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Death on the Norfolk Express
Death on the Norfolk Express Ross Greenwood The heart-stopping new instalment in the bestselling Norfolk Murders series!A BRAND NEW, must-read, page-turning thriller from BESTSELLER Ross Greenwood! Unmissable for fans of Mark Billingham, Ian Rankin and Peter James 💥'The Norfolk series is Ross Greenwood’s crowning achievement - characters to root for, an intricate web of suspense, all set against a stunning backdrop. I can’t wait for more!'… Shares Thriller
Karma Doll
Karma Doll Jonathan Ames · 2025 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares Thriller with this book.
Local Girl Missing
Local Girl Missing Lisa Regan · 2022 Through swirling dawn fog, they follow the trail of discarded items at their feet: a tube of glittery lip gloss; a cell phone; a cracked make-up compact, broken chunks of ivory powder spilling into the grass. Then the mist parts—just for a second—to reveal a beautiful young girl on the ground, her pale lips frozen forever in a silent scream…   On a winding mountain road into the small town… Shares Thriller
Easy Prey
Easy Prey Dan Ames · 2017 · 166p · ≈ 5h · Moderate A Gripping Mystery Thriller That Will Keep You Guessing Until The Final, Shocking Twist. A prominent Grosse Pointe doctor is found dead, in his car, in an abandoned section of Detroit with a rope around his neck. Private Investigator John Rockne knows the victim, and soon finds himself in the middle of an investigation that blows the lid off Grosse Pointe's glamorous façade. Soon, Rockne becomes… Shares Thriller
The Bone Winter
The Bone Winter V. J. Chambers Shares Thriller with this book.
A Lighthouse for the Lonely Heart
A Lighthouse for the Lonely Heart Scott William Carter They find his body at the bottom of Heceta Head Lighthouse—Ed Boone, a longtime volunteer who commits suicide rather than see his grim diagnosis to its bitter end. The strangeness of the old man's death makes the local news, but Garrison Gage thinks little of it until the famous Nora West sneaks into town with an unsettling letter in hand. Professing he wants to go to his grave with a clear… Shares Thriller
A Drink Before the War
A Drink Before the War Dennis Lehane The mesmerizing, darklyoriginal novel that heralded the arrival of now New York Timesbestselling author Dennis Lehane, the master of the new noir—and introducedPatrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, his smart and tough private investigatorsweaned on the blue-collar streets of Dorchester.A cabal of powerful Bostonpoliticians is willing to pay Kenzie and Gennaro big money for a seeminglysmall job: to… Shares Thriller
The Workers of Iniquity: A C.T. Ferguson Private Investigator Mystery
The Workers of Iniquity: A C.T. Ferguson Private Investigator Mystery Tom Fowler A bankrupt client. A missing husband. One cyber sleuth will follow the money trail to the root of all evil. Private investigator C.T. Ferguson believes justice shouldn't come with a price tag. As a trust fund baby and former hacker, he uses his resources to track down criminals who prey on society's most vulnerable members.When an old acquaintance falls on hard times, he vows to solve… Shares Thriller
Scarcity
Scarcity Randall Wood A teenage girl is kidnapped in Mexico City as a young boy in Afghanistan is wounded by artillery fire. A plane crashes in Florida while a man desperately waits for a new heart in Maryland. A senator’s daughter is critically injured in a car accident as a captured drug runner makes a deal with the DEA.  Before he can settle into his new job with Homeland Security, Jack Randall of the FBI… Shares Thriller
Dead Boyfriends
Dead Boyfriends David Housewright · 2007 · ★ 4.0 Right up until they put him in jail, McKenzie thought the cops were kidding. After all, he did them a favor by stopping a rookie cop from roughing up a distraught woman at a murder scene. But the next thing Mac knows he's in jail, missing an important date with his girlfriend and reliving nightmares he thought he'd finally left behind – and he's vowing payback for all of it. If that means… Shares Thriller
Free Fall in Crimson
Free Fall in Crimson John D. MacDonald & Lee Child From a beloved master of crime fiction, Free Fall in Crimson is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat. He was rich, mean, and slowly succumbing to cancer—until someone hastened the inevitable by beating him to death at a Florida truck stop. Now Ellis Esterland’s son wants Travis McGee to find out who killed his estranged father. The… Shares Thriller
Red Dragon
Red Dragon Thomas Harris THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFeed your fears with the terrifying classic that introduced cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter.FBI agent Will Graham once risked his sanity to capture Hannibal Lecter, an ingenious killer like no other. Now, he’s following the bloodstained pattern of the Tooth Fairy, a madman who’s already wiped out two families. To find him, Graham has to understand him. To… Shares Thriller
Hush Little Girl
Hush Little Girl Lisa Regan · 2021 · 286p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Dressed in pajamas covered with stars, the little girl’s body is perfectly still, her arms folded neatly over her chest. The wildflowers decorating her hair scatter across the grass in the sharp breeze. Her lips are parted slightly, as if to whisper goodnight for the very last time… When twelve-year-old Holly Mitchell’s fragile little body is found on the steps of a mountainside church in the… Shares Thriller
The Disloyal Coroner
The Disloyal Coroner Paul Austin Ardoin A dead deputy. A reopened murder case. And a coroner caught in the crossfire.When a young sheriff's deputy is killed in a late-night hit-and-run, Coroner Fenway Stevenson soon discovers it was no accident. The deputy had only been on the job for a few days—but had he started unraveling secrets within his department?Then a second case is thrown back on Fenway's desk: a murder that was supposed to… Shares Thriller
The Farmhouse Killings
The Farmhouse Killings Wes Markin Shares Thriller with this book.
So Shall You Reap
So Shall You Reap Donna Leon In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon’s bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti’s own youthful past helps solve a mysterious murderOn a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and Paola are up late when a call from his colleague Ispettore Vianello arrives, alerting the Commissario that a hand has been seen in one of Venice’s canals. The body is soon found, and Brunetti is… Shares Thriller
The Color of Death
The Color of Death Trey Gowdy & Christopher Greyson From the number-one New York Times bestselling author and FOX News host Trey Gowdy comes a dark mystery debut about a murder in a small South Carolina town. Assistant DA Colm Truesdale must pick up the pieces of his own life in order to solve the case.Following the death of his wife and daughter, Colm Truesdale is left mentally scarred. After time off, and with no desire to return to the… Shares Thriller
The Donut Legion
The Donut Legion Joe R. Lansdale In this standalone, Edgar-award winning author, Joe R. Lansdale, whom "few can match" (Booklist) beams a light on an East Texas town where a QAnon-style, evangelist cult is brewing trouble.  Charlie Garner has a bad feeling. His ex-wife, Meg, has been missing for over a week and one quick peek into her home shows all her possessions packed up in boxes. Neighbors claim she’s running from bill… Shares Thriller

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