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  • Genesis by Chris Carter

    Genesis by Chris Carter

    18 ratings
    A killing like no other.A killer more twisted than he’s ever seen before.A case that will test him to the limit. Has Robert Hunter finally met his match?‘Do you believe the Devil exists, Detective?’ the officer at the end of the line asks. ‘Because if you don’t . . . I’m sure you will once you get here.’ Robert Hunter is called to the most vicious crime scene he has ever attended...
  • An Evil Mind by Chris Carter

    An Evil Mind by Chris Carter

    25 ratings
    A freak accident in rural Wyoming leads the Sheriff's Department to arrest a man for a possible double homicide, but further investigations suggest a much more horrifying discovery - a serial killer who has been kidnapping, torturing and mutilating victims all over the United States for at least twenty-five years...
  • One by One by Chris Carter

    One by One by Chris Carter

    25 ratings
    'I need your help, Detective. Fire or water?' Detective Robert Hunter of the LAPD's Homicide Special Section receives an anonymous call asking him to go to a specific web address - a private broadcast. Hunter logs on and a show devised for his eyes only immediately begins. But the caller doesn't want Detective Hunter to just watch, he wants him to participate, and refusal is simply not an option...
  • The Sixth Wicked Child by J.D. Barker

    The Sixth Wicked Child by J.D. Barker

    24 ratings
    In the riveting conclusion of the 4MK trilogy, Barker takes the thriller to an entirely new level. Hear No Evil For Detective Sam Porter, the words “Father, forgive me” conjure memories long forgotten; a past intentionally buried. For Anson Bishop, these three words connect a childhood to the present as he unleashes a truth concealed for decades...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  abuse  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Hunting Evil by Chris Carter

    Hunting Evil by Chris Carter

    20 ratings
    'Every story one day comes to an end.' As roommates, they met for the first time in college. Two of the brightest minds ever to graduate from Stamford Psychology University. As adversaries, they met again in Quantico, Virginia. Robert Hunter had become the head of the LAPD’s Ultra Violent Crimes Unit...
  • I Am Death by Chris Carter

    I Am Death by Chris Carter

    25 ratings
    AN EVIL MIND was Chris Carters's most acclaimed novel to date, described by the Daily mail as: 'A chilling, compulsive portrait of a psychopath, and proves that Carter is now in the Jeffrey Deaver class.' It spent three weeks in the Sunday Timestop ten and received brillant reviews and sales. This terrifying new standalone thriller reunites Hunter and Garcia in their most explosive case to date...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  dark
  • The Caller by Chris Carter

    The Caller by Chris Carter

    25 ratings
    Don't miss GENESIS, the latest must-read serial killer thriller from master of the genre, Chris Carter. Available to order now.THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERBe careful before answering your next call. It could be the beginning of your worst nightmare.After a tough week, Tanya Kaitlin is looking forward to a relaxing night in, but as she steps out of her shower, she hears her phone ring...
  • Written in Blood by Chris Carter

    Written in Blood by Chris Carter

    20 ratings
    Don't miss GENESIS, the latest must-read serial killer thriller from master of the genre, Chris Carter. Available to order now. ‘Wonderful storytelling, with a superbly drawn killer, it underlines exactly how good Carter has become’ Daily MailTHE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER    A serial killer who will stop at nothing…  The Killer His most valuable possession has been stolen...
  • Der Insasse by Sebastian Fitzek

    Der Insasse by Sebastian Fitzek

    24 ratings
    Vor einem Jahr verschwand der kleine Max Berghoff.Nur der Täter weiß, was mit ihm geschah.Doch der sitzt im Hochsicherheitstrakt der Psychiatrie und schweigt.Max' Vater bleibt nur ein Weg, um endlich Gewissheit zu haben: Er muss selbst zum Insassen werden.Der InsasseUm die Wahrheit zu finden, muss er seinen Verstand verlieren...
  • Never Lie by Freida McFadden

    Never Lie by Freida McFadden

    38 ratings
    Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams.But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate… with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end...
  • If Angels Fall by Rick Mofina

    If Angels Fall by Rick Mofina

    18 ratings
    In the bestselling tradition of Jonathan Kellerman and Mary Higgins Clark, comes this powerful psychological thriller from newcomer Rick Mofina. "If Angels Fall" is the story of a man beset by tragedy, who moves from mourning...to madness...to murder.There are some horrors a man can never forget. Sounds so chilling that they can never be silenced. The frantic screams of drowning children...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  drama
  • Little Boy Blue by M.J. Arlidge

    Little Boy Blue by M.J. Arlidge

    24 ratings
    Detective Helen Grace faces her own dark compulsions in the twisty new thriller from the author of Pop Goes the Weasel and Eeny Meeny.In the darkest corners of the city, there is a thriving nightlife where people can let loose and cross the lines of work and play, of pleasure and pain. But now that sanctuary has been breached. A killer has struck and a man is dead...
  • Appetite for Innocence by Lucinda Berry

    Appetite for Innocence by Lucinda Berry

    26 ratings
    Be careful what you post online. Your next check-in might lead him right to you...A serial rapist is kidnapping teenage girls. But he’s not interested in just any teenage girls—only virgins. He hunts them by following their status updates and check-ins on social media. Once he’s captured them, they’re locked away in his sound-proof basement until they’re groomed and ready...
  • Frozen Statues by L.E. Fraser

    Frozen Statues by L.E. Fraser

    12 ratings
    A gripping psychological thriller with shocking twistsIn the bitter cold of a Canadian winter, seven university freshmen vanish without a trace. Soon afterwards, police discover a ghastly crime scene—the victim is frozen solid and his eyes are missing, replaced with black stones. A week later, they find a second frozen statue at an identical crime scene...
  • A Caller's Game by J.D. Barker

    A Caller's Game by J.D. Barker

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

    Seven by Anthony Bruno

    16 ratings
    Mismatched partner cops Somerset and Mills are on the trail of a psychotic murderer who intends to avenge the seven deadly sins, starting with gluttony...
  • Buried by C.J. Carmichael

    Buried by C.J. Carmichael

    20 ratings
    An alternate cover edition can be found here.Justice is overdue in the coastal town of Twisted Cedars where two unsolved mysteries lay buried in the past.Over thirty years ago a series of murders targeting Oregon librarians was never solved. Now someone with inside knowledge is feeding clues to true crime writer Dougal Lachlan, promising him the best story of his career...
  • The Vanished Ones by Donato Carrisi

    The Vanished Ones by Donato Carrisi

    20 ratings
    We call them the sleepers...At the elite Missing Persons bureau of the Federal Police, Mila Vasquez is tasked with finding the hundreds of lost people who have vanished from their former lives. However, the longer they are gone, they more they are forgotten by the world. Now they are returning...
  • I Will Make You Pay by Teresa Driscoll

    I Will Make You Pay by Teresa Driscoll

    24 ratings
    Every Wednesday, like clockwork, the terror returns. It seems like an ordinary Wednesday, until the phone rings. A mysterious caller with a chilling threat. Journalist Alice Henderson hangs up, ready to dismiss it as a hoax against the newspaper. But the next Wednesday, the stalker makes another move—and it becomes clear that this is all about Alice...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  dark
  • Liar Liar by M.J. Arlidge

    Liar Liar by M.J. Arlidge

    24 ratings
    Detective Helen Grace gets caught in an inferno of death and destruction in the red-hot new thriller from the author of Eeny Meeny, Pop Goes the Weasel, and The Doll’s HouseDetective Helen Grace has never seen such destruction. Six fires in twenty-four hours. Two people dead. Several more injured. It’s as if someone wants to burn the city to the ground..
  • Wicked Little Words by Stevie J. Cole, B.T. Urruela

    Wicked Little Words by Stevie J. Cole, B.T. Urruela

    10 ratings
    Edwin Allen Mercer I want them all to read my words. And they do. Every last blood-stained sentence, they've read and praised me for. They love the gore and violence, the realness. And I get a sense of power with it all because I know a secret: the victims in my books—they’re real and have all died on my table. And maybe that’s why the last book had such awful reviews...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  dark  fiction
  • The Longest Silence by Debra Webb

    The Longest Silence by Debra Webb

    10 ratings
    "The twists and turns in this dark, taut drama make it both creepy and compelling." -- New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry A killer stole her voice. Now she's ready to take it back. Don't miss the chilling Shades of Death series from USA TODAY bestselling author Debra Webb. Joanna Guthrie was free. She had been for eighteen years--or so she needed everyone to believe...
  • Stay Awake by Megan Goldin

    Stay Awake by Megan Goldin

    12 ratings
    Liv Reese wakes up in the back of a taxi with no idea where she is or how she got there. When she’s dropped off at the door of her brownstone, a stranger answers―a stranger who now lives in her apartment and forces her out in the cold. She reaches for her phone to call for help, only to discover it’s missing, and in its place is a bloodstained knife...
  • Sleep Tight by Anne Frasier

    Sleep Tight by Anne Frasier

    18 ratings
    WAKE UP, LITTLE DARLING. DO YOU LIKE WHAT YOU SEE?He's looking for the perfect woman. Someone who won't disappoint him, like so many have before. Someone who'll love him ... someone who won't have to die for her mistakes.GIVE UP, LITTLE DARLING....FBI agent Mary Cantrell has been called to Minneapolis to hunt down a killer...
  • The Cabin in the Woods by Sarah Alderson

    The Cabin in the Woods by Sarah Alderson

    18 ratings
    The unmissable new thriller from the bestselling author and screenwriter of Netflix movie, The Weekend Away.In a cabin in a wood,A woman by the window stood.Glancing out, she thought she heardFootsteps, whistling, something stirred.Hiding here, she fears the night,For what’s done in the dark will come to light...
  • Ward D by Freida McFadden

    Ward D by Freida McFadden

    31 ratings
    Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward.Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital’s inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out...
  • The Only One Left by Riley Sager

    The Only One Left by Riley Sager

    5 ratings
    At seventeen, Lenora HopeHung her sister with a rope Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it...
  • Tell Me Lies by Teresa Driscoll

    Tell Me Lies by Teresa Driscoll

    6 ratings
    From bestselling author Teresa Driscoll comes a chilling thriller of past secrets and present terror. Deep in a rural hideaway, it’s only the owls watching them…right? After a betrayal that sent their marriage into freefall, Hannah and Sam are desperate for a fresh start with their eight-year-old daughter Lily―and where better than picture-perfect Owl Cottage in beautiful Cornwall...
  • One Fear by Belle Brooks

    One Fear by Belle Brooks

    8 ratings
    “My one fear is now my reality.” He didn’t offer his name when he fulfilled his need to include me as a player in his game. I’m number thirteen. Just a number given to the bitches who wronged him. I was blindsided. Stolen from my life. In his devilled eyes, I have a debt to pay…he wants my final breath to see us even...
  • A Child for the Devil by Conrad Jones

    A Child for the Devil by Conrad Jones

    8 ratings
    A Child for the Devil is a full length dark thriller based on the novella 'Nine Angels'. When the author Conrad Jones was asked to help the police with the investigation into a double murder by identifying occult symbols, which had been carved into the victims, he is plunged into a nightmare and forced to go on the run...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  cults  fiction
  • Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra

    Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra

    8 ratings
    ***Note that many reviews contain spoilers***A razor-sharp thriller about a mother forced to the breaking point when her life and the lives of her children are threatened by an intruderHome alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. She hears a noise—old houses are always making some kind of noise...
  • Three Strikes by Kate Kessler

    Three Strikes by Kate Kessler

    10 ratings
    Three Strikes is the new novel in a thriller series where a criminal psychologist uses her own dark past to help law enforcement catch dangerous killers.Thanksgiving is approaching, and Audrey Harte has a lot to be thankful for -- her mother has recovered from surgery, her relationship with Jake is solid, her father is relatively sober, and her career is evolving in an exciting direction...
  • The Pale White by Chad Lutzke

    The Pale White by Chad Lutzke

    10 ratings
    After being held against their will in a house used for trafficking, three girls plan their escape.Alex: A hardened goth-punk who’s convinced she’s a vampire with a penchant for blood.Stacia: A seventeen-year-old raised by an alcoholic mother, her fellow captives the only family she’s ever truly had.Kammie: The youngest of the three—a mute who finds solace in a houseplant...
  • Black for Remembrance by Carlene Thompson

    Black for Remembrance by Carlene Thompson

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

    Vicious by Kevin O'Brien

    12 ratings
    NO MOTIVE 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.NO MERCY Susan Blanchette is looking forward to a relaxing weekend getaway with her fianc�, Allen, and young son, Matthew...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  dark  espionage
  • White Russian by J.A. Konrath

    White Russian by J.A. Konrath

    12 ratings
    Just when you get out...Former Chicago cop Jack Daniels thought she'd left her former life behind. She'd traded her badge for a toddler, and her lifelong pursuit of heinous serial killers for a boring house in the suburbs....they pull you back in.Then Jack sees some pictures. Pictures of men who were supposed to be dead...
  • All the Pretty Faces by Rita Herron

    All the Pretty Faces by Rita Herron

    14 ratings
    Josie DuKane is on shaky ground. Having narrowly escaped the notorious Bride Killer, she penned a tell-all memoir that dug up a town’s dark past. Now the book is being made into a movie, and Josie must visit the very place that will trigger an avalanche of unwanted memories—Graveyard Falls...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  dark
  • Escape! by Iain Rob Wright

    Escape! by Iain Rob Wright

    15 ratings
    Brand new Horror novel from acclaimed author Iain Rob Wright. Can you figure out the secrets of "the room" and escape before it's too late?Cheryl is about to learn that the people she works with are keeping a secret. One they are willing to kill for.Cheryl is the new girl at work, which is why she feels like she doesn't have a choice when she's asked to go on a "company outing...
  • The Girls He Adored by Jonathan Nasaw

    The Girls He Adored by Jonathan Nasaw

    16 ratings
    For ten years, the charmingly disheveled veteran FBI Special Agent E.L. Pender has been investigating the apparently random disappearances of a dozen women across the country. The only detail the cases have in common is the strawberry blond color of the victims' hair, and the presence of a mystery man with whom they were last seen...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  dark
  • Either Side of Midnight by Tori de Clare

    Either Side of Midnight by Tori de Clare

    16 ratings
    WHAT IF THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE TURNED INTO YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE? When nineteen-year-old Naomi Stone is snatched from her husband at knifepoint on the night of their wedding and taken to a deserted cemetery, she knows her life is finished. Drugged and disorientated, she loses consciousness as she lies in an open grave with a gun to her head...
  • Keep It In The Family by John Marrs

    Keep It In The Family by John Marrs

    18 ratings
    In this chilling novel from bestselling author John Marrs, a young couple’s house hides terrible secrets—and not all of them are confined to the past.Mia and Finn are busy turning a derelict house into their dream home when Mia unexpectedly falls pregnant. But just when they think the house is ready, Mia discovers a chilling message scored into a skirting board: I WILL SAVE THEM FROM THE ATTIC...
  • You Let Me In by Lucy Clarke

    You Let Me In by Lucy Clarke

    20 ratings
    Spine-tingling, chilling, and utterly compulsive, YOU LET ME IN is the stunning new novel from Richard & Judy Book Club author, Lucy Clarke Nothing has felt right since Elle rented out her house . . . I’M IN YOUR HOUSE There’s a new coldness. A shift in the atmosphere. The prickling feeling that someone is watching her every move from the shadows...
  • No One Saw a Thing by Andrea Mara

    No One Saw a Thing by Andrea Mara

    20 ratings
    Two children get on the train. Only one gets off...No one saw it happen.You stand on a crowded tube platform in London. Your two little girls jump on the train ahead of you. As you try to join them, the doors slide shut and the train moves away, leaving you behind.Everyone is lying.By the time you get to the next stop, you've convinced yourself that everything will be fine...
  • The Soul Breaker by Sebastian Fitzek

    The Soul Breaker by Sebastian Fitzek

    24 ratings
    International number one bestseller Sebastian Fitzek plunges readers into the depths of their own souls in a new high-concept thriller.The Soul Breaker destroys his victims.He doesn't kill them, or mutilate them. But he leaves them completely dead inside, paralysed and catatonic. His only trace a note left in their hands.There are three known victims when suddenly the abductions stop...
  • Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins

    Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins

    18 ratings
    When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, police turn to the Scottish nanny, Dee, for answers...
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    crime  gothic  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Here and Gone by Haylen Beck

    Here and Gone by Haylen Beck

    18 ratings
    Here and Gone is a gripping, wonderfully tense suspense thriller about a mother's desperate fight to recover her stolen children from corrupt authorities.It begins with a woman fleeing through Arizona with her kids in tow, trying to escape an abusive marriage. When she's pulled over by an unsettling local sheriff, things soon go awry and she is taken into custody...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  drama
  • The Stalker by Sarah Alderson

    The Stalker by Sarah Alderson

    18 ratings
    Newly-weds Liam and Laura are spending their honeymoon in paradise: just the two of them on a remote island off the coast of Scotland. But they soon discover that all is not as it seems, and the island has a tragic past. And they can’t shake the feeling of being watched…When one morning, they wake to find a message scratched into the window, their worst fears are confirmed...
  • Merciless by Richard Montanari

    Merciless by Richard Montanari

    14 ratings
    BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Richard Montanari's The Echo Man.On a frigid December night, Karen sits at the edge of Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River, dressed in a flowing gown, like a visitor from the distant past. A beautiful and shining young woman, she gazes up at a bone-white winter moon like a fairy-tale princess frozen in time...
  • Forward Slash by Louise Voss, Mark Edwards

    Forward Slash by Louise Voss, Mark Edwards

    14 ratings
    A terrifying novel about internet dating, secret desires and a chilling serial killer. From bestselling authors Mark Edwards and Louise Voss.He's posted on your wall.He's following you on Twitter.He knows where you are right now…When Amy receives an email from her older sister, Becky, announcing that she's off travelling and "don't try to find me", she is worried...
  • Down in the Zero by Andrew Vachss

    Down in the Zero by Andrew Vachss

    14 ratings
    Andrew Vachss has reinvented detective fiction for an age in which guilty secrets are obsolete and murder isn't even worth a news headline. And in the person of his haunted, hell-ridden private eye Burke, Vachss has given us a new kind of hero: a man inured to every evil except the kind that preys on children...
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