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Death Rocks by L.J. Ross
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsTHERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A COINCIDENCE... When the body of a talented photographer is found on the rocks beneath the ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle, DCI Ryan and his team of detectives immediately suspect the worst. But, since none of their potential suspects seems to have a motive, the case runs cold... -
![The God of the Woods by Liz Moore]()
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 77 ratingsWhen a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collideEarly morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents... -
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![Buried by C.J. Carmichael]()
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... -
![The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen]()
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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![Storm Warning by Elizabeth Goddard]()
Storm Warning by Elizabeth Goddard
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHaunted by a half-forgotten past, former army photographer Remi Grant is working at an isolated storm-watching lodge on the rocky Washington coast when she receives a mysterious puzzle piece. The puzzle piece may be the catalyst to unlock a disturbing incident she struggles to remember--the event that sent her into hiding... -
![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... -
![Murder In the North End by P.B. Ryan]()
Murder In the North End by P.B. Ryan
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 24 ratings“It’s always a good day when a new Nell Sweeney book arrives.” —CA Reviews July 1870: Nell Sweeney’s position as governess for the venerable Hewitts of Boston affords her a unique perspective in an era of sharp class distinctions. Neither servant nor gentlewoman, she can fit in among the denizens of a waterfront tenement or the bluebloods of Colonnade Row... -
![A Token of Love: by Carrie Turansky]()
A Token of Love: by Carrie Turansky
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn 1885 London, Lillian Freemont embarks on a treacherous journey to reunite with her long-lost niece who was abandoned at the Foundling Hospital eight years ago. Fueled by her sister's plea and armed with the gold token that identifies her niece, Lillian teams up with investigative reporter Matthew McGivern to expose the grim reality of the shadowed streets of London...Categorized as:
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![The Sanctuary by Sandra Lea Rice]()
The Sanctuary by Sandra Lea Rice
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA woman set on Clairece Griffin is summoned to the Metropolitan Museum in New York to authenticate a relic reputedly having belonged to Mary, Queen of Scots. While there, the valuable, gem-encrusted treasure is stolen and her husband killed. When Clairece learns of the relic’s resurfacing in England, she travels to London under the pretext of visiting relatives... -
![14 by J.T. Ellison]()
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... -
![Most Likely to Die by Lisa Jackson, Beverly Barton]()
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. . -
![Afraid To Die by Lisa Jackson]()
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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![DEAD TIDE by Jane Marks]()
DEAD TIDE by Jane Marks
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsBeachgoers are being killed in the seaside tourist town of Cape August right before the kickoff of the summer season. But instead of a shark being the cause for terror, it’s a serial killer.Business owners are on edge when the fate of their livelihoods (and lives!) lies in the hands of an a young, strikingly beautiful but cold woman named Roslyn Hunt... -
![Murder in Little Italy by Victoria Thompson]()
Murder in Little Italy by Victoria Thompson
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhen midwife Sarah Brandt visits Little Italy to check up on a new mother who delivered her baby just the day before, she finds the young woman dead. The family insists that the death was from complications of childbirth. Sarah thinks not... -
![Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase]()
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 .. -
![Window on the Square by Phyllis A. Whitney]()
Window on the Square by Phyllis A. Whitney
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom a New York Times–bestselling author: In nineteenth-century Manhattan, a young woman is hired to care for a child haunted by murder. Having just lost her brother and mother in a tragic accident, dressmaker Megan Kincaid has never felt so vulnerable and alone... -
![Deadly Love by Brenda Joyce]()
Deadly Love by Brenda Joyce
The year is 1902. The place is New York City. It is a world of huge mansions and society balls, but only footsteps away are the city's darkest back alleyways. It is a time of glamour and wealth—scandal and corruption. One cold winter night, a little boy is kidnapped from his own bed while his parents attend a neighbor's elegant ball... -
![More Than Willing by Laura Landon]()
More Than Willing by Laura Landon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGrayson Delaney knows what it's like to do something so horrific he can never be forgiven. As penance, he lives up to everyone's low expectations. But when his father tires of his wastrel existence, Gray is forced to earn his living by running the brewery his father won in a card game... -
![Twelfth Night by Deanna Raybourn]()
Twelfth Night by Deanna Raybourn
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn returns with a brand-new novella, starring her beloved heroine, the intrepid Lady Julia Grey To mark the passing of another decade, the esteemed (and eccentric) March family have assembled at Bellmont Abbey to perform the Twelfth Night Revels for their sleepy English village... -
![Red Warning by Matthew Quirk]()
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... -
![The Affair of the Porcelain Dog by Jess Faraday]()
The Affair of the Porcelain Dog by Jess Faraday
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsLondon 1889. For Ira Adler, former rent-boy and present plaything of crime lord Cain Goddard, stealing back the statue from Goddard's blackmailer should have been a doddle. But inside the statue is evidence that could put Goddard away for a long time under the sodomy laws, and everyone's after it, including Ira's bitter ex, Dr. Timothy Lazarus... -
![Sea Jade by Phyllis A. Whitney]()
Sea Jade by Phyllis A. Whitney
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen lovely Miranda Heath, suddenly penniless, turns for help to her father's old partner, Captain Bascomb, she finds herself plunged into a whirlpool of danger. From the moment of her arrival at the gloomy Bascomb mansion in the New England port Scots Harbor, Miranda becomes the target of a strange, hostile conspiracy. She knows she must sift out the truth by herself... -
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![All The Pretty Girls by J.T. Ellison]()
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... -
![SANDMAN by Morgan Hannah MacDonald]()
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... -
![Kirkland Revels by Victoria Holt]()
Kirkland Revels by Victoria Holt
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsKirkland Revels loomed high above the wild and eerie Yorkshire moors like a brooding stone fortress. To some there was an atmosphere of evil about the place, but to innocent young bride Catherine Rockwell, the mansion seemed magnificently romantic. She did not know then of the terrible secrets imprisoned behind its massive walls... -
![Twisted Roots by V.C. Andrews]()
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... -
![An Inconvenient Wife by Megan Chance]()
An Inconvenient Wife by Megan Chance
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIn this wholly absorbing historical novel, Mrs. Lucy Carelton, who comes from one of the wealthiest and most prominent families in 1880s New York City, has been completely undone by her nerves. Her ambitious husband, a nouveau riche stockbroker, drags her from one doctor to another in search of a cure that will allow her to fulfill her many social obligations without giving in to hysteria... -
![Thunder Heights by Phyllis A. Whitney]()
Thunder Heights by Phyllis A. Whitney
From the “Queen of the American gothics”: In turn-of-the-century New York, a strange inheritance lures a vulnerable governess into a trap (The New York Times). Camilla King knows little of her family history, having never met her estranged relatives. Her late father wanted it that way... -
![The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig]()
The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig
Harvard grad student Eloise Kelly achieved the academic coup of the century when she unmasked the spy who saved England from Napoleon. But now she has a million questions about the Pink Carnation's deadly French nemesis, the Black Tulip. And she's pretty sure that her handsome on-again, off-again crush, Colin Selwick, has the answers somewhere in his archives... -
![Weep No More, My Lady by Mary Higgins Clark]()
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... -
![Wicked Forest by V.C. Andrews]()
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... -
![Hidden Leaves by V.C. Andrews]()
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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![The Road to Paradise Island by Victoria Holt]()
The Road to Paradise Island by Victoria Holt
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAnnalice Mallory, the sheltered daughter of a family of map makers, discovers the cryptic diary of her long-dead ancestor that includes a map of a mysterious far-of island. Philip, Annalice's brother, sets sail for the island, lured by the promise of incomparable riches to be found... -
![Into the Woods by V.C. Andrews]()
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... -
![Skye Cameron by Phyllis A. Whitney]()
Skye Cameron by Phyllis A. Whitney
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNever had a man been so wrong for a woman...and never had a woman wanted a man so... In the sultry heat of a New Orleans summer, Skye Cameron sees Justin Law for the first time and knows immediately that she will either love him or hate him--no woman could ever be indifferent to such a man... -
![The Haunting by Alan Titchmarsh]()
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... -
![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.. -
![Eye of the Storm by V.C. Andrews]()
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... -
![The River Is Dark by Joe Hart]()
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... -
![Falling Stars by V.C. Andrews]()
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... -
![A Falcon for a Queen by Catherine Gaskin]()
A Falcon for a Queen by Catherine Gaskin
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTells the story of Kirsty Howard, who leaves China when her parents die and seeks out her grandfather in Scotland. It is a strange world she finds at Cluain - an arrogant and lonely old man running one of the finest whisky distilleries in the world with two women running the house... -
![Bogeyman by Gayle Wilson]()
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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![Obsessed by Susan Andersen]()
Obsessed by Susan Andersen
He is a serial rapist whose calling card is the broken heart he carves on each victim's chest. She is a Seattle emergency room doctor who has seen her share of brutality and bloodshed. Now Ivy Pennington is about to enter his terrifying world of madness and violence. Because he wants her. She feels him watching her. Stalking her...Categorized as:
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![Pearl in the Mist by V.C. Andrews]()
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... -
![Bad Men by Julie Mae Cohen]()
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... -
![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... -
![The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal]()
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... -
![Green Lake by S.K. Epperson]()
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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