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Triplets Rise by K.L. Savage
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDaddy's little girl is all grown up.Things are about to change around here.If there is one thing I won't allow, it's having my dad's MC ran into the ground.Everyone expects my brothers to take charge, but there is one thing no one knows.I'm the one that runs this club.A woman.And according to men, a woman's place is in bed not at the head of the table... -
![The Depth of Darkness by L.T. Ryan, Sean Patrick Hopkins]()
The Depth of Darkness by L.T. Ryan, Sean Patrick Hopkins
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDetective Mitch Tanner's life hangs in the balance. He clings to the daughter in his care. He agonizes over the disappearance of his son and estranged wife. Twelve months has yet to turn up a solid lead.While investigating the apparent accidental death of Dusty Anne Miller, Mitch and his partner Sam Foster find themselves in the middle of a fiendish plan that strikes too close to home... -
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Safe Haven by Patricia MacDonald
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsShe finally had everything she ever wanted . . .Dena returns to her hometown for a high school reunion. She gets together with Brian, her high school crush, and ends up pregnant.She moves back to the small town where she grew up to start a new life with horse breeder Brian.But behind closed doors, Dena’s perfect life becomes the perfect nightmare... -
![Dark Night of the Soul by Kristi Belcamino, Sonja Field]()
Dark Night of the Soul by Kristi Belcamino, Sonja Field
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGia Santella, the fast-driving, hard-drinking, karate-trained free spirit, has finally put her dark past behind her. UNFORTUNATELY, the past isn't done with her yet. The third book in a new, exciting series featuring an unforgettable new character by the Anthony, Barry & Macavity finalist and crime writer .. -
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![Blood Lies by Andrew Cunningham]()
Blood Lies by Andrew Cunningham
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGunned down on a busy Boston street, bestselling mystery author Sabrina Spencer is left clinging to life. Media speculation suggests a deranged fan as the shooter. But was Sabrina really the intended target? For Del Honeycutt, a chilling link emerges between Sabrina’s shooting and that of his father’s murder three years earlier... -
![Bone's Destiny by Naomi Porter]()
Bone's Destiny by Naomi Porter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey say don’t drink too much tequila... Funny, I can’t remember why.Oh, right… Or we’ll wake up chained to a wall.The scary-ass biker staring at me says I’m paying for my father’s debt.I’m devastated and scared.Utterly clueless about my dad’s dirty dealings.The tattooed, brooding biker isn’t helpful or friendly.He just watches me with those laser-gray eyes... -
![Ο λαβύρινθος των πνευμάτων - τόμος 2 by Carlos Ruiz Zafón]()
Ο λαβύρινθος των πνευμάτων - τόμος 2 by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsΗ Αλίθια έβρεξε την πένα στο μελανοδοχείο και την άφησε να γλιστρήσει πάνω στο χαρτί, χαράζοντας μια γραμμή σε μπλε γυαλιστερό χρώμα. Έγραψε το όνομά της κι έμεινε να κοιτάζει το μελάνι που στέγνωνε σιγά σιγά. Η απόλαυση της λευκής σελίδας, που πάντα στην αρχή ανάδινε ένα άρωμα μυστηρίου γεμάτο υποσχέσεις, χάθηκε μεμιάς... -
![Dark Guardian: A New Dawn by Ammar Habib]()
Dark Guardian: A New Dawn by Ammar Habib
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFollowing the events of DARK GUARDIAN, Ethan Daniels has fully embraced his alter ego of The Guardian. His mantle has become a symbol of hope for his nation. After two years of spearheading his mission against the corruption and injustice that has ruled over Crown City for so long, his mission is finally nearing its end... -
![Pale Gray for Guilt by John D. MacDonald]()
Pale Gray for Guilt by John D. MacDonald
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTush Bannon was in the wrong spot at the wrong time. His measly plot of land just so happened to sit right in the middle of a rich parcel of five hundred riverfront acres that big-money real estate interests decided they simply must have.It didn’t matter that Tush was a nice guy with a family, or that he never knew he was dealing with a criminal element... -
![Lupa nera by Juan Gómez-Jurado]()
Lupa nera by Juan Gómez-Jurado
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsRestare viva non è mai stato tanto difficile. Dopo Regina Rossa, che ha incoronato Antonia Scott come la nuova protagonista assoluta del thriller spagnolo, il secondo capitolo della trilogia bestseller di Juan Gómez-Jurado. Antonia Scott e Jon Gutiérrez sono ancora alla ricerca di Sandra Fajardo, quando Mentor li convoca per un altro caso al momento più pressante... -
![The Temple Legacy by D.C. Macey]()
The Temple Legacy by D.C. Macey
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeven hundred years ago, in a time of war and betrayal, Europe’s greatest treasure disappeared. The men who guarded it vanished into history.In Edinburgh today, former élite British Military Intelligence officer Sam Cameron has turned to the quieter world of archaeology. Together with young church minister Helen Johnson, he leads his students on a field trip... -
![Prepare by Geoffrey Germann]()
Prepare by Geoffrey Germann
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"... cutting-edge......skillful......high-octane....." Kirkus ReviewsAs a small boy, Darren Kiel was witness to his father's corruption and contemptible misconduct. As he grew, that experience gave rise to a seething need to atone for his father's crimes, to set the world aright, to enforce order... -
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Breakout by Richard Stark
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsParker's back in jail, but not just any old jail; it's the correctional center, where people without bail wait before and during their trial. So Parker's first order of business is to build a network among these cons and break on through to the other side... -
![The Scarlet Ruse by John D. MacDonald]()
The Scarlet Ruse by John D. MacDonald
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTravis McGee is too busy with his houseboat to pay attention to the little old man with the missing postage stamps. Except these are no ordinary stamps. They are rare stamps. Four hundred thousand dollars worth of rare. And if McGee doesn't recognize their value, perhaps Mary Alice McDermit does, a six-foot knockout who knows all the ways to a boat bum's heart... -
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![The Gentleman's Hour by Don Winslow]()
The Gentleman's Hour by Don Winslow
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBoone Daniels, the most laid-back of private investigators, gathers with his surfing buddies on Pacific Beach, California as per usual. There's no surf to speak of, but the Dawn Patrol are out in force anyway...it's what they do... -
![Dress Her in Indigo by John D. MacDonald]()
Dress Her in Indigo by John D. MacDonald
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA wealthy old man laid up in the hospital is desperate to understand the last months of his daughter's life before she was killed in a car crash in Mexico. It was puzzling. She'd cleaned out her considerable bank account, left Miami and hadn't been heard from again... -
![Don't Believe a Word by Patricia MacDonald]()
Don't Believe a Word by Patricia MacDonald
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA daughter sets out to discover the truth about her mother’s death in this absorbing novel of psychological suspense. Eden Radley had a strained relationship with her mother ever since Tara deserted the family nine years before to run off with her much younger lover... -
![Faking a Murderer by Kathy Reichs, Lee Child]()
Faking a Murderer by Kathy Reichs, Lee Child
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJack Reacher walked out of the Baltimore bust depot into a world of frozen streets and dirty snow… In this short story from the thrilling anthology MatchUp, bestselling authors Kathy Reichs and Lee Child—along with their popular series characters Temperance Brennan and Jack Reacher—team up for the first time ever... -
![The Death and Life of Bobby Z by Don Winslow]()
The Death and Life of Bobby Z by Don Winslow
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of Savages (now an Oliver Stone film). When Tim Kearney, a small-time criminal, slits the throat of a Hell's Angel and draws a life sentence in a prison full of gang members, he knows he’s pretty much a dead man... -
![The Girl on the Burning Boat by Gregg Dunnett]()
The Girl on the Burning Boat by Gregg Dunnett
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSomeone put her father in his grave. But they didn’t bury his secrets…Alice is the smart and beautiful daughter of a powerful businessman. She lives a charmed life - until her father is killed in a tragic accident. Then she meets Jamie, a young man from a very different background, who has evidence that her father met a much darker end... -
![The Heat Islands by Randy Wayne White]()
The Heat Islands by Randy Wayne White
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Randy Wayne White's The Heat Islands, marine biologist and former secret operative Doc Ford is lazily poling his skiff along Southwest Florida's flat copper sea in search of sea anemones, when he runs into the body of the most hated man on Sanibel Island-Marvin Rios... -
![Tapping the Source by Kem Nunn]()
Tapping the Source by Kem Nunn
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIf you aren't already familiar with Kem Nunn's 1984 novel Tapping the Source, or if the idea of a "classic surfing novel" makes you either chuckle or shudder, be prepared to realign your literary biases. This is not a story of gilded surfers and sun-bleached blonds, of insouciant days and moonlit nights on the beach; instead, Nunn has crafted a darkly pensive meditation on solitude and desire... -
![Freedom Road by William Lashner]()
Freedom Road by William Lashner
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHe’s taking a dangerous path in search of his missing granddaughter—the only part of his life worth saving. Oliver Cross is fresh out of jail. His plans for the future are to live out his days in regret, back pain, and a bottle of Lone Star. But when he finds out his granddaughter, a wild child who reminds him of his late wife, has vanished—bless her hell-raising heart—Oliver jumps parole... -
![The Summer Nanny by Audrey J. Cole]()
The Summer Nanny by Audrey J. Cole
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt was the perfect summer job—until it turned into her worst nightmare.Bridgett is enjoying an idyllic summer as the nanny for Leo, the son of Paul and Emily Cooper—a famous actor and renowned charity founder. Not only is she generously compensated to care for Leo at the couple’s Seattle waterfront estate, she develops a special bond with the little boy... -
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![Wake Up Dead by Roger Smith]()
Wake Up Dead by Roger Smith
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn amphetamine-fueled thriller about a bombshell American widow on the run in Cape Town’s violent badlands—from a writer being compared to George Pelecanos and Richard PriceA split-second decision with no second chance: get it wrong and you wake up dead... -
![Kiss & Die by Lee Weeks]()
Kiss & Die by Lee Weeks
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRuby is looking for love- but her kiss is deadly... A serial killer is on the loose and it appears to be a woman-her target, adulterous businessmen. After picking them up in bars, she brutally tortures her victims before decapitating them. Meanwhile, Hong Kong detective Johnny Mann is still struggling to deal with his dead father's legacy of corruption and triad involvement... -
![Smoke and Mirrors by Steve Marshall]()
Smoke and Mirrors by Steve Marshall
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsWhen you can’t call the cops… Call Trunk Dennis Trunk has a reputation for figuring things out and he’s not afraid to get his hands dirty. Trunk won’t kill, unless he has to. Between one and two percent of the population are psychopaths. Trunk is highly functional. He has a steady job, an ex-wife, and a plan to kill her boyfriend... -
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Dark Tiger by William G. Tapply
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeven years ago, Stoney Calhoun woke up in a VA hospital with no memories and a series of unexplained talents (language ability, weapons expertise, etc.). Since then he’s been living quietly, working as a part time fishing guide and co-owner of a local bait shop—with an unnamed visitor coming around occasionally to see if he’s regained any memories... -
![The Darkness Within Ourselves by Jessica Huntley]()
The Darkness Within Ourselves by Jessica Huntley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRunning and hiding won’t save you because The Darkness lives within … and it will never stop hunting you.Amber and her four best friends are about to reach their teenage years when the unthinkable happens; one of her friends, Kieran, is killed in a freak accident... -
![Stick by Elmore Leonard]()
Stick by Elmore Leonard
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“A little beauty of a story….A hot, fast read with pungent characters.” —Los Angeles Times“A slam-bang, no-bull action thriller…and nobody but nobody writes better dialogue... -
![Falling Glass by Adrian McKinty, Gerard Doyle]()
Falling Glass by Adrian McKinty, Gerard Doyle
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRichard Coulter is a man who has everything. His beautiful new wife is pregnant, his upstart airline is undercutting the competition and moving from strength to strength, his diversification into the casino business in Macau has been successful, and his fabulous Art Deco house on an Irish cliff top has just been featured in Architectural Digest... -
![Murder Island by James Patterson, Brian Sitts]()
Murder Island by James Patterson, Brian Sitts
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsProf. Brandt Savage—grandson of the legendary hero Doc Savage—is back in a new action-adventure thriller! They thought they found heaven on earth. But their paradise becomes a nightmare when Professor Brandt Savage and his girlfriend Kira Sunlight stumble on a terrifying conspiracy... -
![I'll Bury My Dead by James Hadley Chase]()
I'll Bury My Dead by James Hadley Chase
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is a personal matter. Someone killed my brother. I don't like that. If the police can't take care of it, then I'll bury my own dead.Nick English meant every word, but his efforts to find his brother's killer started a chain reaction of murder and violence that would nearly end his own life.Here is a story of organized blackmail punctuated by sudden and gruesome murder... -
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Tiger by Wesley Robert Lowe
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is an alternate title/cover edition for B06VX5FB2J Is the girl of his dreams worth the nightmare of life?Meet Noah Reid. Born to American missionaries in Shanghai. Mentored by Shaolin grandmaster in Hong Kong. That makes him Yin and Yang: compassionate, yet lethal; ferocious, yet charming; serious, yet sexy. He's a special kind of action hero... -
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![A WALK IN THE RAIN: A journey of love and redemption by Udai Yadla]()
A WALK IN THE RAIN: A journey of love and redemption by Udai Yadla
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLove is poison that kills you. Love is elixir that keeps you alive. An unreciprocated love keeps you alive, but kills every day. Heartbroken Sunny lives a reclusive life, trapped in the past, living in his memories. He has no complaints about his life, but refuses to embrace the present. Saloni is a prostitute who is desperate to earn money by any means... -
![Who In Hell Is Wanda Fuca? by G.M. Ford, Patrick Lawlor]()
Who In Hell Is Wanda Fuca? by G.M. Ford, Patrick Lawlor
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen an old gangster friend of Leo's father makes a request he "can't refuse," Leo and his band of drunks, delve into the world of environmental politics in search of Caroline Nobel, a spoiled brat, without the sense God gave a gopher... -
![Ormstenens gåta by Jason Goodwin]()
Ormstenens gåta by Jason Goodwin
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDetective, polyglot, chef, eunuch---Investigator Yashim returns in this evocative Edgar Award-winning series set in Istanbul at the end of the Ottoman Empire... -
![The Second Hostage by Jeffery Deaver]()
The Second Hostage by Jeffery Deaver
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA new original story from the bestselling and award-winning master of suspense, featuring Colter Shaw.Colter Shaw is a career "reward-seeker," making his living locating missing persons and collecting reward money in return. In the course of his search for a missing woman, he visits the police station in the small Kansas town of Humble, and, is pulled into a puzzling case... -
![Hard Feelings by Jason Starr]()
Hard Feelings by Jason Starr
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThings aren’t going so well for Richie Segal. His prospects at the job are pretty miserable and, what’s more humiliating, his wife’s prospects at her job are pretty good. Richie knows he’s a good salesman, but he just can’t seem to land an account. And he’s starting to drink again. And worry about whether Paula’s seeing that old high school flame, or maybe someone new... -
![Never Go Back by Robert Goddard]()
Never Go Back by Robert Goddard
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the spellbinding new mystery by the master of “the clever twist,” a group of ex-RAF comrades journey to a Scottish castle for a reunion. But by the time they reach their destination, two of them are dead.Harry Barnett is leading a contented life in Vancouver with his wife and daughter when he is brought back to England by the death of his mother... -
![Ransom X by I.B. Holder]()
Ransom X by I.B. Holder
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMartin Legacy was a top field interrogator before his life was shattered by a random crime. He withdrew to a basement post in the FBI, developing a mythic reputation as a brilliant malcontent. An agent brings him an active case. An abduction ring is preying on women, using them in adult films, ransomed for the price of pornography. They just took the daughter of an old friend, the head of the FBI... -
![Grave Descend by John Lange]()
Grave Descend by John Lange
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSOMETHING’S GOING DOWN OFF THE COAST OF JAMAICA Diver James McGregor is used to being hired to explore sunken ships. But there’s something strange about the wreck of the luxury yacht Grave Descend. No one who was aboard tells quite the same story about what happened... -
![Black Flowers by Steve Mosby]()
Black Flowers by Steve Mosby
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis is not a story about a girl who disappears. This is the story of a little girl who comes back. As if from nowhere, she appears one day on a seaside promenade, with a black flower and a horrifying story about where she's been. But telling that story will start a chain reaction of dangerous lies and deadly illusions that will claim many more victims in the years to come... -
![Love and Theft: A Novel by Stan Parish]()
Love and Theft: A Novel by Stan Parish
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA high-octane novel featuring a charismatic thief forced to pull off one last spectacular caper in order to save his family. For Fans of Ruth Ware and Robert Crais. When Alex and Diane meet, there are instant, undeniable sparks. Both are single parents living in wealthy suburbia: independent, highly competent, and seemingly settled in their comfortable lives... -
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![Plaster City by Johnny Shaw]()
Plaster City by Johnny Shaw
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJimmy Veeder and Bobby Maves are back at it, two years after the events of Dove Season—they’re not exactly the luckiest guys in the Imperial Valley, but, hey, they win more fights than they lose.Settled on his own farmland and living like a true family man after years of irresponsible fun, Jimmy’s got a straight life cut out for him... -
![The Venom Business by John Lange, Michael Crichton]()
The Venom Business by John Lange, Michael Crichton
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAs an expert handler of venomous snakes - and a smuggler of rare artifacts - Charles Raynaud is accustomed to danger. So the job bodyguarding an old acquaintance about to come into a fortune shouldn't make him break a sweat.But when the attempts on the man's life nearly get Raynaud killed, he's left wondering: is he the killers' real target.. -
![That Left Turn at Albuquerque by Scott Philips]()
That Left Turn at Albuquerque by Scott Philips
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA hardboiled valentine to the Golden State, That Left Turn at Albuquerque marks the return of noir master Scott Phillips. Douglas Rigby, attorney-at-law, is bankrupt. He’s just sunk his last $200,000—a clandestine “loan” from his last remaining client, former bigshot TV exec Glenn Haskill—into a cocaine deal gone wrong. The lesson? Never trust anyone else with the dirty work... -
![48 Hours by J. Jackson Bentley]()
48 Hours by J. Jackson Bentley
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“If you don’t pay me £250,000.00 in the next 48 Hours you will die”. The text on Josh Hammond’s BlackBerry was blunt and chilling. Surely it must be a joke, but when Josh is attacked in broad daylight and people around him start to die he knows that his blackmailer is deadly serious... -
![Circle of Death: A Shadow Thriller by James Patterson, Brian Sitts]()
Circle of Death: A Shadow Thriller by James Patterson, Brian Sitts
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen a ruthless killer seeks to overturn the world order, our only hope is vigilante justice.Since Lamont Cranston - known to a select few as the Shadow - defeated Shiwan Khan and ended his reign of terror over New York one year ago, the city has started to regenerate.But there is evil brewing elsewhere. And this time the entire world is under threat... -
![Disciple of the Dog by R. Scott Bakker]()
Disciple of the Dog by R. Scott Bakker
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsImagine being able to remember everything you've ever experienced. This is the lonely world inhabited by Disciple Manning. He is able to recall every conversation, meeting and feeling he has ever had, making him an extremely dangerous private investigator...
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