When the Stars Go Dark
By: Paula McLain
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Anna Hart is a missing persons detective in San Francisco. When tragedy strikes her personal life, …
Want to Read $ 13.99"Getting your heart broken is the privilege of being human."-Paula McLain, When the Stars Go Dark
"What is all the suffering for if not so we can see how alike we are, and not alone? Where will the mercy come from, if not from us?"-Paula McLain, When the Stars Go Dark
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1. The Women
By: Kristin Hannah
4.64
Format: 471 pages, Hardcover
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
2. She's Not Sorry
By: Mary Kubica
3.81
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient’s frightening past in this chilling thriller. Megha… read more
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- adult fiction
- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
3. None of This Is True
By: Lisa Jewell
4.12
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adult
- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- audiobook
"Acting as if there is something wrong with me, when there isn't. It's the world that's wrong, you and I both know that."-Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True
"Being with so many people felt right, and afterward at the wake thrown by Nathan's company at a huge bar in Paddington overlooking the canal, with seats outside and bottomless champagne and a playlis…"-Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True
4. First Lie Wins
By: Ashley Elston
4.05
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house w… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adult
- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- audiobook
"Blunt honesty has more value than blind worship"-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins
"It’s because you’re not ready to tell me the truth and I’d rather you not lie to me."-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins
"There’s an old saying: The first lie wins. It’s not referring to the little white kind that tumble out with no thought; it refers to the big one. The one that changes the game. The one that is delibe…"-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins
5. Listen for the Lie
By: Amy Tintera
4.13
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if… read more
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- adult fiction
- mystery thriller
- adult
- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- audiobook
"Men say shit,"-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie
"What are you doing here?"-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie
"We were all so repressed in our twenties,"-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie
"Lucy, didn’t you want to be a writer once?"-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie
6. Only If You're Lucky
By: Stacy Willingham
3.56
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, wh… read more
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- adult fiction
- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"...with an entire year lost since I lost Eliza, I don't just need to be saved anymore. I need to be resuscitated."-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky
"How interesting: that female instinct to duck, to hide, like prey catching sight of glowing eyes in the night. Something inherent in our very genes, our very DNA"-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky
"She's all the way in the front, perched on the bow like a figurehead pulling us forward. Or maybe a siren, seductive and dangerous, her little lies fooling us all."-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky
"And if Eliza was adrenaline, that makes Lucy something even more. Something more addicting, more dangerous. Something I probably shouldn't be dabbling in -- but at the same time, something impossible…"-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky
7. Just Another Missing Person
By: Gillian McAllister
3.66
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Reese’s Book Club Pick and the New York Times bestseller Wrong Place Wrong T… read more
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- adult fiction
- mystery thriller
- adult
- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- audiobook
"Parenthood is beautiful, but hard, too. It’s tough to exist in the world when there is someone going about their business who you would die for."-Gillian McAllister, Just Another Missing Person
"How much I love you. You'll never know it, either. You will only have some idea, if you have a child of your own one day, of the things you will do to protect them, of how deep and pure your love for…"-Gillian McAllister, Just Another Missing Person
8. All the Dangerous Things
By: Stacy Willingham
4.07
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
One year ago, Isabelle Drake's life changed forever: her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his c… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adult
- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- audiobook
"People tend to stash their dirtiest secrets in the most common of places."-Stacy Willingham, All the Dangerous Things
"At the time, it reminded me of the stars: how two can collide and fuse into one—bigger, brighter, stronger than before. But what I didn’t know then was that when they collide too fast, they don’t fus…"-Stacy Willingham, All the Dangerous Things
9. No One Can Know
By: Kate Alice Marshall
3.68
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
The author of What Lies in the Woods returns with a novel about three sisters, two murders, and too… read more
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- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"A pregnancy wasn’t a promise."-Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know
10. Happiness Falls
By: Angie Kim
3.75
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they kn… read more
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- adult fiction
- mystery thriller
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls
11. The Frozen River
By: Ariel Lawhon
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- audiobook
12. Bright Young Women
By: Jessica Knoll
4.02
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary novel inspired by the real-life sorority targeted by America's first celebrity ser… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- audiobook
"The truth is something people will go to great lengths to keep for themselves. It shouldn't feel like a gift when you get it, but it is."-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
"Time does not heal all wounds. Grief is just like a sink full of dirty dishes or a pile of soiled laundry. Grief is a chore you have to do, and it's a messy one, at that."-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
"There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to the defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was mak…"-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
"Her lips are moving silently around words I recognize. 'I carry you like my own personal Time Machine, as I put on my lipstick, smile, and head out to the party.' It's a line by one of her favourite …"-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
13. One Perfect Couple
By: Ruth Ware
3.68
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Runtime: 14 hours and 9 minutes Harkening to Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None… read more
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- adult fiction
- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
14. What Lies in the Woods
By: Kate Alice Marshall
3.96
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
Naomi Shaw used to believe in magic. Twenty-two years ago, she and her two best friends, Cassidy an… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adult
- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- audiobook
"Nothing good comes from digging up old trouble."-Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods
"But why should she be able to leave the woods, when I never had?"-Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods
"Don't worry. She does this. She likes to go out to the woods to think."-Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods
"When it comes to relationships, if you could take it or leave it, leaving is always the right choice"-Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods
15. The Heiress
By: Rachel Hawkins
3.87
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest w… read more
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- adult fiction
- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"One rarely finds salvation in Florida."-Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress
"Sometimes it's fun to give people enough rope with which to hang themselves."-Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress
16. Daughter of Mine
By: Megan Miranda
3.95
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
The new thrilling novel from Megan Miranda, the instant New York Times bestselling author of All th… read more
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- adult fiction
- mystery thriller
- adult
- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- audiobook
17. When the Stars Go Dark
By: Paula McLain
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Anna Hart is a missing persons detective in San Francisco. When tragedy strikes her personal life, … read more
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- adult fiction
- mystery thriller
- adult
- suspense
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- audiobook
"Getting your heart broken is the privilege of being human."-Paula McLain, When the Stars Go Dark
"What is all the suffering for if not so we can see how alike we are, and not alone? Where will the mercy come from, if not from us?"-Paula McLain, When the Stars Go Dark
18. Murder Road
By: Simone St. James
3.72
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deser… read more
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- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
19. The Return of Ellie Black
By: Emiko Jean
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s life is turned upside down when she gets the call Ellie Black, a girl w… read more
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- adult fiction
- mystery thriller
- adult
- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- audiobook
"you cannot save yourself from heartbreak. You cannot save yourself from grief."-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black
"When you study what you’ve been through, what happened to you, it loses its power, and then you have a choice: stay or move on."-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black
20. All the Colors of the Dark
By: Chris Whitaker
4.44
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an e… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adult
- suspense
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- audiobook
21. The God of the Woods
By: Liz Moore
4.27
Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition
When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more
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- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
