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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING DEBUT PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER YOU CAN'T MISS! The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie? “A hair-raising debut, both unsettling and addictive...A chilling thriller that will keep you reading long into the night.” —Mary Kubica, New York...

The first in an exciting new series of Scandi Noir thrillers featuring Detective Frida Skardet from the author of the Cold Secrets series, Tom Quiller. Pre-book the first in the NORSE KRIMOLOGI strand now. THE MURDER OF INFANTS SEEMS TO BE CHILDSPLAY FOR THIS KILLER When a child dies during its baptism, it is the first move in a deadly game of cat and mouse for Detective Frida Skardet, newly arrived in Trondheim with a limp from an encounter with Russian agents (picked up in the Sam Tilson espionage thriller, Heaven's First Law), her teenage son, and a lot of mental baggage. What people are...

Every Polaroid tells a lie. And every lie demands blood. Rain falls. Hymns echo. A killer arranges bodies like artwork and leaves Polaroids behind—ritualistic, intimate, and taunting. No fingerprints. No witnesses. Only a whistle in the dark and a message no one can decipher. Then Tobias Reddick steps into the case.

As a lone semi-truck makes its snowy way to the US-Canadian border, a series of vivid characters are inexorably drawn into a desperate, comedic, and murderous scheme to steal its precious cargo. Curtis, a newly hired dispatcher with a newly pregnant wife at home, holds a scrap of paper that...

In this thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, Harry Bosch teams up with LAPD Detective Renée Ballard to face the unsolved murder of a runaway, and the fight to bring a killer to justice.​ Detective Renée Ballard is working the night beat—known in LAPD...

Philadelphia, 1986. Someone is killing men the city is already trying to forget. When private investigator Danny Malloy is called to the Saint Jude Lounge after a young bartender is found dead in the rain, the police are ready to file it away as another overdose, another lost gay man, another body in a city full of excuses. But Kenneth Hoffman came to Danny days before he died. He was frightened. He had names. He had rumors of missing men, stolen clinic files, and a religious card marked with three words: No more suffering. As Danny follows Kenneth’s trail through gay bars, hospital wards...

"Corbett's work has garnered him an Edgar© Award nomination, and we can see why." — New York Times A dead man in a schoolyard. A diamond in his mouth. A Mystery that goes back decades. Two rival crime gangs—the Shiners and the Travellers—are already on the brink of war when a body is found hanging from a schoolyard fence. Detective Frank Yakabuski is called in to investigate and immediately identifies the dead man. It’s Agustus Morrissy, leader of the Shiners. In retaliation, the Shiners soon murder a high-ranking Traveller and kidnap the twelve-year-old granddaughter of the ...

When marine archaeologist Owen Marsh is found dead on the Cornish coast, DS Jack Penrose has one detail that won't leave him alone. Divers in distress shed their gear. This one didn't. The post-mortem confirms it. The tank valve was deliberately tampered with. Someone who knew exactly what they were doing. Owen had just made the discovery of his career — a Spanish galleon off St Petroc Head, four hundred years on the seabed, commercially priceless. And he had filed the legal protection in his own name. The case against the prime suspect is solid, then it falls apart entirely. Now Penrose ...

Love leaves roses. Power leaves bodies. In Saint James Black Parish, Valentine’s Day ends in blood. Kwame Mensah — financier, kingmaker, the untouchable “Golden Banker of the Apex” is discovered butchered in a hidden Basin apartment, his hands removed with surgical precision, a silver hatchet gleaming like a signature beside him. By sunrise, the city has already decided who must fall. His wife. Chloe Mensah married into a dynasty built on couture, currency, and quiet brutality. Now she stands at the center of a scandal that reeks of ritual murder and resurrects the Woodshed Homicide...

A billionaire talent manager. A bowl of cold artisanal soup. And ten inches of sterling silver sticking out of his neck. For disgraced ex-cop turned cynical private investigator Kevin Hayes, a Tuesday night was supposed to end with a cheap glass of tap water and a terrible five-minute set at an underground comedy club. Instead, he’s dragged into a high-stakes homicide investigation where the victim is face-down in his own thirty-two-dollar appetizers. Julian Montgomery was a lot of things—a thief, a liar, and a ten-percent comedy pimp who managed the city’s worst prop comics. But he ...

From bestselling author Britney King comes a razor-sharp psychological thriller about a street built on secrets, a neighbor who knows too much, and the woman who learns—too late—that the most dangerous lies are the ones everyone else is willing to believe. “You’d be surprised how easy it is to disappear someone.” That’s what Clint says. Always with a smile. Always like a joke. But Nora knows better—jokes don’t leave bodies. Nora Givens runs the salon where the cul-de-sac comes to confess. She knows who’s day-drinking, whose marriage is composting under the patio lights, ...

Noir contains three classic thrillers by Richard Matheson, the grand master of suspense. Originally published in the 1950s, at the very beginning of Matheson’s distinguished career, these page-turning classics are finally on audio for your listening pleasure. Now listeners everywhere can savor three unforgettable tales of crime, corruption, and cold-blooded murder.

From bestselling author Britney King comes a hypnotic and terrifying psychological thriller about a man held hostage in a remote location by the “love of his life”—aka the woman he refuses to marry. She only wants one thing: for him to love her the way he used to. When her boyfriend hesitates to propose—and then cheats instead of leaving—she decides the relationship needs structure. Space. Consequences. A reset. Retreating to an isolated house in the countryside feels like the responsible choice. A place where distractions disappear and commitment can finally take root. He ...

Three couples. Three houses. One home to die for… Stacey and Felix are the glamorous owners of the stylish, modern Glass House, with its pool and floor-to-ceiling windows. Now they’re downsizing, but Stacey can’t sell to just anyone. She needs the right buyer, who will keep her secrets...

In rain-slick New Jersey, broke plumber Lenny Wrench is handed the dirtiest job of his life: become Louie Spano, a mob boss desperate to disappear. With the right haircut, suit, and borrowed contempt, Lenny can fool the right people for the right price. But the act pays too well. Doors open. Men listen. Fear bends toward him. And every day he wears Louie’s face, more of Lenny disappears. Hardboiled, darkly funny, and morally bruised, this crime novel asks how long a decent man can pretend to be a monster before the monster starts answering to his name.

A deliciously dark and twisty psychological thriller perfect for fans of The Housemaid, The Perfect Marriage and The Last Mrs Parrish. Amanda Kensington is trapped in a marriage to a charming, dangerous man. He’s told her he’ll kill her before he’ll divorce her – and she believes him...

From Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic, comes Certain Dark Things, a pulse-pounding neo-noir that reimagines vampire lore. Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive...

When fates intertwine amid the madness of Mardi Gras, chaos reigns supreme. In the haunted French Quarter, where Creole spirits drift through Mardi Gras chaos, a malicious voodoo curse sparks mayhem in the Crescent City’s underground world. When a crew boat sinks, releasing sociopathic assassin Jacque Leguerre, the vengeful killer storms into New Orleans, hell-bent on making Catholic priest Father Alphonso pay for past sins in a chilling New Orleans noir story of paranormal crime. N.O.P.D. homicide detective Tony Nicosia hunts the ruthless mob murderer responsible for a brutal killing, ...

Tucker, a young veteran, returns from war to work for a bootlegger. He falls in love and starts a family, and while the Tuckers don't have much, they have the love of their home and each other. But when his family is threatened, Tucker is pushed into violence, which changes everything.

I wasn't hired for my résumé. I was hired for my bones. Three hundred forty-two thousand dollars in debt. Forty-eight hours before the collectors took everything — including my sister's house. Then the contract slid across the mahogany desk. Vaughn Mercer didn't want a wife. He wanted a user interface. A woman who could wear his missing wife's clothes, sign her name, and stand in the floor-to-ceiling windows of his forty-story penthouse so the world would believe Daphne Mercer hadn't vanished. Six months. Total debt elimination. A two-hundred-thousand-dollar bonus. All I had to do was ...