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  • Something Wicked by Lily Morton

    Something Wicked by Lily Morton

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After powerful psychic Blue Billings fell in love with Levi Black, he believed their biggest challenges would arise from Blue’s ability to see and speak to the dead. So it’s rather alarming when he and Levi are confronted with a spate of new—and frightening—problems that have to do with the realm of the living...
  • Psycho by Onley James

    Psycho by Onley James

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    August Mulvaney has always been exceptional. As the genius son of an eccentric billionaire, his off-putting behavior is often blamed on his high IQ. They say there’s a thin line between genius and madness. August is both—a brilliant professor loved by his students and a ruthless, obsessive killer tasked with righting the wrongs of a failing justice system...
  • MESSAGE in the BONES: A small town murder mystery with a psychic twist by Dawn Merriman

    MESSAGE in the BONES: A small town murder mystery with a psychic twist by Dawn Merriman

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Escape the usual small town murder story with this quirky, page turning mystery. With long-buried bones, psychic visions, a tattoo with messages from above, and a clown-masked murderer chasing through a corn maze, this story will keep you on edge until the very last word.
  • Kaleidoscope by Dean Koontz

    Kaleidoscope by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Nameless is wrestling with more violent visions of the future when his next mission comes with the assurance, This one will be easy. It’s a promise that leaves Nameless dangerously unprepared.It seems straightforward enough: Get a foot in the door by posing as a potential investor in a lucrative underground business—then bring the place down from the inside. There’s more here than meets the eye...
  • Under Dark Skies by A.J. Scudiere

    Under Dark Skies by A.J. Scudiere

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In NightShade nothing is as it seems . . . Eleri Eames didn’t think she’d ever be allowed to work for the FBI again, so the special FBI division of NightShade seems like an amazing opportunity. But all too soon, her chance to start over starts to disturb her...
  • Hunting Fear by Kay Hooper, Dick Hill

    Hunting Fear by Kay Hooper, Dick Hill

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

    Touching Evil by Kay Hooper, Alyssa Bresnahan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    This is the story of Seattle police artist Maggie Barnes, whose remarkable artistic talents are the focus of an even more extraordinary psychic gift that she is determined to keep secret: a gift that has allowed her to work with crime victims, to feel what they feel, to create perfect portraits of their attackers...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  ghosts
  • Out of the Shadows by Kay Hooper

    Out of the Shadows by Kay Hooper

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

    Spells by Kristen Proby

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From New York Times Bestselling Author, Kristen Proby, comes Spells, the next installment in her gripping Bayou Magic series…As a powerful hedgewitch and psychic, there isn’t much I can’t work to my advantage and finesse with a spell. Love, fortune, and even the perfect cup of coffee are all possible with the snap of my fingers.But some things are utterly beyond my control...
  • San Francisco Night by Stephen Leather

    San Francisco Night by Stephen Leather

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jack Nightingale fights his battles in the shadows – in the grey areas where the real world meets the supernatural. But when he arrives in San Francisco to take on a group of Satanists bent on opening a doorway to Hell, the danger is out in the open and all too real...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime  demons  fiction  horror
  • Whisper of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Whisper of Evil by Kay Hooper

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

    Hunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The conclusion to the Cat and Mouse Duet is here...The DiamondDeath walks alongside me,But the reaper is no match for me.I'm trapped in a world full of monsters dressed as men, and those who aren't as they seem.They won't keep me forever.I no longer recognize the person I've become,And I'm fighting to find my way back to the beast who hunts me in the night...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  angst  anti-hero  book  captivity
  • Long Shadows by Jodi Taylor

    Long Shadows by Jodi Taylor

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    BOOK 3 IN THE GRIPPING SUPERNATURAL SERIES BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'SI don't know who I am. I don't know what I am. The identity of Elizabeth Cage has always been a mystery. Even she doesn't know who, or what, she is. But she's learned to live with it...
  • Sleeping with Fear by Kay Hooper

    Sleeping with Fear by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Fear has never been so close...New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper returns with a relentless thriller that brings her readers face-to-face with fear itself. In this terrifying new novel, a psychic special agent finds herself caught up in a tangled web of secrets, lies... and evil.Riley Crane woke up fully dressed, a gun under her pillow, and covered in blood...
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    suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  ghosts
  • Blood Sins by Kay Hooper, Joyce Bean

    Blood Sins by Kay Hooper, Joyce Bean

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Young, vulnerable, attractive, Tessa Gray made the perfect victim. Which was why Noah Bishop of the FBI’s Special Crimes Unit recruited her to play the role of grieving widow. As the supposed new owner of property coveted by the Church of the Everlasting Sin, she’d be irresistible bait for the reclusive and charismatic Reverend Samuel...
  • Written In Blood: A Dark Feminine Rage Anthology by Layla Moon, CJ Riggs

    Written In Blood: A Dark Feminine Rage Anthology by Layla Moon, CJ Riggs

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ladies…May your voice be F*CKNG heard.May your voice be F*CKNG loud.May the men that did it to you rot in f*ckng hell!And may you breathe in the peace you deserve to inhale. #FeminineRage #SheIsNoMansPeace #SASurvivors ***All pr0ceeds to 'Map Your Voice'.An anonymous nonprofit service for SA survivors worldwide...
  • Starlet: A Dark Hollywood Mafia Romance by Cora Kenborn

    Starlet: A Dark Hollywood Mafia Romance by Cora Kenborn

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling Author Cora Kenborn comes a dark and twisted enemies to lovers retelling of Anastasia. They call me America’s Sweetheart. Hollywood royalty. The last of an era. Sole survivor of LA’s most infamous crime. I’m not any of those things. He forced me into the spotlight. The liar with a perfect smile and cold blue eyes. But Alexandra Romanov’s fate won’t be mine...
  • The Evil That Was Done by Michele Pariza Wacek

    The Evil That Was Done by Michele Pariza Wacek

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The shocking conclusion to the award-winning Secrets of Redemption series. It’s happening again—people are disappearing. And just like before, the finger is pointed at Becca. She knows how it looks … and that she’s being set up. Someone is following her. Sneaking into her house. Planting evidence to make her look guilty. The problem is, she has no idea why...
  • When by Victoria Laurie, Whitney Dykhouse

    When by Victoria Laurie, Whitney Dykhouse

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Pretty Little Liars meets Medium in this fast-paced thriller and fantastic YA debut from a New York Times bestselling author.Maddie Fynn is a shy high school junior, cursed with an eerie intuitive ability: she sees a series of unique digits hovering above the foreheads of each person she encounters...
  • Dreaming Death by Heather Graham

    Dreaming Death by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    SWEET DREAMS AREN’T MADE OF THISEver since she was a child, Stacey Hanson has had strange dreams—and sometimes they come true. Her skills and experience led her straight to the FBI’s Krewe of Hunters. Now a serial killer is stalking Washington, DC, and people are scared. And it will be Stacey’s first case...
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    suspense  adult  audiobook  book  crime  dark  fiction  ghosts
  • Chill of Fear by Kay Hooper, Dick Hill

    Chill of Fear by Kay Hooper, Dick Hill

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

    Ghost by Kat Blackthorne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Ash Grove is a fine place to die. Blythe has accepted her fate and is tired of running. Who would miss her anyway? She attends her new and eccentric town’s month long Halloween masquerade for one last party before meeting her end. But what will she find...and what will find her? A man in a skeleton mask is watching... and he’s not the only one...
  • Famous Last Words by Katie Alender

    Famous Last Words by Katie Alender

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Hollywood history, mystery, murder, mayhem, and delicious romance collide in this unputdownable thriller from master storyteller Katie Alender.Willa is freaking out. It seems like she's seeing things. Like a dead body in her swimming pool. Frantic messages on her walls. A reflection that is not her own. It's almost as if someone—or something—is trying to send her a message...
  • Blood Ties by Kay Hooper

    Blood Ties by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A series of grisly murders has left a trail of blood across three states, bringing the Special Crimes Unit to a small Tennessee town. There, two more brutal killings lure Noah Bishop and the SCU into what may be the ultimate trap, and lead Special Agent Hollis Templeton into a dangerous attraction—and a serial murder investigation that turns very, very personal...
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    suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  ghosts
  • Grad Night by Carver Pike

    Grad Night by Carver Pike

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings
    This is not YA horror, and these aren’t your typical teenagers. The teachers at DS High know something’s not right. It’s the reason they don’t stay late to grade papers, they leave school in packs so nobody’s alone, and they stay away from the one boy with the cult-like following. Evil walks the high school hallways and everyone knows its name: James Bender...
  • Red Witch by Katerina Martinez

    Red Witch by Katerina Martinez

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings
    A hunter becomes the hunted. A witch faces down her nemesis. The stakes have never been higher.The veil of shadows surrounding my nemesis is lifted when a contact of Collette's comes forward with information he claims is valuable. The catch? He's all the way in Berlin, the German capital, and he isn't leaving his circle of protection for any witch...
  • The Midwives by Duncan Ralston

    The Midwives by Duncan Ralston

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A killer on the loose. A writer on the run. A town plagued by an ancient evil. On tour with his latest book, true crime writer Martin Savage discovers one of his most-dangerous subjects has escaped. The so-called "Witch Hunter," a delusional murderer of women and their unborn children, holds a deadly grudge. He'll stop at nothing to get his revenge, and destroy everything Martin cares about...
  • Bramble and Blood by Ashley Beasley

    Bramble and Blood by Ashley Beasley

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Welcome to St. Louis, home to mythological creatures, magic beings, and necromancer Eve Williams -expert on death and disappointment.Especially disappointment since being fired from a prestigious job a with the Druid Brotherhood - the elite law enforcement of the magical community and the only family she’s ever known...
  • Pop Art by Joe Hill

    Pop Art by Joe Hill

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . .Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. . . .Francis is unhappy...
  • Mean Spirit by Will Kingdom

    Mean Spirit by Will Kingdom

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Suddenly a victim of her own remarkable gifts, Seffi Callard, the world's best known spiritual medium, has been forced to back away from the glamour and the glow of public adulation, becoming a paranoid recluse at her father's home in the Cotswolds...
  • Vampire Lord: Conquering a Bloodthirsty Earth by Logan Jacobs

    Vampire Lord: Conquering a Bloodthirsty Earth by Logan Jacobs

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Conquering a Bloodthirsty EarthThey said AIDS had gone airborne.They said we needed a vaccine.They said there were no side effects.They were wrong.Now 9 of every 10 humans have changed, and they need the blood of the unchanged to live. Their thirst is unquenchable, and they can’t be stopped from destroying our world.And I’m one of them...
  • Caging Darling: A Dark Fantasy Peter Pan Retelling by T.A. Lawrence

    Caging Darling: A Dark Fantasy Peter Pan Retelling by T.A. Lawrence

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Shackled by a fae bargain. A prisoner in her own body.Wendy Darling has been forced to choose Peter for so long, it’s starting to feel like her decision. Between her Mating Mark, now exclusively tied to Peter, and their bargain, she’s no longer sure where the real Wendy ends and the magic begins.But Peter isn’t the only fae she’s ever made a bargain with...
  • Inspector Hobbes and the Gold Diggers by Wilkie Martin

    Inspector Hobbes and the Gold Diggers by Wilkie Martin

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
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  • Death's Bloom by Lily Mayne

    Death's Bloom by Lily Mayne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He’s the most perfect man I’ve ever met, but something is… wrong.I don’t see it at first. All I see is the gorgeous man with dark eyes and long hair and that unusual blue beard. The piercings and the tattoos, the beautiful smile. All I can focus on is the way he touches me, the sound of his voice in my ear, the perfect life he draws me into.I hide it from him at first...
    Categorized as:
    adult  age-gap  angst  billionaire  book  contemporary  dark  demons
  • The Eye of the Moon by Anonymous

    The Eye of the Moon by Anonymous

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Following a massive rampage that left the streets of Santa Mondega soaked with blood, the elusive supernatural serial killer known only as the Bourbon Kid is now himself being haunted. Hot on his heels are several vampire gangs, the Secret Service, a couple of werewolves, corrupt cops, and the Dark Lord himself, and none will rest until he is dead...
  • The Numbing by Flint Maxwell

    The Numbing by Flint Maxwell

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A Supernatural Apocalypse NovelEvil awaits.After the devastating events on Prism Lake, Grady and the other survivors head south, hoping to find safety in one of the rumored "Cities of Light."But as they embark on their journey, they quickly discover the monsters aren't the only things out in the snow they must fear.They may not even be the worst things..
  • Dying Breath by Heather Graham

    Dying Breath by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Buried alive... As a teenager, Vickie Preston survived an attack by a serial killer. That was the first time she saw a ghost. Now the city of Boston is being terrorized—someone is kidnapping women and burying them alive, but cruelly leaving a glimmer of hope for the authorities by sending a clue about their location...
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    suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  dark  fiction
  • Shadows by Kristen Proby

    Shadows by Kristen Proby

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From New York Times Bestselling Author, Kristen Proby, comes an all new paranormal romance set in the mystical city of New Orleans… I am never alone. Not even when I am alone. I see the unquiet dead, the souls that wander through the French Quarter. They can’t move on, and I can’t stop seeing them. I wear malachite for protection, and I control what I let in. It’s the only way to stay sane...
  • The Devil's Only Friend by Dan Wells

    The Devil's Only Friend by Dan Wells

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    John Wayne Cleaver hunts demons: they've killed his neighbors, his family, and the girl he loves, but in the end he's always won. Now he works for a secret government kill team, using his gift to hunt and kill as many monsters as he can......but the monsters have noticed, and the quiet game of cat and mouse is about to erupt into a full scale supernatural war...
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