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In Sackett’s Land, Barnabas Sackett’s plan to build a new life in America is derailed when a powerful nobleman orders his death.
Sackett’s Land
Mystery · Thriller · Historical Mystery · Suspense
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In Sackett’s Land, Barnabas Sackett’s plan to build a new life in America is derailed when a powerful nobleman orders his death. Surviving kidnapping and pirates, he reaches the Carolina coast but must return to England to uncover his father’s secret. With 4.6 stars on Amazon, this classic adventure begins the legendary Sackett series.
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A discovery in the English marshes sets a young man on a perilous journey across continents in Sackett’s Land. When Barnabas Sackett unearths six ancient Roman coins, he uses his unexpected fortune to prepare for a new life in America. But the promise of opportunity quickly turns dangerous. Rupert Genester, an ambitious nobleman whose inheritance is threatened by a vow made to Sackett’s father, orders Barnabas’s death before he can sail.
Kidnapped and cast into the hold of a pirate ship, Barnabas survives through grit and determination, eventually reaching the wild Carolina coast. The untamed land offers hope, yet the shadow of England and the mystery of his father’s legacy demand resolution.
With 4.6 stars on Amazon and strong Goodreads ratings, this classic frontier adventure launches the iconic Sackett family saga.
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In The Borrowed World, prepper Jim Powell is stranded after a coordinated terror attack destroys the nation’s infrastructure.
The Borrowed World
Dystopian · Mystery · Thriller
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In The Borrowed World, prepper Jim Powell is stranded after a coordinated terror attack destroys the nation’s infrastructure. His journey home becomes a brutal fight for survival as violence rises and every choice carries a price. With 4.4 stars on Amazon and high Goodreads praise, this realistic post apocalyptic thriller explores resilience, guilt, and the cost of staying human.
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A nationwide terror attack shatters the United States in The Borrowed World, leaving power, fuel, communication, and essential supplies abruptly cut off. For Jim Powell, a lifelong prepper who once imagined a reset, the collapse arrives when he is far from home. Armed only with a get home plan and the gear he carries, he must navigate a landscape transformed by fear, violence, and desperation.
What begins as a journey back to his family becomes a test of conviction as every mile forces Jim to confront the grim cost of survival. Friends are lost, alliances form under pressure, and each hard won victory demands a sacrifice he never anticipated. Through guilt, determination, and moments of unexpected humanity, Jim learns that resilience alone is not enough.
With 4.4 stars on Amazon and strong Goodreads ratings, this post apocalyptic thriller delivers realism, moral tension, and a stark portrait of survival.
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In Block 46, profiler Emily Roy and true crime writer Alexis Castells investigate two murders in Sweden and London that mirror each other in terrifying detail.
Block 46
Mystery · Thriller · Noir
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In Block 46, profiler Emily Roy and true crime writer Alexis Castells investigate two murders in Sweden and London that mirror each other in terrifying detail. Their hunt uncovers a link to Buchenwald, where past atrocities echo into the present. With 4.1 stars on Amazon and multiple awards, this intense thriller blends Nordic Noir atmosphere with haunting historical depth.
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A brutal murder in a quiet Swedish marina ignites a chilling investigation in Block 46, the first novel in the Roy and Castells series. When jewellery designer Linnea Blix is found mutilated in Falkenberg, and a young boy is discovered in London with identical wounds, profiler Emily Roy recognizes a pattern shaped by calculated cruelty.
Working alongside Alexis Castells, a true crime writer and Linnea’s close friend, Emily traces the violence across countries and decades. Their search leads them deep into the past, where the horrors of Buchenwald reveal a link between present day killings and a man who once clung to humanity within the camp’s brutality.
With 4.1 stars on Amazon, award recognition, and international bestseller status, this dark, atmospheric thriller delivers a gripping blend of modern investigation and historical menace.
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In No One Can Know, Emma Palmer is forced to return to the house where her parents were murdered and where she once stood accused.
No One Can Know
Thriller · Mystery
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In No One Can Know, Emma Palmer is forced to return to the house where her parents were murdered and where she once stood accused. Reunited with her estranged sisters, she begins to question what truly happened that night as buried tensions and unsettling clues surface. With 4.0 stars on Amazon, this thriller probes family loyalty and long hidden danger.
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A return home becomes a reckoning in No One Can Know, where three estranged sisters confront the crime that fractured their family. Fourteen years ago, Emma, Juliette, and Daphne Palmer fled the house where their parents were murdered and built separate lives marked by silence. Now Emma, newly pregnant and facing financial strain, has no choice but to go back to the place she vowed never to enter again.
Her return unsettles long buried memories, especially the ones she never shared about the night she became the prime suspect. As the sisters gather under one roof, old rivalries surface and uneasy loyalties form. Each new clue deepens the mystery surrounding their parents’ deaths and exposes the dangerous lengths someone might go to keep the truth hidden.
With 4.0 stars on Amazon and more than 78,000 Goodreads ratings, this psychological thriller delivers layered secrets and relentless tension.
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In 1948 Berlin, a city split by ruin and rising tensions, Alex Meier returns from American exile to spy for the CIA.
Leaving Berlin
Historical Fiction · Historical Thriller · War Fiction
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In 1948 Berlin, a city split by ruin and rising tensions, Alex Meier returns from American exile to spy for the CIA. When a mission unravels and a forbidden love resurfaces, he is forced to choose between survival and conscience. Leaving Berlin is Joseph Kanon’s gripping tale of intrigue, identity, and the moral cost of the Cold War.
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In a city divided by rubble and ideology, loyalty becomes a perilous calculation.
Berlin, 1948. Blockaded, battered, and carved into rival spheres, the city is a crucible where spies, writers, and soldiers of lost causes fight for influence. Returning from American exile, Alex Meier agrees to work with the CIA to escape McCarthy persecution and reclaim the life he left behind. But his first assignment shatters any illusion of control. A failed kidnapping leaves him hunted, alliances shift without warning, and the woman he once loved becomes the center of a mission built on deception.
As borders harden and danger closes in, Alex must decide what survival demands and what betrayal truly costs.
Leaving Berlin is a tense, atmospheric thriller of love, innocence lost, and the shadowed moral terrain of the early Cold War.
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In Along Came a Spider, detective and psychologist Alex Cross races to find two kidnapped children taken by their teacher, a criminal who craves notoriety.
Along Came a Spider
Thriller · Police Procedural
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In Along Came a Spider, detective and psychologist Alex Cross races to find two kidnapped children taken by their teacher, a criminal who craves notoriety. Teaming with Secret Service supervisor Jezzie Flanagan only deepens the case’s complexity, drawing them into forbidden territory. With 4.5 stars on Amazon and massive Goodreads acclaim, this thriller introduces the now legendary Alex Cross series.
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Discover the classic thriller that launched the bestselling detective series from the world's most popular storyteller.
Alex Cross is in a race against time after two private-school children are kidnapped by their teacher—a man looking to commit the crime of the century.
The inspiration for the Prime Video show, Cross.
Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in Southeast D.C. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano. But he also has two adorable kids of his own, and they are his own special vulnerabilities.
Jezzie Flanagan is the first woman ever to hold the highly sensitive job as supervisor of the Secret Service in Washington. Blond, mysterious, seductive, she's got an outer shell that's as tough as it is beautiful. She rides her black BMW motorcycle at speeds of no less than 100 mph. What is she running from? What is her secret?
Alex Cross and Jezzie Flanagan are about to have a forbidden love affair-at the worst possible time for both of them. Because Gary Soneji, who wants to commit the "crime of the century," is playing at the top of his game. Soneji has outsmarted the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police. Who will be his next victim?
Gary Soneji is every parent's worst nightmare. He has become Alex Cross's nightmare. And now, reader, he's about to become yours.
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Calvin and Sadie head to a remote mountain cabin for a quiet babymoon, but strange behavior from the homeowners and a shocking revelation shatter their calm.
The Last Trip
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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Calvin and Sadie head to a remote mountain cabin for a quiet babymoon, but strange behavior from the homeowners and a shocking revelation shatter their calm. Paranoia rises, trust breaks, and someone appears to know exactly where they are. A tense domestic thriller from bestselling author Kiersten Modglin with strong Amazon and Goodreads ratings.
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Eight guests. One isolated lodge. One deadly secret.
It’s supposed to be a relaxing week in the mountains — one last trip with our college friends before life gets too serious. Just me, my husband, and the people we’ve known for years.
But the moment we turn off the narrow road and see that cabin, surrounded by snow and silence, I feel it. Something’s off.
I tell myself I’m being silly. Until she shows up — the one person who knows exactly what I did, all those years ago.
I want to run. But it’s already too late. A storm has hit. The roads are blocked. And then our phones mysteriously disappear.
Some of us won’t make it out of here alive.
A tense, addictive psychological thriller with a twist you won’t see coming. Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, J.T. Ellison, Lucy Foley, Jeneva Rose, B.A. Paris, Ruth Ware, Shari Lapena and McGarvey Black.
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In The Blinds, every resident has a rewritten past and a deadly rule.
The Blinds
Mystery · Historical Thriller
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In The Blinds, every resident has a rewritten past and a deadly rule. No one can leave alive. When a suicide and a murder ignite unrest, Sheriff Calvin Cooper must confront buried secrets as a new deputy unravels the truth. Celebrated as a Best Book of 2017 and praised by Dennis Lehane, this thriller carries strong Amazon and Goodreads ratings.
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In a remote corner of Texas lies The Blinds, a hidden town where every resident has had their memories altered. Some were criminals, others were witnesses, and none of them know which side of the law they once occupied. All they understand is the rule that defines their existence. If they try to leave, they will die. For eight years, Sheriff Calvin Cooper has held this uneasy community together, balancing fragile trust with the secrets he keeps buried.
When a sudden suicide is followed by a brutal murder, the quiet settlement erupts. A new deputy begins to investigate, outsiders close in, and long dormant fears rise to the surface.
Praised by Dennis Lehane and honored as a Best Book of 2017, this inventive thriller holds 4.0 stars on Amazon and more than 10,000 Goodreads ratings.
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When high-priced escorts are murdered in Miami’s most exclusive homes, FBI Agents Kate Walsh and Declan James uncover a web of privilege and deceit that hides a ruthless…
Miami Ripper
Thriller
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When high-priced escorts are murdered in Miami’s most exclusive homes, FBI Agents Kate Walsh and Declan James uncover a web of privilege and deceit that hides a ruthless killer. Miami Ripper holds 4.6 stars on Amazon and Goodreads, a gripping, atmospheric crime thriller of secrets, corruption, and the deadly cost of power.
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Miami glitters on the surface, but beneath the luxury and ocean breeze, a predator hunts. High-priced escorts are turning up dead in abandoned mansions along the waterway, and the local police are out of their depth. FBI Agents Kate Walsh and Declan James are called in to stop the killer before he strikes again.
As they trace the trail through Miami’s elite circles, they uncover a world fueled by power, money, and exploitation. Everyone has something to hide, and the truth could be deadlier than the killer himself. When a shocking break exposes a dangerous conspiracy, Kate must outthink a murderer hiding in plain sight.
Miami Ripper holds 4.6 stars on Amazon and Goodreads, a fast, tense FBI thriller from Stacy M. Jones.
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When a podcaster is found murdered where five teens vanished decades ago, Mercy Kilpatrick and Truman Daly must confront a past drenched in secrets.
At the River
Mystery · Romance · Police Procedural · Psychological Thriller
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When a podcaster is found murdered where five teens vanished decades ago, Mercy Kilpatrick and Truman Daly must confront a past drenched in secrets. As old memories surface, new deaths follow. At the River holds 4.6 stars on Amazon and 4.5 on Goodreads, a tense, emotional thriller from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kendra Elliot.
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Twenty years ago, five teenagers vanished in the Oregon wilderness. Two were found bound and left for dead on the rocky shore of the Columbia River. Only one survived, Devin Bonner, who remembers nothing of what happened that night. Now, the past has returned.
When a true-crime podcaster is discovered murdered at the same site, FBI Special Agent Mercy Kilpatrick and her husband, Police Chief Truman Daly, reopen the cold case that never stopped haunting their town. As Devin’s memories begin to resurface, a new trail of blood emerges, drawing Truman’s ward, Ollie, into a danger far greater than he understands.
At the River holds 4.6 stars on Amazon and 4.5 on Goodreads, a gripping Columbia River novel of memory, trauma, and buried truth from Kendra Elliot.
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A woman’s past fractures when a long-buried lie comes back to claim her present.
Last Seen
Thriller
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A woman’s past fractures when a long-buried lie comes back to claim her present. After losing her job and learning her mother was murdered, not killed in an accident, Halley James begins to question the only family bond she has ever trusted. Her search for answers leads her to a seemingly perfect town with disturbing secrets beneath its surface. Last Seen is a psychological thriller about memory, deception, and the danger of believing what you are told.
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From New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison comes a twisted psychological thriller about the bonds of family and the disconnect between memory and the truth.
Come here. Come closer.
Halley James knows her marriage is over. But she’s not prepared for the rest of her life to fall apart too.
No one can hear you. No one can help you.
She just lost her job at the forensics lab. Her dad needs emergency surgery. But the biggest blow comes back home in Marchburg, Virginia, where she discovers her mother didn’t actually die in a car crash. Her mom was murdered—and her father lied about it all these years.
I have nothing to hide from you. Are you hiding something from me?
Since she was six years old, it’s been Halley and her dad. Now, she doesn’t know what to believe. Desperate for the truth, Halley chases down a lead in Brockville, Tennessee. But all there is not as it seems. Brockville’s utopian charm hides a chilling darkness. And Halley’s search for answers threatens to expose an unspeakable reality.
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This psychological thriller fits readers who want domestic suspense, maternal fear, community secrets, and blame that spreads in every direction.
All Her Fault
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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A child disappears from an ordinary Dublin suburb, and every familiar face becomes harder to trust in All Her Fault. Marissa Irvine arrives to collect her son from a playdate, only to find a stranger at the door and no sign of Milo. This psychological thriller fits readers who want domestic suspense, maternal fear, community secrets, and blame that spreads in every direction.
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*Now a major TV series starring Sarah Snook*
'Andrea Mara is a star' Lee Child
'Grips from the first page and keeps upping the stakes.' Sarah Pearse, bestselling author of The Sanatorium
ONE MISSING BOY.
Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Tudor Grove, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn't a mother she recognises. She isn't the nanny. She doesn't have Milo. And so begins every parent's worst nightmare.
FOUR GUILTY WOMEN.
As news of the disappearance filters through the quiet Dublin suburb and an unexpected suspect is named, whispers start to spread about the women most closely connected to the shocking event. Because only one of them may have taken Milo - but they could all be blamed . . .
IN A COMMUNITY FULL OF SECRETS, WHO IS REALLY AT FAULT?
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