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"A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deserted road in this terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases. July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They're looking for the small resort town where they plan to spend their honeymoon. When they spot what appears to be a lone hitchhiker along the deserted road, they stop to help. But not long...

NYC detective Michael Bennett teams up with a former Army Ranger and sniper whose long, unexplained absences from duty causes suspicions during the investigation of a serial killer.

"Theo Benton decides to move to the United States to finally finish her novel, and she is soon drawn into a literary labyrinth where identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of sales and readership. When her mentor and lover is brutally murdered, Theo wants the killer to be found and justice to be served. But when the prime suspect turns out to be her older brother, Gus, Theo does what is necessary to protect him--to save him....

In this spellbinding thriller, detectives Jack Doyle and Mary Kelly seek the help of an incarcerated serial killer named The Artist after a copycat killer strikes. While Mary searches for clues in The Artist's brilliant but twisted psyche, she and Jack are lured into a diabolical game of cat and mouse, racing against time to stay one step ahead of The Artist and his copycat.

"With Extinction, #1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston has written a page-turning thriller in the Michael Crichton mode that explores the possible and unintended dangers of the very real efforts to resurrect the woolly mammoth and other long-extinct animals."--Publisher's description.

Invited by a reclusive mystery novelist to help draft his life story, a longtime correspondent and detective fiction expert finds herself in a real whodunnit when she learns the writer's first wife and son mysteriously vanished.

DCI John Barnaby and his sidekick, DS Jamie Winter, endeavor to solve perplexing crimes. In Series 24, they investigate a vicious inheritance dispute, a pet detective's death, and a string of murders in the avowed 'Greenest Village in Midsomer.

Crime investigations against a stunning seaside backdrop are at the heart of this drama series following a high-flying solicitor who returns to live and work in the small town she escaped as a teenager. As coroner, Jane Kennedy's job is the investigate sudden or unexplained deaths in the beautiful seaside community.

Crime investigations against a stunning seaside backdrop are at the heart of this drama series following a high-flying solicitor who returns to live and work in the small town she escaped as a teenager. As coroner, Jane Kennedy's job is the investigate sudden or unexplained deaths in the beautiful seaside community.

A financially struggling married couple starts filming themselves for a podcast when a gunshot rings out and they find their next-door neighbor is murdered. To find the killer, they invite the other residents over to probe for clues over cocktails. It gets more complicated when another body is found. No one is safe, and no one can be trusted as they try to unravel the mystery.