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In Desperation (Jack Gannon, Bk 3) by Rick Mofina
Eleven-year-old Tilly Martin is dragged from her suburban bedroom. Her mother, Cora, pleads for mercy but the kidnappers are clear: if they don't get their $5 million back in five days, Tilly dies. If anyone contacts police, Tilly dies.
Journalist Jack Gannon's estranged sister,... more
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The Burning Edge (Jack Gannon, Bk 4) by Rick Mofina
A SINGLE MOTHER BECOMES AN EYEWITNESS TO MURDER
Lisa Palmer has barely recovered from the sudden death of her husband when she is drawn into a new nightmare. On her way home from upstate New York, Lisa stops at a service center minutes before an armored car heist. Four men are executed... more
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If Angels Fall (Reed-Sydowski #1) by Rick Mofina
A homicide detective haunted by the unsolved murder of a baby girl; and superb news reporter whose life is coming apart, race the clock to learn the truth behind a string of chilling child abductions that has anguished San Francisco.
Tom Reed is a crime reporter with The San Francisco Star,... more
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Cold Fear (Reed-Sydowski #2) by Rick Mofina
While camping with her family in Montana's Glacier National Park, a 10-year-old girl disappears. As a multi-agency task force launches a massive search, the little girl fights to survive in the wilderness while her mother enters her own life-and-death race to rescue her child. But... more
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No Way Back by Andrew Gross
No Way Back is a thrilling page-turner from Andrew Gross, the New York Times bestselling author of 15 Seconds and The Blue Zone. One woman is framed for a horrific crime, and desperate to prove her innocence.
A chance meeting with a stranger in a hotel ends in a shocking murder. Wendy... more
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No Way Back (Reed-Sydowski, Bk 4) by Rick Mofina
Witness
San Francisco crime reporter Tom Reed is burnt out. The breaking story of a jewel heist gone violently awry -- with the murder of a cop and the abduction of a female hostage -- is one most journalists would kill for. Tom hopes it will be his last.
Hostage
But this time,... more
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Be Mine (Reed-Sydowski, Bk 5) by Rick Mofina
Obsession
The others were all wrong for her. He would make her understand that. When she saw his work, she would feel awe at his power...and she would have to love him...
Is Another Word
San Francisco crime reporter Tom Reed has seen a lot of sick messages in his time, but the one... more
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The Closer (Closer, Bk 1) by Donn Cortez
METHOD
He is the Closer -- a remorseless executioner whose modus operandi is terrifying in its brutal simplicity. He captures his prey, tortures them until they confess their sins, and disposes of them as they deserve. His victims have only one thing in common: theyare all serial... more
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If I Should Die by Judith Kelman
Fear made their hearts race, palms sweat, breaths come in panicked gasps. Dr. Maggie Lyon's phobia patients sat in their therapy group, imprisoned by their own secret terrors, depending on her to set them free . . . "The bridge was just a few steps away, and Macklin felt... more
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Cambridge Blue (DC Gary Goodhew, Bk 1) by Alison Bruce
DC Gary Goodhew is intelligent and intuitive, the youngest detective at Cambridge's Parkside Station. When he discovers the body of a young woman on Midsummer Common, he is given the chance to work on a murder investigation for the first time in his career.
Soon the victim... more
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The Siren: A DC Gary Goodhew Mystery Set in Cambridge, England by Alison Bruce
Praise for the DC Gary Goodhew series:"[An] assured debut. . . . By the end, readers will be flipping back to the beginning to suss out those clues that they may have missed."?Publishers Weekly"A sterling first effort that whets the reader's appetite for more of her work."?Sacramento News &... more
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Free Fall (Elite Force, Bk 4) by Catherine Mann
ON THIS MISSION, THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS...
Pararescueman Jose "Cuervo" James is the guy they call for the most dangerous assignments. He lives for his job.
On a high-risk rescue deep in the African jungle, Jose encounters sexy, smart Interpol agent Stella Carson. ... more
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Wishful Sinful by Tracy Dunham
Escaping her headline-making defeat in a capital murder case she shouldn't have lost, attorney Tal Jefferson leaves her big city law firm and prior life for safe harbor: the small Georgia town where she was raised. For a while she finds solace in memories and booze--until a childhood friend is... more
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Exposed (Tracers, Bk 7) by Laura Griffin
With the click of her camera, Maddie Callahan inadvertently added herself to the hit list of a criminal mastermind the FBI’s been investigating for months. Agent Brian Beckmann is determined to protect the sexy photographer, but she may be his only lead.
As a forensic photographer,... more
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The Chase (Crime Scene: Houston, Bk 1) by DiAnn Mills
To the FBI it's a cold case. To Kariss Walker it's a hot idea that could either reshape or ruin her writing career. And it's a burning mission to revisit an event she can never forget. Five years ago, an unidentified little girl was found starved to death in the woods behind a... more
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Blitz (Inspector Brant, Bk 4) by Ken Bruen
The South East London police squad are down and out: Detective Sergeant Brant is in hot water for assaulting a police shrink, Chief Inspector Roberts' wife has died in a horrific car accident, and WPC Falls is still figuring out how to navigate her job as a black female investigator in the... more
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Bones by K. J. Dahlen
When human bones are discovered in a cave just outside of town, it's up to Sheriff Max Readon to find out who the bones belonged to; but someone in town doesn't want the bones identified and they go to great lengths to try and stop Max's investigation. They break into Max's house... more
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The Innocent (Vanessa Michael Munroe, Bk 2) by Taylor Stevens
Eight years ago, a man walked five-year-old Hannah out the front doors of her school and spirited her over the Mexican border, taking her into the world of a cult known as The Chosen. For eight years, followers of The Prophet have hidden the child, moving her from country to country, shielding... more
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Chameleon (P. J. Gray, Bk 3) by Shirley Kennett
PJ Gray hunts a preteen serial killer who is equally adept with virtual realities.
Forensic psychologist PJ Gray has never faced this kind of serial killer: The murderer is all of 12 years old. Columbus Wade was a clumsy killer at first, but he soon has a knack for the grisly business,... more
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The Weatherman (Weatherman, Bk 1) by Steve Thayer
It's the dead of winter, and a serial killer has frozen a city in fear... Television newscaster Andrea Labore sees it as a career-making story... He's called The Weatherman. And he's going to make Andrea a star... Even if it kills her.
Andrea Labore is a beautiful, ambitious Twin... more
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Taken (Richard Christie, Bk 1) by Kathleen George
The child was taken in broad daylight, on a warm June morning, in a crowded shopping area in downtown Pittsburgh.
Marina Benedict first saw the baby with his mother. Then, just minutes later, she saw him again, in the arms of a man she was certain was not the child’s father. In a... more
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Fallen by Kathleen George
It happened in the night, when no one was around to see it. A Pittsburgh doctor, who dedicated himself to helping others, was shot through the heart. Now days have passed, and Dan Ross’s wife, Elizabeth, has entered a twilight zone of grief, flooded with memories, voices, and regrets. And... more
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Afterimage (Richard Christie, Bk 3) by Kathleen George
In the humid dog days of a Pittsburgh summer weekend, Richard Christie, Head of Homicide, faces not one, but two mysterious murders. The victims -- a polite woman and an angelic child -- do not seem to be connected in any obvious way. Christie is short-handed, the clues don't stack up, and... more
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The Man Who Cast Two Shadows (aka The Man Who Lied to Women) (Kathleen Mallory, Bk 2)...
NYPD Sergeant Kathleen Mallory is a wild child whose intelligence is matched only by the ferocity with which she pursues her own vision of right and wrong. She now is faced with a case that strikes close to home -- a young woman is found dead only a few blocks away, her skull and hands... more
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Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark
When Margaret and Steve Frawley come home to Connecticut from a black-tie dinner in New York, their three-year-old twins, Kathy and Kelly, are gone. the police found the babysitter unconscious, and a ransom note from the "Pied Piper" demanding eight million dollars. Steve's global investment... more
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Straw Men (Memory, Bk 3) by Martin J. Smith
He is a madman known as the Scarecrow. For eight years he has languished in prison, convicted of a vicious attack that left a rookie policewoman near death--and unable to remember her past. When DNA evidence surfaces that frees him, Teresa Harnett must face the possibility that her flawed memory... more
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Dream Man by Linda Howard
Had she finally met the man she longed for...or was she dreaming?
Marlie Keen was trying to lead a quiet, ordinary life. She thought the knowing -- the clairvoyance that allowed her to witness crimes as they happened -- had been destroyed in the nightmare of her past. Then one night it... more
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Men of Courage by Donna Kauffman & Lori Foster & Jill Shalvis
These men are heroes -- strong, fearless . . . Fireman Ethan Winters ran headlong into a burning building to find Rosie Carrington. Rescue worker Brett Gannon defied the aftershocks of a San Francisco earthquake to prevent Haley Brubaker from entering her collapsing home. And emergency-room... more
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The Burning Man by Phillip M. Margolin
Peter Hale is a young attorney struggling to make his own mark in his father's venerable law firm when he is presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. During the trial of a multi million-dollar case, Peter's father, the lead counsel, suffers a heart attack and asks Peter to move for... more
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The Ideal Man (Buchanan-Renard, Bk 9) by Julie Garwood
Dr. Ellie Sullivan has witnessed the shooting of an FBI agent in pursuit of a ruthless modern-day Bonnie and Clyde. The only person to see the shooter's face, Ellie is suddenly thrust into the center of a criminal investigation spearheaded by the no-nonsense, by-the-book, and tantalizingly... more
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Little Girl Lost by Brian McGilloway
During a winter blizzard a small girl is found wandering half-naked at the edge of an ancient woodland. Her hands are covered in blood, but it is not her own. Unwilling or unable to speak, the only person she seems to trust is the young officer who rescued her, Detective Sergeant Lucy Vaughan.... more
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Alpha Female by April Christofferson
Justice in Yellowstone National Park comes in two forms: Annie Peacock, a beautiful young judge who is the head of the park's judicial system, and Will McCarroll, long-time backcountry ranger who is obsessed with stopping poachers. Will's willingness to break every rule in the book has... more
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The Alibi Man (Elena Estes, Bk 2) by Tami Hoag
She was a vision. She was a siren. She was a nightmare. She was dead. Now he needed her to disappear. And he knew just how to make it happen. The Palm Beach elite go to great lengths to protect their own-and their own no longer includes Elena Estes. Once upon a time a child of wealth and... more
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The Straw Men (Straw Men, Bk 1) by Michael Marshall
In Palmerston, Pennsylvania, two men in long coats walk calmly into a crowded fast food restaurant -- then, slowly and methodically, gun down sixty-eight people. They take time to reload.
On the Promenade of Santa Monica, California, a teenaged girl gives sightseeing tips to a distinguished... more
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Upright Man (Straw Men, Bk 2) aka The Lonely Dead by Michael Marshall
The electrifying sequel to the bestselling THE STRAW MEN
A guilty man on the verge of suicide makes a bizarre discovery in the deepest corner of the dark forests of Washington State -- a discovery that threatens to overturn the whole of American history. Ward Hopkins and John Zandt, now... more
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Dead Man's Dance by Robert Ferrigno
A ruthless pair of quirky, sociopathic killers for hire. A father figure returned from the grave. A series of killings so cleverly executed, murder is not suspected in some instances -- much less a connection to other deaths. These elements and more combust in Dead Man's Dance.Investigative... more
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Yes, The River Knows by Tracy Dunham
Tracy Dunham's acclaimed debut Wishful Sinful introduced Tal Jefferson, an attorney who fled the big city in disgrace after losing a headline-making case. Now, in the second of this evocative series, Tal must confront the racism simmering beneath the surface of her hometown to solve a vicious... more
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Denial (Frank Clevenger, Bk 1) by Keith Ablow
Frank Clevenger is a forensic psychiatrist who hates authority, fears intimacy, uses sex as an anesthetic, is tortured by his professional mistakes, and can't free himself from the shadows of a brutal, alcoholic father and an absent, unfeeling mother. But it is precisely this injured psyche... more
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Projection (Frank Clevenger, Bk 2) by Keith Ablow
Once an accomplished plastic surgeon, Trevor Lucas started using his scalpel to do very bad things...
Locked in a Boston psychiatric hospital, Lucas is holding the ward hostage-and performing grisly "operations" on his prisoners...
Lucas, calling for forensic psychiatrist... more
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Compulsion (Frank Clevenger, Bk 3) by Keith Ablow
Burdened by his own psychological scars, brilliant forensic psychiatrist, Dr. Frank Clevenger, has weathered the most extreme twists of the human mind. Then he receives a disturbing call from Nantucket's Chief of Police. The five-month-old daughter of prominent billionaire, Darwin Bishop, has... more
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Psychopath (Frank Clevenger, Bk 4) by Keith Ablow
12 bodies, 12 states. What no one knows is that the "Highway Killer" is also a gifted psychiatrist who lures his victims into a false sense of security with his miraculous ability to understand their darkest emotional secrets. He is their confessor, but he is also their executioner. When the... more
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Murder Suicide (Frank Clevenger, Bk 5) by Keith Ablow
An hour before inventor John Snow is to undergo experimental brain surgery, he's discovered outside Massachusetts General Hospital, dead from a single bullet wound. Did he commit suicide as the police suspect -- or was he murdered?
Forensic psychiatrist Frank Clevenger is about to find... more
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The Architect (Frank Clevenger, Bk 6) by Keith Ablow
West Crosse is a genius at creating spaces uniquely fitting the people who will inhabit them. The catch: he works under a shroud of secrecy, charges his clients a fortune, and then sometimes, in the most skillful and horrifying ways, he kills them...
West has the best of reasons. He?s... more
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The 9th Girl (Kovac & Liska, Bk 4) by Tami Hoag
On a frigid New Year's Eve in Minneapolis a young woman's brutalized body falls from the trunk of a car into the path of oncoming traffic. Questions as to whether she was alive or dead when she hit the icy pavement result in her macabre nickname, Zombie Doe. Unidentified and... more
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Donato and Daughter by Jack Early & Sandra Scoppettone
In this taut, multi-layered thriller by Edgar Award nominee Jack Early, a monstrous killer must be caught; a troubled family must come to terms with its own history; and a police lieutenant must confront every woman's task: the conflicting demands of job, child, and, in Dina's case, a... more
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Birthright by Nora Roberts
When five-thousand-year-old human bones are found at a construction site in the small town of Woodsboro, the news draws archaeologist Callie Dunbrook out of her sabbatical and into a whirlwind of adventure, danger, and romance. While overseeing the dig, she must try to make sense of a cloud... more
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In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, Bk 1) by Tana French
As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing... more
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Dark Maze (Neil Hockaday, Bk 2) by Thomas Adcock
NEW YORK'S STREETS OF DREAMS AND DERELICTS, ILLUSION AND HOPE, ARE ONE ARTIST'S BACKGROUND. THE FOREGROUND IS MURDER.
Born and bred in Hell's Kitchen, Detective Neil Hockaday didn't think that much about an old geezer calling himself Picasso and babbling about slaughter on... more
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The Mermaids Singing (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Bk 1) by Val McDermid
Another body has been found...The fourth. Now even the most reluctant members of the Bradfield police department have to admit they have a serial killer on their hands. A sicko.
All the victims have been young men, their naked bodies broken and battered. All have been... more
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The Wire in the Blood (Tony Hill / Carol Jordan, Bk 2) by Val McDermid
Across the country, dozens of teenage girls have vanished. Authorities are convinced they're runaways with just the bad luck of the draw to connect them. It's the job of criminal profilers Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan to look for a pattern. They've spent years exploring the psyches... more
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The Last Temptation (Dr. Tony Hill / Carol Jordan, Bk 3) by Val McDermid
Chief Inspector Carol Jordan, trying to overcome her feelings for criminal profiler Dr. Tony Hill, plunges into a risky undercover sting to track down a European drug trafficker and gain his confidence. But as she gets closer to her quarry, she stumbles across a darker evil-- a serial killer... more
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The Torment of Others (Tony Hill, Bk 4) by Val McDermid
THE VOICE SEEPS LIKE BLOOD... Two years ago, Derek Tyler confessed to a sickening quartet of murders. Now the convicted perpetrator remains locked away, as do the gruesome, inimitable details of his crimes, which is precisely why this can’t possibly be happening all over again—but it... more
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Beneath the Bleeding (Tony Hill/Carol Jordan, Bk 5) by Val McDermid
The residents of Bradfield are devastated when their star midfielder dies, the victim of a bizarre, seemingly motiveless murder. In a hospital, recovering from injuries, criminal profiler and psychologist Dr. Tony Hill struggles to make sense of the fragments of information he can gather in... more
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The Retribution by Val McDermid
Clinical psychologist Tony Hill has had a good run. He and police detective Carol Jordan have put away scores of dangerous criminals at a rate that colleagues envy. But there is one serial killer who has shaped and defined their careers, and whose evil surpasses all others: Jacko Vance,... more
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Shadow Creek (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic) by Joy Fielding
A New York Times Bestselling Author A group of unlikely traveling companions ? a woman, her two oddball friends, her teenage daughter, and her soon-to-be ex-husband's new fiancée ? find themselves on a camping trip in the Adirondacks at the same time that a pair of teenage killers is terrorizing... more
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Cold Snap (Lucy Kincaid, Bk 7) by Allison Brennan
The Kincaid Family Christmas Reunion is threatened by murder …
ALL ROADS HOME
On his way home to San Diego, P.I. Patrick Kincaid takes a detour through San Francisco to check on the wellbeing of a family friend who’s mysteriously been unreachable. What he doesn’t expect... more
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Stolen in the Night by Patricia MacDonald
When Tess DeGraff was nine years old and on a camping trip in New Hampshire with her family, a stranger kidnapped and killed her sister Phoebe. Thanks to Tess's eyewitness testimony, a man named Lazarus Abbott was arrested and convicted for the heinous crime. But twenty years later, a test... more
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Red Angel (Paul Devlin, Bk 6) by William Heffernan
Anyone who brings grief to the people NYPD detective Paul Devlin loves is going to have to pay. That's why he's accompanying Adrianna Mendez, the lady of his heart, to Cuba, where Adrianna's aunt Maria has met with a serious "accident." A great hero of Castro's... more
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The Death of Bees: A Novel by Lisa O'Donnell
Hazlehurst housing estate, Glasgow, Christmas Eve 2010. Fifteen-year-old Marnie and her little sister Nelly have just finished burying their parents in the back garden. Only Marnie and Nelly know how they got there. Lennie, the old guy next door, has taken a sudden interest in his two young... more
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The Missing (Darby McCormick, Bk 1) by Chris Mooney
The first time Darby almost died was on the night of her sixteenth birthday. Out with her two best friends, she witnessed a horrible scene - a woman who was tortured and beaten and left for dead in the woods. After being chased by the criminal, Darby looked to her constant savior - her father,... more
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Ruthless (Faces of Evil, Bk 6) by Debra Webb
He has a ruthless past . . .
Three photos of three unknown women. Sent to Deputy Chief Jess Harris by the Player, one of the world's most sadistic killers. The Player is taunting her, and Jess is more than ready to take on his challenge. Only one thing could distract her from the... more
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Dangerous Refuge by Elizabeth Lowell
On the surface beautiful, quiet Shaye has little in common with dark, dangerous Tanner. He's a suspicious big city cop come home to the historic Davis family ranch to settle his uncle's estate. She's working for an environmental conservancy that acquires and protects old ranches-and... more
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The Wrong Hostage (St. Kilda Consulting, Bk 2) by Elizabeth Lowell
Orphaned at thirteen, Grace Silva clawed her way out of poverty and violence to become one of the most respected judges on the federal bench. Grace believes in the rule of law -- lives it, breathes it. She has always been buttoned up and buttoned down.
Except once.
Joe Faroe... more
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Buried (Ellie MacIntosh, Bk 3) by Kate Watterson
Two cases vie for Detective Ellie MacIntosh’s attention -- a sudden rash of seemingly unrelated cop killings and the discovery of an old, hidden grave on her grandfather’s property. The clues to the recent murders leave a confusing trail of corruption, drug running, and possible... more
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The Night Watcher (Night, Bk 2) by John Lutz
As NYPD Detectives Ben Stack and Rica Lopez investigate the vicious slayings of wealthy Manhattanites, a clever killer, bent on revenge, watches their every move and leaves a trail of clues that lead the detectives to believe that the murderer might be someone close to them.
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The Night Spider (aka Night Victims) (Night, Bk 3) by John Lutz
ALL WRAPPED UP AND READY TO DIE
Each woman slept in her Manhattan high-rise, behind securely locked doors. Each was sealed alive in her bedsheets and stabbed repeatedly. Each bled to a slow end. Mouths frozen in silent screams tell little to retired NYPD Captain Thomas Horn and his... more
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Gone (Michael Bennett, Bk 6) by James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge
Manuel Perrine doesn't fear anyone or anything. A charismatic and ruthless leader, Perrine slaughters rivals as effortlessly as he wears his trademark white linen suit. Detective Michael Bennett once managed to put Perrine behind bars, the only official in the US ever to accomplish that. But... more
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Mistress by James Patterson & David Ellis
James Patterson's scariest, sexiest standalone thriller since The Quickie. Ben isn't like most people. Unable to control his thoughts, he's a man consumed by his obsessions: cars, tennis, marathons, trains, yachts-and Diana Hotchkiss, a beautiful woman Ben knows he can never have.
When Diana is... more
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Nowhere Safe (Nowhere, Bk 3) by Nancy Bush
She senses their twisted desires before she meets them. It's as if fate is helping her stop these monsters from preying on others the way she was preyed upon. And after she has delivered brutal justice, she will let the whole world see their guilt.
"I must pay for what I've... more
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Shadow Woman by Linda Howard
Lizette Henry wakes up one morning and makes a terrifying discovery: She doesn’t recognize the face she sees in the mirror. She remembers what she looks like, but her reflection is someone else’s. To add to the shock, two years seem to have disappeared from her life. Someone has gone... more
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Fear Nothing (Detective D. D. Warren, Bk 7) by Lisa Gardner
My name is Dr. Adeline Glen. Due to a genetic condition, I can’t feel pain. I never have. I never will.
The last thing Boston Detective D. D. Warren remembers is walking the crime scene after dark. Then, a creaking floorboard, a low voice crooning in her ear. . . . She is later told... more
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Deviant Ways by Chris Mooney
Punctuated with one blisteringly violent and unpredictable twist after another, this pitch-perfect study of psychological terror spotlights two magnificent minds opposed in a no-holds-barred duel of cunning and depravity. A master killer calling himself the Sandman is out for revenge. He's... more
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Copp for Hire by Don Pendleton
The brazen daylight hit and run murder of a vivacious stripper leads Private Investigator Joe Copp into the rough and tumble, down-and-dirty, sleazy underbelly of Southern California and on to the deadly vice pits of Honolulu’s Chinatown. There, on the dark side of paradise, Copp takes on... more
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The King (Patrick Bowers Files, Bk 7) by Steven James
Settling into a new post at the FBI Academy, Patrick and his fiance Lien-hua Jiang are planning their future together with his stepdaughter Tessa. But just when his life seems normal, a demon from the past returns to draw him down a dark road he hoped had closed forever. Forced into a desperate... more
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Trace Evidence by Elizabeth Becka
In the bestselling tradition of Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs, comes a riveting forensic thriller by a dazzling new talent in crime fiction.
A gripping suspense novel that introduces forensic expert Evelyn James as she tries to decipher trace evidence and solve a bizarre... more
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Second Honeymoon (Honeymoon, Bk 2) by James Patterson & Howard Roughan
A walk down the aisle, a resort hotel, a drink on the beach ... for these unlucky couples, the honeymoon's over.
A newlywed couple steps into the sauna in their deluxe honeymoon suite -- and never steps out again. When another couple is killed while boarding their honeymoon flight to... more
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Daddy's Little Girl by Mary Higgins Clark
From Mary Higgins Clark, America's best-selling "Queen of Suspense," comes a dark and chilling story of murder, and its effects years later on the man convicted of the crime and the woman who helped convict him. It is a novel that takes the reader to the heights of suspense while exploring the... more
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Where Are You Now? by Mary Higgins Clark
It has been ten years since twenty-one-year-old Charles MacKenzie Jr. ("Mack") went missing. A Columbia University senior, about to graduate and already accepted at Duke University Law School, he walked out of his apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side without a word to his... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Kissing the Gunner's Daughter by Ruth Rendell
For a Kingsmarkham CID sergeant, 13 May was the day he died--carrying a fake gun confiscated from his schoolboy son... and the mysterious trigger of five more murders. A year later Chief Inspector Wexford is called to Tancred House, where grande dame Davina Flory and her family lie shot to death... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
I'll Be Seeing You by Mary Higgins Clark
Covering the story of a stabbing victim, television news reporter Meghan Collins stares down at the sheet-wrapped body of a beautiful young woman in a New York City hospital. What she sees in the dead girl's face draws her into a terrifying web of treachery, where nothing is as it seems and the... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Touch & Go by Lisa Gardner
How do you vanish a family?
Ten minutes after walking the elite Back Bay townhouse and investigator Tessa Leoni already doesn?t like what she sees. Signs of an abduction. Clearly the work of professionals. At best, the entire family has been kidnapped. At worst…
How do you disappear a... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Therapy by Sebastian Fitzek & Sally-Ann Spencer (Translator)
No witnesses.
Twelve-year-old Josy has an inexplicable illness. She vanishes without a trace from her doctor's office during treatment. Four years later, Josy's father, psychiatrist Viktor Larenz, has withdrawn himself to an isolated North Sea island in order to deal with the... more
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84
| Linda S. (Linda) |
Life Sentences by Alice Blanchard
Boston-based scientist Daisy Hubbard is driven to find a cure for the rare genetic disease that claimed the life of her brother. But her progress is interrupted when she learns her unstable sister Anna has gone missing from her California home. Once there, the situation gets worse; she’s... more
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85
| Linda S. (Linda) |
American Devil (Harper and Levene, Bk 1) by Oliver Stark
The Progression of Love: his ultimate artistic creation. Now all he needs is seven beautiful women. For the violent killer stalking New York's streets, the trophies he will take from his victims are essential if he is to complete his masterpiece. That he also likes playing games with the... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
88 Killer by Oliver Stark
Three unconnected crimes are about to be linked in the most chilling way imaginable. The abduction of a teenage girl, heading towards a bus stop. A woman shot, point-blank during a brutal robbery. A young man tortured, his body found wrapped in barbed wire. With nothing to indicate that the... more
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87
| Linda S. (Linda) |
Contents Under Pressure (Britt Montero, Bk 1) by Edna Buchanan
Miami is the beat for a Pulitzer Prize-winning police reporter in Edna Buchanan's new series launch. Blonde, green-eyed and game, Cuban-American Britt Montero knows the city's sleaze like her own backyard.
But now she's stonewalled. How did D. Wayne Hudson, a well-respected black, die? Did... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Unknown Means by Elizabeth Becka
Forensic scientist Evelyn James of the Cleveland Medical Examiner's office returns for this welcome second novel, following Becka's debut, Trace Evidence. Single mother Evelyn must manage her relationship with her sullen teenage daughter, her sputtering romance with homicide detective David... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Paying the Piper by Simon Wood
He was known as the Piper -- a coldhearted kidnapper who terrified the city. Crime reporter Scott Fleetwood built his career on the Piper. The kidnapper even taunted the FBI through Scott's column. But Scott had been duped. The person he'd been speaking to wasn't really the Piper. By... more
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90
| Linda S. (Linda) |
Splinter by Sebastian Fitzek
Marc Lucas had it all, and lost it all. He is only slowly putting his life back together after the car crash that killed his pregnant wife, when things start to go strangely wrong for him. Nothing too sinister to begin with: his credit cards stop working. But then his key no longer fits his... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
City of Fire (Lena Gamble, Bk 1) by Robert Ellis
When a vibrant young woman is found in bed by her hotshot businessman husband, carved from belly to throat with a very sharp knife, the elite Robbery-Homicide division of the LAPD responds in full force. Best-case scenario for lead Detective Lena Gamble: Nikki Brant’s husband killed her,... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Jury of One (Jenkins & Burns, Bk 1) (aka Deadly Readings) by Laura Bradford
Beaches, boardwalks and the promise of carefree summer days mark the start of tourist season in the small, scenic town of Ocean Point, New Jersey. But this scene is marred suddenly by the body of a young woman found bludgeoned to death. It's the first in a string of seemingly random,... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Forecast of Evil (Jenkins & Burns, Bk 2) by Laura Bradford
It was supposed to be the perfect winter getaway: snow, sleighs, and a warm friendly tourist town on a remote Michigan island. What could be more romantic for New Jersey reporter Elise Jenkins and her new love interest, Detective Mitch Burns? The first body, found stabbed to death beneath two... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Body Parts by Vicki Stiefel
They call it the Grief Shop. It's the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for Massachusetts, and Tally Whyte is the director of its Grief Assistance Program. She lives with death every day, counseling families of homicide victims. But now death is striking close to... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
The Dead Stone (Tally Whyte, Bk 2) by Vicki Stiefel
It starts with a mysterious phone call, summoning homicide counselor Tally Whyte back to the hometown she thought she'd left far behind her. Almost as soon as she arrives, Tally hears that a young woman she knew as a child has been found ritualistically murdered and mutilated.
The... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
The Grief Shop (Tally Whyte, Bk 3) by Vicki Stiefel
Tally Whyte has seen a lot of dead bodies in her years with the Massachusetts Grief Assistance Program, but this is the first time a murder victim has been brought there by the murderer himself. During the night, someone broke into the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, aka the Grief Shop,... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
The Bone Man by Vicki Stiefel
It was a fascinating anthropological discovery--a human skull found inside a clay Anasazi pot more than eight hundred years old. But as soon as Tally Whyte saw the forensic reconstruction of the face, she went from fascinated to horrified. The face belonged to an art dealer Tally knew well. How... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Abducted (Lizzy Gardner, Bk 1) by T. R. Ragan
When Lizzy Gardner was only seventeen, what should have been the perfect night became the perfect nightmare. Kidnapped just blocks from home after a romantic evening with her boyfriend, Jared, she woke up to find herself at the mercy of a depraved serial killer. Imprisoned and tormented for... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Dead Weight (Lizzy Gardner, Bk 2) by T. R. Ragan
Private investigator Lizzy Gardner knows a thing or two about living in the past. As a teenager, she was terrorized by a serial killer, an ordeal that haunted her for more than a decade before the maniac was finally stopped. So when terminally ill Ruth Fullerton begs Lizzy to reopen the cold... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
A Dark Mind (Lizzy Gardner, Bk 3) by T. R. Ragan
A serial killer is terrorizing Sacramento, preying on happily married couples and unleashing unspeakable cruelties upon his victims. The ordeal rekindles disturbing memories for private investigator Lizzy Gardner, who barely escaped a serial killer’s clutches only years ago. But while most... more
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101
| Linda S. (Linda) |
Taken (Randall Shane, Bk 1) by Chris Jordan
No parent believes it can happen to them -- their child taken from a suburban schoolyard in the gentle hours of dusk. But as widowed mother Kate Bickford discovers, everything can change in the blink of an eye. One minute her lanky, amazing, maddening Tommy is begging for ice cream. Then in a... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Trapped (Randall Shane, Bk 2) by Chris Jordan
"Mom, I need your help. Please call --" That's it. The call cuts off in midsentence. No static. Nothing. Just an overwhelming silence.
Long Island single mom Jane Hartley is frantic when her sixteen-year-old daughter, Kelly, a survivor of childhood leukemia, disappears from her... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Body Trace (C.S.U. Investigation, Bk 1) by D. H. Dublin
A C.S.U. Investigation In the City of Brotherly Love, it's known as the C.S.U. Crime Scene Unit (C.S.U.): A group of forensic investigators who use cutting-edge technology to carry out crime scene investigations, helping to bring killers to justice. Fresh out of med school and new to... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Blood Poison (C.S.U. Investigation, Bk 2) by D.H. Dublin
From the author of Body Trace, the new forensics novel in the C.S.U. Investigation series.
In the Philadelphia Police Department, the Crime Scene Unit takes blood, sweat, tears-and other DNA samples. The death-by-overdose of Derek Grant, environmentalist and vegetarian, comes as a shock to... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Freezer Burn (C.S.U. Investigation, Bk 3) by D. H. Dublin
The Crime Scene Unit knows that even the most cold-blooded killers leave clues. A bag full of body parts. A man thrown from a car. A shriveled corpse. A gangster, tortured and killed. Besides the fact that the C.S.U. found them on the same day, it seems the cases have nothing in common. But,... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Into Darkness by Jonathan Lewis
A brilliantly original first crime thriller, with a wonderful cast of characters, opens with the baffling death of a world famous British actor.
In the stinking mud of a great tidal river, a body lies half submerged. Sir Tommy Best, adored British actor, has fallen to his death through a hole... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Into Dust by Jonathan Lewis
The Minister for Defence is blown to smithereens in his car on a lonely road in the Brecon Beacons, where he has a weekend hideaway. DI Ned Bale is on the crime scene within seconds, but neither he nor forensics can work out how on earth the crime was committed, let alone who did it, or with... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Secret Admirer by Patricia MacDonald
Laura Reed has given up believing in hope. When her hometown-hero husband was killed during a supposed break-in, most in their small seaside community weren't shy about thinking Laura guilty--or turn her and her young son's lives into a nightmare. She has no reason to trust... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Code Blue (Prescription for Trouble Bk 1) by Richard L. Mabry & M.D.
In the first book of the Prescription for Trouble series, Code Blue means more to Dr. Cathy Sewell than the cardiac emergency she has to face. It describes her mental state as she finds that coming back to her hometown hasn't brought her the peace she so desperately needs. Instead, it s... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Angel Fire (Lydia Strong, Bk 1) by Lisa Unger (writing as Lisa Miscione)
The bloody murder of her mother when she was a teenager made Lydia Strong into a woman obsessed with bringing brutal killers to justice. Now thirty years old, she is a reclusive bestselling true crime writer and investigative consultant whose intuitions never lie. The latest case to capture her... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
The Darkness Gathers (Lydia Strong, Bk 2) by Lisa Miscione
Fifteen and gorgeous, Tatiana Quinn disappears from her Miami bedroom sometime after midnight. Her backpack, $160 stashed in her jewelry box, and her favorite clothes are also missing. The police conclude she ran away. Her wealthy father quickly posts a million-dollar reward for her safe return.... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
The Stranger You Know (Forensic Instincts, Bk 3) by Andrea Kane
It begins with a chilling phone call to Casey Woods. And ends with another girl dead.
College-age girls with long red hair. Brutally murdered, they're posed like victims in a film noir. Each crime scene is eerily similar to the twisted fantasy of a serial offender now serving thirty years... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
The Violet Hour by Richard Montanari
A popular priest lies dead of a heroin overdose in a Cleveland apartment, following an apparent tryst with a high-priced call girl. A freelance journalist recognizes a great story--salacious and saleable--in the cleric's demise...and follows it into the twisted, terrifying mind of a psychopath.... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Smoke (Lydia Strong, Bk 4) by Lisa Miscione
Lydia Strongs old writing student, Lily Samuels, has been missing for weeks. Before her disappearance, Lily contacted Lydia, asking for help, but Lydia didnt think anything was amiss until she learned that Lily was looking into her brothers suicide. Now shes concerned. In this fourth of Lisa... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Twice (Lydia Strong, Bk 3) by Lisa Unger (writing as Lisa Miscione)
Lydia and her partner, P.I. Jeff Mark, must confront not only a brutal murderer but the demons from their own past.
Julian Ross, a brilliant and acclaimed New York City artist, has been charged with brutally killing her second husband. She was found at the scene, hysterical, over his bloody,... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Bait by C.J. Songer
She's a cop's widow, a prematurely retired officer, and an ex-cop's partner in a private security firm. Even without her badge, Meg Gillis can't get away from the force. Still, she practices a see-no-evil policy when it comes to the seedy side jobs her partner Mike sometimes picks up. Now,... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Hook (Meg Gillis, Bk 2) by C. J. Songer
Meg Gillis used to be a cop, working Vice undercover. Now she runs a security company on the edge of Beverly Hills with another former cop, her friend Michael Johnson, a man attracted to the ladies ... and trouble. So when Mike's recent gal pal needs a favor, someone to serve divorce papers... more
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118
| Linda S. (Linda) |
The Informationist (Vanessa Michael Munroe, Bk 1) by Taylor Stevens
Vanessa "Michael" Munroe deals in information -- expensive information -- working for corporations, heads of state, private clients, and anyone else who can pay for her unique brand of expertise. Born to missionary parents in lawless central Africa, Munroe took up with an infamous... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Off the Grid (Monkeewrench, Bk 6) by P. J. Tracy
On a sailboat ten miles off the Florida coast, Grace MacBride, partner in Monkeewrench Software, thwarts an assassination attempt on retired FBI agent John Smith. A few hours later, in Minneapolis, a fifteen-year-old girl is discovered in a vacant lot, her throat slashed. Later that day, two... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
The Creeper by Tania Carver
Suzanne Perry is having a vivid nightmare. Someone is in her bedroom, touching her, and she can't move a muscle. She wakes, relieved to put the nightmare behind her, but when she opens the curtains, she sees a polaroid stuck to the window. A photo of her sleeping self, taken during the night.... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Under Cover of Daylight (Thorn, Bk 1) by James W. Hall
James W. Hall's haunting debut novel first introduced the rugged character Thorn and the breathtaking South Florida landscape where he lives. Thorn's past includes a savage act of revenge on the drunken hit-and-run killer of his parents. Now, fifteen years later, Thorn still cannot escape that... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Tropical Freeze (Thorn, Bk 2) by James W. Hall
The rugged Florida troubleshooter Thorn is back in another high-tension story of crime, love, and revenge, described by the Chicago Tribune as "wry, vivid, wonderful. . . . A first-rate thriller!" In an exotic blue-water locale where greed and criminality thrive, the mysterious disappearance of... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Deadly Disclosures (Dinah Harris, Bk 1) by Julie Cave
FBI agent Dinah Harris now has a missing person's file to go along with a bad case of alcohol abuse and the depression she cannot seem to shake. Fighting to keep her focus, she struggles to find answers for why Thomas Whitfield, the prominent Secretary of the Smithsonian has vanished from... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes
When young, pretty Catherine Bailey meets Lee Brightman, she can't believe her luck. Gorgeous, charismatic, and a bit mysterious, Lee seems almost too perfect to be true. But what begins as flattering attention and spontaneous, passionate sex transforms into raging jealousy, and Catherine... more
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125
| Linda S. (Linda) |
Hostage (Bishop/Special Crimes Unit, Bk 2) by Kay Hooper
Haven operative Luther Brinkman has been sent into the wilderness of the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee to locate escaped felon Cole Jacoby, a mentally unstable bank robber. Supposedly, Jacoby hid more than ten million dollars from his last heist before he was captured -- and rather... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
The Burning (Maeve Kerrigan, Bk 1) by Jane Casey
The Burning Man. It’s the name the media has given a brutal murderer who has beaten four young women to death before setting their bodies ablaze in secluded areas of London’s parks. And now there’s a fifth.
Maeve Kerrigan is an ambitious detective constable, keen to make her... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
The Secret Friend (Darby McCormick, Bk 2) by Chris Mooney
Two dead girls in the river. Two tiny statues of the Virgin Mary concealed in their clothing. One CSI on the hunt for their killer. When Judith Chen is found floating in Boston's Harbour, links are made with the murder of Emma Hale, a student who vanished without trace, only for her body to... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
The Dead Room (Darby McCormick, Bk 3) by Chris Mooney
A mother and her son have been executed in their home and fingerprint matches show their attacker died twenty years ago. But how can dead serial killers return to haunt the present? The answers lie in the darkest shadows of The Dead Room.
When CSI Darby McCormick is called to the crime... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Soul Collectors (Darby McCormick, Bk 4) by Chris Mooney
Charlie Rizzo has his family at gunpoint and when Darby arrives to defuse the scene, she finds him horrifically mutilated, with a mask of human skin sewn in place over his own face. Within minutes, a group of men disguised as SWAT officers bursts in and releases deadly Sarin gas, killing the... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Malicious Intent (Dr. Anya Crichton, Bk 1) by Kathryn Fox
A gripping and powerful new thriller -- the debut of a stunning new voice in suspense fiction -- and the first appearance of a tough and remarkable investigator, pathologist, and forensic physician, Dr. Anya Crichton.
The only female freelancer in the male-dominated field, pathologist Dr.... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Without Consent (Dr Anya Crichton, Bk 2) by Kathryn Fox
Forensic pathologist and physician, Dr. Anya Crichton does not just examine the dead. She also treats survivors of sexual assault, and the women she now sees compel her to follow the trail of a violent serial rapist -- who is becoming more brutal with each attack. When two new victims are... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Skin and Bone (Dr. Anya Crichton, Bk 3) by Kathryn Fox
Detective Kate Farrer returns to duty after three months of leave following her traumatic abduction. Fearing that she has lost her edge, she reluctantly partners homicide newcomer Oliver Parke, and they are thrown into the investigation of a woman burnt beyond recognition in a house-fire. The... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Blood Born (Dr Anya Crichton, Bk 4) by Kathryn Fox
Two sisters were attacked in their own home
Only one of them survived. And now she must revisit hell if justice is to be served.
Forensic pathologist Dr. Anya Crichton is incensed over the brutal crime, and she will do everything in her power to see that the three men responsible are... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Death Mask (Dr. Anya Crichton, Bk 5) by Kathryn Fox
When the victim of a violent gang rape accuses five premier sportsmen of the attack, she has no idea that her suffering has only just begun ...It's a scandal that rocks a nation of sports fans. But, in spite of a huge amount of evidence, no one seems to believe her. So when Dr Anya Crichton,... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Vicious: The Faces of Evil Series: Book 7 by Debra Webb
Book 7 in the Faces of Evil series.
Serial killer Eric Spears is far from done. He has chosen his next victim and Deputy Chief Jess Harris knows it's only a matter of time until he comes for her.
The murders are vicious, the killer relentless. Has Birmingham's major crimes team run into its... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
The Chosen Dead (Jenny Cooper, Bk 5) by M. R. Hall
Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates . . .
An unlikely suicide or a deadly conspiracy? When Bristol Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates the fatal plunge of a man from a motorway bridge, she little suspects that it has any connection with the sudden death of a friend's thirteen year old... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
You Don't Know Jack (NY Girlfriends, Bk 2) by Erin McCarthy
Love. Sex. Destiny. And A Six-Foot-Four Psychic In A Bridesmaid's Dress? Honey, You Don't Know Jack...
Jamie Peters no longer believes in true love. True idiots, true scumbags, true moochers -- these she believes in wholeheartedly, and she's got the checkered dating history to prove it. So... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
The Deposit Slip by Todd M. Johnson
This Gripping Legal Thriller Is a Perfect Summer Read When Jared Neaton grew tired of the shady ethics of his big law firm and left to go out on his own, he never expected the wheels to fly off so quickly. One big case collapsing on him has pushed him to the brink and it's all he can do to... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Now You See Her by Linda Howard
From Dream Man to Kill and Tell, Linda Howard's New York Times bestsellers are a tantalizing blend of scintillating sensuality and high-voltage thrills. "Linda Howard meshes hot sex, emotional impact and gripping tension in this perfect example of what romantic suspense ought to be," raved... more
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Kill and Tell (John Medina, Bk 1) by Linda Howard
Still reeling from her mother's recent death, Karen Whitlaw is stunned when she receives a package containing a mysterious notebook from the father she has barely seen since his return from the Vietnam War over twenty years ago.
Unwilling to deal with her overwhelming emotions, Karen packs... more
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Never Too Much by Lori Foster
In the wonderfully erotic bestseller, Too Much Temptation, readers fell in love with two brothers -- dark, sexy Noah, and his roguish, younger brother, Ben -- as Noah followed his heart's desire. Now, acclaimed author Lori Foster returns to their world, this time exploring the sensual longings,... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Night Tales: Night Shift / Night Shadow by Nora Roberts
Two classic novels from the thrilling series Night Tales:
NIGHT SHIFT (Night Tales, Bk 1)
Her voice was like hot whiskey, smooth and potent, but it was her contradictions that fascinated Detective Boyd Fletcher -- the vulnerability beneath her self-sufficient facade. Radio announcer... more
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Tell Me (Savannah, Bk 3) by Lisa Jackson
The most hated woman in Savannah, Georgia, is about to be set free. Twenty years ago, Blondell O'Henry was convicted of murdering her eldest daughter and wounding her two other children. The prosecution argued that beautiful, selfish Blondell wanted to be rid of them to be with... more
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The Odds (Richard Christie, Bk 4) by Kathleen George
The Homicide Department is upside down -- Richard Christie is in the hospital, Artie Dolan is headed away on vacation, John Potocki’s life is falling apart, and Colleen Greer is so worried about her boss’s health, she can hardly think. A young boy in Pittsburgh’s North Side... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
The Church of Dead Girls by Stephen Dobyns
One by one, three young girls vanish in a small town in upstate New York. With the first disappearance, the towns-people begin to mistrust outsiders. When the second girl goes missing, neighbors and childhood friends start to eye each other warily. And with the third disappearance, the sleepy... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Pretend You Don't See Her by Mary Higgins Clark
Mary Higgins Clark sends chills down readers' spines with the story of Lacey Farrell, a rising star on the Manhattan real estate scene. One day, while showing a luxurious skyline co-op, Lacey is witness to a murder -- and to the dying words of the victim.... The dying woman is convinced that the... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Let Me Call You Sweetheart by Mary Higgins Clark
It's a minor accident that brings prosecutor Kerry McGrath to the plastic surgeon's office with her beloved daughter, Robin. But even as the doctor assures Kerry that her daughter's scars will heal, she spies a familiar-looking beautiful woman in the waiting room and is seized by an overpowering... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Both Sides of the Fence by Jean Chapman
DEATH ON TAP
A young woman in expensive clothes is found unconscious, wet and half frozen by a local pub-goer in the fenlands of coastal Lincolnshire.
John Cannon and Liz Makespeace, former Scotland Yard detectives turned proprietors of The Eel Trap, give the stranger refuge. Watchful and... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
All the Colors of Darkness (Inspector Banks, Bk 18) by Peter Robinson
Detectives Alan Banks and Annie Cabbot return in another novel from the acclaimed award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Friend of the Devil
When the body of a man is discovered hanging from a tree in the woods near Eastvale, all signs point toward suicide. At least that's... more
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A Sight for Sore Eyes by Ruth Rendell
Teddy was born in squalor. Now he is a craftsman determined to banish ugliness from his life. Harriet is a beautiful, bored trophy wife who employs a series of repairmen for her sexual satisfaction. And Francine is a college student who witnessed her mother's murder and now must free herself... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Catch Me When I Fall by Nicci French
Holly Krauss lives her life in the fast lane. A successful, happily married businesswoman, she is loved and admired by everyone she meets.
But that's only one side of Holly. The other takes regular walks on the wild side and is making reckless mistakes.
When the two sides of... more
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Loves Music, Loves to Dance by Mary Higgins Clark
New York's trendy magazines are a source of peril when a killer enacts a bizarre dance of death, using the personal ads to lure his victims... After college, best friends Erin Kelley and Darcy Scott move to the city to pursue exciting careers; Erin is a promising jewelry designer, Darcy finds... more
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To Speak for the Dead (Jake Lassiter, Bk 1) by Paul Levine
Miami trail lawyer Jake Lassiter, "ex-football player, ex-public defender, ex-a-lot-of-things," is defending Dr. Roger Salisbury, a surgeon and womanizer charged with malpractice in the death of wealthy Philip Corrigan. But the dead man's daughter insists that the doctor and her... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Night Vision (Jake Lassiter, Bk 2) by Paul Levine
"Catch me if you can," reads the lipsticked message on the bathroom mirror Miami trial lawyer lake Lassiter accepts the challenge and finds himself on the trail of a killer with a bizarre modem operandi. For the dead lady's computer files point to a high-tech network of keyboard... more
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Mortal Sin (Jake Lassiter, Bk 4) by Paul Levine
Lawyer Jake Lassiter is defending Florida real estate developer Nicky Florio in a civil suit regarding an environmentalist's death at a poolside party. While Lassiter has doubts that the death was accidental, he also worries about the possible conflict of interest involved in sleeping with his... more
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Slashback (Jake Lassiter, Bk 5) by Paul Levine
Miami Dolphin linebacker-turned-trial-lawyer Jake Lassiter is a throwback, a brew and burger guy in a quiche and white wine world. He has his own definition of chivalry - I help little old ladies cross the street ... and sometimes tall young ones - and lives by his own code: I won't lie to a... more
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Flesh and Bones (Jake Lassiter Mystery) by Paul Levine
Miami Dolphins linebacker-turned-lawyer Jake Lassiter returns in the seventh Lassiter mystery from acclaimed South Florida writer and former lawyer Paul Levine.In Flesh & Bones, Jake takes on a seemingly unwinnable case. When Miami model Chrissy Bernhardt strides through a South Beach night spot... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Lassiter (Jake Lassiter, Bk 8) by Paul Levine
Eighteen years ago, Jake Lassiter crossed paths with a teenage runaway who disappeared into South Florida’s sex trade. Now he retraces her steps and runs head-on into a conspiracy of Miami’s rich and powerful who would do anything to keep the past as dark as night and silent as the... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Wide Open (Wide Open, Bk 1) by Deborah Coates
When Sergeant Hallie Michaels comes back to South Dakota from Afghanistan on ten days' compassionate leave, her sister Dell's ghost is waiting at the airport to greet her.
The sheriff says that Dell's death was suicide, but Hallie doesn't believe it. Something happened or... more
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162
| Linda S. (Linda) |
Hotshot (Buchanan-Renard, Bk 11) by Julie Garwood
Peyton Lockhart and her sisters have inherited Bishop’s Cove, a small, luxurious oceanfront resort, but it comes with a condition: The girls must run the resort for one year and show a profit -- only then will they own it.
A graduate of a prestigious French culinary school, Peyton has... more
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163
| Linda S. (Linda) |
Trail of Blood (Theresa MacLean, Bk 3) by Lisa Black
Seventy-five years ago, a madman nicknamed the Torso Killer terrorized Cleveland. His horrific spree lasted four years and crisscrossed the entire city. Overall, he was credited with more than a dozen murders. And he was never caught.
Today, forensic scientist Theresa MacLean is called to... more
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164
| Linda S. (Linda) |
Scared to Death (Live to Tell, Bk 2) by Wendy Corsi Staub
Elsa Cavalon -- petrified that the nightmare from fifteen years earlier is beginning all over again . . .
Marin Quinn -- hiding with her daughters in their concrete fortress, her storybook marriage over . . .
Perfect strangers whose once-perfect lives were cruelly shattered,... more
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165
| Linda S. (Linda) |
All She Ever Wanted by Patrick Redmond
Not everyone wants to fall in love. For Christina Ryan it is simply a refuge for the weak, lonely and needy. Once she was like that herself - but not now. Following a tormented, turbulent childhood, she has reinvented herself to become strong, self-reliant and in control. She is everything she... more
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166
| Linda S. (Linda) |
Accidents Happen: A Novel by Louise Millar
From Louise Millar, the acclaimed author of The Playdate, comes a gripping psychological thriller where one woman?s streak of bad luck may be something far more sinister.Kate Parker lives her life in a state of heightened anxiety, constantly afraid that something terrible will happen to her and... more
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167
| Linda S. (Linda) |
Iced (John MacRae Books) by Jenny Siler
From the author of the New York Times Notable Book Easy Money, a riveting suspense novel about a headstrong repo woman in Montana.
On Missoula's coldest day of the year, the police pull Clay Bennett's corpse from the weeds. For the cops, his death is an open-and-shut case, the result of a... more
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168
| Linda S. (Linda) |
Cop Town by Karin Slaughter
Atlanta, 1974: As a brutal murder and a furious manhunt rock the city’s police department, Kate Murphy wonders if her first day on the job will also be her last. She’s determined to defy her privileged background by making her own way -- wearing a badge and carrying a gun. But... more
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169
| Linda S. (Linda) |
The Good Sister (Social Media, Bk 1) by Wendy Corsi Staub
Sacred Sisters Catholic girls' school has hardly changed since Jen Archer was a student. Jen hoped her older daughter would thrive here. Instead, shy, studious Carley becomes the target of vicious bullies. But the real danger at Sacred Sisters goes much deeper.
The only person Carley can... more
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170
| Linda S. (Linda) |
Double Blind by Gayle Wilson
When a pharmaceutical exec needs protection, he hires former Secret Service agent Will Shannon. But the night Will wakes up with a massive headache and a dead client in the next room, he knows something has gone terribly wrong-and he's about to take the fall.
There's only one person... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
The Suicide Club by Gayle Wilson
Lindsey Sloan teaches the best and brightest students at Randolph-Lowen High School--exceptional teens with promising futures far from their small Alabama hometown. So when brash detective Jace Nolan arrives from up north and accuses her kids of setting a series of fires in local black churches,... more
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172
| Linda S. (Linda) |
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Fresh from a brief stay at a psychiatric hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment. She must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely... more
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173
| Linda S. (Linda) |
The Bat (Harry Hole, Bk 1) by Jo Nesbo & Don Bartlett (Translator)
Inspector Harry Hole of the Oslo Crime Squad is dispatched to Sydney to observe a murder case. Harry is free to offer assistance, but he has firm instructions to stay out of trouble. The victim is a twenty-three-year-old Norwegian woman, a minor celebrity back home. Never one to sit on the... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Cockroaches (Harry Hole, Bk 2) by Jo Nesbo & Don Bartlett (Translator)
The thrilling sequel to Jo Nesbo's debut novel, The Bat, The Cockroaches sees Harry Hole sent to Bangkok to investigate the murder of the Norwegian ambassador.
Detective Harry Hole arrives in a steaming hot Bangkok. But it's work, not pleasure. The Norwegian... more
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175
| Linda S. (Linda) |
To the Grave by Carlene Thompson
As a psychologist, Catherine Gray understands the power of first love. As a woman, she still has feelings for her first crush, James -- a handsome lawyer who was trapped in a bad marriage for years. Now that Catherine has returned to Aurora Falls, and James is divorced, they can finally build a... more
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176
| Linda S. (Linda) |
You're Not Safe (Texas Rangers, Bk 3) by Mary Burton
HE WILL NEVER FORGET
The broken body hanging from a tree in Texas Hill Country... the frozen figure huddled in a meat locker... only at second glance does the truth become apparent. What seems like suicide is far more sinister, and the terror is only beginning....
NEVER... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Heartbreaker by Karen Robards
A woman. Her teenage daughter. A handsome, laid-back, chauvinistic rancher. And the savagery of unseen forces at large in the mountain wilds of Utah. New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards is here at her passionate best as she tracks the... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, Bk 1) by Lee Child
I was eating eggs and drinking coffee. I was in a booth, at a window, reading somebody's abandoned newspaper. Outside, the rain had stopped but the glass was still pebbled with bright drops. I saw the police cruisers pull into the gravel lot. They were moving fast and crunched to a stop.... more
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179
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The Stranger You Seek (Keye Street, Bk 1) by Amanda Kyle Williams
In the sweltering heat of an Atlanta summer, a killer is pushing the city to its breaking point, preying on the unsuspecting, writing taunting letters to the media, promising more death.
Desperate to stop the Wishbone Killer, A.P.D. lieutenant Aaron Rauser turns to the one person he knows can... more
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Don't Talk to Strangers (Keye Street, Bk 3) by Amanda Kyle Williams
He likes them smart.
In the woods of Whisper, Georgia, two bodies are found: one recently dead, the other decayed from a decade of exposure to the elements. The sheriff is going to need help to track down an experienced predator -- one who abducts girls and holds them for months before... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Cold Call (Iris Thorne, Bk 1) by Dianne Emley (writing as Dianne Pugh)
Iris Thorne traded her job teaching the deaf for a career in Los Angeles’ glittering financial district, where the day starts on Wall Street time at 6:00 a.m., and -- in the "greed is good" late 1980s -- all of life’s questions have numbers for answers.
Big numbers. With... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Hunted by Karen Robards
In New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards?s latest heart-pounding romantic suspense novel, a reckless former detective knows too much, and a hostage negotiator is forced to join him on the run for his life.Caroline Wallace is one of New Orleans PD?s top hostage negotiators, and she?s... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
The Kill Room (Lincoln Rhyme, Bk 10) by Jeffery Deaver
It was a "million-dollar bullet," a sniper shot delivered from over a mile away. Its victim was no ordinary mark: he was a United States citizen, targeted by the United States government, and assassinated in the Bahamas.
The nation's most renowned investigator and forensics... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Don't Leave Me (Worldwide Library Mysteries) by Clare Curzon
Like mother,Like Daughter Eight years ago, Caroline Winterton disappeared, a case that fell into the hands of ambitious Sergeant Mike Yeadings. However, the crime -- if indeed there was a crime -- was never solved. But now Caroline's eleven-year-old daughter, Julie is missing. And Yeadings, now... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Don't Say a Word by Andrew Klavan
Dr. Nathan Conrad has spent the day in his Central Park West office counseling the forlorn - patients who have earned him the nickname "Psychiatrist of the Damned." As the good doctor wearily makes his way home he wonders: "How can they live with something so bad?". He's... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Lawless by Christopher Darden & Dick Lochte
A rising star at a prestigious African-American law firm must defend an L.A. cop who shot and killed his lover-and confessed to it. The case seems impossible to win-until two more cops kill their spouses in cold blood, raising suspicions of a bizarre and deadly cover-up.
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Tilt-a-Whirl (John Ceepak, Bk 1) by Chris Grabenstein
There isn't much sun in the fun when a billionaire real estate tycoon is found murdered on the Tilt-a-Whirl at a seedy seaside amusement park in the otherwise quiet summer tourist town of Sea Haven. John Ceepak, a former MP just back from Iraq, has just joined the Sea Haven police... more
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Carved in Bone (Body Farm, Bk 1) by Jefferson Bass
Renowned anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton has spent his career surrounded by death at the Body Farm. Now he's being called upon to help solve a baffling puzzle in a remote mountain community. The mummified corpse of a young woman dead for thirty years has been discovered in a cave, the body... more
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189
| Linda S. (Linda) |
Close Your Eyes by Amanda Eyre Ward
In Close Your Eyes, the author of the bestselling How to Be Lost spins another mesmerizing tale of buried family secrets.
For most of her life, Lauren Mahdian has been certain of two things: that her mother is dead, and that her father is a murderer.
Before the horrific tragedy, Lauren... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Daisychain (Alex Cahill and Logan Finch, Bk 1) by G.J. Moffat
Logan Finch has just about everything he ever wanted, including a penthouse apartment and a shot at making partner in one of Scotland's largest law firms. But there's something missing from his life: he still pines for the woman he thought was 'the one' and who left him without a... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
The Safe House by Nicci French
Samantha Laschen, a doctor specialising in post-traumatic stress disorder, has moved to the Essex coast with her small daughter, Elsie, to escape the problems of her London life. Or so she thinks. Fiona Mackenzie barely survived the savage, murderous attack which left her parents dead.
Now... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Good People by Ewart Hutton
Detective Sergeant Glyn Capaldi, fallen from grace and exiled from Cardiff to the Welsh countryside, does his best to serve as the catchall detective in the big bit in the middle that God gave to the sheep. It’s a place where nothing of any significance is meant to happen, a place... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Freezing (Jayne and Steelie, Bk 1) by Clea Koff
When a bundle of frozen body parts tumbles out the rear door of a van on a Los Angeles freeway, FBI agent Scott Houston knows just where to go for an off-the-record analysis: Agency 32/1, a non-profit missing persons identification resource center run by forensic anthropologists Jayne Hall... more
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The Stolen Ones (Jessica Balzano and Kevin Byrne, Bk 7) by Richard Montanari
Luther Wade grew up in Cold River, a warehouse for the criminally insane. Two decades ago the hospital closed it doors forever, but Luther never left. He wanders the catacombs beneath the city, channeling the violent dreams of Eduard Kross, Europe's most prolific serial killer of the 20th... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Cross and Burn (Tony Hill / Carol Jordan, Bk 8) by Val McDermid
Cross and Burn, picks up where The Retribution left off: following the best crime-fighting team in the UK—clinical psychologist Tony Hill and police detective Carol Jordan—who when we last saw them were barely speaking, and whose relationship will now be challenged even... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Mad Mouse (John Ceepak, Bk 2) by Chris Grabenstein
It?s almost Labor Day, and the end of summer could mean the end of someone?s life in this exciting sequel to Chris Grabenstein?s Tilt-a-Whirl.
Young Danny Boyle, the part-time summer cop ?down the shore? in Sea Haven, New Jersey, gets taken on a wild ride when he and his longtime beach... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Road Closed (Geraldine Steel, Bk 2) by Leigh Russell
Following Cut Short, another thrilling case features Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel
When a man dies in a gas explosion, the police suspect arson. The Murder Investigation Team are called in to investigate, but the case takes on a new and terrible twist when a local... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Dead End (DI Geraldine Steel, Bk 3) by Leigh Russell
Another thrilling case featuring Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel
When the corpse of Abigail Kirby is discovered, police are shocked to learn that the victim's tongue was cut out while she lay dying. Then, shortly after coming forward, a witness is blinded and... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Death Bed (DI Geraldine Steel, Bk 4) by Leigh Russell
The bodies of two black girls are discovered in quick succession in North London. Concerned about a reaction from the local black community, the police are puzzled to learn that two teeth were extracted from both victims after they died. One of the girls worked in a massage parlour and suspicion... more
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Stop Dead (DI Geraldine Steel, Bk 5) by Leigh Russell
Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel returns in an exhilarating case of grisly murder in London When a successful businessman is brutally murdered, the police suspect his glamorous wife and her young lover. But when the victim's business partner suffers the same gruesome fate, and yet another... more
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Pierced (Henning Juul, Bk 2) by Thomas Enger & Charlotte Barslund (Translator)
A Convicted Killer: Despite always maintaining his innocence, Tori Pulli, once a powerful player on Oslo's underground crime scene, has been found guilty of murder.
A Loose End: Scarred reporter, Henning Juul, is contacted by Pulli, who claims that if Henning can help clear his name he... more
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The Reckoning (Maeve Kerrigan, Bk 2) by Jane Casey
To the public, he’s a hero: a brutal killer who targets sex offenders. To most of London’s police force, he’s the suspect in a gruesome, time-consuming case to be avoided. But to Detective Constable Maeve Kerrigan, he’s a murderer -- no matter the sins of his victims --... more
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Some Like It Hot (Cat DeLuca, Bk 3) by K. J. Larsen
When an old friend buys a trenchcoat and opens his own detective agency, PI Cat DeLuca sees a train wreck. Because everything Billy Bonham knows about being a private dick, he learned from Humphrey Bogart. And that’s just enough to make him dangerous.
The bungling... more
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They Never Die Quietly (Sami Rizzo, Bk 1) by D. M. Annechino
They Never Die Quietly tells the story of homicide Detective Sami Rizzo, who is assigned to head a task force investigating serial killings in San Diego. Simon, the highly intelligent, cunning, and deceptively charming villain, redefines the depths of human evil. He believes God has given... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
The Hanging Judge by Michael Ponsor
When a drive-by shooting in Holyoke, Massachusetts, claims the lives of a Puerto Rican drug dealer and a nurse at a neighborhood clinic, the police arrest a black drug dealer. With no death penalty in Massachusetts, the US attorney shifts the double homicide out of state jurisdiction into... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
A Killer in the Wind by Andrew Klavan
Three years ago, Dan Champion uncovered a criminal syndicate run by a kingpin known only as the Fat Woman. Champion infiltrated her world of murder, obsession, and perversity, but the case also broke him. He began hallucinating and taking drugs.
Now, Champion is a small-town detective, hoping... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Fallout (Alex Cahill 2) by G. J. Moffat
A taut and twisty white-knuckle thriller from a new Scottish writer Former hot-shot lawyer Logan Finch settled into a new life for himself and his daughter Ellie, and has a blossoming relationship with Detective Constable Rebecca Irvine. But that relationship is put to the test when Irvine's old... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Blindside by G. J. Moffat
Secrets and lies lead to devastating consequences on both sides of the Atlantic in the third gripping thriller in this Glasgow-set crime series featuring Alex Cahill and Logan Finch When a passenger jet crashes in Denver, Colorado, nobody survives. In Glasgow, Alex Cahill is surprised to receive... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Protection by G. J. Moffat
The fourth gripping thriller in the Glasgow-set crime series featuring Alex Cahill and Logan FinchChase Black, guilty of the brutal serial murder of five families, walks free in Denver on a technicality. When Black heads to London to promote the memoirs he wrote while in prison, his lawyer hires... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
The Body Box (Cold Case, Bk 1) by Lynn Abercrombie
Terror
He calls it the Body Box. It's a space too small for his victims to sit up or lie down. But it's the perfect place to keep them for his games--the perfect place to watch them while they die.
Can't Be
Bad choices and big mistakes have landed Detective... more
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Panic by Jeff Abbott
What if everything in your life was a lie?
Things are going well for 24 year-old Evan Casher: his career as a documentary filmmaker is booming and his relationship with his new girlfriend, Carrie, couldn't be better. After an urgent phone call from his mother, he makes an unexpected... more
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A Tap on the Window by Linwood Barclay
Linwood Barclay reveals the dark side of a small town -- and the even darker secrets that hide there...
It’s been two months since private investigator Cal Weaver’s teenage son Scott died in a tragic accident. Ever since, he and his wife have drifted apart, fracturing a once... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Chain of Evidence by D. B. Corey
Chain of Evidence is the tale of Moby Truax, an aging cop working a case that could make a cop's career. The problem is, his career is over. Financially strapped, Truax struggles with the toll the years have taken as his new captain looks to justify replacing him. Truax recognizes that the MO... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
The Missing by Jane Casey
Jenny Shepherd is twelve years old and missing...Her teacher, Sarah Finch, knows better than most that the chances of finding her alive are diminishing with every day she is gone. As a little girl her older brother had gone out to play one day and never returned. The strain of never knowing what... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Die for Me: A Novel of the Valentine Killer (For Me, Bk 1) by Cynthia Eden
She thought her fiancé was the perfect man -- until he turned out to be the perfect killer...
Katherine Cole is running for her life, desperate to escape the Valentine Killer -- so-called because he stabs his victims through the heart and leaves them holding a telltale single red... more
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Watch Your Back (Baltimore, Bk 4) by Karen Rose
A cold case reopened. A murderer re-emerging more deadly than ever before…
Baltimore Homicide Detective Stevie Mazzetti has suffered losses no woman should have to endure. And, despite it all, she’s still a fighter. When she learns that her ex-partner might have miscarried... more
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Tell No One by Harlan Coben
For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive.Everyone tells him it's time to move on, to... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Fatal Vision by Monette Michaels
Having psychic abilities isn't all that great, as Morgan Tarrant could testify. They already cost her a normal family life, several jobs, and lots of moving around. Vowing to keep her psychic abilities a secret, she moves one last time to French Creek, Indiana. However, she didn't count on... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Cold Feet by Brenda Novak
When the past won't go away . . . The Seattle police suspect Madison Lieberman's father was the serial killer they call the "Sandpoint Strangler." Madison refuses to believe it. Her father is now dead, and all she wants is the chance to create a new life for herself and her six-year-old child.... more
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River of the Dead by Robert Pobi
Victim
In New York, ten-year-old boys from the city's most exclusive schools are being brutally attacked, before their mutilated corpses are found washed up in the river.
Target
Benjamin Winslow is a ten-year-old child genius who has just been accepted to Harvard. He is just like all the... more
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The Competition (Rachel Knight, Bk 4) by Marcia Clark
In Marcia Clark's most electrifying thriller yet, Los Angeles DA Rachel Knight investigates a diabolical high school massacre. A Columbine-style massacre at a high school in the San Fernando Valley has left a community shaken to its core. Two students are identified as the killers. Both are... more
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Death Angel (Alex Cooper, Bk 15) by Linda Fairstein
When the body of a young woman is discovered in Central Park, the clock begins ticking for Assistant DA Alex Cooper and Detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace to find the killer who has breached this haven in the middle of New York City. Is the body found in the lake, under the unseeing gaze... more
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Sacrifice Fly by Tim O'Mara
Raymond Donne wasn?t always a schoolteacher. Not only did he patrol the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as one of New York?s Finest, but being the nephew of the chief of detectives, he was expected to go on to bigger things. At least he was until the accident that destroyed his knees. Unable... more
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See No Evil (Marti MacAlister, Bk 6) by Eleanor Taylor Bland
Detective Marti MacAlister investigates the murder of a young woman whose criminal contacts may put a homeless man at risk. And while Marti looks for one killer, another has come from the past and into her home -- zeroing in on all that is dear to Marti.
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Oblivion by Peter Abrahams
What determines your identity? Is it the clothes you wear? The way other people treat you? The stories, anecdotes and experiences you have stored in your memory? When Nick Petrov wakes up in a hospital room, his clothes are two sizes too big. Everyone treats him like a victim. And he can't... more
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The Dying Hour (Jason Wade, Bk 1) by Rick Mofina
The Answer To Her Prayers...
When a fight with her boyfriend drives Seattle college student Karen Harding out into one of the worst storms in years, all she wants is to get to her sister's place in one piece -- instead, she finds herself stranded on a desolate stretch of highway. But when... more
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Fury (Frank Corso, Bk 1) by G. M. Ford
Frank Corso is a pariah -- a journalist once vilified for making up "facts" on a major crime story. Yet slow, sheltered Leanne Samples trusts no one but Corso to tell the world that her courtroom testimony that put Walter Leroy "Trashman" Himes on Death Row was a lie.... more
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Black River by G.M. Ford
There is no stronger argument for the death penalty than Nicholas Balagula, the bloodthirsty West Coast crime boss who has been charged with sixty-three counts of homicide, many of them children. And now reclusive rogue journalist Frank Corso -- the only non-participant invited to observe the... more
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A Blind Eye (Frank Corso, Bk 3) by G. M. Ford
Beneath the rotting floorboards of an abandoned shed are human bones -- lots of them -- the last things a runaway rogue true-crime writer and his photojournalist ex-lover expected to find when they took shelter from a vicious Wisconsin blizzard. The grisly nightmare Frank Corso and Meg Dougherty... more
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Red Tide (Frank Corso, Bk 4) by G. M. Ford
Terror has hit the West Coast with a vengeance -- leaving a tunnel full of corpses beneath the Seattle streets, with a dark promise of far, far worse to come. Despite official attempts to keep the catastrophe under wraps, rogue journalist Frank Corso refuses to remain idle, immersing himself in... more
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No Man's Land (Frank Corso) by G. M. Ford
Arizona's Meza Azul penitentiary is a technological wonder built to hold the worst of the worst. But somehow a prisoner has breached the foolproof security, opened the cells, and now holds more than one hundred guards and workers hostage. Cold, brilliant, and crazy, Navy sub... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Blown Away by G.m. Ford
The nightmare began a year ago in Pennsylvania with the shocking death of a delivery driver, blown to pieces during an outrageous crime. And now the terror has spread from East Coast to West . . . As body parts pile up throughout the L.A. area—the result of a devastating series of bank... more
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Dead Heat (Lucy Kincaid, Bk 8) by Allison Brennan
DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS
Assigned to San Antonio's Violent Crimes unit, Lucy Kincaid joins a team of seasoned veterans and newer agents for a task force called Operation Heatwave. It's supposed to be a simple sweep of known offenders with outstanding warrants. But when Lucy and her... more
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If You Were Here by Alafair Burke
Manhattan journalist McKenna Jordan is chasing the story of an unidentified woman who heroically pulled a teenaged boy from the subway tracks. When she locates a video that captures part of the incident, she thinks she has an edge on the competition scrambling to identify the mystery heroine,... more
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Bound By Suggestion (Jeff Resnick, Bk 5) by L. L. Bartlett
In exchange for helping her unlock the emotions of a disturbed young woman, psychiatrist Dr. Krista Marsh promises to cure Jeff Resnick's recurring headaches via hypnotism. Things start out rocky and quickly get worse when both the young girl and the doctor begin to manipulate Jeff. Soon... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
Vicious by Kevin O'Brien
For more than two years, he held Seattle in a terror grip -- a cold-blooded killer who abducted young mothers right in front of their sons and murdered them execution style. Then, as suddenly as the killings began, they seemed to stop. Susan Blanchette is looking forward to a relaxing weekend... more
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Liar, Liar (Cat DeLuca, Bk 1) by K. J. Larsen
Private Investigator Cat DeLuca and her Pants on Fire Detective Agency have a reputation for catching cheaters. It’s a skill Cat mastered when married to her run-around ex, Johnnie Ricco. Armed with a camera, Cat scales balconies, dangles from hotel windows, and splashes the bare... more
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238
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The Dying Hours (Tom Thorne, Bk 11) by Mark Billingham
It's been twenty-five years since Tom Thorne last went to work wearing the "Queen's cloth" but now, having stepped out of line once too often, he's back in uniform. He's no longer a detective, and he hates it.
Still struggling to adjust, Thorne becomes convinced that... more
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239
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Dead On (Marcus Rydell, Bk 1) by Robert W. Walker
Just when disgraced Atlanta cop-turned-private eye Marcus Rydell prepares to eat his gun, a kid in trouble, a call to duty, and a dirty blonde named Kat Holley stop him cold. Kat pulls Marcus from his suicidal depression and his soon-to-be demolished apartment building -- only to make him face... more
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240
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Cornered by Alan Brenham
He?s haunted by the memory of a kidnapping case gone wrong? Not wanting history to repeat itself, Detective Matt Brady struggles to solve the disappearances of seven young women, but he quickly finds himself pitted against a criminal organization that knows as much about police procedure as he... more
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241
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Human Remains by Elizabeth Haynes
How well do you know your neighbours? Would you notice if they lived or died? Police analyst Annabel wouldn't describe herself as lonely. Her work keeps her busy and the needs of her ageing mother and her cat are more than enough to fill her time when she's on her own. But Annabel is shocked... more
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242
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Terminal City (Alex Cooper, Bk 16) by Linda Fairstein
From the world’s largest Tiffany clock decorating the 42nd Street entrance to its spectacular main concourse, Grand Central has been a symbol of beauty and innovation in New York City for more than one hundred years. But “the world’s loveliest station” is hiding more than... more
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243
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The Other Woman (Jane Ryland and Jake Brogan, Bk 1) by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Jane Ryland was a rising star in television news … until she refused to reveal a source and lost everything. Now a disgraced newspaper reporter, Jane isn’t content to work on her assigned puff pieces, and finds herself tracking down a candidate’s secret mistress just days... more
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Ruthless Game by Danielle Girard
As though stumbling out of a nightmare, rookie cop Alex Kincaid awakens in her car dazed and confused. She's on an unfamiliar street, outside an unfamiliar home with no recollection of how she got there, no memory of the night before.
Then the nightmare becomes reality. Her first call of the... more
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245
| Linda S. (Linda) |
Kill Her Again by Robert Gregory Browne
Ever since a close call with death, FBI Agent Anna McBride has been having strange visions of a kidnapped little girl... a little girl who is about to be murdered. Is she going crazy? When Anna is assigned to a multiple homicide case, her visions recur with an even fiercer frequency...and she... more
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246
| Linda S. (Linda) |
The Whisperer by Donato Carrisi & Shaun Whiteside (Translator)
Six severed arms are discovered, arranged in a mysterious circle and buried in a clearing in the woods. Five of them appear to belong to missing girls between the ages of eight and eighteen. The sixth is yet to be identified. Worse still, the girls' bodies, alive or dead, are nowhere to be... more
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247
| Linda S. (Linda) |
The Stolen Ones by Shy Keenan
Cordelia was horrifically abused as a child. Now she is helping the police with their inquiries into a frightening internet pedophile ring. But when she recognizes that a child in a live film is sending out silent messages that only she can understand, she makes it her mission to track down the... more
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248
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Death's Little Helpers (John March, Bk 2) by Peter Spiegelman
From Peter Spiegelman, author of the award-winning Black Maps ("A stunner, a great debut roaring out of the gate" --Newsday), a relentlessly exciting, masterfully written new thriller featuring New York City private investigator John March.
This time March has been hired to find... more
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249
| Linda S. (Linda) |
Lifeblood (Karen Taylor, Bk 2) by N. J. Cooper
Six months on from the events in NO ESCAPE, forensic psychologist Karen Taylor is busy assessing prisoners out on parole for a Ministry of Justice project designed to predict which of them will re-offend. One of them is Randall Greer, a violent serial rapist, whose last offence took place on the... more
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250
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Try Fear (Ty Buchanan, Bk 3) by James Scott Bell
For Ty Buchanan, defending a suspected drunk driver named Carl Richess seems routine enough. But when his client ends up dead, an apparent suicide, there's nothing routine about it. Because the cops suspect it's murder, and arrest Eric Richess, Carl's brother, for the crime. Now Ty,... more
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251
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BLOOD : A Susan Shader Novel (Susan Shader Novels) by Joseph Glass
Dr. Susan Shader is the most fascinating -- and sexiest -- heroine to come along since Clarice Starling made her debut in The Silence of the Lambs. Introduced in Joseph Glass's widely praised first novel, Eyes, Susan is a renowned psychiatrist and criminal profiler for the Chicago Police... more
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252
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The Blood Detective (Thorndike Press Large Print Mystery Series) by Dan Waddell
When the naked, mutilated body of a man is found in a Notting Hill graveyard and the police investigation led by Detective Chief Inspector Grant Foster and his colleague Detective Superintendent Heather Jenkins yields few results, a closer look at the corpse reveals that what looked at first... more
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253
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Killer (Alex Delaware, Bk 29) by Jonathan Kellerman
The City of Angels has more than its share of psychopaths, and no one recognizes that more acutely than the brilliant psychologist and police consultant Dr. Alex Delaware. Despite that, Constance Sykes, a sophisticated, successful physician, hardly seems like someone Alex needs to fear. Then, at... more
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254
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Prayer for the Dead (John Becker, Bk 1) by David Wiltse
Roger Dyce is a Connecticut insurance agent who likes to inject young men of Scandinavian extraction with a paralyzing drug, drain their blood (slowly, over several days), and dress them in the clothing of his beloved grandfather before dismembering their bodies. As he's disposing of his... more
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255
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Close to the Bone (John Becker, Bk 2) by David Wiltse
A brilliant assassin is on the loose in New York City. His calling card is an ice pick, and his trail of victims leads straight to the U.N. Only FBI agent John Decker can block this vicious killer's next move -- by entering his mind.
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The Edge of Sleep (John Becker, Bk 3) by David Wiltse
Dee is a manic-depressive, persuasive, apparently bright woman; Ash is large and lumbering, slow of speech and mind. Together, they torture and kill young boys. Former FBI agent John Becker, himself a survivor of child abuse, reluctantly joins his ex-lover Karen Crist, who still works for the... more
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257
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Bone Deep (John Becker, Bk 5) by David Wiltse
When heavy spring rains reveal a long-buried bag of bones, local police in the quiet Connecticut community of Clamden realize that a string of presumed runaways is really a case of serial murder. Someone is brutally slaying local teens and au pairs before taking them apart calmly, methodically,... more
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258
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Blown Away (John Becker, Bk 6) by David Wiltse
A phantom bomber with a signature "Spring" bears a well-nursed grudge against New York City. To wreak vengeance on the city he holds responsible for his thwarted academic career, Spring launches a campaign of terror. His goal is purely revenge, but he is soon intercepted by a lowlife... more
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The Survivor (Jacob Striker, Bk 1) by Sean Slater
Columbine. Dunblane. Virginia Tech. Winnenden.
But Saint Patrick's High?
In his first hour back from a six-month leave of absence, Detective Jacob Striker's day quickly turns into a nightmare. He is barely on scene five minutes at his daughter's high school when he encounters... more
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260
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Spectrum by Alan Jacobson
New York City: home to world-renowned museums, theater, restaurants, iconic sports franchises. Central Park. Wall Street. And an infamous serial killer who?s terrorized The Big Apple for decades. The year is 1995 and the NYPD has just graduated a promising new patrol officer named Karen Vail.... more
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Into the Fire (John Becker, Bk 4) by David Wiltse
An inmate in a maximum security prison has been sending Becker mysterious coded messages. In them, Becker discovers information on a long-unsolved murder -- information that the convict cleverly uses to buy his freedom. But even Becker can't anticipate the demon that has been unleashed. Now... more
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You're Next by Gregg Hurwitz
'I know you, don't I?' Five words - that's all it takes to plunge Mike Wingate and his family into mortal danger. Mike doesn't recognise the crippled stranger who approaches him at a party ...but the stranger seems to know all about him. What has Mike done? Do they have the wrong man? Overnight,... more
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265
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Play Dead by Harlan Coben
No sooner had supermodel Laura Ayers and Celtics star David Baskin said "I do" than tragedy struck. While honeymooning on Australia's Great Barrier Reed, David went out for a swim-and never returned. Now widowed and grieving, Laura's search for the truth will draw her into a... more
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266
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Missing You by Harlan Coben
It's a profile, like all the others on the online dating site. But as NYPD Detective Kat Donovan focuses on the accompanying picture, she feels her whole world explode, as emotions she’s ignored for decades come crashing down on her. Staring back at her is her ex-fiancé... more
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267
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Never Tell by Selena Montgomery
Criminal psychologist Dr. Erin Abbott wants nothing more than to live a quiet life. That means no danger, no intrigue-and absolutely no romance. But when Erin suspects a serial killer is roaming New Orleans, her investigation throws her straight into the arms of the only man who can help... more
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Carved in Darkness by Maegan Beaumont
Past horrors bleed into a present-day nightmare Fifteen years ago, seventeen-year-old Melissa Walker was kidnapped, raped, tortured, and left for dead in a churchyard. Only two people know she survived the 83-day-long horror and began a new life as Sabrina Vaughn. As a San Francisco homicide... more
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Sacrificial Muse (Sabrina Vaughn, Bk 2) by Maegan Beaumont
Sabrina opened the red envelope and saw one word. Mox. Soon. After learning the identity of the serial killer behind her 83 horrific days of rape and torture, Sabrina Vaughn has suffered more physical and emotional wounds than she can handle. Despite reeling with pain both old and new,... more
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I'll Find You by Nancy Bush
Only Killing Stops The Pain...
Callie Cantrell has only fragmented memories of the car accident that killed her husband and son. One year later, she's still trying to start over, yet she can't shake her unease. Especially when former LA cop West Laughlin barges into her life,... more
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271
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The Program (Tim Rackley, Bk 2) by Gregg Hurwitz
Leah Henning, the eighteen-year-old daughter of a famous Hollywood producer, has vanished into The Program -- a shadowy cult that practices mind-control and manipulation, led by its brilliant, messianic leader, T.D. "Teacher" Betters. Leah surrendered her life, looking for peace. She found... more
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272
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Troubleshooter (Tim Rackley, Bk 3) by Gregg Hurwitz
The maestro of pulse-pounding suspense delivers an explosive new white-knuckle thriller featuring deputy U.S. Marshal Tim Rackley -- a lawman driven by honor, morality, and a thirst for justice.
The leader of one of the country's most violent biker gangs, Den Laurey should have been... more
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273
| Linda S. (Linda) |
Last Shot (Tim Rackley, Bk 4) by Gregg Hurwitz
Dishonored Recon Marine Walker Jameson has pulled off an inconceivable escape from California's Terminal Island Penitentiary—leaving behind a cup of mouthwash, a strand of dental floss tied to one cell bar . . . and the dead body of a sadistic killer.
Deputy U.S. Marshal Tim... more
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Almost Dead (San Francisco, Bk 2) by Lisa Jackson
A WOMAN WHO WANTS TO GET EVEN...
The first victim is pushed to her death. The second suffers a fatal overdose. The third takes a bullet to the heart. Three down, more to go. They're people who deserve to die. People who are in the way. And when... more
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| Linda S. (Linda) |
The Witness by Nora Roberts
NORA ROBERTS' 200th BOOK!
In her stunning new novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts proves why no one is better “when it comes to flawlessly fusing high-stakes suspense with red-hot romance" (Booklist, starred review).
Daughter of a cold, controlling mother and an... more
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276
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Slow Heat in Heaven by Sandra Brown
The adopted daughter of the most powerful man in town, Schyler Crandall had left Heaven, Louisiana, a broken-hearted girl. Now a crisis brings her home to a family in conflict, a logging empire on the brink of disaster, and secrets that make Heaven hotter than hell.
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Sweet Anger by Sandra Brown
TV newscaster Kari Wynne blamed her shattered life on one man -- District Attorney Hunter McKee. He hadn't caused her husband's death, but McKee had smeared his reputation. Her much older husband was her hero. McKee had branded him a thief in the media -- then dared to send her roses to... more
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278
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The Edge by Mark Olshaker
There is a place that only the mind can reach, where science cannot penetrate. Beyond it lie the power of human inspiration and the ferocity of human evil.
The Edge is the gateway to that uncharted frontier and where it all begins--a series of gruesome and ritualistic murders bearing an... more
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279
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Discretion (Anna Curtis, Bk 2) by Allison Leotta
From former federal sex-crimes prosecutor and critically acclaimed author Allison Leotta - a new thriller exploring the intersection of sex and power in Washington, D.C.'s most secretive worlds. When a beautiful young woman plummets to her death from the balcony of the U.S.... more
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Caught by Harlan Coben
From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense comes a fast-paced, emotion-packed novel about guilt, grief, and our capacity to forgive
17-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to college next... more
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Soul Circus (Derek Strange and Terry Quinn, bk 3) by George P. Pelecanos
George Pelecanos's previous 11 novels have earned him high praise and a cult following. But here he has come up with a formula that's finally taking him to the top of the bestseller lists. Fans will find everything they've come to expect in this Derek Strange and Terry Quinn novel,... more
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282
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Little Girl Gone (Logan Harper, Bk 1) by Brett Battles
From the Barry Award-winning author of the Jonathan Quinn series comes LITTLE GIRL GONE.
Logan Harper isn't looking for redemption. He just wants to live in peace and forget his troubled past. But one morning his quiet life is upended when he interrupts the attempted murder of his... more
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283
| Linda S. (Linda) |
Stolen by Shiloh Walker
This thrilling and super sexy novel from bestselling romantic suspense author Shiloh Walker will appeal to fans of Allison Brennan and Linda Howard.
Shay Morgan has stayed hidden for a long time. Living a reclusive life in Earth’s End, Alaska, she’s as far away as she can get... more
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284
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Dead Beat (Kate Brannigan, Bk 1) by V.L. McDermid
Re-release of the electric debut of Kate Brannigan, a Manchester, England-based private detective whose hobbies include Thai kick-boxing, computer hacking, and a misadventurous relationship with her journalist boyfriend, Richard. It's no thanks to Richard that Kate agrees to take on a... more
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Kickback by Val McDermid
Manchester-based private investigator Kate Brannigan is back, and this time she’s investigating the bizarre case of the missing conservatories. Before long, she’s up to her neck in crooked land deals, mortgage scams, financial chicanery – and murder. But then a favour for a... more
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286
| Linda S. (Linda) |
Sleep No More by Susan Crandall
The night was always Abby Whitman's enemy. As a young girl she walked in her sleep, and one night, she started a fire that scarred her sister for life and left Abby with unbearable guilt . . . and a loneliness that echoes within her. Now Abby has begun blacking out again-with apparently fatal... more
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287
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Into the Dark (Brenna Spector, Bk 2) by Alison Gaylin
Can a stranger share your memories?
That's the question that haunts Brenna Spector when she first sees footage of missing webcam performer Lula Belle. Naked but hidden in shadow, the "performance artist" shares her deepest, darkest secrets with her unseen male audience . . .... more
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The Cutting Room (C. J. Townsend, Bk 3) by Jilliane Hoffman
THEY WATCH.
The body of a student who went missing from a Florida nightclub is found in a dumpster. A horrifying scene, but nothing compared to what she had to endure before her murder. She was drugged and tortured - all broadcast live for the twisted pleasure of a snuff club.
THEY... more
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Edge of Black (Samantha Owens, Bk 2) by J. T. Ellison
After the devastating loss of her husband and children, Dr. Samantha Owens is starting over. Before she has even unpacked her office she is called to consult on a case that has rocked the capital and the country. An unknown pathogen released into the Washington Metro has caused nationwide panic.... more
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When Shadows Fall (Samantha Owens, Bk 3) by J. T. Ellison
Dear Dr. Owens,
If you are reading this letter, I am dead and I would be most grateful if you could solve my murder…
Forensic pathologist Dr. Samantha Owens thought life was finally returning to normal after she suffered a terrible personal loss. Settling into her new... more
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291
| Linda S. (Linda) |
Hush by Nancy Bush
Cross Your Heart
In the summer before their senior year, Coby Rendell and her friends take a beach trip together. Around a campfire on a foggy June night, Coby, Rhiannon, Yvette and the others share their darkest secrets, before a tragic accident shatters the bond between... more
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292
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The Collector by Nora Roberts
From #1 New York Times-bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a novel of a woman who needs nothing, a man who sees everything, and the web of deceit, greed, and danger that brings them together -- and could tear them apart...
When professional house-sitter Lila Emerson witnesses a... more
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Hideout by Kathleen George
Kathleen George returns with the sequel to The Odds, the Edgar®- nominee for Best Novel The new book in Kathleen George?s stunning Pittsburgh-set police procedural series begins when a young mother dies in a hit-and-run accident caused by two young brothers. Desperate and afraid, Jack and Ryan... more
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A Crack in Everything by Angela Gerst
Politics, money, love . . . what could go wrong? Susan Callisto is pushing thirty and taking stock. Before she traded financial security at a Boston law firm for sandals and jeans in Waltham, she specialized in real estate law. Now she has reinvented herself as a political consultant for... more
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End of Story by Peter Abrahams
Ivy Seidel dreams of becoming a writer, a great American novelist. But running low on money and concerned that her writing might lack a depth and darkness, she takes a job teaching creative writing -- at a maximum-security prison. It is a world she has never experienced before, one ruled by... more
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Every Last Secret (Skeet Bannion, Bk 1) by Linda Rodriguez
Half-Cherokee Marquitta "Skeet" Bannion thought she was leaving her troubles behind when she fled the stress of being the highest-ranking woman in the Kansas City Police Department, a jealous cop ex-husband, and a disgraced alcoholic ex-cop father. Moving to a small town to... more
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The Last Girl (Maeve Kerrigan, Bk 3) by Jane Casey
The teenage girl was the first victim. Her throat cut to the bone, she didn't stand a chance. Her mother, at least, had time to fight back. Briefly. Called to the crime scene in leafy Wimbledon, Maeve Kerrigan's first thought is that this is a domestic dispute gone bad. But the husband... more
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Crossing the Line (Paris Homicide, Bk 2) by Frederique Molay & Anne Trager (Trans...
It's Christmas in Paris. Chief of Police Nico Sirsky returns to work after recovering from a gunshot wound. He's in love and rearing to go. His first day back has him overseeing a jewel heist sting and taking on an odd investigation.
Dental students discovered a message in the tooth... more
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Valentine by Tom Savage
Jillian Talbot seems to have everything, as a bestselling author of suspense novels. But now, somewhere in the shadows of New York City, someone is watching her. He leaves notes in her mailbox, gifts on her doorstep, messages on her answering machine. His motives are as cryptic as the name he... more
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Dark Matter by Cameron Cruise
There are those among us whose mental capacity is so evolved that they are able to tap into abilities that are beyond this world. Often diagnosed as autistic, these medical marvels have led quiet lives, ignored by science.
Until now.
One by one, these special "Indigo children"... more
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All Seeing Eye by Rob Thurman
Picking up a small, pink shoe from the grass forever changed young Jackson Lee’s life. Not only did its presence mean that his sister Tessa was dead—murdered and stuffed in the deep, black water of a narrow well—but the shoe itself told him so.
Tessa’s death triggers... more
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Remember Me by Sharon Sala
In Sala's latest romantic suspense (after Reunion), a needle-tracked and tattooed Frankie LeGrand wakes up one morning to find that she's been missing for the past two yearsAand she has no memory of where she's been or what she's done. When Frankie vanished, her husband, Clay, became the target... more
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Did You Miss Me? by Karen Rose
Best be nimble, best be quick, I'm right here and you're my pick . . .
The last thing Ford Elkhart remembers is walking his girlfriend back to her car. Now he's lying tied and gagged on a cold, dark floor, with only one chance to escape before he ends up like the bones... more
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Pretty Little Things by Jilliane Hoffman
Special Agent Bobby Dees knows what grief feels like. He understands the pain of losing a child. And he'll do whatever he can to prevent it from happening again. The phone call that comes on a Sunday morning will take him away from his insular world of grief and sleepless nights -- and into... more
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Forget Me Not by Elizabeth Lowell
The terrible tragedy Alana Reeves suffered on Wyoming's Broken Mountain has vanished from her memory. Now nothing remains of those six lost days that cost her everything she held dear. But a man has appeared from the shadows of Alana's past -- a rugged outdoorsman who once dwelt in a wounded... more
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Tell Me You're Sorry by Kevin O'Brien
A family is wiped out after a burglary gone wrong. An executive accused of embezzling kills himself and his loved ones. A house fire claims the lives of all its inhabitants. Separate incidents with two common threads -- a first wife who took her own life, and a secret the victims took to their... more
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Haunted (Bishop/Special Crimes Unit, Bk 15) by Kay Hooper
How do you make peace with the dead if the dead aren’t ready to forgive? In New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper’s new novel, the answer lies in the twisting shadows of a small town, and its secrets yet unearthed...
When Deacon James’s younger sister Melanie calls... more
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The Perfect Stranger by Wendy Corsi Staub
In New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub's new thriller, one woman finds herself in the crosshairs of a twisted predator who might just be masked behind a familiar screen name...
During the darkest period of her life, Landry Wells found solace in a group of bloggers who had... more
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Skin and Bones by Tom Bale
In this brilliant first thriller, in the vein of Peter James, a killer goes on the rampage in a quiet Sussex village, leaving only one witness ? a woman fighting for her life.On a cold January morning, a nightmare awaits a small Sussex village. A deranged young man goes on the rampage, shooting... more
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Shadow Man (Smoky Barrett, Bk 1) by Cody McFadyen
Once, Special Agent Smoky Barrett hunted serial killers for the FBI. She was one of the best–until a madman terrorized her family, killed her husband and daughter, and left her face scarred and her soul brutalized. Turning the tables on the killer, Smoky shot him dead–but her life... more
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The Face of Death (Smoky Barrett, Bk 2) by Cody Mcfadyen
"I want to talk to Smoky Barrett or I'll kill myself."
The girl is sixteen, at the scene of a grisly triple homicide, and has a gun to her head. She claims "The Stranger" killed her adoptive family, that he's been following her all her life, killing everyone she ever loved, and that no one... more
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The Darker Side (Smoky Barrett, Bk 3) by Cody McFadyen
Everyone has a secret they don't dare tell anyone. He'll kill you for yours -- a psychopath on a perverse crusade of murder. And the one woman who can stop him has a secret that will change her from the hunter to the hunted. A lie, a long-ago affair, a dark desire -- everyone has secrets... more
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Abandoned (Smoky Barrett, Bk 4) by Cody McFadyen
A psychopath known as Dali abducts wives for men who wish to be rid of them, imprisons them for years in darkness and isolation (just storing meat) until life insurance proceeds are paid to the husbands - then charges half the insurance for services rendered. Nonpaying husbands suffer... more
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Bodies in Winter (Harry Corbin, Bk 1) by Robert Knightly
On a cold winter's morning in New York, NYPD detective Harry Corbin and his partner Adele Bentibi arrive at the scene of a murder. It looks like a cut-and-dried case but, as Corbin and Bentibi investigate, they uncover a murky world of bent cops and cover-ups that puts both of their careers... more
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The Cold Room (Harry Corbin, Bk 2) by Robert Knightly
NYPD detective Harry Corbin hasn?t been allowed to work on a homicide case for almost a year following his unearthing of corruption amongst his colleagues and superiors. So when a young woman?s body is found dumped and mutilated on a sweltering New York morning, Corbin jumps at the chance to... more
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Evil Without a Face (Sweet Justice, Bk 1) by Jordan Dane
Haunted and Obsessed...
She sleeps with a Colt Python in her nightstand and her senses on alert—Jessica Beckett isn't taking any chances. Hiding a chilling secret, living in a world of snitches and felons, good cops and bad dreams, Jessica is a bounty hunter who brings lowlifes to justice.... more
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If She Should Die by Carlene Thompson
Three years have passed since erotic, willful Dara Prince disappeared from Winston, West Virginia, leaving a note saying she's run away. Now a body has been found in the creek. A body, Christine Ireland suspects, that could very well belong to her adopted sister Dara. Deputy Sheriff Michael... more
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The Other Twin by Hunter Morgan
It's been 20 years since serial killer Charles Eshey preyed upon twins, murdering one and leaving the other alone and haunted. Sydney Macgregor's testimony put Eshey behind bars for life. Now surviving twins and their children are targeted by a psychopath.
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Night Sins (Deer Lake, Bk 1) by Tami Hoag
A sensational New York Times bestseller that was made into a CBS-TV miniseries, Night Sins has confirmed Tami Hoag's reputation as the new modern master of suspense.
This gripping tale unfolds in a peaceful Minnesota town, where crime is something that just doesn't happen. But when... more
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By Evil Means (Phoebe Siegal, Bk 1) by Sandra West Prowell
Phoebe Siegel is an ex-cop turned PI with attitude. When asked to look into the strange behavior of a client's daughter--a troubled girl whose affair with Siegel's brother may have led him to suicide--Siegel gets an eyeful within the walls of Whispering Pines sanatorium, whose guarded rehab... more
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Suspect (Scott James & Maggie, Bk 1) by Robert Crais
LAPD cop Max Kent is not doing so well. Eight months ago, a shocking nighttime assault by unidentified men killed his partner Allie, nearly killed him, and left him enraged, ashamed, and ready to explode. He is unfit for duty -- until he meets his new partner.
Maggie is not doing so well,... more
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Demolition Angel by Robert Crais
With the most unforgettable female lead character since Clarice Starling, Demolition Angel is a blistering stand-alone thriller from the freshest bestselling voice in crime fiction.Carol Starkey is struggling to pick up the pieces of her former life as L.A.'s finest bomb squad... more
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Lost by Helen R. Myers
When Faith Ramey's abandoned car is discovered, the town can't help feeling an unwelcome sense of deja vu. Police Chief Jared Morgan doesn't want to believe there's a connection, but Faith's sister, Michaele, is beginning to suspect otherwise. She has sacrificed everything --... more
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Dust to Dust (Kovac & Liska, Bk 2) by Tami Hoag
Sorry. The single word was written on a mirror. In front of it hung the Minneapolis Internal Affairs cop. Was it suicide? Or a kinky act turned tragic?
Either way, it wasn’t murder. At least not according to the powers that be. But veteran homicide detective Sam Kovac and his... more
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Stay With Me (Brenna Spector, Bk 3) by Alison Gaylin
When the past intersects with the future . . .
Brenna Spector is held prisoner by the past. She has perfect memory, which allows her to recall in vivid and remarkable detail every moment of every day of her adult life. If only she could remember more from her childhood...for she's still... more
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The Dandelion Killer: Sometimes Blood Runs Yellow by Wandra Luttrell
Jayboy Calvin watched the fog rising from the luminous green surface of the river. It swirled and thickened, reaching greedy fingers toward the bank where he stood. And within the fog was the blackness. He knew it was out there. Waiting ... as it had waited for him for over fifty years.
He... more
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The Fed Man by James Mohs
A serial killer is gruesomely murdering teens in a small Minnesota town, and it's up to retired special agent Nube Lawson to stop the murderer before he strikes again.
After the tragic death of his wife and unborn child, Nube Lawson hopes to put some distance between him and the memory of... more
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Midnight Angel (Midnight, Bk 3) by Lisa Marie Rice
Her nightmares don't stop when she opens her eyes...
In one night, talented musician Allegra Ennis lost her sight, her father and her career in a brutal attack she can't remember. Now she's alone in a world of darkness, her only company the nightmares in her head...and a killer... more
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Nameless (Less, Bk 2) by Debra Webb
Someone is dead-set on remaining... NAMELESS
Vivian Grace is an FBI rookie on a mission: To hunt down a kidnapper -- with all her heart. Because for Vivian, herself a victim of a vicious kidnapping years ago, this case is about more than justice. This time, it's... more
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Garden of Sorrow (Psychic Visions, Bk 4) by Dale Mayer
Alexis Gordon has spent the last year trying to get over the loss of her sister. Then she goes to work on a normal day... and reality as she knows it... disappears. Detective Kevin Sutherland, armed with his own psychic abilities, recognizes her gift and calls in his friend Stefan Kronos, a... more
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Tuesday's Child (Psychic Visions, Bk 1) by Dale Mayer
What she doesn't want...is exactly what he needs.
Shunned and ridiculed all her life for something she can't control, Samantha Blair hides her psychic abilities and lives on the fringes of society. Against her will, however, she's tapped into a killer -- or rather, his victims.... more
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Hide'n Go Seek (Psychic Visions, Bk 2) by Dale Mayer
A twisted game of Hide'n Go Seek forces an unlikely alliance between a no-nonsense FBI agent and a search-and-rescue worker.
Celebrated search-and-rescue worker Kali Jordon has hidden her psychic abilities by crediting her canine partner Shiloh with the recoveries. But Kali knows the... more
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Available Dark (Cass Neary, Bk 2) by Elizabeth Hand
Elizabeth Hand's writing honors include the Shirley Jackson Award, the James Tiptree Award, the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and many others. Now, this uniquely gifted storyteller brings us a searing and iconoclastic crime novel, in which... more
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The Other Daughter by Lisa Gardner
What you don't know can kill you.
In Texas a serial killer is executed, taking to his grave the identity of his only child.
In Boston a nine-year-old girl is abandoned in a hospital, then adopted by a wealthy young couple.
Twenty years later, Melanie Stokes still considers... more
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Invisible by James Patterson & David Ellis
Everyone thinks Emma Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emma has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her nightly recurring nightmares of an all-consuming... more
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Five Star First Edition Mystery - Now Comes Death by Kinley Roby
Carrying out an Audubon bird census on Hobson's Choice, a piece of undeveloped Gulf shore property, with his friend Helen Bradley, Harry Brock, a private detective by trade and naturalist by inclination, stumbles on the rotting corpse of Truly Brown, an eccentric town character who in two... more
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Tell No Lies by Gregg Hurwitz
Daniel Brasher has always been something of a disappointment to his old-money aristocratic San Francisco mother. Daniel left his high-paying job as a money manager to marry his community organizer wife and work at a job he loves, leading group counseling sessions with recently paroled ex-cons.... more
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The City of Blood (Paris Homicide, Bk 3) by Frederique Molay & Jeffrey Zuckerman ...
When a major Parisian modern art event gets unexpected attention on live TV, Chief of Police Nico Sirsky and his team of elite crime fighters rush to La Villette Park and Museum complex. There, renowned artist Samuel Cassian is inaugurating the first archeological dig of modern art, three... more
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While Others Sleep (Mira) by Helen R Myers
Who says lightning never strikes twice? Campbell Cody has twice experienced the strike of lightning, and both times proved to be a deadly portent of things to come. The first time lightning struck, she lost her friend, and her job as a police officer. The second time, Maida Livingstone, the... more
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No Sanctuary by Helen R Myers
Where do you go when there's no place to hide? Metal sculptor Bay Butler spent six years in a Texas prison for a crime she did not commit -- until the efforts of a powerful client get her conviction overturned. Suddenly Bay is free, but she is still plagued with questions. Why was she... more
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The Killing of Monday Brown (Phoebe Siegal, Bk 2) by Sandra West Prowell
Tough as barbed wire and just as tightly strung, Phoebe Siegel is a cop turned private detective with too much past, too much family, and a talent for diving too deep into a case.
Monday Brown is missing, presumed dead, assumed murdered. Brown, a white man who lived on the reservation with... more
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When Wallflowers Die (Phoebe Siegel, Bk 3) by Sandra West Prowell
Tough as barbed wire and just as tightly strung, Phoebe Siegel is a cop turned private detective with too much past, too much family, and a talent for diving too deep into a case.
Bob Maitland is the golden boy of Montana politics, poised to run for governor. There's just one... more
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Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross
David Pepin has been in love with his wife, Alice, since the moment they met in a university seminar on Alfred Hitchcock. After thirteen years of marriage, he still can’t imagine a remotely happy life without her—yet he obsessively contemplates her demise. Soon she is dead,... more
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Toyer by Gardner McKay
Everyone in Los Angeles is an actor - the waitresses, the plumbers, even the psychopaths. Toyer is a madman, so skilled as an actor that even his readers can forget that he is a diabolical villain. Highly intelligent and masterfully manipulative, he charms his way into the homes of his victims,... more
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Burnout by Jeannine Kadow
BURNOUT is the story of Lacie Wagner, a hard-hitting Washington D.C. TV news reporter scarred from a fiery childhood accident that destroyed her hands and took her father's life. Since then, she has been haunted by horrific dreams filled with a stranger's face and whispering voice promising... more
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My Brother's Keeper by Keith Gilman
Second in the gripping, hard-hitting Lou Klein detective series - Sins that ex-cop Lou Klein thought he?d buried return to haunt him when a woman from his past reappears. Born into a family of cops, Franny Patterson married into a family of crime when she wed Brian Haggerty, owner of one of... more
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Faces of the Gone (Carter Ross, Bk 1) by Brad Parks
Treading the same literary turf as Harlan Coben, and writing with a fresh Jersey voice, Brad Parks makes an energetic, impressive debut.
Four bodies, each with a single bullet wound in the back of the head, stacked like cordwood in a weed-choked vacant lot: That's the front-page news... more
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Eyes of the Innocent (Carter Ross, Bk 2) by Brad Parks
A house fire in Newark, New Jersey kills two young boys left home alone, and investigative reporter Carter Ross is dispatched to write a follow-up. The boys' mother, Akilah Harris, spins a tale of woe -- a mortgage rate reset forced her to work two jobs and leave the boys without childcare... more
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Stagestruck (Peter Diamond, Bk 11) by Peter Lovesey
Pop diva, Clarion Calhoun, has packed the house with a celebrity appearance in Bath's Theatre Royal production of I Am a Camera. But within moments of her much-anticipated onstage appearance, she's pulled out of character as she screams and claws at her face.
When... more
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Blood Country (Claire Watkins, Bk 1) by Mary Logue
Police officer Clare Watkins moves with her young daughter to Wisconsin to get away from the past and it's bad memories. But Clare doesn't know that her ten-year-old daughter Meg not only witnessed the hit-and-run accident that killed her father, she had also seen the man who was... more
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Dark Coulee (Claire Watkins, Bk 2) by Mary Logue
Blood Relations
Though life in the rural Wisconsin border country is having some healing effects for ex-Minneapolis cop Claire Watkins, she is still plagued by nightmares of past tragedy. Now she's plunged into a shattering murder case that will force her to confront the demons that... more
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Blood Dreams (Blood, Bk 1) by Kay Hooper
When the daughter of a powerful U.S. senator becomes the latest victim of a serial killer, FBI agent Noah Bishop and his Special Crimes Unit must join forces with a rogue civilian agency, originally founded by Bishop as a privately funded resource team, to stop the maniac.
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The Right Madness by James Crumley
James Crumley is one of the most influential crime writers of the post-Chandler era, and his raw, subversive novels have earned him living legend status. He first introduced readers to C. W. Sughrue ("‘Shoog’ as in sugar. And ‘rue’ as in rue the goddamned day") in his now... more
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Dead in Red (Jeff Resnick, Bk 2) by L. L. Bartlett
Sometimes it seems like murder and mayhem follow Jeff Resnick, challenging his psychic “sixth sense” to solve crimes. Since the vicious mugging that changed his life, he’s tried to keep his unwanted gift in check. But when a bartender at his favorite watering hole is murdered,... more
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Cheated By Death (Jeff Resnick, Bk 4) by L. L. Bartlett
Jeff Resnick faces a new dilemma: someone is stalking his sister-in-law, Brenda, who fears that violence from pro-life supporters will escalate near the women’s clinic where she works. Or could the vandalism, threatening phone calls, and letters against her have come from her abusive... more
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Sizzle (Buchanan-Renard, Bk 8) by Julie Garwood
Lyra Prescott, a Los Angeles film student, is closing in on graduation and facing important decisions about her future. She's already been offered a job at her hometown TV station, an opportunity that could ultimately launch her dream career as a film editor. But heading back home would also... more
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Whispers of the Dead (Dr. David Hunter, Bk 3) by Simon Beckett
Skin is a work of art, a nest of capillaries, glands and nerves that both regulates and protects. It is our sensory interface with the outside world, the barrier at which our individuality -- our self -- ends. And even in death, something of that individuality remains...
Still suffering... more
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Crosscut (Evan Delaney, Bk 4) by Meg Gardiner
For Evan Delaney, China Lake was a tough place to grow up. But she didn't realize just how tough until, returning to the desert military base for her high school reunion, she discovers that a disturbing number of her classmates have died young.
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The Midnight Hour by Karen Robards
A time to fear....Grace Hart seemed to have it all: a bright, beautiful daughter, a successful career as a judge, and a lovely home in an Ohio suburb. But beneath the placid veneer, darker truths lie waiting. Her fifteen-year-old, Jessica, is teetering on the cusp of drugs and delinquency. And... more
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The Outlier by R. J. Stanton
Imagine this...Wilton, a small town in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. Roland Briggs, a brilliant but burned out ex-homicide detective from the south trying to escape the horror of his wife's suicide and his subsequent nervous breakdown, takes the job of chief of police. For two years,... more
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Dead Watch by John Sandford
Early morning, Virginia, and a woman is on the run. Her husband, a former U.S. Senator, has been missing for days. Kidnapped? Murdered? She doesn't know, but she thinks she knows who's involved, and why. And that she's next.
Hours later in Washington, D.C., a cell phone rings.... more
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Hard Man by Allan Guthrie
Pearce, an ex-con and Edinburgh hard man who’s still recovering from the recent loss of his mother, is invited by the dysfunctional Baxter family to protect their pregnant sixteen-year-old daughter from her martial-arts-expert husband, Wallace—a man ten years her senior with a... more
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NYPD Red 2 by Marshall Karp & James Patterson
NYPD Red -- the task force attacking the most extreme crimes in America's most extreme city -- hunts a killer who is on an impossible mission.
A vengeful murderer, named the "Hazmat Killer" by the press, has taken it on himself to track down and kill people whose crimes have not... more
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Cache a Predator by M. Weidenbenner
Officer Brett Reed will do anything to gain custody of his five-year-old daughter, Quinn. But when a judge grants Brett's drug-addicted ex-wife custody and slaps him with a protective order for losing his temper, he fears for Quinn's safety. Who will protect her now?
When Quinn is found... more
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Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, Bk 1) by William Kent Krueger
Part Irish, part Anishinaabe Indian, Corcoran "Cork" O'Connor is the former sheriff of Aurora, Minnesota. Embittered by his "former" status, and the marital meltdown that has separated him from his children, Cork gets by on heavy doses of caffeine, nicotine, and guilt.... more
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The Good Suicides by Antonio Hill
Barcelona native and salty hero of The Summer of Dead Toys, Inspector Hector Salgado returns in another riveting crime thriller
After a team-building retreat in a remote country house, senior staff members at Alemany Cosmetics return home with a dark secret. They?ve each received an anonymous... more
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The Last Kiss Goodbye (Charlotte Stone, Bk 2) by Karen Robards
Dr. Charlotte "Charlie" Stone has dedicated her career as a psychiatrist to exploring the darkest territory of all: the hearts and minds of serial killers. It's a job she's uniquely suited for, thanks to the secret talent that gives her an uncanny edge -- Charlie... more
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The Keeper (DI Sean Corrigan, Bk 2) by Luke Delaney
A damp, dark cellar holds two cages. And for the women behind the bars, their worst nightmares are about to come true . . .
When Louise Russell goes missing from her home, D.I. Sean Corrigan from South London's Murder Investigation Unit immediately senses foul play. For Corrigan's own... more
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Playing Dead by Julia Heaberlin
The letter that turns Tommie McCloud's world upside down arrives from a stranger only days after her father's death. The woman who wrote it claims that Tommie is her daughter--and that she was kidnapped as a baby thirty-one days ago.
Tommie wants to believe it's all a hoax, but suddenly a... more
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Stalkers (DS Heckenburg, Bk 1) by Paul Finch
Time's up. You're Next. "All he had to do was name the woman he wanted. It was that easy. They would do all the hard work." Detective Sergeant Mark 'Heck' Heckenburg is investigating the disappearance of 38 different women. Each one was happy and successful until they... more
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Hallowed Ground (PI Julie Collins, Bk 2) by Lori G. Armstrong
Grisly murders are rocking the small county of Bear Butte where Julie Collins has spent the last few months learning the PI biz without the guidance of her best friend and business partner, Kevin Wells. Enter dangerous, charismatic entrepreneur Tony Martinez, who convinces Julie to take a case... more
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Shallow Grave (PI Julie Collins, Bk 3) by Lori G. Armstrong
Surveillance on an insurance fraud case in Bear Butte County unfolds tragically for PI Julie Collins when the reappearance of a mysterious hole - the cause of a fatal accident - brings about the landowner's unsettling confession. Bones were recently uncovered on the remote ridge... more
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Far Gone by Laura Griffin
To save her only brother, Andrea Finch must face down a criminal mastermind, the FBI, and her own demons in this thrilling novel from the author of the bestselling Tracers series.
Police detective Andrea Finch is a rising star in her department until a split-second decision derails her... more
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Running on Empty (LCR Elite, Bk 1) by Christy Reece
The Danger Has Only Begun
Having survived a brutal childhood, Sabrina Fox believed she could handle anything. That was before she watched the love of her life die before her very eyes. Brokenhearted, her emotions on lockdown, she finds purpose and hope as an LCR Elite Operative rescuing... more
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Sophie by Guy Burt
“[Sophie] combines the creepy narrative power of a young William Golding with the disturbingly accurate memory of what it is like to be a child. . . . So good that one can only wonder what [Burt] will do next.”—The Times (London)In a dark room of a dilapidated house, as a storm... more
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The Wildfire Season by Andrew Pyper
After half his body was burned in a forest fire, Miles McEwan left his life behind and moved to the most remote place he could find, a little village in the Yukon called Ross River.
He's sitting at his usual spot in the town's one bar as two life-changing forces approach from... more
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Every Broken Trust (Skeet Bannion, Bk 2) by Linda Rodriguez
A party to celebrate the arrival of George "Mel" Melvin, a Kansas City politician accompanied by his troubled teenage daughter, wealthy wife, even wealthier backer, and mysterious employee, rapidly turns into disaster when Skeet's best friend, Karen Wise, stumbles on a body in... more
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Split Second (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell, Bk 1) by David Baldacci
From #1 bestseller David Baldacci comes a new thriller reminiscent of his phenomenal bestselling debut, Absolute Power.It was only a split second--but that's all it took for Secret Service agent Sean King's attention to wander and his "protectee," third-party presidential... more
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Hour Game (Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, Bk 2) by David Baldacci
As a series of brutal murders darkens the Wrightsburg, Virginia countryside, the killer taunts police by leaving watches on the victims set to the hour corresponding with their position on his hit list. What's more, he strives to replicate notorious murders of the past, improving on them... more
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Simple Genius (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell, Bk 3) by David Baldacci
Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are both haunted by their last case. Realizing that Michelle is teetering on the brink of self-destruction from long-buried demons, Sean arranges therapy for his reluctant partner. But instead of focusing on her recovery, Michelle unearths disturbing secrets in the... more
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First Family (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell, Bk 4) by David Baldacci
It began with what seemed like an ordinary children's birthday party. Friends and family gathered to celebrate. There were balloons and cake, games and gifts.
This party, however, was far from ordinary. It was held at Camp David, the presidential retreat. And it ended with a daring... more
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The Sixth Man (Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, Bk 5) by David Baldacci
Edgar Roy-an alleged serial killer held in a secure, fortress-like Federal Supermax facility-is awaiting trial. He faces almost certain conviction. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's attorney, Sean's old friend and mentor Ted Bergin, to help work the case. But their... more
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King and Maxwell (King & Maxwell, Bk 6) by David Baldacci
At first it seemed like a simple, tragic story. Tyler Wingo, a teenage boy, learns the awful news that his father, a soldier, was killed in action in Afghanistan. Then the extraordinary happens: Tyler receives a communication from his father... after his supposed death. Tyler hires Sean and... more
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The Absence of Mercy by John Burley
John Burley’s The Absence of Mercy is a harrowing tale of suspense involving a brutal murder and dark secrets that lie beneath the surface of a placid, tight-knit Midwestern town.
When a brutally murdered teenager is discovered in the woods surrounding a small Ohio town, Dr. Ben... more
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Mortal Sin by Laurie Breton
Park Square. Mass Ave. The Combat Zone. All home to Boston's sex trade. Home also to runaways and lost souls, home to high rollers and politicians looking for action they can't find anywhere else. It is home, too, for Father Clancy Donovan, who spends his time here trying to get young girls off... more
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Last Known Victim (Stacy Killian, Bk 3) by Erica Spindler
August 2005.
Amid death and destruction, hurricane-savaged New Orleans has a new dark force to fear.
As the rescue efforts unfold, a grisly discovery is made at one of the massive refrigerator 'graveyards.' One of these metal hulks contains six human hands—all female, all... more
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Never Alone (Megan McGinn, Bk 1) by C. J. Carpenter
NYPD detective Megan McGinn has just solved the most important case of her career, and yet she has reached her breaking point. Struggling under the weight of her broken family and the brutality of her job, Megan is ready to walk away from the force - until the bizarre, ritualistic murder... more
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Cold Killing (D.I. Sean Corrigan, Bk 1) by Luke Delaney
DI Sean Corrigan is not like other detectives. The terrible abuse he suffered in childhood hasn't stopped him enjoying family life with his wife and two daughters, or pursuing an impressive career with South London's Murder Investigation Unit. But it has left him with an uncanny ability... more
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The Third Person by Steve Mosby
'This isn't some kind of 'dear John' letter. I'm coming back again'. But Amy Sinclair didn't come back. That note on the kitchen table was the last that her boyfriend, Jason, heard of her. At first, he had let her have her space but as the weeks turned to months the... more
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In the Blood: A Novel by Lisa Unger
SOMEONE KNOWS LANA'S SECRET - AND HE'S DYING TO TELL.
LANA GRANGER LIVES A LIFE OF LIES. She has told so many lies about where she comes from and who she is that the truth is like a cloudy nightmare she can't quite recall. About to graduate from college and with her trust fund almost tapped... more
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Dust (Kay Scarpetta, Bk 21) by Patricia Cornwell
After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Exhausted and ill, she's recovering at home when she receives an unsettling call.
The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of... more
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Defensive Wounds (Theresa MacLean, Bk 4) by Lisa Black
Few tears are shed over the slain corpse of Marie Corrigan, found in the presidential suite at the Ritz-Carlton during a legal convention. A Cleveland defense attorney with a history of falsifying evidence, Corrigan was resoundingly hated by all -- colleagues, adversaries . . . even her lovers.... more
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