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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Wiki content for your Kindle by AMencher19, AbsoluteGleek92
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNB: This is not the novel by Stieg Larsson. You can find The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo here.Wish you could read your favorite wiki content conveniently on your Kindle device? Now you can with the "Wiki content for your kindle" series.This book provides background information on the novel "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," written by Stieg Larsson... -
The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 11 ratings“Don’t go in the guest bedroom.” A shadow falls on Douglas Garrick’s face as he touches the door with his fingertips. “My wife… she’s very ill.” As he continues showing me their incredible penthouse apartment, I have a terrible feeling about the woman behind closed doors... -
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Dark Lies by Elliot York
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRelax, this won’t be so bad.After all, this isn’t the first time you’ve died.She was the girl everyone wanted but no one could have—no one but him. They’d loved each other. Becca’s suicide at age 18 broke Logan. The heartache never fully healed. But nothing could have prepared him for the shock of what came next.At age 39, Logan Cooper’s hard-earned detective career is hanging on by a mere thread... -
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Billie Jo by Kimberley Chambers
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHer dad’s a villain. She’s his princess.And their world is about to crash. For Terry, family is everything. But it’s far from perfect… Billie Jo is the adored only child of wealthy villain, Terry, and Michelle, the drunken wife he hates... -
The Blood Road by Stuart MacBride
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSome things just won’t stay buried…Logan McRae’s personal history is hardly squeaky clean, but now that he works for Professional Standards it’s his job to police his fellow officers.When Detective Inspector Bell turns up dead in the driver’s seat of a crashed car it’s a shock to everyone. Because Bell died two years ago, they buried him. Or they thought they did... -
Mimik by Sebastian Fitzek
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsEin winziges Zucken im Mundwinkel, die kleinste Veränderung in der Pupille reichen ihr, um das wahre Ich eines Menschen zu „lesen“: Hannah Herbst ist Deutschlands erfahrenste Mimikresonanz-Expertin, spezialisiert auf die geheimen Signale des menschlichen Körpers. Als Beraterin der Polizei hat sie schon etliche Gewaltverbrecher überführt... -
Vecchie conoscenze by Antonio Manzini
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRocco Schiavone indaga sull’omicidio di una professoressa in pensione. E intanto l’ombra del passato si fa pressante: la pena per Sebastiano, l’amico fraterno che non ha mai smesso di dare la caccia a Enzo Baiocchi, che gli ha assassinato la moglie, lo rende inquieto e gli ruba il sonno... -
Killing Moon by Jo Nesbø
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the thirteenth novel in the New York Times best-selling series, brilliant rogue police investigator Harry Hole is back, this time as an outsider assembling his own team to help find a serial killer.Harry has gone to Los Angeles to drink himself to death, in the wake of his life back in Oslo falling to pieces... -
The Arrangements - Box Set by Annie Adams
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Final Arrangment The Vulture is dead. The body of Quincy McKay's nemesis and biggest competitor in the floral business has just been discovered in a casket at the mortuary, complete with flowers on the lid. Derrick Gibbons, aka The Vulture, stole all of Quincy's funeral business, and now she's on a mission to get it back... -
Solomon vs. Lord by Paul Levine
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsVictoria Lord follows all the rules. Steve Solomon makes up his own. They'll either end up in ruin, in jail or in bed. Steve barely graduated from Key West School of Law. Victoria is fresh from Yale, toiling for an ambitious DA, before Steve gets her fired. Katrina Barksdale is a sexy former figure skater charged with killing her very wealthy, very kinky husband in Miami... -
Le chasseur de regards by Sebastian Fitzek
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAlexander Zorbach, reporter dans un grand quotidien berlinois, a temporairement permis de mettre un terme aux agissements du tristement célèbre Voleur de regards, un psychopathe ayant assassiné de manière bestiale quatre femmes et trois enfants – à qui il avait chacun prélevé un œil – et à sauver in extremis deux futures victimes.Mais le journaliste a dû pour cela payer le prix fort... -
Wake by Shelley Burr
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEVERYBODY THINKS THEY KNOW MINA McCREERY.EVERYONE HAS A THEORY ON WHAT HAPPENED TO HER SISTER.NOW IT'S TIME TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH...Mina McCreery's sister Evelyn disappeared nineteen years ago. Her life has been defined by the intense public interest in the case. Now an anxious and reclusive adult, she lives alone on her family's destocked sheep farm... -
Hot Type by Joseph Flynn
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo men on the run ... Newspaperman Dan Cameron gets a cool old typewriter for his 40th birthday. It once belonged to Ben Hecht, who used it to write the movie "Notorious." Dan uses it to write a best-seller. Then the Hecht estate says the typewriter was stolen and demands its return... -
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Every Pretty Thing by Chris Mooney
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn Every Pretty Thing serial killer hunter Darby McCormick finds herself in Montana, looking for a friend. Little does she realise that a murderer is waiting for her . . .She came to find her friend.Instead she found a killer.Serial killer expert Darby McCormick gets a call from FBI Agent Jackson Cooper, who has been contacted by a woman who's been in hiding for twenty years... -
The List by Velvet Vaughn
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the author of The Fan and Committed is the first romantic suspense novel in the COBRA Securities series. The List is an intriguing mixture of pulse-pounding suspense and sizzling passion. It was just supposed to be a game... What started out as a harmless game between friends has turned deadly real. Fourteen men are dead, all from apparent accidents... -
The Silence at Mystery Bay by D.D. Black
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA thousand people watched. No one saw a thing.Private investigator Thomas Austin is enjoying a relaxing holiday vacation in picturesque Port Townsend, Washington, accompanied by an intriguing new friend. But his tranquility is shattered when the nearby community of Mystery Bay is rocked by the death of a revered musician at an infamous counterculture The Rabbit Hole... -
Kamer 19 by Marc Raabe
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOp het openingsevenement van de Berlinale zorgt een snuff-movie voor een massale schok. Ruim 1800 sterren en beroemdheden zien hoe een gruwelijke moord op camera is vastgelegd. Het slachtoffer is de dochter van burgemeester Otto Keller. De dader dreigt dat het niet bij deze moord zal blijven. Rechercheur Tom Babylon en psychologe Sita Johanns staan met hun onderzoek naar de moord onder hoge druk... -
The Club by Mandasue Heller
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJenna Lorde knows she's taking on a challenge when she inherits her dad???s nightclub.But Zenith comes with a top class reputation and a location other clubs would kill for, so she reckons she's more than up for it. Until she starts to realise that the dangers aren???t just from other clubs... -
Sharko by Franck Thilliez
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratings" Sharko comparait toujours les premiers jours d'une enquête à une partie de chasse. Ils étaient la meute de chiens stimulés par les cors, qui s'élancent à la poursuite du gibier. À la différence près que, cette fois, le gibier, c'était eux. " Eux, c'est Lucie Henebelle et Franck Sharko, flics aux 36 quai des Orfèvres, unis à la ville comme à la scène, parents de deux petits garçons... -
Bum Luck by Paul Levine
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThirty seconds after the jury announced its verdict, I decided to kill my client. Second-string linebacker turned trial lawyer Jake Lassiter squares off against his toughest, most unpredictable adversary himself. The downward spiral begins when Jake’s client, Miami Dolphins’ running back Thunder Thurston, is cleared of murdering his wife... -
A Killing Frost by R.D. Wingfield
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOn a rainy night in Denton, Detective Inspector Jack Frost is called to the site of a macabre discovery in the woods - that of a human foot. Meanwhile a multiple rapist is on the loose, the local supermarket reports poisoned stock and a man claims to have cut his wife up into little pieces, yet can't recall where he hid them... -
The Case Against William by Mark Gimenez
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsCriminal defence lawyers must make their peace with one harsh fact of life: most of their clients are guilty. Yet when William Tucker, a celebrated and self-centered star college football player, is suddenly arrested and charged with the brutal rape and murder of a college coed two years before, his broken-down, drunken estranged father Frank can't believe he's guilty... -
The Child Taker & Slow Burn by Conrad Jones
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratings2 top ten 'unputdownable' thrillers in one special edition download. How far would you go to get your children back......?A stand alone novel based on high profile child abductions, which have been followed by millions of concerned parents on the news. 5 year old twins are abducted from a tent in the Lake District and the hunt for a dangerous paedophile ring begins... -
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Gray Matter by Nick Pirog
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsMEET THOMAS.THOMAS IS HAVING A ROUGH GO.HIS GIRL LEFT HIM.HE'S ALONE ON THANKSGIVING.HE'S OUT OF WAFFLES.AND NOW SOMEONE IS TRYING TO KILL HIM.His love life in shambles, Thomas Prescott returns to Seattle, the very place he fled from after his parents' deaths nearly a decade earlier. Just as Thomas is getting settled in, he sees a body floating in the private cove behind his boyhood home... -
White Death by Ken McClure
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhite Death is the seventh thriller by Ken McClure to feature the ex-special forces medic Steven Dunbar. The governments of the western world know a terrorist biological attack will happen sooner rather than later... -
Wildcard by Ken McClure
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA traveler dies a horrifying death on a flight from Africa to London. The Ebola virus is suspected, but Steven Dunbar of the Sci-Med Directorate discovers the more frightening truth, and must act quickly before the outbreak achieves its sinister purpose... -
A Plague Of Crows by Douglas Lindsay
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsDetective Sergeant Thomas Hutton returns in a stark and brutal portrayal of a police officer on the edge, and a killer in control. Three people are dead. Murdered. Each one bound and gagged in a forest, the top of the skull removed, their exposed brain picked at by crows. If they were lucky, they died quickly... -
Out on the Rim by Ross Thomas
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWould you be wary if someone gave you the assignment of delivering five million dollars to a Philippine terrorist—never mind from whom or why? Booth Stallings, a terrorism expert just fired from his job at a bashful organization that never admitted its mount in the Washington merry-go-round, is wary... -
One Strange Date by Laurence Shames
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPerfect romance. Perfect nightmare. Sometimes it’s a fine line. Meet Key West native Renita Daughtry--22, wide-eyed, gorgeous, and very much in love with love. In other words, an irresistible target for professional impostor and pathological liar Richie Pestucci, who plans to charm her into utter helplessness. But there’s just one problem... -
The Lost Girl by Tania Carver
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe terrifying new thriller in the Brennan and Esposito series - are you brave enough to read it?When three men are found hanged in locations around Colchester, Detective Inspector Phil Brennan gets the shock of his life... -
Heartbreaker by Tania Carver
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter years of abuse, Gemma Adderley has finally found the courage to leave her violent husband. She has taken one debilitating beating too many, endured one esteem-destroying insult too much. Taking her seven-year-old daughter Carly, she leaves the house, determined to salvage what she can of her life... -
The Henchmen's Book Club by Danny King
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMark Jones is a henchman for hire. He guards bunkers, patrols perimeters and stands around in a boiler suit waiting to get knocked out by Ninjas. This is his job... -
Hard Time by A.J. Carella
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen it comes to family, Kat will do anything. Even if that means going against everything she believes in, and risking her already fragile relationship with the man she loves. Faced with a problem that is too much for her alone, she enlists the help of her one time partner, Kyle. Together they must uncover a deadly secret before any more innocent lives are lost... -
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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... -
Close by Martina Cole
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe #1 bestselling novelist in the UK makes her U.S. debut with a hard-hitting story that combines the brutality and deep family ties of The Sopranos with an unparalleled look at the underbelly of London's gang land. Patrick Brodie is on the way up. He is a risk-taker like his alcoholic father, and knows exactly how far he is prepared to go to get what he wants... -
Убивать осознанно by Karsten Dusse
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsБьорн Димель — «грязный адвокатишка», вынужденный прикрывать и оправдывать преступления большого криминального авторитета. Брак Бьорна Димеля разваливается на части, его жена вот-вот сбежит с обожаемой дочкой в неопределенном направлении. В отчаянии Бьорн записывается на курс тренинга по осознанности... -
Całe zdanie nieboszczyka by Joanna Chmielewska
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTo pierwsza powieść Joanny Chmielewskiej o charakterze przygodowym. W nielegalnej szulerni Joanna zostaje przypadkowo wzięta za inną osobę. Na skutek tej pomyłki to jej właśnie umierający mężczyzna powierza wskazówkę do odnalezienia cennego skarbu.. -
Bitter Business by Valerie Keogh
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNicola doesn’t want to help the police again. But this time a child is missing and Sean and Tom know she can help.Unfortunately, so too does DI Jane O’Neill. It’s her case. The child is the son of an eminent politician and Jane has her eye on the next rung of her career... -
Cal Rogan Mysteries, Books 4, 5 & 6 by Robert P. French
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA killing more gruesome than you've ever seen.Two different deaths, two thousand miles apart but somehow connected; a teenager who has vanished and everyone who tries to find her end up dead.Continue the journey with Cal Rogan and the crew for the next three books in this amazing series... -
Bum Rap by Paul Levine
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsBUM RAP Miami lawyer Jake Lassiter has had it with shifty clients, dirty prosecutors, and a legal system out of whack. It’s enough to make a man want to leave Florida and never look back...until he gets a call from Victoria Lord, the better half of hot local legal team Solomon & Lord. Her partner in life and law has been arrested for murder... -
Jaque al psicoanalista by John Katzenbach, Laura Paredes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratings(La continuación de El Psicoanalista.)Han pasado cinco años desde que el doctor Starks acabó con la pesadilla que casi le cuesta la vida y que arrasó con todo lo que había sido hasta entonces, descubriéndole las facetas más oscuras del alma humana, también la suya... -
Zaginięcie by Remigiusz Mróz, Krzysztof Gosztyła
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTrzyletnia dziewczynka znika bez śladu z domku letniskowego bogatych rodziców. Alarm przez całą noc był włączony, a okna i drzwi zamknięte. Śledczy nie odnajdują żadnych poszlak świadczących o porwaniu i podejrzewają, że dziecko nie żyje... -
The Graft by Martina Cole
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLooking back, Nick Leary couldn't say exactly what kept him awake that night. He'd had a lot on his mind; perhaps he'd been thinking about the 'respectable' Essex business that he ran, or about his two young sons sleeping in the room next door. Or was it simply the sound of his beautiful wife's steady breathing beside him . . -
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Montalbano's First Case by Andrea Camilleri
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPrequel to the international bestselling Inspector Montalbano series. Montalbano is thirty-five years old and still a bit naïve—and there are plenty of criminals ready to take advantage of his inexperience.Montalbano’s First Case details our hero’s early years as a deputy inspector... -
جیغ by Nicolas Beuglet
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHôpital psychiatrique de Gaustad, Oslo. À l’aube d’une nuit glaciale, le corps d’un patient est retrouvé étranglé dans sa cellule, la bouche ouverte dans un hurlement muet... -
Bad Luck by Linwood Barclay
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratings*THIS BOOK WAS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN THE USA UNDER THE TITLE LONE WOLF* Zack Walker Mystery# 3 Journalist, family man, and paranoid writer Zack Walker visits his father's lakeside fishing camp. But the fresh air, childhood memories and peaceful contemplation are ruined when a body is found. Locals say the mutilated corpse must have been the victim of a random bear attack... -
Dead Girl Walking by Christopher Brookmyre
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLife is dangerous when you have everything to lose. Famous, beautiful and talented, Heike Gunn has the world at her feet. Then, one day, she simply vanishes. Meanwhile, journalist Jack Parlabane has lost everything: his career, his marriage, his self-respect. A call for help from an old friend offers a chance for redemption — but only if he can find out what happened to Heike... -
Watch Me by Angela Clarke
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsYOU HAVE SIX SECONDS TO READ THIS MESSAGE… The body of a 15-year-old is found hours after she sends a desperate message to her friends. It looks like suicide, until a second girl disappears. This time, the message is sent directly to the Metropolitan Police – and an officer’s younger sister is missing. DS Nasreen Cudmore and journalist Freddie Venton will stop at nothing to find her... -
Hollywood Pharaohs by Andrew Mayne, Kevin T. Collins
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMike Ray, former cop and body-double for a world famous action star, was ready to put show business behind him when he was asked to do one last favor for Hollywood’s hottest new actress.All he has to do is find her the necklace from a forgotten film and not get killed in the process...
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