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  • Carpathian Collection by Christine Feehan

    Carpathian Collection by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "The queen of paranormal romance" (USA Today) presents three darkly compelling novels in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that "bring[s] vampiric Carpathians to vivid, virile life" (Publishers Weekly)...
  • Merry Me: Book 15 in The Jerry McNeal series (Jerry McNeal) by Sherry A. Burton

    Merry Me: Book 15 in The Jerry McNeal series (Jerry McNeal) by Sherry A. Burton

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Feeling guilty at not having made his engagement to April official over the Christmas holidays, Jerry seeks to join her and Max for their annual after-Christmas getaway to Frankenmuth, Michigan...
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  • The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult

    The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    Sage Singer befriends an old man who's particularly beloved in her community. Josef Weber is everyone's favorite retired teacher and Little League coach. They strike up a friendship at the bakery where Sage works. One day he asks Sage for a favor: to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses... and then he confesses his darkest secret—he deserves to die, because he was a Nazi SS guard...
  • The Librarian's Vampire Assistant: 3 by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    The Librarian's Vampire Assistant: 3 by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    From New York Times Bestseller Mimi Jean Pamfiloff comes an uncomfortably hilarious Mystery with a heaping help of sexual frustration, THE LIBRARIAN'S VAMPIRE ASSISTANT, Book Three. (Yep! It's a STAND-ALONE. But why not read them all because...fun!) FALLING IN LOVE WITH YOUR BOSS JUST CAN'T GET MORE AWKWARD... Michael Vanderhorst is not your usual vampire...
  • Knock Out by Catherine Coulter

    Knock Out by Catherine Coulter

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Seven-year-old Autumn Backman needed a hero. When she saw Special Agent Dillon Savich on TV after he'd brought down bank robbers in a Georgetown bank, she knew she'd found him. She called Savich, but she didn't use the phone... Ethan Merriweather, sheriff of Titusville, Virginia, a small mountain town near the Titus Hitch Wilderness, goes looking for a missing little girl...
  • Quinn by Iris Johansen

    Quinn by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen explores the darkest corners of the human heart as forensic sculptor Eve Duncan closes in on the killer who stole her daughter so many years ago.  As a former Navy SEAL turned cop, Joe Quinn has seen the face of evil and knows just how deadly it can be...
  • Scraps of Paper by Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Scraps of Paper by Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Abigail Sutton’s beloved husband walks out one night, doesn’t return, and two years later is found dead, a victim of a long ago crime. It’s made her sympathetic to the missing and their families.Starting her new life, Abigail moves to small town and buys a fixer-upper house left empty when old Edna Summers died...
  • The Secret of the Chateau by Carrie Bedford

    The Secret of the Chateau by Carrie Bedford

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A JUG OF WINE, A LOAF OF BREAD—AND DEATH.SHE KNOWS IT’S COMING; SHE HAS TO STOP IT!London architect Kate Benedict has barely shucked off her coat before she spots her host's aura, a swirling pattern above his head that Kate has come to recognize as a prediction of death within a few days.And she’s barely realized he’s in danger when he drops to the floor, shot by an unseen assailant...
  • Guardian of Darkness by Lara Adrian

    Guardian of Darkness by Lara Adrian

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hunters. The most lethal Breed vampires in existence--and Razor's deadly skills are the sharpest of all. But when a free-spirited beauty finds herself in the crosshairs of a shocking conspiracy that threatens the very existence of the Breed, the former assassin is the only one who can protect her...
  • The Librarian's Vampire Assistant: 2 by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    The Librarian's Vampire Assistant: 2 by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    From New York Times Bestseller Mimi Jean Pamfiloff comes a humorous, standalone mystery, The Librarian’s Vampire Assistant, Book 2. (Yep! It’s a standalone. The boring title is just to mess with you!) HOW MUCH LONGER CAN HE KEEP HIS SECRET AND HIS FAVORITE HUMAN SAFE? Michael Vanderhorst has always been a lone wolf. Or lone vampire? Whatever...
  • Labyrinth by Catherine Coulter

    Labyrinth by Catherine Coulter

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    The #1 New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series returns with another tour de force in which Agent Sherlock risks losing her career—and her sanity—over a case that is more complicated and twisted than any she’s ever encountered. On a dark night, Agent Sherlock is driving along circuitous mountain roads in West Virginia when her car is suddenly T-boned at an intersection...
  • Ghostly Envy by E.M. Leya

    Ghostly Envy by E.M. Leya

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The last thing Lance expected to find while helping Franks look for a new house was a ghost. Shelia just wanted to graduate and get on to college, but that never happened. The last thing she remembers is being at home on the couch, then waking up in a deep hole in the middle of nowhere. She wants answers...
  • The Night Island by Jayne Ann Krentz

    The Night Island by Jayne Ann Krentz

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The disappearance of a mysterious informant leads two people desperate for answers to an island of deadly deception in this new novel in the Lost Night Files trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz...
  • Shadow Play by Iris Johansen

    Shadow Play by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    An explosive new Eve Duncan thriller from the New York Times #1 bestselling authorEve Duncan is the most sought-after artist in the field of forensic sculpting. Dedicated to her work ever since her daughter Bonnie was taken and killed at the age of seven, Eve feels a sense of duty to those whose lives were lost and whose bones are now in her hands...
  • Chasing The Night by Iris Johansen

    Chasing The Night by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    A CIA agent's two-year-old child was stolen in the night as a brutal act of vengeance. Now, eight years later, this torment is something Catherine Ling awakens to every day. Her friends, family, and colleagues tell her to let go, move on, accept that her son is never coming back. But she can't...
  • Murder in the Bayou Boneyard by Ellen Byron

    Murder in the Bayou Boneyard by Ellen Byron

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Maggie Crozat, proprietor of a historic Cajun Country B&B, prefers to let the good times roll. But hard times rock her hostelry when a new cell phone app makes it easy for locals to rent their spare rooms to tourists. With October--and Halloween--approaching, she conjures up a witch-crafty marketing scheme to draw visitors to Pelican, Louisiana...
  • Point Blank by Catherine Coulter

    Point Blank by Catherine Coulter

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    FBI Agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich face the most explosive case of their careers, pitting them against an unstable villain-with a very long memory...
  • Luminosity by Abigail Boyd

    Luminosity by Abigail Boyd

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Includes books 2, 3, and 4 of the Gravity series. In Uncertainty, Ariel finds out more information about her grandmother's visions and family secrets. An unexpected reunion turns her life upside down, and she doesn't know who to trust. In Luminosity, Ariel is haunted by reoccuring nightmares that bring her back to the spooky Dexter orphanage in search of something she once lost.
  • Quinn: A Novel by Iris Johansen

    Quinn: A Novel by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers the second book in the Eve trilogy.As a former Navy SEAL turned cop, Joe Quinn has seen the face of evil. When he first met Eve, he never expected to fall in love with a woman whose life would be defined by her dual desires to bring home her missing daughter and discover the truth behind her disappearance—no matter how devastating...
  • Whiplash by Catherine Coulter

    Whiplash by Catherine Coulter

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Yale professor Dr. Edward Kender's father is undergoing chemotherapy when the supply of a critical accompanying drug suddenly runs out. Unwilling to accept the drug company's disingenuous excuse of production line problems, Dr. Kender hires private investigator Erin Pulaski to prove that something more sinister is going on at Schiffer Hartwin...
  • The Key to Erebus by Emma V. Leech

    The Key to Erebus by Emma V. Leech

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The truth can kill you… Taken as a small child, from a life where faeries, sirens and mythical creatures are real and treacherous, Jéhenne Corbeaux is totally unprepared when she returns to France to stay with her eccentric Grandmother...
  • Favole: Set Me Free by Victoria Francés

    Favole: Set Me Free by Victoria Francés

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sucesso internacional finalmente disponível em português! Donzelas à beira da morte, lânguidas imagens erguendo-se por detrás de uma lápide, castelos carregados de mistérios, lagos obscuros no meio de bosques banhados pelo luar... A temática gótica e vampírica é uma das mais recorrentes da ficção contemporânea e tem originado grandes êxitos literários e cinematográficos...
  • Favole: Frozen Light by Victoria Francés

    Favole: Frozen Light by Victoria Francés

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Poetry and exquisite art...
  • Marriage Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Marriage Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Her happily ever after is so close…and somehow still out of her grasp…Lexi “Lynx” Sabado is no stranger to stressful situations. She can handle the fact that the CIA won’t let her divorce her previously presumed dead husband. She can even figure out a way to legally marry ex-NAVY SEAL Striker Rheas, the love of her life...
  • Deeper Evil by Vickie McKeehan, Dreamscape Covers J.D. Stroube

    Deeper Evil by Vickie McKeehan, Dreamscape Covers J.D. Stroube

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For forty years the double murder of an elderly couple in the Hollywood Hills remained unsolved and all but forgotten. But a stranger, bent on revenge, is out to change all that. Baylee Scott grew up in Beverly Hills, the daughter of renowned director William Scott and actress Sarah Moreland...
  • Deadly Obsession by Jaycee Clark

    Deadly Obsession by Jaycee Clark

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    ”DEADLY OBSESSION is the third story about the Kinncaid family and is a heart-wrenching tale. A well-written, in-depth romantic suspense, Jaycee Clark's DEADLY OBSESSION is one of those stories that will linger in your mind and heart long after the story is over.” --Sinclair Reid, Romance Reviews Today She’s his angel . . . his love . . . his obsession. . .
  • Close Your Eyes by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen

    Close Your Eyes by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    In Close Your Eyes, The New York Times bestselling duo Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen are back with a suspenseful novel about a once-blind woman with a talent for tracking serial killers    The FBI doesn’t usually consult with music therapists to solve their cases...
  • Finding Harmony by Pamela Fagan Hutchins

    Finding Harmony by Pamela Fagan Hutchins

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Katie’s already on edge when a dead guy shows up at Estate Annalise and shady locals claim there are slave remains in the foundation, but when Nick doesn’t come home to her and the kids from work one day, she’s ready to lose it...
  • Stalemate by Iris Johansen

    Stalemate by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Eve Duncan has turned down the job twice already. Her skill and devotion in identifying murder victims and helping bring their killers to justice may be world-renowned. But Eve works exclusively for law enforcement and the families of the innocent, and the man on the other end of the phone is many things�none of them law-abiding or innocent...
  • The Hidden by Heather Graham

    The Hidden by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    www.eHeatherGraham.com Can the same killer strike again—a hundred and fifty years later? Estes Park, Colorado, is a place of serenity. But it wasn't always so serene. Shortly after the Civil War, Nathan Kendall and his wife were murdered there, leaving behind a young son. The crime was never solved...
  • Night and Day by Iris Johansen

    Night and Day by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes the explosive third book in the latest Eve Duncan trilogy.Iris Johansen's third book in her latest explosive trilogy starring forensic sculptor Eve Duncan takes readers on a high-energy adventure with Eve fighting to overcome the odds. Protecting Cara Delaney from the enemies who want her dead leads Eve to be their target...
  • Split Second by Catherine Coulter

    Split Second by Catherine Coulter

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The number-one New York Times-bestselling author returns with another pulse-pounding thriller featuring FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock, and introducing Speical Agents Lucy Carlyle and Cooper McKnight. A serial killer is on the loose, and it's up to FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock to bring him down...
  • The Mirror by Marlys Millhiser

    The Mirror by Marlys Millhiser

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    On the eve of wedding in 1978, Shay Garrett peers into the antique mirror in her family's longtime home, the famous Victorian Gingerbread House on Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado, and falls unconscious only to wake in the body of her own grandmother Brandy on the eve of her wedding--in 1900. The virginal Brandy, in turn, awakes in Shay's body to discover herself pregnant...
  • Secrets in the Dark by Heather Graham

    Secrets in the Dark by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Over a century after Jack, a new Ripper is on the loose. Following in the footsteps of notorious serial murderer Jack the Ripper, a killer is stalking the streets of London. The self-dubbed Ripper King strikes at night, leaving a trail of eviscerated bodies in his wake...
  • Kill Me Again by Maggie Shayne

    Kill Me Again by Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I'm not who they say I am. TRUST ME.But can she?Reclusive novelist Aaron Westhaven, a man she's admired -- and more -- for years, has accepted Olivia Dupree's invitation to speak at a local fundraiser. But the day he's due to arrive, she gets a call summoning her to the bedside of a John Doe whose sole possession is her business card...
  • Kiss Me, Kill Me by Maggie Shayne

    Kiss Me, Kill Me by Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She's protected him since the day he was born. Since the day the LIE BEGAN.A long-ago act of kindness to a desperate woman changed Dr. Carrie Overton's life forever. Before disappearing, the grateful stranger had given Carrie her newborn son. When the woman is murdered, the secret becomes Carrie's alone.She had kept both it and her son, Sam, safe for sixteen years...
  • Hide Away by Iris Johansen

    Hide Away by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Iris Johansen's beloved forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is back and now the stakes are higher than ever. Dramatic changes are on the horizon for Eve and Joe Quinn and their relationship may never be the same...
  • Desolate by Amy Miles

    Desolate by Amy Miles

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A wedding massacre. An innocence stolen. Mortality stripped away. In a single night, everyone Roseline Dragomir has ever loved is slaughtered before her eyes. Alone in the world and bound by a solemn marriage vow to a vicious murderer, she must find a strength buried deep within her to keep going or risk completely losing herself...
  • The Lost Soul by Suzy Turner

    The Lost Soul by Suzy Turner

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    December and Lilly have got their work cut out for them. Not only are they desperately trying to figure out the identity of the Lost Soul, and track him down, they've also got to investigate why Powell River's newest resident has got all of their men falling at her feet. But when they learn that the Nephilim might be involved, it becomes clear that they're all in extreme danger..
  • Tempting Fate by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Tempting Fate by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Europe 1920s. Fifth [published] in the Saint-Germain series, Tempting Fate finds the count as guardian to a Russian war orphan during the Russian Revolution and the end of World War I...
  • The Saint-Germain Chronicles by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    The Saint-Germain Chronicles by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fleeing Spain at the beginning of their Civil War, the vampire Saint-Germain arrives in California to reunite with the older and wiser Rowena Saxon, who is considering following the Dark Prince into an eternal life. Meanwhile, Saint-Germain is unaware that a ruthless assassin is pursuing him--one of the most charming killers ever to grace the page: Cenere...
  • Deadline by Judy McDonough

    Deadline by Judy McDonough

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Caroline's life is on track. She's about to get her nursing degree and she's engaged to rich, handsome Trevor. But, before they get married, Trevor wants Caroline to spend the summer in Louisiana, getting to know her father, who's never been in her life. She reluctantly agrees and heads south, deep into bayou country where she meets Cade...
  • Favole: Stone Tears by Victoria Francés

    Favole: Stone Tears by Victoria Francés

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
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  • Shadow of Danger by Kristine Mason

    Shadow of Danger by Kristine Mason

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Four women have been found dead in the outskirts of a small Wisconsin town. The only witness, clairvoyant Celeste Risinski, observes these brutal murders through violent nightmares and hellish visions...
  • Haunted Destiny by Heather Graham

    Haunted Destiny by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    www.TheOriginalHeatherGraham.com Between the evil and the deep blue sea…  A historic cruise ship, a haunted ship, the Celtic American Line's Destiny, sets sail from the Port of New Orleans—with a killer on board. He's known as the Archangel Killer because of the way he displays his victims in churches. And how he places a different saint's medallion on each body...
  • It Began With a Lie by Michele Pariza Wacek

    It Began With a Lie by Michele Pariza Wacek

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An award-winning, gripping psychological thriller. All Becca wanted was a fresh start. That wasn’t what she got.Becca was sure the move from New York to Redemption, Wisconsin was exactly what her troubled family needed. A way to get her crumbling marriage back on track, and to bond with her difficult 16-year-old stepdaughter...
  • If Looks Could Kill by Heather Graham Pozzessere, Heather Graham

    If Looks Could Kill by Heather Graham Pozzessere, Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Madison Adair didn’t witness her famous mother’s brutal murder. But she saw it. Saw the gloved hand...felt the knife strike...knew her mother’s terror. That was a lifetime ago. But the nightmares have returned; only, this time they’re of a faceless serial killer stalking women in south Florida. A killer she can’t see but who knows she is watching...
  • Countdown by Iris Johansen

    Countdown by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    When it reaches zero, you die. #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen sets her readers’ pulses racing once again in this relentless psychological thriller of a young woman caught in a maze of secrets and stalked by a merciless killer. The countdown begins the moment you open this riveting novel that only grows more electrifying as the pages turn, more exciting as time runs out. .
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