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Buried by C.J. Carmichael
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsAn 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... -
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The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsPresent day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil–human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder. But whoever this nameless woman was, and whatever befell her, is knowledge lost to another time. . . -
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![Judas Kiss by J.T. Ellison]()
Judas Kiss by J.T. Ellison
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIt was a murder made for a trail of tiny bloody footprints. An innocent toddler playing beside her mother's body. Stay tuned for the next riveting thriller in the Taylor Jackson series by New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison... -
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14 by J.T. Ellison
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsTen victims, each with pale skin and long dark hair. All have been slashed across the throat, the same red lipstick smeared across their lips.In the mid-1980s the Snow White Killer terrorized the streets of Nashville, Tennessee. Then suddenly the murders stopped. A letter from the killer to the police stated that his work was done.Now four more bodies are found, marked with his fatal signature... -
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Most Likely to Die by Lisa Jackson, Beverly Barton
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsIt's been twenty years since the night Jake Marcott was brutally murdered at St. Elizabeth High School. It's a night that shattered the lives of Lindsay Farrell, Kirsten Daniels, and Rachel Alsace. It's a night they'll never forget. A killer will make sure of that...A 20-year reunion has been scheduled for St. Elizabeth's... -
![In Silence by Erica Spindler]()
In Silence by Erica Spindler
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsJournalist Avery Chauvin is devastated when she receives word of her father's suicide. How could her father, a dedicated physician, have taken his own life? That he set himself on fire is unfathomable.Returning to her hometown of Cypress Springs, Louisiana, Avery desperately searches for answers. Instead she hears whispered rumors of strange happenings, of neighbors who go missing in the night... -
![Don't Scream by Wendy Corsi Staub]()
Don't Scream by Wendy Corsi Staub
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsDon't Tell A Soul. . . In a remote, heavily wooded area near the Berkshires of Massachusetts, Rachel Lorant died on her birthday. But she didn't die alone. That night, her four sorority sisters make a solemn, trembling pledge. They will never reveal what has just happened in those woods--ever. Instead, they will take their terrible secret to their graves. . . Don't Think About The Past. . -
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Afraid To Die by Lisa Jackson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsOthers may dread the chill of winter, but he relishes it. The way the frigid water preserves his victims, the feel of their icy skin beneath his fingers...And soon the world will see their beauty - and his vengeance. The town of Grizzly Falls is on edge in the wake of a serial killer, and Detective Selena Alvarez is no exception. That case was solved, but a new nightmare is about to unfold... -
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Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsFor fans of Kate Morton and Sarah Waters, here's a magnetic debut novel of wrenching family secrets, forbidden love, and heartbreaking loss housed within the grand gothic manor of Black Rabbit Hall.Ghosts are everywhere, not just the ghost of Momma in the woods, but ghosts of us too, what we used to be like in those long summers .. -
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Liquor by Poppy Z. Brite
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNew Orleans natives Rickey and G-man are lifetime friends and down-and-out line cooks desperate to make a quick buck. When Rickey concocts the idea of opening a restaurant in their alcohol-loving hometown where every dish packs a spirited punch, they know they’re on their way to the bank... -
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Red Warning by Matthew Quirk
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAgent Sam Hudson tracks a Russian deep cover operative loose in the U.S. and a possible mole in the CIA days before a devastating attack on Washington D.C. in this adrenaline-fueled thriller from the author of The Night Agent and Hour of the Assassin... -
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All The Pretty Girls by J.T. Ellison
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsSome secrets should stay buried. When a local girl falls prey to a sadistic serial killer, Nashville Homicide Lieutenant Taylor Jackson and her lover, FBI profiler Dr. John Baldwin, find themselves in a joint investigation pursuing a vicious murderer... -
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SANDMAN by Morgan Hannah MacDonald
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsBEWARE the SANDMAN-He'll put you to sleep. . .FOREVER. A serial killer on the loose, a woman being stalked, and a homicide detective who must find the connection between the two before she becomes his next victim. He collects women. He imprisons them, plays with them, tortures them. Until they bore him. Then he removes a souvenir. They call him the Sandman... -
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Twisted Roots by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThe perfect family...and the perfect nightmare. TWISTED ROOTS From the outside, Hannah Eaton seems to live a charmed life in wealthy Palm Beach, Florida, with her mother, Willow, a renowned psychologist, and her stepfather. But deep inside, she is miserable and lonely. She's been abandoned by her father, a pretentious lawyer whose family wants nothing to do with her... -
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Wicked Forest by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIN A WORLD OF HIDDEN DANGERS, IT'S EASY TO GET LOST.... After discovering her true identity, Willow De Beers leaves her North Carolina town to live with her real mother and her half-brother in Palm Beach, Florida... -
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Hidden Leaves by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe truth could not be revealed until now.... After the tragic death of her adoptive father, Willow De Beers receives an unexpected gift: a family diary that unlocks all the secrets of her world and shatters the life she's known in glitzy Palm Beach, Florida. At last, Willow learns the identity of her real father, and unearths his secret love affair with her real mother... -
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Into the Woods by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsHer life would never be the same once she ventured...INTO THE WOODS The only child of a U.S. naval officer father and a charming mother, Grace Houston is the center of her parents' universe -- until sudden tragedy tears her world apart. Now Grace and her mother, Jackie Lee, move from the naval base in Virginia to ritzy Palm Beach, Florida, to start all over again... -
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Weep No More, My Lady by Mary Higgins Clark
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsElizabeth Lange has arrived at Cypress Point Spa in Pebble Beach, California, weary of heart and soul. Still grieving for her beloved sister, a famous actress who plunged to her death from her Manhattan penthouse, Elizabeth is determined to unearth the truth about how Leila died. Dashing multimillionaire Ted Winters stands accused of her murder, but Elizabeth has doubts... -
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The Haunting by Alan Titchmarsh
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHow can the mysterious disappearance of Anne Flint in 1816 and the drowning of a young girl in a chalk stream so long ago possibly affect the life of schoolteacher Harry Flint some two centuries later?Having left his job and with a failed marriage behind him, Harry begins to research his ancestors. The deeper he digs, the more he realises that the past is closer than he had ever imagined... -
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The Heavenstone Secrets by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsSecrets are at home here... The Heavenstone sisters live with their mother and father in a grand old mansion in bluegrass Kentucky. Semantha, the younger and prettier one, is afraid of so many things -- darkness, strange noises, mysterious whispers in the night. But nothing frightens her more than her sister, Cassie... -
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Eye of the Storm by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsIn the wake of a terrible loss, Rain is left alone to bear the Hudson family secrets — as dark and forbidding as storm clouds on the horizon... After the death of her beloved Grandmother Hudson, Rain found herself caught in a battle for the vast Hudson family wealth... -
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Falling Stars by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAll The World's A Stage -- but What If The Play Doesn't Go As Planned?Four talented girls from vastly different pasts share a dream of stardom: Cinnamon, the edgy actress; Ice, the phenomenal vocalist; Rose, the beautiful dancer; and Honey, the first-rate violinist... -
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Bogeyman by Gayle Wilson
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA year after the death of her husband, Blythe Wyndham moves with her four-year-old daughter, Maddie, back to the small town where she grew up. But soon after they move in to their new home, strange things begin to happen. Maddie has disturbingly intense nightmares--so intense that Blythe fears one night she may not be able to awaken her daughter... -
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Secrets in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFrom the imagination behind Flowers in the Attic comes a sensational new novel that spins a seductive web between fantasies and lies -- and uncovers the price for keeping Secrets in the Attic Two Friends As Close As Sisters. One Killer Secret That Will Tear Their Small Town Apart... -
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![The Wildflowers by V.C. Andrews, Tracy Bernstein]()
The Wildflowers by V.C. Andrews, Tracy Bernstein
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFour Girls With Dark Secrets To Share. Four Extraordinary New York Times Bestesellers -- Together For The First Time. MISTY...Trapped in the middle of her parents' bitter divorce, she hides an unspeakable secret deep inside: she hates them. Now, brought to Dr. Marlowe's therapy group, she's about to meet three other girls who just might understand. STAR.. -
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The River Is Dark by Joe Hart
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsEx-homicide detective Liam Dempsey is waiting to die. His career, the only thing he ever knew how to do well, is over. The single solace each day brings is the ever-growing contemplation of suicide... -
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Pearl in the Mist by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsFate whisked Ruby from a simple life in the Louisiana Bayou. But her new riches bring more treachery than happiness... Even after a year as a Dumas, Ruby still wonders at the splendor of the family's New Orleans mansion, and rejoices in the love of the father she had never known. But true happiness in her new home is as elusive as d swamp mist... -
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Black Cat by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsShe hid her true self. Now the truth will be revealed. Living a life of lies under the thumb of her widowed, spiritually-obsessed mother, Celeste has been forced to take on the identity of her dead twin brother, Noble. She's almost forgotten what it's like to be Celeste except for the one thing that keeps her sane: caring for her darling daughter, Baby Celeste... -
![All That Glitters by V.C. Andrews]()
All That Glitters by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsDriven from the Dumas Mansion back to her beloved bayou, Ruby's only hope is that fate will let her begin anew... Living again in a humble shack, Ruby is determined to make a secure and happy home for her precious infant daughter, Pearl. Paul Tate-- her first love, whom she was forced to abandon-- is at her side once more, now a man of dazzling wealth... -
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Green Lake by S.K. Epperson
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe suicide of Madeleine Heron’s husband leaves her at her sister’s lake house for the summer, until she can ‘sort things out’ for herself and find a new direction, but life in the lake community is anything but conducive to calm; right away a three year old girl goes missing from the dam, Madeleine is nearly assaulted when her truck breaks down, and she discovers her neighbors have an affinity... -
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Honey by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsIn her music, she found sweet salvation.... Honey grew up on a farm under her strict, fanatically religious grandfather's disapproving eye. To him, everything is a sin -- from her natural-born talent for the violin to her innocent interest in boys and dating -- and life is a treacherous path to be walked in fear... -
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The Dollmaker by Amanda Stevens
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAnd now a new clue has surfaced...a doll that is the spitting image of Claire Doucett's missing child, right down to the tiny birthmark on the girl's left arm. A chance sighting of the eerily lifelike doll in a French Quarter collectibles shop leaves Claire shaken to her core...and more determined than ever to find out what happened to her beloved Ruby... -
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Hidden Jewel by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsHidden Jewel is the fourth thrilling novel in the V.C. Andrews Landry series. Following All That Glitters, the spellbinding story of Ruby Landry's daring struggle to find a happy life with Beau Andreas and to protect their precious daughter. Sheltered from sorrow, innocent young Pearl thrives in the sunshine of a loving home.. -
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Ice by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIce wishes she could just become invisible.... Ice hides from the world behind a shield of silence. And that is what her mother hates about her. All she wants is a normal daughter who wears makeup and sexy clothes to attract boys. But Ice gets her chance to shine when she reveals her beautiful singing voice... -
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![Lightning Strikes by V.C. Andrews]()
Lightning Strikes by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsRAIN HAS SEARCHED FOR A PLACE TO CALL HOME. BUT THERE'S NOWHERE TO HIDE WHEN THE NIGHT SKY LIGHTS UP WITH TERROR.... Torn from the embrace of her poor but loving family, Rain Arnold now lives surrounded by opulent riches but feels more like an outsider than ever before... -
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Bad Men by Julie Mae Cohen
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 27 ratings“Wickedly funny, with twists and turns . . . Bad Men is a damn good read .” — RED magazine Meet the most irresistible serial killer of the year in this twisty feminist thriller that's as wickedly fun as it is lethal Saffy Huntley-Oliver is an intelligent and glamorous socialite; she also happens to be a proficient serial killer... -
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The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 24 ratings'A sharp, scary, gorgeously evocative tale of love, art and obsession' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train The Doll Factory, the debut novel by Elizabeth Macneal, is an intoxicating story of art, obsession and possession. London. 1850. The Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and among the crowd watching the spectacle two people meet... -
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Rain by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsRAIN ALREADY KNOWS HOW HARD LIFE CAN BE. BUT SHE IS ABOUT TO DISCOVER A SHATTERING SECRET FROM THE PAST THAT WILL CHANGE HER FUTURE FOREVER.... Growing up in the ghettos of Washington, D.C., the cards are stacked against a hardworking dreamer like Rain Arnold. Rain has fought to be the best daughter she can: she studies hard and gets good grades; she helps her mother cook and clean... -
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You Love Me by Caroline Kepnes
Joe is done with the cities. He’s done with the muck and the posers, done with Love. Now, he’s saying hello to nature, to simple pleasures on a cozy island in the Pacific Northwest. For the first time in a long time, he can just breathe.He gets a job at the local library—he does know a thing or two about books—and that’s where he meets her: Mary Kay DiMarco. Librarian... -
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Rose by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhen she danced, she could dream... Beautiful and talented, Rose was the apple of her father's eye. But when he is tragically taken from her, his carefully hidden secrets destroy the only life Rose has ever known -- and lead her into a world of luxury unlike any she has imagined... -
![Broken Flower by V.C. Andrews]()
Broken Flower by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSHE WAS TOO GROWN-UP FOR CHILDISH GAMES. BUT TOO YOUNG TO BECOME A WOMAN. . . . Living with her parents and brother in her Grandmother Emma's enormous mansion, Jordan March tries to be a good girl and follow her grandmother's strict rules. But one day, without warning, Jordan's body begins to change -- and everyone notices her in a way that seems dark, dangerous, and threatening... -
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Midnight Whispers by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsHAPPY AND INNOCENT, DAWN'S DAUGHTER CHRISTIE HAS GROWN UP IN THE SAFEST, MOST LOVING OF HOMES ... Yet Christie can't help feeling as if a dark cloud hovers over Cutler's Cove ... a cloud whose origins lie in her family's troubled history, and the many questions no one, not even Dawn, will answer... -
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Swiped by L.M. Chilton
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 27 ratings“As if Bridget Jones found herself in a Scream film. Murderously clever!” —Rupert Holmes, New York Times bestselling author The mystifying world of online dating gets a terrifying, clever, and darkly hilarious twist in this unputdownable thriller.Gwen Turner has made a bloody mess of her life... -
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Jade by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsJade had listened to Misty and Star tell their stories. Now it is her time to speak. But she can't. For while the others in Dr. Marlowe's therapy group had exposed their hidden pains and secret pasts, they are nothing like Jade. They don't know what it is like to be a pawn in a courtroom battle too hateful to ever forgive... -
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![Secrets of the Morning by V.C. Andrews]()
Secrets of the Morning by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsShadowed by her tortured past, Dawn has a bright new life of glimmering hopes... Dawn can hardly believe she's a student at one of New York City's best music schools. Now her most precious wish, to become a singer, can come true. But Dawn still dreams about Jimmy, her strong, intense boyfriend, and the love and anguished secrets they share... -
![Fallen Hearts by V.C. Andrews, Andrew Neiderman]()
Fallen Hearts by V.C. Andrews, Andrew Neiderman
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsProud and beautiful, Heaven came back to the hills-- to rise at last above her family's shame! As Logan's bride, she would savor now the love she had sought for so long. And free from her father's clutches, she would live again in her backwoods town, a respected teacher and cherished wife... -
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Runaways by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsThe spellbinding Orphans series concludes in this thrilling new novel from V.C. Andrews®... "All for one and one for all" was the girls' motto. In the grim foster home for orphans run by Louise and Gordon Tooey, at least Brooke, Crystal, Raven, and Butterfly had each other. Calling themselves "sisters," together they could forget the past and dream of a new chance...a real home... -
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Hurricane Girl by Marcy Dermansky
Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsA propulsive and daring new novel by the author of Very Nice (“A cupcake that turns out to be nutritious.” —Rumaan Alam) about a woman on the run from catastrophe, searching for love, healing, home, a swimming pool, and for someone who can perhaps stop the bleeding from her headAllison Brody is thirty and newly arrived on the east coast after just managing to flee her movie producer boyfriend... -
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Misty by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsThe many millions of V.C. Andrews fans, and particularly the younger readers among them, will thrill to the first in a new, four-book series on the struggles and secrets of children of divorce. Misty is the tale of a young girl facing the trials of her devious, divorced parents and the terrors of a deeply-held secret... -
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Thirsty (Thirsty) by Tracey Bateman
Rated: 3.32 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThere's no place like home, they say. "Hello, I'm Nina Parker…and I'm an alcoholic." For Nina, it's not the weighty admission but the first steps toward recovery that prove most difficult. She must face her ex-husband, Hunt, with little hope of making amends, and try to rebuild a relationship with her angry teenage daughter, Meagan...
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