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Night on Fire by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFire crawls up the sides of the church. The orange glow thrashes. Blackens the siding. Climbs up onto the steeple. The flames close in on the wedding party trapped inside. When a serial arsonist terrorizes Los Angeles County, FBI profiler Violet Darger heads to California to investigate. The fires keep coming faster. The body count rises, and the threat hangs over the city as thick as the smog... -
![The Dying Hour by Rick Mofina]()
The Dying Hour by Rick Mofina
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Book 1, The Dying Hour introduces Jason Wade, a rookie crime reporter with The Seattle Mirror, a loner who grew up in the shadow of a brewery in one of the city's blue-collar neighborhoods. At The Seattle Mirror, he is competing for the single full-time job being offered through the paper's intense intern program... -
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Psychopath by Jeff Menapace
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe 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... -
![Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino]()
Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn exciting new series character ...Gia Santella is a fast-driving, hard-drinking, karate-trained free spirit, who is gorgeous, sexy, and a young heiress. She also has a fierce temper and zero tolerance for people in power preying on the vulnerable ... especially when the injustice takes place in her neighborhood... -
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![Drip Drop Dead by Willow Rose]()
Drip Drop Dead by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEmma Frost is chasing a killer that seems to bend the laws of physics.Things are going well for Emma Frost for once. She has a sweet boyfriend and has just finished a new book. Her daughter, Maya, is doing well in high school and even Victor is thriving and playing with his new best friend, the strange girl who fell from the sky... -
![Autumn Bleeds Into Winter by Jeff Strand]()
Autumn Bleeds Into Winter by Jeff Strand
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1979. Somebody has been abducting children in Fairbanks, Alaska. One of the victims was fourteen-year-old Curtis Black's best friend Todd.Curtis saw it happen. He knows exactly who did it. But he can't prove that it was his neighbor Gerald Martin. The authorities find no evidence of the crime. There's nothing they can do.So he's going to confront Mr. Martin himself... -
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Il était deux fois by Franck Thilliez
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEn 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.. -
![Anatomy by Sebastian Fitzek, Michael Tsokos]()
Anatomy by Sebastian Fitzek, Michael Tsokos
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThis is the autobiographic work by German inference fiction master according to his personal experience. Only the readers with high IQ can understand the ending... -
![La fiancée gitane by Carmen Mola]()
La fiancée gitane by Carmen Mola
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsQuand elle rentre à l'aube, éméchée et dévastée par la tristesse de la chair assouvie furtivement, l'enquêtrice Elena Blanco a un rituel : examiner pendant des heures les images d'une caméra de surveillance placée devant son immeuble... -
![Lone Wolf by L.T. Vargus, E.M. Smith]()
Lone Wolf by L.T. Vargus, E.M. Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe package arrives first class. A manila envelope bulging with bubble wrap. With the top slit open, what lies within can just faintly be seen: A swath of human flesh sealed in plastic.When a popular podcaster receives a disturbing package in the mail, FBI profiler Victor Loshak heads to Denver to investigate. The grisly contents of the bubble mailer are unlike anything he’s seen... -
![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... -
![Easy as One Two Three by Willow Rose]()
Easy as One Two Three by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsASIN moved from less recent editionMads and Signe are very young when they get married. They are ready to take on the world, starting with their honeymoon to Egypt. Two years later, Mads is in a coma, and Signe has vanished from the face of the earth.Meanwhile, Emma Frost is looking for her daughter whom the police believe is guilty of the hit and run that left Mads Schou brain dead... -
![Bred to Kill by Franck Thilliez]()
Bred to Kill by Franck Thilliez
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe shocking sequel to the runaway international bestseller Syndrome ESyndrome E’s Lucie Henebelle and Inspector Sharko have reunited to take on the case of the brutal murder of Eva Louts, a promising graduate student who was killed while working at a primate research center outside of Paris. But what first appears to be a vicious animal attack soon proves to be something more sinister... -
![Vengeful Games by Jeff Menapace]()
Vengeful Games by Jeff Menapace
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPLAYTIME IS NOT OVER...In Autumn of 2008, the Lambert family headed to western Pennsylvania for a weekend getaway to the family cabin.They visited hell instead...The Fannelli brothers. Two psychopaths who believed themselves exceptional, put on this Earth for the soul purpose of tormenting others for their own amusement. To make people play their twisted games... -
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![Le Manuscrit Inachevé by Franck Thilliez, Jean-Yves Berteloot]()
Le Manuscrit Inachevé by Franck Thilliez, Jean-Yves Berteloot
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAux alentours de Grenoble, un jeune a fini sa trajectoire dans un ravin après une course-poursuite avec la douane. Dans son coffre, le corps d’une femme, les orbites vides, les mains coupées et rassemblées dans un sac... -
![Rêver by Franck Thilliez]()
Rêver by Franck Thilliez
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings" Pour la plupart des gens, le rêve s'arrête au réveil. "Si ce n'étaient ses cicatrices et les photos étranges qui tapissent les murs de son bureau, on pourrait dire d'Abigaël qu'elle est une femme comme les autres. Si ce n'étaient ces moments où elle chute au pays des rêves, on pourrait jurer qu'Abigaël dit vrai... -
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Hideout by Jack Heath
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA tense, unputdownable thriller from the author of Hangman.Timothy Blake has nothing to lose. He's headed to an isolated house in rural Texas with a hammer in his pocket and murder on his mind. His target is Fred, the ringleader of a criminal empire on the dark web. Once Fred is gone, Blake can disappear for good.But it turns out that Fred isn't alone. Five other psychopaths live in the house... -
![Speak the Dead by Grant McKenzie]()
Speak the Dead by Grant McKenzie
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Sally Blue was six years old, sleeping peacefully in her bed, a gunshot woke her up and subsequently ripped her world apart.Jolted awake by the scary noise, Sally ran to her parent's bedroom for comfort. Instead, she found her mother slumped against the headboard, her ravaged nightdress drenched from a double-barreled wound... -
![Vengeance Blind by Anna Willett]()
Vengeance Blind by Anna Willett
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCruelly imprisoned in her own home, a successful novelist must use all of her imagination to stay alive. Recovering from a road accident that has left her half-blind and in a wheelchair, Belle Hammer is alone in her secluded house set in a sprawling ten-acre plot, deep in the forests beyond Perth, Australia... -
![The Cove by Malcolm Richards]()
The Cove by Malcolm Richards
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCarrie thought her son was dead. She was wrong. She’d only taken her eyes off him for a second. But that was all it took for a perfect day at the beach to turn to horror. Cal disappeared beneath the waves. His body was never found. Seven years later, Carrie has a new family. But her life in the sleepy Cornish town of Devil's Cove is about to be torn apart again. A boy washes up on the shore... -
![Last Call by Sean Costello]()
Last Call by Sean Costello
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTHIS BOOK is RATED-R FOR LANGUAGE by the publisher.In the space of a single day, twenty-year-old Trish West purchases her first car, gets accepted into veterinary college, and finds her rockstar father, Jim Gamble, a man who vanished into the streets before she was born and now clings to life in a Toronto intensive care unit.Eager to establish a relationship with Mr... -
![Small Town Nightmare by Anna Willett]()
Small Town Nightmare by Anna Willett
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA young drifter is in deep trouble, his sister is his only hope... Lucy’s younger brother has gone missing. When she sets out to find him, the trail takes her to Night Town. It’s a rural backwater deep in the forests of south western Australia. Lucy tries to enlist the help of the local police, but she is met with hostility. She befriends a man who might help her cause... -
![By Reason of Insanity by Shane Stevens]()
By Reason of Insanity by Shane Stevens
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThomas Bishop was twenty-five when he escaped from an institution for the criminally insane. Behind him was a grotesque history of pain, murder and rage. Ahead lay a path of horrifying vengeance that would trigger the most intense manhunt in history... -
![Black for Remembrance by Carlene Thompson]()
Black for Remembrance by Carlene Thompson
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCaroline Webb knows what it means to lose the person you love most. Twenty years ago, her five-year-old daughter, Hayley, was the light of her life, her treasure, her angle. Then came the terrible day when Hayley was kidnapped from her favorite swing. More than a month passed before her burned, lifeless body was found. All that remained was the silence of Caroline's heartache--and her guilt.. -
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![The List by Kiersten Modglin]()
The List by Kiersten Modglin
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTen years ago, the small town of Bates, South Carolina was changed forever with the appearance of a slip of paper.Six names.Six people set to die.Six months later, they were gone. But the list maker was far from done with their town.Like clockwork, new lists come out every six months. To keep their names off of them, the citizens go to extraordinary lengths and keep terrifying secrets... -
![A Snowball in Hell by Christopher Brookmyre]()
A Snowball in Hell by Christopher Brookmyre
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEach society gets the serial killers it deserves...How sick are you of our vapid celebrity culture, reality TV shows and tawdry talent contests? Not as sick as Simon Darcourt—but let’s face it, nobody is as sick as Simon Darcourt... -
![The Sleepover by Keri Beevis]()
The Sleepover by Keri Beevis
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhen you’re a kid, you imagine monsters to have horns and fangs. That they hide under the bed or in the wardrobe. And you believe they can only come after you when it’s dark.You don’t expect them to look like everyday people or that they may be someone you already know…The summer in question started out with hot, fun-filled days and new friendships... -
![La Ligne noire by Jean-Christophe Grangé]()
La Ligne noire by Jean-Christophe Grangé
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIl existe, quelque part en Asie du Sud-Est, entre le tropique du Cancer et la ligne de l'Equateur, une autre ligne. Une ligne noire jalonnée de corps et d'effroi.. -
![The Asylum Confessions: Merry with all that Murder by Jack Steen]()
The Asylum Confessions: Merry with all that Murder by Jack Steen
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThey arrive alive. They always leave dead.But first, they give me their confessions, and this one has to everything to do with Christmas.Merry Ho-Ho and all that holiday cheer. This book has it the cozy, loving, gift-giving while chomping on cookies right before you die - type of feels you know you'll read with one of my confession books... -
![The Devil's Work by Mark Edwards]()
The Devil's Work by Mark Edwards
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA gripping psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Follow You Home and The Magpies . It was the job she had dreamed of since childhood. But on her very first day, when an unnerving encounter drags up memories Sophie Greenwood would rather forget, she wonders if she has made a mistake. A fatal mistake... -
![The Mother by T.M. Logan, Gemma Whelan]()
The Mother by T.M. Logan, Gemma Whelan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFramed for murder. Now she's free . . .A woman attends a funeral, standing in the shadows and watching in agony as her sons grieve. But she is unable to comfort them - or reveal her secret.A decade earlier, Heather gets her children ready for bed and awaits the return of her husband Liam, little realising that this is the last night they will spend together as a family... -
![The North Face of the Heart by Dolores Redondo]()
The North Face of the Heart by Dolores Redondo
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn a propulsive thriller by the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Baztán Trilogy, a female detective follows a sadistic killer into the eye of a storm.Amaia Salazar, a young detective from the north of Spain, has joined a group of trainees at the FBI Academy in Virginia. Haunted by her past and having already tracked down a predator on her own, Amaia is no typical rookie... -
![The Cross by Steve Cavanagh]()
The Cross by Steve Cavanagh
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn exclusive race against time ebook short thriller. **Contains an extract from Steve Cavanagh's brilliant debut novel, THE DEFENCE** Eddie Flynn, con-man turned criminal lawyer, has an impossible choice.He has damning evidence against a corrupt NYPD detective who stands accused of killing a suspect... -
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ASBO by Iain Rob Wright
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsYOUR FEAR IS THEIR ENTERTAINMENT...Andrew’s life is one of bored contentedness: a teenage daughter, a faithful wife, and a middle-class job. He even has a Mercedes. His life is without drama, and the comfort of middle-age is setting in.That all changes when he refuses to buy a pack of cigarettes for the local gang of youths... -
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![Vanilla Ride by Joe R. Lansdale]()
Vanilla Ride by Joe R. Lansdale
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"There's no bullshit in a Joe Lansdale book. There's everything a good story needs, and nothing it doesn't. Joe pulls up the truck, says, 'Get in the back, we're going for a ride.'You know it might get a little scary and it might get a little crazy, but you get in, because you know in the end, it's going to be a fun ride... -
![Tweedledum and Tweedledee by Willow Rose]()
Tweedledum and Tweedledee by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsASIN moved from less recent editionIn the middle of the night, Alberto Alonzo sneaks out to play at the casino with his mother's credit card in his hand. The next morning he is gone, and no one knows where he is, and, for his family, a real-life nightmare unfolds.Emma Frost is with her family on a cruise in the Mediterranean Sea when the boy goes missing from the ship... -
![Deuils de miel by Franck Thilliez]()
Deuils de miel by Franck Thilliez
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMeurtre dans une église ... Une femme nue, rasée, intérieurement explosée...Sur son crane, des papillons, vivants... un message codé, gravé dans la pierre ... la menace de fléaux... Le mythe de l apocalypse et ses multitudes de victimes deviendra-t-il réalité ? C est ce que le commissaire Sharko tentera d empêcher, par tous les moyens, au cours d une enquête plus qu éprouvante... -
![The Island by Adrian McKinty]()
The Island by Adrian McKinty
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIT WAS JUST SUPPOSED TO BE A FAMILY VACATION.A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT CHANGED EVERYTHING.YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE CAPABLE OF UNTIL THEY COME FOR YOUR FAMILY.After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter... -
![Webcam by Jack Kilborn, J.A. Konrath]()
Webcam by Jack Kilborn, J.A. Konrath
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLibrarian’s note: This is a previously-published edition ofKindle ASIN: B01CVWSXCQ. Someone is stalking webcam models.He lurks in the untouchable recesses of the black web.He's watching you. Right now.When watching is no longer enough, he comes calling.He's the last thing you'll ever see before the blood gets in your eyes... -
![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... -
![The Dying Place by Luca Veste]()
The Dying Place by Luca Veste
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“No one believes you. Nothing you say is the truth.” DI Murphy and DS Rossi discover the body of known troublemaker Dean Hughes, dumped on the steps of St Mary’s Church in West Derby, Liverpool. His body is covered with the unmistakable marks of torture. As they hunt for the killer, they discover a worrying pattern. Other teenagers, all young delinquents, have been disappearing without a trace... -
![Single White Psychopath Seeks Same by Jeff Strand]()
Single White Psychopath Seeks Same by Jeff Strand
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe second book in the wildly popular series of horror/comedy novels featuring Andrew Mayhem!"Sometimes you wake up in the morning and you just know it’s going to be the kind of day where you end up tied to a chair in a filthy garage while a pair of tooth-deprived lunatics torment you with a chainsaw. So as I struggled against the ropes, I can’t say I was all that surprised... -
![The Last Whisper in the Dark by Tom Piccirilli]()
The Last Whisper in the Dark by Tom Piccirilli
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsProfessional thief Terrier Rand hasn’t gotten caught yet. It’s only his conscience chasing at his heels. In the follow-up to Tom Piccirilli’s acclaimed novel The Last Kind Words, prodigal thief Terrier Rand has come home to the family that has lawbreaking in its blood... -
![Mannheim Rex by Robert Pobi]()
Mannheim Rex by Robert Pobi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRecently widowered and grieving, Gavin flees New York City for the quiet of the country. His new home on Lake Caldasac has surprisingly few visitors, and the author soon learns why: a suspiciously high number of people have gone missing in the small town. The deaths have all been ruled accidents, but Finn Horn, a handicapped boy obsessed with fishing, knows the truth... -
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![First Night of Summer by Landon Parham]()
First Night of Summer by Landon Parham
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWHEN TRAGEDY STRIKES, a father discovers that a journey of misfortune is sometimes the path to deliverance. The quaint mountain town of Ruidoso, New Mexico, is the perfect place for Isaac Snow to raise his family. But when eight-year-old daughters, Caroline and Josie, commit an innocent act of heroism, media coverage attracts the wrong kind of attention... -
![Soft Target by Iain Rob Wright]()
Soft Target by Iain Rob Wright
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNowhere is safe from evil...When an elderly suicide bomber strikes a quiet English village, a once proud nation is brought to its knees. Yet this first attack is just the start of something far greater and much much worse. The days to follow will determine if the United Kingdom has a future, or if it will be reduced to anarchy and ashes... -
![The Shadow Man by Mark Murphy]()
The Shadow Man by Mark Murphy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSavannah surgeon Malcolm King had a perfect life--a loving wife, devoted daughter, and a thriving medical practice. But when a random airport parking lot hit-and-run links him to a dead body in a Florida hotel and an acquaintance is found dismembered and stuffed into a garbage bag, Malcolm finds himself on the run as a suspected serial killer. But he's no murderer... -
![Bad News by Amy Cross]()
Bad News by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA missing girl. A man with a past. And a reporter who'll do anything to uncover the truth. When she's fired from her job at a TV station, Maggie Carter sets out to prove that she's got what it takes... -
![The Return of Rachel Stone by Amy Cross]()
The Return of Rachel Stone by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFifteen years ago, Rachel Stone was snatched from her crib in the middle of the night. Now she's back. Or is she? Called in by concerned family members, private detective Jo Mason has to determine whether Rachel has really returned, or whether she's actually an impostor trying to rob her wealthy family of millions... -
![One Wrong Turn by C.M. Ewan]()
One Wrong Turn by C.M. Ewan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLate at night...Abi and Ben are driving home down foggy country roads, arguing about having had to cut short their weekend away when they take a wrong turn. Abi’s driving, but her eyes leave the road for a moment as she says something to Ben – just as he gasps. A man is in front of the car, waving a torch. Abi swerves to avoid him.You see a family stranded..
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