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![The Hunter of the Dark by Donato Carrisi]()
The Hunter of the Dark by Donato Carrisi
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA brutal killer is on the streets of Rome. He leaves no trace. And shows no mercy.A series of gruesome murders leaves the police force in Rome reeling, with no real clues or hard evidence to follow. Assigned to the case is Sandra Vega, a brilliant forensic analyst, struggling to come to terms with the crimes and her own past... -
![The Million Dollar Divorce by R.M. Johnson, Kevin R. Free]()
The Million Dollar Divorce by R.M. Johnson, Kevin R. Free
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRM Johnson, the Essence bestselling author of Dating Games and The Harris Family, delivers an absorbing and provocative new novel about the lowdown schemes and broken dreams that follow a fractured marriage... -
![Falling Series Books #1-5 by Tracy Lorraine]()
Falling Series Books #1-5 by Tracy Lorraine
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFalling For Ryan: Part One I shouldn’t want her—but damn, I need her. As my best friend, she’s off limits. Right? Wrong. After a prick cheats on her, she shows up at my doorstep broken and alone .... and my desire takes over. She picked me up after my devastating accident. Now it’s my turn to help the woman I owe everything too. She needs a friend, a shoulder to cry on... -
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![20 Minutes By The Thames by Daniel Hurst]()
20 Minutes By The Thames by Daniel Hurst
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSet in one 20 Minute period in various locations on the banks of the Thames in London, the fifth book in the 20 Minute Series is as twisting and fast-flowing as the famous river itself...Categorized as:
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![Into The Woods by Lorraine Murphy]()
Into The Woods by Lorraine Murphy
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA lost child. A broken marriage. A ticking time bomb.Karen will do anything for her eight-year-old daughter, Scarlett. Even holding together a marriage that is way past broken.So when Scarlett disappears from their rural home, Karen is one hundred percent focused on a single goal – finding her little girl as soon as possible.And time is of the essence... -
![Kakadu Sunset by Annie Seaton]()
Kakadu Sunset by Annie Seaton
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHelicopter pilot Ellie Porter loves her job. Soaring above the Kakadu National Park, she feels freed from the questions around her father’s suicide and the heavy loss of her beloved family farm. But when a search-and-rescue mission on the boundary of the old farm reveals unusual excavation works, Ellie vows to investigate... -
![Pleasantview by Celeste Mohammed]()
Pleasantview by Celeste Mohammed
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCoconut trees. Carnival. Rum and coke. To many outsiders, these idyllic images represent the supposed easy life in Caribbean nations such as Trinidad and Tobago. However, the reality is far different for those who live there—a society where poverty and patriarchy savagely rule, and where love and revenge often go hand in hand... -
![Your Absence is Darkness by Jón Kalman Stefánsson]()
Your Absence is Darkness by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland's most beloved novelists. A man comes to awareness in a church in rural Iceland, not knowing why he’s there or how he arrived... -
![No One Writes Back by Jang Eun-Jin]()
No One Writes Back by Jang Eun-Jin
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCommunication—or the lack thereof—is the subject of this sly update of the picaresque novel. No One Writes Back is the story of a young man who leaves home with only his blind dog, an MP3 player, and a book, traveling aimlessly for three years, from motel to motel, meeting people on the road...Categorized as:
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![La nena by Carmen Mola]()
La nena by Carmen Mola
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSIN LÍMITES Vuelve Carmen Mola, el último fenómeno de la novela negra española (150.000 lectores) y su autora más audaz y enigmática, con una entrega aún más revulsiva, violenta y sorprendente. «Nadie regresa del infierno indemne.» Es la noche del fin de año chino, empieza el año del cerdo... -
![Twentymile by C. Matthew Smith]()
Twentymile by C. Matthew Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen wildlife biologist Alex Lowe is found dead inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park, it looks on the surface like a suicide. But Tsula Walker, Special Agent with the National Park Service’s Investigative Services Branch, isn’t so sure.Tsula’s investigation will lead her deep into the park and face-to-face with a group of lethal men on a mission to reclaim a historic homestead... -
![From Afar by Frank Scozzari]()
From Afar by Frank Scozzari
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor centuries, poets have argued that unrequited love is love in its strongest form. From Afar is a timeless tale of Morgan Stanfield’s search for love in the far northern city of Saint Petersburg, Russia...Categorized as:
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![Crash in Love: A Passionate Romance by M.V. Kasi]()
Crash in Love: A Passionate Romance by M.V. Kasi
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe is the last man she wanted to be stranded with on a deserted island. She hates him. But when their private jet crashed, she ended up alone with him.She should be happy that he is an ex-Air Force officer used to unusual and extreme situations. But his arrogant barking orders made her want to strangle the bossy jerk... -
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![Broken Strings by Pamela O'Rourke]()
Broken Strings by Pamela O'Rourke
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy heart never stood a chance.From the first time I laid eyes on Caden North, it beat only for him. We'd planned on forever... But when you meet your soulmate at eight years old, plans can change.Loyalties can shift.And young hearts can break.I was sixteen when I broke mine... And his. The day I ran from the only home I could remember, leaving him in the arms of another... -
![With by Donald Harington]()
With by Donald Harington
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA sensual, irresistible tale full of unexpected twists and turns in the wilds of the Ozarks, The Boston Globe calls With a life-affirming, surprising, beautifully written novel, and Raleigh News names it the Best Novel of the Year... -
![Trust Nobody by June Hampson]()
Trust Nobody by June Hampson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt is 1962 and Daisy Lane, whose husband Kenny is in jail for robbery, runs and lives over the family's cafe in Gosport with Kenny's older brother Eddie. Daisy looks out for pretty, vulnerable, 16-year-old Suze, who works in the cafe and, along with prostitute Vera, who also shares the house, the women form a strong and lasting bond... -
![20 Minutes At Halloween by Daniel Hurst]()
20 Minutes At Halloween by Daniel Hurst
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSet over one 20 minute period in London, the sixth book in the 20 Minute Series captures all the thrills, frights and drama that Halloween promises each year.Trick-or-treaters calling at every home. Costumes concealing identities. And a masked murderer roaming the streets..Categorized as:
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![No Time To Blink by Dina Silver]()
No Time To Blink by Dina Silver
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA profoundly moving story of impossible risks and love without boundaries. Told from alternating points of view––that of a daughter whose past is a mystery, and that of a mother with painful secrets to share.Catherine Clarke defied her family’s expectations when she married Gabriel, a handsome Lebanese businessman... -
![The Sleepwalker by Joseph Knox]()
The Sleepwalker by Joseph Knox
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratings‘He said he didn’t remember killing them…’As a series of rolling blackouts plunge the city into darkness, Detective Aidan Waits sits on an abandoned hospital ward, watching a mass murderer slowly die. Transferred from his usual night shift duties and onto protective custody, he has just one job…To extract the location of Martin Wick’s final victim before the notorious mass murderer passes away... -
![Bred to Kill by Franck Thilliez]()
Bred to Kill by Franck Thilliez
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe shocking sequel to the runaway international bestseller Syndrome ESyndrome E’s Lucie Henebelle and Inspector Sharko have reunited to take on the case of the brutal murder of Eva Louts, a promising graduate student who was killed while working at a primate research center outside of Paris. But what first appears to be a vicious animal attack soon proves to be something more sinister... -
![Storytellers by Bjørn Larssen]()
Storytellers by Bjørn Larssen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn March 1920 Icelandic days are short and cold, but the nights are long. For most, on those nights, funny, sad, and dramatic stories are told around the fire. But there is nothing dramatic about Gunnar, a hermit blacksmith who barely manages to make ends meet. He knows nobody will remember his existence – they already don’t... -
![The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo]()
The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn Indonesian island is hastily given independence, and a Chinese-educated homosexual who was born on the island returns from his Canadian university to find his life radically altered. The story, shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, represents an account of a post-colonial disaster... -
![Dust To Dust by Ken McClure]()
Dust To Dust by Ken McClure
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJohn Motram, a cell biologist at Newcastle University firmly believes that Black Death was not caused by bubonic plague but by an unknown virus. He is excited when Oxford University tell him that they have come into possession of information suggesting there might be preserved bodies of victims from the time of Black Death hidden under Dryburgh Abbey... -
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![Betrayed by Donnell Ann Bell]()
Betrayed by Donnell Ann Bell
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn emotionally riveting suspense about stolen innocence, cold-blooded conspiracy, and an act of betrayal that strikes at the heart of our most precious bonds. When Oklahoma City resident, Irene Turner learns the incomprehensible, that the stillborn baby she delivered 28-years earlier is alive, she takes the evidence to where her daughter now lives—Denver Colorado... -
![Until Forever: A Passionate Romance by M.V. Kasi]()
Until Forever: A Passionate Romance by M.V. Kasi
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe boy who used to love her has returned as a cold, ruthless man. Can she stop him from destroying her? Ten years ago, Meenakshi Mahasena broke the heart of Hiten , the sweet, handsome orphan boy with whom she grew up at her modest family estate. Instead of marrying Hiten as promised, Meena married the rich, royal heir of the neighboring prosperous estate... -
![Home of the Floating Lily by Silmy Abdullah]()
Home of the Floating Lily by Silmy Abdullah
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCaught between cultures, immigrant women from a Bangladeshi neighbourhood in Scarborough struggle to navigate their home, relationships, and happiness.Set in both Canada and Bangladesh, the eight stories in Home of the Floating Lily follow the lives of everyday people as they navigate the complexities of migration, displacement, love, friendship, and familial conflict...Categorized as:
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![Eldarnir. Ástin og aðrar hamfarir by Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir]()
Eldarnir. Ástin og aðrar hamfarir by Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA volcanologist discovers herself in the face of nature’s fury in this heartrending thriller.Anna Arnardóttir has fire in her blood. A second-generation volcanologist, she’s Iceland’s leading expert on the fire-breathing giants that could, without warning, reduce a country to ash... -
![Dear Shameless Death by Latife Tekin]()
Dear Shameless Death by Latife Tekin
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA strange magical story of a young girl growing up in modern Turkey, from her birth in a small rural village haunted by fairies and demons to hertraumatic move to the big city. It concentrates on the daughter's struggle gainst her overbearing mother and is both fantastic and hallucinatory... -
![Il maestro delle ombre by Donato Carrisi]()
Il maestro delle ombre by Donato Carrisi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsUna tempesta senza precedenti si abbatte sulla capitale con ferocia inaudita. Quando un fulmine colpisce una delle centrali elettriche, alle autorità non resta che imporre un blackout totale di ventiquattro ore, per riparare l’avaria. Le ombre tornano a invadere Roma... -
![Lies We Never See by Michael Lindley]()
Lies We Never See by Michael Lindley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA heart-wrenching story of historical fiction and present day mystery and suspense from Amazon Kindle #1 author, Michael Lindley. Hanna Walsh’s husband is found murdered in Charleston, South Carolina. His failed land deal leaves her family and finances in ruins...Categorized as:
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![Rear Window by Cornell Woolrich]()
Rear Window by Cornell Woolrich
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsStory by Cornell Woolrich. Originally published as It Had to Be Murder, in Dime Detective, February, 1942.The story that inspired the Alfred Hitchcock film masterpiece! Rear Window is a suspenseful tale about Hal Jeffries, a temporarily disabled man, who becomes obsessed with watching the lives of his urban neighbors. Seated in a chair by his rear window, Jeffries believes he has witnessed murder... -
![Memento mori by César Pérez Gellida]()
Memento mori by César Pérez Gellida
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsVersos, canciones y trocitos de carneSeptiembre de 2010. Aquella mañana de domingo nada le hacía presagiar al inspector de homicidios de Valladolid Ramiro Sancho que acababa de dar comienzo una pesadilla que lo dejaría marcado para el resto de sus días... -
![Hard Fall by P.T. Reade]()
Hard Fall by P.T. Reade
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEx-New York detective Thomas Blume hunts the streets of London for the killers that tore his family apart. For justice, for closure, for revenge.But when Blume stumbles across a case that baffled local police, he unwittingly joins a world of criminals, corruption, and cops that will do anything to stop him... -
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![Manchester Happened by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi]()
Manchester Happened by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn ambitious and assured collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed author of Kintu If there's one thing the characters in Jennifer Makumbi's stories know, it's how to field a question. 'Let me buy you a cup of tea..Categorized as:
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![The Heartbreaker by Susan Howatch]()
The Heartbreaker by Susan Howatch
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDeftly combining the sacred and the profane—the unmistakable hallmark of her fiction over the past decade—Susan Howatch gives us a spellbinding, suspenseful and psychologically intense new novel. The financial heart of London—the City—is an adrenaline-charged square mile deep in recession in the 1990s, a place where sex is just another commodity to be bought and sold in the marketplace... -
![Tempest at Dawn by James D. Best]()
Tempest at Dawn by James D. Best
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs featured on The Glenn Beck Show . Tempest at Dawn is on the Glenn Beck Reading List. The United States is on the brink of total collapse. The military has been reduced to near extinction, economic turmoil saps hope, and anarchy threatens as world powers hover like vultures, eager to devour the remains... -
![Dead Boys: Stories by Richard Lange]()
Dead Boys: Stories by Richard Lange
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThese hard-hitting, deeply felt stories follow straight arrows and outlaws, have-it-alls and outcasts, as they take stock of their lives and missteps and struggle to rise above their turbulent pasts. A salesman re-examines his tenuous relationship with his sister after she is brutally attacked. A house painter plans a new life for his family as he plots his last bank robbery... -
![Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure by The American Poetry and Literacy Project, Edna St. Vincent Millay]()
Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure by The American Poetry and Literacy Project, Edna St. Vincent Millay
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMost of us, at one time or another, have experienced wanderlust. For many, the desire to explore is almost irresistible. Now for devotees of poetry, and for those who long for the open road, this highly affordable collection contains a rich selection of poems about travel and adventure...Categorized as:
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![It Came from Del Rio by Stephen Graham Jones]()
It Came from Del Rio by Stephen Graham Jones
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere are borders and then there are borders. Between right and wrong. Between Texas and Mexico. The first is a joke to Dodd Raines, the second a payday. Then there's the borders he's made. Between himself and his estranged daughter, the border patrol agent. Between himself and his one-time employers... -
![Lost Highways: Dark Fictions From the Road by D. Alexander Ward, Rio Youers]()
Lost Highways: Dark Fictions From the Road by D. Alexander Ward, Rio Youers
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s dangerous out there…on the road.The highways, byways and backroads of America are teeming day and night with regular folks. Moms and dads making long commutes. Teenagers headed to the beach. Bands on their way to the next gig. Truckers pulling long hauls. Families driving cross country to visit their kin.But there are others, too. The desperate and the lost. The cruel and the criminal... -
![Expose My Desire by Stephanie Julian]()
Expose My Desire by Stephanie Julian
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen the cameras are off, the real action begins.Greg Hicks is a Hollywood power player. For years he’s enjoyed the perks that come with being a top director and producer: the influence, the wealth…the women. But none of his many conquests have ever possessed the incredible sensuality of the young woman he once watched lose all inhibition in front of his camera... -
![And Justice for One by John Clarkson]()
And Justice for One by John Clarkson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf someone you loved was the victim of a violent crime, how far would you go to find justice? Jack Devlin didn't now the answer - until his brother was left comatose after a brutal assault. To the police, it was just another New York mugging. But to Jack Devlin, it was an abomination that must be avenged - outside the law.. -
![Lands of Memory by Felisberto Hernández, Esther Allen]()
Lands of Memory by Felisberto Hernández, Esther Allen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLands of Memory presents a half-dozen wonderful works by one of the greatest yet least-known Latin American writers of the twentieth century. Felisberto Hernández's extraordinary stories have been always greatly prized by other writers, and the two novellas and four stories collected in Lands of Memory show why...Categorized as:
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![The Perfect Family by Lorna Dounaeva]()
The Perfect Family by Lorna Dounaeva
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVictoria has the perfect life. And she’ll do whatever it takes to keep it.For Victoria, image is everything. And on the surface, she has it all - a big house, a successful husband and two beautiful children.But behind the scenes, things are very different... -
![The Lost Boy by Jane Renshaw]()
The Lost Boy by Jane Renshaw
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne island. Two women. A journey to hell.The Clarke family, Penny, Rod and their two young boys, are delighted when they are offered a holiday in a high-end guest house on a remote and beautiful island.Their hostess Anna seems like a lovely woman. But what the Clarkes don’t realise is that this is no random invitation, that Anna has carefully selected the family to satisfy her own sinister agenda... -
![Queenbreaker: Perseverance by Catherine McCarran]()
Queenbreaker: Perseverance by Catherine McCarran
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere are games played only at court for power, love, revenge...Fourteen-year old Mary Shelton must learn to play them all when she enters the cauldron of spite, ambition, and danger that is the court of King Henry VIII. No one in her family expects Mary to go far; she’s the middle daughter, sharp-tongued, not the favorite, not pretty...Categorized as:
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![Queen of Hearts by P.G. Van]()
Queen of Hearts by P.G. Van
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWaking up in a strange place and not remembering anything, not even her name, she remembers him, not as her husband as she is told, but something about him seems familiar! Why does her mind remember only him and nothing else? In an unexpected change of circumstances, he has to bring her home as his wife... -
![The Homemaker by Miranda Rijks]()
The Homemaker by Miranda Rijks
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMaria always wanted a family. Now she’s found one.Imogen has never been so busy – she’s juggling two jobs, has a young family and now she’s pregnant again.Enter Maria, the perfect housekeeper. Hard working and capable, she seems like the ideal solution to Imogen's chaotic life. But Maria isn’t at all what she seems – she has a sinister agenda of her own... -
![A Walk in the Dark by Gianrico Carofiglio]()
A Walk in the Dark by Gianrico Carofiglio
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPraise for Involuntary Witness:“Raises the standard for crime fiction. Carofiglio’s deft touch has given us a story that is both literary and gritty—and one that speeds along like the best legal thrillers. His insights into human nature—good and bad—are breathtaking.”—Jeffery Deaver“A stunner...
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