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The Lost Sister by Elle Gray
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe truth will set you free.For FBI Agent Blake Wilder the price of that truth requires the ultimate sacrifice.Blake Wilder lives with reoccurring nightmares from her grim and mysterious past.Fourteen years ago, her entire family was taken from her.Her parents murdered, and her sister taken... -
![The Lost Girls by Elle Gray]()
The Lost Girls by Elle Gray
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhatever you do, don’t look back.After learning the shocking truth behind the man she fell for, Blake feels lost at sea.She feels adrift. And is punishing herself for not realizing who Mark was or his true motive by her side... -
![Woman in the Water by Elle Gray]()
Woman in the Water by Elle Gray
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCharlotte's body lays lifeless floating in a pool. Ruby red water surrounds her.Her daughter's desperate screams fill the air..."Mom?!!!!".Charlotte MacMillan, the mother of three, found dead. Murdered in broad daylight.Only two know the twisted truth. The victim and her killer.To solve this case, Paxton must bring light to the unrelenting darkness.Unmask the truth behind the devastating lies... -
![Her Last Call by Elle Gray]()
Her Last Call by Elle Gray
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“Come out, come out, wherever you are...” A beautiful young woman trapped within a killer’s sick and twisted game.Stella Hughes called for help, but help did not come in time.She could not hide, fight, or escape.Stella was ensnared in the killer’s web.The victim of a twisted serial killer’s mind... -
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![Winter's Peak: Winter Black Season Two by Mary Stone]()
Winter's Peak: Winter Black Season Two by Mary Stone
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt’s lonely at the top. And deadly at the bottom.Sexual harassment isn’t the type of case Private Investigator Winter Black usually takes. But it’s a welcome distraction from whoever’s been sending creepy, anonymous text messages to her phone and set up cameras to spy on her home and office... -
![The Girl and the Secret Society by A.J. Rivers]()
The Girl and the Secret Society by A.J. Rivers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEvil has many faces. This one you will never see coming.This is the bizarre and shocking case of Lakyn Monroe.In the midst of filming her show, Lakyn vanished without a trace.Four months have passed, and the unusual disappearance of the internet celebrity has garnered nationwide attention... -
![Think Twice by Harlan Coben]()
Think Twice by Harlan Coben
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMyron Bolitar and Windsor Horne Lockwood III reunite to find a dead man come back to life in this gripping thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I Will Find You.Former basketball star Myron Bolitar has barely restarted his agency for sports stars and celebrities when two federal agents walk into his office, asking for answers... -
![Concealed Cargo: Children for Sale by Jodi Burnett]()
Concealed Cargo: Children for Sale by Jodi Burnett
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen 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... -
![I See You by Elle Gray]()
I See You by Elle Gray
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI see you. After years of digging into his wife’s death, Paxton has had enough.He left the force and opened his own PI firm.His first case is to help a family navigate their way through a kidnapping.As Paxton launched into this case, he finds himself in the sights of a serial killer.But there is more than meets the eye about the kidnapper though.Armed with only three names... -
![Forever Mine by Linsey Lanier]()
Forever Mine by Linsey Lanier
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn 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 ratingsTake 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... -
![Riddle Me This by Gina LaManna]()
Riddle Me This by Gina LaManna
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDetective 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... -
![August Origins by Alan Lee]()
August Origins by Alan Lee
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMack August, frustrated Los Angeles police detective, moves to a smaller city in Virginia to start over. Rather than join the force, he opens his own P.I. shop and hires out to local attorneys--until Sheriff Stackhouse comes calling, a stunner in designer khakis. Trouble has arrived, she explains, in the form of a gang general from the West Coach... -
![If She Ran by H.K. Christie]()
If She Ran by H.K. Christie
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThree months. Three missing women. One PI determined to discover the truth.Back from break, PI Martina Monroe clears the air with her boss at Drakos Security & Investigations and is ready to jump right into solving cold cases for the CoCo County Sheriff’s Department... -
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![The Missing Daughter by Elle Gray]()
The Missing Daughter by Elle Gray
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen a congressman's daughter goes missing,FBI agent Blake Wilder and her team are sent to Iowa to find the missing girl.Already dealing with a mysterious figure who keeps sending her body parts, now Blake finds herself under attack from within her own unit... -
![Burn the Dawn by Lisa Phillips]()
Burn the Dawn by Lisa Phillips
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA series of missing girls.Weeks after she got shot, Kenna is back. She's living free of a past that held her in the grip of fear, determined to move on-and keep fighting. This PI isn't going to let anything keep her from finding the lost and broken.A town in the grip of fear.After a deadly setback, Kenna realizes the case is far more complicated than she first thought... -
![Trapper Road by Rachel Caine, Carrie Ryan]()
Trapper Road by Rachel Caine, Carrie Ryan
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSometimes danger comes from the most unexpected places.Gwen Proctor has always been willing to do anything it takes to protect her kids. But there are some things even she can’t protect them from. When a violent incident at Connor’s school brings the press to Gwen’s doorstep, she agrees to take a case out of town hoping to keep her family out of the crushing media spotlight... -
![The 7 She Saw by Elle Gray]()
The 7 She Saw by Elle Gray
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThroughout history and in just about every religion the number 7 has held significance.And in the small town of Briar Glen the secret of the 7 will forever haunt you. Blake Wilder is plagued with nightmares from her dark and twisted past.Fourteen years ago, her entire family was taken from her.Her parents murdered, and her sister taken... -
![Only the Lonely by L.M. Krier]()
Only the Lonely by L.M. Krier
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratings'Blind dates end in bleeding hearts'Ted Darling is back and his boss has news for him. He'll be taking on more responsibility over an expanded area, with a bigger team. Before he even has chance to take stock, he's facing his first body in what could be the most cynical murder he's ever encountered... -
![Deadly Recall by T.R. Ragan]()
Deadly Recall by T.R. Ragan
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsPI Jessie Cole is about to discover that there’s no revenge too wicked as New York Times bestselling author T.R. Ragan’s gripping series continues.When you search for the missing, there’s no telling what you’ll find. PI Jessie Cole learned that painful truth firsthand when her sister disappeared. Now a new case will test Jessie and Ben once again... -
![The Sirani Connection by Estelle Ryan]()
The Sirani Connection by Estelle Ryan
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsStolen masterpieces. Deadly narcotics. Artificial intelligence.A mysterious email and the arrest of a fugitive art thief send Doctor Genevieve Lenard and her team to Prague, where it soon becomes apparent that this theft has a close connection to a sadistic killer they've been tracking for almost a year... -
![Trick of the Night by Joy Ellis]()
Trick of the Night by Joy Ellis
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMatt and Liz may have retired from the police, but that doesn’t guarantee a quiet life.A deserted building. A face in the window. A face that shouldn’t be there.Photography student Toby Unsworth has found the location for the perfect night-time shoot. A cobbled street in the old part of Fenfleet... -
![Unfinished Business by J.A. Jance]()
Unfinished Business by J.A. Jance
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this heart-pounding and sharply written thriller from J.A. Jance, the “grand master of the genre” (The Providence Journal), Ali Reynolds’s personal life is thrown into turmoil just as two men show up on the scene—a former employee of her husband’s who has just been released from prison and a serial killer who sets his sights a little too close to home... -
![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 ratingsWhen 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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![Edinburgh Midnight by Carole Lawrence]()
Edinburgh Midnight by Carole Lawrence
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSuperstition and murder haunt nineteenth-century Scotland in a twisting mystery by the prize-winning author of Edinburgh Twilight and Edinburgh Dusk.Spiritualism has captured the public’s imagination. Séances are all the rage, and Detective Ian Hamilton’s otherwise sensible aunt Lillian is not immune to their allure. But for Ian, indulging her superstitions has its limits... -
![Shoot the Breeze by Gina LaManna]()
Shoot the Breeze by Gina LaManna
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWelcome 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... -
![Chosen Prey by John Sandford]()
Chosen Prey by John Sandford
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA New York Times bestseller! Lucas Davenport returns in the most harrowing and unexpected Prey novel yet—the story of a congenial man, and his most uncongenial obsession...An art history professor and writer and cheerful pervert, James Qatar had a hobby: he took secret photographs of women and turned them into highly sexual drawings. One day, he took the hobby a step further and.. -
![No Way Back by Rick Mofina, Christian Rummel]()
No Way Back by Rick Mofina, Christian Rummel
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSan Francisco crime reporter Tom Reed is burned out. On the day he decides to finally quit the news business, a sensational story breaks. A heart-stopping robbery-homicide at a jewelry store. The suspects have shot and killed a police officer before fleeing with a female hostage. Reed rushes to the scene, his passion resurrected for one last big story... -
![Darkness Falls by Robert Bryndza]()
Darkness Falls by Robert Bryndza
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling series.Kate Marshall’s investigation into a journalist’s disappearance sends her down an unexpectedly twisted path in a riveting thriller by the author of Shadow Sands.Kate Marshall’s fledgling PI agency takes off when she and her partner, Tristan Harper, are hired for their first big case. It’s a cold one... -
![Breaking Away by Heather Atkinson]()
Breaking Away by Heather Atkinson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLaura Harrison is terrified. Her boyfriend Darryl is becoming more and more unstable and she's bearing the brunt of his aggression. Haunted by the horrors she suffered as a teenager at the hands of her stepfather and stepbrother, she recognises the danger she's in and knows she has to get away. Unfortunately she leaves it too late and Darryl viciously attacks her... -
![A Veronica Lee Thriller Collection Volume Two: A Veronica Lee Thriller Box Set Includes Books 5-8 by Melinda Woodhall]()
A Veronica Lee Thriller Collection Volume Two: A Veronica Lee Thriller Box Set Includes Books 5-8 by Melinda Woodhall
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIf you love twisty thrillers with heart, you'll love the Veronica Lee Thriller Collection Volume Two, Books 5-8, which has been earning rave reviews from thriller lovers looking for their next chilling series... -
![The Girls in the Falls by Elle Gray]()
The Girls in the Falls by Elle Gray
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAfter answering the job posting for Sweetwater Falls, former FBI agent Spenser Song thought that she had finally escaped her painful past. Unfortunately, she quickly learned some things you just can’t ever run away from…When a local girl goes missing and another one turns up dead, Spenser finds clues that connect to a grim reminder of another fatal mistake in her past... -
![Swanton Morley by David Blake]()
Swanton Morley by David Blake
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA CHILLING NORFOLK BROADS CRIME THRILLER!A body found hidden at the bottom of an open church grave, a suspect running in a local election, and a political opponent, willing to do whatever it takes to win... -
![First Cut by J.T. Bishop]()
First Cut by J.T. Bishop
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA 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... -
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![Broken Prey by John Sandford]()
Broken Prey by John Sandford
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe first body is of a young woman, found on a Minneapolis riverbank, her throat cut, her body scourged and put on display. Whoever did this, Lucas Davenport knows, is pushed by brain chemistry. There is something wrong with him. This isn’t a bad love affair.The second body is found three weeks later, in a farmhouse six miles south. Same condition, same display—except this time it is a man... -
![Dark Lava by Toby Neal]()
Dark Lava by Toby Neal
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsParadise is threatened by a fight for sacred artifacts.She just wants to disarm the IED.Newly assigned to the bomb squad, Detective Lei Texeira struggles with skills that may be dangerously out of reach, even as a heinous crime strikes close to home and catches her husband in the crossfire.The woman is his. And if he can’t have her, she’ll have to die... -
![Dead Lucky by Matt Brolly, David Monteath]()
Dead Lucky by Matt Brolly, David Monteath
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA fast-paced crime-thriller, full of chilling twists, turns and grisly surprises, Matt Brolly’s Dead Lucky will have you gripped from beginning to end! DCI Michael Lambert is back… When a woman is murdered, the twisted killer forcing her husband to watch her slow and painful death, DCI Michael Lambert knows that his next case might be his toughest yet... -
![Exposed by C.J. Carmichael]()
Exposed by C.J. Carmichael
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen a young boy goes missing shortly after his father is arrested for murdering the boy’s mother, the residents of Twisted Cedars are in a panic. They would be even more fearful if they knew a serial murderer has secretly moved back to town... -
![Senseless by Mary Burton]()
Senseless by Mary Burton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEvery 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. . -
![Fear No Truth by LynDee Walker]()
Fear No Truth by LynDee Walker
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsASIN B07KYTLJ6S moved to the most recent editionFor fans of James Patterson and Melinda Leigh: Introducing a brand new series from bestselling thriller author LynDee Walker! Two dead girls.One determined Texas Ranger.Three horrifying truths... -
![Blood of Others by Rick Mofina]()
Blood of Others by Rick Mofina
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe disappearance and murder of a lonely San Francisco insurance clerk puts a relentless crime reporter and legendary homicide cop on separate tracks in their pursuit of a killer.The suspect lures solitary women out of their quiet worlds and into his nightmare as he races the clock and travels the globe searching for the one woman who will forgive the unforgivable... -
![What She Left by H.K. Christie]()
What She Left by H.K. Christie
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsShe’s on her last chance. When the bodies start piling up, she’ll need to save more than her job.Martina Monroe is a single bad day away from losing it all. Stuck catching insurance fraudsters and cheating spouses due to a DUI, the despondent PI yearns to return to more fulfilling gigs... -
![Deadly Revenge by Renee Pawlish]()
Deadly Revenge by Renee Pawlish
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA car found at a park, a woman’s body inside.It appeared Dr. Amy Babbitt had a good life. Did she commit suicide, or did someone want her dead?As Denver Homicide Detective Sarah Spillman delves into Amy’s life, the details don’t add up, but the suspect list does. Everyone is keeping secrets, and someone is willing to kill to keep theirs hidden... -
![The Chale Bay Murders by Pauline Rowson]()
The Chale Bay Murders by Pauline Rowson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMeet DI Andy Horton. He’s a risk-taking Harley-Davidson-riding detective who doesn’t always play by the rules . . . which often lands him in trouble with his bosses.Suspicious lights at sea, decomposing bodies and an old flame send Horton down a rabbit hole in this captivating crime thriller.An elderly man obsessively watches the coast from his Victorian house high on the hill above Ventnor... -
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![The Lonely Girls by Stacy Green]()
The Lonely Girls by Stacy Green
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe room spun and my legs gave way as I looked at my name scrawled in blood-colored lipstick on the mirror above the girl’s broken body. Was this young girl dead because of me?When the body of a vulnerable teenage girl is found on a remote farm in the Maryland hills, Private Investigator Lucy Kendall knows her past has come back to haunt her... -
![Dead Eyed Dad (Breaking Away Series) by Heather Atkinson]()
Dead Eyed Dad (Breaking Away Series) by Heather Atkinson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA series of brutal murders in Manchester lead DS Zak Banks to conclude that a copycat is loose in the city, mimicking the crimes of one of Britain's most notorious serial killers, Joseph Michael Lee. Anna Marshall, daughter of Joseph Michael Lee, has done her best to keep her heritage a secret but the past catches up with her when the police ask her to visit her dad in prison... -
![Murdered by Prejudice: A Liz Lucas Cozy Mystery Series by Dianne Harman]()
Murdered by Prejudice: A Liz Lucas Cozy Mystery Series by Dianne Harman
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA prison guard. A postmaster. A Forest Service employee. A U.S. Department of Agriculture employee. All murdered. They worked for the federal government, but so do a lot of other people. What else did they share? Seems like a serial killer is on the loose. And it looks like he’s targeting the sleepy community of Red Cedar... -
![We Forget Nothing by D.D. Black]()
We Forget Nothing by D.D. Black
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the fragments of a failing mind lie clues to a forgotten evil. Can FBI Task Force S.W.O.R.D. uncover the truth before it disappears forever?In the hushed corridors of the Evergreen Memory Care facility, a young nurse's obsession with true crime leads to a chilling discovery. An elderly patient—his memories fading—speaks of unthinkable acts... -
![The Bone Harvest by Stacy M. Jones]()
The Bone Harvest by Stacy M. Jones
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe trail had gone cold. Det. Luke Morgan had all but given up hope. Then a letter from his sister's killer changes everything Luke thought he knew about her death - and renews his hope for justice."Lily wasn't the first. She won't be the last. Like the fall leaves that turn orange and red, 23 pretty little girls harvested dead."The killer wants to play a game...Categorized as:
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Defenseless by Tamsen Schultz
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA 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...Categorized as:
cozy crime mystery romance contemporary law-enforcement on-the-run police-procedural
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