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christmas  suspense  horror

  • The Cartel 6: The Demise by Ashley Antoinette, JaQuavis Coleman

    The Cartel 6: The Demise by Ashley Antoinette, JaQuavis Coleman

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The Cartel series is back. .. and more deadly than ever. Las Vegas. A city built on obscene wealth and corrupt deals, cunning entrepreneurs, and the ruthless mob. The Cartel's plan to open a casino will rake in cash, but comes with great sacrifice. The stakes have never been this high, and rules of the game have never been this hard to manipulate...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  horror  black-mc  length-medium
  • A Christmas Wedding at the Castle by Eliza J. Scott

    A Christmas Wedding at the Castle by Eliza J. Scott

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Do you believe in fate? Livvie Weatherill does…. This time last year, if anyone had told Livvie Weatherill she’d have fallen in love and would be making plans for her Christmas wedding to Zander Gillespie, she would have laughed in their face...
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  • A Ruthless Christmas by K.L. Savage

    A Ruthless Christmas by K.L. Savage

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Jingle Hells, Jingle Hells, Jingle all the way. .. They think they are safe. Isn’t that sickening? They are decorating for Christmas. Twinkling lights. Wreaths. Mistletoe. Laughter. All that is missing is snow. They are the idea of a perfect family, aren’t they? I wonder how many of them are wishing for a Christmas miracle. How many of them only want peace? A night full of magic and wonder. .
    Categorized as:
    suspense  christmas  length-novella  m-f  audiobook
  • The Christmas Door by Christy Barritt

    The Christmas Door by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.76 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Closed doors protect. Open doors invite. This Christmas, one door will change everything. Influencer Amayah Harper is known for finding beauty in forgotten places—especially in weathered doors and the stories behind them, which she shares with her fast-growing audience...
  • I'll Be Seeing You by Sybil Knight

    I'll Be Seeing You by Sybil Knight

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 10 ratings
    Even serial killers have a type. Unfortunately, tonight, that type is you. You can feel it, can’t you? The way I’ve been watching you night after night. Patiently waiting for you to turn around and give me a glimpse of those eyes. Don’t be shy. I know you want this as much as I do. Atta girl. Look at you! You’re perfect. Just f*cking perfect. Like I knew you would be...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  horror
  • Made of Steele by Susan Sleeman

    Made of Steele by Susan Sleeman

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    She keeps her feelings to herself…. When Teagan Steele faces her hardest challenge since taking over her family’s security company, she has to dig deep to figure out how one of their clients smuggled antiquities into this country, and what they did with them. And she has to clear Steele Guardians of any charges of collusion and wrongdoing. But a bold undercover agent changes everything...
  • Hide and Seek by Kathi Daley

    Hide and Seek by Kathi Daley

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Sydney Whitmore, a forensic psychologist working for the FBI, moves to Shipwreck Island and renews her relationship with Ezra Reinhold, a reclusive billionaire who enjoys poking around in cold cases and has the means to hire the best people to find the answers no one else has been able to...
  • The Watson Girl by Leslie Wolfe

    The Watson Girl by Leslie Wolfe

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    An entire family was murdered and, by a quirk, a young girl is left unharmed. For fifteen years, she believed the killer had been caught, and he’s now on death row, awaiting execution. While trying to be content with her adoptive family, she’s living in relentless uncertainty and the fear of remembering what really happened that night when she was five years old. She’s The Watson Girl...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  horror  mystery  length-medium  audiobook
  • Mayhem & Mistletoe by Amanda M. Lee

    Mayhem & Mistletoe by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Avery Shaw has the world at her fingertips … and a pile of dead Santas near the railroad tracks. Interestingly, she’s more focused on the Santas than her personal life, but only because she’s been warned that a proposal is imminent from her live-in love Eliot Kane and she needs to look somewhere else – anywhere else will do – rather than accept what he’s trying to offer...
  • Perfect Crime by Helen Sarah Fields

    Perfect Crime by Helen Sarah Fields

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Your darkest moment is your most vulnerable…. Stephen Berry is about to jump off a bridge until a suicide prevention counsellor stops him. A week later, Stephen is dead. Found at the bottom of a cliff, DI Luc Callanach and DCI Ava Turner are drafted in to investigate whether he jumped or whether he was pushed…...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  horror  mystery
  • Silent Night: A Lantern Beach Christmas Novella  (Lantern Beach Mysteries) by Christy Barritt

    Silent Night: A Lantern Beach Christmas Novella (Lantern Beach Mysteries) by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Catch up with your favorite Lantern Beach characters as they come together to help the town's beloved police chief. On the night before Christmas Eve, as she begins her maternity leave, Lantern Beach Police Chief Cassidy Chambers disappears. Suspecting foul play, law enforcement officers combine forces with the Blackout Security team and island residents to find her...
  • The Mousse Wonderful Time of Year by H.Y. Hanna

    The Mousse Wonderful Time of Year by H.Y. Hanna

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Tearoom sleuth Gemma Rose is looking forward to a holiday filled with delicious Yuletide treats, time with friends and family, and maybe even a “white Christmas” in Oxford… But when she’s snowed in at a country manor, she finds herself stumbling on a puzzling murder—complete with a body in the library, a house full of suspects and a trail of mysterious footprints! Luckily, the nosy Old Biddies...
  • HOLIDAY GIRL: part 6 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    HOLIDAY GIRL: part 6 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    An Amazon exclusive! In the romantic mystery HOLIDAY GIRL, a city woman inherits a Christmas-year-round shop in a small southern town from an eccentric aunt. The wrinkle? She doesn't even LIKE the holidays! But as she's drawn into the lives of the shop's quirky customers, she begins to realize that southern men have a certain charm. .
  • Mince Pies and Murder: A festive cosy mystery full of Christmas spirit and small-town charm by Judy Leigh

    Mince Pies and Murder: A festive cosy mystery full of Christmas spirit and small-town charm by Judy Leigh

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The BRAND NEW instalment in the Morwenna Mutton Mystery series from MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Judy Leigh, perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Janice Hallett! 🎄🩸🔍 Have yourself a deadly little Christmas. .. 👀. As Christmas approaches in the Cornish town of Seal Bay, festive cheer fills the air...
  • Sharing the Miracle by Kristen Ashley

    Sharing the Miracle by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 26 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Kristen Ashley comes a new novella in her River Rain Series. .. Elsa Cohen has everything she ever wanted. A challenging career. A bicoastal lifestyle. And an amazing man—the kind, loving and handsome Hale Wheeler—who adores her and has asked her to be his wife. She isn’t ready for the surprise news she’s received. And she doesn’t know how to tell Hale...
  • Room at the Inn by Diane Greenwood Muir

    Room at the Inn by Diane Greenwood Muir

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This holiday short story is filled with the love, fun and compassion that surrounds Polly Giller. Her veterinarian, Mark Ogden, has more animals he asks her to rescue and rather than Polly calling the Sheriff because she's found a body, he calls her because he needs her help...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  christmas  mystery  length-novella
  • The Holiday Reunion by Sage Parker

    The Holiday Reunion by Sage Parker

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She wasn't expecting to spend the holidays heartbroken and alone. But thanks to her soon-to-be ex-husband, everything she once had is now gone. At 46 years old, all Matilda has is a backpack and a one-way ticket to her estranged cousins' cabin in Washington. Adapting to the small-town lifestyle, Matilda makes a room in the attic, where she discovers a hidden box of odds and ends...
  • Chill Factor: A Holiday Anthology by Freya Barker, Maddie Wade

    Chill Factor: A Holiday Anthology by Freya Barker, Maddie Wade

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Spending the holidays in the snowy mountains of Colorado could be a dream come true…unless you’re in the path of a monster blizzard. As the guests of Aspen’s prestigious ski resort, the St. James Inn, brace for the storm of the century, their holiday vacation changes from jovial celebration to desperate survival...
  • The Amish Christmas Angel by Hannah Schrock

    The Amish Christmas Angel by Hannah Schrock

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Katie is on the cusp of getting engaged when she finds an Englischer hiding in the familye’s barn at Christmas time. It will soon be Christmas and Katie Raber is eager to get engaged but Jacob King doesn’t seem as keen. After courting for more than a year, Katie doesn’t understand his hesitation...
  • Silent Night, Deadly Night by Kaylea Cross

    Silent Night, Deadly Night by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It’s Christmas in Charleston. Luke and Emily Hutchinson are hosting the entire crew at their home in Charleston’s historic district for an early Christmas celebration. It’s the first time they’ve all been together since Em was captured and Luke almost died taking down his nemesis in Beirut a year ago, and everyone is looking forward to sharing some Christmas magic together...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  christmas  military  length-novella
  • Dreams of Christmases Past by Hannah Schrock

    Dreams of Christmases Past by Hannah Schrock

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Emma needs a Christmas miracle now more than ever, but the answer might lie in the past. Four years ago, a heavily pregnant Emma Graber had lost her husband. Emma had known it would be hard to raise her son on her own, she just didn’t know how hard. She hired a farm manager, Daniel, to run the farm in her husband’s stead...
  • Christmas in the Shadows by Christy Barritt

    Christmas in the Shadows by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tex Thrasher has no idea why, after twelve years, his former foster father asked him to come back to his hometown for Christmas. When he returns, the last thing the former special ops soldier expects to find is his high school girlfriend rummaging around the office in his old house...
  • Wooing the Widower by Elle E. Kay

    Wooing the Widower by Elle E. Kay

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Horses, Heartstrings, and A Later-in-Life RomanceMargie, a successful Colorado realtor, finds herself looking for a change of scenery and a dash of adventure after her only daughter embarks on a missionary journey, so she heads to Redemption Ranch to fulfill a long-held learning to ride horses...
  • Secret Santa: Clear Security Holidays by Ainsley St. Claire

    Secret Santa: Clear Security Holidays by Ainsley St. Claire

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    My sister is getting married and I need a date. He's grumpy and difficult, but I think I can talk him into it.
    Categorized as:
    christmas  suspense  military  length-medium
  • A Foxy Little Christmas by Laylah Roberts, Golden Czermak

    A Foxy Little Christmas by Laylah Roberts, Golden Czermak

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    Who wants to come along with the Fox on a Christmas adventure? You might even get a visit from a naughty Little elf . . . Catch up with the Fox, Autumn, Brody, Duke and Sunny in this holiday adventure filled with spankings, Little shenanigans, and lots of Christmas fun.
  • Season Of Sin by Kylie Kent

    Season Of Sin by Kylie Kent

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Hayley. Spending Christmas in the city wasn’t on my bingo card this year. Saving my little brother from himself also wasn’t on that card. But here I am, willing to do anything to get him out of the trouble he’s managed to find himself in. Again...
  • O Christmas Knight by Em Petrova

    O Christmas Knight by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tyler Knight, younger sister of the famed brothers who make up the Knight Ops team, ran off and joined the Marines, demanding to be treated as one of the guys and given all the accolades that have her big brothers thumping their chests daily. So a dark mission to clear a Middle Eastern village of a threat finally rewards her with the guts and glory she asked for...
  • North of Love by Em Petrova

    North of Love by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A woman on the run from her stalker lands in a Christmas wonderland with the only man who can save her. As the lead dog handler for an elite search and rescue group in the Alaskan mountains, Hunt Cason knows stress. And he’s ready for a short breather from it all by spending the holiday season in a remote cabin...
  • Christmas Crisis: A Christian Romantic Suspense by Laura Scott

    Christmas Crisis: A Christian Romantic Suspense by Laura Scott

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling Author Laura Scott. Walking the line between danger and love! Active Shooter at the Christmas parade…. EMT Elly Finnegan instinctively jumps into the line of danger when a gunman opens fire at the Christmas parade. Despite hating the sight of blood, she acts exactly as she’s trained to do. Tactical officer Joe Kingsley is there, too and they work together to save lives...
  • Swoony Moon by Tess Thompson

    Swoony Moon by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As children, they’d made a pact to marry until a mutual family tragedy ripped them apart. Can a Christmas miracle bring them back together in this clean and wholesome, small-town romance, or will the cruel demons of the past ruin their second chance? AtticusAnnie Armstrong was my best friend growing up...
  • Deathwish by Dana Marton

    Deathwish by Dana Marton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Officer Gabriella Maria Flores desperately needs a big win to save her career. A case that proves that she has her act together, something non-controversial to make people forget the recent scandal she's been involved in. Instead, the murder she catches couldn't be more high-profile, the number one suspect her boss's brother. Means, motive, opportunity--check...
  • The Christmas Clause: A Cozy Mystery by Kathi Daley

    The Christmas Clause: A Cozy Mystery by Kathi Daley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    If you love small towns, endearing relationships, food, animals, and a touch of murder, you will love this cozy mystery series. With just two weeks until the highly anticipated Christmas on Main event, the tiny town of White Eagle Montana is all decked out for the season...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  christmas  mystery  audiobook
  • The Best Christmas Ever by Heather Graham

    The Best Christmas Ever by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jackson Crow and his wife, Angela Hawkins, seldom leave the office for a vacation, much less at Christmas, when many of their agents are out in the field. But this year, Jackson wants to spend the holiday away, at an historic home in Virginia that he wants to buy — even if it is too far for them to commute to work each morning...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  christmas  length-novella
  • Christmas K-9 Unit Heroes by Lenora Worth, Katy Lee

    Christmas K-9 Unit Heroes by Lenora Worth, Katy Lee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Danger comes to Denver for the holidays…. in these thrilling Rocky Mountain K-9 Unit novellas. With veterinarian Sydney Jones being targeted, K-9 Officer Gavin Walker and his furry partner must stand between her and certain death in Lenora Worth’s Hidden Christmas Danger...
  • Sealed with a Christmas Promise by Laura Scott

    Sealed with a Christmas Promise by Laura Scott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling Author Laura Scott. Risking their hearts and their lives while protecting the innocent. .. A promise to protect .  .  . After months of searching, former SEAL turned cop Bryce Flynn and his K9, Kirby, has finally found Callie Burgess. He needs to question her about her former boyfriend, a member of the Desert Death Rays motorcycle gang, who was recently murdered...
  • Much Ado about Mistletoe by Christina Dodd

    Much Ado about Mistletoe by Christina Dodd

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fair Verona celebrates the most joyful Christmas season in all of this flat earth, and for spirited20-year-old Rosie Montague, sleuth and daughter of Romeo and Juliet (alive and well and still passionately in love), the season holds a thrilling new kind of mystery . .
  • Embattled Christmas by J.M. Madden

    Embattled Christmas by J.M. Madden

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    This is a 13k word novella. Christmas at the Lost and Found Investigative Service is anything but merry this season. John Palmer dreads the holiday. For the past year he and Shannon have been getting along like gangbusters, but as the holiday creeps closer tension invades their relationship. He’s at a loss as to how to fix it. Until he makes a risky gamble...
  • Mistletoe Murders 3 by Ken Cuperus, Cobie Smulders

    Mistletoe Murders 3 by Ken Cuperus, Cobie Smulders

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The much-anticipated return of the hit Audible Original Mistletoe Murders series, featuring Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother) reprising her role as the captivating Emily Lane in Mistletoe Murders 3...
  • Mistletoe Murders 2 by Ken Cuperus, Cobie Smulders

    Mistletoe Murders 2 by Ken Cuperus, Cobie Smulders

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Listening Length: 3 hours and 48 minutes. Back by popular demand, Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother) reprises her role as the captivating Emily Lane in the much-anticipated new season of Mistletoe Murders, from Canadian Screen Award winner Ken Cuperus...
  • Santa Sleuth by Kathi Daley

    Santa Sleuth by Kathi Daley

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's Christmas in Ashton Falls and the entire Zimmerman household is gearing up for their first Christmas as a newly formed family unit. While Zak is busy decking the halls, Zoe is busy tracking down a killer while still taking the time to make certain a little girls Christmas wish comes true. It's funny, it's family, it's a Zak and Zoe Christmas.
  • Amy's Santa by Manda Mellett

    Amy's Santa by Manda Mellett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’m may be twenty-seven years old, yet every year going home for Christmas is something I eagerly look forward to. I can never wait to get back and see my dad, Heart, my stepmom and my younger brother and sisters, as well as the proxy cousins, uncles and aunts who I grew up with. The Satan’s Devils MC has been my family for all of my life...
  • Christmas Up in Flames by Lisa Harris

    Christmas Up in Flames by Lisa Harris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Targeted by an arsonist. .. can she survive the holidays? Back in her ex's hometown to investigate an arson, fire inspector Claire Holiday plans to do her job and be home by Christmas. .. until her B&B is set on fire while she's sleeping. She escapes only with the help of firefighter Reid O'Callaghan -- her secret son's father...
  • Christmas at Glacier Grove by Sage Parker

    Christmas at Glacier Grove by Sage Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    47-year-old Lori was expecting a relaxing winter, but when her bank account is mysteriously emptied overnight things start spiraling. Forced to move back home and stay at her parents' bed & breakfast, she’s preparing for an extremely hard Christmas. The small Vermont ski town is full of twinkling lights and charm, but things aren’t as simple for Lori...
  • Festive by K.E. Osborn

    Festive by K.E. Osborn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Christmas is in the air, and the importance of family has never felt stronger. Stepping into my brother’s shoes wasn’t going to be easy. Zero led with greatness—just like our father before him. Now, it’s my time to prove that the Walker legacy is unbreakable. My Old Lady is expecting again, and my family’s growing—there’s nothing I wouldn’t do to protect them...
  • We Kill Killers by S.T. Ashman

    We Kill Killers by S.T. Ashman

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Leah and Agent Richter find themselves in a heart-stopping face-off with an old foe. As the boundaries of trust begin to blur, a new FBI Agent arrives, asking incisive questions that rattle the nerves. Whose side is she on? That remains the chilling enigma in a deadly game that's far from over. This is the second book. I Kill Killers is the first book in the series.
    Categorized as:
    horror  suspense  mystery  length-medium  audiobook
  • Kansas City Christmas by Julie Miller

    Kansas City Christmas by Julie Miller

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A detective with no badge, Edward Kincaid's brooding nature scared medical examiner Holly Masterson, but couldn't dim her holiday spirit. It was when she attracted a stalker that the most wonderful time of the year turned into the most frightening. Working together to reveal a conspiracy too many people had died covering up, Holly found Edward's protection - and powerful embrace - hard to resist...
  • 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 ratings
    It'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...
  • Married to a Stranger by Patricia MacDonald

    Married to a Stranger by Patricia MacDonald

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Anticipating a happy life at the beginning of her marriage, pregnant crisis counselor Emma Webster becomes terrified when her husband disappears just before she is nearly killed by an axe-wielding assailant, a situation that worsens when authorities tell her they believe her husband is her attacker. By the author of The Girl Next Door. Reprint.
    Categorized as:
    suspense  horror  mystery  length-medium  audiobook
  • Holiday Rescue by Rebecca Zanetti

    Holiday Rescue by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The Albertini Family is Back in this Holiday Romance! Quint Albertini likes his life as a smokejumper and search and rescue expert. He has his dog, his friends, and his freedom. He’s had it with women who can’t commit or who want him to change, and now all he has to do is dodge the family match-makers so he can live his peaceful life when he’s not leaping head first into danger.
  • Holiday Rebel by Rebecca Zanetti

    Holiday Rebel by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Secrets are Unwrapped during this Holiday Season. Rory Albertini has survived in a world of espionage and danger by being patient and outwaiting any enemy. So, when his fiancé and the only woman he’s ever loved dumps him, he immediately creates an attack plan...
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