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The Breakdown B.A. Paris · 2014 · ★ 3.9 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate **If you can’t trust yourself, who can you trust?** Cass has been forgetting every little thing: where she left the car, if she took her pills, the alarm code, why she ordered a pram when she doesn't have a baby. The only thing she can't forget is that woman--the woman she might have saved--and the terrible guilt. Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods, on… Shares Psychological Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Mystery
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Bones in London Edgar Wallace · 1900 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The new Managing Director of Schemes Ltd has an elegant London office and a theatrically dressed assistant - however Bones, as he is better known, is bored. Luckily there is a slump in the shipping market and it is not long before Joe and Fred Pole pay Bones a visit. They are totally unprepared for Bones' unnerving style of doing business, unprepared for his unique style of innocent and endearing… Shares Thriller, Mystery
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Fifty Candles Earl Derr Biggers · 1926 Shares Thriller, Mystery with this book.
A Bullet For Cinderella
A Bullet For Cinderella John D. MacDonald · 1955 · 165p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Her veneer was big city ... But one look and you knew that Toni Raselle's instincts were straight out of the river shack she came from. I watched her as she toyed with the man, laughing, her tumbled hair like raw blue-black silk, her brown shoulders bare. Eyes deep-set, a girl with a gypsy look. So this was the girl I had risked my life to find. This was the girl who was going to lead me to a… Shares Thriller, Mystery
The Last Time I Saw You
The Last Time I Saw You Liv Constantine · 2019 · ★ 4.0 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Dr. Kate English has it all. Not only is she the heiress to a large fortune; she has a gorgeous husband and daughter, a high-flying career, and a beautiful home anyone would envy. But all that changes the night Kate’s mother, Lily, is found dead, brutally murdered in her own home. Heartbroken and distraught, Kate reaches out to her estranged best friend, Blaire Barrington, who rushes to her… Shares Psychological Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Mystery
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Holly Stephen King · 2023 · ★ 4.0 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl’s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down. Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared… Shares Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Mystery
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The Burning Girls C. J. Tudor · 2019 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Welcome to Chapel Croft. Five hundred years ago, eight protestant martyrs were burned at the stake here. Thirty years ago, two teenage girls disappeared without a trace. And two months ago, the vicar of the local parish killed himself. Reverend Jack Brooks, a single parent with a fourteen-year-old daughter and a heavy conscience, arrives in the village hoping to make a fresh start and find… Shares Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Mystery
A Drop of Corruption
A Drop of Corruption Robert Jackson Bennett · 2025 · ★ 4.5 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • HUGO AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF BOOKPAGE’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • AN ELLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The eccentric detective Ana Dolabra matches wits with a seemingly omniscient adversary in this brilliant fantasy-mystery from the author of The Tainted Cup.“Wonderfully clever and compulsively readable . . . another winning blend of fantasy and classic detection.”—Publishers… Shares Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Mystery
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The Man Who Knew Edgar Wallace · 1918 · ★ 3.4 · 145p · ≈ 4h · Moderate John Minute, formerly an unscrupulous African mining magnate, has flown to England, but can’t escape his past. Constantly threatened by blackmailers, he fears death and financial ruin. At the suggestion of the commissioner of police, “The Man Who Knows” is hired to assist in determining the source of these threats. But after John is murdered, suspicion is cast on his nephew, who calls on The Man… Shares Thriller, Mystery
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Running blind Desmond Bagley · 1970 · ★ 3.7 · 231p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "It'll be simple", they said at the Department. "You'll just be a messenger boy". But to Alan Stewart, on a deserted road in Iceland with a murdered man at his feet, it looks anything but simple. Someone very ruthless is after the innocent-looking parcel he carries, and Kenniken, a Russian agent with the best of reasons for hating him, has followed him to Iceland. Shares Thriller, Mystery
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The tightrope men Desmond Bagley · 1973 · ★ 3.8 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Giles Denison's life is turned upside down when he awakes to find himself in a luxurious hotel in Oslo and, peering into the bathroom mirror, discovers the face of another man! He has been kidnapped from his flat in London and transformed into famous Finnish scientist, Dr Harold Feltham Meyrick. Compelled to adjust to his new persona (including meeting his daughter) and to play out the role… Shares Thriller, Mystery
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The Square Emerald Edgar Wallace · 1926 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Leslie Maughan, recognized for her keen mind, has unofficially been promoted to Scotland Yard’s first female investigator. Chancing upon a book of poetry once owned by a Peter Dawlish, convicted forger, Leslie delves into the details of the convict’s case and becomes convinced of Peter’s innocence. Befriending Peter after his release from prison, Leslie discovers a link between him, a lady of… Shares Thriller, Mystery
The Children on the Hill
The Children on the Hill Jennifer McMahon · 2022 · ★ 3.9 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate **1978**: at her renowned treatment center in picturesque Vermont, the brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. Helen Hildreth, is acclaimed for her compassionate work with the mentally ill. But when she's home with her cherished grandchildren, Vi and Eric, she’s just Gran—teaching them how to take care of their pets, preparing them home-cooked meals, providing them with care and attention and love. Then… Shares Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Mystery
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Bright Young Women Jessica Knoll · 2023 · ★ 4.0 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Tallahassee, 1978. Sorority president Pamela Schumacher wakes to a shocking scene of implausible violence and death, and is drawn into a mystifying crime that grips the nation for decades . . . In Seattle, Tina Cannon connects her best friend's disappearance to the Tallahassee tragedy, and is convinced that a single man is responsible. Determined to find justice, the two join forces as… Shares Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Mystery
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How to Sell a Haunted House Grady Hendrix · 2022 · ★ 3.6 · 413p · ≈ 13h · Moderate When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and… Shares Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Mystery
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Mystery of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens · 1871 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Charles Dickens' final and unfinished novel, *The Mystery of Edwin Drood*, is a dark, atmospheric mystery set in the mythical cathedral town of Cloisterham. The plot revolves around the disappearance of young Edwin Drood and the strange behaviour of his uncle, John Jasper, who is addicted to opium and acts as the choirmaster. Because Dickens died before completing the novel, the murder… Shares Psychological Thriller, Mystery
The Deep Blue Good-by
The Deep Blue Good-by John D. MacDonald & Lee Child From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Deep Blue Good-by is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.   Travis McGee is a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He’s also a knight-errant who’s wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and television. He only works when his… Shares Thriller
Bones Are Forever
Bones Are Forever Kathy Reichs #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs, a producer of the Fox hit show Bones, is back with her fifteenth “pulse-pounding” (Publishers Weekly) novel featuring North America’s favorite forensic anthropologist, Tempe Brennan—a story of infanticide and murder set in the high stakes, high danger world of diamond mining.A woman calling herself Amy Roberts checks into a Montreal hospital… Shares Thriller

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