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When Tess Porter agrees to pick up her boyfriend’s college pal at the airport on a snowy December night, she has no idea she’s about to embark on the most dangerous ride of her life. Two days later, the seventeen-year-old wakes up in a hospital with broken bones, unable to remember how she got there. Her parents are acting strange, and neither James, her boyfriend, nor her best friend, Izzy, has visited. As she struggles to physically recover, Tess wrestles with haunting questions: What happened? Will her memory ever return? And what if she’s better off not recalling any of it?

When a badly burned body is found near the remote Ardnamurchan Lighthouse on the west coast of Scotland, it feels like just another day on the job for DCI Jack Logan and his team. But the victim’s list of enemies, including a diminutive loan shark and a powerful local politician, is far longer than Jack was prepared for. And don’t even get him started on the magic psychic sex cult.

Can a young woman's vanishing be linked to her mother's brutal murder a dozen years before? For ambitious Arab American TV journalist Rima Kassab, the sensational case has all the elements of a career-making story: a mysterious disappearance, a cold-case murder, and family secrets. But the truth might be buried in her own lover's past…

When a young man is found frozen to death on a Highland street in mid-December, DCI Jack Logan initially puts it down to a Christmas night out gone tragically wrong. But, when a postmortem reveals something more sinister, Jack discovers he is dealing with a cold, calculating killer with a long line of victims, a talent for torture, and a perverse sense of justice.

I left everything behind. My name. My phone. My life. My husband said he loved me. That I was everything to him. But staying meant dying. You don't hurt the people you love—do you? Now I'm miles away, wearing someone else's clothes, driving a car I bought with cash, and sleeping in B&Bs under...

Horror is what Dan Law enjoys. He loves to read horror novels as a way to escape from his teaching job, from his loneliness, from the everyday dullness of life in Silver Lake. That’s what Dan lives for. When a new bookstore opens in town, every visitor receives a free book of their own. A book...

"What are the possibilities of my strength? That is a thought I have never had before. What if some morning as the old woman stood at the head of the staircase she were suddenly to feel a weight thrusting against the back of her legs? What if she were to lunge forward, grasping at the air, striking her thin skull against the edge of a stair? What would become of me if she were found unmoving at the bottom of the stairway?" Such are the thoughts of Baxter, a sociopathic bull terrier on the hunt for the perfect master.

A year has passed. Marine and security specialist Domino Taylor does not work anymore. His days and nights are spent shadowing the Lambert family; the guilt he feels for the tragic events that unfolded in western Pennsylvania haunts him without mercy. When someone from Domino's past contacts him, she begs him to take on one last job: Find and return her kidnapped son.

His crimes - unforgivable. His death - inevitable. His suffering - just beginning. Obadiah Stark, aka The Tally Man, is executed at ADX Absolom, his death sentence watched by the world's media, victims' relatives and one investigative reporter, Joe O'Connell. Penning an account of Stark's personal history and subsequent crimes in the hope of determining what elements make the sociopathic mind tick, Joe discovers clues and inconsistencies which cause him to investigate Stark's execution.

Detective Leon Chambers' idyllic country life is shattered when his wife and daughter are brutally murdered by her vengeful ex-partner, Tommy Black. Devastated and torn between the desire for vengeance and his commitment to the law, Leon must stop Tommy from completing a twisted and chilling bucket list—Hell's List.

Desperate to escape the wreckage of her life, police investigator Louise Andersen flees Copenhagen. Her last murder investigation was a catastrophic failure that nearly killed her, and her marriage is imploding. Seeking a fresh start, she retreats to a quiet village on the Danish island of...

The pretty gift-wrapped box floating in a toy dinghy looks innocent enough, but it holds a bloody secret: a human heart. Nothing is more important to Detective Sam Becket than being able to keep his family safe. But when that gruesome package is found outside their home, they fear it can mean only one thing: that Cal the Hater is back. When a second grisly discovery is made in a crowded resort pool, the great manhunt is back on.

They are dying, one by one: wealthy middle-aged women in an exclusive Connecticut suburb. Their murderer remains at large. Nora Chancel, wife of publishing scion Davey Chancel, fears she may be next. After all, her past has branded her a victim. . . . Then Davey tells Nora a surreal story about...

One serial killer terrified the world. Imagine what an army of them could do.... Former soldier Claire Madden is arrested at the scene of a brutal murder. She will speak only to former crime reporter Joe O'Connell. Joe's obsession with Obadiah Stark, aka The Tally Man, cost him everything. He is about to learn that Stark's message did not end with his death. They believe in what The Tally Man stood for. They believe in what The Tally Man did. But he was one, and they are many. Once they have you, they will never let you go....

In the snow-choked alleys of a fading Northern England shipbuilding town, Tanner’s Department Store stands as a gilded cage of decadence and deceit. When aimless thirty-something Black, desperate for work, steps into its opulent halls, he’s ensnared by the store’s enigmatic owner, Dianne Doyle. A puppeteer of dark desires, Dianne twists Black into her sadistic games, promising a shattering revelation at the infamous Tanner’s Christmas Staff Party.

Lucifer: The Fallen Angel is a cosmic horror epic that reimagines the greatest fall in history. This is not a story of good versus evil. This is tragedy dressed in fire. This is love twisted into war. This is the origin of everything that haunts the Revelations Universe, told with mythic weight and intimate heartbreak.

Wenn die Gemeinschaft ein Zuhause bietet, die Familie Schutz verspricht und der Glaube Hoffnung schenkt, sind wir alle perfekte Opfer. Auf der Suche nach ihrer Mutter verschlägt es Audrey nach Velvet Cove. Eine Stadt, die niemals ihre Augen schließt und Geheimnisse zu wahren weiß. Wagemutig gräbt die junge Frau in der Vergangenheit und begibt sich damit in die Fänge des Bösen, denen sie nicht mehr entrinnen kann. Der fünfte Band öffnet die Pforten zur Hölle.

Fans of Clive Barker’s Books of Blood will feel right at home in this brutal demonic nightmare set in a cursed neighborhood. The fire was supposed to end it. When Alastar Manor burned to the ground, they thought the nightmare died with it. But evil doesn’t burn. It waits. And the ashes of that cursed land have given rise to something new. Alastar Heights. A shiny modern neighborhood built on ground that was never meant to be touched again. At first, it feels perfect. Fresh paint. Smiling neighbors. Families trying to start over. But the land remembers. Every ritual. Every scream.

They wanted a son to fill the silence left by grief. What they brought home was something far older than childhood. When Rafe and Julia Volmer return from Mumbai with their five-year-old son's ashes, the void threatens to consume them. Six weeks later, they stand in a Portuguese orphanage, desperate for redemption, and find Lucien. Eight years old. Perfectly still. Perfectly quiet. The nuns say he was abandoned at a monastery. No birth certificate. No family history. No explanation for why other children refuse to look at him. The adoption is too fast. The paperwork has too many gaps.

When Utah novelist Callen Drake uploads his debut thriller to an audiobook site, the last thing he expects is an email claiming it’s been “flagged for potential adaptation.”