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  • 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 ratings
    ASIN 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 ratings
    A 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...
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    crime  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  female-mc  fiction  historical
  • You Can't Hide by Willow Rose

    You Can't Hide by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ASIN 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...
  • Memories of Tomorrow by Dean Koontz

    Memories of Tomorrow by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    What strange science made Nameless who he is? What catastrophes have been erased from his memories? In the stunning conclusion of this series, the dark past comes flooding back, and Nameless must decide how much he really wants to know.In Indiana, a murderous psycho has kidnapped his own six-year-old stepson, Jamie, and secreted him away in a subterranean cave. It’s become their bunker...
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Leng by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    The Cabinet of Dr. Leng by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Agent Pendergast faces his latest challenge in this next installment of the #1 NYT bestselling series by acclaimed authors Preston and Child, the second in the Leng Trilogy.Following the events of Bloodless, FBI Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast and Constance Greene return. Against all odds, Constance has found a way back to the place of her origins, New York City in the late 1800s...
  • You Can Run by Willow Rose

    You Can Run by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It's not the kind of thing you'd expect to happen on an ordinary Saturday morning. Her kids are arguing and her husband is still sleeping. Lisa is tired and wonders why her husband keeps working late...
  • Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not by Dean Koontz

    Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Instinct and violent visions compel Nameless to embark on an unplanned mission to help a desperate mother and daughter on the run. Why is this rescue so strangely familiar to a man with no memories?Evie and her daughter, Asteria, are fleeing an abusive cult when they meet a stranger in an abandoned Arizona shopping mall. Fate hasn’t set Nameless on their trail...
  • Cold As The Grave: Inspector McLean Book 9 by James Oswald

    Cold As The Grave: Inspector McLean Book 9 by James Oswald

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The ninth book in the Sunday Times-bestselling phenomenon that is the Inspector McLean series, from one of Scotland's most celebrated crime writers . Her lifeless body is hidden in the dark corner of a basement room, a room which seems to have been left untouched for decades. A room which feels as cold as the grave...
  • Gentle Is the Angel of Death by Dean Koontz

    Gentle Is the Angel of Death by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    To some he’s a medical genius. To others, a twisted angel of mercy with a necessary solution to what he sees as an ugly dilemma. Only one man can help Dr. Death face the evil of his ways.Henry Siphuncle has a selfless mission: releasing his patients forever from their distasteful imperfections. It’s for their own good. And the world’s. Even Henry’s own wife didn’t survive his disgust...
  • The Pendergast Files:  (Relic, Reliquary) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    The Pendergast Files: (Relic, Reliquary) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This discounted ebundle includes: Relic, ReliquaryThe books that introduced the world to Douglas Preston’s and Lincoln Child’s FBI Special Agent Pendergast. Hidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by those who walk the streets above. There lies the ultimate secret of the Museum Beat...
  • The Forgotten Cottage by Helen Phifer

    The Forgotten Cottage by Helen Phifer

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Forgotten Cottage, the eagerly-awaited and chillingly terrifying new book in Helen Phifer’s best-selling ‘Annie Graham’ series. Annie Graham has fought her demons, and is ready to leave them behind. Her new cottage seems like the new start she’s craved: quiet and quaint, it’s empty of the memories which have haunted her for so long...
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    crime  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc  fiction  ghosts
  • The Dark at the End by F. Paul Wilson

    The Dark at the End by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Bound by his promise to Glaeken, Jack has refrained from making any direct moves against Rasalom.  But things have changed so there's nothing holding Jack in check any longer.  Other changes are occurring as well.  Jack is healing at an accelerated rate--much like Glaeken did when he was immortal. This can only mean that Glaeken's time is almost up and when he dies, Jack takes his place...
  • The Mercy of Snakes by Dean Koontz

    The Mercy of Snakes by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A series of suspicious deaths in a retirement home draws Nameless into the confidence of a terrified former resident—and into the dark heart of a shocking conspiracy. In part five of the Nameless series, it’s time to hunt.Oakshore Park is Michigan’s most exclusive assisted-living community. Presided over by two killer angels of mercy, it’s also the go-to facility in assisted dying...
  • The House on West 10th Street by Helen Phifer

    The House on West 10th Street by Helen Phifer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Skeptical NYPD Homicide Detective Maria Miller only believes in cold hard facts. But a gruesome murder at a Greenwich Village brownstone seems to point straight to a paranormal source. Determined to unearth a rational explanation, she vows to find the culprit before he strikes again… But Maria is about to learn that this atrocious crime is far from unique...
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    crime  thriller  adult  book  demons  drama  fiction  graphic-violence
  • Seven Shades of Evil by Robert McCammon

    Seven Shades of Evil by Robert McCammon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The New York Times–bestselling author continues his colonial-era thriller series with eight tales of mystery, adventure, and supernatural suspense. From his first appearance in Speaks the Nightbird to his latest adventure in The King of Shadows, Matthew Corbett has faced enemies of all kinds, from serial killers to sorcerers...
  • The Darker Arts by Oscar de Muriel

    The Darker Arts by Oscar de Muriel

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Madame Katerina, Detective 'Nine Nails' McGray's most trusted clairvoyant, hosts a séance for three of Edinburgh's wealthiest families.The following morning everyone is found dead, with Madame Katerina being the only survivor. When questioned she alleges a tormented spirit killed the families for revenge...
  • After She Fled by J.R. Erickson

    After She Fled by J.R. Erickson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For six long years, Max has avoided Draven, her hometown that holds the remnants of a ghastly accident, but when her brother dies, she is drawn back into the clutches of her haunted past.In the wake of her family's shattered happiness, Max is caught in a nightmarish whirlwind of horrors that defy the laws of our world...
  • Dark City by F. Paul Wilson

    Dark City by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Dark City is the second of a new prequel trilogy, Repairman Jack: The Early Years by F. Paul Wilson.It's February 1992. Desert Storm is raging in Iraq but twenty-two-year-old Jack has more pressing matters at home. His favorite bar, The Spot, is about to be sold out from under Julio, Jack's friend...
  • Easy as One Two Three by Willow Rose

    Easy as One Two Three by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ASIN 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...
  • Fatal Error by F. Paul Wilson

    Fatal Error by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "Repairman Jack is one of my favorite characters--I'm full of happy anticipation every time I hold a new RJ novel in my hands."--Charlaine Harris, creator of "True Blood" The End of the World is at hand!Munir Habib's life has become a nightmare. His tormentor has warned Munir not to report the kidnapping of his family, or else they will pay a terrible price...
  • Bloodline by F. Paul Wilson

    Bloodline by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Jack has been on hiatus since the events in Harbingers. With his lover Gia's encouragement he dips a toe back into the fix-it pool. Christy Pickering's eighteen-year-old daughter is dating Jerry Bethlehem, a man twice her age. Christy sensed something shady and sinister about him, so she hired a private investigator to look into his past. But the PI isn't returning her calls...
  • The River by Noelle W. Ihli

    The River by Noelle W. Ihli

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A short post-script to Ask for Andrea by Noelle W. Ihli. Learn what happened to April...
  • The Traveller and Other Stories by Stuart Neville

    The Traveller and Other Stories by Stuart Neville

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A darkly glittering collection of Northern Irish noir by Stuart Neville, Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winning author Since his debut novel, the modern classic The Ghosts of Belfast, was published a decade ago, Stuart Neville has published eight other critically acclaimed novels and achieved international recognition as one of crime fiction’s great living writers...
  • Grimm's Puppets by Tom Prater

    Grimm's Puppets by Tom Prater

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the autumn of 1968, the bodies of six brothers were found hanging from Hollyhead's billboard dressed in white, flowing gowns. Their killer was never identified.Twelve years later, another death has occurred. Will Metlocke, an author with seemingly psychic abilities, is called back to his hometown by his estranged father in a plea to help solve the murders...
  • The Artifact by Brian Hill

    The Artifact by Brian Hill

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A 4000-year-old Egyptian artifact, pulled from a mythical pharaoh’s tomb.A British aristocrat with mysterious intentions.A young thief without a past.A shady spiritualist in hiding.A Native American private investigator, trying to keep his business afloat.Who is the victim?Who is the criminal?Who is the monster?It’s 1984, and Rev Parata is a hard-nosed, Native-American P.I...
  • Sleep Tight by J.H. Markert

    Sleep Tight by J.H. Markert

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    The sole survivor of a serial killer might hold the key to stopping a new spree of murders in this propulsive thriller in the vein of The Black Phone and The Whisper Man.Dark and twisting at every turn, fans of Catriona Ward will love this chilling new tale from the deviously inventive horror author that Peter Farris calls the “clear heir to Stephen King.”Beware the one who got away . .
  • Deadly Animals by Marie Tierney

    Deadly Animals by Marie Tierney

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Finding a dead body is not normal. But Ava is not a normal teenager. In this chilling debut mystery, only the obsessive spirit of youth can save a sleepy town from the savagery within.Fourteen-year-old Ava Bonney is unlike other children. She has an obsessive interest in the rate at which dead animals decompose...
  • What Lies Below by Barbara Taylor Sissel

    What Lies Below by Barbara Taylor Sissel

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Everyone has nightmares. One woman is living hers… Gilly O’Connell’s nightmares aren’t just bad dreams; they’re glimpses of terrifying realities to come. Gilly has spent her entire life trying to suppress the foreboding visions. So when a dismissed premonition leads to her husband’s murder, she buries the guilt and pain of the unsolved crime in the only way she knows how—she runs from it...
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    crime  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  family  female-mc  fiction
  • The Neighbor by London Clarke

    The Neighbor by London Clarke

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Claire Vogel is a recently divorced mother of four girls and a successful counselor living in a planned and prestigious community. She knows all her neighbors, and they know her. But Claire has a secret. To cope with hidden, deep-rooted pain, she often participates in risky, reckless behavior...
  • Peek A Boo, I See You by Willow Rose

    Peek A Boo, I See You by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent editionThe body of a woman found in front of Nordby City Hall has a message for Emma Frost carved into the skin. Behind this ruthless murder stands a ghostly figure that likes to play childish games. Soon, this killer brings a reign of terror to the small Danish Island and especially to the life of Emma Frost...
  • Reprisal by F. Paul Wilson

    Reprisal by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In Reborn (6/90), Jim discovered the ancient evil that lurked within his past. Now Jonah, his only son, is the bearer of the horror. Jonah is biding his time, keeping his true identity a secret and waiting for the time when he can carry out the mission he was born for: to bring about the end of the world...
  • Time to Die by Caroline Mitchell

    Time to Die by Caroline Mitchell

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He will predict your life… and your death.Don’t ever cross his palm with silver. He will reveal your most shameful secrets. He will predict your death. He is hiding a secret. He is hiding a monster. And all his predictions come true.Investigating a series of chilling murders, Detective Jennifer Knight finds herself tracking a mysterious tarot card reader known only as The Raven...
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    crime  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  female-mc  fiction  horror
  • Seven, Eight... Gonna Stay Up Late by Willow Rose

    Seven, Eight... Gonna Stay Up Late by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She thought she could keep it a secret. Just fourteen years old, Amalie thought she could take off and go to the festival with her best friend without anyone knowing it - without her parents finding out. She thought she was safe when she met a man offering her drugs. She thought she was safe when she went alone to her tent to take the pills...
  • Miss Polly had a Dolly by Willow Rose

    Miss Polly had a Dolly by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A bone-chilling tale from the Queen of Scream Not for the faint-hearted Miss Polly had a dolly. A beautiful daughter that she called her Baby Doll. Every day she dressed her in dresses and brushed her hair before they went outside to show off to the neighbors...
  • Let Me In by Claire McGowan

    Let Me In by Claire McGowan

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the bestselling author of What You Did comes the story of a young couple who are about to discover that in a house full of secrets there’s nowhere to hide…For Helen and George, the remote fixer-upper in Cornwall was supposed to be a dream home, and a way to leave behind the problems they’re both running from. But something about the place feels wrong from day one...
  • The Mirror Man by Lars Kepler

    The Mirror Man by Lars Kepler

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Jenny is abducted in broad daylight and taken to a dilapidated, isolated house where she is chained and caged along with several other girls. Their captor is unpredictable, and as wily as he is cruel: he foils every one of their desperate attempts to escape . . . and once caught they rarely survive their punishment...
    Categorized as:
    crime  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction  horror
  • The Midnight Man by Caroline Mitchell

    The Midnight Man by Caroline Mitchell

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From number one bestselling author Caroline Mitchell, comes the first chilling Slayton thriller for fans of C. J. Tudor and Stephen King.If you open your door to the Midnight Man, hide with a candle wherever you can. Try not to scream as he draws near, because one of you won't be leaving here...On Halloween night in Slayton, five girls go to Blackhall Manor to play the Midnight Game...
  • The Asylum Confessions: Cults by Jack Steen

    The Asylum Confessions: Cults by Jack Steen

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    They arrive alive. They leave dead.But first, they give me their deathbed confessions and this time - it's all about those involved in cults.There will be 5 confessions within this book, and trust me...it's going to be a wild ride:PATIENT 983 - thought she gave birth to the antichrist.PATIENT 962 - his nickname was the Candyman..
  • Deep Shadow by Randy Wayne White

    Deep Shadow by Randy Wayne White

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Doc Ford wrestles more than one kind of demon, in the stunning novel from the "New York Times"-bestselling author. Many dangers lurk in the deep-the worst of them are human. Thirty minutes into what should have been an easy, beginner-level dive in a remote Florida lake, the rim of a cave collapses, trapping two of Doc Ford's friends...
  • The Intruders by Louise Jensen

    The Intruders by Louise Jensen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It should be the perfect a manor house available rent free in exchange for a bit of housesitting. But when Cass and James dig deeper, they find the place has been abandoned since a robbery left almost all the inhabitants dead almost thirty years ago. But they’ve got to save for a deposit somehow, so they move in, and things quickly take a strange turn...
  • Flashback by Michael Palmer

    Flashback by Michael Palmer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Toby is eight years old. He had a routine operation. It was fine. Now he's gone home to terror. Months have passed. But Toby still bursts into tortured screams. Because something is very wrong. Toby can remember evey moment of the operation. All the trauma. All the pain. He relives evrey horrifying detail of surgery while he's awake...
    Categorized as:
    crime  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  medical  murder
  • Tweedledum and Tweedledee by Willow Rose

    Tweedledum and Tweedledee by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent editionIn the middle of the night, Alberto Alonzo sneaks out to play at the casino with his mother's credit card in his hand. The next morning he is gone, and no one knows where he is, and, for his family, a real-life nightmare unfolds.Emma Frost is with her family on a cruise in the Mediterranean Sea when the boy goes missing from the ship...
  • Strangers by Michaelbrent Collings

    Strangers by Michaelbrent Collings

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    You wake up in the morning to discover that you have been sealed into your home. The doors are locked, the windows are barred. THERE'S NO WAY OUT.A madman is playing a deadly game with you and your family. A game with no rules, only consequences...
  • Hidden Bones by Vivian Barz

    Hidden Bones by Vivian Barz

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Amazon Charts bestselling author Vivian Barz pits Susan Marlan and Eric Evans against a new menacing adversary in this suspenseful sequel to her acclaimed debut, Forgotten Bones. Two months have passed, and the horrors of Death Farm still torment police officer Susan Marlan and college professor Eric Evans...
    Categorized as:
    crime  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane by Laird Koenig

    The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane by Laird Koenig

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Alone in the darkened house, with only fire's glow and thirteen flickering candles for illumination, silent except for the mounting chords of a Liszt concerto, Rynn was preparing a solemn celebration. Until a knock at the door shattered sanctuary.Rynn is the little girl who lives in the house at the end of the lane with her father-or so she says...
  • Dark Corners by Liz Schulte

    Dark Corners by Liz Schulte

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ella Reynolds knew from the first moment she walked into the old house someone or something was watching her. Waiting. Her husband's violent murder sent her spiraling into a world of grief and isolation, but Ella isn't alone. Who or what is responsible for her husband's death is still with her. Darkness has engulfed the past year of Ella's life...
    Categorized as:
    crime  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction  ghosts
  • Host by Peter James

    Host by Peter James

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Like Dr Frankenstein, brilliant scientist Joe Messenger will stop at nothing in his quest for immortality ..
    Categorized as:
    crime  thriller  adult  book  fiction  ghosts  horror  magical-realism
  • Final Breath by Kevin O'Brien

    Final Breath by Kevin O'Brien

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Once A Killer's Chosen You. . . At first, the deaths seem random. A young Portland couple brutally murdered in a game gone awry. . .a Chicago woman who plummeted to her death from an office building. . .an aspiring screenwriter asphyxiated in his New York apartment. But the macabre souvenirs television reporter Sydney Jordan receives hint at a connection that is both personal and terrifying...
    Categorized as:
    crime  thriller  adult  book  female-mc  fiction  high-school  horror
  • Alchemist by Peter James

    Alchemist by Peter James

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As chilling as Stephen King as credible as Michael Crichton - a gripping novel of terror and...
    Categorized as:
    crime  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  medical  mystery
  • Her Sister's Death by K.L. Murphy

    Her Sister's Death by K.L. Murphy

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She wanted the truth. She should have known better.When her sister is found dead in a Baltimore hotel room, reporter Val Ritter’s world is turned upside down. What’s worse—an empty pill bottle at the scene leads the police to believe the cause of death is suicide. With little more than her own conviction, Val teams up with a retired detective who has his own personal interest in the case...
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