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The Night Ferry

Michael Robotham

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Broken Bones

Angela Marsons · 366 pages

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The Butterfly Garden

Dot Hutchison · 333 pages

"Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden. In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees...and a collection of precious butterflies -- young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens. When the garden is discovered, a survivor is

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The Lost Girls

Allison Brennan · 456 pages

FBI agent Lucy Kincaid and her mentor, Special Agent Noah Armstrong, investigate a black market baby ring with ties to human trafficking, and Lucy's fiancé faces a difficult choice when the son he never knew he had goes missing.

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Worth Dying For

Lee Child · 480 pages

There’s deadly trouble in the corn county of Nebraska . . . and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it’s the unsolved, decades-old case of a missing child that Reacher can’t let go. The Duncans want Reacher gone—and it’s not just past secrets they’re trying to hide. For as dangerous as the

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Livia Lone

Barry Eisler · 358 pages

Seattle PD sex-crimes detective and former human-trafficking victim Livia Lone must relive the horrors of the past when she gets a fresh lead as to the whereabouts of her little sister, Nason.

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Cold Blooded

Lisa Jackson · 463 pages

Psychic Olivia Bechet witnesses a murder in her sleep. When she witnesses the second murder, she reports it to the police, but jaded detective Rick Bentz doesn't believe her. Her next dream shows her the face of the serial killer's next victim, who is closer than she ever imagined.

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Dash of Peril

Lori Foster · 480 pages

To bring down a sleazy abduction ring, Lieutenant Margaret “Margo” Peterson has set herself up as bait. But recruiting Dashiel Riske as her unofficial partner is a whole other kind of danger. Dash is 6’4″ of laid-back masculine charm, a man who loves life—and women—to the limit. Until Margo is threatened, and he reveals a dark side that may just match her own… Beneath Margo’s tough façade is a

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Indelible

Karin Slaughter · 374 pages

The internationally bestselling author "squarely in the ranks of Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs" (Publishers Weekly) shows off her superb talent with this brilliantly conceived, skillfully executed tale of suspense.In Karin Slaughter's exciting new thriller, an officer is shot point-blank in the Grant County police station and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver is wounded, setting off a terrifying

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Sacred Sins

Nora Roberts · 344 pages

Kurzbeschreibung Verlorene Seelen Band 1 - Verlorene Seelen (Sacred Sins) - Nora Roberts Ein Frauenmörder treibt sein Unwesen in Washington. Seine Opfer: Blondinen. Sein Kennzeichen: ein weißer Priesterschal. Tess Court, mit der Aufklärung des Falles betraute Psychologin, fällt nicht nur Ben Paris von der Mordkommission auf, der mit ihr an dem Fall arbeitet. Auch dem Mörder bleibt die bemer

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The Surgeon

Tess Gerritsen · 368 pages

If it's gripping, it's Gerritsen. The terrifying first Jane Rizzoli bestseller.In Boston, there's a killer on the loose. A killer who targets lone women, who breaks into their apartments and performs terrifying ritualistic acts of torture on them before finishing them off. His surgical skills lead police to suspect he is a physician – a physician who, instead of saving lives, takes them.But as hom

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Field of Graves

J.T. Ellison · 439 pages

A serial killer is targeting young Vanderbilt University coeds, one of whom is the daughter of a major university benefactor and Texas oilman. Lt. Taylor Jackson, Nashville cop, and Dr. Samantha Owens, medical examiner, face a huge public relations nightmare. Taylor, struggling with departmental strife, is asked to partner with troubled FBI profiler Dr. John Baldwin, who is back in Tennessee after

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4th of July

James Patterson, Maxine Paetro · 400 pages

A young girl is killed in the crossfire after a routine arrest goes terribly wrong, and Lt. Lindsay Boxer has to defend herself against a charge of police brutality. In a landmark trial that transfixes the nation, Lindsay fights to save her career and her sanity. While awaiting trial, Lindsay escapes to the tranquility of the beautiful town of Half Moon Bay . But the peaceful community the

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3rd Degree

James Patterson, Andrew Gross · 360 pages

The #1 bestselling new mystery series of the past decade comes roaring back with 3rd Degree, a shockingly suspenseful thriller featuring the Women's Murder Club. One of James Patterson's best loved heroines is about to die. Detective Lindsay Boxer is jogging along a beautiful San Francisco street when a fiery explosion rips through the neighborhood. A town house owned by an Internet millionaire is

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The Chosen

Kristina Ohlsson · 536 pages

On a cold winter's day, a pre-school teacher is shot to death at the Jewish Congregation in Stockholm. Just hours later, two Jewish boys go missing on their way to tennis practice. Fredrika Bergman and Alex Recht hunt for a killer that seems as merciless as he is effective.

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Hell Gate

Linda Fairstein · 382 pages

"Head of the Sex Crimes Unit of the district attorney's office in Manhattan for decades, Linda Fairstein is America's most visible legal expert on sexual assault and domestic violence-which is why she writes some of the most compelling crime thrillers of our time and why her Alexandra Cooper series has been topping bestseller list for more than a decade. Fans turn to Fairstein for ripped-from-the-

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Ceremony in Death

J.D. Robb · 329 pages

Fifth Eve Dallas Investigation In Death Even in an age of cutting-edge technology, old beliefs die hard... Death surrounded her. She faced it daily, dreamed of it nightly. Lived with it always. She knew its sounds, its scents, even its texture. Ten years as a cop hadn't hardened her toward it. A decade on the force hadn't made her accept it. Conducting a top-secret investigation into the dea

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Live to Tell

Lisa Gardner · 388 pages

On a warm summer night in one of Boston's working class neighborhoods, an unthinkable crime has been committed: Four members of a family have been brutally murdered. Murder-suicide? Or something worse? Danielle Burton is a survivor, a dedicated nurse whose passion is to help children at a locked-down pediatric psych ward. But she remains haunted by a family tragedy that shattered her life nearly t

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Stalkers

Paul Finch · 464 pages

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Night Prey

John Sandford · 336 pages

It was a very cold, very clear morning in the Carlos Avery game reserve - cold enough to preserve the body lying there, clear enough so the state investigator couldn't miss it. There was something familiar about the stab wounds, she thought - but the Minneapolis police dismissed her theories, and the city's new police chief has problems enough of her own. The cops are wary of her, the public think

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The Blue Hour

T. Jefferson Parker · 480 pages

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Evil at Heart

Chelsea Cain

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The Stolen Girls

Patricia Gibney

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The Body Farm

Patricia Cornwell · 351 pages

Little Emily Steiner is dead. She left a North Carolina church meeting late one October afternoon and strolled along a lakeside path toward her house two miles away. Who met her on the path? Who followed her home, kidnapped her from her bedroom, and left her body by the lake days later? It's a puzzling and terrifying crime, reminiscent of the work of serial killer Temple Gault, who has long elu

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