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  • Becoming the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar

    Becoming the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A riveting, haunting sequel to the New York Times bestselling thriller Chasing the Boogeyman—a tale of obsession and the adulation of evil, exploring modern society’s true-crime obsession with unflinching honesty, sparing no one from the glare of the spotlight...
  • The Know by Martina Cole

    The Know by Martina Cole

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Joanie Brewer' s children meant the world to her. She'd do anything to protect them, even resorting to prostitution and petty crime in order to feed and clothe them. So when her beautiful teenage daughter is raped and murdered, only one thing will stop Joanie's pain - seeing her daughter's killer brought to justice. Joanie knows who he is and she'll do whatever it takes to nail him..
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    crime  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  family  fiction  horror
  • Vražedná lhůta by Andreas Gruber

    Vražedná lhůta by Andreas Gruber

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Když do 48 hodin zjistíte, proč jsem tu ženu unesl, zůstane naživu. Pokud ne, zemře.Tímto poselstvím začíná perverzní hra sériového vraha. Nechává své oběti vyhladovět, utopit v inkoustu nebo je zaživa zalije do betonu. Mnichovská komisařka Sabine Nemezová zoufale hledá nějaké vysvětlení, motiv...
  • Once Shunned by Blake Pierce

    Once Shunned by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a serial killer strikes across a series of towns and the only potential witness is unable to speak, it is up to FBI Special Agent Riley Paige to enter the mind of this complex man, and to learn what, if anything, he knows...
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    crime  thriller  mystery  fiction  murder  audiobook  female-mc  horror
  • Der Insasse by Sebastian Fitzek

    Der Insasse by Sebastian Fitzek

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Vor einem Jahr verschwand der kleine Max Berghoff.Nur der Täter weiß, was mit ihm geschah.Doch der sitzt im Hochsicherheitstrakt der Psychiatrie und schweigt.Max' Vater bleibt nur ein Weg, um endlich Gewissheit zu haben: Er muss selbst zum Insassen werden.Der InsasseUm die Wahrheit zu finden, muss er seinen Verstand verlieren...
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    crime  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction  horror
  • The Dying Hour by Rick Mofina

    The Dying Hour by Rick Mofina

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In Book 1, The Dying Hour introduces Jason Wade, a rookie crime reporter with The Seattle Mirror, a loner who grew up in the shadow of a brewery in one of the city's blue-collar neighborhoods. At The Seattle Mirror, he is competing for the single full-time job being offered through the paper's intense intern program...
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    crime  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  kidnapping
  • Psychopath by Jeff Menapace

    Psychopath by Jeff Menapace

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The final game is here… A decade has passed. The Lambert family is thriving. Amy Lambert is a successful entrepreneur and in a promising relationship with Allan Brown. Caleb Lambert is a respected member of the United States Marine Corps. Carrie Lambert is a flourishing college student. Or so they wish. Nothing could be further from the truth...
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    crime  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  murder  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 Drowning at Dyes Inlet by D.D. Black

    The Drowning at Dyes Inlet by D.D. Black

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sometimes murder comes in waves...In 1979, a florist's lifeless body surfaced in the serene waters of Dyes Inlet, an enchanting estuary connected to the vast Puget Sound. Although the murder was never solved, a sinister heart carved into the victim's back made the case unforgettable...
  • 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...
  • 十三級階梯 by Kazuaki Takano, 高野和明

    十三級階梯 by Kazuaki Takano, 高野和明

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    死神在上午九點來臨。樹原亮只聽過一次死神的腳步聲。最先傳進耳裡的,是推開鐵門的重低音。當那來自地底般的空氣震動停止後,牢房的氣氛為之一變。通往地獄的門打開了,致使身體不敢稍有動彈的真正恐怖流竄而至。 山中偏僻的一戶平房裡,一對老夫婦慘遭殺害,一切證據都指向樹原亮,但他卻因車禍喪失了行凶時刻前後數小時的記憶。刑務官南鄉和剛假釋出獄的三上,為了替樹原亮洗清冤罪而展開調查,但他們唯一的線索,是他記得自己在「爬樓梯」!距離執行死刑的時間已所剩無幾,樹原亮隨時會被處死,但案件疑雲重重,不僅完全沒有其他人證、物證,連關鍵「樓梯」的線索都找不到,儘管如此他們仍相信樹原亮是被冤枉的,誓言要把他從十三級階梯的死刑台上救下來。該爬上十三級階梯的,究竟會是誰……?...
  • Once Chosen by Blake Pierce

    Once Chosen by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A serial killer strikes every Halloween—the bodies of his victims re-surfacing years later—and with Halloween only days away, it is up to FBI Special Agent Riley Paige to stop the killer before he strikes again...
  • Once Dormant by Blake Pierce

    Once Dormant by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After lying dormant for 10 years, an elusive serial killer strikes again, leaving few clues—and the only way for FBI Special Agent Riley Paige to catch him in the present is to solve the riddles of the past. Women are turning up dead, and in this dark psychological thriller, Riley Paige realizes she is in a race against time. The murders of the past were too perplexing to be solved back then...
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    crime  thriller  mystery  fiction  audiobook  murder  female-mc  horror
  • Il était deux fois by Franck Thilliez

    Il était deux fois by Franck Thilliez

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    En 2008, Julie, dix-sept ans, disparaît en ne laissant comme trace que son vélo posé contre un arbre. Le drame agite Sagas, petite ville au cœur des montagnes, et percute de plein fouet le père de la jeune fille, le lieutenant de gendarmerie Gabriel Moscato. Ce dernier se lance alors dans une enquête aussi désespérée qu'effrénée.Jusqu'à ce jour où ses pas le mènent à l'hôtel de la Falaise..
  • Anatomy by Sebastian Fitzek, Michael Tsokos

    Anatomy by Sebastian Fitzek, Michael Tsokos

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    This is the autobiographic work by German inference fiction master according to his personal experience. Only the readers with high IQ can understand the ending...
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    crime  thriller  mystery  fiction  horror  audiobook  suspense  book
  • Labyrinthes by Franck Thilliez

    Labyrinthes by Franck Thilliez

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Une scène de pure folie dans un chalet. Une victime au visage réduit en bouillie à coups de tisonnier. Et une suspecte atteinte d’une étrange amnésie. Camille Nijinski, en charge de l’enquête, a besoin de comprendre cette subite perte de mémoire, mais le psychiatre avec lequel elle s’entretient à bien plus à lui apprendre. Car avant de tout oublier, sa patiente lui a confié son histoire...
  • The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

    The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Feminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective.Ji-won’s life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her appa’s extramarital affair and subsequent departure. Her mother, distraught. Her younger sister, hurt and confused. Her college freshman grades, failing. Her dreams, horrifying… yet enticing...
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    crime  thriller  horror  fiction  contemporary  mystery  dark  feminism
  • Evil Unveiled by Robert McCammon

    Evil Unveiled by Robert McCammon

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "New York Times" bestselling author Robert McCammon continues his triumphant return with the conclusion of an epic tale of suspense that reinstates him as one of the great storytellers of our time....The Carolinas, 1699: After hearing damning testimony from the townspeople of Fount Royal, magistrate Isaac Woodward sentences the accused witch, Rachel Howarth, to death by burning...
  • Last Call by J.A. Konrath

    Last Call by J.A. Konrath

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A retired cop past her prime...A kidnapped bank robber fighting for his life...A former mob enforcer with a blood debt...A government assassin on the run...A wisecracking private eye with only one hand...A homicide sergeant with one week left on the job...And three of the worst serial killers, ever.This is where it all ends...
  • Profile K by Helen Sarah Fields

    Profile K by Helen Sarah Fields

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He’s going to kill you. He just doesn’t know it yet. There’s something wrong with me. For years I’ve hidden it. Suppressed it. Blended into society. But The Test awoke something within me. It was just a routine application designed to get to know me better – with results that would show me everything I was capable of...
  • 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...
  • Vengeful Games by Jeff Menapace

    Vengeful Games by Jeff Menapace

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    PLAYTIME IS NOT OVER...In Autumn of 2008, the Lambert family headed to western Pennsylvania for a weekend getaway to the family cabin.They visited hell instead...The Fannelli brothers. Two psychopaths who believed themselves exceptional, put on this Earth for the soul purpose of tormenting others for their own amusement. To make people play their twisted games...
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    crime  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  murder  mystery
  • 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...
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    crime  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction  horror
  • The Offering by Karen Ann Hopkins

    The Offering by Karen Ann Hopkins

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Following a string of crimes and the murder of a young woman in a neighboring community, local authorities make an arrest, but do they have the right man? Sheriff Serenity Adams has her doubts and embarks on her own investigation to solve the case...
  • Rêver by Franck Thilliez

    Rêver by Franck Thilliez

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    " Pour la plupart des gens, le rêve s'arrête au réveil. "Si ce n'étaient ses cicatrices et les photos étranges qui tapissent les murs de son bureau, on pourrait dire d'Abigaël qu'elle est une femme comme les autres. Si ce n'étaient ces moments où elle chute au pays des rêves, on pourrait jurer qu'Abigaël dit vrai...
  • The River by Noelle W. Ihli

    The River by Noelle W. Ihli

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A short post-script to Ask for Andrea by Noelle W. Ihli. Learn what happened to April...
  • Hideout by Jack Heath

    Hideout by Jack Heath

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A tense, unputdownable thriller from the author of Hangman.Timothy Blake has nothing to lose. He's headed to an isolated house in rural Texas with a hammer in his pocket and murder on his mind. His target is Fred, the ringleader of a criminal empire on the dark web. Once Fred is gone, Blake can disappear for good.But it turns out that Fred isn't alone. Five other psychopaths live in the house...
  • Grimm's Puppets by Tom Prater

    Grimm's Puppets by Tom Prater

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the autumn of 1968, the bodies of six brothers were found hanging from Hollyhead's billboard dressed in white, flowing gowns. Their killer was never identified.Twelve years later, another death has occurred. Will Metlocke, an author with seemingly psychic abilities, is called back to his hometown by his estranged father in a plea to help solve the murders...
  • Sleep Tight by J.H. Markert

    Sleep Tight by J.H. Markert

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    The sole survivor of a serial killer might hold the key to stopping a new spree of murders in this propulsive thriller in the vein of The Black Phone and The Whisper Man.Dark and twisting at every turn, fans of Catriona Ward will love this chilling new tale from the deviously inventive horror author that Peter Farris calls the “clear heir to Stephen King.”Beware the one who got away . .
  • Speak the Dead by Grant McKenzie

    Speak the Dead by Grant McKenzie

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Sally Blue was six years old, sleeping peacefully in her bed, a gunshot woke her up and subsequently ripped her world apart.Jolted awake by the scary noise, Sally ran to her parent's bedroom for comfort. Instead, she found her mother slumped against the headboard, her ravaged nightdress drenched from a double-barreled wound...
    Categorized as:
    crime  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  paranormal
  • The Art of Dying: A Ray Hanley Crime Thriller by Derik Cavignano

    The Art of Dying: A Ray Hanley Crime Thriller by Derik Cavignano

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When the bizarre death of a mob foot soldier sparks an escalating war between Boston's Irish and Italian mafia, Detective Ray Hanley's relentless search for the truth uncovers evidence of a serial killer obsessed with the art of human suffering...
    Categorized as:
    crime  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  murder  mystery
  • Vengeance Blind by Anna Willett

    Vengeance Blind by Anna Willett

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cruelly imprisoned in her own home, a successful novelist must use all of her imagination to stay alive. Recovering from a road accident that has left her half-blind and in a wheelchair, Belle Hammer is alone in her secluded house set in a sprawling ten-acre plot, deep in the forests beyond Perth, Australia...
  • The Cove by Malcolm Richards

    The Cove by Malcolm Richards

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Carrie thought her son was dead. She was wrong. She’d only taken her eyes off him for a second. But that was all it took for a perfect day at the beach to turn to horror. Cal disappeared beneath the waves. His body was never found. Seven years later, Carrie has a new family. But her life in the sleepy Cornish town of Devil's Cove is about to be torn apart again. A boy washes up on the shore...
    Categorized as:
    crime  thriller  adult  book  evil-places  fiction  horror  murder
  • Last Call by Sean Costello

    Last Call by Sean Costello

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    THIS BOOK is RATED-R FOR LANGUAGE by the publisher.In the space of a single day, twenty-year-old Trish West purchases her first car, gets accepted into veterinary college, and finds her rockstar father, Jim Gamble, a man who vanished into the streets before she was born and now clings to life in a Toronto intensive care unit.Eager to establish a relationship with Mr...
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    crime  thriller  adult  book  domestic-drama  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Three Strikes by Kate Kessler

    Three Strikes by Kate Kessler

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Three Strikes is the new novel in a thriller series where a criminal psychologist uses her own dark past to help law enforcement catch dangerous killers.Thanksgiving is approaching, and Audrey Harte has a lot to be thankful for -- her mother has recovered from surgery, her relationship with Jake is solid, her father is relatively sober, and her career is evolving in an exciting direction...
  • 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..
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    crime  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Buried by Graham Masterton

    Buried by Graham Masterton

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Beside the old woollen mill in Blarney, Cork, a worker's cottage guards its secrets. In 1921, a mother, father and their two young children disappeared from this house. And now, ninety years later, their mummified bodies have been discovered under the floorboards.The gunshot wounds in each skull look like the mark of the IRA...
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    crime  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  female-mc  fiction  horror
  • The List by Kiersten Modglin

    The List by Kiersten Modglin

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ten years ago, the small town of Bates, South Carolina was changed forever with the appearance of a slip of paper.Six names.Six people set to die.Six months later, they were gone. But the list maker was far from done with their town.Like clockwork, new lists come out every six months. To keep their names off of them, the citizens go to extraordinary lengths and keep terrifying secrets...
    Categorized as:
    crime  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  murder  mystery
  • বৃহন্নলা by Humayun Ahmed

    বৃহন্নলা by Humayun Ahmed

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    মিসির আলীর আরেকটি উপাখ্যানমিসির আলি এমনই এক চরিত্র,যার তুলনা সে নিজেই। আমাদের চারপাশের অমীমাংসিত কুহেলিকাময় কিংবা রহস্যের মোড়কে আবৃত অনেক ঘটনায় আমরা যখন বিমূঢ়, নির্বাক কিংবা বিশ্বাস করতে থাকি অসত্যকে, তখনই মিসির আলি খুলতে থাকে অমোঘ নিয়তির একেকটি পর্দা।আমাদের আটপৌরে জীবনে মিশে থাকার পরও মিসির আলি এমন এক ক্ষ্যাপা,যে পরশপাথর খোঁজে এবং...
  • The Islanders by Caroline Mitchell

    The Islanders by Caroline Mitchell

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    She thinks the island will keep her safe—she is wrong.Traumatised by the death of a child in her care, top London paediatrician Claire seeks refuge on remote Selkie Island in the wilds of the Irish Sea with her husband Daniel and their baby daughter Kitty...
  • 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...
  • Broken Dolls by James Carol

    Broken Dolls by James Carol

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Jefferson Winter is no ordinary investigator.The son of one of America's most renowned serial killers, Winter has spent his life trying to distance himself from his father's legacy. Once a rising star at the FBI, he is now a freelance consultant, jetting around the globe helping local law enforcement agencies with difficult cases. He's not got Da Vinci's IQ, but he's pretty close...
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    crime  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction  horror
  • Paranoia by Franck Thilliez

    Paranoia by Franck Thilliez

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
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  • You're Family Now by Jack Stainton

    You're Family Now by Jack Stainton

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘ EPIC!! EPIC!! EPIC!! This book had EVERYTHING I love in a book!! ' Goodreads ReviewerHe only had to do one thing. Love her family…Matt Walker was a chancer; he’d spent his entire profession chasing the next job. His personal life took on a similar mantra; a succession of one-night stands and brief relationships. Life was slowly drifting him by...
  • The Sleepover by Keri Beevis

    The Sleepover by Keri Beevis

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When you’re a kid, you imagine monsters to have horns and fangs. That they hide under the bed or in the wardrobe. And you believe they can only come after you when it’s dark.You don’t expect them to look like everyday people or that they may be someone you already know…The summer in question started out with hot, fun-filled days and new friendships...
  • La Ligne noire by Jean-Christophe Grangé

    La Ligne noire by Jean-Christophe Grangé

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Il existe, quelque part en Asie du Sud-Est, entre le tropique du Cancer et la ligne de l'Equateur, une autre ligne. Une ligne noire jalonnée de corps et d'effroi..
  • The Asylum Confessions: Merry with all that Murder by Jack Steen

    The Asylum Confessions: Merry with all that Murder by Jack Steen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They arrive alive. They always leave dead.But first, they give me their confessions, and this one has to everything to do with Christmas.Merry Ho-Ho and all that holiday cheer. This book has it the cozy, loving, gift-giving while chomping on cookies right before you die - type of feels you know you'll read with one of my confession books...
    Categorized as:
    crime  thriller  horror  mystery  fiction  suspense  murder  holidays
  • 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 Mother by T.M. Logan, Gemma Whelan

    The Mother by T.M. Logan, Gemma Whelan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Framed for murder. Now she's free . . .A woman attends a funeral, standing in the shadows and watching in agony as her sons grieve. But she is unable to comfort them - or reveal her secret.A decade earlier, Heather gets her children ready for bed and awaits the return of her husband Liam, little realising that this is the last night they will spend together as a family...
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