J.D. Barker

A 4MK Thriller

1 - The Fourth Monkey (Jul-2017)
2 - The Fifth to Die (Jul-2018)

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  Of the Lake
  

  • Oct-2013
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  When Gavin first noticed her watching him from across the bar, he thought she must have been looking at someone else â€" someone attractive, someone outgoing, someone girls as beautiful as her flirted with in places like this. She wasn’t though, sh...

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  Hybrid
  

  • Jul-2014
  • / Horror
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  Tyler was a killer. He left more than a dozen bodies in his wake as he hitched across the country toward Los Angeles. With the sweltering heat of Nevada’s desert beating down, sweat pouring from his skin, he slowly trudged away each mile of Route ...

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  Forsaken
  

  • Dec-2014
  • / Horror
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  "A talented writer with a delightfully devious mind!"
  Jeffery Deaver
  #1 International Bestselling Author
  
  Book One of the Shadow Cove Saga
  
  Inspired by Actual Events
  Excerpt from the Journal of Clayton Stone â€" 1692 She wa...

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  The Fourth Monkey
  

  • Jul-2017
  • / Thriller
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  A 4MK Thriller - 1
  

  For over five years, the Four Monkey Killer has terrorized the residents of Chicago. When his body is found, the police quickly realize he was on his way to deliver one final message, one which proves he has taken another victim who may still be aliv...

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  The Fifth to Die
  

  • Jul-2018
  • / Police Procedural
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  A 4MK Thriller - 2
  

  Detective Porter and the team have been pulled from the hunt for Anson Bishop, the Four Monkey Killer, by the feds. When the body of a young girl is found beneath the frozen waters of Jackson Park Lagoon, she is quickly identified as Ella Reynolds, m...

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  The Sixth Wicked Child
  

  • Sep-2019
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  In the riveting conclusion of the 4MK trilogy, Barker takes the thriller to an entirely new level. Don't miss a single word of the series James Patterson called "ingenious."

  Hear No Evil

  For Detective Sam Porter, the words "Fat...

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  She Has A Broken Thing Where Her Heart Should Be
  

  • Apr-2020
  • / Horror
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  A haunting tale of suspense, rendered with the masterful skill only Barker could muster.

  After the loss of his parents, young Jack Thatch first met Stella as a child--this cryptic little girl of eight with dark hair and darker eyes,...

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  A Caller's Game
  

  • Feb-2021
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  DIE HARD meets TALK RADIO in this heart-pounding, relentlessly fast-paced thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Fourth Monkey-master of suspense, J.D. Barker.I'm going to offer you a choice.Controversial satellite radio talk show...

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  Behind A Closed Door
  

  • May-2024
  • / Thriller
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  50 SHADES meets David Fincher's THE GAME. Soon to be a major motion picture! Would you kill a total stranger to save someone you love?Sugar & Spice is the latest app craze taking the world by storm, but for Abby and Brendan Hollander, downloadin...

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  Heavy Are The Stones
  

  • Dec-2024
  • / Thriller
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  Facing the truth can be deadlier than facing the killer.Ten days to keep a lie. Ten plagues if you deny. Ten ways to watch them die. Five years ago, when Detective Jena Campbell put the Leviticus Killer behind bars, she locked her darkest secret awa...

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  We Don't Talk About Emma
  

  • Feb-2025
  • / Thriller
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  When is cold-blooded murder justified? New Orleans Detective Nikki Mayeaux has decided it’s when a technicality sets a serial rapist free. Jaded and frustrated, this latest injustice brings her to a boiling point. She arrives at the monster&rsq...

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  Something I Keep Upstairs
  

  • May-2025
  • / Thriller
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  For a haunted house to be born, somebody has to die.In the sleepy coastal town of New Castle, New Hampshire, seventeen-year-old Billy Hasler's life is about to take a terrifying turn. When his best friend David Spivey inherits a mysterious house on a...

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