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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... -
![Careful little eyes: An addictive, horrifying serial killer thriller by Willow Rose]()
Careful little eyes: An addictive, horrifying serial killer thriller by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsASIN moved from less recent edition hereIan Marks is terrified of ghosts. Especially of the one that has just moved into his shed in the back yard of his house in New Orleans. Everyone else thinks he is just a drunk, but when his girlfriend is killed at night by a man with an axe, he knows he was right to be afraid... -
![St. Benet's by David Blake]()
St. Benet's by David Blake
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA girl thrown from a church tower, a man sacrificed to Satan, and a priest murdered at the hands of the Devil. When the body of an old man is found lying in the ruins of St Benet’s Abbey, his throat cut, a knife resting in his open hand, DI John Tanner and DC Jenny Evans are given no choice but to accept a ruling of death by misadventure... -
![The One That Got Away by J.D. Kirk]()
The One That Got Away by J.D. Kirk
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWhat if your worst enemy was your only hope?When a fifteen-year-old girl fails to make it home after school, DI Heather Filson believes she’s dealing with just another teenage runaway.The girl’s grandfather, a notorious Glasgow gangster, disagrees. Convinced one of his underworld enemies has grabbed her, he’s prepared to bathe the city in blood in order to bring his princess home... -
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![Damned by Jana Deleon]()
Damned by Jana Deleon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen young priest Nicolas Chatry took his vows, he thought the hardest thing he’d have to deal with was accomplishing his duties from a wheelchair. Until a murderer steps into the confessional. Unable to recognize the voice or maneuver quickly enough to get a look at the killer, Nicolas has no way of identifying who admitted to such a horrific deed... -
![You Can't Hide by Willow Rose]()
You Can't Hide by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsASIN moved from less recent edition hereA new reign of terror has fallen on the unsuspecting residents of Cocoa Beach. They think their worst nightmare is the environmental catastrophe causing the thousands of dead fish in the river until the first body turns up among the dead fish.Young girls are being kidnapped.Behind these kidnappings stands a ghostly person who calls himself the Boxer...Categorized as:
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![Aberration by Lisa Regan]()
Aberration by Lisa Regan
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFBI analyst Kassidy Bishop is assigned to the “For You” killer’s task force after a series of sadistic murders bearing the same signature arise in different parts of the country.The homicides are both calculated and savage, occurring in different states, but bearing the same signature: the words “for you” scribbled at each crime scene... -
![The Girl in the Sand by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain]()
The Girl in the Sand by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsShallow graves scar the desert landscape. A cemetery in the sand. Some of the lost are never found. Thousands of girls go missing every year in Las Vegas. Taken. Bought and sold. Or worse. And now the dead are calling. These lost girls summon FBI Profiler Violet Darger to Sin City -- a new case... -
![Where the Wild Roses Grow by Willow Rose]()
Where the Wild Roses Grow by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Queen of scream novels does it again! - It's laced with a terrifying nail-biting tension and characters that make your skin crawl. With her blankly staring eyes seeming to gaze into the sky, he put a red rose between her teeth and then gently pushed her into the water. She slowly sank into the slow, flowing river...Categorized as:
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![Once Lost by Blake Pierce]()
Once Lost by Blake Pierce
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsStill reeling from her former partner Lucy’s death and from her partner Bill’s PTSD, FBI Special Agent Riley Paige does her best to try to keep herself stable and to patch together her family life. She has to decide what to about April’s boyfriend, recovering from his abusive father, and about Blaine, who is ready for their relationship to move ahead... -
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The Watson Girl by Leslie Wolfe
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn entire family is murdered and, by a quirk, a young girl is left unharmed. For fifteen years, she believed the killer had been caught, and he’s now on death row, awaiting execution. While trying to be content with her adoptive family, she’s living in relentless uncertainty and the fear of remembering what really happened that night when she was five years old. She’s The Watson Girl... -
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![The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn]()
The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre." —Stephen KingThis exclusive ebook collection brings together the three novels from bestselling author Gillian Flynn. A #1 New York Times bestseller, Gone Girl is an unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong... -
![The Cutting Place by Jane Casey]()
The Cutting Place by Jane Casey
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRumours…Everyone’s heard the rumours about elite gentlemen’s clubs, where the champagne flows freely, the parties are outrageous…and what goes on behind closed doors is darker than you could possibly imagine.Scandals…Paige Hargreaves was a young journalist working on a story about a club for the most privileged men in London. She was on the brink of exposing a shocking scandal... -
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![Bad Blood by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain]()
Bad Blood by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe body slumps over the steering wheel. Pools of blood going tacky on the dash. Two shots to the back of the head. A mafia-style hit in a small town.So Special Agent Violet Darger arrives in rural Michigan. She must make sense of this savagery. Figure out how something like this could happen in an idyllic town of just 5,000.The victim had been living the American dream... -
![Once Shunned by Blake Pierce]()
Once Shunned by Blake Pierce
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen a serial killer strikes across a series of towns and the only potential witness is unable to speak, it is up to FBI Special Agent Riley Paige to enter the mind of this complex man, and to learn what, if anything, he knows... -
![One By One by Freida McFadden]()
One By One by Freida McFadden
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsOne by one, they will get what they deserve...A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not how Claire Matchett expected to spend her vacation.She thought this would be a break from the stresses of work and raising her young children. A chance to repair her damaged marriage. A week of hiking and hot tubs with two other couple friends. It sounded like heaven... -
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Missed Connections by Alexandria Clarke
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHow far would you go for revenge? Veronica Bauer isn’t above homicide. Twelve years after a ruthless attack killed her mother and put her father in prison, she embarks on a mission to bring the real culprits to justice. As bodies start to drop, Detective Sheila Arden is assigned to the gruesome case, but she soon discovers that the truth is more complicated than she thought... -
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Once Cold by Blake Pierce
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThere is one cold case that has plagued Special Agent Riley Paige for her entire career, dwelling at the corners of her consciousness, forcing her to return to it again and again. The only case she has never solved, she has finally put it out of her mind. Until she gets a call from the murdered victim’s mother... -
![Once Stalked by Blake Pierce]()
Once Stalked by Blake Pierce
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen two soldiers are found dead on a huge military base in California, apparently killed by gunshot, military investigators are stumped. Who is killing its soldiers, inside the secure confines of its own base?And why?The FBI is called in, and Riley Paige is summoned to take the lead... -
![The Ursulina by Brian Freeman]()
The Ursulina by Brian Freeman
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe mythical beast goes by many names. Bigfoot. Sasquatch. Yeti.In Black Wolf County, he's called ... the Ursulina.But to Deputy Rebecca Colder, the beast is no myth. A serial killer has taken on the identity of the monster--and with each body left behind, there's a chilling message written in blood. I am the Ursulina... -
![Last Breath by Mary Stone]()
Last Breath by Mary Stone
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWelcome to the deadliest show on Earth...When the Ruby Red Spectacle Circus rolls into town, chaos and death follow in its wake. At first, the accidents seem coincidental, but as the body count rises, it becomes clear that a killer is lurking within the big top’s shadows.Smoke and mirrors concealing love and hate... -
![Deep Dark Secrets by Keri Beevis]()
Deep Dark Secrets by Keri Beevis
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe darkest minds hide the deepest secrets… Lizzie Kent wasn't supposed to babysit the night she was murdered. She was covering for her best friend, Nell. Nell has lived with the guilt ever since. Eighteen years later Nell returns to the area, desperate to escape a bad relationship after inheriting her aunt's rundown guesthouse... -
![The Haunting of Saxton Mansion by Roger Hayden]()
The Haunting of Saxton Mansion by Roger Hayden
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe complicated history of the Saxton house has been long forgotten. Few in the town of Cypress Creek even remember the house and what had occurred inside its walls decades before. In the present time, author Rob Hooper and his wife, Janet, are looking for a quiet place to live. The grandiose, isolated Victorian-style relic is everything they could want... -
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![The Drowning at Dyes Inlet by D.D. Black]()
The Drowning at Dyes Inlet by D.D. Black
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSometimes murder comes in waves...In 1979, a florist's lifeless body surfaced in the serene waters of Dyes Inlet, an enchanting estuary connected to the vast Puget Sound. Although the murder was never solved, a sinister heart carved into the victim's back made the case unforgettable... -
![The Secrets of the Shadows by Helen Phifer]()
The Secrets of the Shadows by Helen Phifer
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSophie was afraid of the man in the shadows. He terrified her, but he would always disappear when someone else came. But one day in June 1984, she didn't escape. He took her. When a young woman is found draped over a gravestone in a chilling murder, police officer Annie Graham experiences a familiar sense of dread...Categorized as:
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![SORRY CAN'T SAVE YOU: A Mystery Novel by Willow Rose]()
SORRY CAN'T SAVE YOU: A Mystery Novel by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ... one of the best books I've read this year!What if you thought your husband was a murderer? The man you loved, the man who gave you two beautiful children and a perfect life. What if no one believed you? Laurie Davis is the mother of two children, struggling to keep her family together since her husband, Ryan, went to war and came back changed. His PTSD is evident... -
![The Girl in the Snow by Alexandria Clarke]()
The Girl in the Snow by Alexandria Clarke
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA retired FBI agent. A heartstopping tragedy. Carolina Caccia, a divorced mother of two, confronts her worst fears when her son goes missing during a family ski trip. As she discovers her son has been taken, she must revisit her dark past to rescue her child... -
![十三級階梯 by Kazuaki Takano, 高野和明]()
十三級階梯 by Kazuaki Takano, 高野和明
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 11 ratings死神在上午九點來臨。樹原亮只聽過一次死神的腳步聲。最先傳進耳裡的，是推開鐵門的重低音。當那來自地底般的空氣震動停止後，牢房的氣氛為之一變。通往地獄的門打開了，致使身體不敢稍有動彈的真正恐怖流竄而至。 山中偏僻的一戶平房裡，一對老夫婦慘遭殺害，一切證據都指向樹原亮，但他卻因車禍喪失了行凶時刻前後數小時的記憶。刑務官南鄉和剛假釋出獄的三上，為了替樹原亮洗清冤罪而展開調查，但他們唯一的線索，是他記得自己在「爬樓梯」！距離執行死刑的時間已所剩無幾，樹原亮隨時會被處死，但案件疑雲重重，不僅完全沒有其他人證、物證，連關鍵「樓梯」的線索都找不到，儘管如此他們仍相信樹原亮是被冤枉的，誓言要把他從十三級階梯的死刑台上救下來。該爬上十三級階梯的，究竟會是誰……？... -
![What You Don't See by Tracy Clark]()
What You Don't See by Tracy Clark
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsVonda Allen’s vanity magazine has taken the Windy City by storm, and now she’s on her way to building a one-woman media empire. Everybody adores her—except the people who work for her. But who’s sending her flowers with death threats? As Vonda’s bodyguard, off-duty cop Ben Mickerson could use some backup—and no one fits the bill better than his ex-partner, Cass Raines... -
![Once Chosen by Blake Pierce]()
Once Chosen by Blake Pierce
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA serial killer strikes every Halloween—the bodies of his victims re-surfacing years later—and with Halloween only days away, it is up to FBI Special Agent Riley Paige to stop the killer before he strikes again... -
![Once Dormant by Blake Pierce]()
Once Dormant by Blake Pierce
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAfter lying dormant for 10 years, an elusive serial killer strikes again, leaving few clues—and the only way for FBI Special Agent Riley Paige to catch him in the present is to solve the riddles of the past. Women are turning up dead, and in this dark psychological thriller, Riley Paige realizes she is in a race against time. The murders of the past were too perplexing to be solved back then... -
![Il était deux fois by Franck Thilliez]()
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.. -
![The Binding Room by Nadine Matheson]()
The Binding Room by Nadine Matheson
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratings17 hours, 20 minutes Detective Anjelica Henley confronts a series of ritualistic murders in this heart-pounding thriller about race, power and the corrupt institutions that threaten usWhen Detective Anjelica Henley is called to investigate the murder of a popular preacher in his own church, she discovers a second victim, tortured and tied to a bed in an upstairs room... -
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![What Hurts the Most by Willow Rose]()
What Hurts the Most by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsASIN B018A097LO moved to the most recent edition hereYou will never guess the ending!Am I pretty? Imagine being asked that question standing face to face with a killer. What would you answer? While her life is going from bad to worse, journalist Mary Mills receives a phone call from her father telling her that her brother has been arrested for murder...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![Malevolent by Jana Deleon]()
Malevolent by Jana Deleon
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon, the first in a new thriller series. Everyone wondered about Shaye Archer’s past. Including Shaye. Shaye Archer’s life effectively began the night police found her in an alley, beaten and abused and with no memory of the previous fifteen years, not even her name...Categorized as:
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![Liar Liar by M.J. Arlidge]()
Liar Liar by M.J. Arlidge
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDetective Helen Grace gets caught in an inferno of death and destruction in the red-hot new thriller from the author of Eeny Meeny, Pop Goes the Weasel, and The Doll’s HouseDetective Helen Grace has never seen such destruction. Six fires in twenty-four hours. Two people dead. Several more injured. It’s as if someone wants to burn the city to the ground.. -
![Beverly Barton Bundle: Dead By Midnight / Dead By Morning / Dead By Nightfall by Beverly Barton]()
Beverly Barton Bundle: Dead By Midnight / Dead By Morning / Dead By Nightfall by Beverly Barton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn Murder. . .The last sounds Dean Wilson hears are a clock striking twelve and a killer's taunting words. And his death is just the first. One by one, victims are stalked and shot at close range. Only the killer knows their sins, and who will be the next to die at midnight. . . And In Life. . -
![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... -
![Last Call by J.A. Konrath]()
Last Call by J.A. Konrath
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA retired cop past her prime...A kidnapped bank robber fighting for his life...A former mob enforcer with a blood debt...A government assassin on the run...A wisecracking private eye with only one hand...A homicide sergeant with one week left on the job...And three of the worst serial killers, ever.This is where it all ends... -
![The Haunting of Abram Mansion by Alexandria Clarke]()
The Haunting of Abram Mansion by Alexandria Clarke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA riveting new haunted house mystery that will keep you guessing until the end!When Peyton and Benjamin Fletcher inherit a dilapidated house in the quiet town of Falconwood, Connecticut from Peyton's grandfather, all they want to do is get rid of it. Unfortunately, the will stipulates that the couple must live in the house for a minimum of six months before they sell it... -
![The Laughing Dead by Jess Lourey]()
The Laughing Dead by Jess Lourey
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTwo murder investigations, decades apart, threaten to expose a cold case agent’s darkest secrets in a pulse-pounding thriller by the Edgar Award–nominated author of The Taken Ones.The bodies of three teenage girls are found in central Minnesota—each with her mouth fixed in a ghoulish grin, smiling at a deadly joke no one can hear... -
![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... -
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![Sleep Tight by Anne Frasier]()
Sleep Tight by Anne Frasier
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWAKE UP, LITTLE DARLING. DO YOU LIKE WHAT YOU SEE?He's looking for the perfect woman. Someone who won't disappoint him, like so many have before. Someone who'll love him ... someone who won't have to die for her mistakes.GIVE UP, LITTLE DARLING....FBI agent Mary Cantrell has been called to Minneapolis to hunt down a killer... -
![Never Lie by Freida McFadden]()
Never Lie by Freida McFadden
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsNewlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams.But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate… with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end... -
![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... -
![The Ridealong: A Suspense Thriller by Michaelbrent Collings]()
The Ridealong: A Suspense Thriller by Michaelbrent Collings
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"I've left clues for you, and clues for the police. They'll be searching for you. The evidence at the scene of Officer Knight's death is enough to send you both to jail." "Who am I searching for?" The Voice laughs. That strange, dangerous laugh. "Me, of course." *** It was supposed to be just one more ridealong, a night when high schooler Melissa Latham accompanies her father on his patrol... -
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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... -
![The Curse of the House on Cypress Lane by James Hunt]()
The Curse of the House on Cypress Lane by James Hunt
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the hot, muddy swamps of Louisiana there is a creature that resides on haunted land inside a cursed house. The small town of Ocoee has forgotten much about what happened at that house so many years ago, its true past fading like ink on the brittle pages of history. But you know how the old saying goes... History likes to repeat itself...
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