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  • Winter's Peak: Winter Black Season Two by Mary Stone

    Winter's Peak: Winter Black Season Two by Mary Stone

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It’s lonely at the top. And deadly at the bottom.Sexual harassment isn’t the type of case Private Investigator Winter Black usually takes. But it’s a welcome distraction from whoever’s been sending creepy, anonymous text messages to her phone and set up cameras to spy on her home and office...
  • Chaos in Death / Possession in Death by J.D. Robb

    Chaos in Death / Possession in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Chaos in Death When eye witness testimony paints the killer as a green-skinned monster with swollen red eyes and goblin ears, even Eve Dallas is shaken. But as she gets closer, the trail suggests something far more disturbing - someone is playing with science... Possession in Death After a Russian woman whispers her dying words to Eve Dallas, strange things begin to happen...
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    crime  adult  audiobook  book  female-mc  fiction  mystery  suspense
  • I Am Sal by Abraham Falls

    I Am Sal by Abraham Falls

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What if you were born as a fully formed adult? Completely aware of your surroundings, fully able to speak, walk, think, and recognize, by name, all of the items you could see? The only thing missing, the only nagging void in your memory: your identity...
  • Bombing in Belgravia by Samantha Silver

    Bombing in Belgravia by Samantha Silver

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Things are about to blow up for Cassie... When an ambassador's children are killed in a deliberate gas explosion in the middle of the night, Violet Despuis is on the case. Right from the start, not everything is as it seems, as Cassie confirms at the crime scene that one of the victims had been poisoned beforehand...
  • Yews with Caution by Kate Collins

    Yews with Caution by Kate Collins

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Flower shop owner Abby Knight is out to help a friend in need but soon finds herself in the weeds... The Spring of Abby's Discontent It's April in New Chapel, and Abby and her husband, Marco, are off to buy shrubs for their new house. But the owner of the local landscaping company is nowhere to be found...
  • The Gangster by Scott Sigler

    The Gangster by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    THE GANGSTER is the sixth book in the Galactic Football League series.The ongoing mental battle between star quarterback Quentin Barnes and team owner Gredok the Splithead is coming to a head. Endless threats and the promise of ultraviolence hangs on their every word...
  • Helicoprion by Michael Cole

    Helicoprion by Michael Cole

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A series of violent shark attacks off the shores of northern California draw the attention of pessimistic Detective Luke Jansen. Despite reports of shark sightings by witnesses, the injuries appear to be more reminiscent of a chainsaw-wielding maniac rather than shark bites.Things get stranger when marine biologist Elise Sheldon encounters the creature...
  • Meat and Salt and Sparks by Rich Larson

    Meat and Salt and Sparks by Rich Larson

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A futuristic murder mystery about detective partners—a human and an enhanced chimpanzee—who are investigating why a woman murdered an apparently random stranger on the subway.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied...
  • The Nether: A Play by Jennifer Haley

    The Nether: A Play by Jennifer Haley

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Nether, a daring examination of moral responsibility in virtual worlds, opens with a familiar interrogation scene given a technological twist. As Detective Morris, an online investigator, questions Mr. Sims about his activities in a role-playing realm so realistic it could be life, she finds herself on slippery ethical ground...
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    crime  adult  book  dark  drama  dystopia  fiction  mental-illness
  • Blood Ties by Jo Nesbø, Robert Ferguson

    Blood Ties by Jo Nesbø, Robert Ferguson

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In many ways, the brothers Carl and Roy Opgard have succeeded in life. Or at least they’ve had as much success as is possible in a small town like Os where they've had to kill their way to the top. Carl manages the area’s swanky spa hotel, while Roy has made ambitious plans for an amusement park complete with a roller coaster. The only way is up for the two brothers...
    Categorized as:
    crime  fiction  mystery  noir  audiobook  suspense  murder  sci-fi
  • Araminta Station by Jack Vance

    Araminta Station by Jack Vance

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Essef - Travel out along the galaxy's Perseid Arm. Branch off to follow the ten thousand stars of Mircea's Wisp. Eventually you will come to the Purple Rose System - three stars, Lorca, Sing and Syrene, that seem about to drift away into the void. Three planets circle Syrene. On one, Cadwal, there is Life. Long ago the Naturalist Society of Earth had listed Cadwal as a natural preserve...
    Categorized as:
    crime  adult  book  fiction  mystery  single-planet  space  space-opera
  • Banquets of the Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov

    Banquets of the Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This book is the fourth of six that describe mysteries solved by the Black Widowers, based on a literary dining club he belonged to known as the Trap Door Spiders. It collects twelve stories by Asimov, together with a general introduction and an afterword following each story by the author...
  • Naked by Francine Pascal

    Naked by Francine Pascal

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I’ve been stripped of a home. Stripped of a family. Stripped of a life. I have almost nothing left to lose.Except the one I love most...
  • Press Enter by John Varley

    Press Enter by John Varley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This award-winning Science Fiction novella is part murder mystery, part romance, and more than a little bit scary.Victor Apfel, a troubled war vet, gets an odd, pre-recorded phone message, instructing him to go inside the house next door. He opens the door to find his neighbor shot through the head...
    Categorized as:
    crime  adult  audiobook  book  cyberpunk  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Little Boy Blue by Edward Bunker

    Little Boy Blue by Edward Bunker

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Raised within the confines of a system that has done nothing but provide him with pain, Alex Hamilton's frustration and anger are completely natural--and inherently dangerous.Since his parents split up, Alex has been constantly running from foster homes and institutions, yearning to be with his father, a broken man who cannot give his son the home he desperately needs...
    Categorized as:
    crime  20th-century  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery  noir
  • El asesino de los caramelos de violeta by Javier Holgado, Susana López Rubio

    El asesino de los caramelos de violeta by Javier Holgado, Susana López Rubio

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    La nostalgia y el suspense se darán la mano en las páginas de este adictivo misterio.En los años finales de la dictadura de Franco, Madrid está viviendo una ola de muertes que han sido catalogadas como suicidios y accidentes. Todas ellas son mujeres jóvenes, y salvo Lucio Garza, un sagaz médico forense, nadie ha encontrado una relación clara entre sus muertes...
    Categorized as:
    crime  cozy  mystery  season-autumn  fiction  sci-fi  horror  book
  • Baby X by Kira Peikoff

    Baby X by Kira Peikoff

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When any biological matter can be used to create life, stolen celebrity DNA sells to the highest bidder–or the craziest stalker–in this propulsive thriller.With a vivid imagining of the future, Gattaca meets Black Mirror in Kira Peikoff’s Baby X...
  • 氣球人 by Chan Ho-Kei, 陳浩基

    氣球人 by Chan Ho-Kei, 陳浩基

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
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  • הקבוע היחידי by Yoav Blum, יואב בלום

    הקבוע היחידי by Yoav Blum, יואב בלום

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    מאז שהומצא צמיד ההתחלפות, החיים השתנו. עכשיו כולם יכולים להתחלף – לנדוד בלחיצת כפתור אל גופו של מישהו אחר, בזמן שהוא עובר לגופך, לדקות, שבועות או שנים.במקום לטוס עד תאילנד, אפשר להתחלף אל תוך מישהו שנמצא שם על חוף הים. במקום להסביר לרופא מה בדיוק אתם מרגישים, הרופא מתחלף אתכם לרגע ופשוט יודע. ועוד לא דיברנו על מאמני הכושר שיריצו את הגוף שלכם בזמן שאתם שותים בירה על המרפסת שלהם...
  • Runner 13: A Thriller by Amy McCulloch

    Runner 13: A Thriller by Amy McCulloch

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    **Pre-order the gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of Breathless, based on her own extraordinary ultra-running experience**It’s the ultimate test of two-hundred-and-fifty miles in the brutal heat of the Sahara, with only the supplies you can carry on your back.Adri is ready...
  • Puzzles of the Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov

    Puzzles of the Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The fifth of the six books featuring the Black Widowers. It collects twelve stories by Asimov, most reprinted from mystery magazines and a few previously unpublished, together with a general introduction and an afterword following each story by the author. Each story involves the club members' knowledge of trivia...
  • Tears by Francine Pascal

    Tears by Francine Pascal

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I am fearless. I am not afraid of pain…But I can still feel it...
  • Out Of Time by Ernesto H. Lee

    Out Of Time by Ernesto H. Lee

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Out Of Time, is the first in a series of Novels from author Ernesto H Lee, and is the first part of a two part story that introduces the reader to Detective Sean McMillan. McMillan has a unique ability to travel back in time through the medium of his dreams, so when he is assigned to a cold case team, finding evidence and solving crimes should be a foregone conclusion...
  • Happy Are the Peace Makers by Andrew M. Greeley

    Happy Are the Peace Makers by Andrew M. Greeley

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rich, beautiful, seductive … and suspected of murder. Nora MacDonaugh had bad luck with husbands: they both died under mysterious circumstances. Her latest, an Irish millionaire, had changed his will in her favor a week before the bomb went off in his study...
  • Wealth of Time by Andre Gonzalez

    Wealth of Time by Andre Gonzalez

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    How much would you sacrifice to learn the truth?Martin Briar drags himself through life. The 54 year old has lost the will to live since the disappearance of his 12-year-old daughter two decades ago.Unable to pull the trigger on himself, again, he later encounters a time-traveling antique dealer who offers him the chance to find out what happened to his only child...
  • Doctor Who: Sisters of the Flame by Nicholas Briggs

    Doctor Who: Sisters of the Flame by Nicholas Briggs

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The richest man in the galaxy has just bought a backwards planet with no obvious mineral wealth in the outer reaches of the universe. An obscure mystical sect has been revived after centuries of neglect. A new race of aliens are hunting for prey...
  • Bad by Francine Pascal

    Bad by Francine Pascal

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    I FINALLY HAVE SAM. I FINALLY HAVE A FAMILY. I FINALLY HAVE A WAY OUT...
  • You Were Always Mine by Sheila Bugler

    You Were Always Mine by Sheila Bugler

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Years ago, she went to prison for killing her husband. Now, her daughter is dead too.Cassie McNamara was found guilty of the murder of her husband, Paul Cavellini, but she has always protested her innocence. Upon her release, she is ready to start over and hires local journalist, Dee Doran, to prove she was wrongfully convicted.Cassie and Paul’s young daughter, Grace, was adopted by Paul’s family...
    Categorized as:
    crime  family  mystery  fiction  horror  sci-fi  book  adult
  • Soul Intent by Dennis Batchelder

    Soul Intent by Dennis Batchelder

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A VILLAIN’S REQUESTIn 1946, soon-to-be-executed Nazi General Hermann Goering asks young Soul Identity overseer Archibald Morgan to take his looted gold and deposit it in a soul line collection, there to await his soul’s rebirth. A GRIM RESISTANCEFlora, a seventeen-year-old Gypsy girl whose father died in the Dachau concentration camp, is sure that Goering stole the gold...
  • Checked Out by Elaine Viets

    Checked Out by Elaine Viets

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    PI Helen Hawthorne goes undercover at a local library to find a painting and solve a murder in the national bestselling mystery series.Wealthy socialite Elizabeth Cateman Kingsley has hired Helen to find a missing John Singer Sargent painting, owned by her late father...
  • The Fictional Man by Al Ewing

    The Fictional Man by Al Ewing

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hollywood: Niles Golan is writing a remake of a camp-classic spy movie. The studio has plans for a franchise, so rather than hiring an actor, the protagonist will be 'translated' into a cloned human body.It's common practice - Niles' therapist is a Fictional. So is his best friend. So, maybe, is the woman in the bar he can't stop staring at...
    Categorized as:
    crime  adult  book  fiction  humor  literary-fiction  mystery  sci-fi
  • Fell of Dark by Reginald Hill

    Fell of Dark by Reginald Hill

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An innocent man is on the run in a Hitchcockian psychological thriller by the author of the “outstanding” Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries (The New York Times).   Best known for his Dalziel and Pascoe novels, which were adapted into a hit BBC series, Reginald Hill proves himself to be a “master of . .
    Categorized as:
    crime  adult  book  fiction  law-enforcement  murder  mystery  suspense
  • Happy Are the Clean of Heart by Andrew M. Greeley

    Happy Are the Clean of Heart by Andrew M. Greeley

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THE FALLEN STAR lay in a death-like coma, victim of an attack as mysterious as it was savage. Until violence interrupted her glittering career, she was a singer and actress adored by millions...
  • Zderzacz by Joanna Łopusińska

    Zderzacz by Joanna Łopusińska

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A co, jeśli wszystko, co wydaje się nam przypadkowe, przypadkowe nie jest? Co, jeśli istnieje wzór na przypadek? I co, jeśli ten wzór zmieni znany nam świat?Grudzień 2011, Genewa, CERN. Największy na świecie ośrodek badań jądrowych.Prof. Francesca Accardi przedstawia postępy prac w poszukiwaniu boskiej cząstki: bozonu Higgsa. Odkrycie ma stać się największą sensacją naukową XXI w...
    Categorized as:
    crime  audiobook  sci-fi  mystery  fiction  book  adult
  • Legacy by Matthew Farrer

    Legacy by Matthew Farrer

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The legendary rogue trader charters: Imperial warrants of unimaginable antiquity, which can bring their bearers wealth and power barely imaginable. Now that Rogue Trader Hoyyon Phrax is dead, his charter is being brought to the great fortress-system of Hydraphur to be ceremonially bequeathed to his son, and already the vultures are circling.Shira Calpurnia does not want the charter...
  • كليمنجارو by أحمد خالد توفيق

    كليمنجارو by أحمد خالد توفيق

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    هناك سر ما ينتظرنا فى الحبل .. بالتحديد عند القمة الغربية التى يسمونها ( كيبو ) أو ( نجاجى نجاى ) .. سنذهب معًا لنعرف هذا السر ، والكن دون ذلك رحلة مفعمة بالأهوال والصعلب .. يجب أن نعرف من هذا الرجل .. ماذا يفعله بالضيط .
    Categorized as:
    sports  adult  book  classics  fiction  literary  medical  mystery
  • Whiff of Death by Isaac Asimov

    Whiff of Death by Isaac Asimov

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everyone knew that Ralph Neufeld was a careful young chemist, especially his professor, Lou Brade. That's why Ralph's accidental demise due to a confusion of chemicals struck Brade, as well as the police, as highly unlikely.Someone on campus had, somehow, switched bottles on poor Neufeld, and the result was as deadly as had been planned...
    Categorized as:
    crime  adult  book  fiction  killer  law-enforcement  mystery  sci-fi
  • 變身 by Keigo Higashino, 東野圭吾

    變身 by Keigo Higashino, 東野圭吾

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    「他的亡魂正用盡一切手段試圖支配我。」人格由何而定?...
  • This Little Dark Place by A.S. Hatch

    This Little Dark Place by A.S. Hatch

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    How well do you know your girlfriend? How well do you know your lover? How well do you know yourself ? Daniel and Victoria are together. They're trying for a baby. Ruby is in prison, convicted of assault on an abusive partner. But when Daniel joins a pen pal program for prisoners, he and Ruby make contact...
    Categorized as:
    crime  fiction  mystery  psychological  suspense  sci-fi  book  adult
  • The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel

    The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Kobo has some problems. His cybernetics are a decade out of date, he's got a pair of twin sister loan sharks knocking on his door, and his work scouting for a baseball league run by pharmaceutical companies is about to go belly-up. Things couldn't get much worse.Then his childhood best friend-Monsanto Mets slugger J.J. Zunz-is murdered at home plate...
  • In Your Face by Scarlett Thomas

    In Your Face by Scarlett Thomas

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lily receives a troubling phone call from Jess, a freelance journalist. Jess wrote a feature on three women who were victims of stalking, and on the day it was published, all three women were found murdered. When Lily arrives in London to investigate, she finds out Jess is missing and has left behind a mysterious trail of clues...
  • Seaside by Scarlett Thomas

    Seaside by Scarlett Thomas

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Smart, willful, incautious and nearly terminally curious, Lily Pascale-university lecturer and part-time sleuth-faces her most baffling case in Seaside, when one-half of a pair of identical twins turns up dead...
    Categorized as:
    crime  mystery  fiction  contemporary  sci-fi  female-mc  book  adult
  • The Chain of Chance by Stanisław Lem

    The Chain of Chance by Stanisław Lem

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Written in the style of a detective novel, The Chain of Chance is classic Lem: a combination of action, hard science, and philosophical investigation. An ex-astronaut is hired to look into the death of several wealthy businessmen. The authorities suspect a pattern, but neither the police nor a supercomputer enlisted for the investigation can crack the case...
    Categorized as:
    crime  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery  sci-fi
  • Halfhead by Stuart B. MacBride, Stuart MacBride

    Halfhead by Stuart B. MacBride, Stuart MacBride

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Glasgow, not too far in the future. A new punishment has been devised for the perpetrators of serious crimes. The process is known as halfheading: the offender's lower jaw is removed & they are lobotomized. They are then put to work as cleaners in municipal areas like hospitals, where they serve as a warning to all that crime doesn't pay...
    Categorized as:
    crime  adult  audiobook  book  dystopia  fiction  horror  mystery
  • The Hacker and the Ants by Rudy Rucker

    The Hacker and the Ants by Rudy Rucker

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This cyberpunk adventure from Philip K. Dick award-winner, Rudy Rucker, reads like a ripped-from-Reddit romp of white hat hacking, artificial intelligence. run amok, and an unstoppable electronic 'bugs.'From a two-time winner of the Philip K...
  • Clouds of Venus by Jeff Tanyard

    Clouds of Venus by Jeff Tanyard

    Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Dale Kinmont is a college student in post-catastrophe America. He's lucky; he lives in one of the walled cities for the nation's elite, and life is pleasant. He expects to graduate and find employment in his uncle's company.Everything changes when he's framed for murder. He's tried, convicted, and sentenced to hard labor in the prison colony on Mercury...
  • A Matter of Time by Glen Cook

    A Matter of Time by Glen Cook

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    May 1975. St. Louis. In a snow-swept street, a cop finds the body of a man who died fifty years ago. It's still warm. July 1866, Lidice, Bohemia: A teenage girl calmly watches her parents die as another being takes control of her body. August 2058, Prague: Three political rebels flee in to the past, taking with them a terrible secret...
  • The Men Who Sold the World by Guy Adams

    The Men Who Sold the World by Guy Adams

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Oscar Lupe appears 20,000 feet up in the air, his body is frozen solid and free-falling to earth. It shatters on impact. Soon after, a CIA Special Activities Division squad goes rogue with a cargo marked 'Torchwood' that they've been escorting from somewhere called Cardiff.The Agency puts Rex Matheson on the case...
  • 拉普拉斯的魔女 by Keigo Higashino, 東野圭吾

    拉普拉斯的魔女 by Keigo Higashino, 東野圭吾

    Rated: 3.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    在這個世界上,沒有一個個體能夠獨自存在,而不具備任何意義──因傷退休的前警官武尾,受託擔任年輕少女羽原圓華的保鏢,隨行期間,少女不時展露出能夠預測未來等不可思議的神奇能力。某日,在報上出現一則發生於溫泉區的硫化氫中毒致死的意外事件後,少女就此消失蹤影。該起中毒致死意外,在地球化學教授青江判定不可能是人為事件的情況下,以意外落幕。然而重重的疑點、現場出現的神祕少女,不斷牽引出更多的謎題……此時,相隔甚遠的另一個溫泉區,相同的中毒致死事件竟然再度上演,為了追查真相而前往第二起意外現場的青江,再度遇見同一名少女──羽原圓華……【拉普拉斯之魔】Démon de...
    Categorized as:
    crime  fiction  mystery  law-enforcement  sci-fi  book  adult
  • Sudden Death by Rita Mae Brown

    Sudden Death by Rita Mae Brown

    Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Outrageous, irrepressible and endlessly  entertaining, the bestselling author of Rubyfruit Jungle   and Bingo spins a behind-the-scenes tale of women's  professional tennis that dramtically intertwines  the heart-stopping excitement of competition and  the lingering heartache of intimate human bonds.  Carmen Semanan loves three things   tennis, money and professor Harriet Rawls...
    Categorized as:
    sports  crime  romance  fiction  lgbtq  wlw  mystery  contemporary
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