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  • The Executioner by Chris Carter

    The Executioner by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE CALLER. Inside a Los Angeles church, on the altar steps, lies the blood-soaked body of a priest. Later, the forensic team discover that, on the victim's chest, the figure 3 has been scrawled in blood. At first, Detective Robert Hunter believes that this is a ritualistic killing. But as more bodies surface, he is forced to reassess...
  • Such a Good Girl by Willow Rose

    Such a Good Girl by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas faces a devious plan in bestselling author Willow Rose’s blood-rushing thriller of murder and revenge.A girl falls from the penthouse floor of an apartment in Washington, D.C.Media Mogul Richard Wanton owns the apartment and is seen standing on the balcony when the girl falls...
  • Winter's Redemption by Mary Stone

    Winter's Redemption by Mary Stone

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Preacher is killing again...The serial killer who slaughtered Winter’s parents has come out of retirement, leaving bloody victims in his wake. Special Agent Winter Black has spent her entire life preparing for this moment, and she intends to end the man who took everything from her and solve the disappearance of her little brother—no matter the cost...
  • NO OTHER WAY by Willow Rose

    NO OTHER WAY by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Shocking evidence hits close to home for Miami PD’s Detective Harry Hunter as Willow Rose’s bestselling series continues. Three women went on a road trip to Key West. Only two returned. When asked what happened, their stories don’t completely match...
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    crime  kidnapping  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  dark  fiction
  • Say You Love Me by Willow Rose

    Say You Love Me by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Former FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas is back and embedded in a true nightmare reaching deep into her own family. What would you do if your brother was accused of a horrible crime, and you were certain he didn’t do it? Life is not done throwing Eva Rae Thomas curveballs. A phone call turns her life upside down – once again...
  • You Better Run by Willow Rose

    You Better Run by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Dead.Who is this girl?How did she end up in the pool?Was she even at the party?Even more strange is when they pull her out of the water, Meg realizes the girl looks very familiar. As a matter of fact, she looks just like her.Like an identical twin.But Meg has no twin, at least none that she knows of, and no one at the party knows this girl or can say where she is from...
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    crime  kidnapping  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  dark  fiction
  • Never Ever by Willow Rose

    Never Ever by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Former FBI profiler Eva Rae Thomas returns in Willow Rose’s most hair-raising thriller yet. Ex-agent Eva Rae Thomas is on the run. The past month she has done things she never knew she was capable of while hunting for her kidnapped daughter. Eva Rae has risked everything, -her career, -her newfound love, -her freedom. She’s looking for the man they call the Iron Fist...
  • What You Did by Willow Rose

    What You Did by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Former FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas faces the most personal case in her career, as bestselling author Willow Rose’s new hit-series continues. Three girls disappear on prom night at the local high school. One of them is the prom queen...
  • Bad Dog by Alex Smith

    Bad Dog by Alex Smith

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Some legends can kill you. When a young woman is brutally murdered in the Norfolk countryside, the locals blame Black Shuck—a legendary wild dog. There’s only one problem: the wounds weren’t made by an animal. DCI Robert Kett is battling a black dog of his own...
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    crime  kidnapping  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  justice
  • Malevolent by Jeff Menapace

    Malevolent by Jeff Menapace

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After years of silence, the game is back on… Widower Allan Brown is hosting a support group in his home for the bereaved. One of the guests in attendance will be Amy Lambert, this week marking the five-year anniversary of her family’s horrifying ordeal at Crescent Lake. Of course it’s hardly cause for celebration...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  killer
  • Her Final Word by Willow Rose

    Her Final Word by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rather be the hunter than the prey. Inspired by a true story. Ella Maria Chauncey walks home after a night out with her friends, hurrying to get back before her parents realize she's been out with the boy they don't want her to date. Living in the gated community of Lyford Cay, in one of the world's wealthiest neighborhoods, she believes it is safe. Ella Maria never makes it home...
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    crime  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  drama  fiction  horror
  • Die For Me by Karen Rose

    Die For Me by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    COME TO METhe first victim is found in a snow-covered Philadelphia field. Detective Vito Ciccotelli enlists the aid of archaeologist Sophie Johannsen to determine exactly what lies beneath the frozen ground. Despite years of unearthing things long buried, nothing can prepare Sophie for the matrix of graves dug with chilling precision. The victims buried there haunt her...
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    crime  multi-pov  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  death
  • Under the Bones: A Lou Thorne Thriller by Kory M. Shrum

    Under the Bones: A Lou Thorne Thriller by Kory M. Shrum

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Enemies make the best allies. Louie Thorne is good at only one thing. Killing. She knows peace only when she kills and this relentless thirst drives her to hunt the world's worst crime lords. But when her cancer-stricken aunt makes a dying wish, Louie is torn between her own dark nature and a promise made to the only family she has left...
  • Becoming the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar

    Becoming the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A riveting, haunting sequel to the New York Times bestselling thriller Chasing the Boogeyman—a tale of obsession and the adulation of evil, exploring modern society’s true-crime obsession with unflinching honesty, sparing no one from the glare of the spotlight...
  • The Watson Girl by Leslie Wolfe

    The Watson Girl by Leslie Wolfe

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    An 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...
  • Mercurial Dreams by Hadena James

    Mercurial Dreams by Hadena James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Aislinn Cain and the Serial Crimes Tracking Unit are being sent to the hottest place in North America to investigate mummified remains that were found in Death Valley. When Xavier Reece uncovers elemental mercury in the heart of one of the mummies, they discover there is more than Mother Nature at work...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  murder
  • Explosive Dreams by Hadena James

    Explosive Dreams by Hadena James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bright midways, rides with loud music and flashing lights, barkers trying to get people to spend money on rigged games; the normal sounds of county fairs everywhere until an explosion rips through the tinny music of the carnival rides. Now the screams are not squeals of delight but the terrified shrieks of the dying.The danger is no longer imaginary, something to shrug off when the ride is over...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  murder
  • The Dead Tell Lies by J.F. Kirwan

    The Dead Tell Lies by J.F. Kirwan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    If you want to catch a serial killer, you need to think like one.Greg Adams, a criminal psychologist at Scotland Yard, specialises in bringing serial killers to justice. He is at the top of his game, having just put away his sixth serial killer when his wife, Kate, is brutally murdered by another predator known as the Dreamer...
  • RUN GIRL RUN by Willow Rose

    RUN GIRL RUN by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Willow Rose’s beloved detective, Harry Hunter is back in this thrilling second installment of the bestselling series. When a mother and her child are pulled out of the harbor in their car, the case seems pretty straightforward for Miami PD and Detective Harry Hunter. Everything points to a double suicide...
  • Arsonist by Victor Methos

    Arsonist by Victor Methos

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Evil is Released Onto the Streets of San Diego...A series of deadly fires rages across the cityscape, claiming the lives of entire families. Helpless to stop the fires, the SDPD assigns their most famous detective, Jon Stanton, to the case. The evidence points him to a single arsonist committing the horrendous acts...
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    crime  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  killer
  • Alone in the Woods by Charly Cox

    Alone in the Woods by Charly Cox

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The sudden appearance of a man's booted feet had Addis snapping her mouth shut. Screaming, she kicked out at the tall, muscular guy as he dragged her from beneath the desk...It was a scene from a horror movie; Gabriel Kensington and his wife Lydia found, brutally slain in their luxurious home in New Mexico...
  • Psychopath by Jeff Menapace

    Psychopath by Jeff Menapace

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The 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...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  murder  mystery
  • Chosen To Die by Lisa Jackson

    Chosen To Die by Lisa Jackson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    HE'LL CHOOSE THEM... Detective Regan Pescoli has worked the "Star Crossed Killer" case for months, never imagining she'd be captured by the madman she's been hunting. Regan knows exactly what he's capable of - and avoiding the same fate will take every drop of her courage and cunning. ABDUCT THEM... Regan Pescoli is unlike any woman Nate Santana has met before...
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    crime  kidnapping  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  dark
  • A Dark Mind by T.R. Ragan, Kate Rudd

    A Dark Mind by T.R. Ragan, Kate Rudd

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A serial killer is terrorizing Sacramento, preying on happily married couples and unleashing unspeakable cruelties upon his victims. The ordeal rekindles disturbing memories for private investigator Lizzy Gardner, who barely escaped a serial killer clutches only years ago...
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    crime  kidnapping  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  dark
  • Hope to Die by James Patterson

    Hope to Die by James Patterson

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career. Cross's family – his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious children--have been ripped away. Terrified and desperate, Cross must give this mad man what he wants if he has any chance of saving the most important people in his life...
  • Appetite for Innocence by Lucinda Berry

    Appetite for Innocence by Lucinda Berry

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Be careful what you post online. Your next check-in might lead him right to you...A serial rapist is kidnapping teenage girls. But he’s not interested in just any teenage girls—only virgins. He hunts them by following their status updates and check-ins on social media. Once he’s captured them, they’re locked away in his sound-proof basement until they’re groomed and ready...
  • Autumn Bleeds Into Winter by Jeff Strand

    Autumn Bleeds Into Winter by Jeff Strand

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    1979. 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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    crime  suspense  book  comedy  coming-of-age  fiction  horror  humor
  • Reckoning by Jeff Menapace

    Reckoning by Jeff Menapace

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Life in the swamp just got wilder… “The Swamp Massacre.” That’s what the media dubbed it. A family on a boat tour through the Florida Everglades. Abducted by the infamous Roy family. Forced to endure hell. Five years later, an aspiring filmmaker and her friends are keen on making a documentary about the incident...
  • Stolen: A Cassidy & Spenser Thriller by Carey Baldwin

    Stolen: A Cassidy & Spenser Thriller by Carey Baldwin

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Is she missing…or a murderer? When Laura Chaucer, daughter of a U.S. senator, vanishes from her college campus, celebrated FBI profilers Special Agent Atticus Spenser and forensic psychiatrist Dr. Caitlin Cassidy are called in. Thirteen years ago, Laura and her nanny disappeared from her family’s Denver home. Laura was found alive, but her nanny wasn’t so lucky… and the killer was never caught...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  murder
  • The Girls They Lost by J.H. Leigh

    The Girls They Lost by J.H. Leigh

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dead girls don’t run or tell secrets.Nicole, Dylan and Jilly may have escaped the horrors of the auction house but they aren’t safe.Madame Moirai has eyes everywhere. There’s nowhere the girls can go that can shelter them for long. On the run, with no one to trust, it’s just a matter of time before they’re found...
  • Elysium Dreams by Hadena James

    Elysium Dreams by Hadena James

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He skins his victims alive, taking pleasure from their pain. In the cold, dark nights of Alaska, a hunter is stalking his prey. Once found, he takes them into the woods and skins them alive, prolonging the experience as much as he can, but the satisfaction always wanes.Aislinn Cain and the Serial Crimes Tracking Unit have just finished up another case when they get the call...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  murder
  • Never Walk Alone by Willow Rose

    Never Walk Alone by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The world is on lockdown due to a virus that originated in Miami.A woman is kidnapped from her apartment, and Detective Harry Hunter is on the case.At the same time, his sister shows up after they haven't seen each other in a year.As it turns out, Harry's sister knows more about the virus than she lets on. Soon, he wonders if the virus is connected to the missing woman...
  • A Caller's Game by J.D. Barker

    A Caller's Game by J.D. Barker

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    DIE HARD meets TALK RADIO in this heart-pounding, relentlessly fast-paced thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Fourth Monkey—master of suspense, J.D. Barker. "I'm going to offer you a choice." Controversial satellite radio talk show host, Jordan Briggs, has clawed her way to the top of the broadcast world...
  • Il était deux fois by Franck Thilliez

    Il était deux fois by Franck Thilliez

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    En 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..
  • Stranger in the Woods by Anni Taylor

    Stranger in the Woods by Anni Taylor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Photographer Isla Wilson is thrilled she’s landed her dream job, but the clients who hired her are getting stranger by the day. It sounded so perfect - a month‘s assignment at the misty, sprawling Scottish Highlands property of brilliant architect Alban McGregor, and his wife, Jessica. But deep in the woods, there is a chilling playhouse...
  • Fear No Evil by Allison Brennan

    Fear No Evil by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    In cyberspace, no one can hear you scream. Instead of preparing for her high school graduation, Lucy Kincaid is facing a vicious execution. Lured by an online predator, she’s destined to die horribly–live on the Internet–while hundreds of heartless viewers watch and vote on the method of her slaughter...
    Categorized as:
    crime  kidnapping  suspense  abuse  adult  book  contemporary  dark
  • The Doll's House by M.J. Arlidge

    The Doll's House by M.J. Arlidge

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A young woman wakes up in a cold, dark cellar, with no idea how she got there or who her kidnapper is. So begins her terrible nightmare.Nearby, the body of another young woman is discovered buried on a remote beach. But the dead girl was never reported missing - her estranged family having received regular texts from her over the years. Someone has been keeping her alive from beyond the grave...
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    crime  kidnapping  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  dark
  • Please Tell Me by Mike Omer

    Please Tell Me by Mike Omer

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    After a year in captivity, a kidnapped child escapes―only to reveal horrific truths that lead her psychologist on a race against time...When eight-year-old Kathy Stone turns up on the side of the road a year after her abduction, the world awaits her harrowing story. But Kathy doesn’t say a word. Traumatized by her ordeal, she doesn’t speak at all, not even to her own parents...
  • Anika Rising by Christopher Coleman

    Anika Rising by Christopher Coleman

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the bottom of a lake, deep in the Back Country, death takes a turn. Within a day of being struck down by Hansel, Anika has risen. The cruel, addictive infection of Marlene's poison has protected Anika from the finality of death. But the resurrection is not without a price. She has a new hunger, and its lure is irresistible...
  • The Dark Web Murders by Brian O'Hare

    The Dark Web Murders by Brian O'Hare

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I am Nemein. I am emotionally detached from my killings. I am not, therefore, a murderer. I am an instrument of Nemesis, a punisher. This is a theme running through a number of blogs on the Dark Web, written by a serial killer. He is highly intelligent and employs philosophical argument to justify a series of gruesome murders...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  law-enforcement  murder
  • 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 ratings
    In 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. .
  • Come Find Me by Debra Webb

    Come Find Me by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Secrets have a way of being found...of rising to the surface no matter how deeply buried. Sarah Newton is an investigative reporter who specializes in debunking supernatural myths, and forces the truth to light even when people don't want to see it...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc  fiction  horror
  • Backwoods Ripper by Anna Willett

    Backwoods Ripper by Anna Willett

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “If you like Stephen King’s Misery, you’ll love this book.” A country drive quickly turns into a nightmare for newly-weds Paige and Hal Loche When you are in the bush, pregnant, and your husband is hurt what do you do? Will you trust just about anyone? When their car gets a flat tire in the Australian outback, it should be a simple job for capable Hal to fix. His wife pregnant, he sets to it...
  • Baby Snatchers by Bo Brennan

    Baby Snatchers by Bo Brennan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With children, who can you really trust?When inner city school teacher Terri Davies' star pupil is left home alone, she's reluctant to alert the authorities and the messy bureaucratic nightmare it entails. Instead she turns to her sister, Detective India Kane, to quietly locate the missing single mother...
  • Mourning Gloria by Andrew Downs

    Mourning Gloria by Andrew Downs

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When a murder suspect escapes indictment on a technicality, Agent Leah Hudson is forced to shift her focus to a new task, a cold case. Five years after Gloria Stone disappears, Hudson must piece together the final days of her life, but Gloria was no ordinary girl...
  • The Darkest Water by Mark Edwards

    The Darkest Water by Mark Edwards

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In this chilling thriller from the bestselling author of Keep Her Secret, if you don’t take your dark secrets to the grave, maybe they’ll take you there first…Calvin finally owns the bakery of his dreams, in an idyllic village in the Lake District. After reluctantly following his wife Vicky’s advice to promote it on social media, he’s thrilled when a viral clip makes him a legend overnight...
  • Last Call by J.A. Konrath

    Last Call by J.A. Konrath

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A 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...
  • Profile K by Helen Sarah Fields

    Profile K by Helen Sarah Fields

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He’s going to kill you. He just doesn’t know it yet. There’s something wrong with me. For years I’ve hidden it. Suppressed it. Blended into society. But The Test awoke something within me. It was just a routine application designed to get to know me better – with results that would show me everything I was capable of...
  • The Laughing Dead by Jess Lourey

    The Laughing Dead by Jess Lourey

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Two 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...
  • Vengeful Games by Jeff Menapace

    Vengeful Games by Jeff Menapace

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    PLAYTIME 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...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  murder  mystery
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