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  • Bitter Falls by Rachel Caine

    Bitter Falls by Rachel Caine

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    She’s investigating a cold case no one else could—by going places no one else would dare.In spite of a harrowing past still haunting her, Gwen Proctor is trying to move forward. Until a new assignment gives her purpose: the cold-case disappearance of a young man in Tennessee. Three years missing, no clues. Just Ruth Landry, a tortured mother in limbo...
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    mystery  horror  suspense  contemporary  dark  queer  f-f  abuse
  • A Dark Mind by T.R. Ragan

    A Dark Mind by T.R. Ragan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    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 clutches only years ago...
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  • In These Words, Volume 2 by Kichiku Neko, Guilt Pleasure

    In These Words, Volume 2 by Kichiku Neko, Guilt Pleasure

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Asano Katsuya realizes the meaning of his nightmare as everything came around full circle. Finally, Katsuya learned who Shinohara Kenji was and the meaning of his presence in his memories. With some answers surfacing, more questions also were pulled up with it. In These Words rewinds and replays the past that begun it all...
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    mystery  horror  m-m  dark  queer  contemporary  bdsm  rape
  • The Last Party by A.R. Torre

    The Last Party by A.R. Torre

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    A loving mother. A notorious murderer. They both have reasons to hide their secrets in a novel of escalating shock and suspense by New York Times bestselling author A. R. Torre.Perla Wultz lives with her husband, Grant, and their precious daughter, Sophie, in a gated Pasadena community. Affluent, sociable, and accomplished, Perla plays the part of loving wife and mother to perfection...
  • In These Words, Volume 3 by Kichiku Neko, Guilt Pleasure

    In These Words, Volume 3 by Kichiku Neko, Guilt Pleasure

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Shinohara Kenji implemented Asano Katsuya's plan to draw out the serial killer who'd been plagueing the police for years. The net was cast. However, Asano was unexpectedly ensnared in it. For six days, as Shinohara searched for him frantically - the doctor was forced to endure the pain of extreme love and hate for the killer. Then on the seventh day - everything crashed down in a devastating end...
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    mystery  horror  m-m  dark  contemporary  queer  length-short
  • Pleasure & Prey: vol. 1 by A.J. Merlin

    Pleasure & Prey: vol. 1 by A.J. Merlin

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    DepravedThere’s nothing out there.That’s what I keep telling myself while I walk back from a campfire to my isolated cabin.BrutalNothing bad happens at summer camp.That’s what my fellow camp counselors have convinced me of when the nights around the lake get a little eerie.ViciousOne, two, he’s coming for you...
  • Wicked Little Words by Stevie J. Cole

    Wicked Little Words by Stevie J. Cole

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 15 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...
  • Killing Stalking: Deluxe Edition Vol. 2 by Koogi

    Killing Stalking: Deluxe Edition Vol. 2 by Koogi

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 24 ratings
    ON THE HUNTWhile investigating a vehicle collision, Officer Yang Seungbae discovers dashcam footage that plays into his suspicions about Oh Sangwoo...
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    horror  mystery  queer  dark  m-m  contemporary  abuse  rape
  • Serial, Volume Three by Lily White, Jaden Wilkes

    Serial, Volume Three by Lily White, Jaden Wilkes

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With Donovan closing in, his feelings growing for Ronnie, and the sudden realization where their paths crossed before, Jude's composure might be cracking...
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    mystery  horror  dark  abuse  bdsm  contemporary  new adult  alpha male
  • The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden

    The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 83 ratings
    She's looking for the perfect man. He's looking for the perfect victim.Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. She’s seen it all: men who lie in their dating profile, men who stick her with the dinner bill, and worst of all, men who can't shut up about their mothers. But finally, she hits the jackpot.Her new boyfriend is utterly perfect...
  • No Tomorrow by Luke Jennings

    No Tomorrow by Luke Jennings

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    "If you want us to remain silent - if you want to retain your freedom, your job, and your reputation - you need to tell us everything, and I mean everything. . ." We last saw Eve and Villanelle in a spy vs. spy race around the world, crossing powerful criminal organizations and dangerous governments, each trying to come out on top. But they aren't finished yet...
  • In a Dark Wood by Josh Lanyon

    In a Dark Wood by Josh Lanyon

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In a dark, dark wood there was a dark, dark house...Camping in the Jersey Pine Barrens may literally turn out to be a first date from hell for travel writer Tim and the cute cop who persuades him to revisit a past that Tim has done his best to forget...
  • Silence of the Missing by Rick R. Reed

    Silence of the Missing by Rick R. Reed

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    He went into the woods…and never came out.In 1986, thirteen-year-old Jeb Kleber vanished during his small town’s Fourth of July fireworks. His mysterious disappearance left his first love, Sammy Blake, grieving for years.Flash forward to present day. A now middle-aged Sam Blake has a comfortable and predictable life with his husband Marc in Chicago...
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    mystery  horror  m-m  contemporary  queer  dark  length-short
  • Heaven by V.C. Andrews, The Real Virginia Andrews

    Heaven by V.C. Andrews, The Real Virginia Andrews

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Of all the folks in the mountain shacks, the Casteels were the lowest -- the scum of the hills. Heaven Leigh Casteel was the prettiest, smartest girl in the backwoods, despite her ragged clothes and dirty face...despite a father meaner than ten vipers...despite her weary stepmother, who worked her like a mule. For her brother Tom and the little ones, Heaven clung to her pride and her hopes...
  • Dysfunctional by Isabel Lucero

    Dysfunctional by Isabel Lucero

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 25 ratings
    Ezra Hamilton hasn’t felt the warm spurt of blood flow through his fingers or the indescribable feeling of pushing a knife deep into someone’s flesh in a long time. Too long.He’s been watching a man stalk women, curious as to what he’s doing with them...
  • The Good Husband by Lucian Bane

    The Good Husband by Lucian Bane

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Ben was a loving husband until his life and death operation brought sadistic psychological scars. Ben is facing two tragedies. First, he's going to die soon. Next, he's just learned his wife has been lonely in their marriage he thought was perfect.Ben is told about a dangerous surgery that could save his life but it would mean getting an entire head transplant...
  • Slasherazzi by Daniel A. Kaine

    Slasherazzi by Daniel A. Kaine

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Recently promoted to Detective, Alex is out to prove himself and the Slasherazzi case is the perfect opportunity. Mutilated corpses are showing up across Tampa, and when the team discovers the newest victim was tortured alive, Alex becomes more determined than ever to stop the crazed serial killer before the horrific stabbings escalate further...
  • Garden of Shadows (Dollanganger prequel) by V.C. Andrews, Andrew Neiderman

    Garden of Shadows (Dollanganger prequel) by V.C. Andrews, Andrew Neiderman

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Before terror flowered in the attic there was a young girl. An innocent, hopeful girl... When young Olivia arrives at Foxworth Hall, she thinks her marriage to handsome Malcolm will bring the joy she has longed for...
  • Letters in the Dark by Kit Rose

    Letters in the Dark by Kit Rose

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    CassandraAbducted.Caged.Kidnapped.They all mean the same thing. Hidden away and forgotten about by everyone. Everyone except the monster who put me here.He stripped me of my freedom. He stripped me of my clothing. He’s a monster, and he’ll do whatever he wants with me.But I will survive.And I will wait.He hides in the shadows, but I will learn to see in the dark...
  • Willow by V.C. Andrews

    Willow by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    All that glitters isn't gold.... Wealth. Extravagant parties. Celebrity status. These are things Willow De Beers could only dream of — until now. After discovering deep family secrets in her adoptive father's journal, Willow bids farewell to her North Carolina college town and sets out in search of her birth family amid the ritzy glamour of Palm Beach...
  • Defying Evil by Abbie Roads

    Defying Evil by Abbie Roads

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    He’s the son of a serial killer.She’s his father’s only surviving victim.He’s obsessed with her.She’s frightened of him.Before it’s all over they’ll need each other to survive.Cain Killion’s life has revolved around blood. From a childhood of torture by his father, to his gruesome ability to solve crimes...
  • Dark Angel by V.C. Andrews, The Real Virginia Andrews

    Dark Angel by V.C. Andrews, The Real Virginia Andrews

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    At last, Heaven would find the happiness she longed for...free from the scorn and contempt of her past! In her grandmother's fine, rich Boston house, Heaven Leigh Casteel dreamed of a wonderful new life of new friends, the best schools, beautiful clothes and most important, love. The pearls of culture, wisdom and breeding would now be hers...
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    mystery  horror  contemporary  dark  suspense  length-long
  • Tarnished Gold by V.C. Andrews

    Tarnished Gold by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Growing up in her beloved swamp, Gabriel is supremely happy, despite the ever-widening rift between her Mama and her conniving, whiskey-drinking Daddy. Her classmates tease her, calling her "La Femme Au Naturel," the Nature Girl, because she seems more interested in poling her pirogue through the canals than she is in romance. But Gabriel nurtures her own secret dreams...
  • Web of Dreams by V.C. Andrews, Andrew Neiderman

    Web of Dreams by V.C. Andrews, Andrew Neiderman

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    With nowhere to go, no one to help her, Leigh fled into the arms of Luke Casteel! Leigh Van Voreen had to escape from Boston's Farthinggale Manor. The foul secret she harbored within her seemed to darken her life forever. Jillian, her mother, would not believe her...and Tony Tatterton, her stepfather, had betrayed her most cruelly...
  • Music in the Night by V.C. Andrews

    Music in the Night by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Laura Logan dreams of a glorious Cape Cod day when all the dark secrets are swept away.... For Laura Logan, life on Cape Cod has been nearly perfect, full of magical days spent enjoying the sea with her beloved twin brother, Cary. But then, like the creeping of the tides, the vicious rumors at school begin — cruel voices saying unspeakable things about the Logans...
  • Darkest Hour by V.C. Andrews

    Darkest Hour by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Growing up on the thriving plantation called The Meadows, Lillian Booth cherishes the brightest, happiest dreams.... Lillian's world is full of grand parties, of sunshine and promises, as thrilling as the fairy tales Mama spins for her and her little sister, Eugenia...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  horror  contemporary  dark  suspense  length-long
  • Heart Song by V.C. Andrews

    Heart Song by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Melody Logan was as alone as a solitary gull, with only the wild Atlantic wind to lift her spirits.... When Melody Logan's mother died in a car accident, Melody lost the last shred of family she had ever known. She was practically a stranger to the Logans, her wealthy relatives on Cape Cod, where she now drifted on a sea of dark secrets...
  • Melody by V.C. Andrews

    Melody by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Melody Logan knew her beautiful mother, Haille, was unhappy in their hardscrabble mining town.... But with her wonderful father's unwavering love, Melody always felt safe — until a dreadful mine accident ripped her from her family's moorings. She was still devastated by her father's death when she left West Virginia with Haille to follow her mother's dream of becoming a model or actress...
  • Twilight's Child by V.C. Andrews

    Twilight's Child by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    AS MRS. JAMES GARY LONGCHAMP, DAWN IS BLISSFULLY HAPPY. BUT A LEGACY OF DECEIT AND BETRAYAL STILL HAUNTS HER ... At last, Dawn can create a haven of warmth and love for her beautiful baby girl, Christie, and her darling Jimmy. Dawn is a huge success as the new owner of the Cutler's Cove hotel and soon she and Jimmy will be blessed with a child of their own...
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    mystery  horror  contemporary  dark  suspense  length-long
  • Olivia by V.C. Andrews

    Olivia by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Olivia always knew her younger sister would get into trouble. but she never realized the undercurrents of disaster would grow to a raging flood.... Olivia was always the sensible one. The responsible sister. She took after their father, a man as cold and driven as the Cape Cod wind, a man possessed by an inner need to be respected and successful...
  • Asylum by Patrick McGrath

    Asylum by Patrick McGrath

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    From our most celebrated writer of the psychological thriller comes this nerve-wracking yet eerily beautiful work of erotic obsession and madness. In the summer of 1959 Stella Raphael joins her psychiatrist husband, Max, at his new posting--a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane...
  • Gates of Paradise by V.C. Andrews, Andrew Neiderman

    Gates of Paradise by V.C. Andrews, Andrew Neiderman

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Stunned by tragedy, desperate and alone, Heaven's daughter clung to the frailest of dreams! The car crash that killed Heaven and Logan left Annie Casteel Stonewall orphaned and crippled. Whisked off to Farthinggale Manor by the possessive Tony Tatterton, Annie pines for her lost family, but especially for Luke, her half-brother...
  • The Kind Worth Saving by Peter Swanson

    The Kind Worth Saving by Peter Swanson

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    In this spectacularly devious novel by New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson—featuring the smart and complex Lily Kintner from his acclaimed novel, The Kind Worth Killing—a private eye starts to follow a possibly adulterous husband, but little does he know that the twisted trail will lead back to the woman who hired him. There was always something slightly dangerous about Joan...
  • If There Be Thorns by V.C. Andrews, The Real Virginia Andrews

    If There Be Thorns by V.C. Andrews, The Real Virginia Andrews

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 50 ratings
    Out of the ashes of evil Chris and Cathy made such a loving home for their splendid children... Fourteen-year-old Jory was so handsome, so gentle. And Bart had such a dazzling imagination for a nine year old. Then the lights came on in the abandoned house next door. Soon the Old Lady in Black was there, watching their home with prying eyes, guarded by her strange old butler...
  • A Talent for Murder by Peter Swanson

    A Talent for Murder by Peter Swanson

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    A newlywed librarian begins to suspect the man she married might be a murderer—in this spectacularly twisty and deviously clever novel by Peter Swanson, New York Times bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing and Eight Perfect Murders.Martha Ratliff conceded long ago that she’d likely spend her life alone...
  • The Villa by Rachel Hawkins

    The Villa by Rachel Hawkins

    Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, set at an Italian villa with a dark history, for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware.As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives...
  • Exit to Eden by Anne Rice, Anne Rampling

    Exit to Eden by Anne Rice, Anne Rampling

    Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 42 ratings
    Welcome to the club to satisfy all your desires. In the Caribbean sun, the champagne flows and the games of pain and pleasure never stop. Lisa is the perfectionist. Elliot, the client. In their meeting, they discover that Eden is a state of heart and mind where innocence and love can be recaptured...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  horror  contemporary  bdsm  dark  bisexual  m-f-f  poly
  • Midnight Is the Darkest Hour by Ashley Winstead

    Midnight Is the Darkest Hour by Ashley Winstead

    Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 41 ratings
    From the critically acclaimed author of In My Dreams I Hold A Knife and The Last Housewife comes a gothic Southern thriller about a killer haunting a small Louisiana town, where two outcasts—the preacher's daughter and the boy from the wrong side of the tracks—hold the key to uncovering the truth...
  • 13½ by Nevada Barr

    13½ by Nevada Barr

    Rated: 3.32 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    In 1971, the state of Minnesota was rocked by the "Butcher Boy" incident, as coverage of a family brutally murdered by one of their own swept across newspapers and television screens nationwide. Now, in present-day New Orleans, Polly Deschamps finds herself at yet another lonely crossroads in her life...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  horror  dark  suspense  length-medium
  • A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe

    A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe

    Rated: 3.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 28 ratings
    In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Ann Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the Gothic novel, and the idol of the Romantics. This early novel explores the cavernous landscapes and labyrinthinepassages of Sicily's castles and convents to reveal the shameful secrets of its all-powerful aristocracy...
  • For You and Only You by Caroline Kepnes

    For You and Only You by Caroline Kepnes

    Rated: 3.37 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    From New York Times–bestselling author Caroline Kepnes comes the next novel in her hit You series, which follows Joe Goldberg to the hallowed halls of Harvard University where he earns a coveted place in a writing fellowship...and leaves crimson in his wake.Joe Goldberg is ready for a change. Instead of selling books, he’s writing them. And he's off to a good start...
  • Baby by Annaleese Jochems

    Baby by Annaleese Jochems

    Rated: 2.83 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Cynthia can understand how Anahera feels just by looking at her body. Cynthia is twenty-one, bored and desperately waiting for something big to happen. Her striking fitness instructor, Anahera, is ready to throw in the towel on her job and marriage...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  horror  contemporary  queer  dark  new adult  suspense  humor
  • Read Me by Leo Benedictus

    Read Me by Leo Benedictus

    Rated: 2.97 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Hitchcock's Rear Window meets Messud's The Woman Upstairs in this unnerving, superbly crafted novel which takes readers deep into the mind of a serial stalker and, through him, the lives of his unsuspecting victims. Try it yourself. Go out, pick somebody and watch them. Take your phone and a notebook. Persist...
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