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It Happened in Silence by Karla M. Jay
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHonorable Mention in the 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award Historical Fiction Category2021 Benjamin Franklin Silver Award 2021 Finalist Wishing Shelf Book AwardRiveting Southern Fiction by the award-winning author of When We Were Brave. ~Set in a world where women of the KKK betray their neighbors, horrors of unscrupulous foundling homes come to light, and buried mysteries are not all that hidden... -
![None Left to Tell by Noelle W. Ihli]()
None Left to Tell by Noelle W. Ihli
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThree women, connected by one of the most brutal mass slayings in US history.Lucy is sick of turning the other cheek. Ten years ago, an anti-Mormon mob drove her family and friends from their homes in Illinois. But now, the tables have turned. Rumor has it, some of those same men are traveling through Utah on their way to California. And this time, Lucy won’t run... -
![The Red Ribbon (Volume 8) (True Colors) by Pepper Basham]()
The Red Ribbon (Volume 8) (True Colors) by Pepper Basham
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn Appalachian Feud Blows Up in 1912 Step into True Colors -- a new series of Historical Stories of Romance and American Crime In Carroll County, a corn shucking is the social event of the season, until a mischievous kiss leads to one of the biggest tragedies in Virginia history. Ava Burcham isn’t your typical Blue Ridge Mountain girl... -
![Sea of Greed by Clive Cussler]()
Sea of Greed by Clive Cussler
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling master of adventure, a brand new mission for Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew--based on a remarkable historical incident. January 1968Two submarines--one French, one Israeli--vanish in the Mediterranean within days of each other. Extensive search-and-rescue operations turn up no sign of either vessel... -
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![Senseless & Merciless Bundle by Mary Burton]()
Senseless & Merciless Bundle by Mary Burton
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSenseless & 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. . -
![The Nero Wolfe Mystery Series: The Zeck Trilogy: And Be a Villain, The Second Confession, In the Best Families by Rex Stout]()
The Nero Wolfe Mystery Series: The Zeck Trilogy: And Be a Villain, The Second Confession, In the Best Families by Rex Stout
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe perfect introduction to crime fiction’s greatest armchair detective: three mysteries featuring Nero Wolfe and his nemesis, gangland kingpin Arnold Zeck . . .AND BE A VILLAINTHE SECOND CONFESSIONIN THE BEST FAMILIES A guest on a radio talk show drops dead on-air after drinking a glass of a sponsor’s beverage... -
![Violence of the Mountain Man by William W. Johnstone]()
Violence of the Mountain Man by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDEAL WITH THE DEVILSmoke Jensen has seen the worst that men can do on the lawless frontier. But even the mountain man is not prepared for the outlaw band that strikes Smoke's ranch, kidnapping Sally and the daughter of Smoke's neighbor. Now, the women are gone and a ranch hand and his young daughter are dead. AND PAY THE PRICE IN BLOOD.. -
![Blackfoot Messiah by William W. Johnstone]()
Blackfoot Messiah by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the seventh book in his bestselling Preacher series, William W. Johnstone gives his millions of avid fans exactly the kind of gritty, action-packed Western novel they look for from this prolific and hugely popular writer. "A Messiah Shall Lead Them..."... -
![The Gray Chamber by Grace Hitchcock]()
The Gray Chamber by Grace Hitchcock
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsStep into True Colors -- a new series of Historical Stories of Romance and American CrimeWill Edyth prove her sanity before it is too late? On Blackwell Island, New York, a hospital was built to keep its patients from ever leaving... -
![Evil Unveiled by Robert McCammon]()
Evil Unveiled by Robert McCammon
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"New York Times" bestselling author Robert McCammon continues his triumphant return with the conclusion of an epic tale of suspense that reinstates him as one of the great storytellers of our time....The Carolinas, 1699: After hearing damning testimony from the townspeople of Fount Royal, magistrate Isaac Woodward sentences the accused witch, Rachel Howarth, to death by burning... -
![The Orphan House by Ann Bennett]()
The Orphan House by Ann Bennett
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTwo women uncover the secrets of the past in this emotional and poignant story that’s perfect for fans of Lisa Wingate and Kristina McMorris. 1934: Connie Burroughs loves living in the orphanage that her father runs in the English countryside... -
![Entre los muertos by Mikel Santiago]()
Entre los muertos by Mikel Santiago
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDespués del éxito de El mentiroso y En plena noche, llega el esperado cierre de la Trilogía de Illumbe: un thriller magistral, lleno de misterios y giros sorprendentes cuya clave podría estar en la pregunta que late en el alma de esta historia: ¿Es posible enterrar un secreto para siempre?Hay muertos que nunca descansan, y tal vez no deban hacerlo hasta que se les haga justicia... -
![The Silver Shadow by Liz Tolsma]()
The Silver Shadow by Liz Tolsma
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Shadowy Figure Is Intent on Harming Denver’s WomenStep into True Colors -- a new series of Historical Stories of Romance and American CrimeDenver of 1900 is still a dangerous place to be following the silver crash of 1893. And of out of the dark comes a shadow intent on harming women... -
![The Rule of Knowledge by Scott Baker]()
The Rule of Knowledge by Scott Baker
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFaith, history, science and love collide in this fast-paced action adventure.High school teacher Shaun Strickland is shocked when he receives a last-minute invitation from Cambridge University to deliver a paper on the relationship between space and time, something he has been studying for years. This could be the break he s been longing for... -
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![The Pink Bonnet: True Colors: Historical Stories of American Crime (True Colors) by Liz Tolsma]()
The Pink Bonnet: True Colors: Historical Stories of American Crime (True Colors) by Liz Tolsma
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Desperate Mother Searches for Her Child Step into True Colors -- a new series of Historical Stories of Romance and American Crime Widowed in Memphis during 1932, Cecile Dowd is struggling to provide for her three-year-old daughter... -
![London's Glory by Christopher Fowler]()
London's Glory by Christopher Fowler
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn every detective’s life there are cases that can’t be discussed, and throughout the Bryant & May novels there have been mentions of some of these such as the Deptford Demon or the Little Italy Whelk Smuggling Scandal... -
![Ten Great Mysteries by Edgar Allan Poe]()
Ten Great Mysteries by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Pit and the Pendulum...The Purloined Letter...The Tell-Tale Heart...A Descent into Maelstrom...and six other choice chillers by the acknowledged master of mystery, fantasy, and horror. These ten absorbing stories, selected by a famed anthologist of science-fiction and the supernatural, prove that even after a century Poe's imagination still works it macabre magic... -
![The Bones of Amoret by Arthur Herbert]()
The Bones of Amoret by Arthur Herbert
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this enigmatic follow up to his critically acclaimed debut novel The Cuts that Cure, Arthur Herbert returns to the Texas-Mexico border with this saga of a small town’s bloody loss of innocence.Amoret, Texas, 1982. Life along the border is harsh, but in a world where cultures work together to carve a living from the desert landscape, Blaine Beckett lives a life of isolation... -
![The Other End of the Line by Andrea Camilleri]()
The Other End of the Line by Andrea Camilleri
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA wave of refugees has arrived on the Sicilian coast, and Inspector Montalbano and his team have been stationed at port, alongside countless volunteers, to receive and assist the newcomers. Meanwhile, Livia has promised their presence at a friend's wedding, and the inspector, agreeing to get a new suit tailored, meets the charming master seamstress Elena Biasini... -
![Killer's Wake by Bernard Cornwell, David Case]()
Killer's Wake by Bernard Cornwell, David Case
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAnother taut nautical thriller from Bernard Cornwell, author of WILDTRACK and the Sharpe series. John Rossendale's home is the sea; in his 38-foot cutter, he is far away from his disagreeable, contentious family and his role as black sheep and heir to an impoverished earldom. Still, mystery and danger have a way of finding him even when he is far from any coast... -
![Entwined by Lynda La Plante]()
Entwined by Lynda La Plante
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNo matter how cruelly twins are separated, their lives will always be entwined.In the newly liberated streets of modern Berlin two women, a pampered, beautiful Baroness, losing control of her mind, and a fearless wild animal trainer, facing the greatest challenge of her career, are drawn together by a series of tragic and extraordinary coincidences... -
![Deadly Kisses by Brenda Joyce]()
Deadly Kisses by Brenda Joyce
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"I did not kill anyone, Francesca. And the fact that you wish to destroy evidence suggests you think me capable of murder." Called to the home of her fiancé Calder Hart's former mistress late one night, amateur sleuth Francesca Cahill's curiosity is piqued... -
![Strange Karma by Willow Healy]()
Strange Karma by Willow Healy
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAt 22,000 feet in the Himalayas a killer stalks. Don't look down!"Strange Karma," is a mystery/ thriller set in two 1920s England and Tibet, and the present-day Himalayan mountains.Mountain climber Cynthia Graham learns, to her peril, that some inheritances can trigger a deadly avalanche of events that reverberate through time...Categorized as:
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![Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation by Harlan Ellison]()
Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe original 50 cent paperback edition of this book now goes for $100 in rare book auctions. Why? Because it contains 25 of the best, hardest-to-find stories of the writer the Washington Post calls "one of the great living American short story writers," the unpredictable Harlan Ellison... -
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![All This, and Heaven Too by Rachel Field, Mary Balogh]()
All This, and Heaven Too by Rachel Field, Mary Balogh
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis number-one bestselling novel is based on the true story of one of the most notorious murder cases in French history... -
![Lethal Practice by Peter Clement]()
Lethal Practice by Peter Clement
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSt. Paul's Hospital. Buffalo, New York.Scandal rocks the medical community when someone murders the chief administrator, plunging a long thin cardiac needle into his heart with deadly precision. Top ER physician Earl Garnet is one of the few doctors who knows how to insert a cardiac needle... -
![Crippen by John Boyne]()
Crippen by John Boyne
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJuly 1910: A gruesome discovery has been made at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden.Chief Inspector Walter Dew of Scotland Yard did not expect the house to be empty. Nor did he expect to find a body in the cellar. Buried under the flagstones are the remains of Cora Crippen, former music-hall singer and wife of Dr. Hawley Crippen. No one would have thought the quiet, unassuming Dr... -
![Outrage on Gallows Hill by George Bellairs]()
Outrage on Gallows Hill by George Bellairs
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn Melchester, Thomas Littlejohn hunts the killer of a strangled poet The war is over and blackouts are a thing of the past, except in the village of Melchester, where the local council has refused to sully its streets with unsightly lamps. The night is pitch black, but hardly quiet... -
![Shipkiller-C by Bernard Scott]()
Shipkiller-C by Bernard Scott
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt was the largest moving object on the face of the earth, but for Carolyn and Peter Hardin it was a towering wall of steel bursting out of a squall at full speed, bearing down on their ketch Siren. In a few dramatic moments, Siren was shattered by the indifferent juggernaut... -
![Tumbleweed by Janwillem van de Wetering]()
Tumbleweed by Janwillem van de Wetering
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMaria van Buren, a beautiful, high-class prostitute, is found dead with a knife in her back in her houseboat on an Amsterdam canal. Grijpstra and de Gier must solve the murder. Her tony clients all have sound alibis... -
![Hearts and Bones by Margaret Lawrence]()
Hearts and Bones by Margaret Lawrence
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe physical and emotional scars of the Revolutionary War are an important part of this tremendous new first mystery -- the most exciting debut since Laurie R. King and The Beekeeper's Apprentice. Like King's Mary Russell, the heroine of Lawrence's book is an unconventional woman, unwilling to be forced into an historical mold... -
![The Arsonist by Mary Burton]()
The Arsonist by Mary Burton
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsChasing down a pyromaniac could burn a man out... Once he solved the Nero case, arson investigator Michael Gannon blasted out of town on his motorcycle. No way would he return to the job, but his nightmares persisted. Gannon found some relief in a small Virginia town...until the fires started again... -
![Stranger by Keren David]()
Stranger by Keren David
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAstor, Ontario. 1904.A boy staggers out of the forest covered in blood and collapses at the feet of 16-year-old Emmy. While others are suspicious and afraid, Emmy is drawn to him. Is he really the monster the townsfolk say he is?Astor, Ontario. 1994. Megan arrives from London for her great grandmother Emmy’s 105th birthday... -
![The Memory of Evil by Roberto Costantini]()
The Memory of Evil by Roberto Costantini
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEverything started from that day. The memory of 31 August 1969 has been at the back of Commissario Michele Balistreri's mind for over four decades... -
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![The Source by Michael Cordy]()
The Source by Michael Cordy
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s not a myth. It exists. Find it. Geologist Ross Kelly has it all: a lucrative career searching for oil across the world and a beautiful, brilliant wife, Lauren, pregnant with their fist child. But when Lauren, a Yale academic, deciphers the university’s mysterious Voynich manuscript, which has confounded experts for centuries, everything changes... -
![The Portrait of Molly Dean by Katherine Kovacic]()
The Portrait of Molly Dean by Katherine Kovacic
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn unsolved murder comes to light after almost seventy years...In 1999, art dealer Alex Clayton stumbles across a lost portrait of Molly Dean, an artist's muse brutally slain in Melbourne in 1930... -
![Trauma by Ken McClure]()
Trauma by Ken McClure
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen John McKirrop, a down-and-out tramp, takes shelter in a deserted graveyard one night, he witnesses the disinterment of the body of a young boy. Yet no one takes much notice of his stories. After all, who would believe the ramblings of a homeless drunk? Father Ryan Lafferty, the local parish priest, is trying to help the boy's distrught father find his son's body... -
![The Players' Boy Is Dead by Leonard Tourney]()
The Players' Boy Is Dead by Leonard Tourney
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings'vividly evocative of its era.” -The People Elizabethan England. A country that is growing rich and powerful. But, under the surface, there are matters savage and murderous, as well… When a small players’ troupe come to perform for a lord and his lady, none of the rag-tag group shine more than the young players’ boy, with his flaxen hair and fine features... -
![The Diamond Hunters by Wilbur Smith]()
The Diamond Hunters by Wilbur Smith
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn action-packed thriller from global bestseller Wilbur Smith The tall wave of green water that raced across the pit hit the Land-Rover, upending her, throwing Johnny into the jubilant frothing water, while the Land-Rover rolled over on her back, pointing all four wheels to the sky in surrender. Johnny went under.' Some people will never have enough.. -
![Bluebeard by Jim Clemente, Peter McDonnell]()
Bluebeard by Jim Clemente, Peter McDonnell
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA NEW THRILLER BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF LA’S FIRST KNOWN SERIAL KILLERIn 1919, Kathryn Wombacher finds a lonely-hearts ad placed by one Walter Andrew:"Would be pleased to correspond with a refined young lady or widow. Object, matrimony."Kathryn and Walter fall in love and marry within weeks... -
![The Sword of Shame by The Medieval Murderers]()
The Sword of Shame by The Medieval Murderers
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLovingly crafted by a Saxon swordsmith shortly before the Norman invasion, treachery and deceit are the Sword of Shame’s constant companions... -
![The Execution of Sherlock Holmes: And Other New Adventures of the Great Detective by Donald Serrell Thomas]()
The Execution of Sherlock Holmes: And Other New Adventures of the Great Detective by Donald Serrell Thomas
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFive tales:1 The Execution of Sherlock Holmes - elude noose when drugged and manacled in dank Newgate cell 2 The Case of the Greek Key - crack German codes3 The Case of the Peasenhall Murder - prove man innocent of slaying pregnant serving girl4 The Case of the Phantom Chambermaid - stop arsenic-wielding magician 5 The Queen of the Night - foil malevolent... -
![Sweet Madness by Trisha Leaver, Lindsay Currie]()
Sweet Madness by Trisha Leaver, Lindsay Currie
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWho was Lizzie Borden? A confused young woman, or a coldhearted killer? For generations, people all over the world have wondered how Andrew Borden and his second wife, Abby, met their gruesome deaths. Lizzie, Andrew's younger daughter, was charged, but a jury took only 90 minutes to find her not guilty... -
![The Counterfeit Guest by Rose Melikan]()
The Counterfeit Guest by Rose Melikan
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this rousing sequel to The Blackstone Key, Rose Melikan’s heroine returns to the world of espionage for an intelligent, thrilling adventure in Georgian England. When the story begins Mary is a wealthy heiress. Young ladies in her situation ought to marry well—as her friend Susannah Armitage has... -
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![Pursuit and Persuasion by Sally Wright]()
Pursuit and Persuasion by Sally Wright
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsACADEMIC SLEUTH BEN REESE INVESTIGATES A CASE OF MURDER AMONG FRIENDS.The sudden death of rich, generous Scottish professor Georgina Fletcher seems like a tragic accident. Indeed, American archivist Ben Reese can scarcely believe that it was not... -
![The Secret in the Wall by Ann Parker]()
The Secret in the Wall by Ann Parker
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSometimes the past just won't stay buriedSan Francisco music store owner Inez Stannert agrees to provide financial assistance to boardinghouse proprietor Moira Krause. When the common wall of the abandoned house adjoining Moira's is breached to expand her business, the corpse of a murdered man tumbles out, along with a worn canvas bag holding a fortune in gold coins...Categorized as:
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![Another City, Not My Own by Dominick Dunne]()
Another City, Not My Own by Dominick Dunne
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis is the story of the Trial of the Century as only Dominick Dunne can write it. Told from the point of view of one of Dunne's most familiar fictional characters-Gus Bailey-Another City, Not My Own tells how Gus, the movers and shakers of Los Angeles, and the city itself are drawn into the vortex of the O.J. Simpson trial.We have met Gus Bailey in previous novels by Dominick Dunne... -
![The Butcher Bird by S.D. Sykes]()
The Butcher Bird by S.D. Sykes
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOswald de Lacy is growing up fast in his new position as Lord of Somershill Manor. However, there is still the same amount of work to be done in the farms and fields, and the few people left to do it think they should be paid more—something the King himself has forbidden.Just as anger begins to spread, the story of the Butcher Bird takes flight... -
![The Lucifer Code by Michael Cordy]()
The Lucifer Code by Michael Cordy
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat happens to us when we die?Oblivion. Or so believes Dr Miles Fleming, a brilliant, young neuroscientist who has developed a device capable of reading human brainwaves. But when his own brother contacts him after being certified dead for six whole minutes, Fleming wonders if he's got it all wrong... -
![Ručně vyřezávané rakvičky by Truman Capote]()
Ručně vyřezávané rakvičky by Truman Capote
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsfrom Selected Writings (1963) and Music for Chameleons...
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