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  • The First Death by Kendra Elliot

    The First Death by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A Wall Street Journal bestselling series.For a search and rescue expert, the buried remains of her past are a dangerous obsession in a twisting novel of suspense by a Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestselling author.Rowan Wolff was five years old when she, her brother, and their babysitter were kidnapped by a serial killer in the Pacific Northwest. The babysitter was murdered...
  • Something Wicked by Lily Morton

    Something Wicked by Lily Morton

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After powerful psychic Blue Billings fell in love with Levi Black, he believed their biggest challenges would arise from Blue’s ability to see and speak to the dead. So it’s rather alarming when he and Levi are confronted with a spate of new—and frightening—problems that have to do with the realm of the living...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  dark  romance  paranormal  mlm  mystery  ghosts  fantasy
  • The Dollmaker by Mary Burton

    The Dollmaker by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Dr. Tessa McGowan had never seen anything quite like it. But the mutilated bodies on her exam table tell a stunningly macabre tale: someone with a twisted mind is kidnapping women and altering their faces to resemble real, life-size dolls. As a forensic pathologist, it’s her job to aid the agent leading the case—even if that agent is her estranged husband...
  • Cold Fear by Toni Anderson

    Cold Fear by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A relentless FBI profiler hunts a vicious killer. When old evidence turns up on a fresh corpse, ASAC Lincoln Frazer is determined it won’t delay the execution of a convicted serial killer. But when more young women are brutally slain, it becomes clear—this new killer is intimately familiar with the old murders. A dedicated emergency physician hides a dark secret. Former Army Captain Dr...
  • Hunting Fear by Kay Hooper, Dick Hill

    Hunting Fear by Kay Hooper, Dick Hill

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    He's no ordinary kidnapper. Not only does he strike again and again, but he collects the ransom, gets away safely, and leaves his helpless hostages dead. Now, after months of eluding the best that law enforcement can put against him, this monster has left nothing in his wake but a cold trail of unconnected victims. He's no ordinary cop...
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    dark  kidnapping  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • Out of the Shadows by Kay Hooper

    Out of the Shadows by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    To catch this killer, she must break every rule and cross every line.Out Of The ShadowsA picture-perfect Tennessee town has just become a monster's hunting ground. Two bodies are found tortured to death. A third person goes missing. What little evidence is left behind defies all explanation...
  • Whisper of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Whisper of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Someone is stalking the little town of Silence...Three victims have fallen to a killer’s savage vengeance. Each of the dead men was a successful and respected member of the community — yet each also harbored a dark secret discovered only after his murder...
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    suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  ghosts
  • Chill of Fear by Kay Hooper, Dick Hill

    Chill of Fear by Kay Hooper, Dick Hill

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    For twenty years FBI agent Quentin Hayes has been haunted by an unsolved murder that took place at a secluded Victorian-era resort in Tennessee when he was little more than a boy. Now part of Noah Bishop's Special Crimes Unit, he's returned to the scene of that long-ago crime to find answers.Diana Brisco has come to The Lodge hoping to unlock the mystery of her own troubled past...
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    suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  ghosts
  • Ghost by Kat Blackthorne

    Ghost by Kat Blackthorne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Ash Grove is a fine place to die. Blythe has accepted her fate and is tired of running. Who would miss her anyway? She attends her new and eccentric town’s month long Halloween masquerade for one last party before meeting her end. But what will she find...and what will find her? A man in a skeleton mask is watching... and he’s not the only one...
    Categorized as:
    dark  stalking  steamy  adult  age-gap  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • The Blood We Crave: Part One by Monty Jay

    The Blood We Crave: Part One by Monty Jay

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My secrets are infested with infatuation. His cravings are dripping in blood. Is it love? Or is it something much darker… An obsession. Death found me as a young girl. Latching onto the core of my soul. No one knows what that horrid night did to me. What kind of monster it flourished inside me...
  • Twisted Dares by A.R. Breck

    Twisted Dares by A.R. Breck

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Born in blood and raised in sin.I’m the daughter to the most prolific serial killer in the United States.Madness flows through my veins like a drug, pulling me deeper into the abyss that I can’t escape from. I feel the mania slowly burning through my veins.How much longer until it consumes me completely?It’s when I meet Caelian Morelli that everything changes.A man whose darkness matches mine...
    Categorized as:
    anti-hero  dark  steamy  suspense  abuse  alpha-mc  assassins  book
  • Stealing Shadows by Kay Hooper

    Stealing Shadows by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    What if you could enter a madman's cruel mind as he planned his vicious crimes? What if you could see the terrified faces of his victims ... Psychic Cassie Neill helps the LA police catch killers — until she makes a terrible mistake and an innocent child dies...
  • Skin Deep by L. Eveland

    Skin Deep by L. Eveland

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I’ll protect what’s mine, even if it tears this family apart.My life is a mess, a nightmare for a man obsessed with cleanliness. As the eldest, it’s my job to protect my murderous brothers while maintaining appearances as a successful plastic surgeon.Everyone thinks I’ve got my life together, but I’m secretly falling apart. I needed a purpose, something beyond killing to live for...
    Categorized as:
    dark  steamy  romance  mlm  crime  death  lgbtq  contemporary
  • Ho Ho Homicidal Maniac by K.A. Merikan

    Ho Ho Homicidal Maniac by K.A. Merikan

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “I love Christmas. So every year, I kill someone. As a treat."NicoHave you ever fallen in love with a man as he was pointing his gun at you? Well, I have. Tiny problem? I’m in the middle of my murderous Christmas tradition, and he’s a witness.But it’s not his fault I got too excited and didn’t check if I was alone. I can’t just kill him because of my own blunder...
  • Into the Dark: A Dark Shifter Romance by Reece Barden

    Into the Dark: A Dark Shifter Romance by Reece Barden

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Holly goes to Sutton, an isolated mountain town with a dark reputation, to find answers after the father she never knew goes missing. The last thing she expects while trying to piece together who this man really was is to meet a man. Or two...
  • Unspeakable by Laura Griffin

    Unspeakable by Laura Griffin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Elaina McCord Wants to Find a Killer.But He's Already Found Her. Elaina McCord's dream of being an FBI profiler is threatened by her very first case - investigating a string of murders near a Texas beach resort. The victims, all young women, were drugged and brutally murdered, their bodies abandoned in desolate marshland...
  • Dysfunctional by Isabel Lucero

    Dysfunctional by Isabel Lucero

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A dark, MM romanceEzra Hamilton hasn’t felt the warm spurt of blood flow through his fingers or the indescribable feeling of pushing a knife deep into someone’s flesh in a long time. Too long.He’s been watching a man stalk women, curious as to what he’s doing with them...
  • Myers by Zepphora

    Myers by Zepphora

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fourteen years ago, I killed sixteen people and I'd do it again. Were you expecting something different? Did you think I would be remorseful? No. Each and every one of them deserved to die.Now, I'm back to reclaim what was always supposed to be mine and destroy everyone who has wronged me or her...
  • Thread of Fear by Laura Griffin

    Thread of Fear by Laura Griffin

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Forensic artist Fiona Glass is the best in the business -- which is precisely why she's quitting. Her skill at mining victims' memories to re-create the faces of sadistic criminals has left her haunted and wary, and only Jack Bowman's dogged persistence convinces her to help him. The rugged police chief is hunting a serial killer who's targeting teenage girls...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime  female-mc  fiction  horror
  • His to Slash by Mae Celeste

    His to Slash by Mae Celeste

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When I moved to Red Hallow, I was looking for a fresh start, not a nightmare. But this town has a secret—a legend that stalks its streets in the dark, hunting in silence. His name is Grayson Hale, and he was supposed to be my end.I saw the blood on his hands, the bodies he left behind. When he pinned me to the ground, I thought I’d be next...
  • If You Hear Her by Shiloh Walker

    If You Hear Her by Shiloh Walker

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A CRY IN THE WOODS The scream Lena Riddle hears in the woods behind her house is enough to curdle her blood—she has no doubt that a woman is in real danger. Unfortunately, with no physical evidence, the local law officers in small-town Ash, Kentucky, dismiss her claim. But Lena knows what she heard—and it leaves her filled with fear and frustration...
  • Out of Sight by Morgan James

    Out of Sight by Morgan James

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lies. Betrayal. Deceit. Welcome to Brookhaven, where nothing is ever what it seems... Ainsley Layne is running from something—or someone. Sheriff Dare Jensen can see it in the way she watches her surroundings, the way she flinches away from him every time he comes near. Though she tries to hide the shadows in her eyes, the dark bruises that riddle her body tell their own dark tale...
  • Lovely Bad Things by Trisha Wolfe

    Lovely Bad Things by Trisha Wolfe

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    He's the devil. And she's his wicked game.Halen:They say eyes are the windows to the soul—but when he looks at me through hues of slate-green and flaring blue embers, I’m terrified of what’s watching me from behind his clashing gaze, something primal and feverish that threatens to melt me like fire in ice. I fear falling into Kallum Locke’s pitch-black soul...
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    anti-hero  dark  steamy  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Till Death by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Till Death by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    In New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout’s gripping new novel, a young woman comes home to reclaim her life—even as a murderer plots to end it. . . It’s been ten years since Sasha Keaton left her West Virginia hometown . . . since she escaped the twisted serial killer known as the Groom. Returning to help run her family inn means being whole again, except for one missing piece...
    Categorized as:
    dark  kidnapping  steamy  suspense  abuse  alpha-mc  audiobook  book
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