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  • Our Stolen Pieces by James Hunt

    Our Stolen Pieces by James Hunt

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When the morning after a slumber party reveals two missing girls, a newly minted Detective and a young veteran are assigned the case. Recently partnered, the pair of detectives must set aside their troubled pasts to recover the pair of girls who may have been coerced by a stranger who had kidnapped before...
  • Runaway by Martina Cole

    Runaway by Martina Cole

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
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    drama  family  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

    The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a community, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years.July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes...
  • Angelica And Francesca by Kenneth Jarrett Singleton

    Angelica And Francesca by Kenneth Jarrett Singleton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Angelica and Francesca are the identical twin daughters of Pellrue, Duke of Doretay. Doretay is a state within a kingdom called Vidien, which Angelica's and Francesca's great uncle, King Oscar, rules. Pellrue attempts to keep control of his wicked, evil daughters as they keep entering his city and raising havoc by torturing and murdering the common citizens within...
  • The Souls of Lost Lake by Jaime Jo Wright

    The Souls of Lost Lake by Jaime Jo Wright

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Wren Blythe has long enjoyed being among the Northwoods, helping her father with programming at a youth camp. But when a little girl in the area goes missing, an all-out search ensues, reviving the decades-old campfire story of Ava Coons, the murderess, who still roams the woods. Joining the search, Wren stumbles upon the Coons cabin ruins and a rotting porcelain doll...
  • Narraciones Extraordinarias by Edgar Allan Poe, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

    Narraciones Extraordinarias by Edgar Allan Poe, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Edgar Allan Poe created some of the finest literature the world has ever known. His name conjures up thoughts of hearts beating long after their owners are dead, of disease and plague amid wealth, of love that extends beyond the grave, and of black ravens who utter only one word. Poe perfected the psychological thriller...
  • Wall of Silence by Tracy Buchanan

    Wall of Silence by Tracy Buchanan

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Her children have a deadly secret. Can she uncover it before the police do?Melissa Byatt’s life in Forest Grove seems as perfect as can be: a doting husband, three loving children and a beautiful house in a close-knit community. But appearances can be deceiving...
  • Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose

    Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn't Have Come Here, comes a chilling family thriller about the (sometimes literal) skeletons in the closet. After their mother passes, three estranged siblings reunite to sort out her estate. Beth, the oldest, never left home. She stayed with her mom, caring for her until the very end...
  • Cemetery Nights by Stephen Dobyns

    Cemetery Nights by Stephen Dobyns

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the fabulous storytelling of our dreams to the mute passions of domestic life, Stephen Dobyns explores a full range of human experience in these narrative poems...
  • Trespassing by Brandi Reeds

    Trespassing by Brandi Reeds

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In a novel of mounting psychological suspense, a young mother follows a dangerous path to find her missing husband.Veronica Cavanaugh’s grasp on the world is slipping. Her latest round of fertility treatments not only failed but left her on edge and unbalanced. And her three-year-old daughter, Elizabella, has a new imaginary friend, who seems much more devilish than playful...
  • A Ghost Arrives: A Novel by Abe Moss

    A Ghost Arrives: A Novel by Abe Moss

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Every family has its secrets, and every ghost has its reasons.★★★★★ "A creepy, slow burning ghost story with a twist that was dark in so many different ways! Imaginative, creative, and not afraid to deal the punches..." - Amazon ReviewerAfter moving back in with his elderly father, Wallace Harper discovers that something else has taken up residence in his childhood home..
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    family  gothic  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  ghosts
  • The Past Is Never by Tiffany Quay Tyson

    The Past Is Never by Tiffany Quay Tyson

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A compelling addition to contemporary Southern Gothic fiction, deftly weaving together local legends, magical realism, and the search for a missing child.Winner of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Fiction Award, and Mississippi Author Award for Adult fiction...
  • You Let Me In by Lucy Clarke

    You Let Me In by Lucy Clarke

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Spine-tingling, chilling, and utterly compulsive, YOU LET ME IN is the stunning new novel from Richard & Judy Book Club author, Lucy Clarke Nothing has felt right since Elle rented out her house . . . I’M IN YOUR HOUSE There’s a new coldness. A shift in the atmosphere. The prickling feeling that someone is watching her every move from the shadows...
  • After the End by Clare Mackintosh

    After the End by Clare Mackintosh

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Max and Pip are the strongest couple you know. They're best friends, lovers—unshakable. But then their son gets sick and the doctors put the question of his survival into their hands. For the first time, Max and Pip can't agree. They each want a different future for their son...
  • Only the Innocent by Rachel Abbott

    Only the Innocent by Rachel Abbott

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Every moment of Sir Hugo Fletcher’s life has been chronicled in the British press: his privileged upbringing, his high-profile charity work to end human trafficking, even his two marriages. But when the billionaire philanthropist is discovered murdered in his London home, tied naked to a bed, the scandal is only a shadow of the darkness lurking off-camera...
  • The Good Samaritan by John Marrs

    The Good Samaritan by John Marrs

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    She’s a friendly voice on the phone. But can you trust her?The people who call End of the Line need hope. They need reassurance that life is worth living. But some are unlucky enough to get through to Laura. Laura doesn’t want them to hope. She wants them to die.Laura hasn’t had it easy: she’s survived sickness and a difficult marriage only to find herself heading for forty, unsettled and angry...
  • Sleeping with the Enemy by Nancy Price

    Sleeping with the Enemy by Nancy Price

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    She is a stranger in a small town. She changed her name. Her looks. Her life. All to escape the most dangerous man she ever met: her husband...
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    drama  family  suspense  abuse  adult  book  contemporary  cozy
  • Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins

    Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, police turn to the Scottish nanny, Dee, for answers...
  • Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán, Sophie Hughes

    Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán, Sophie Hughes

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!From a global star and International Booker Prize finalist, a razor-sharp, unforgettable novel about a maid who’s seen too much and a family at a breaking pointA young girl has died and the family’s maid is being interrogated. She must tell the whole story before arriving at the girl’s death...
  • The Bloodline by C.S. Feldman

    The Bloodline by C.S. Feldman

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After years of questioning her sanity, Kat Delancey reluctantly returns to the old family manor as its legal owner hoping desperately to silence the doubts in her mind and leave the home’s tragic past behind her once and for all...
  • The Secret of Cypriere Bayou by Jana Deleon

    The Secret of Cypriere Bayou by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A MANSION OF HORRORS DEEP IN THE LOUISIANA BAYOUS...For Olivia Markham, laMalediction is the ideal setting in which to complete her work. But something is sending a chill up the usually fearless author's spine. There are the unearthly noises, the sliding panels, the hidden passageways...and John Landry, the sexy caretaker who seems less than welcoming...
  • The Deviants by C.J. Skuse

    The Deviants by C.J. Skuse

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When you set out for revenge, dig two gravesGrowing up in the sleepy English seaside town of Brynston, the fearless five – Ella, Max, Corey, Fallon and Zane – were always inseparable. Living up to their nickname, they were the adventurous, rowdy kids who lived for ghost stories and exploring the nearby islands off the coast...
  • The Night Visitor by Dianne Emley

    The Night Visitor by Dianne Emley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In bestselling author Dianne Emley’s chilling new paranormal thriller, a beautiful woman’s romantic past comes back to haunt her in the form of an otherworldly visitor seeking justice.   Gorgeous and successful, Rory Langtry seemed to have it all. Daughter of a movie star and sister of a supermodel, Rory was engaged to sexy artist, Junior Lara...
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    drama  family  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams

    Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Kerr, in the NY Herald-Tribune, describes: "This, says Mr. Williams through the most sympathetic voice among his characters, 'is a true story about the time and the world we live in.' He has made it seem true-or at least curiously and suspensefully possible-by the extraordinary skill with which he has wrung detail after detail out of a young woman who has lived with horror...
  • Tarnished Gold by V.C. Andrews

    Tarnished Gold by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Her high school graduation just days away, Gabriel Landry is blissfully happy - until rich cannery owner Octavious Tate waylays her near a secluded pond and shatters her innocence, forever.Pregnant and desolate, Gabriel agrees to a shocking plan that will allow Octavious' frigid wife, Gladys, to claim the baby as her own...
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    drama  family  gothic  suspense  20th-century  abuse  audiobook  book
  • The Tricksters by Margaret Mahy

    The Tricksters by Margaret Mahy

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    While gathered together for the Christmas holiday, a large New Zealand family and their various guests find their lives suddenly invaded by three fascinating, but sinister brothers...
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    drama  family  gothic  suspense  book  children  contemporary  fiction
  • One of the Boys by Jayne Cowie

    One of the Boys by Jayne Cowie

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If you could test your son for a gene that predicts violence, would you do it?Antonia and Bea are sisters, and doting mothers to their sons. But that is where their similarities end.Antonia had her son tested to make sure he didn’t possess the "violent" M gene.Bea refuses to let her son take the test. His life should not be determined by a positive or negative result...
  • Ruby by V.C. Andrews

    Ruby by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The New York Times best-selling novels of V.C. Andrews have captivated millions of readers worldwide. Now comes a thrilling new series about the dark, forbidden secrets that change the lives of the Landry family. Ruby Landry is a 15-year -old Cajun girl who lives on the Louisiana bayou. An illegitimate child whose young mother died at her birth, Ruby lives with her Grandmere Catherine...
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    drama  family  gothic  suspense  20th-century  abuse  audiobook  book
  • Fallen Hearts by V.C. Andrews

    Fallen Hearts by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Proud and beautiful, Heaven came back to the hills -- to rise at last above her family's shame! As Logan's bride, she would savor now the love she had sought for so long. And free from her father's clutches, she would live again in her backwoods town, a respected teacher and cherished wife...
  • Pearl in the Mist by V.C. Andrews

    Pearl in the Mist by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Fate whisked Ruby from a simple life in the Louisiana Bayou. But her new riches bring more treachery than happiness... Even after a year as a Dumas, Ruby still wonders at the splendor of the family's New Orleans mansion, and rejoices in the love of the father she had never known. But true happiness in her new home is as elusive as the swamp mist...
  • Father of Lies by Brian Evenson

    Father of Lies by Brian Evenson

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    At the urging of his wife, Provost Fochs reluctantly agrees to see a therapist, Dr. Feshtig. Through the therapist's detailed notes, correspondence from the church, and the provost himself, the provost's sickness emerges and the reader is drawn into the disturbing inner workings of a violent pedophile.The provost relays his crimes in excruciating detail...
  • NIGHT STALKER by Carol Davis Luce

    NIGHT STALKER by Carol Davis Luce

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Night Stalker – a dandy read – tense, original…Add Carol Davis Luce to your list of writers not to be overlooked.” – Tony Hillerman author of Talking GodThings were looking up for Alexandra Carlson. She had finally gotten her life back together again...
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    drama  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Poe: New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe by Ellen Datlow, Gregory Nassif St. John

    Poe: New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe by Ellen Datlow, Gregory Nassif St. John

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    To coincide with the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, this anthology celebrates the depth and diversity of one of the most important figures in literature. Compiled by multi-award winning editor Ellen Datlow, it presents some of the foremost talents of the genre, who have come together to reimagine tales inspired by Poe.Sharyn McCrumb, Lucius Shepard, Pat Cadigan, M...
  • The Chateau by Jaclyn Goldis

    The Chateau by Jaclyn Goldis

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A dream girls trip to a luxurious French chateau devolves into a deadly nightmare of secrets and murder in this stylish, twisty thriller for fans of Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware, and Lisa Jewell.Welcome to picturesque Provence, where the Lady of the Chateau, Séraphine Demargelasse, has opened its elegant doors to her granddaughter Darcy and three friends...
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    drama  family  suspense  book  contemporary  crime  female-mc  fiction
  • The Doll House by Phoebe Morgan

    The Doll House by Phoebe Morgan

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    You never know who’s watching…Corinne’s life might look perfect on the outside, but after three failed IVF attempts it’s her last chance to have a baby. And when she finds a tiny part of a doll house outside her flat, it feels as if it’s a sign.But as more pieces begin to turn up, Corinne realises that they are far too familiar...
  • The End of the Rainbow by V.C. Andrews

    The End of the Rainbow by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Rain's precious daughter, Summer, has just turned sixteen. Her future lies wide open before her and, like all girls her age, she dreams of growing up and making her own life, of falling in love and finding her soul mate. But a devastating act of brutality will force Summer to stare into the cold eyes of adulthood long before she is ready...
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    drama  family  gothic  suspense  abuse  book  classics  contemporary
  • Wicked Forest by V.C. Andrews

    Wicked Forest by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In the second novel of the thrilling De Beers series, readers will discover that it’s easy to get lost in a world of hidden dangers.After discovering her true identity, Willow De Beers leaves her North Carolina town to live with her real mother and her half-brother in Palm Beach, Florida...
  • Family Storms by V.C. Andrews

    Family Storms by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the eye of the storm . . . Living on the streets with her destitute mother, selling knickknacks and trinkets just to survive, Sasha Porter dreams of someday having a normal life, with a real house and family...
  • Baby dear by Linda Huber

    Baby dear by Linda Huber

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Caro and Jeff Horne seem to have it all until they learn that Jeff is infertile. Caro married Jeff because her biggest wish was to be a mother, and he had the means to give their children a better life than she’d had. Jeff, who is besotted with Caro, is terrified he will lose her now they can’t have a baby.Across town, Sharon is eight months pregnant and unsure if she really wants to be a mother...
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    drama  family  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • Midnight Flight by V.C. Andrews

    Midnight Flight by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    THEY LIVED ON THE WILD SIDE.NOW THESE BAD GIRLS ARE PAYING THE PRICE. At Dr. Foreman's School for Girls, the "students" sleep in barns, work on a farm in the blazing heat, and are subjected to ruthless guards who watch their every move. It's an institution run by the dreadful Dr...
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    drama  family  gothic  suspense  abuse  book  contemporary  epic
  • Broken Wings by V.C. Andrews

    Broken Wings by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Three girls from different worlds with one thing in common: They were born to be wild. Robin...With a mom who's more absorbed in her singing career than in her own daughter, Robin's left to her own devices when the two move to Nashville. That's where her mom hopes to strike gold -- and where Robin finds nothing but trouble. Teal...This rich girl will do anything to get her parents' attention..
  • The Monkey's Paw by Diane Mowat, W.W. Jacobs

    The Monkey's Paw by Diane Mowat, W.W. Jacobs

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly. Father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire...
  • Her Last Breath by Hilary Davidson

    Her Last Breath by Hilary Davidson

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From the bestselling author of One Small Sacrifice comes a suspenseful thriller about a dead woman who predicted her own murder—and the sister who won’t let the truth be buried.When her beloved sister Caroline dies suddenly, Deirdre is heartbroken...
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    drama  family  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • How I Lost You by Jenny Blackhurst

    How I Lost You by Jenny Blackhurst

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    “An addictive read; a strong recommendation for those who like suspense tinged with a little romance.”—Booklist A woman without a memory struggles to discover the truth about her past and her identity in this cerebral and dark thriller reminiscent of works by bestselling authors S.J. Watson and Ruth Ware.I have no memory of what happened but I was told I killed my son...
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    drama  family  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • The Walker in Shadows by Barbara Michaels

    The Walker in Shadows by Barbara Michaels

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The house next door to Pat Robbins—eerily identical to the home Pat shares with her college-aged son, Mark—has been empty for years, the darkness within seeming to warn all to stay away. Now new tenants are moving in: affable Josef Friedrichs and his lovely daughter, Kathy, who has stolen Mark's heart on first glance...
  • Cloudburst by V.C. Andrews

    Cloudburst by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The follow-up to Family Storms from New York Times bestselling author V.C. Andrews features high school senior Sasha Porter in search of her sister—but instead she learns secrets that could tear her family apart.Sasha is a popular senior in high school, with excellent grades and no more secrets to hide...
  • The Philanthropist's Danse by Paul Wornham

    The Philanthropist's Danse by Paul Wornham

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Twelve people. Five days. One fortune. Johnston Thurwell, one of the world’s richest men, dies unexpectedly. His family expects to inherit his wealth, but instead discover the dying philanthropist has spent his last days planning something called The Danse. The twelve most important people in his life are brought together to decide the most important question at the end of it...
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    family  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  financial  horror
  • All That Glitters by V.C. Andrews

    All That Glitters by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Driven from the Dumas Mansion back to her beloved bayou, Ruby's only hope is that fate will let her begin anew...Living again in a humble shack, Ruby is determined to make a secure and happy home for her precious infant daughter, Pearl. Paul Tate-- her first love, whom she was forced to abandon-- is at her side once more, now a man of dazzling wealth...
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    drama  family  gothic  suspense  20th-century  book  contemporary  dark
  • Stunden der Nacht by V.C. Andrews, Uschi Gnade

    Stunden der Nacht by V.C. Andrews, Uschi Gnade

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Lillian's world is as thrilling as the fairy tales Mama spins for her and her little sister, Eugenia. No one, not even her cold, stern Papa and her Bible spouting sister Emily, can crush her spirits — until the day Emily reveals the shattering secret at Lillian's birth. Still Lillian refuses to believe Emily's hateful claim that she is evil, a curse...
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    drama  family  gothic  suspense  book  contemporary  dark  fiction
  • Melody by V.C. Andrews, Laurel Lefkow

    Melody by V.C. Andrews, Laurel Lefkow

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Melody Logan knew her beautiful mother, Haille, was unhappy in their hardscrabble mining town....But with her wonderful father's unwavering love, Melody always felt safe — until a dreadful mine accident ripped her from her family's moorings.She was still devastated by her father's death when she left West Virginia with Haille to follow her mother's dream of becoming a model or actress...
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    drama  family  gothic  suspense  20th-century  book  contemporary  dark
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