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  • The Letter Keeper by Charles Martin

    The Letter Keeper by Charles Martin

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Combining heart-wrenching emotion with edge-of-your-seat tension, Charles Martin explores the true power of sacrificial love. He shows up when all hope is lost. Murphy Shepherd has made a career of finding those no one else could—survivors of human trafficking. His life’s mission is helping others find freedom. But then the nightmare strikes too close to home...
  • Conflict of Interest by Scott Pratt

    Conflict of Interest by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A six-year-old girl is kidnapped from her bed in Tennessee's oldest town. The ransom note demands millions. In this fifth installment of the highly-acclaimed and bestselling Joe Dillard series, Dillard is hired to represent the parents of a child who has gone missing...
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  • One Tuesday Morning by Karen Kingsbury

    One Tuesday Morning by Karen Kingsbury

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    I’m a firefighter, God, so I know I’ve been in some tough places before. But this . . . this not knowing the people I love . . . this is the hardest thing I can imagine. The last thing Jake Bryan knew was the roar of the World Trade Center collapsing on top of him and his fellow firefighters. The man in the hospital bed remembers nothing...
  • Solid as Steele by Susan Sleeman

    Solid as Steele by Susan Sleeman

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He lost his memory…Mackenzie Steele has been instrumental in keeping Steele Guardians afloat, working long hours for months. Nearing burnout, her family encourages her to take a vacation, and she reluctantly agrees. She needs solitude and quiet, and a vacation rental home in the Oregon desert is just the ticket. But she’s no sooner unpacked her bags when a man lands on her doorstep...
  • Mischief and Mutiny by Hope Callaghan

    Mischief and Mutiny by Hope Callaghan

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As the Siren of the Seas nears its next port of call, a group of disgruntled crewmembers circulate a petition to have the ship’s purser fired.Millie is shocked to learn that not only is her close friend’s name at the top of the list, but other loyal crewmembers’ names are listed as well...
  • Critical Threat by Lynette Eason

    Critical Threat by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    FBI Special Agent Grace Billingsley tracks serial killers, using her skills as a psychiatrist and behavioral analyst to get dangerous people off the street and safely behind bars. But prison psychiatrist Sam Monroe knows that just because a killer is incarcerated doesn't mean they're not a threat...
  • Refuge of Redemption: The Colsons by Christy Barritt

    Refuge of Redemption: The Colsons by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Home is a place of refuge—unless it’s a serial killer’s playground. For years, residents of Fog Lake thought of Bear Colson as the son of an infamous serial killer. But Bear stood his ground, determined not to be driven away. Now, new evidence has emerged that could clear his father’s name, and Bear sets out to use his skills as a computer forensics expert to find the killer’s real identity...
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    suspense  christian  mystery  contemporary
  • Wedding at Sea by Melissa Tagg

    Wedding at Sea by Melissa Tagg

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lilian doesn’t remember anything about her life before the day Maggie Muir found her on her front porch—a toddler, abandoned and alone. And maybe that’s okay. She has a beautiful life at Muir Farm, including an adopted family she adores and a successful career as a lawyer. But she also has a secret . . . one that raises just as many questions about her future as it does her unknown past...
  • Detection by Lisa Phillips

    Detection by Lisa Phillips

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Coming this summer...
  • He Walks Among Us by Christy Barritt

    He Walks Among Us by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Members of the Arctic Circle Murder Club get together to discuss the next case they'll take a deep dive into. But their plans are quickly derailed when three bodies emerge from an icy river nearby and a friend of one of the victims pleads for help...
  • One Last Shot by Susan May Warren

    One Last Shot by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When country music star Oaken Fox joins survivalist Mike Grizz's new adventure show in the Alaskan wilderness, he just wants to boost his fan base. But when tragedy strikes and Air One Rescue must save them, Oaken wants to quit. Too bad his producer has other plans--signing him on with Air One Rescue as a recruit and making a reality show...
  • The End of the Road by Christy Barritt

    The End of the Road by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With the future of the Arctic Circle Murder Club teetering on rocky ground, the team members have scattered. But it’s not long before they realize some bonds can’t be broken. Fearing an adversary from her past will find her, Simmy Samuels runs, determined to find a new place to hide. But Ranger Garrett isn’t about to leave Simmy out in the cold and alone...
  • The Secrets She Kept by Christy Barritt

    The Secrets She Kept by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the Land of the Midnight Sun, secrets cast long shadows. Former Army investigator Duke McAllister remains determined to uncover the truth behind his fiancée’s mysterious disappearance two years ago. Joined by his friend and podcast teammate, Andi Slade, Duke delves into Celeste Dawson’s past and soon uncovers a mind-bending conspiracy...
  • Deadly Vendetta by Roxanne Rustand

    Deadly Vendetta by Roxanne Rustand

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    HE HADN’T KNOWN ABOUT HIS ESTRANGED SISTER’S LITTLE GIRL. NOW HE’S ON THE RUN TO KEEP HER ALIVE.DEA Agent Zach Forrester’s troubled sister refused all contact for years. Now she’s at his door, frantically claiming she and her daughter witnessed a murder. Begging him to keep Katie safe, she shoves the child into his arms and vanishes...
  • Forgotten Secrets by Christy Barritt

    Forgotten Secrets by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    FBI Special Agent Jesse Marx doesn’t know which is worse—waking up in a horse stable with no memories of the past two weeks or waking up to discover he’s wearing a wedding band. Not only has he been injured, but he’s also married—something he vowed to never do.Dakota Fleming refuses to feel a connection to any man, much less be tied down to one...
  • Exes and Woes by Hope Callaghan

    Exes and Woes by Hope Callaghan

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After Carlita becomes a prime suspect in a murder investigation; she and Mercedes frantically hunt for Elvira who holds the key to clearing her name...
  • When a Secret Kills by Lynette Eason

    When a Secret Kills by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Investigative reporter Jillian Carter knows it's time to put the past to rest. She's tired of looking over her shoulder, letting a killer go free. She's no longer the scared kid who changed her name and disappeared. Now, no matter what the cost, Jillian must do what she is trained to do--ferret out the truth and expose it...
  • In Too Deep by Lynn H. Blackburn

    In Too Deep by Lynn H. Blackburn

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    When the dive team is called in to recover a body from a submerged car, they aren't prepared to find an encrypted laptop--or an unsettling connection between investigator Adam Campbell and the dead accountant. Adam turns to his friend Dr. Sabrina Fleming--a professor at the local university with unparalleled computer security and forensics skills--to recover the files from the laptop...
  • Troubled Tidings: a Christmas novella by Christy Barritt

    Troubled Tidings: a Christmas novella by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A blown tire on a lonely desert road leads to Christmas Eve trouble.Vanishing Ranch chef Dean Burns just needed to pick up a few things for Christmas dinner. When his tire blows on the way home, he assures coworker Kota Perez that they’ll be back on the road in no time.Dean soon realizes the flat tire was no accident, and the simple trip transforms into a terrifying fight for survival...
  • In Harm's Way by Irene Hannon

    In Harm's Way by Irene Hannon

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 19 ratings
    FBI special agent Nick Bradley has seen his share of kooks during his fifteen years with the Bureau. But Rachel Sutton is an enigma. She seems normal when she shows up at the FBI office in St. Louis--until she produces a tattered Raggedy Ann doll she found and tells him she thinks something is wrong because of a strange feeling of terror it gives her when she touches it...
  • Divine Wedding by Hope Callaghan

    Divine Wedding by Hope Callaghan

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As Delta and Gary prepare to walk down the aisle just days away from what could be Divine’s wedding of the decade, Jo offers to help Delta spruce up Gary’s old farmhouse.While there, Jo’s hound dog runs off. She and Delta track him down where they make a shocking discovery that threatens to rip the couple apart.The discovery sets off a chain of events that cast suspicion on the groom-to-be...
  • Divine Creations: A Divine Cozy Mystery Novel by Hope Callaghan

    Divine Creations: A Divine Cozy Mystery Novel by Hope Callaghan

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As former convict and resident, Kelli Cole enters the last stretch of her time at Joanna Pepperdine’s rehabilitation farm in Divine, Kansas, new evidence that could prove her innocence is given to her from an unlikely ally…the news reporter who unfairly covered her trial...
  • Rescuing You: Secrets and Spies in Shadow Cove by Robin Patchen

    Rescuing You: Secrets and Spies in Shadow Cove by Robin Patchen

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From a USA Today bestselling author... When the woman Michael was coming to love goes missing, he fears the worst--not only that she's been murdered, but that it's his fault. If his enemies discovered he was working for the CIA, they wouldn't hesitate to punish him by exacting their revenge on an innocent woman.But a cryptic message tells him she's still alive...
  • Finding You by Robin Patchen

    Finding You by Robin Patchen

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Don't miss this race-against-the-clock story of suspense and intrigue from a USA Today bestselling author...
  • One Last Chance by Susan May Warren

    One Last Chance by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The voice on the radio saved his life.But when he discovers who she is…it just might cost him everything.Axel Mulligan was built to be a Coast Guard rescue swimmer. He could swim faster, endure longer and became a miracle for those in peril in the sea. Until a tragedy destroyed him and sent him home, to Alaska...
  • Malicious Intent by Lynn H. Blackburn

    Malicious Intent by Lynn H. Blackburn

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Dr. Ivy Collins, founder and CEO of Hedera, Inc., is ready to begin clinical trials of her company's cutting-edge prosthetic. Her work has been heralded by government, medical, and advocacy groups and everyone hopes the device will be a success. Well, almost everyone...
  • Under Fire by Lynn H. Blackburn

    Under Fire by Lynn H. Blackburn

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "Special Agent Tessa Reed left her demons in the past, but when she reconnects with USSS Agent Zane Thacker during a presidential fundraiser, one of those old adversaries comes to collect...
  • Hostile Intent by Lynette Eason

    Hostile Intent by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ava Jackson entered the military shortly after high school, but her mother's illness has forced her to request an early discharge. She already lost her father while deployed, and there's no way she's going to let her mother die alone. But after a visit to the nursing facility where her mother lives, Ava is attacked walking back to her car...
  • Peculiar Poison by Hope Callaghan

    Peculiar Poison by Hope Callaghan

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Discover why so many fans love the "Original" Cruise Ship Cozy Mystery series by Hope Callaghan!When a crew member is mysteriously poisoned onboard the “Siren of the Seas,” Millie fights to clear her name after becoming a suspect...
  • Crossfire by Lynette Eason

    Crossfire by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    FBI special agent Julianna James is a top-notch negotiator who has never lost a hostage. Surely, she can manage to take care of her much younger sister, Dottie, who showed up unannounced to live with Julianna while she finished her senior year of high school.A former sniper with the 75th Ranger Regiment, Clay Snyder left the army after a tragic incident that he can't get past...
  • Fraser by Susan May Warren

    Fraser by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fraser Marshall is pretty sure his career as a Spec Ops fighter is over. Yes, he’s gone into private security, working for Jones, Inc, but his last gig ended with him wounded and taken captive. And those wounds just won’t heal. The last thing he wants to do is stick around his family’s winery pressing grapes...
  • Jonas by Susan May Warren

    Jonas by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jonas Marshall is done storm-chasing, plagued with the memory of a terrible accident that paralyzed a fellow chaser, so the last thing he’s going to do is run into more danger. Now, he’s just a simple weatherman deploying dirigibles in an experiment to track weather patterns in Slovenia.As far from danger as he can get...
  • Never Happen to You by Christy Barritt

    Never Happen to You by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The team investigates the Missing Women of Dalton Highway. Will Duke finally find the answers he's been seeking? An investor with a strange link to Andi makes a proposal...
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    christian  mystery  suspense  contemporary
  • Never Happen to You: A Chilling Cold Case Suspense and Mystery by Christy Barritt

    Never Happen to You: A Chilling Cold Case Suspense and Mystery by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Crime is something that happens to strangers. Until it’s not.As women continue to vanish in Alaska’s Far North, the Arctic Circle Murder Club meets again to combine their skills and search for the truth. Only the evidence isn’t adding up. The case of The Missing Women of Dalton Highway has gone cold, and every new possibility leaves them with frostbite...
  • Breaker's Reef by Terri Blackstock

    Breaker's Reef by Terri Blackstock

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Murder and mystery continue in Book Four of the Cape Refuge series A famous mystery writer has just moved to Cape Refuge when a teenage girl is found murdered. Sheila Caruso ex-con, mother to Sadie and Caleb, and resident of Hanover House is working for the writer when she discovers that a scene in one of his novels matches the crime scene...
  • A Killer Among Us by Lynette Eason

    A Killer Among Us by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    When they are thrown into a grisly murder case, hostage negotiator Kit Kenyon and detective Noah Lambert soon realize they are on the hunt for a serial killer. The stakes are raised when they discover he may be hunting one of them too...
  • If I'm Found by Terri Blackstock

    If I'm Found by Terri Blackstock

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    It started with the USA TODAY bestseller If I Run. Now Casey's journey continues in If I'm Found. Casey doesn't know why Dylan let her escape just as the police were closing in, but she knows she's got to hide again. New name, new look, new city, new job. But hiding isn't enough. Somehow, she's got to bring Brent's killer to justice...
  • The Words We Lost by Nicole Deese

    The Words We Lost by Nicole Deese

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 10 ratings
    Three friends. Two broken promises. One missing manuscript.As a senior acquisitions editor for Fog Harbor Books in San Francisco, Ingrid Erikson has rejected many a manuscript for lack of defined conflict and dramatic irony--two elements her current life possesses in spades...
  • Don't Look Back by Lynette Eason

    Don't Look Back by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Top rated romantic suspense at its best!***One man lives to see her dead. The other is fighting to keep her alive.Twelve years ago, forensic anthropologist Jamie Cash survived a brutal kidnapping. After years of therapy, she has made a life for herself--though one that is haunted by memories of her terrifying past...
  • Deadly Pursuit by Irene Hannon

    Deadly Pursuit by Irene Hannon

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    As a social worker, Alison Taylor has a passion for protecting children and seeing that justice is served on their behalf. But when she starts getting harassing phone calls and bizarre "gifts," it seems she may be the one in need of protection...
  • Lethal Legacy by Irene Hannon

    Lethal Legacy by Irene Hannon

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The police say her father's death was suicide. But Kelly Warren says it was murder--and she has new evidence that she believes proves it. Detective Cole Taylor doesn't put much credence in her claim, and nothing in his case review suggests foul play...
  • When a Heart Stops by Lynette Eason

    When a Heart Stops by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Spunky and outgoing, nothing much bothers medical examiner Serena Hopkins--except for the thought of falling in love again. But when a serial killer is picking off her former classmates, Serena's life becomes intertwined with her old high school crush, FBI agent Dominic Allen...
  • Moving Target by Lynette Eason

    Moving Target by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Maddy McKay and Quinn Holcombe don't show up for Quinn's surprise birthday party, his friends know that something is very wrong. Their search turns up little beyond evidence that Quinn and Maddy just decided to take off for a long overdue vacation. But it soon becomes apparent that they did not leave of their own accord. Maddy awakens in a cement room with no idea where she is...
  • Body of Evidence by Irene Hannon

    Body of Evidence by Irene Hannon

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Forensic pathologist Grace Reilly has seen her share of unusual deaths in rural Missouri. But when she begins to notice a curious pattern in autopsies of elderly residents whose demise appears to be natural, she takes her concerns to Sheriff Nate Cox.Nate is skeptical about the link Grace is seeing between the deaths--and her suspicions of foul play. But her persistence is compelling...
  • Double Date Disaster by Hope Callaghan

    Double Date Disaster by Hope Callaghan

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Cozy Christian Mystery and Suspense NovelGarden Girls - The Golden Years is the brand new spin-off series of the Garden Girls Mystery series. The last few years have been a roller coaster of life changing events for “Garden Girl” Margaret Hansen - the death of her husband, the shocking discovery of what led to his death, and a big move designed to give her a fresh start...
  • Divine Courage by Hope Callaghan

    Divine Courage by Hope Callaghan

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jo is forced to investigate disturbing incidents plaguing a former resident after she moves to downtown Divine. Meanwhile, a soon-to-be-released felon and potential resident threatens the peace and harmony at the Second Chance farm...
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