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  • An Isolated Incident by J.D. Kirk

    An Isolated Incident by J.D. Kirk

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Do you know who's knocking at your door?After a violent home invasion in the remote wilds of Glen Coe leaves a family of four dead, DCI Jack Logan and his team are brought in to lead the manhunt...
  • Ahead of the Game by J.D. Kirk

    Ahead of the Game by J.D. Kirk

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    When a body is discovered at a popular Highland landmark, it seems like just another day on the job for DCI Jack Logan and his team.Except this body is missing a very vital component, and given its location - The Well of Seven Heads - it seems like someone is trying to send a message...
  • Clue Krewe by Jana Deleon

    Clue Krewe by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Beckett Rousseau is the firstborn son of one of New Orleans’ most prominent families. He’s the quintessential golden boy—great looks, money, and a political career in his future—until his wife murders him. Or at least that’s what everyone thinks.Athena Durand is still reeling from her murder conviction but now that it’s overturned, she’s at a loss on how to proceed with her life...
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    crime  humor  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  female-mc
  • The Botanist by M.W. Craven

    The Botanist by M.W. Craven

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    'I swear I'm one bad mood away from calling it black magic and going home . . .'Detective Sergeant Washington Poe can count on one hand the number of friends he has. And he'd still have his thumb left. There's the insanely brilliant, guilelessly innocent civilian analyst, Tilly Bradshaw of course...
  • L'Affaire Alaska Sanders by Joël Dicker

    L'Affaire Alaska Sanders by Joël Dicker

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Avril 1999. Mount Pleasant, une paisible bourgade du New Hampshire, est bouleversée par un meurtre. Le corps d'une jeune femme, Alaska Sanders, est retrouvé au bord d'un lac. L'enquête est rapidement bouclée, la police obtenant les aveux du coupable et de son complice.Onze ans plus tard, l'affaire rebondit...
  • 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  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  drama
  • 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...
  • Revenge in Paradise by Deborah Brown

    Revenge in Paradise by Deborah Brown

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a man of questionable character’s corpse is found at The Cottages, beaten to death with Madison’s own gardening tools, she and her partner, Fab, set out to prove that the man’s abused girlfriend did not kill him. Along the way, Madison finds herself behind bars twice, held hostage in a mansion, and running from flying bullets...
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    crime  humor  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  female-mc
  • The Match by Harlan Coben

    The Match by Harlan Coben

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. 'At the age of somewhere between 35 and 45 - he didn't know exactly how old he was - Wilde found his father ...' Wilde has grown up knowing nothing of his family, and even less about his own identity . All he knows is that, as a young child, he was found living a feral existence in the Ramapo mountains of New Jersey...
  • My Little Brother by Diane Saxon

    My Little Brother by Diane Saxon

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Two siblings, both missing for 20 years turn up within one day of each other. One dead. One alive.It was an ordinary school day, the day I lost my little brother.One moment he was on the roundabout and then was gone. Gone. Missing.They all blamed me. I was in charge. Even though I was only ten years old.They sent me away. The hurt, the shame, the questions. The not knowing.I tried to move on...
  • Incriminating Evidence by Sheldon Siegel

    Incriminating Evidence by Sheldon Siegel

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    With his terrific first novel, Special Circumstances , Sheldon Siegel delivered legal fiction so exciting, it drew comparisons with the very top tier of courtroom thrillers. Now he has a new challenge for defense attorney Mike Daley--ex-priest, ex-husband, ex-public defender--and it’s a high-profile zinger: a case he doesn’t think he can win for a client he can’t stand...
  • Hysteria by L.J. Ross

    Hysteria by L.J. Ross

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DCI RYAN MYSTERIES In a beautiful world, murder is always ugly… Recently returned from his last case in Ireland, elite forensic psychologist and criminal profiler Dr Alexander Gregory receives a call from the French police that he can’t ignore...
  • No Way Out by Allison Brennan

    No Way Out by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From Allison Brennan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cut and Run, comes a new e-novella, No Way Out: FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid faces her worst fear when her husband goes missing Nine years ago, mercenary Kane Rogan and photojournalist Siobhan Walsh risked their lives to rescue Hestia Juarez, a thirteen-year-old girl being forced to marry a much older man to expand her father’s crime family...
  • Ends of the Earth: A Bug Man Novel by Tim Downs

    Ends of the Earth: A Bug Man Novel by Tim Downs

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Nick must face the realities of lost opportunities and the passing of time as he struggles to protect a mother and her child from agro-terrorists in this latest novel from award-winning author Tim Downs. Dr. Nick Polchak is called to a farm community in eastern North Carolina to investigate a murder...
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    crime  humor  suspense  thriller  adult  book  christian  contemporary
  • Screams in the Dark by Anna Smith

    Screams in the Dark by Anna Smith

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A gritty, page-turning thriller perfect for fans of Martina Cole.Refugees are disappearing in Glasgow. The mutilated body of one has been found, but the police aren't interested...
  • Annihilate Me: Omnibus by Christina Ross

    Annihilate Me: Omnibus by Christina Ross

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Annihilate Me: Omnibus edition is a very limited edition that will be published only briefly. It includes Vols. 1-4 at a discounted price!Description : The business of love is dangerous. For Jennifer Kent, a recent MBA graduate who has been searching for work in Manhattan for four long months, time and money are running out...
  • Solomon vs. Lord by Paul Levine

    Solomon vs. Lord by Paul Levine

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Victoria Lord follows all the rules. Steve Solomon makes up his own. They'll either end up in ruin, in jail or in bed. Steve barely graduated from Key West School of Law. Victoria is fresh from Yale, toiling for an ambitious DA, before Steve gets her fired. Katrina Barksdale is a sexy former figure skater charged with killing her very wealthy, very kinky husband in Miami...
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    crime  humor  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Faceless by Martina Cole

    Faceless by Martina Cole

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Eleven years ago Marie Carter was convicted of killing her two best friends. And she's paid the price. Now she is being released from prison. It's time to go home. But life has moved on, and Marie has nowhere to go. Her parents have disowned her; her friends have abandoned her; even her kids don't want to know...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  book  contemporary  dark  fiction  mystery
  • The Brighton Mermaid by Dorothy Koomson

    The Brighton Mermaid by Dorothy Koomson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Brighton Beach, 1993Teenagers Nell and Jude find the body of a young woman and when no one comes to claim her, she becomes known as the Brighton Mermaid. Nell is still struggling to move on when, three weeks later, Jude disappears.Twenty-five years on, Nell is forced to quit her job to find out who the Brighton Mermaid really was - and what happened to her best friend that summer...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  family  fiction
  • La casa delle voci by Donato Carrisi

    La casa delle voci by Donato Carrisi

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Pietro Gerber non è uno psicologo come gli altri. La sua specializzazione è l'ipnosi e i suoi pazienti hanno una cosa in comune: sono bambini. Pietro è il migliore di tutta Firenze, dove è conosciuto come l'addormentatore di bambini. Ma quando riceve una telefonata da parte di una collega australiana che gli raccomanda una paziente, Pietro reagisce con perplessità e diffidenza...
  • Gone the Next by Ben Rehder

    Gone the Next by Ben Rehder

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Meet Roy Ballard, freelance videographer with a knack for catching insurance cheats. He's working a routine case, complete with hours of tedious surveillance, when he sees something that shakes him to the core. There, with the subject, is a little blond girl wearing a pink top and denim shorts—the same outfit worn by Tracy Turner, a six-year-old abducted the day before...
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    crime  humor  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • The Fox and O'Hare Series 3-Book Bundle: The Heist, The Chase, The Job by Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg

    The Fox and O'Hare Series 3-Book Bundle: The Heist, The Chase, The Job by Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From Janet Evanovich, the acclaimed creator of Stephanie Plum, and Lee Goldberg, author and television writer for Monk, comes a series of New York Times bestselling novels that “mix the humor from Evanovich and Goldberg’s books with the intricate cons seen in the best episodes of Mission: Impossible” (Library Journal)...
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    crime  humor  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy
  • The Night She Vanished by Wendy Dranfield

    The Night She Vanished by Wendy Dranfield

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My parents seem to be the perfect couple. But no one knows what I know... Everyone in the small Midwestern town of Henderson looks up to my perfect parents. With dependable jobs as a midwife and the town sheriff, they help this close-knit community feel safe. But the locals didn't grow up in my parents' house. They don't know what I know. And they wouldn't believe me if I told them..
  • The List by Velvet Vaughn

    The List by Velvet Vaughn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the author of The Fan and Committed is the first romantic suspense novel in the COBRA Securities series. The List is an intriguing mixture of pulse-pounding suspense and sizzling passion. It was just supposed to be a game... What started out as a harmless game between friends has turned deadly real. Fourteen men are dead, all from apparent accidents...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • Only The Good Die Young : And I'm Not A Saint by Akash Verma

    Only The Good Die Young : And I'm Not A Saint by Akash Verma

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sometimes when you're desperate to leave the past behind, the past is eager to catch up!Anuradha leaves Gurgaon when Dhruv chooses his family over her. She thinks that chapter of her life hasended, and starts afresh in Mumbai. But strangely, it seems her past is trying to catch up. Dhruv suddenlycomes back into her life...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  madness
  • You Beneath Your Skin by Damyanti Biswas

    You Beneath Your Skin by Damyanti Biswas

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It’s a dark, smog-choked New Delhi winter. Indian American single mother Anjali Morgan juggles her job as a psychiatrist with caring for her autistic teenage son. She is in a long-standing affair with ambitious police commissioner Jatin Bhatt – an irresistible attraction that could destroy both their lives...
    Categorized as:
    crime  thriller  suspense  fiction  mystery  contemporary  murder  book
  • Two to Die For by Allison Brennan

    Two to Die For by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two tales of murder and betrayal from the Lucy Kincaid and Maxine Revere series Spiral (Lucy Kincaid, #12.5)Sean Rogan and Lucy Kincaid are enjoying their honeymoon in a remote cabin outside Vail, Colorado. They sorely need the quiet time alone—a break from the murder and violence that has defined so much of their lives. And for one blissful week, they are in paradise...
  • His Other Lie by Ava Strong

    His Other Lie by Ava Strong

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Stella Fall, still reeling from the trauma of her deceitful fiancé and her failed engagement, has decided to pursue her dreams, follow in her father’s footsteps, and throw herself into law enforcement. Upon graduating from the FBI’s academy, she isf placed in the FBI’s Connecticut field office...
  • Blood Stains by Sharon Sala

    Blood Stains by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Mother: Murdered.Father: Unknown.Case: ColdAt the reading of her father's will, Maria Slade receives shocking news—as a four-year-old, she'd witnessed her prostitute mother's murder and been taken into hiding by the well-meaning preacher who'd raised her as his own.Maria remembers none of that...
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    crime  humor  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • The Thorn Girl by Laura Elliot

    The Thorn Girl by Laura Elliot

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A swallow flutters its wings into a dimly lit attic as Adele Foyle stumbles across the secret diary of the mother she has never met, and a shocking account of a crime committed over twenty-five years ago...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  family  female-mc
  • Juste une ombre by Karine Giébel

    Juste une ombre by Karine Giébel

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Cloé Beauchamp est une jeune femme à qui tout semble réussir; belle, brillante, sur le point d'être nommée à la tête d'une prestigieuse agence de publicité... Et amoureuse, depuis peu, d'un homme charmant. Elle cache à la perfection ses failles et les horreurs qui ont jalonné son passé. Mais lentement, sa vie va se transformer en cauchemar...
  • Night Frost by R.D. Wingfield

    Night Frost by R.D. Wingfield

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A serial killer is terrorizing the senior citizens of Denton, and the local police are succumbing to a flu epidemic. Tired and demoralized, the force has to contend with a seemingly perfect young couple suffering arson attacks and death threats, a suspicious suicide, burglaries, pornographic videos, poison-pen letters..
  • Le Manuscrit Inachevé by Franck Thilliez, Jean-Yves Berteloot

    Le Manuscrit Inachevé by Franck Thilliez, Jean-Yves Berteloot

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Aux alentours de Grenoble, un jeune a fini sa trajectoire dans un ravin après une course-poursuite avec la douane. Dans son coffre, le corps d’une femme, les orbites vides, les mains coupées et rassemblées dans un sac...
  • Parting Shot by Linwood Barclay

    Parting Shot by Linwood Barclay

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A gripping thriller packed with scandal in a small town, from the master of the twist you never saw coming - international bestseller, Linwood Barclay.When a young girl from Promise Falls is killed by a drunk driver, the community wants answers.It doesn't matter that the accused is a kid himself: all they see is that he took a life and got an easy sentence...
  • Playdate by Alex Dahl

    Playdate by Alex Dahl

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It was meant to be your daughter's first sleepover. Now it's an abduction.Lucia Blix went home from school for a playdate with her new friend Josie. Later that evening, Lucia's mother Elisa dropped her overnight things round and kissed her little girl goodnight.That was the last time she saw her daughter.The next morning, when Lucia's dad arrived to pick her up, the house was empty...
  • Little Buried Secrets by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Little Buried Secrets by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The clock is ticking, and for Margot, time has just run out.Margot Remington exits the wood-lined boardwalk at Moonstone Beach and pedals her bike onto the highway. It's dusk, and the sky has started to grumble, the clouds shifting and bending as they turn a melancholy shade of charcoal. Rain was coming. Margot could smell it in the air...
  • Redemption Lake by Susan Clayton-Goldner

    Redemption Lake by Susan Clayton-Goldner

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Tucson, Arizona – Eighteen-year-old Matt Garrison is harboring two terrible secrets: his involvement in the drowning death of his 12-year-old cousin, and a night of drunken sex with his best friend’s mother, Crystal, whom he finds dead in a bathtub of blood. Guilt forces Matt to act on impulse and hide his involvement with Crystal.Detective Winston Radhauser knows Matt is hiding something...
  • Dead in the Water by Britney King

    Dead in the Water by Britney King

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THE PERFECT NEIGHBORS. THE PERFECT COVER. A GRIPPING ROMANTICS SUSPENSE THRILLER He’s a contract killer. She likes to even the score. Smack dab in the middle of suburbia, few married couples are as competitive as Jude and Kate. But then, most married couples don't keep score in the form of body counts. Each hell-bent on a silent pact to out-do the other, the games begin...
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    crime  humor  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  dark
  • Lucky by Stella Marie Alden

    Lucky by Stella Marie Alden

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I was hired to guard a pair of earrings. Unfortunately, they’re attached to pure, unadulterated trouble.LuckyTrouble starts with a blue-eyed stare that hits below the belt. You might think it ends with a girl-next-door but you’d be wrong. Bloody hell, she’s all woman and you’d swear she was about to do you. Not only that, she’s a bloomin’ genius...
  • The Paris Widow by Kimberly Belle

    The Paris Widow by Kimberly Belle

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A dream vacation turns deadly when secrets from the past catch up to a married couple in Paris in this new edge-of-your-seat thriller from USA Today bestselling author, Kimberly Belle.When Stella met Adam, she thought she had finally found a nice, normal guy—a welcome change from her previous boyfriend and her precarious jetsetter lifestyle with him...
  • Roses Are Blood Red by Novoneel Chakraborty

    Roses Are Blood Red by Novoneel Chakraborty

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I'll gift you a love story that every girl desires, but few get to live.'He'd told me once. And boy, did he stick to his words! Vanav Thakur is the perfect boyfriend that any girl can have. He ticks every box you can ever have for your Mr Right. Trust me on this...
  • Hard Time by A.J. Carella

    Hard Time by A.J. Carella

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When it comes to family, Kat will do anything. Even if that means going against everything she believes in, and risking her already fragile relationship with the man she loves. Faced with a problem that is too much for her alone, she enlists the help of her one time partner, Kyle. Together they must uncover a deadly secret before any more innocent lives are lost...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • Dark Corners by Megan Goldin

    Dark Corners by Megan Goldin

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Terence Bailey is about to be released from prison for breaking and entering, though investigators have long suspected him in the murders of six women. As his freedom approaches, Bailey gets a surprise visit from Maddison Logan, a hot, young influencer with a huge social media following. Hours later, Maddison disappears, and police suspect she’s been kidnapped—or worse...
  • Black for Remembrance by Carlene Thompson

    Black for Remembrance by Carlene Thompson

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Caroline Webb knows what it means to lose the person you love most. Twenty years ago, her five-year-old daughter, Hayley, was the light of her life, her treasure, her angle. Then came the terrible day when Hayley was kidnapped from her favorite swing. More than a month passed before her burned, lifeless body was found. All that remained was the silence of Caroline's heartache--and her guilt..
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror
  • Privileged Witness by Rebecca Forster

    Privileged Witness by Rebecca Forster

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Though attorney Josie Baylor-Bates swore off rich clients years ago, she succumbs to Grace McCreary's plea for help. The sister of a Senate hopeful-Josie's former lover-Grace is accused of murdering her disturbed sister-in-law. As Josie steps back into the world of privilege and power to prove her own worth and her client's innocence, she risks everything she now holds dear...
  • Trial & Error by Paul Levine

    Trial & Error by Paul Levine

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Steve Solomon is awakened from a sound sleep beside his lover and law partner, Victoria Lord, the last thing he expects is to find himself in a high-speed chase against dolphin-kidnapping ecoterrorists on Jet Skis. But that is what you get when your nephew hangs out at water parks and speaks cetacean–a.k.a. dolphin...
    Categorized as:
    crime  humor  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  legal
  • The Client / The Street Lawyer by John Grisham

    The Client / The Street Lawyer by John Grisham

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    THE CLIENTThe Law, the Mob, a murder — and the mind of an eleven-year- old child... An eleven-year-old has discovered a secret that not even an adult should know. A US State Senator is dead, and Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden. The FBI want him to tell them where it is at whatever cost to Mark and his family. The killer wants him silenced forever...
  • Tahoe Deathfall by Todd Borg

    Tahoe Deathfall by Todd Borg

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When 14-year-old Jennifer Salazar approaches Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna, she explains that her identical twin sister Melissa died 8 years before on their 6th birthday. Now, at the ripe old age of 14, Jennifer has come to believe that her sister's death was not the accident that everyone says. When McKenna investigates, he uncovers a long-buried secret that is still driving a murderer to kill...
  • A Snowball in Hell by Christopher Brookmyre

    A Snowball in Hell by Christopher Brookmyre

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Each society gets the serial killers it deserves...How sick are you of our vapid celebrity culture, reality TV shows and tawdry talent contests? Not as sick as Simon Darcourt—but let’s face it, nobody is as sick as Simon Darcourt...
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