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  • Per Addestrarti by Chiara Cilli

    Per Addestrarti by Chiara Cilli

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Credevo di sapere chi fossi. Cosa fossi.Credevo di non avere più scampo, che la mia resistenza fosse ormai giunta al termine.Poi ho sentito la sua voce pronunciare il mio nome.Poi i suoi occhi hanno risposto al richiamo dei miei.Non ha paura di me. Si avvicina. Mi parla. Mi tocca come se le appartenessi. È folle.Lui è l’unica chance che ho per restare viva. Devo far sì che gli importi di me...
  • Shattered / Whispers / Watchers by Dean Koontz

    Shattered / Whispers / Watchers by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Three more electrifying thrillers by the new king of the genre. The New York Times #1 bestselling author's terrifying masterpieces: Watchers (his personal favorite), Whispers and Shattered, now for the first time in one hardcover edition...
  • The Dying Hour by Rick Mofina

    The Dying Hour by Rick Mofina

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In Book 1, The Dying Hour introduces Jason Wade, a rookie crime reporter with The Seattle Mirror, a loner who grew up in the shadow of a brewery in one of the city's blue-collar neighborhoods. At The Seattle Mirror, he is competing for the single full-time job being offered through the paper's intense intern program...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • 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...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror  murder
  • Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino

    Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An exciting new series character ...Gia Santella is a fast-driving, hard-drinking, karate-trained free spirit, who is gorgeous, sexy, and a young heiress. She also has a fierce temper and zero tolerance for people in power preying on the vulnerable ... especially when the injustice takes place in her neighborhood...
  • 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...
  • 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..
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    suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • Anatomy by Sebastian Fitzek, Michael Tsokos

    Anatomy by Sebastian Fitzek, Michael Tsokos

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    This is the autobiographic work by German inference fiction master according to his personal experience. Only the readers with high IQ can understand the ending...
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    suspense  thriller  crime  mystery  fiction  horror  audiobook  book
  • Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose

    Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn't Have Come Here, comes a chilling family thriller about the (sometimes literal) skeletons in the closet. After their mother passes, three estranged siblings reunite to sort out her estate. Beth, the oldest, never left home. She stayed with her mom, caring for her until the very end...
  • Only Psychos by Daniel J. Volpe

    Only Psychos by Daniel J. Volpe

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Who will survive the storm?It was a blizzard for the ages. Two, massive snow storms strike back-to-back, causingchaos in the Hudson Valley.Anna, and her two children, are without power and the temperature is plummeting. Theirsituation seems bleak, but a break in the storm gives them a chance at salvation. Anna flees herhome, hoping to find safety in a local hotel, but what she finds is madness...
  • Evil Unveiled by Robert McCammon

    Evil Unveiled by Robert McCammon

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "New York Times" bestselling author Robert McCammon continues his triumphant return with the conclusion of an epic tale of suspense that reinstates him as one of the great storytellers of our time....The Carolinas, 1699: After hearing damning testimony from the townspeople of Fount Royal, magistrate Isaac Woodward sentences the accused witch, Rachel Howarth, to death by burning...
  • The Victim by Jonas Saul

    The Victim by Jonas Saul

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In Book Five, Sarah Roberts is The Victim.Sarah is killed in a horrible car accident, the DNA found in the car verified as hers. But the government men at the Sophia Project have faked her death to keep her to themselves.After her funeral, she shows up in the food court of a busy mall where a violent exchange takes place. Things go wrong fast...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  paranormal
  • Widow Town by Joe Hart

    Widow Town by Joe Hart

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the future there is no such thing as a serial killer.A breakthrough research project has detected an active gene present in all known psychopaths and developed a vaccine to make it completely dormant. People are inoculated at birth. Society has rejoiced the extinction of the sociopathic mind. There hasn’t been a serial killing in America in over forty years...
  • Le Manuscrit Inachevé by Franck Thilliez, Jean-Yves Berteloot

    Le Manuscrit Inachevé by Franck Thilliez, Jean-Yves Berteloot

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Aux alentours de Grenoble, un jeune a fini sa trajectoire dans un ravin après une course-poursuite avec la douane. Dans son coffre, le corps d’une femme, les orbites vides, les mains coupées et rassemblées dans un sac...
  • The Reaper's Game by Layton Green

    The Reaper's Game by Layton Green

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Is it murder from beyond the grave . . . or the final ruse of a twisted serial killer?Three years ago, a deranged murderer dubbed the Halloween Killer butchered half a dozen people in New Orleans. He was caught and sentenced to die. Just before his execution, the Halloween Killer vowed to take revenge on the district attorney who put him behind bars...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  investigator  mystery
  • Lightning / The Face of Fear / The Vision by Dean Koontz

    Lightning / The Face of Fear / The Vision by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    CONTENTS: LIGHTNING THE FACE OF FEAR THE...
  • The Mother Of All Things by Gabriel Blake

    The Mother Of All Things by Gabriel Blake

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    DARK BEGINNINGS, BRUTAL ENDINGSA traumatic event and the break-up of her marriage returns Elaine to her childhood home where she embarks on renovating the run-down farmhouse as she reconnects with her mother and entertains her two children over the summer holidays...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  crime  dark  fiction  horror
  • Jenna by Tom Stearns

    Jenna by Tom Stearns

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    To protect her sister, Jenna endures a living hell at the hands of her mother and ‘uncles’. But when the boys at her school think they treat her the same, they are dead wrong. From the author of ‘Wrong Place, Wrong Time’ comes ‘Jenna’; a harrowing tale of abuse and bloody revenge. WARNING 18+ NOT FOR THE EASILY OFFENDED...
  • ART by Matt Shaw, Michael Bray

    ART by Matt Shaw, Michael Bray

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    WARNING: The following book has some scenes which some readers may find distressing. This novel is intended for a mature audience only. Martin Andrews is in a rut. Tired of the daily grind of life as a police officer and with a heavily pregnant wife, he is disillusioned, desperate to give his unborn child a chance in a world in which he has lost all faith...
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    splatterpunk  suspense  thriller  adult  book  crime  dark  death
  • Pigs: An Extreme Horror Novella by Wade H. Garrett

    Pigs: An Extreme Horror Novella by Wade H. Garrett

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jake lost his wife and unborn daughter on a West Texas highway when three police officers abused their authority. The pigs thought they had got off scot-free until Jake took justice into his own hands. This is an extremely sadistic story that should only be read by the seasoned extreme-horror reader.WARNING: This book is extreme and contains filthy, grotesque and brutal torture scenes...
  • Dr. Sadist by Jon Athan

    Dr. Sadist by Jon Athan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bradley Anderson, known as Dr. Sadist, is a master of torture and a veteran director of snuff films at Deep Red Pictures—a studio owned by a sadistic entrepreneur, Mr. Snuff. He is paid handsomely for his work, he owns an expensive, secluded home, and he lives with a loving family. The problem? He loves his family and he can’t stop his once-buried conscience from reawakening...
  • Hideout by Jack Heath

    Hideout by Jack Heath

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A 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...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • She Won't Leave by James Caine

    She Won't Leave by James Caine

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She has taken over my life.Everything was perfect until tragedy brought my mother-in-law, Delores Sterling, to my front door with extra baggage at her side. After the sudden death of her husband, she asked if she could live with us temporarily.I knew that living with my mother-in-law wouldn’t be easy. She’s made it obvious ever since I married her only son, that I’m not worthy of him...
  • Mine by L.M. Kaplin

    Mine by L.M. Kaplin

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Chandler Henricks hates his life. Socially awkward and a near shut-in, Chandler spends his time caring for his ailing mother and watching the neighbors from his window.His favorite person to watch is his next-door neighbor Samantha. Young and beautiful, she would be the woman of any man’s dreams. Chandler knows he will make Samantha happy, if she just gave him a chance...
  • Psychosis by Tony Marturano

    Psychosis by Tony Marturano

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Police, what is your emergency?” “They’re in the house and they’re going to kill me…” “My name is Marco and I am flawed. I know that. And I was fine with it until it cost me my family. Now, I’ll do anything to get them back – even see a therapist. Which is a joke, because I am a therapist. At least I was before I was fired...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Speak the Dead by Grant McKenzie

    Speak the Dead by Grant McKenzie

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Sally Blue was six years old, sleeping peacefully in her bed, a gunshot woke her up and subsequently ripped her world apart.Jolted awake by the scary noise, Sally ran to her parent's bedroom for comfort. Instead, she found her mother slumped against the headboard, her ravaged nightdress drenched from a double-barreled wound...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror  mystery
  • White trash : Broken pieces of June 2 by Stuart Bray

    White trash : Broken pieces of June 2 by Stuart Bray

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Waking up with a massive hole in her gut June must find the men responsible for the atrocities she faced and take herself from star to director. Lines will be crossed, blood will be spilled, the camera will roll...
  • Last Call by Sean Costello

    Last Call by Sean Costello

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    THIS BOOK is RATED-R FOR LANGUAGE by the publisher.In the space of a single day, twenty-year-old Trish West purchases her first car, gets accepted into veterinary college, and finds her rockstar father, Jim Gamble, a man who vanished into the streets before she was born and now clings to life in a Toronto intensive care unit.Eager to establish a relationship with Mr...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  crime  domestic-drama  fiction  horror
  • Grandfather's House by Jon Athan

    Grandfather's House by Jon Athan

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    After a prank lands him in serious trouble, Malcolm Hernandez, a sixteen-year-old boy, is shipped off to live with his grandparents while his mother attempts to save him from expulsion and criminal charges. Malcolm believes the stay will be easy—a vacation with milk and cookies and tales from the past...
  • Ashes to Ashes:  The Dragon's Flame by John Saul

    Ashes to Ashes: The Dragon's Flame by John Saul

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When library assistant Rebecca Morrison comes across a beautifully ornate cigarette lighter in the shape of a fire breathing dragon, she gives it to her cousin, unwittingly igniting an evil that can only originate from the terrifying Blackstone Asylum. This is third installment in "The Blackstone Chronicles", Saul's serial novel about the horrors that plague a small New England town...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  pulp
  • Asylum by John Saul

    Asylum by John Saul

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Editor Oliver Metcalf has written a provocative article on the Asylum that implies there may be a curse on the town. The community is outraged, charging him with inflaming hysteria. More urgent is the mysterious disappearance of Rebecca Morrison. As Blackstone rallies to find the missing woman, a mysterious package arrives on Harvey Connally’s front porch...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  pulp
  • Black for Remembrance by Carlene Thompson

    Black for Remembrance by Carlene Thompson

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Caroline Webb knows what it means to lose the person you love most. Twenty years ago, her five-year-old daughter, Hayley, was the light of her life, her treasure, her angle. Then came the terrible day when Hayley was kidnapped from her favorite swing. More than a month passed before her burned, lifeless body was found. All that remained was the silence of Caroline's heartache--and her guilt..
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  horror
  • Twist of Fate: The Locket by John Saul

    Twist of Fate: The Locket by John Saul

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jules Hartwick should be on top of the world. He has a distinguished career as president of the First National Bank of Blackstone, and his lovely daughter will soon be married. But his contentment is shattered: he's under investigation by the Federal Reserve--and that frightening audit threatens the financing of the Blackstone Center, which is slated to rise on the site of the old Asylum...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  pulp
  • In the Shadow of Evil: The Handkerchief by John Saul

    In the Shadow of Evil: The Handkerchief by John Saul

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    While researching an historical piece on the Asylum for the town’s newspaper, editor Oliver Metcalf digs through the attic that once belonged to his father, the last superintendent of the facility. There, among the dusty medical records, Oliver discovers a beautifully embroidered linen handkerchief with an ornate “R” in one corner...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  pulp
  • The Girls They Stole by J.H. Leigh

    The Girls They Stole by J.H. Leigh

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The deal seems easy. Follow the rules. Keep your mouth shut. The payoff? Enough money to change your life forever. But is it too good to be true? Nicole, Dylan, Jilly and Tana need to take the deal. All for different, equally desperate reasons. But the deal comes at a price. Once they step into Madame Moirai’s depraved world it's too late...
  • You Are Mine by Miranda Rijks

    You Are Mine by Miranda Rijks

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Rupert has spent years searching for his perfect wife. Now he’s found her. Her name is Charlotte Aldridge and she’s wonderful. A talented artist, modest and beautiful, she’s everything he ever dreamed of. Her hair, her eyes, her mouth - every little detail is perfect.Rupert is confident that when they meet, she’ll fall in love with him just as he has with her...
  • Phantom Limb by Lucinda Berry

    Phantom Limb by Lucinda Berry

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Emily and Elizabeth spend their childhood locked in a bedroom and terrorized by a mother who drinks too much and disappears for days. The identical twins are rescued by a family determined to be their saviors.But there’s some horrors love can’t erase…Elizabeth wakes in a hospital, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak...
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    grief  suspense  thriller  abuse  adult  amnesia  audiobook  book
  • La Ligne noire by Jean-Christophe Grangé

    La Ligne noire by Jean-Christophe Grangé

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Il existe, quelque part en Asie du Sud-Est, entre le tropique du Cancer et la ligne de l'Equateur, une autre ligne. Une ligne noire jalonnée de corps et d'effroi..
  • Brain Death by John Benedict

    Brain Death by John Benedict

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Anesthesiologist, Luke Daulton, returns after his life and death struggle with nurse Brandt Stevens. He is now moonlighting in the ICU at a Pennsylvania VA hospital—the same hospital where the vice president of the United States is undergoing emergency open-heart surgery. The VP suffers some sudden unexpected post-op complications and Luke assists in his resuscitation...
  • The Old Lady by Kristopher Triana

    The Old Lady by Kristopher Triana

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She never wanted to come home.After the death of her estranged father, Tracey returns to the remote cabin she grew up in. As a traumatized veteran of the Vietnam War, Tracey’s father subjected her to rigorous survival training under brutal conditions, believing it was for her own good. She escaped and never looked back...
  • The Rude Awakening of Theodor Moody by Per Jacobsen

    The Rude Awakening of Theodor Moody by Per Jacobsen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What would you do to protect the people who have given your life purpose again?After suffering a stroke, petty racist, semi-demented, and grumpy pensioner, Theodor Moody, wakes up with telekinetic abilities. During Theodor’s hospital stay, an unlikely friendship develops between him and the cleaning lady, Yuki, as he uses his newfound abilities to save her son from some school bullies...
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    thriller  suspense  horror  fiction  book  adult
  • Suicide Med by Freida McFadden

    Suicide Med by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    There’s a reason Southside Medical School has been nicknamed “Suicide Med.” For the last six years, every year one student has taken his own life.Except for last year. Last year was a murder-suicide.The press has pointed to the heavy workload as the culprit in the high suicide rate. Some students believe that the school is cursed...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror  medical
  • The Cross by Steve Cavanagh

    The Cross by Steve Cavanagh

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    An exclusive race against time ebook short thriller. **Contains an extract from Steve Cavanagh's brilliant debut novel, THE DEFENCE** Eddie Flynn, con-man turned criminal lawyer, has an impossible choice.He has damning evidence against a corrupt NYPD detective who stands accused of killing a suspect...
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    thriller  suspense  crime  fiction  mystery  legal  horror  book
  • ASBO by Iain Rob Wright

    ASBO by Iain Rob Wright

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    YOUR FEAR IS THEIR ENTERTAINMENT...Andrew’s life is one of bored contentedness: a teenage daughter, a faithful wife, and a middle-class job. He even has a Mercedes. His life is without drama, and the comfort of middle-age is setting in.That all changes when he refuses to buy a pack of cigarettes for the local gang of youths...
  • Wildlife by Jeff Menapace

    Wildlife by Jeff Menapace

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the Everglades, there are sights that should never be seen… Deep in the Florida Everglades, a tragic accident has ignited a deadly feud between two families. Meanwhile, a young writer, his girlfriend and her family take a boat ride into the isolated wilds of the Everglades for research on a new book, only to become unwitting witnesses to a brutal crime...
  • Vertige by Franck Thilliez

    Vertige by Franck Thilliez

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
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  • La belle et la bête by Simon Rousseau

    La belle et la bête by Simon Rousseau

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Les contes de notre enfance revisités... pour nourrir tous nos cauchemars !Une jeune infirmière traumatisée, obligée de raconter sa terrible histoire aux autorités. Une résidence luxueuse dissimulée au coeur de la forêt boréale et regorgeant d'horreurs innommables... Un prisonnier sauvagement mutilé, incapable de venir en aide à une famille au funeste destin...
  • The Crypt by Jonas Saul

    The Crypt by Jonas Saul

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Crypt, Sarah Roberts Book 3, opens with Sarah Roberts walking the streets of Budapest in search of a weapon.A strange man in a fedora has been following her. Before she can find out who he is she’s arrested and brought to a Hungarian jail. After her release, she’s ordered out of the country. The man in the fedora shows up at her hotel...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  paranormal
  • Deuils de miel by Franck Thilliez

    Deuils de miel by Franck Thilliez

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Meurtre dans une église ... Une femme nue, rasée, intérieurement explosée...Sur son crane, des papillons, vivants... un message codé, gravé dans la pierre ... la menace de fléaux... Le mythe de l apocalypse et ses multitudes de victimes deviendra-t-il réalité ? C est ce que le commissaire Sharko tentera d empêcher, par tous les moyens, au cours d une enquête plus qu éprouvante...
  • Wrong Exit by N.L. Hinkens

    Wrong Exit by N.L. Hinkens

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Her life is about to change. But first she must survive the road trip.Driving the I-40 coast to coast was never on newlywed Cora Dalton’s bucket list. Until the day she finds out she has inherited a house in New York from an eccentric grandmother she has never met. Terrified of flying, Cora talks her best friend, Adele into accompanying her on a rip-roaring fun, ten-day road trip...
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