Criminal Psychological Thriller

For fans of Karin Slaughter, Psychological Horror, and Suspense Thrillers Lynn is a normal girl who moved to Manhattan against her parent's wishes. They worried about how their daughter from a small town would handle a big city. When Lynns attacked, it puts her on a path with a Detective that she doesn't quite understand but one that may know more about what's happened as the case unravels. The Detective starts to see a pattern, something that's familiar to her from a past that she's dying to forget. Except, the past that she remembers belongs more in a horror movie than real ...

Twenty years of secrets. One night of reckoning. Criminal profiler Dr. Edith Ward thought returning to her hometown of Bain Island would offer a fresh start. Instead, she finds herself thrust into a nightmare when a series of brutal murders rocks the small community, eerily connected to a twenty-year-old cold case. Teaming up with Sheriff Devon James, Edith must confront the ghosts of her past while racing to catch a killer. As she delves deeper into the investigation, Edith realizes the murders are hitting closer to home than she ever imagined. With her unique insight into the criminal ...

I thought I knew the game. I was wrong. My father's empire is crumbling. Our allies are turning against us. And the woman I love might be our downfall. I'm caught in a web of lies and betrayal. Every move I make could be my last. Trust is a luxury I can't afford. But the truth? The truth might destroy us all. There's a rat in our family. The feds are closing in. And a secret that could change everything. I have to choose: Loyalty to my blood, Or a chance at redemption. The clock is ticking. The stakes have never been higher. And I'm running out of time. Who will survive when the dust ...

In spite of a harrowing past still haunting her, Gwen Proctor is trying to move forward. Until a new assignment gives her purpose: the cold-case disappearance of a young man in Tennessee. Three years missing, no clues. Just Ruth Landry, a tortured mother in limbo. Gwen understands what it’s like to worry about your children. Gwen’s investigation unearths new suspects…and victims. As she follows each sinister lead, the implications of the mystery grow more disturbing. Because the closer Gwen gets, the closer she is to a threat that looms back home.

I'd never even kissed a boy the night I met Stone. The night I saw him kill. The night he spared my life. That was only the beginning. He turns up in my car again and again, dangerous and full of raw power. "Drive," he tells me, and I have no choice. He's a criminal with burning green eyes, invading my life and my dreams. The police say he's dangerously obsessed with me, but I'm the one who can't stop thinking about him.

In a Tennessee prison, Efrem Judah Goode draws haunting portraits of women he claims he has killed. Around the country, desperate families of the missing seek answers in his eerie drawings. And on darkened back roads and New York City streets, a new killer poses duct-taped bodies at the sites of Goode’s murders. Two serial killers are locked in a twisted rivalry. To stop the brutal slayings, FBI profiler Caitlin Hendrix must unravel the connection between Goode and the Broken Heart Killer.

For true fans of police crime mysteries written with authenticity and attention to detail, the Riley Scott detective series will bring to mind Harry Bosch and Alex Cross. The Cameo is the second book in the Riley Scott detective series and is proving to be one of the best murder mystery novels to come along in some time. Written with the reader in mind who does not want to have the clues placed in front of them like a trail of breadcrumbs, The Cameo is a thrill ride like no other. Every book has a line, a page, or even a chapter that is so powerful the reader stays with it and re-reads that...

In the quiet corridors of a forgotten childhood, Lena’s past begins to resurface. After a series of disturbing dreams, Lena is haunted by the name "Lia"—a name she can’t recall but feels deeply tied to. As she digs deeper into her lost memories, she uncovers a fractured identity buried beneath years of trauma. Driven by an obsession to piece together her past, Lena is drawn to a decaying house that holds more than just forgotten memories—it holds the truth. But as the line between Lena and Lia blurs, hallucinations and forgotten horrors rise to the surface, threatening to consume ...

Alice Crowley's erotic smut just keeps getting better and better! Reader reviews: "I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~Multiple Fans In this thirsty, hungry, 12,000-word sexy suspense novel, a married woman named Sophie is claimed and dominated by an alpha undercover cop. Sophie lives the high life with her neglectful husband in an opulent penthouse suite. One day she gets hungry for some titillating action, so she takes her body to the wrong side of the tracks. Now a gang of relentless alphas has her held captive and will not let up as they ...

Shopping with her sister, DI Amy Winter is admiring a Valentine’s Day window display of a perfect bride encrusted in diamonds and resplendent in lace - until she notices blood oozing from the mannequin’s mouth. This is no stunt. A post-mortem reveals the victim was left to die on her macabre throne for all to see. When a second victim is found, it emerges that both women were "Sugar Babes" arranging dates with older men online - and Amy finds herself hunting an accomplished psychopath.

On a steaming night in 1977, New York City is plunged into darkness and two boys, Joe and Robbie, are abandoned by their mother, Lois. Forty years to the day after this unforgivable moment, Joe is a hard-drinking ADA and Lois has resurfaced: Joe wakes from another alcoholic fog to learn she’s been found murdered on a Coney Island beach.

Jane Smith is running out of time . . . Her repeat client, Rob Jacobson, is the unluckiest of the unlucky. No sooner is he accused of killing a family of three in the Hamptons than a second family is gunned down. He says he's being set up – again. Despite the odds, Jane believes him. Now she must mount the most complex investigation of her career. But she’s facing her own battle too. A terminal medical condition. The defence may never rest.

Read the first book in the Riley Scott detective series, with a twist at the end that you won't see coming, although it was right in front of you the entire time. Atropos will keep you on the edge of your seat and guessing from the opening line until the heart pounding ending. If you’re a fan of Harry Bosch and Alex Cross, make room for the Riley Scott mystery series! If there is such a thing as a routine murder, Detective Riley Scott was hoping that the one he just caught would be exactly that—routine. It turns out to be anything but. He quickly realizes that it is connected to a ...

In the wake of Barbara’s husband’s death, her 18-year-old daughter Emily has developed a severe addiction to drugs, and Barbara is afraid her son Logan will pursue the same path. In desperation to save her daughter, Barbara enrolls Emily in a rehab program, complete with an intervention agent scheduled to securely escort Emily to the facility. Emily and the agent set off for Georgia, but when the interventionist is murdered in the parking garage of the Atlanta airport and Emily disappears into thin air, Emily becomes the prime suspect.

Although her childhood was haunted by a famous crime, Rhinannon’s life is normal now that her celebrity has dwindled. By day her job as an editorial assistant is demeaning and unsatisfying. By evening she dutifully listens to her friend’s plans for marriage and babies whilst secretly making a list. A kill list. From the man on the Lidl checkout who always mishandles her apples, to the driver who cuts her off on her way to work, to the people who have got it coming, Rhiannon’s ready to get her revenge. Because the girl everyone overlooks might be able to get away with murder.

A glamorous woman is murdered in her ultra-luxurious London mansion and her husband goes missing. But according to public records, neither of them exists. The only leads police have are several objects arranged around the woman’s body, including a set of keys and a book called How to Process a Murder by Laughton Rees—a book that appears to have helped the killer forensically cleanse the crime scene.

Sometimes you find... ...just what you're not looking for! Bolo Avery Boles was stuck with his former military nickname, but the last thing he wanted to be stuck with was the life he was currently living as a civilian. Working part-time as a bouncer at Club Raza while doing less legal work on the side more suited to his talents, Bolo is just biding his time until he can retire…but he didn’t count on The Goddess. Suzanne Claremont is in the same position, existing paycheck-to-paycheck as a Real Estate Agent, constantly frustrated by her former-model roommate’s earnings as a Sugar Baby....

For fans of tightly written suspense with unexpected twists, welcome to The Domino Effect, the third book in the Riley Scott detective series. The Domino Effect will have you up late at night with the lights on, checking under the beds and behind doors, turning pages, trying to figure out what is coming on the next page. The FBI estimates there are at least 25 serial killers active in the United States at any given time, committing roughly 150 murders a year. The chances of a random detective becoming involved in one of those investigations is slim to none, but Riley Scott has been through ...

Are you a Law & Order or CSI crime junkie? In these You Solve It mini mysteries, you get to be the lead detective who takes on the case. You will read the case file, collect the evidence and solve the crime. Become an iDetective.

In a small grim room, the body of a woman is discovered, panic and pain etched in her face. The scene matches in every detail a series of murders two years ago-murders that ended when irrefutable forensic evidence secured the conviction of a deeply disturbed young man named Derek Tyler. But there's no way Tyler could have killed the latest victim. He's been locked up in a mental institution since his trial, barely speaking a word. So is there a copycat?