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  • 房思琪的初戀樂園 by Lin Yi-Han, 林奕含

    房思琪的初戀樂園 by Lin Yi-Han, 林奕含

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
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  • 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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    crime  drama  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • Appalachian Justice by Melinda Clayton

    Appalachian Justice by Melinda Clayton

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Billy May Platte is a half Irish, half Cherokee Appalachian woman who learned the hard way that 1940s West Virginia was no place to be different.As Billy May explains, “We was sheltered in them hills. We didn’t know much of nothin’ about life outside of them mountains. I did not know the word lesbian; to us, gay meant havin’ fun and queer meant somethin’ strange...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  adult  book  fiction  kidnapping  mystery  psychological
  • Undetected by Jeffrey Marshall

    Undetected by Jeffrey Marshall

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    UNDETECTED Suzy Perry, a lovely, accomplished older woman, has married into a new family in Westchester County, NY, after being widowed not long before in Atlanta. Her new husband, Dean Perry, is besotted with her, but his son, Alex, and daughter-in-law Lisa are troubled by how little they know about her...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  adult  book  contemporary  epic  fiction  murder
  • The Baby by A.J. McDine

    The Baby by A.J. McDine

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There’s a baby in your house. It isn’t yours…The day I was told I’d never be able to have a child, my world came crashing down. My husband says he still loves me but I lie awake at night, wishing we could have a family.One morning, my husband’s side of the bed is cold and empty. I hear a noise and head downstairs. In the middle of the rug in my living room is a wooden drawer...
  • 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...
  • The Lost Girls by Helen Pryke

    The Lost Girls by Helen Pryke

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Seventeen years ago he lost his sisters.Now he wants them back.Four years ago, two teenage girls were abducted.Four years ago, a ten-year-old boy was murdered.Both cases remain unsolved.Desperate to find their missing sisters, Michael and Chloe ask investigative journalist Maggie Turner to help them. And what starts as a simple investigation, soon turns into a frantic race against time...
  • Secrets Mothers Keep by Anya Mora

    Secrets Mothers Keep by Anya Mora

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    On Friday night in the clay fields of Bethel Creek, seventeen-year-old Daniel Reyes is found brutally attacked and left for dead. 
On Saturday morning, Cora Maxwell finds her teenage son’s clothes covered in blood.
A small town torn apart by a horrific hate crime. 
An investigative reporter hell bent on finding the truth. 
A mother’s worst nightmare...
  • Liar Liar by L.G. Davis

    Liar Liar by L.G. Davis

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He swore he would always protect me, that he would take my darkest secret to the grave. But I’m starting to think he hasn’t told me his…My husband and I are the dream couple: deeply in love, the envy of all our friends and neighbours. He surprises me with flowers, I make him his favourite meals and prepare picnics to enjoy with our son. It’s little gestures like this that keep our romance alive...
  • The Vacation by John Marrs

    The Vacation by John Marrs

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Vacation is a compulsive, holiday-set thriller from John Marrs, the author of The One, now a Netflix Original Series.How far would you run to escape your past?Venice Beach, Los Angeles. A paradise on earth.Tourists flock to the golden coast and the promise of Hollywood.But for eight strangers at a beach front hostel, there is far more on their mind than an extended vacation...
  • Clean by Juno Dawson

    Clean by Juno Dawson

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I can feel it swimming through my veins like glitter ... it's liquid gold.When socialite Lexi Volkov almost overdoses, she thinks she's hit rock bottom.She's wrong. Rock bottom is when she's forced into an exclusive rehab facility.From there, the only way is up for Lexi and her fellow inmates, including the mysterious Brady...
  • 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...
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    crime  drama  adult  book  family  fiction  grief  psychological
  • Mad Girl by A.A. Dark, Alaska Angelini

    Mad Girl by A.A. Dark, Alaska Angelini

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    **CAUTION-------PITCH BLACK READ** My mother was the Madison Ridge Killer … and I helped her. At nine, I was given a new start—a new life. My adoptive parents did everything they could to help me forget my past, and for a while, they succeeded. But I was never normal. I never truly forgot all I saw or did.Now, twenty years later, I work in the billing department for a small city newspaper...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  lgbtq  romantic-love  dark  horror  abuse  steamy
  • 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...
  • Exquisite by Sarah Stovell

    Exquisite by Sarah Stovell

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Bo Luxton has it all - a loving family, a beautiful home in the Lake District, and a clutch of bestselling books to her name. Enter Alice Dark, an aspiring writer who is drifting through life, with a series of dead-end jobs and a freeloading boyfriend. When they meet at a writers' retreat, the chemistry is instant, and a sinister relationship develops ..
  • Invisible Love by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

    Invisible Love by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is the author of three luminous collections of short stories published by Europa Editions, including the bestselling Most Beautiful Book in the World, and one novel, Three Women in a Mirror...
  • The Disturbing Incidents at Lonesome Woods Boarding School by Dr. Harper

    The Disturbing Incidents at Lonesome Woods Boarding School by Dr. Harper

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The devastating start to Dr. Harper's career.I wasn't always like this, you know - paranoid, temperamental, vindictive.I mean, sure, I've always been a bit... high strung. But I never used to stalk my therapist patients. Or yell at them. Or hold them captive in my garage.No, all of that started after the incidents at Lonesome Woods Boarding School.And I'm not talking about the school shooter...
  • Don't Blink by L.G. Davis

    Don't Blink by L.G. Davis

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    *This book was previously published under the titles The Girl in the Rain and The Girl in the Storm.* Two years ago, Paige Wilson watched helplessly as her brother Ryan was shot, right on her doorstep. He survived the attack, but never fully recovered from the trauma. Stuck in a wheelchair, Ryan refuses to accept the life of a paraplegic...
  • The Devil's Work by Mark Edwards

    The Devil's Work by Mark Edwards

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A gripping psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Follow You Home and The Magpies . It was the job she had dreamed of since childhood. But on her very first day, when an unnerving encounter drags up memories Sophie Greenwood would rather forget, she wonders if she has made a mistake. A fatal mistake...
  • The Rose Petal Beach by Dorothy Koomson

    The Rose Petal Beach by Dorothy Koomson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Every love story has a dangerous twist. Tamia Challey is horrified when her husband, Scott, is accused of something terrible – but when she discovers who his accuser is, everything goes into freefall. Backed into a corner and unsure what to think, Tamia is forced to choose who she instinctively believes...
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    crime  drama  lgbtq  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  family
  • The Dream Job by Kiersten Modglin

    The Dream Job by Kiersten Modglin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Autumn Sanderson goes by Lark now. No one in her new life can know who she was. No one from her old life can know where she is now. Drowning in debt, Lark is desperate to land a job. When she finds herself at an interview for a mysterious company offering her an exorbitant salary, she jumps at the chance. But things aren’t quite what they seem..
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  psychological  suspense
  • The Daughter by Lucy Dawson

    The Daughter by Lucy Dawson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    You lost your daughter. You will never forgive yourself. And now someone's determined to make you pay… Seventeen years ago, something happened to Jess’s daughter Beth. The memory of it still makes her blood run cold. Jess has tried everything to make peace with that day, and the part she played in what happened. It was only a brief moment of desire… but she’ll pay for it with a lifetime of guilt...
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    crime  drama  adult  audiobook  book  family  fiction  mystery
  • I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is a Vegan Terrorist: 6 Deadly Social Media Influencers by Dr. Harper

    I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is a Vegan Terrorist: 6 Deadly Social Media Influencers by Dr. Harper

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Explosive Conclusion to the Dr. Harper Therapy seriesI'm a therapist, and I've worked with the wildest internet celebrities… A vigilante who treated humans as factory farm animals. A germaphobe who warned of the next major plague. My own best friend. A rapist who got cancelled online — and in real life. A psychic medium with a disturbing prediction...
  • The Women by S.E. Lynes

    The Women by S.E. Lynes

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The night she moves in with Peter, she’s so happy, so exhilarated, so in love. Later, she will remember a much smaller feeling, a tiny one percent in her gut. And she will remember pushing that feeling aside…Samantha Frayn doesn’t know why Peter Bridges picks her – a nobody with bitten fingernails and a troubled childhood behind her – but she falls quickly...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • When He Finds You by Sadie Ryan

    When He Finds You by Sadie Ryan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    “Her life was in danger and she didn’t know it. He felt a thrill just knowing that simple thing …”Gemma’s business is on the brink of collapse, and there’s a real chance that she and her husband could lose everything they’ve worked so hard for.So when a stranger offers financial help, Gemma ignores the red flags and accepts out of desperation...
  • The School Run by Ali Lowe

    The School Run by Ali Lowe

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    How far would you go to protect your children?For parents living in the beautiful coastal town of Pacific Pines, all their hopes and dreams are pinned on the outcome of the annual Gala Day hosted by St Ignatius Boys' School. To be accepted into the prestigious institution, their sons must battle it out, facing rigorous rounds of physical and mental tests...
  • Good Girls Die Last by Natali Simmonds

    Good Girls Die Last by Natali Simmonds

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Today, nothing is going right for Em. And it's about to get much worse.Heartbroken by a recent split, with her 30th birthday looming, she loses her job and her home in the same morning because of two swaggering, dishonest men - the boss who sexually harassed her and the flatmate sleeping with her behind his fiancée's back...
  • Speak of the Devil by Britney King

    Speak of the Devil by Britney King

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the upscale suburb where Vanessa Bolton lives, she's your average suburban housewife.She does her grocery shopping on Tuesday, Thursday mornings are reserved for Pilates, Sundays for church. At home, she's an impeccable housekeeper and a mother with a mediocre track record...
  • Coming to Terms by K.A. Moll

    Coming to Terms by K.A. Moll

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Coming to Terms tells the story of Sawyer James, a cop, angry and alone, an alcoholic. Sexually abused by her father when she was a child, she keeps secrets with her twin sister and numbs past trauma with the bottle. When her twin is psychiatrically hospitalized, she’ll work with the hospital social worker, and in doing so, will be offered no choice but to deal with past horrors...
  • The Wrong Neighbour by Caleb Crowe

    The Wrong Neighbour by Caleb Crowe

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    They’ve moved into their dream house. Then they meet the couple next door.After a whirlwind romance, Megan and Nick move into the home of their dreams, a beautiful beach house.They think it’s their happily ever after… until their neighbours return from a cruise...
  • One of Us Is Lying by Shalini Boland

    One of Us Is Lying by Shalini Boland

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Tia never harmed anyone. So why does someone want to destroy her?Tia is walking home with her children, along the lakeside of their quiet, safe town, when she realises something is wrong with her five-year-old daughter, Rosie. She seems troubled, not at all her usual happy self.But when Tia finally coaxes Rosie to open up, she wishes she hadn’t...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  adult  audiobook  book  death  family  fiction
  • No matarás by Ana Sofía González

    No matarás by Ana Sofía González

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    «—Vicky, ven, acércate, te voy a decir un el infierno no existe, son los papás—le susurró al oído y se partió de risa.»Alejandra, una adolescente frívola, vive en un fraccionamiento de clase alta. Su vida se ve afectada por el abandono de su madre y la dureza de un padre estricto...
  • Controle by Natalia Borges Polesso

    Controle by Natalia Borges Polesso

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Natalia Borges Polesso apresenta, em Controle, uma narrativa impactante sobre relações homoafetivas entre mulheres, o poder do desafio e, acima de tudo, as escolhas que precisam ser feitas para que as pessoas se tornem quem elas querem ser.A protagonista, Nanda, é epilética. Cercada de cuidado pelos pais, ela evita ao máximo o contato humano — exceto pela amiga, Joana...
  • The Fall: A murder brings them together. The truth will tear them apart. by Claire McGowan

    The Fall: A murder brings them together. The truth will tear them apart. by Claire McGowan

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What would you do if the man you love was accused of murder? Bad things never happen to Charlotte. She's living the life she's always wanted and about to marry wealthy banker, Dan. But Dan's been hiding a secret, and the pressure is pushing him over the edge. After he's arrested for the vicious killing of a nightclub owner, Charlotte's future is shattered...
  • Dangerous Behavior: A Novel by Walter Marks

    Dangerous Behavior: A Novel by Walter Marks

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From an Emmy award-winning author comes a high-voltage psychological thriller, whose film rights have already been sold to Paramount/Scott Rudin...
  • The Runaway by Hollie Overton

    The Runaway by Hollie Overton

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The search for a teenage runaway sends her foster mother, a psychologist working for the LAPD, on a dangerous journey through Los Angeles’ criminal underworld, in this gripping new thriller by the author of the international bestseller Baby Doll.You’ll do anything to protect her.But you’ll have to find her first...
  • Keep You Safe by Rona Halsall

    Keep You Safe by Rona Halsall

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    What if trying to protect your child only put them in danger?Natalie is desperate to find her little boy. It has been more than three years since she saw Harry. Three long years in prison for a crime she knows she didn’t commit.But her husband believed the police, and took their son...
  • It Could Be Anyone by Jaime Lynn Hendricks

    It Could Be Anyone by Jaime Lynn Hendricks

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Murder motives abound when the groom dies at a destination wedding in this new novel by the author of Finding TessaTo anyone on their flight out of New York, they appear to be five best friends excited for a destination wedding in Miami. No one would guess that each of them has a reason to want the groom dead...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  adult  book  family  fiction  murder  psychological
  • মায়া-জাল by Neil D'Silva

    মায়া-জাল by Neil D'Silva

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Maya teaches Biology in a Mumbai school. She is a hit with her students for her unconventional teaching techniques such as bringing a dead man's heart to school to explain her lessons. But, though she seems ebullient on the outside, within her own heart she harbors the pain of a recently and mysteriously deceased husband...
    Categorized as:
    crime  lgbtq  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  murder
  • Valerie; or, The Faculty of Dreams by Sara Stridsberg

    Valerie; or, The Faculty of Dreams by Sara Stridsberg

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Winner of the Nordic Prize in Literature, acclaimed Swedish novelist Sara Stridsberg makes her American debut with the Faculty of Dreams, conjuring the life and mind of 1960s firebrand, American feminist, and author of the SCUM manifesto Valerie Solanas...
  • Childhood Sweetheart by Wendy Clarke

    Childhood Sweetheart by Wendy Clarke

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Bang. Bang. Bang. I jump as the knocks on the window crash above the roaring wind outside. Who could it be, at this late hour? I open the curtains and peer outside. ‘Hello?’ But the dark, the rain and the empty lane are all I see.It’s been eleven years since I last saw Jonah, after his brother died that stormy summer night...
  • Daughter by Kate McLaughlin

    Daughter by Kate McLaughlin

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Scarlet’s life is pretty average. Overly protective mom. Great friends. Cute boy she’s interested in. And a father she’s never known – until she does.When the FBI show up at Scarlet’s door, she is shocked to learn her father is infamous serial killer Jeffrey Robert Lake...
  • The Counterfeiters by André Gide

    The Counterfeiters by André Gide

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Originally published in 1925, this book became known for the frank sexuality of its contents and its account of middle class French morality. The themes of the book explore the problem of morals, the problem of society and the problems facing writers. An appendix to this edition (Vintage, 1973) contains excerpts from the Gide's notebooks which he kept while writing this book...
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    crime  drama  lgbtq  20th-century  adult  book  classics  fiction
  • Tom at the Farm by Michel Marc Bouchard

    Tom at the Farm by Michel Marc Bouchard

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As an unexpected guest at his recently deceased lover's funeral, Tom is blindsided by the man's legacy of untruth. With the mother expecting a chain-smoking girlfriend, and the older brother hell-bent on preserving a facade of normalcy, Tom is coerced into participating in the dishonesty until, at last, he confronts the torment that drove his lover to live in the shadows of deceit...
  • Baby Please Don't Go by Frank Freudberg

    Baby Please Don't Go by Frank Freudberg

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    All Lock Gilkenney Wants Is A Family. But He’ll Have To Cross The Line To Get One.Lock is a dedicated investigator at Child Protective Services. An anonymous report of neglect comes in. He responds and finds the kids in good health. Lock concludes the report was a ruse, possibly part of a scheme to make Natalie Mannheim—the kids’ mother—look bad in an upcoming divorce trial...
  • Lying To You: A gripping and tense psychological drama by Amanda Reynolds

    Lying To You: A gripping and tense psychological drama by Amanda Reynolds

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    'THIS DIZZYING NOVEL KEEPS YOU ON YOUR TOES' - THE SUN You think you know the truth about that night, but what if your husband is LYING TO YOU? When Jess Tidy was Mark Winter's student, she made a shocking accusation. Mark maintained his innocence, but the damage was done.Karen Winter stood by her husband through everything, determined to protect her family.Now, ten years later, Jess is back...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  adult  book  domestic-drama  family  fiction  mystery
  • Pakket i plast by Kjetil Johnsen

    Pakket i plast by Kjetil Johnsen

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    - en serie om kjærlighet, vennskap, ensomhet og mord.Vilde og Nick deler en forferdelig hemmelighet. De føler at de begynner å miste kontrollen over livene sine. Det finnes så mange intriger og skjulte motiver!Og så, plutselig, er dagen der - dagen da en av de fire venninnene blir drept.Kjetil Johnsen har tidligere skrevet 18 bøker i seriesuksessen Tusen biter...
  • Zu Erde sollst du werden by Kjetil Johnsen

    Zu Erde sollst du werden by Kjetil Johnsen

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ein packendes Finale steht bevor: "Zu Erde sollst du werden" ist der 5. und auch letzte Band der erfolgreichen Thriller-Soap "Dark Village" rund um die Mädchenclique aus Dypdal.In dem nun letzten Band fügt sich das Puzzle zusammen, natürlich unter nervenaufreibender Spannung und mit detailreich inszenierten Charakteren...
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