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  Publication Date:  January 3, 2019 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Mystery Publisher:  self published Length:  123 pages Buy:  Kindle  | Synopsis Two spouses, Richard and Serene awake to a morning of uncanny feelings and to add to their unease, they soon discover their six-year-old son Mark is nowhere to be found. Despite their numerous attempts of searching top and bottom throughout their home, there is no trace of their son. After searching, Serene and Richard finally locate him in his favorite hide-n-go-seek spot in the basement. Unfortunately, they also find themselves submerged in an unspeakable nightmare.Longtime friend Garett and his colleagues of the Welder Viller Police Department seek to get to the bottom of the grim misfortune....

Publication Date:  July 27, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Mystery/Crime Narrators:  Louise Brealey Publisher:  Macmillan Audio      Length:  9 hours 42 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis In Ilmarsh, England, local Police Detective Alec Nichols discovers 16 horses' heads on a farm, each buried with a single eye facing the low winter sun. After veterinary forensics expert Cooper Allen travels to the scene, a pathogen is discovered lurking within the soil, and many of those who have come into contact with the corpses grow critically ill. A series of crimes comes to light - disappearances, arson, and mutilations - and in the dark days that follow, the town slips into panic and paranoia. Everything is not as ...

Publication Date:  May 20 2008 Format:  Audio Genre:   Police Procedurals/Romance Narrators:  Susan Erickson Publisher:  Brilliance Audio              Length:  11 hours 30 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis A pioneer of modern reconstructive and cosmetic surgery, Dr. Wilfred B. Icove, is found dead in his office—murdered in a chillingly efficient manner: one swift stab to the heart. Struck by the immaculate condition of the crime scene, Dallas suspects a professional killing. Security disks show a stunningly beautiful woman calmly entering and leaving the building—the doctor’s final appointment.  Known as “Dr. Perfect,” the saintly Icove devoted his life to his family and his work. His record is cle...

Publication Date:  March 25, 2021 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Police procedural/thriller Publisher:  Amazon Publishing UK Pages:  335 Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis A merciless killer who will stop at nothing. And a detective with nothing left to lose. When Detective Karen Hart hears a scream echoing out of beautiful Lincoln Cathedral one snowy evening, she is the first officer on the scene. In the chapel a man lies murdered, a bloody cross carved into his forehead. The twisted killing sends this close-knit community into shock. And a note to the police from the murderer, signed by ‘The Cleanser’, confirms their worst fears: this sadistic slaying is the first of many. The ritual killings will never stop until Hart uncovers th...

  Publication Date:  November 12, 2019 Format:  Audio Genre:   Police Procedural  Narrator:  David Thorpe  Publisher:  Boldwood Books            Length:  9 hours 34 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis A family is gunned down in the snow but one of the children survives. Three years on, that child takes revenge and the Snow Killer is born. But then, nothing - no further crimes are committed, and the case goes cold. Fifty years later, has the urge to kill been reawakened? As murder follows murder, the detective team tasked with solving the crimes struggle with the lack of leads. It’s a race against time and the weather – each time it snows another person dies.  As an exhausted ...

Publication Date:  June 2, 2020 Publisher:  Blake Pierce Format:  Audio  Narrator:  Jane McDowell Length:   7 hours 57 minutes Genre:  Police Procedural, suspense, mystery Buy:   Kindle  |  Audio  |  Synopsis: A serial killer strikes every Halloween - the bodies of his victims resurfacing years later - and with Halloween only days away, it is up to FBI Special Agent Riley Paige to stop the killer before he strikes again. How has this killer gone undetected for so long? How many victims have there really been? And who will he target next? FBI Special Agent Riley Paige must fend off her own demons and her dysfunctional family life as she races against time to enter the mind of a diabolical killer days away from striking again - one who may even be more brilliant than her. Can she stop him in time? Review:  This se...

Release Date:  October 15, 2019 Publisher:  Saxon Publishing Format:  Audio Length:  7 hours 56 minutes Narrator:  Alison Campbell Genre:  Mystery/Crime Fiction Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  When a faceless body is found floating in the river on a summer's morning, Detective Kay Hunter and her team are tasked with finding out the man's identity and where he came from. The investigation takes a sinister turn when an abandoned boat is found, covered in blood stains and containing a child's belongings. Under mounting pressure from a distraught family and an unforgiving media, the police are in a race against time - but they have no leads and no motive for the events that have taken place. Review: This is a fast paced thriller focusing on the disappearance of a young girl and a dead man found floating in the river with his face missing.  I think any investigation involving children hit the police hard but thi...

Publication Date:  January 15, 2019 Publisher:  Minotaur Books Format:  ebook Pages:   321 Pages Genre:   Mystery/Thriller Buy:  Kindle  |  Audiobook  |  Synopsis: Police officer Ellery Hathaway is on involuntary leave from her job because she shot a murderer in cold blood and refuses to apologize for it. Forced into group therapy for victims of violent crime, Ellery immediately finds higher priorities than “getting in touch with her feelings.” For one, she suspects a fellow group member may have helped to convict the wrong man for a deadly arson incident years ago. For another, Ellery finds herself in the desperate clutches of a woman who survived a brutal rape. He is still out there, this man with the Spider-Man-like ability to climb through bedroom windows, and his victim beseeches Ellery for help in capturing her attacker. Ellery seeks advice from her friend, FBI profiler Reed Markham, who liberated her from a killer’s...

Release Date:  February 26, 2019 Publisher:  Mulholland Books Format:  ebook Pages:  320 pages Genre:   Mystery/Thriller/police procedural Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis: One of the few black kids on his Brighton Beach block, Titus "Crisp" Crespo was raised by his white mother and his Russian grandparents. He has two legacies from his absent father, Mo: his weird name and his brown skin. Crisp has always been the odd kid out, but a fundamentally  good  kid, with a bright future. But one impulsive decision triggers a horrible domino effect—an arrest, no reason  not  to accompany his richer, whiter friend Glynnie on a visit to her weed dealer, and a trip onto his father's old home turf where he'll face certain choices he's always striven to avoid. As Detective Lex Cole tries to unravel the clues from Crisp's night out, they both find that what you don't know about your past can still come back to haunt you. R...