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  • Goodnight Lady by Martina Cole

    Goodnight Lady by Martina Cole

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A tour-de-force thriller of corruption and violence.In the sixties, Briony Cavanagh ran a string of the most notorious brothels in London. Only Briony knew what went on behind those doors, and she never opened her mouth - unless she stood to benefit. Only Briony knew the painful road she'd travelled to get there...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  thriller  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book  family
  • Gallery of the Dead by Chris Carter

    Gallery of the Dead by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    ‘Thirty-seven years in the force, and if I was allowed to choose just one thing to erase from my mind, what’s inside that room would be it.'That’s what a LAPD Lieutenant tells Detectives Hunter and Garcia of the Ultra Violent Crimes Unit as they arrive at one of the most shocking crime scenes they have ever attended...
  • Mister Slaughter by Robert McCammon

    Mister Slaughter by Robert McCammon

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The world of Colonial America comes vibrantly to life in this masterful new historical thriller by Robert McCammon...
  • Dark Rivers of the Heart / Sole Survivor / Intensity by Dean Koontz

    Dark Rivers of the Heart / Sole Survivor / Intensity by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dean Koontz is one of the world's top-selling authors with total worldwide sales of his novels at 225 million copies! He achieves what few writers can: he creates books that consistently jump to the top of the bestseller lists in both hardcover and paper...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  horror  madness
  • Gentle Is the Angel of Death by Dean Koontz

    Gentle Is the Angel of Death by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    To some he’s a medical genius. To others, a twisted angel of mercy with a necessary solution to what he sees as an ugly dilemma. Only one man can help Dr. Death face the evil of his ways.Henry Siphuncle has a selfless mission: releasing his patients forever from their distasteful imperfections. It’s for their own good. And the world’s. Even Henry’s own wife didn’t survive his disgust...
  • Diesel by M. Merin

    Diesel by M. Merin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hot on the trail of a major human trafficking ring, Diesel sinks deeper and deeper into the darkness of that world the more he unearths the digital footprints of those responsible for the kidnapping and death of members of his MC Family...
  • Maleficium by Natalie Bennett

    Maleficium by Natalie Bennett

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tragic and Twisted Fall Apart…Ave Satanas worship or perish.The reckoning has begun.In the Devil’s Playground morals have vanished, demons run rampant, and the death toll is rising.The price of freedom looms closer than before, simply crown the king, claim a queen, and make idle work of the damned.One will perish.Bounties will be placed...
    Categorized as:
    steamy  dark  crime  suspense  horror  new-adult  contemporary  mystery
  • Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino

    Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An exciting new series character ...Gia Santella is a fast-driving, hard-drinking, karate-trained free spirit, who is gorgeous, sexy, and a young heiress. She also has a fierce temper and zero tolerance for people in power preying on the vulnerable ... especially when the injustice takes place in her neighborhood...
  • The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean

    The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A woman being held captive is willing to risk everything to save herself, her unborn child, and her captor’s latest victim in this claustrophobic thriller in the tradition of Misery and Room. On an isolated farm in the United Kingdom, a woman is trapped by the monster who kidnapped her seven years ago...
  • Quick Fixes: Tales of Repairman Jack by F. Paul Wilson

    Quick Fixes: Tales of Repairman Jack by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Who do the world’s most exciting authors turn to when they need a shot of adrenaline? F. Paul Wilson’s Repairman Jack! "One of the all-time great characters in one of the all-time great series." — Lee Child“Repairman Jack is one of my favorite characters—I’m full of happy anticipation every time I hold a new RJ novel in my hands...
  • A Caller's Game by J.D. Barker

    A Caller's Game by J.D. Barker

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    DIE HARD meets TALK RADIO in this heart-pounding, relentlessly fast-paced thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Fourth Monkey—master of suspense, J.D. Barker. "I'm going to offer you a choice." Controversial satellite radio talk show host, Jordan Briggs, has clawed her way to the top of the broadcast world...
  • Blood of the Innocents by Chris Collett

    Blood of the Innocents by Chris Collett

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When two teenagers go missing on the same day on Mariner's patch, it seems to be nothing more than a coincidence. Leaving aside their age and disappearance, the two have little in common. Yasmin Akram is the talented grammar school educated daughter of devout Muslim professionals. Ricky Skeet disappears after storming out of his council house after a row with his mother's latest boyfriend...
  • Unstoppable by Jonathan Maberry, Bryan Thomas Schmidt

    Unstoppable by Jonathan Maberry, Bryan Thomas Schmidt

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An anthology of new stories by top authors set in the New York Times Bestselling universe of Maberry's Joe Ledger Horror Thriller series about government agents fighting zombies, plagues, and other supernatural terrors...
  • The Stretch by Stephen Leather

    The Stretch by Stephen Leather

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    As a big player in the London underworld in the 1990s, Terry Greene has always made a priority of taking care of business personally. Preston Snow was out of line, so the up-close-and-personal visit was in no way out of character...
  • Love & Other Killers by Brynne Weaver

    Love & Other Killers by Brynne Weaver

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Serial killers versus serial killer in a hot and twisted novella about family games, true love, and competitive carnage by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Ruinous Love Trilogy.It’s the annual hunt for Sloane and her vigilante family of serial killers. Track the most cold-blooded psychos imaginable and take them down...
  • Worse Angels by Laird Barron

    Worse Angels by Laird Barron

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ex-mob enforcer-turned-private investigator Isaiah Coleridge pits himself against a rich and powerful foe when he digs into a possible murder and a sketchy real-estate deal worth billions.Ex-majordomo and bodyguard to an industrial tycoon-cum-U.S. senator, Badja Adeyemi is in hiding and shortly on his way to either a jail cell or a grave, depending on who finds him first...
  • Spiderstalk by D. Nathan Hilliard

    Spiderstalk by D. Nathan Hilliard

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Life hasn't been kind to Adam Sellars lately... In the past year he has broken up with his fiancee, barely survived a terrible car wreck, and had his brother's family vanish while he lay unconscious in the hospital. All they left behind was a frantic call on his cell phone's voice messages, and a blurry photo of a spider...
  • One Fear by Belle Brooks

    One Fear by Belle Brooks

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “My one fear is now my reality.” He didn’t offer his name when he fulfilled his need to include me as a player in his game. I’m number thirteen. Just a number given to the bitches who wronged him. I was blindsided. Stolen from my life. In his devilled eyes, I have a debt to pay…he wants my final breath to see us even...
  • The Killing of Faith: This is a suspense/thriller you won't soon forget. by William Holms, Ginny Glass

    The Killing of Faith: This is a suspense/thriller you won't soon forget. by William Holms, Ginny Glass

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Killing of Faith is the riveting suspense/thriller told by Faith, a mother of three children, caught in an unhappy marriage full of lies, deception and affairs. After swearing off love, she finally meets the man of her dreams. He seems perfect, wins her over, and makes her believe in love again...
  • The Dismembered by Jonathan Janz

    The Dismembered by Jonathan Janz

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the spring of 1912, American writer Arthur Pearce is reeling from the wounds inflicted by a disastrous marriage and the public humiliation that ensued. But his plans to travel abroad, write a new novel, and forget his ex-wife are interrupted by a lovely young woman he encounters on a London-bound train. Her name is Sarah Coyle, and the tale she tells him chills his blood...
  • #NoEscape  (Volume 3) by Gretchen McNeil

    #NoEscape (Volume 3) by Gretchen McNeil

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The #murder and mayhem continue in this prequel companion novel to the grisly, campy social media insanity that is #MurderTrending and #MurderFunding. Gretchen McNeil brings her signature wit and merciless kills to this gruesome yet hilarious, wildly topical young adult novel.Twenty years before Dee Guerra and the Death Row Breakfast Club took down The Postman and Alcatraz 2...
  • Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man by Ed McBain

    Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man by Ed McBain

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The criminals who invade the 87th Precinct aren't particularly known for their intelligence. Their crimes are usually brutal, stupid, and rash. But every once in a while, the 87th gets a good bad guy to hunt down."WITH YOUR ASSISTANCE, I'M GOING TO STEAL $500,000 ON THE LAST DAY OF APRIL." So wrote the Deaf Man, the 87th Precinct's own private nemesis...
  • Blood Brother by Jack Kerley

    Blood Brother by Jack Kerley

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Detective Carson Ryder's sworn duty is to track killers down. He's never revealed the fact that his brother, Jeremy, is one of America's most notorious killers - albeit imprisoned. Now though, his brother's escaped and is at large in New York. With Jeremy the chief suspect in a series of horrifying mutilation-murders, a mysterious video demands Ryder be brought into help...
  • Either Side of Midnight by Tori de Clare

    Either Side of Midnight by Tori de Clare

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    WHAT IF THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE TURNED INTO YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE? When nineteen-year-old Naomi Stone is snatched from her husband at knifepoint on the night of their wedding and taken to a deserted cemetery, she knows her life is finished. Drugged and disorientated, she loses consciousness as she lies in an open grave with a gun to her head...
  • Six Bad Things by Charlie Huston

    Six Bad Things by Charlie Huston

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Hank Thompson is living off the map in Mexico with a bagful of cash that the Russian mafia wants back and many, many secrets. So when a Russian backpacker shows up in town asking questions, Hank tries to play it cool. But he knows the jig is up when the backpacker mentions the money . . . and the family Hank left behind...
  • Flight of the Storks by Jean-Christophe Grangé

    Flight of the Storks by Jean-Christophe Grangé

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Every year the storks set off on their miraculous 12,000-mile migration from Northern Europe to Central Africa. Then one year, inexplicably, they do not return. At the invitation of the wealthy Swiss ornithologist Max Boehm, a young French academic, Louis Antioch, agrees to undertake a journey tracing the flight of the storks in an attempt to solve the mystery of the birds' disappearance...
  • The Old Lady by Kristopher Triana

    The Old Lady by Kristopher Triana

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She never wanted to come home.After the death of her estranged father, Tracey returns to the remote cabin she grew up in. As a traumatized veteran of the Vietnam War, Tracey’s father subjected her to rigorous survival training under brutal conditions, believing it was for her own good. She escaped and never looked back...
  • Ruined Valentine by Genevieve Ami Moon

    Ruined Valentine by Genevieve Ami Moon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    𝘚𝘵. 𝘝𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘴 𝘢 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵…𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵?𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩...
  • Rogue by Mark T. Sullivan

    Rogue by Mark T. Sullivan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Mark Sullivan has created a propulsive, compelling new thriller. Rogue, is one part Bourne Identity and one part Mission: Impossible, but readers will also love the nod to Hitchcock’s It Takes a Thief. Two years ago, Robin Monarch was a top level CIA operative—perhaps the best they had when it came to black bag operations...
  • The Loch Ness Legacy by Boyd Morrison

    The Loch Ness Legacy by Boyd Morrison

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    During a trek to Loch Ness, Scotland, a young Charles Darwin encounters a mysterious and terrifying creature that provides a spark for his evolutionary theory.Almost two hundred years later and across the Channel in Paris, the Eiffel Tower is under attack...
  • Nothing Good Happens After Midnight: A Suspense Magazine Anthology by Jeffery Deaver, Heather Graham

    Nothing Good Happens After Midnight: A Suspense Magazine Anthology by Jeffery Deaver, Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The sun sets. The moon takes its place, illuminating the most evil corners of the planet. What twisted fear dwells in that blackness? What legends attach to those of sound mind and make them go crazy in the bright light of day? Only Suspense Magazine knows..
  • Soft Target by Iain Rob Wright

    Soft Target by Iain Rob Wright

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nowhere is safe from evil...When an elderly suicide bomber strikes a quiet English village, a once proud nation is brought to its knees. Yet this first attack is just the start of something far greater and much much worse. The days to follow will determine if the United Kingdom has a future, or if it will be reduced to anarchy and ashes...
  • The Country Club: Members Only by Tim Miller

    The Country Club: Members Only by Tim Miller

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Deep in the heart of Texas sits The Country Club. At the Club, the super wealthy explore their deepest darkest fantasies and desires. Some of them are too horrific to imagine. Crystal is a blogger who investigates Texas Urban Legends. No one believes the Club actually exists. She sets out to expose the Club and their atrocities to the world...
  • Untouchable by Gerald Seymour

    Untouchable by Gerald Seymour

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Albert William Packer is the supreme baron of London crime. He rules his manor with a cruel, ruthless fist. To those around him, on whatever side of the law, he is the Untouchable.When another criminal case against him collapses, Packer turns his attention to expanding his heroin empire abroad...
  • Femina: A Collection of Dark Fiction by Caitlin Marceau

    Femina: A Collection of Dark Fiction by Caitlin Marceau

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    FEMINA: A Collection Of Dark Fiction explores the horror of womanhood. Or, more accurately, the horror of gender norms and societal expectations placed on women. This collection features work that delves into themes of identity, motherhood, sexuality, and isolation...
    Categorized as:
    dark  steamy  horror  fiction  feminism  anthologies  lgbtq  audiobook
  • Cold City by F. Paul Wilson

    Cold City by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The first of three Repairman Jack prequels, revealing the past of one of the most popular characters in contemporary dark fantasy: a self-styled “fix-it” man who is no stranger to the macabre or the supernatural, hired by victimized people who have no one else to turn to.We join Jack a few months after his arrival in New York City. He doesn’t own a gun yet, though he’s already connected with Abe...
  • Eyeshot by Taylor Adams

    Eyeshot by Taylor Adams

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    James and Elle Eversman are a young couple travelling through the Mojave desert on their way to a new life. When their car mysteriously breaks down they are stranded in the middle of nowhere without much water and no cell-phone reception.A mile away a deadly sniper has them in his cross-hairs. They are pinned down behind their broken-down car, surrounded by open ground in all directions...
  • Extraction by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Extraction by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child, an all-new short story featuring Agent Pendergast, available only as an ebook and audio download. In New Orleans' French Quarter, the Tooth Fairy isn't a benevolent sprite who slips money under your pillow at night....he's a mysterious old recluse who must be appeased with teeth--lest he extract retribution...
  • Bad Men by John Connolly

    Bad Men by John Connolly

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author John Connolly masterfully intertwines mystery, emotion, violence, and the supernatural in this raw and gripping thriller.He has been told the girl's last words, and he feels unaccountably afraid. The dead ones. They were dead, but they had lights...
  • Silent Treatment by Michael Palmer

    Silent Treatment by Michael Palmer

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In his five bestselling novels, from The Sisterhood to Natural Causes, physician Michael Palmer has drawn on years of firsthand emergency-room experience to create the drama of a frighteningly authentic world--a world where the line between medicine and murder is scalpel-thin.  Now, in his most harrowing suspense novel yet, Palmer reveals how the power to heal can become a license to kill...
  • Hanover House by Brenda Novak

    Hanover House by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Hanover House The Hanover House Chronicles Prequel novella to my new Hanover House Chronicles (digital only). Welcome to Hanover House…. Psychiatrist Evelyn Talbot has dedicated her life to solving the mysteries of the psychopathic mind...
  • A Walk Among The Tombstones by Lawrence Block

    A Walk Among The Tombstones by Lawrence Block

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Big-time dope dealer Kenan Khoury is a wealthy man, and it comes as no surprise when his wife Francine is kidnapped and a ransom demanded. Kenan pays up and his wife is duely returned to him - in small pieces left in the boot of an abandoned car, leaving private eye Matt Scudder to speculate on the motives of a very unusual kidnapper...
  • Watch Me by James Carol

    Watch Me by James Carol

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Dead LawyerEagle Creek, Louisiana. Lawyer Sam Galloway is burned alive in an apparently motiveless attack. The local sheriff's department calls in former FBI profiler Jefferson Winter to consult on the case.A Serial KillerSo far there's just one body, but there are going to be more...
  • Terminal by Brian Keene

    Terminal by Brian Keene

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From award-winning author Brian Keene comes a darkly suspenseful tale of crime and the common man--with a surprising jolt of the supernatural . . . Tommy O'Brien once hoped to leave his run-down industrial hometown. But marriage and fatherhood have kept him running in place, working a job that doesn't even pay the bills. And now he seems fated to stay for the rest of his life...
  • Blood Standard by Laird Barron

    Blood Standard by Laird Barron

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Award-winning author Laird Barron makes his crime fiction debut with a novel set in the underbelly of upstate New York that's as hardboiled and punchy as a swift right hook to the jaw--a classic noir for fans of James Ellroy and John D. Macdonald.Isaiah Coleridge is a mob enforcer in Alaska--he's tough, seen a lot, and dished out more...
  • ভেন্ট্রিলোকুইস্ট by মাশুদুল হক

    ভেন্ট্রিলোকুইস্ট by মাশুদুল হক

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    বিয়ের অনুষ্ঠানে অনেকদিন পর দেখা হয়ে যায় পুরনো বন্ধুদের, দুই বন্ধু--নৃতাত্ত্বিক মারুফ এবং পত্রিকার ফিচার এডিটর রুমি কথা প্রসঙ্গে জানতে পারে তাদেরই আরেক বন্ধু পেশা হিসেবে বেছে নিয়েছে ভেন্ট্রিলোকুইজম। কৌতুহলী হয়ে সেটার কারণ অনুসন্ধান করতে গিয়ে ওরা জড়িয়ে পড়ে দারুণ রহস্যময় এক অনুসন্ধানে, বেরিয়ে আসে ভয়ঙ্কর আর শিউরে ওঠার মত সব সত্য, সাধারণ মানুষকে কখনই জানতে দেয়া হয় না এমন সব...
  • Valentine by Tom Savage

    Valentine by Tom Savage

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Bestselling author Jillian Talbot has it all--a fabulously successful career, a handsome and attentive lover, lots of friends, and a secret admirer. He calls himself Valentine, but behind his cryptic words hides the twisted mind of a killer. Now this faceless madman is writing the final scene for Jill. It is almost Valentine's Day--almost time to die. HC: Little, Brown...
    Categorized as:
    crime  thriller  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  horror  murder
  • Finders Keepers by Sean Costello

    Finders Keepers by Sean Costello

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ever dreamed of winning the lottery? One of those massive, life-altering purses? Join Keith Whipple and his daughter Kate as they do just that, netting ten million dollars in a single-winner draw. Share in their excitement, the dreams that leap into their lives fully-formed, suddenly within easy reach. But that kind of money, the heady sense of power it brings..
    Categorized as:
    crime  thriller  action-adventure  adult  book  canada  fiction  horror
  • Close Reach by Jonathan Moore

    Close Reach by Jonathan Moore

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In a riveting tale of suspense and terror on the high seas, Bram Stoker Award nominee Jonathan Moore pits human beings against nature—and something far deadlier: one another.   Kelly Pratihari-Reid and her husband sail their yacht into Antarctic waters, thinking their gravest concerns will be ice and storms—and their cracked marriage...
  • Disturbia by Christopher Fowler

    Disturbia by Christopher Fowler

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An assignment brings Vincent - permanent student and budding young writer - into the world of Sebastian Wells and the Prometheus League. Under the guise of a Victorian gaming society it operates extremist and covert activities. Threatening exposure, Vincent is thrown into a game of life or death...
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