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  • The Lost Sister by Elle Gray

    The Lost Sister by Elle Gray

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The truth will set you free.For FBI Agent Blake Wilder the price of that truth requires the ultimate sacrifice.Blake Wilder lives with reoccurring nightmares from her grim and mysterious past.Fourteen years ago, her entire family was taken from her.Her parents murdered, and her sister taken...
  • Triple Cross by James Patterson

    Triple Cross by James Patterson

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Detective Alex Cross hunts down a serial killer who’s murdering entire families—and who will next be coming for Cross.A methodical killer is targeting multigenerational families in and around Washington, DC—striking under cover of darkness, triggering no alarms, leaving no physical evidence of any kind.   Alex isn’t the only one investigating...
  • The Girl and the Secret Society by A.J. Rivers

    The Girl and the Secret Society by A.J. Rivers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Evil has many faces. This one you will never see coming.This is the bizarre and shocking case of Lakyn Monroe.In the midst of filming her show, Lakyn vanished without a trace.Four months have passed, and the unusual disappearance of the internet celebrity has garnered nationwide attention...
  • The Blossom Twins by Carol Wyer

    The Blossom Twins by Carol Wyer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Their parents thought they were hiding… One beautiful summer’s evening, thirteen-year-old twins Ivy and Erin Westmore snuggle down in a tent in their back garden, giggling and sharing secrets. When their mother goes to wake the girls the next morning, their tent is empty. The alarm is raised and Detective Natalie Ward is put onto the case...
  • The Girl in the River by Rita Herron

    The Girl in the River by Rita Herron

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The body lay in the river, arms outstretched. Long brown hair swirled in all directions, flowing with the current of the water. Her eyes were wide open in death, pale pink lips parted in a scream.Detective Ellie Reeves should be enjoying the wedding of her dear friend Mia Norman. But instead of celebrating, she is frantically searching for the missing bride...
  • Concealed Cargo: Children for Sale by Jodi Burnett

    Concealed Cargo: Children for Sale by Jodi Burnett

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Special Agent Clay Jennings and his K9 partner, Ranger, take to the streets of Denver to fight human trafficking, he is shocked by the inordinate number of stolen innocents who’ve been forced into the sex trade. With each new face, his resolve to help these children escape their personal horror grows stronger...
  • Whip Crack by Alex Smith

    Whip Crack by Alex Smith

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Every time you hear his voice, another child will die.DCI Robert Kett’s family may be whole again, but he is a broken man.Suspended from duty, he takes his girls out of the city for a much-needed holiday on the Norfolk Coast.Instead of the peace he desperately needs, however, Kett finds a community in chaos. Four teenagers are missing, and time is running out before they meet a horrific fate...
  • Fatal Witness by Robert Bryndza

    Fatal Witness by Robert Bryndza

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Detective Erika Foster is back in FATAL WITNESS – with a chilling new serial killer case in Robert Bryndza's multi-million bestselling crime thriller series!How do you find a killer who has destroyed all the evidence?Detective Erika Foster is on a late-night walk near her new house in Blackheath when she stumbles upon the brutal murder of Vicky Clarke, a true-crime podcaster...
  • Deadly Motives by Ann Girdharry

    Deadly Motives by Ann Girdharry

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Secrets never stay buried forever...When a nurse is murdered, Detective David Grant recognises the hallmarks of a serial killer called Travis.Twenty-five years ago, Grant caught Travis for the murder of five women and the murderer has been incarcerated ever since...
  • The Killing House by Claire McGowan

    The Killing House by Claire McGowan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Long-buried secrets are being unearthed. And they're very close to home...Forensic psychologist Paula Maguire returns yet again to her hometown to investigate a spine-chilling case in THE KILLING HOUSE, the sixth novel in Claire McGowan's series. The Paula Maguire series is the perfect read for fans of Michael Connelly and Peter May...
  • Such a Good Girl by Willow Rose

    Such a Good Girl by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas faces a devious plan in bestselling author Willow Rose’s blood-rushing thriller of murder and revenge.A girl falls from the penthouse floor of an apartment in Washington, D.C.Media Mogul Richard Wanton owns the apartment and is seen standing on the balcony when the girl falls...
  • The Silent Wife by Andy Maslen

    The Silent Wife by Andy Maslen

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Her career on the line and an innocent woman charged with murder. Can she save them both?As bogus corruption charges loom over her, DS Kat Ballantyne finds herself deskbound and stuck with cold cases. Her hated boss, DI Carver, has given her just one week to explain how £50,000 found its way into her bank account. If she can’t, she’ll be lucky to have a desk at all...
  • Winter's Redemption by Mary Stone

    Winter's Redemption by Mary Stone

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Preacher is killing again...The serial killer who slaughtered Winter’s parents has come out of retirement, leaving bloody victims in his wake. Special Agent Winter Black has spent her entire life preparing for this moment, and she intends to end the man who took everything from her and solve the disappearance of her little brother—no matter the cost...
  • Riddle Me This by Gina LaManna

    Riddle Me This by Gina LaManna

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Detective Kate Rosetti is not a big fan of February 14th. Even worse than gigantic bouquets of roses and buckets of chocolate, however, are the love notes she’s been receiving from the murderer who very nearly stole her life.Unfortunately, a peaceful Valentine’s Day isn’t in the cards for Kate Rosetti...
  • Blind Spot by Brenda Novak

    Blind Spot by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    New York Times bestseller Brenda Novak's Evelyn Talbot series returns, with a heavily pregnant Evelyn being held hostage. With Jasper Moore, the privileged boy who attacked her when she was only sixteen, finally caught and in prison, Dr...
  • The Secret Admirer by Carol Wyer

    The Secret Admirer by Carol Wyer

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ‘I tried to talk to you today but you snubbed me and walked away. It wasn’t wise to give me the brush-off, Gemma. I can be a truly good friend but I also make the perfect enemy.’ Sasha’s eighteen-year-old daughter Gemma was all she had in the world. Sasha fell pregnant with Gemma when she was still at school, and the two are as close as sisters...
  • If She Ran by H.K. Christie

    If She Ran by H.K. Christie

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Three months. Three missing women. One PI determined to discover the truth.Back from break, PI Martina Monroe clears the air with her boss at Drakos Security & Investigations and is ready to jump right into solving cold cases for the CoCo County Sheriff’s Department...
  • The Missing Daughter by Elle Gray

    The Missing Daughter by Elle Gray

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When a congressman's daughter goes missing,FBI agent Blake Wilder and her team are sent to Iowa to find the missing girl.Already dealing with a mysterious figure who keeps sending her body parts, now Blake finds herself under attack from within her own unit...
  • Memories of the Falls by Elle Gray

    Memories of the Falls by Elle Gray

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It’s summertime at the Falls, and this season revenge tastes even sweeter…Sheriff Spenser Song thought she would get a much-needed break after aiding FBI agent Blake Wilder on an international trafficking ring.Shortly upon her return to the Falls and to Ryker, the place is once again in an uproar.When the town’s star athletes are found dead due to a drug overdose...
  • Aberration by Lisa Regan

    Aberration by Lisa Regan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    FBI analyst Kassidy Bishop is assigned to the “For You” killer’s task force after a series of sadistic murders bearing the same signature arise in different parts of the country.The homicides are both calculated and savage, occurring in different states, but bearing the same signature: the words “for you” scribbled at each crime scene...
  • Trapper Road by Rachel Caine, Carrie Ryan

    Trapper Road by Rachel Caine, Carrie Ryan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sometimes danger comes from the most unexpected places.Gwen Proctor has always been willing to do anything it takes to protect her kids. But there are some things even she can’t protect them from. When a violent incident at Connor’s school brings the press to Gwen’s doorstep, she agrees to take a case out of town hoping to keep her family out of the crushing media spotlight...
  • Dawn Girl by Leslie Wolfe

    Dawn Girl by Leslie Wolfe

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A GRIPPING SERIAL KILLER THRILLERHer blue eyes wide open, glossed over. A few specks of sand clung to her long, dark lashes. Her beautiful face, immobile, covered in sparkling flecks of sand. Her lips slightly parted as if to let a last breath escape...
  • Cold Truth by Mary Stone, Donna Berdel

    Cold Truth by Mary Stone, Donna Berdel

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Say the words...In a dark basement, a cold-blooded killer pits friend against friend, torturing one until the other says the horrible words that will end their friend’s suffering. He’s gotten away with murder for years. Until now...Ellie Kline can’t remember most of her kidnapping when she was fifteen, but that night has shaped her life. Instead of cowering, that horrible night made her strong...
  • Five Days Post Mortem by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    Five Days Post Mortem by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Her body floats. A bloated thing half atop the river. Naked. Pale. Mouth and eyes open wide. When two fishermen discover a corpse floating in the Clackamas river, profiler Violet Darger heads to rural Oregon to hunt another serial killer. What she discovers in the woods might change the course of her life...
  • Perfect Silence by Helen Sarah Fields

    Perfect Silence by Helen Sarah Fields

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    'Relentless pace, devilish cleverness and a laser-sharp focus on plot.' Chris BrookmyreWhen silence falls, who will hear their cries?The body of a young girl is found dumped on the roadside on the outskirts of Edinburgh. When pathologists examine the remains, they make a gruesome discovery: the silhouette of a doll carved in the victim's skin...
  • Once Lost by Blake Pierce

    Once Lost by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Still reeling from her former partner Lucy’s death and from her partner Bill’s PTSD, FBI Special Agent Riley Paige does her best to try to keep herself stable and to patch together her family life. She has to decide what to about April’s boyfriend, recovering from his abusive father, and about Blaine, who is ready for their relationship to move ahead...
  • Cross Out by James Patterson

    Cross Out by James Patterson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Detectives Cross and Sampson are tracking a serial killer who's fatally ambushing young men in the “Dead Hours” murders. They don't hear the machine gun fire. At first. “Drop whatever you're doing, Dr. Cross, and head to Reagan Airport,” DC Metro Police dispatch says. “A plane just crashed and exploded on the runway. The chief and the FBI want you and John Sampson there pronto...
  • Mad Jack by Stacy M. Jones

    Mad Jack by Stacy M. Jones

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Something sinister lurks behind the perfect homes and well-manicured lawns of Mulberry Grove. Wealthy tech investor Jack Harlow, known to the FBI as Mad Jack, has been running a personal development program for the past ten years. Locals call it a cult. Few leave, and those who try, end up dead under mysterious circumstances. Six couples in all over the last five years...
  • The Sleepover by Carol Wyer

    The Sleepover by Carol Wyer

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Roxy had a secret. Now she’s gone. When fourteen-year-old Roxy says she’s going for a sleepover at her best friend Ellie’s house, Cathy sees no reason to check her daughter’s story. The two families are neighbours, and the girls are in and out of each other’s homes every day. It is a decision she will regret...
  • Her Last Whisper by Jennifer Chase

    Her Last Whisper by Jennifer Chase

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Katie focuses her mind, trying to keep another anxiety attack at bay. The victim’s long brown hair is slick and wet, her body rigid in the grass...
  • Chosen Prey by John Sandford

    Chosen Prey by John Sandford

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A New York Times bestseller! Lucas Davenport returns in the most harrowing and unexpected Prey novel yet—the story of a congenial man, and his most uncongenial obsession...An art history professor and writer and cheerful pervert, James Qatar had a hobby: he took secret photographs of women and turned them into highly sexual drawings. One day, he took the hobby a step further and..
  • The Watson Girl by Leslie Wolfe

    The Watson Girl by Leslie Wolfe

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    An entire family is murdered and, by a quirk, a young girl is left unharmed. For fifteen years, she believed the killer had been caught, and he’s now on death row, awaiting execution. While trying to be content with her adoptive family, she’s living in relentless uncertainty and the fear of remembering what really happened that night when she was five years old. She’s The Watson Girl...
  • Free to Kill by Julie Mellon

    Free to Kill by Julie Mellon

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    FBI Agent Katie Freeman’s life has been upended. After being reassigned from Louisiana to middle Tennessee, her new bosses suspect that her reassignment is due to an indiscretion with her previous partner. Now, she and her new partner, Michael Powell, are asked to assist on the bewildering case of a woman who was kidnapped, tortured and left for dead on her own front porch...
  • Taker of Lives by Leslie Wolfe

    Taker of Lives by Leslie Wolfe

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A GRIPPING CRIME THRILLER How can you outrun a killer you won’t see coming?They are the most violent, blood-thirsty, and vicious of criminals. While hunting for them, FBI profilers call these monsters UNSUBS, short for unknown subjects of ongoing investigations...
  • A Cold Killing by Anna Smith

    A Cold Killing by Anna Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Crime reporter Rosie Gilmour returns from hiding in Bosnia to a story of a brutal execution. University lecturer Tom Mahoney was shot at point blank range, the killing has all the signs of a hit. But who would want to kill a retired lecturer? Rosie throws herself into the investigation, looking for a witness that has gone missing. A witness that might hold the key to the story...
  • A Veronica Lee Thriller Collection Volume Two: A Veronica Lee Thriller Box Set Includes Books 5-8 by Melinda Woodhall

    A Veronica Lee Thriller Collection Volume Two: A Veronica Lee Thriller Box Set Includes Books 5-8 by Melinda Woodhall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    If you love twisty thrillers with heart, you'll love the Veronica Lee Thriller Collection Volume Two, Books 5-8, which has been earning rave reviews from thriller lovers looking for their next chilling series...
  • The Girls in the Falls by Elle Gray

    The Girls in the Falls by Elle Gray

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    After answering the job posting for Sweetwater Falls, former FBI agent Spenser Song thought that she had finally escaped her painful past. Unfortunately, she quickly learned some things you just can’t ever run away from…When a local girl goes missing and another one turns up dead, Spenser finds clues that connect to a grim reminder of another fatal mistake in her past...
  • Love You Dead by Peter James

    Love You Dead by Peter James

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    An ugly duckling as a child, Jodie Bentley had two dreams in life—to be beautiful and rich. She's achieved the first, with a little help from a plastic surgeon, and now she's working hard on the second. Her philosophy about money is simple. You can either earn it or marry it. Marrying is easy, it's getting rid of the husband afterwards that's harder, that takes real skill...
  • You Are Dead by Peter James, Daniel Weyman

    You Are Dead by Peter James, Daniel Weyman

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    You are Dead is the eleventh thrilling crime novel in Peter James' Roy Grace series, read aloud by Daniel Weyman.They were marked for deathThe last words Jamie Ball hears from his fiancée, Logan Somerville, are in a terrified mobile phone call. She has just driven into the underground car park beneath the block of flats where they live in Brighton. Then she screams and the phone goes dead...
  • Hell to Pay by Rachel Amphlett

    Hell to Pay by Rachel Amphlett

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a road traffic accident on a dark autumn night uncovers a disturbing conspiracy, Detective Sergeant Kay Hunter’s investigation exposes a ruthless serial killer exploiting vulnerable young women.With her enemies unmasked and her career spiralling out of control, Kay’s determination to seek vengeance for the victims brings her dangerously close to those who want to silence her...
  • Unsolved by James Patterson

    Unsolved by James Patterson

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Avid fans of million-copy bestselling author Robert Bryndza's serial killer thrillers following the cases of Detective Erika Foster will be thrilled by the prospect of Unsolved, which also features a determined female lead as she pieces together clues to bring down an elusive serial...
  • Before Evil by Alex Kava

    Before Evil by Alex Kava

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Special Agent Maggie O'Dell doesn't need to set foot at a crime scene to catch a serial killer. From her small Quantico office, she's profiled criminals using just Polaroids and faxed copies of evidence from homicide detectives across the country.Then comes Albert Stucky . . . and nothing will ever be the same...
  • Once Cold by Blake Pierce

    Once Cold by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    There is one cold case that has plagued Special Agent Riley Paige for her entire career, dwelling at the corners of her consciousness, forcing her to return to it again and again. The only case she has never solved, she has finally put it out of her mind. Until she gets a call from the murdered victim’s mother...
  • Once Stalked by Blake Pierce

    Once Stalked by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When two soldiers are found dead on a huge military base in California, apparently killed by gunshot, military investigators are stumped. Who is killing its soldiers, inside the secure confines of its own base?And why?The FBI is called in, and Riley Paige is summoned to take the lead...
  • Once Forsaken by Blake Pierce

    Once Forsaken by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Special Agent Riley Paige finally decides to take a well-needed rest from the FBI, a request for help comes from the most unlikely source: her own daughter. April’s best friend is devastated by the death of her sister, a freshman at Georgetown. Worse, she is convinced that the suicide was staged, and that her sister was murdered at the hands of a serial killer...
  • The Creek Killer by Dominika Best

    The Creek Killer by Dominika Best

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    How would you prove you weren’t dead? Jane Smith has been running from danger her whole life. That danger followed her everywhere, leaving a trail of death in its wake. When the mummified bodies of six girls are discovered in the wetlands of Los Angeles, Jane is surprised to learn one of the dead girls bears her name—the name she abandoned twenty-five years ago to go into hiding...
  • Expose by Danielle Girard

    Expose by Danielle Girard

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Examining the dead will help her solve present crimes and uncover past secrets in this page-turner thriller for fans of Patricia Cornwell and Rizzoli and Isles.With her vindictive ex-husband out of prison, San Francisco medical examiner Annabelle Schwartzman is trying harder than ever to move on with her life—by focusing on her job to speak for the victims who can’t...
  • Last Lullaby by Carol Wyer

    Last Lullaby by Carol Wyer

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Charlotte’s baby is safe. But is she? When the body of young mother Charlotte Brannon is discovered by her husband in their immaculate, silver bedroom, Detective Natalie Ward is first on the scene. The killer has left a chilling calling card: the word ‘Why?’ written on the wall in blood...
  • Darkness First by James Hayman

    Darkness First by James Hayman

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The mutilated body of a young woman. The town doctor lying comatose in the road. A hundred and fifty tablets of Canadian OxyContin. This is the havoc that a merciless killer has wreaked on a sleepy Maine seaport.As detectives Maggie Savage and Michael McCabe investigate, they realize the man they are after does not exist. Nobody knows his real name. Nobody has seen his face...
  • The Dare by Carol Wyer

    The Dare by Carol Wyer

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Jane’s daughter is a good girl. What is she hiding? When thirteen-year-old Savannah Hopkins doesn’t come straight home from school, as she always does, her mother Jane immediately raises the alarm. Leading the investigation is Detective Natalie Ward whose daughter Leigh is the same age as Savannah...
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