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  • Deadly Fate

    A totally unputdownable and gripping serial killer thriller

    by Angela Marsons ...
    Series Book 18 - Detective Kim Stone
    The woman’s bright blonde hair floats in the breeze. She almost looks like she could be resting on the soft green grass. But her brown eyes stare unblinking up at the sky, and the final cut across her mouth is dark with blood. Her words silenced forever… Late one evening, as the final church bell rings out, Sandra Deakin’s cold and lifeless body is found in the overgrown graveyard with multiple ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Death Sends for the Doctor

    by George Bellairs ...
    Series series The Inspector Littlejohn Mysteries
    When a doctor is found murdered in a secret room of his mansion, a Scotland Yard detective uncovers a host of deadly secrets in this classic mystery.As the last stronghold of snobbery in the dying little city of Caldicott, Upper Square is home to the last remnants of old family dynasties. Doctor Beharrell, a prominent physician, is found murdered in a secret room in his home there. And ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Never Somewhere Else

    Book 1 in the Sunday Times bestselling detective series

    by Alex Gray ...
    Series Book 1 - DSI William Lorimer
    Discover your next reading obsession with this iconic first novel in Alex Gray's bestselling Scottish detective series. Perfect for fans of Ian Rankin, Val McDermid and Ann Cleeves***Don't miss the latest from Alex Gray. Book 20 in the Lorimer series, QUESTIONS FOR A DEAD MAN, is out now and Book 21, OUT OF DARKNESS, is available to pre-order.***WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT THE LORIMER SERIES:'Warm ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD $0.99 CAD

  • The Santa Killer

    The addictive, page-turning crime thriller from Ross Greenwood

    by Ross Greenwood ...
    Series Book 6 - The DI Barton Series
    The Santa Killer is coming to town…One night less than two weeks before Christmas, a single mother is violently assaulted. It’s a brutal crime at the time of year when there should be goodwill to all. When DI Barton begins his investigation, he’s surprised to find the victim is a woman with nothing to hide and no reason for anyone to hurt her.A few days later, the mother of the woman attacked ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Deadly Promise

    A page-turning crime thriller

    by Rachel Amphlett ...
    Series Book 13 - Detective Kay Hunter
    When a woman’s mutilated body is discovered in a remote countryside property, Detective Kay Hunter is faced with one of the most challenging investigations of her career.There is nothing in the victim’s past to explain her brutal slaying, and no clues as to how her killer got away.Then a second body is found in a run-down storage facility, the man’s remains covered in horrific injuries that bear ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The Body in Nightingale Park

    by Nick Louth ...
    Series Book 12 - DCI Craig Gillard Crime Thrillers
    Another impossible case for DCI Gillard, but this time the answers are very close to home…With a baby on the way, a pregnant wife to take care of and a new home to settle into, DCI Craig Gillard seems to have found a life of domestic bliss.But when retired police sergeant Ken Stapleford is found stabbed to death in front of his own TV while watching Saturday afternoon football, Gillard’s peace is ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Broken Ground

    by Val McDermid ...
    Series series Karen Pirie Novels
    A woman digs up a buried treasure—and a buried body—in the Scottish Highlands: “There are few other crime writers in the same league.”—Maureen Corrigan, The Washington PostSix feet under in a Highland peat bog lies Alice Somerville’s inheritance, buried by her grandfather at the end of World War II. But when Alice finally uncovers it, she finds an unwanted surprise—a body with a bullet hole ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Soul Killer

    A gritty, heart-pounding crime thriller

    by Ross Greenwood ...
    Series Book 2 - The DI Barton Series
    'A real page turner which kept me glued to my seat and got my heart racing.' ★★★★★ A murder made to look like suicide. Another that appears an accident.DI Barton investigates the tragedies that have shattered a family’s lives, but without obvious leads the case goes nowhere. Then, when the remains of a body are found, everything points to one suspect.Barton and his team move quickly, and once ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Woman at Number 19

    A gripping psychological thriller from J.A. Baker for 2023

    by J A Baker ...
    *** THIS SUMMER'S MUST-READ PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER ***Esther lost her husband, Julian, and her children, Harriet and Dexter, in a car accident and is struggling with her grief.Spurred on by her own loneliness and a need to make amends for not being able to save her own children, Esther takes it upon herself to watch the woman who lives at number 19..But when unexplainable incidents begin to happen ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Little Buried Secrets

    by Cheryl Bradshaw ...
    Series Book 8 - Georgiana Germaine
    The clock is ticking, and for Margot, time has just run out.Margot Remington exits the wood-lined boardwalk at Moonstone Beach and pedals her bike onto the highway. It's dusk, and the sky has started to grumble, the clouds shifting and bending as they turn a melancholy shade of gray. Rain is coming. Margot can smell it in the air. But after the argument she’s just had with her sister, she isn't ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • Know No Evil

    A completely gripping crime thriller that will hook you from page one

    by Graeme Hampton ...
    Series Book 1 - D.I Denning and D.S Fisher
    'This is a brilliant read… the story twists and turns to an exciting conclusion and leaves you wanting more’ Mac Reviews BooksOld crimes don’t stay buried forever…It’s high summer, and London sizzles in the grip of a heatwave. But when the body of young mother, Leanne Wyatt, is discovered in an East London park, the heat rises to boiling point for D.I. Matthew Denning. Under pressure to solve the ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where The Truth Lies

    A completely gripping crime thriller

    by M J Lee ...
    Series Book 1 - DI Ridpath Crime Thriller
    The case was closed. Until people started dying…DI Thomas Ridpath was on the up in the Manchester CID: a promising detective who captured a notorious serial killer. But ten years later he’s recovering from a serious illness and on the brink of being forced out of the police. Then the murders began, in an uncanny echo of his first case.As the death count grows, old records, and bodies, go missing. ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Little Broken Things

    by Cheryl Bradshaw ...
    Series Book 3 - Georgiana Germaine
    Detective Georgiana Germaine is back on the trail of a cold-blooded killer, and once again, the case hits close to home.Twenty-year-old Olivia Spencer sits at her desk in her mother’s bookshop, dreaming about her upcoming wedding. The shop may be closed, but Olivia's not alone, and her dream is about to become her worst nightmare.Little Broken Things is the third book in the bestselling Georgiana ... Read more

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  • The Warehouse Coroner

    by Paul Austin Ardoin ...
    Series Book 9 - Fenway Stevenson Mysteries
    An angry ex-wife. A rich mistress. And a dead body in a storage unit.Coroner Fenway Stevenson opens her boyfriend’s storage unit—and discovers a corpse wrapped in an expensive Persian rug. There’s no shortage of suspects: the dead man’s girlfriend, the bitter ex, the sneaky co-worker.But then Fenway uncovers a drug scheme that threatens to tear apart her idyllic California beach town—if the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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  • Simon Says... Swim

    by Dale Mayer ...
    Series Book 8 - Kate Morgan Thrillers
    Simon Says... Swim. Kate Morgan Thrillers book 8, descrioption coming soon. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Dead Ground

    The Sunday Times bestselling thriller

    by M. W. Craven ...
    Series Book 4 - Washington Poe
    Winner of the prestigious CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER AWARD 2022Longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year 2022'Heart-pounding, hilarious, sharp and shocking, Dead Ground is further proof that M.W. Craven never disappoints. Miss this series at your peril.' Chris Whitaker'Dark and entertaining, this is top rank crime fiction.' Vaseem Khan, Author of the Malabar House series ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Bleeding into Winter

    A C.T. Ferguson Crime Novel

    by Tom Fowler ...
    Series Book 16 - The C.T. Ferguson Mysteries
    As the snow falls across Baltimore, the bodies of local women fall along with it.Winter dawns in Charm City, and the police are puzzled by the seemingly random murder of a young woman. Her family hires PI C.T. Ferguson to investigate.But as the freeze deepens, the killings continue with no apparent rhyme or reason.The crimes garner local and national attention while C.T. and the police remain ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

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  • Blessing of the Lost Girls

    A Brady and Walker Family Novel

    by J. A Jance ...
    From J. A. Jance’s New York Times bestselling Brady and Walker novels, federal investigator Dan Pardee, Brandon Walker’s son-in-law, crosses paths with Sheriff Joanna Brady as he traces the bloody path of a merciless serial killer across the Southwest in this intense thriller.Driven by a compulsion that challenges his self-control, the man calling himself Charles Milton prowls the rodeo circuit, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Librarian

    The unforgettable, completely addictive psychological thriller from bestseller Valerie Keogh for 2023

    by Valerie Keogh ...
    ‘Keogh is the queen of compelling narratives and twisty plots’ Jenny O'BrienThe brilliant new psychological thriller from bestseller Valerie Keogh.'A wonderful book, I can’t rate this one highly enough. If only there were ten stars, it’s that good. Valerie Keogh is a master story-teller, and this is a masterful performance.' Bestselling author Anita WallerSince that fateful night I have always ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hunter

    A gripping, addictive thriller from Ross Greenwood, author of The Santa Killer, for 2023

    by Ross Greenwood ...
    There’s a killer on the streets, and no one is safe…First there was the drowned man, but maybe his death was an accident?Then there were the decapitated bodies, the burnt girl, the women pursued in the dark. Finally the police have to admit there’s a serial killer on the loose and he seems set on revenge. His name is Abel and his crimes are escalating every day.Dan Flood, Olivia Jones and their ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cover the Bones

    by Rachel Amphlett ...
    Series Book 5 - Detective Mark Turpin
    When archaeologists discover a skeleton in secluded woodland, the body is first thought to be related to an ancient Saxon settlement.Then the torn and rotten remains of another woman’s bones are uncovered, her injuries bearing the markings of abuse and a violent death.Detective Mark Turpin is tasked with finding their killer, except the forensic evidence is perplexing and the victims’ bodies are ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Death on Cromer Beach

    Another crime series from bestseller Ross Greenwood for 2023

    by Ross Greenwood ...
    Series Book 1 - The Norfolk Murders
    The first in a new series from bestselling author, Ross Greenwood!A brutal double murder on a Norfolk beach horrifies the town of Cromer. The way the victims died is chilling and so Norfolk’s Major Investigation Team task DS Ashley Knight to manage the case.It soon becomes clear that the murders were carefully planned and the finger of suspicion points to an organised crime gang, but as the ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Outside Looking In (DCI Matilda Darke Thriller, Book 2)

    by Michael Wood ...
    Series Book 2 - DCI Matilda Darke Thriller
    ‘DCI Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine’ Elly GriffithsThe second book in Michael Wood’s darkly compelling new crime series featuring DCI Matilda Darke. Perfect for fans of Stuart MacBride, Mark Billingham and Val McDermid.When elderly George Rainsford goes to investigate a suspicious noise one night, the last thing he expects to find is a bloodbath. A man has been killed and a woman brutally ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bet On Jack

    Hunting Lee Child's Jack Reacher

    by Diane Capri ...
    Series Book 20 - The Hunt for Jack Reacher Series
    Kim Otto is on the hunt for Jack Reacher. Is she crazy?USA Today and New York Times Bestselling, Award Winning Series! The next gripping Hunt for Jack Reacher Thriller from Diane Capri!“Make some coffee. You’ll read all night.” Lee ChildFour military veterans are dead. One was under Jack Reacher’s protection.Were they murdered?One Gold Star wife implores the Army to help find her husband’s killer. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus