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  • Cross Down by James Patterson, Brendan DuBois

    Cross Down by James Patterson, Brendan DuBois

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Only John Sampson can save his partner, Alex Cross . . . and America. The brilliant crime-solving duo of Washington DC’s Metro PD and the FBI has a proven operating procedure:   Detective Alex Cross makes his own rules. Detective John Sampson enforces them.   Then a series of military-style attacks erupts. No sooner do Cross and Sampson join the investigation than Alex is brutally sidelined...
  • Twisted Prey by John Sandford

    Twisted Prey by John Sandford

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Lucas Davenport confronts an old nemesis, now more powerful than ever as a U.S. senator, in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Prey seriesLucas Davenport had crossed paths with her before.A rich psychopath, Taryn Grant had run successfully for the U.S. Senate, where Lucas had predicted she’d fit right in...
  • One Last Child by Anni Taylor

    One Last Child by Anni Taylor

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Winner, Audiofile Earphones Award 2020 - narration by Caroline Lee.Five long-missing children are about to be RETURNED.It was summer in the mountains when five small children vanished from their nursery school picnic. The heat was stifling that day, the tinkle of an ice-cream van in the air....Three-and-a-half years later, in the dead of winter, the children are returned to their families..
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    drama  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  crime  female-mc
  • The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden

    The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    “Don’t go in the guest bedroom.” A shadow falls on Douglas Garrick’s face as he touches the door with his fingertips. “My wife… she’s very ill.” As he continues showing me their incredible penthouse apartment, I have a terrible feeling about the woman behind closed doors...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  crime  fiction  mystery  psychological
  • The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

    The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    “Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I’ll soon learn that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than my own…Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom...
  • The Law Partners by John Ellsworth

    The Law Partners by John Ellsworth

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    ARRESTED FOR A MURDER YOU DIDN'T COMMIT? Michael Gresham is a criminal attorney who defends his clients with an iron will. They know that when he takes their case they are probably going to leave the courthouse a free man or free woman. But what happens when the defender becomes the defendant himself? A law partner will have to step up and do for him what he can't do for himself...
  • Unintended Consequences by John Ross, Timothy Mullin

    Unintended Consequences by John Ross, Timothy Mullin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Unintended Consequences is a novel by John Ross, first published in 1996 by Accurate Press. The story chronicles the history of the gun culture, gun rights, and gun control in the United States from the early 1900s through the late 1990s...
  • Only One Cure by Jenifer Ruff

    Only One Cure by Jenifer Ruff

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The President's son is dying. Terrorists claim to have the only cure.When a private plane whisks CDC epidemiologist Madeline Hamilton to Washington D.C. for an urgent medical symposium, she knows something significant is underway—but she doesn’t expect to face the most disturbing medical mystery of her career...
  • The Surrogate's Gift by L.G. Davis

    The Surrogate's Gift by L.G. Davis

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Her one good deed is about to turn into her worst nightmare.Becoming a surrogate for Marcia and Travis Thorpe is Grace’s chance to overcome her inner demons.Nothing can go wrong. Her life depends on it.Determined to focus on the pregnancy, she drops everything and accepts the Thorpes’ offer to move in with them until the baby is born. A simple decision. One big mistake...
  • I Looked Away by Jane Corry

    I Looked Away by Jane Corry

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    YOU MADE A MISTAKE. BUT THEY'RE SAYING IT'S MURDER.From the Sunday Times bestselling author of My Husband's Wife, comes a beautifully written psycholgocial thriller for fans of Lisa Jewell and Clare Mackintosh.Every Monday, 49-year-old Ellie looks after her grandson Josh. She loves him more than anyone else in the world. The only thing that can mar her happiness is her husband's affair...
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    drama  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • Eye for Eye by J.K. Franko

    Eye for Eye by J.K. Franko

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What would YOU do if someone hurt the one you love?Roy and Susie are the perfect couple, an ideal family living a fairy-tale life... until their teenage daughter is senselessly killed.Just as they’re managing to put that tragic loss behind them, a complete stranger approaches Roy in a bar with a drunken proposal—he invokes their daughter’s memory to ask Roy to kill a man...
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    drama  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  crime  earth
  • 20 Minutes Around The Bonfire by Daniel Hurst

    20 Minutes Around The Bonfire by Daniel Hurst

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fireworks. Flames. Fate.The seventh book in the bestselling 20 Minute Series sees the citizens of London descend on Battersea Park for the annual 5th November celebrations...
  • Fortunate Son by Andrew Bridgeman

    Fortunate Son by Andrew Bridgeman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A deadly prophecy must be stopped before all is lost. Trust none, sacrifice words to live (or die) by in this edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller of deceit and intrigue...
  • The Judge's List by John Grisham

    The Judge's List by John Grisham

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Listening Length 11 hours and 36 minutesFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a new legal thriller about a man who might be the most criminal sitting judge in American history As an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct, Lacy Stoltz sees plenty of corruption among the men and women elected to the bench...
  • The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark

    The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She's back.Meg Williams. Maggie Littleton. Melody Wilde. Different names for the same person, depending on the town, depending on the job. She's a con artist who erases herself to become whoever you need her to be—a college student. A life coach. A real estate agent. Nothing about her is real...
  • The Short Drop by Matthew FitzSimmons

    The Short Drop by Matthew FitzSimmons

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    A decade ago, fourteen-year-old Suzanne Lombard, the daughter of Benjamin Lombard—then a senator, now a powerful vice president running for the presidency—disappeared in the most sensational missing-person case in the nation’s history. Still unsolved, the mystery remains a national obsession...
  • Never Goodbye by Adam Mitzner

    Never Goodbye by Adam Mitzner

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A thriller of murder, redemption, and breakneck twists by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Dead Certain. After her sister was murdered, Ella Broden meted out her own punishment, then abandoned her career to pursue her passion as a singer. But another murder that hits close to home draws her back to seek justice...
  • Carlos the Ant by John Ellsworth

    Carlos the Ant by John Ellsworth

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Carlos has a sick daughter and needs money. He's also an upstanding citizen who pays his taxes, puts in his forty hours, doesn't drink and carouse, and loves his wife. Still...he has nowhere else to turn. So Carlos gets money the old-fashioned way--he robs banks. The money comes pouring in but then a new man joins the crew and everything tumbles downhill...
  • Arctic Storm Rising by Dale Brown

    Arctic Storm Rising by Dale Brown

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    First in a new series from New York Times bestselling author Dale Brown, featuring U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nick Flynn on the hunt for Russian commandos in the mountains of Alaska.After a CIA covert mission goes badly awry, U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nicholas Flynn is exiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska’s Arctic frontier...
  • First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

    First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist.The identity comes to Evie Porter. Once she’s given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it...
  • 20 Minutes Of Valentine's Day by Daniel Hurst

    20 Minutes Of Valentine's Day by Daniel Hurst

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Love is in the air as the bestselling 20 Minute Series continues on the most romantic day of the year!Set over one 20 minute period on Valentine's Day, the ninth book in the series sees familiar characters return for a night of romance, passion and second chances.First dates. Old flames. Heartbreak. And one very dangerous villain..
  • The Juror by George Dawes Green

    The Juror by George Dawes Green

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    This is a psychological thriller about a young woman threatened by the Mafia who must return a verdict of 'not guilty' to ensure the safety of her son. The book has been turned into a movie, featuring Alec Baldwin and Demi Moore...
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    drama  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction
  • Next of Kin by Kia Abdullah

    Next of Kin by Kia Abdullah

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “Abdullah’s legal thrillers make John Grisham seem like a maiden aunt.” Sunday Times Crime Club “An enthralling, heartbreaking and thrilling courtroom drama that had me shouting out loud and gripped until the last page.” Nadine Matheson, author of The Jigsaw Man“Brilliantly tense, this is another clever page turner from Kia Abdullah that I couldn’t put down. Just superb...
  • What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan

    What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an emotional novel of suspense about two families pitted against each other—one seeking justice in the disappearance of their daughter, the other desperate to clear their son’s name.Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love...
  • 3:34 a.m. by Nick Pirog

    3:34 a.m. by Nick Pirog

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    **WINNER 2015 BEST SERIES!** **THIS IS A DOUBLE LENGTH VOLUME****TWICE THE LENGTH. TWICE THE LASSIE. TWICE THE FUN...
  • Sakharov the Bear by John Ellsworth

    Sakharov the Bear by John Ellsworth

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    FROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR JOHN ELLSWORTH A Legal Thriller - in a Russian Courtroom Drama Two CIA field operators obtain a bill of lading from an arms supplier in Moscow. Tracing the origin and destination of the weapons there is reason to believe a massive arms shipment has come into the U.S. through the Port of Long Beach...
  • The Ex Wives by Jenna Kernan

    The Ex Wives by Jenna Kernan

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Two ex-wives. Two missing girls. Will yours be next?Pulling a batch of my husband’s favourite golden oatmeal cookies from the oven, I smile to hear my daughter Phoebe playing in the treehouse outside. I was once so close to losing everything, but since I married handsome Jackson, I have a perfect life. Jackson might tell me what to wear, but he just likes to buy me nice things...
  • The Game You Played by Anni Taylor

    The Game You Played by Anni Taylor

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Little Boy Blue Where did you go? Who led you away? Only I know . . . . Two-year-old Tommy Basko goes missing from a popular inner-city playground. Six months later, his parents begin receiving cryptic messages in rhyme about Tommy. The police don't believe the messages are from the abductor, but Tommy's mother Phoebe is certain they're a game meant for her...
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    drama  suspense  thriller  adult  book  crime  fiction  kidnapping
  • Death by Dangerous by Olly Jarvis

    Death by Dangerous by Olly Jarvis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Death by Dangerous is a compelling legal thriller set in Manchester and Bradford. John Anderson is one of the North West’s most dedicated and successful prosecution barristers. His career is going from strength to strength and he is on the verge of becoming Queen’s Counsel. But the life he once knew suddenly comes crashing down following a fatal road traffic accident..
  • Did I Kill My Husband? by A.J. Campbell

    Did I Kill My Husband? by A.J. Campbell

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The police officer’s voice is steady as he tells me the news. ‘Your husband is in hospital.’ My heart pounds. I think about my children, safely tucked up in bed. What will happen to us if he loses his life? And more importantly… do the police know where I really was tonight?Everybody thinks Michael and I are the perfect couple. But everybody is wrong...
  • Distruggimi by Chiara Cilli

    Distruggimi by Chiara Cilli

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Credevo di essere sopravvissuta all'orrore. Mi sbagliavo.Credeva di potermi sfuggire. Ma non ha scampo da me. Non riesco a liberarmi di lui.Non le permetterò di cacciarmi dalla sua mente. È nella mia testa, nel mio sangue, nelle mie ossa.È un mostro che vuole impossessarsi della mia anima e farla a brandelli. Henri Lamaze è l'incubo di morte da cui non sarò mai in grado di svegliarmi...
  • Uccidimi (Blood Bonds) by Chiara Cilli

    Uccidimi (Blood Bonds) by Chiara Cilli

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Non avrei mai immaginato che la mia vita sarebbe finita così.Non avrei mai creduto che la mia vita sarebbe dipesa dalla sua.Ero pronta a morire per mano dell'uomo che mi aveva distrutto.Ero pronto a uccidere la donna che si era presa tutto me stesso.Ma la mia sofferenza non è ancora terminata.Ma me l'hanno portata via.Sta venendo a riprendermi, lo sento.Me la riprenderò, a qualsiasi costo...
  • Every Pretty Thing by Chris Mooney

    Every Pretty Thing by Chris Mooney

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In Every Pretty Thing serial killer hunter Darby McCormick finds herself in Montana, looking for a friend. Little does she realise that a murderer is waiting for her . . .She came to find her friend.Instead she found a killer.Serial killer expert Darby McCormick gets a call from FBI Agent Jackson Cooper, who has been contacted by a woman who's been in hiding for twenty years...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  crime  fiction  mystery  psychological
  • 20 Minutes Before Christmas by Daniel Hurst

    20 Minutes Before Christmas by Daniel Hurst

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's a magical time of year. But not for everyone...It's Christmas Eve, and London is still reeling from the events on Bonfire Night. But time waits for nobody, so what fresh drama is in store as the presents are wrapped, the turkeys are cooked, and the clock counts down to the most wonderful day of the year?Mistletoe. Mince Pies. Mulled wine. And murder..
  • The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins

    The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest woman, she’s also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family’s estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains...
  • Left Hanging by Maria Frankland

    Left Hanging by Maria Frankland

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Marriage is a coin with two sides. One joyful. One deadly.Kerry's focus is on fitting in, whilst safeguarding the lifestyle she has always craved. With a handsome, affluent husband, twin boys and her own successful business, it seems as though nothing could ever ‘flip’ her coin.Ed fears their marriage is a sham and that he is living a lie...
  • The Concierge by Miranda Rijks

    The Concierge by Miranda Rijks

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They hired an assistant to help them. But she has other plans.High-flying duo Goldie and Braun Delucci run a major film production company. But recently their gilded lives were touched by tragedy when one of their leading actors, Ally, died in a car crash.What the Deluccis don’t realise is that their newly hired private assistant is actually Ally’s sister...
  • The Silence Between Breaths by Cath Staincliffe

    The Silence Between Breaths by Cath Staincliffe

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Eight people, one deadly secret.Passengers boarding the 10.35 train from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston are bound for work, assignations, reunions, holidays or new starts, with no idea that their journey is about to be brutally curtailed...
  • Wait Until Dark by Frederick Knott

    Wait Until Dark by Frederick Knott

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Susy Hendrix, a blind Greenwich Village housewife, is terrorized by a trio of men looking for heroin they believe her husband has hidden in a doll...
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    drama  suspense  thriller  adult  book  classics  fiction  horror
  • One Little Lie by Christopher Greyson

    One Little Lie by Christopher Greyson

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    THE TRUTH COULD COST HER EVERYTHING.Kate had high hopes when she moved to her husband‘s hometown, but her domestic bliss was short-lived. Blindsided by her spouse’s very public affair with his high school sweetheart and a painful divorce, Kate’s determined to hold onto custody of her kids and pull herself together...
  • The Perfect Getaway by Kiersten Modglin

    The Perfect Getaway by Kiersten Modglin

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It was the trip of a lifetime…until someone ended up dead. When four couples receive invitations to try out a luxury island resort, they are excited for a week of relaxation and reconnecting.For some, it’s the honeymoon they never had the chance to take.For others, it’s a last-ditch attempt to save their crumbling marriage...
  • My Husband's Secret by Kiersten Modglin

    My Husband's Secret by Kiersten Modglin

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    My husband liked his secrets. On the day of his funeral, I found out just how much. As it turns out, there were three of us. Three women he loved. Three secrets he had to keep. But Lucas wasn’t the only one with secrets. The three of us have a few of our own, and we’d do anything to keep them. If you look close enough, we each had a motive. We all had an opportunity...
    Categorized as:
    drama  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  murder
  • The President's Henchman by Joseph Flynn

    The President's Henchman by Joseph Flynn

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    According to the polls, it's only a matter of time - and not that long a time - before the United States elects its first female president. Which will make her husband - what? Well, if he's the ex-cop who solved the murder of the president's first husband and brought the killers to justice ... and if he's not the kind of guy to stand on formality ..
  • The Arrangement by Miranda Rijks

    The Arrangement by Miranda Rijks

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    How well do you know your daughter?Grace is living through every mother’s worst nightmare. Her student daughter Abi went away on a dream vacation to South Africa - and was murdered...
    Categorized as:
    drama  suspense  thriller  adult  book  crime  family  fiction
  • Point of Balance: A Thriller by Juan Gómez-Jurado

    Point of Balance: A Thriller by Juan Gómez-Jurado

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In this superbly written, nail-biting thriller, a top neurosurgeon is forced to choose between ending the life of the most important person in America or guaranteeing his own daughter’s horrifying death.I am no saint, no martyr, no terrorist, no madman, and no murderer…I am a father. That’s my story. Dr...
  • Swallow Lane by Marie Snow, Jordan Marie

    Swallow Lane by Marie Snow, Jordan Marie

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It was supposed to be a fresh start.
A new life.
That’s what I told myself anyway when I moved with my son Matthew to Liars Island from Stillwake.
Too much conflict and heartache had been a constant in our life, especially with my son. And although my Matthew was grown, I’d always see him as my little boy and the one person I needed to protect above all else...
  • Heartbreaker by Tania Carver

    Heartbreaker by Tania Carver

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After years of abuse, Gemma Adderley has finally found the courage to leave her violent husband. She has taken one debilitating beating too many, endured one esteem-destroying insult too much. Taking her seven-year-old daughter Carly, she leaves the house, determined to salvage what she can of her life...
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    suspense  thriller  crime  mystery  fiction  psychological  book  adult
  • A Child Is Torn: Innocence Lost by Dawn Kopman Whidden

    A Child Is Torn: Innocence Lost by Dawn Kopman Whidden

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Evan Madison fails to show up for work, police go to his home where his ten-year-old son, Brad, is found, unharmed and alone. He is stoic, sitting in front of the TV playing a video game, and covered in blood. In the upstairs bedroom, lie his parents bludgeoned to death. Brad confesses to killing them, but it makes no sense. Is Brad covering some someone else or the evil seed born to kill...
  • Shadow Sister by Lindsay Marcott

    Shadow Sister by Lindsay Marcott

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Mrs. Rochester’s Ghost comes the chilling story of a young woman who returns to her haunted childhood home to unravel the deadly mysteries of her family’s past.Ava grew up in a haunted mansion, envied by all her friends. But when her mother died mysteriously there, the thrills of Blackworth Mansion became nightmares...
  • This is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau

    This is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau, author of Palimpsest: A Collection of Contemporary Horror, follows the gut-wrenching journey of Miller and her estranged mother, Sylvie, who have always had a tense relationship. After Miller's father dies, she agrees to a girls' vacation away from the city to reconnect with the only family she has left...
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