyone has secrets. When my wife went to prison for the murder of my mistress, I realized just how dangerous some secrets could be.She’s now my ex-wife and is getting released based on new evidence. I don’t want to worry, but even if she didn’t kill my mistress, which I’m not convinced of, there’s no doubt she’s unstable.I have a family to protect now...
  • First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

    First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist.The identity comes to Evie Porter. Once she’s given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it...
  • 20 Minutes Of Valentine's Day by Daniel Hurst

    20 Minutes Of Valentine's Day by Daniel Hurst

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Love is in the air as the bestselling 20 Minute Series continues on the most romantic day of the year!Set over one 20 minute period on Valentine's Day, the ninth book in the series sees familiar characters return for a night of romance, passion and second chances.First dates. Old flames. Heartbreak. And one very dangerous villain..
  • The Juror by George Dawes Green

    The Juror by George Dawes Green

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    This is a psychological thriller about a young woman threatened by the Mafia who must return a verdict of 'not guilty' to ensure the safety of her son. The book has been turned into a movie, featuring Alec Baldwin and Demi Moore...
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    drama  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction
  • The Ex Wives by Jenna Kernan

    The Ex Wives by Jenna Kernan

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Two ex-wives. Two missing girls. Will yours be next?Pulling a batch of my husband’s favourite golden oatmeal cookies from the oven, I smile to hear my daughter Phoebe playing in the treehouse outside. I was once so close to losing everything, but since I married handsome Jackson, I have a perfect life. Jackson might tell me what to wear, but he just likes to buy me nice things...
  • The Game You Played by Anni Taylor

    The Game You Played by Anni Taylor

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Little Boy Blue Where did you go? Who led you away? Only I know . . . . Two-year-old Tommy Basko goes missing from a popular inner-city playground. Six months later, his parents begin receiving cryptic messages in rhyme about Tommy. The police don't believe the messages are from the abductor, but Tommy's mother Phoebe is certain they're a game meant for her...
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    drama  suspense  thriller  adult  book  crime  fiction  kidnapping
  • Did I Kill My Husband? by A.J. Campbell

    Did I Kill My Husband? by A.J. Campbell

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The police officer’s voice is steady as he tells me the news. ‘Your husband is in hospital.’ My heart pounds. I think about my children, safely tucked up in bed. What will happen to us if he loses his life? And more importantly… do the police know where I really was tonight?Everybody thinks Michael and I are the perfect couple. But everybody is wrong...
  • Distruggimi by Chiara Cilli

    Distruggimi by Chiara Cilli

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Credevo di essere sopravvissuta all'orrore. Mi sbagliavo.Credeva di potermi sfuggire. Ma non ha scampo da me. Non riesco a liberarmi di lui.Non le permetterò di cacciarmi dalla sua mente. È nella mia testa, nel mio sangue, nelle mie ossa.È un mostro che vuole impossessarsi della mia anima e farla a brandelli. Henri Lamaze è l'incubo di morte da cui non sarò mai in grado di svegliarmi...
  • Uccidimi (Blood Bonds) by Chiara Cilli

    Uccidimi (Blood Bonds) by Chiara Cilli

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Non avrei mai immaginato che la mia vita sarebbe finita così.Non avrei mai creduto che la mia vita sarebbe dipesa dalla sua.Ero pronta a morire per mano dell'uomo che mi aveva distrutto.Ero pronto a uccidere la donna che si era presa tutto me stesso.Ma la mia sofferenza non è ancora terminata.Ma me l'hanno portata via.Sta venendo a riprendermi, lo sento.Me la riprenderò, a qualsiasi costo...
  • Every Pretty Thing by Chris Mooney

    Every Pretty Thing by Chris Mooney

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In Every Pretty Thing serial killer hunter Darby McCormick finds herself in Montana, looking for a friend. Little does she realise that a murderer is waiting for her . . .She came to find her friend.Instead she found a killer.Serial killer expert Darby McCormick gets a call from FBI Agent Jackson Cooper, who has been contacted by a woman who's been in hiding for twenty years...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  crime  fiction  mystery  psychological
  • 20 Minutes Before Christmas by Daniel Hurst

    20 Minutes Before Christmas by Daniel Hurst

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's a magical time of year. But not for everyone...It's Christmas Eve, and London is still reeling from the events on Bonfire Night. But time waits for nobody, so what fresh drama is in store as the presents are wrapped, the turkeys are cooked, and the clock counts down to the most wonderful day of the year?Mistletoe. Mince Pies. Mulled wine. And murder..
  • Left Hanging by Maria Frankland

    Left Hanging by Maria Frankland

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Marriage is a coin with two sides. One joyful. One deadly.Kerry's focus is on fitting in, whilst safeguarding the lifestyle she has always craved. With a handsome, affluent husband, twin boys and her own successful business, it seems as though nothing could ever ‘flip’ her coin.Ed fears their marriage is a sham and that he is living a lie...
  • The Missing Widow by L.G. Davis

    The Missing Widow by L.G. Davis

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I thought we would be safe here. But I was wrong…My son Clark and I live in a beautiful cabin outside a rural town, somewhere nobody will find us. I could not have found a more perfect place to start over, shielded by the trees and far away from prying eyes. But when I find a newspaper clipping on my porch, it drives fear into my bones. Widow wanted for murder screams the headline...
  • The Concierge by Miranda Rijks

    The Concierge by Miranda Rijks

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They hired an assistant to help them. But she has other plans.High-flying duo Goldie and Braun Delucci run a major film production company. But recently their gilded lives were touched by tragedy when one of their leading actors, Ally, died in a car crash.What the Deluccis don’t realise is that their newly hired private assistant is actually Ally’s sister...
  • 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...
  • Wait Until Dark by Frederick Knott

    Wait Until Dark by Frederick Knott

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Susy Hendrix, a blind Greenwich Village housewife, is terrorized by a trio of men looking for heroin they believe her husband has hidden in a doll...
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    drama  suspense  thriller  adult  book  classics  fiction  horror
  • One Little Lie by Christopher Greyson

    One Little Lie by Christopher Greyson

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    THE TRUTH COULD COST HER EVERYTHING.Kate had high hopes when she moved to her husband‘s hometown, but her domestic bliss was short-lived. Blindsided by her spouse’s very public affair with his high school sweetheart and a painful divorce, Kate’s determined to hold onto custody of her kids and pull herself together...
  • The Killer's Home by A.J. Carter

    The Killer's Home by A.J. Carter

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Do you really know your neighbours?Once again, my irresponsible sister has instantly fallen for the wrong guy. Rook seems like the perfect man on first meeting, but even I can see there’s something evil behind his eyes.And I’m right. It’s been two days since Fern went into his house, and nobody has heard from her since...
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    suspense  thriller  dark  psychological  fiction  family  crime  book
  • The Perfect Getaway by Kiersten Modglin

    The Perfect Getaway by Kiersten Modglin

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It was the trip of a lifetime…until someone ended up dead. When four couples receive invitations to try out a luxury island resort, they are excited for a week of relaxation and reconnecting.For some, it’s the honeymoon they never had the chance to take.For others, it’s a last-ditch attempt to save their crumbling marriage...
  • My Sister's Husband by Nicola Marsh

    My Sister's Husband by Nicola Marsh

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The sunroom at the back of the house is just as I remember. I can’t taste homemade lemonade or smell oatmeal cookies without thinking of home, of the beautiful cliffs of Martino Bay, and I feel welcomed. But all thoughts of a happy family reunion are destroyed the moment I see him… He’s as handsome as I remember: broad shoulders, piercing blue eyes, hair the colour of burnt toffee...
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    dark  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  crime  family
  • My Husband's Secret by Kiersten Modglin

    My Husband's Secret by Kiersten Modglin

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    My husband liked his secrets. On the day of his funeral, I found out just how much. As it turns out, there were three of us. Three women he loved. Three secrets he had to keep. But Lucas wasn’t the only one with secrets. The three of us have a few of our own, and we’d do anything to keep them. If you look close enough, we each had a motive. We all had an opportunity...
    Categorized as:
    drama  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  murder
  • The Guilty Girl by Ruth Harrow

    The Guilty Girl by Ruth Harrow

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Chloe is serving a life sentence. In her own home.Ever since the horrific day her mother died, Chloe's life has been anything but normal - more like a carefully constructed prison. Her father hasn’t let her go to school, have friends or leave the house alone.As she grows up, Chloe begins to question the motives behind her dad's obsessive control...
    Categorized as:
    dark  suspense  drama  thriller  mystery  crime  fiction  psychological
  • The Arrangement by Miranda Rijks

    The Arrangement by Miranda Rijks

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    How well do you know your daughter?Grace is living through every mother’s worst nightmare. Her student daughter Abi went away on a dream vacation to South Africa - and was murdered...
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    drama  suspense  thriller  adult  book  crime  family  fiction
  • Til Death Do Us Part by Daniel Hurst

    Til Death Do Us Part by Daniel Hurst

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Megan thinks that she has the perfect husband and the perfect life. Craig works so that she doesn't have to, leaving her free to relax all day in their beautiful and secluded country home.But when she starts to long for friends and purpose again, Megan applies for a job in London, much to her husband's disappointment. She thinks that he is upset because she is unhappy. But she has no idea...
    Categorized as:
    dark  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • Secrets by D.L. Maddox

    Secrets by D.L. Maddox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jane Ashcroft walks dogs under a false name, trying to stay quiet, unnoticed, untouchable.But in every new town, something pulls her in. A wealthy family with secrets. A romance that isn’t what it seems. A client who might be a killer...
  • The Mother Of All Things by Gabriel Blake

    The Mother Of All Things by Gabriel Blake

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    DARK BEGINNINGS, BRUTAL ENDINGSA traumatic event and the break-up of her marriage returns Elaine to her childhood home where she embarks on renovating the run-down farmhouse as she reconnects with her mother and entertains her two children over the summer holidays...
    Categorized as:
    dark  suspense  thriller  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • The Bell Chime by Mona Kabbani

    The Bell Chime by Mona Kabbani

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Winner of the Ladies of Horror Fiction Award for Best Novella of 2020"Can you hear the bell chime?"A girl suffering from paralyzing night terrors finds a missing poster hanging from the door of her apartment building. On that poster is a photograph of a frighteningly familiar face.It’s her.Only, she’s never seen this photo before and something about its grin scares her...
    Categorized as:
    dark  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  psychological
  • Survival by Rebecca Sherwin

    Survival by Rebecca Sherwin

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With intertwining memories and a world of deceit and betrayal yet to be exposed, Survival, book #1 in the Twisted series, is an intense, compelling page-turner, seen through the eyes of Skye 'the Skillet' Jones. With no friends, no family and a life of loneliness ahead, Skye was looking for a reason to fight. To live. To survive...
    Categorized as:
    dark  suspense  adult  book  fiction  psychological  sports  romance
  • Swallow Lane by Marie Snow, Jordan Marie

    Swallow Lane by Marie Snow, Jordan Marie

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It was supposed to be a fresh start.
A new life.
That’s what I told myself anyway when I moved with my son Matthew to Liars Island from Stillwake.
Too much conflict and heartache had been a constant in our life, especially with my son. And although my Matthew was grown, I’d always see him as my little boy and the one person I needed to protect above all else...
  • Heartbreaker by Tania Carver

    Heartbreaker by Tania Carver

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After years of abuse, Gemma Adderley has finally found the courage to leave her violent husband. She has taken one debilitating beating too many, endured one esteem-destroying insult too much. Taking her seven-year-old daughter Carly, she leaves the house, determined to salvage what she can of her life...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  thriller  crime  mystery  fiction  psychological  book  adult
  • A Child Is Torn: Innocence Lost by Dawn Kopman Whidden

    A Child Is Torn: Innocence Lost by Dawn Kopman Whidden

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Evan Madison fails to show up for work, police go to his home where his ten-year-old son, Brad, is found, unharmed and alone. He is stoic, sitting in front of the TV playing a video game, and covered in blood. In the upstairs bedroom, lie his parents bludgeoned to death. Brad confesses to killing them, but it makes no sense. Is Brad covering some someone else or the evil seed born to kill...
  • My Husband's Killer by Laura Marshall

    My Husband's Killer by Laura Marshall

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Three couples. One murder. A holiday to die for . . .We arrived at a villa on the Amalfi Coast, ready to enjoy a sun-soaked weekend with our oldest friends - and one new face.By the end of the weekend, my husband is found dead.But how can I mourn him, when on the day of his funeral I discover he was having an affair?The only suspects are the women we went on holiday with...
  • The Good Wife by Ellery A. Kane

    The Good Wife by Ellery A. Kane

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    My husband has been accused of something terrible. But what I’m about to do is much worse…I’m sick to my stomach when I hear about the young woman found dead outside my husband’s music studio the night of our wedding anniversary. She and Theo were close, so when the police knock on the door as our daughter sleeps peacefully upstairs, I think they’re just trying to rule him out...
  • Every Breath You Take by Miranda Rijks

    Every Breath You Take by Miranda Rijks

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Has her husband really left her? Or is someone playing a deadly game?When Eva’s husband Samuel doesn’t come home from a boys’ night out, she thinks he’s sleeping off his hangover at a friend’s house. So she waits. And waits...Eventually, he sends her a text – he’s met someone else and needs a few days to get his head together. Eva is devastated...
    Categorized as:
    thriller  suspense  fiction  psychological  book  adult
  • Mirrors by Ted Dekker

    Mirrors by Ted Dekker

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The journey that began with IDENTITY, Book One of Eyes Wide Open, continues with the second episodic book, Mirrors.Who am I? My name is Christy Snow. I'm seventeen and I'm about to die. I'm buried in a coffin under tons of concrete. No one knows where I am. My heart sounds like a monster with clobber feet, running straight toward me...
  • Speak No Evil by Tanya Anne Crosby

    Speak No Evil by Tanya Anne Crosby

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    If you love a gripping Southern suspense, USA Today bestselling SPEAK NO EVIL is for you. Lifting the veil of secrecy on a grand Southern family in decline. New York Times bestselling author Tanya Anne Crosby explores the lives of Caroline, Augusta, and Savannah Aldridge, three sisters who share a dark past and an uncertain future..
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