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Here After by Sean Costello
14 ratingsLOVE. LOSS. OBSESSION. REDEMPTION.Following the death of his ten-year-old son, physician Peter Croft embarks on a desperate, seemingly random search for a missing child, risking his sanity, even his life in a grief-induced quest. His journey propels him into the darkest reaches of human suffering, and pits him squarely against an adversary whose own obsession defies all reason... -
![The Know by Martina Cole]()
The Know by Martina Cole
18 ratingsJoanie Brewer' s children meant the world to her. She'd do anything to protect them, even resorting to prostitution and petty crime in order to feed and clothe them. So when her beautiful teenage daughter is raped and murdered, only one thing will stop Joanie's pain - seeing her daughter's killer brought to justice. Joanie knows who he is and she'll do whatever it takes to nail him.. -
![Purgatory by Victor Methos]()
Purgatory by Victor Methos
14 ratingsJon Stanton should have been living the good life: a beautiful fiancé, a successful career, a home in paradise. But his job in Homicide has served up a bad case of insomnia and hallucinations, and just as his body, mind, and spirit are about to break, he begins investigating an intriguing series of merciless murders... -
![Ramonst by A.F. Knott]()
Ramonst by A.F. Knott
6 ratingsHidden in the mountains of East Tennessee, an eleven-year old goes about the business of being a boy during the summer of 1970. Within a balance of terror and innocence, he bears silent witness to ghosts of the dead and the cruelties of a teenage killer while local justice plays out in a community carved from legacies of coal mining and religion... -
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![The Pendergast Files: (Relic, Reliquary) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child]()
The Pendergast Files: (Relic, Reliquary) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
6 ratingsThis discounted ebundle includes: Relic, ReliquaryThe books that introduced the world to Douglas Preston’s and Lincoln Child’s FBI Special Agent Pendergast. Hidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by those who walk the streets above. There lies the ultimate secret of the Museum Beat... -
![Reckoning by Jeff Menapace]()
Reckoning by Jeff Menapace
10 ratingsLife in the swamp just got wilder… “The Swamp Massacre.” That’s what the media dubbed it. A family on a boat tour through the Florida Everglades. Abducted by the infamous Roy family. Forced to endure hell. Five years later, an aspiring filmmaker and her friends are keen on making a documentary about the incident... -
![SORRY CAN'T SAVE YOU: A Mystery Novel by Willow Rose]()
SORRY CAN'T SAVE YOU: A Mystery Novel by Willow Rose
10 ratings⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ... one of the best books I've read this year!What if you thought your husband was a murderer? The man you loved, the man who gave you two beautiful children and a perfect life. What if no one believed you? Laurie Davis is the mother of two children, struggling to keep her family together since her husband, Ryan, went to war and came back changed. His PTSD is evident... -
![Odd Man Out by James Newman, Aaron Dries]()
Odd Man Out by James Newman, Aaron Dries
6 ratingsThe Black Mountain Camp for Boys. Summer of ’89. It is a time for splashing in the lake and exploring the wilderness, for nine teenagers to bond together and create friendships that could last the rest of their lives.But among this group there is a young man with a secret — a secret that, in this time and place, is unthinkable to his peers... -
![Off The Grid by John Hunt]()
Off The Grid by John Hunt
8 ratingsGraham Richards was shopping with his family at an outlet mall when an active shooter began indiscriminately murdering people with a rifle. Graham was shot in the face and when he woke up in the hospital, his family was dead. And now, all he wants is to be left alone... -
![A Long December by Richard Chizmar]()
A Long December by Richard Chizmar
10 ratingsIn 1996, Richard Chizmar's debut short story collection, Midnight Promises, was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. Publishers Weekly called it "a sterling collection" while singling out "The Silence of Sorrow" as "an understated masterpiece."Two years later, Subterranean Press published a mini-collection from Chizmar entitled Monsters and Other Stories... -
![Lastnight by Stephen Leather]()
Lastnight by Stephen Leather
12 ratingsA killer is murdering Goths with relish - skinning and butchering them. The cops aren't getting anywhere so Jack Nightingale's nemesis, Superintendent Chalmers, asks him for help. Nightingale discovers that the murdered Goths had one thing in common: a tattoo connected to the secretive Satanic child-sacrificing cult called the Order Of Nine Angles... -
![Ungu Karmila by Ramlee Awang Murshid]()
Ungu Karmila by Ramlee Awang Murshid
12 ratingsATAS nama cinta... mahligai impian itu dibina. Vila Sepi menjadi mahar kasih Arif terhadap isterinya, Karmila. Namun, tragedi dahsyat memusnahkan kegembiraan yang dikecapi.Beberapa tahun berlalu... vila yang ditinggalkan dikatakan berhantu. Jikon, seorang pemuda Orang Asli bagai digamit memasuki vila itu. Akhirnya, dia menjadi korban pertama.Setelah itu, mistik di vila itu tiba-tiba sepi... -
![The Best of Mystery: 63 Short Stories Chosen by the Master of Suspense by Alfred Hitchcock]()
The Best of Mystery: 63 Short Stories Chosen by the Master of Suspense by Alfred Hitchcock
6 ratingsThese 63 spine-tingling stories originally appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery magazine, and in the words of the master himself, they'll "make your blood run cold." Hitchcock coolly serves up cool cops, clever gangsters, bodies stuffed in trunks, kidnappings, adulterous affairs, murder, and espionage, and the resulting thrills are positively delicious... -
![The Ridealong: A Suspense Thriller by Michaelbrent Collings]()
The Ridealong: A Suspense Thriller by Michaelbrent Collings
6 ratings"I've left clues for you, and clues for the police. They'll be searching for you. The evidence at the scene of Officer Knight's death is enough to send you both to jail." "Who am I searching for?" The Voice laughs. That strange, dangerous laugh. "Me, of course." *** It was supposed to be just one more ridealong, a night when high schooler Melissa Latham accompanies her father on his patrol... -
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![ART by Matt Shaw, Michael Bray]()
ART by Matt Shaw, Michael Bray
6 ratingsWARNING: The following book has some scenes which some readers may find distressing. This novel is intended for a mature audience only. Martin Andrews is in a rut. Tired of the daily grind of life as a police officer and with a heavily pregnant wife, he is disillusioned, desperate to give his unborn child a chance in a world in which he has lost all faith... -
![Speak the Dead by Grant McKenzie]()
Speak the Dead by Grant McKenzie
8 ratingsWhen Sally Blue was six years old, sleeping peacefully in her bed, a gunshot woke her up and subsequently ripped her world apart.Jolted awake by the scary noise, Sally ran to her parent's bedroom for comfort. Instead, she found her mother slumped against the headboard, her ravaged nightdress drenched from a double-barreled wound... -
![My Pretties by Jeff Strand]()
My Pretties by Jeff Strand
12 ratingsA novel of terror from the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of PRESSURE. A serial kidnapper is preying upon women. He abducts them, then locks them in one of the cages dangling from the ceiling in a soundproofed basement. There, he sits quietly and just watches them, returning night after night, hoping he'll be in the room at the moment his beautiful captives finally starve to death... -
![Wildlife by Jeff Menapace]()
Wildlife by Jeff Menapace
14 ratingsIn the Everglades, there are sights that should never be seen… Deep in the Florida Everglades, a tragic accident has ignited a deadly feud between two families. Meanwhile, a young writer, his girlfriend and her family take a boat ride into the isolated wilds of the Everglades for research on a new book, only to become unwitting witnesses to a brutal crime... -
![Press Enter by John Varley]()
Press Enter by John Varley
10 ratingsThis award-winning Science Fiction novella is part murder mystery, part romance, and more than a little bit scary.Victor Apfel, a troubled war vet, gets an odd, pre-recorded phone message, instructing him to go inside the house next door. He opens the door to find his neighbor shot through the head... -
![Fully Loaded Thrillers: The Complete and Collected Stories of Blake Crouch by Blake Crouch, J.A. Konrath]()
Fully Loaded Thrillers: The Complete and Collected Stories of Blake Crouch by Blake Crouch, J.A. Konrath
10 ratingsFrom the Foreword by J.A. Konrath: "Crouch is one of the best thriller short story writers I know. He uses words like an artist uses a paintbrush; to hurt, to stun, to shock, to provoke, to touch. This collection also features my very favorite short story of all time. Not just my favorite by Crouch, but the best one I've ever read by anyone. It's called "Unconditional... -
![Seven Sins by Miguel Estrada]()
Seven Sins by Miguel Estrada
8 ratingsIf we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.Several individuals connected through a series of unfortunate events find themselves as participants in a twisted game of trials set up by a hacker who has chosen them based on their cardinal sins... -
![Eye for an Eye by Graham Masterton]()
Eye for an Eye by Graham Masterton
7 ratingsMeet DS Katie Maguire. With her bright green eyes and short red hair, she looks like an Irish pixie. But she is no soft touch. In this exclusive short story, Ireland's most fearless detective hunts down a priest-killer in county Cork... -
![The City by S.C. Mendes]()
The City by S.C. Mendes
6 ratingsChinatown, 1910. Violence is nothing new to these streets, but the discovery of three bodies—little more than piles of flesh and organs, the bones stolen—have proven to be the most bizarre murders to date. The police turn to Max Elliot, an unstable homicide detective, who six months earlier lost his wife and daughter under similar circumstances... -
![Midnight Rain by James Newman]()
Midnight Rain by James Newman
6 ratings1977... In a small town called Midnight, North Carolina, twelve-year-old Kyle Mackey ventures toward a strange new world called manhood... Kyle's older brother Dan is going away to college. The night before Dan's flight leaves for Florida, Kyle visits what he calls his "Secret Place" -- an old shack in the woods bordering Midnight... -
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![First Night of Summer by Landon Parham]()
First Night of Summer by Landon Parham
6 ratingsWHEN TRAGEDY STRIKES, a father discovers that a journey of misfortune is sometimes the path to deliverance. The quaint mountain town of Ruidoso, New Mexico, is the perfect place for Isaac Snow to raise his family. But when eight-year-old daughters, Caroline and Josie, commit an innocent act of heroism, media coverage attracts the wrong kind of attention... -
![The Good, the Bad, and the Sadistic by Jon Athan]()
The Good, the Bad, and the Sadistic by Jon Athan
6 ratingsClayton Carter and Chastity Harrison embark on a gruesome killing spree across Southern California, always staying one step ahead of the authorities while slaughtering their victims. Homicide Detective Harvey Skinner, frustrated by his failure to catch them, decides to use an unconventional method to punish Clayton and Chastity... -
![The Country Club: Members Only by Tim Miller]()
The Country Club: Members Only by Tim Miller
6 ratingsDeep in the heart of Texas sits The Country Club. At the Club, the super wealthy explore their deepest darkest fantasies and desires. Some of them are too horrific to imagine. Crystal is a blogger who investigates Texas Urban Legends. No one believes the Club actually exists. She sets out to expose the Club and their atrocities to the world... -
![The Shadow Man by Mark Murphy]()
The Shadow Man by Mark Murphy
6 ratingsSavannah surgeon Malcolm King had a perfect life--a loving wife, devoted daughter, and a thriving medical practice. But when a random airport parking lot hit-and-run links him to a dead body in a Florida hotel and an acquaintance is found dismembered and stuffed into a garbage bag, Malcolm finds himself on the run as a suspected serial killer. But he's no murderer... -
![The Return of Rachel Stone by Amy Cross]()
The Return of Rachel Stone by Amy Cross
6 ratingsFifteen years ago, Rachel Stone was snatched from her crib in the middle of the night. Now she's back. Or is she? Called in by concerned family members, private detective Jo Mason has to determine whether Rachel has really returned, or whether she's actually an impostor trying to rob her wealthy family of millions... -
![Run by Jeremy Bates]()
Run by Jeremy Bates
6 ratingsYOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CAN'T HIDEDuring a camping trip to the Catskill Mountains, Charlotte's boyfriend Luke, a former soldier suffering PTSD, goes on a rampage, nearly killing Charlotte and her two friends. A year later Charlotte is a graduate student in the small college town of Ashenville, North Carolina... -
![The Darkest Lies by Barbara Copperthwaite]()
The Darkest Lies by Barbara Copperthwaite
16 ratingsA mother desperate for the truth. A daughter hiding a terrible secret. Melanie Oak appeared to have the perfect life. Married to her childhood sweetheart, Jacob, the couple live with their beautiful, loving, teenage daughter, Beth, in a pretty village... -
![Hick Lawyer by Corey Burns]()
Hick Lawyer by Corey Burns
13 ratingsDexter Smith has muddled his way through life, and law school. And he has found a small Nebraska town to hide out in and do as little as possible, handling simple court appointed cases while life passes him by. Now, Donald Birch has been charged with three counts of first degree murder... -
![Terminal by Brian Keene]()
Terminal by Brian Keene
12 ratingsFrom award-winning author Brian Keene comes a darkly suspenseful tale of crime and the common man--with a surprising jolt of the supernatural . . . Tommy O'Brien once hoped to leave his run-down industrial hometown. But marriage and fatherhood have kept him running in place, working a job that doesn't even pay the bills. And now he seems fated to stay for the rest of his life... -
![Bring Her Back by Jeff Strand]()
Bring Her Back by Jeff Strand
10 ratingsFrank knows that he's creepy. There's nothing he can do about it. His creepiness--along with the fact that his father once killed eleven people in an office shooting—has kept him from ever having a girlfriend. When he finally works up the nerve to ask Abigail out on a date, after buying flowers from her every day for the past three months, he's sure she'll say no... -
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![ILUSANITI by Adib Zaini]()
ILUSANITI by Adib Zaini
10 ratingsILUSANITIIni kisah sekumpulan kawan.Lama sudah kenal secara online.Untuk kali pertama mereka bertemu.Seorang mati bunuh diri selepas itu.Ataupun ada konspirasi yang mereka tidak tahu.Nisan siapa bakal diukir lagi?Ingatan semakin hilang setiap hari.Tidur dipenuhi dengan mimpi ngeri... -
![King of Swords by Nick Stone]()
King of Swords by Nick Stone
8 ratingsSuch was the acclaim that greeted Nick Stone's amazing debut novel, Mr Clarinet, that a curious syndrome soon developed: if you hadn't read the novel (and claimed to have any interest in the crime genre), you had to say (to all who would listen) 'I really must read Mr Clarinet -- I've heard so much about it!' (preferably said with a pronounced guilty note in the voice)... -
![Stark Warning by James Raven]()
Stark Warning by James Raven
8 ratings“Every time you appear on screen someone will die.”That’s the stark warning given to Jessica Lee, the undisputed ‘Queen of Trash TV.’ She’s the host of a confessional talk show on network television with millions of fans. But one deranged viewer is out to destroy her career. He demands that her programme be scrapped and tells her to stop appearing on TV... -
![Scar Tissue by Marcus Sakey]()
Scar Tissue by Marcus Sakey
6 ratingsFROM THE FOREWORD BY J.A. KONRATH: “Scar Tissue will make your heart race and your heart ache, often in the same sentence.” Not only that, but buying this collection helps battle real-life heartache—50% of every e-book sold is donated to fighting pediatric cancer. Marcus Sakey’s thrillers have won numerous awards and been translated into twenty languages... -
![Born To Bleed by Ryan C. Thomas]()
Born To Bleed by Ryan C. Thomas
6 ratingsBorn to Bleed is the exciting sequel to the cult classic, The Summer I Died! It's been ten years since Roger Huntington suffered through the bloody events in Skinny Man's basement. Ten years since the game of chance, the dismemberment, the torture, and the grisly deaths. Roger has moved to California where he now works as a painter and pines after his co-worker, Victoria... -
![Deadly Thyme by R.L. Nolen]()
Deadly Thyme by R.L. Nolen
6 ratingsA girl disappears in this psychological suspense set in a sleepy coast village in Cornwall, England where many of the inhabitants are keeping secrets. One secret is deadly... -
![Tastes Like Candy: A Slasher Novel by Ivy Tholen]()
Tastes Like Candy: A Slasher Novel by Ivy Tholen
6 ratingsEveryone at Pritchett High wants an invitation to the Senior Scavenge. In 2020, Violet Warren and her friends are the lucky ones. Eight girls will break into the Poison Apple Carnival after hours for a scavenger hunt, then at sunrise they’ll gather for a celebration in honor of their upcoming senior year.But someone else has another game planned... -
![Psychos: Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane by John Skipp, Neil Gaiman]()
Psychos: Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane by John Skipp, Neil Gaiman
6 ratingsThis collection of thirty-five terrifying tales of serial killers at large, written by the great masters of the genre, plumbs the horrifying depths of a deranged mind and the forces of evil that compel a human being to murder, gruesomely and methodically, over and over again... -
![BORN EVIL - THE EVIL TRILOGY by Julia Derek]()
BORN EVIL - THE EVIL TRILOGY by Julia Derek
6 ratingsWHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU FOUND OUT YOUR CHILD IS A PSYCHOPATH?One night when Jennifer Hanson returns home, she catches her 12-year-old son Shane stabbing their cat to death. Thankfully, he doesn't see her. Having long known Shane has a brain with psychopathic tendencies, her worst fears may be confirmed... -
![Seelenangst: Thriller. by Veit Etzold, Andy Matern]()
Seelenangst: Thriller. by Veit Etzold, Andy Matern
6 ratingsClara Vidalis, Expertin für Pathopsychologie am LKA Berlin, hat gerade die Folgen ihrer Hetzjagd auf den Serienkiller "Der Namenlose" verkraftet, als die Hauptstadt von einer neuen, noch perfideren Mordserie erschüttert wird... -
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![My Family by Matt Shaw]()
My Family by Matt Shaw
6 ratingsWARNING: THIS IS AN EXTREME HORROR NOVEL. There is gore. There is bad language. There are scenes of a sexual nature. But hidden underneath it all is also a chilling story. Please do not purchase this book if you are easily shocked, disgusted or offended. This book is not for you... -
![68 Kill by Bryan Smith]()
68 Kill by Bryan Smith
6 ratingsIt started with a couple of dead bodies and $68,000 in stolen cash. Chip Taylor’s girlfriend Liza had the perfect plan to rip off her rich sugar daddy. It should have been an easy in and out kind of deal. Nobody would get hurt and they would come out of it with enough loot to solve their problems... -
![Dead Silent by Sharon Jones]()
Dead Silent by Sharon Jones
6 ratingsA snow angel etched in blood. An elite society. A secret dying to get out. The second Poppy Sinclair Thriller. When Poppy Sinclair and her boyfriend visit snowy Cambridge, she doesn't expect to discover the body of a student - arms outstretched in the act of smearing bloody angel wings on the chapel's floor... -
![Endless Night by Richard Laymon]()
Endless Night by Richard Laymon
18 ratingsJody is pretty tough for a sixteen-year-old girl. That's the only reason she's still alive - for now. She was sleeping over at her friend Evelyn's house when a group of killers broke in and tried to slaughter everyone. She saw Evelyn spitted on a spear, but Jody managed to escape, along with Evelyn's little brother, Andy. — Simon was one of the killers that gruesome night... -
![After Midnight by Richard Laymon]()
After Midnight by Richard Laymon
16 ratingsAlice has quite a story to tell you. That's not her real name, of course. she couldn't give her real name, not after all the things she reveals about herself in this book. All of her... adventures. And all that killing. She wouldn't want the police to find her, now would she? — It started out so nice... -
![Io sono l'abisso by Donato Carrisi]()
Io sono l'abisso by Donato Carrisi
16 ratingsSono le cinque meno dieci esatte. Il lago s’intravede all’orizzonte: è una lunga linea di grafite, nera e argento. L’uomo che pulisce sta per iniziare una giornata scandita dalla raccolta della spazzatura. Non prova ribrezzo per il suo lavoro, anzi: sa che è necessario. E sa che è proprio in ciò che le persone gettano via che si celano i più profondi segreti.E lui sa interpretarli...
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