8 Thrillers, Crime and Suspense eBooks to Read on Sọna

on Ibadan’s Ring Road finds a radio journalist dead in her car. On the dashboard lies a blood-red card bearing a single word: LISTEN. Detective Adaora Banjo has spent a decade refusing to become a character in her own cases. But the next red card is waiting on her office chair — and a whisper hidden inside the victim’s final broadcast knows her name. As Adaora and Inspector Segun Adeyemi follow the dead woman’s trail through radio stations, ministries and forgotten police files, they discover that the killer is not the only person leaving messages. Someone has spent years teaching the city what not to hear. The Crimson Note is a Nigerian crime thriller about murder, corruption, grief and the cost of listening too late, set in the streets, stairwells and studios of Ibadan.

work of shutting down a gun running cartel in Uyo. The operation shouldn't have lasted more than a few months, but it spanned into years due to some complications. The covert SSS team stayed at Apartment 4D. ‎ ‎By 1999, Cleopatra Benson, daughter of the slain Idobo Benson doesn't understand why her perfect life flipped into a nightmare. Suddenly she's suspected of murder, she's evicted from her home and she has to hide from the resentment of students at her university. She moves into Apartment 4D with two female strangers. ‎ ‎From 1995 to 1999, the covert case uncovers double agents, blackmails, murders, vendettas, kidnappings and instigated riots. In the mix, the three ladies of Apartment 4D also have to navigate issues of morality, close death calls and love. Will these three of 4D get happy endings?

arrested for the murder of his mistress’s boyfriend. Now, she must use her money and influence to prove his innocence — because he truly is innocent. This fast-paced novelette tells the story of deceit, betrayal, and revenge.

disappearing without a trace. Then seventeen-year-old Kulu goes to the market and never comes home. Her implant never sends a distress alert. When Rakiya checks the system, Kulu’s status eventually changes to two words she has seen before: Offline (Error). Rakiya’s university research has already uncovered strange failures in the safety network serving rural communities. Kulu’s disappearance turns those anomalies into something personal. Other girls have vanished the same way, all from underfunded regions still running outdated firmware. As Rakiya follows the data and speaks to the families left behind, a pattern begins to emerge. These girls are not simply falling through the cracks. Someone knows exactly how to make them disappear.

family as the first daughter. Thinking she was being saved by her cousin, she broke up with her boyfriend and walked into the world of the wealthy, a world of atrocities she would've preferred not knowing. The price for wealth was living in hell with depravities that had her contemplating the worst since she couldn't leave. Life brought her ex-boyfriend into the picture, their passion burned brighter than ever, he demanded that she leave but she couldn't. Aniebiet couldn't tell him that she was neck deep in forced immorality. ‎ ‎Derek couldn't believe he was still smitten with his ex even though she was in another relationship. One look at her after ten years and he was back to the first time he'd met her. Unfortunately, she was now a timid woman, a slave to her new boyfriend and it rubbed him the wrong way. He told himself he didn't want her back, he just wanted her free of her bullying boyfriend, but he soon found that to be a lie. Amid an attempted assassination case, he fought to break the chains holding her. Derek found that the more he tried, the more she was tangled with the case, leaving him struggling to love, serve and protect.

beautiful for Ifechukwu. She has everything; a loving father, a thriving business, and a man that loves her more than she ever imagined possible. Everything changes when a charming stranger, harbouring a dark secret appears at her engagement party, triggering a series of events that set her on the run while questioning the intentions and loyalties of those around her—including that of the man she is planning to spend the rest of her life with. On her quest to finding answers, she realizes that hidden among the many emotions warring inside her is one feeling she does not want to nurse. Especially not for the uncanny handsome stranger who is after her for one reason...maybe her body and her death. Is she wrong about the stranger's intention? Could there be someone else who wants her dead? Is this handsome stranger only using her as a bait to lure 'this' someone out?

prime suspect in the gruesome murder of his girlfriend. Jake, however, has more information than the detectives expect, and before long the two detectives find themselves deep into the night, hooked on his words. They soon discover Jake may be the master key and the information he possesses could be key to solving a cold case and uncovering a political conspiracy spanning five years.

grandfather’s eerie home in a forgotten town, she accidentally opens a door she can’t close—summoning Death himself. But this isn’t the hooded figure from bedtime tales. He’s charming, ageless, and terrifyingly familiar. Caught in a centuries-old curse and a twisted love that transcends lifetimes, Moni must choose: sacrifice someone she loves, or surrender herself to the very thing she fears most. In this dark, seductive novelette, Death and I ask—what if the scariest part of dying… is remembering why you keep coming back?