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Fade Out by Marshall Thornton
The Lambda Award-winning Boystown Mystery series comes to a close with Boystown 13: Fade Out. When a box containing a woman’s corpse shows up at his doorstep, Private Investigator Nick Nowak finds himself accused of murder. The police are convinced it’s Rita Lindquist—a woman who once shot Nick. Their case is thin, but they and the state’s attorney are determined to prosecute him... -
Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsFrom the internationally bestselling author of Kane and Abel and A Prisoner of Birth comes Only Time Will Tell, the first in an ambitious new series that tells the story of one family across generations, across oceans, from heartbreak to triumph. The epic tale of Harry Clifton’s life begins in 1920, with the words “I was told that my father was killed in the war... -
The Cursed Heir: A chilling, gripping historical mystery from bestseller Heather Atkinson by Heather Atkinson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings'I have read ALL Heather Atkinson's books. They are all fantastic.'Edinburgh 1896. At Alardyce House, the family are gathered to celebrate the engagement of the heir to the estate, Robert, to his childhood sweetheart. But what should be a precious memory for his mother Amy, is marred by darkness... -
The Direction of the Wind by Mansi Shah
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA heartfelt story that spans continents and generations, about a young woman who searches for answers about a mother she barely remembers.Sophie Shah was six when she learned her mother, Nita, had died. For twenty-two years, she shouldered the burden of that loss. But when her father passes away, Sophie discovers a cache of hidden letters revealing a shattering truth: her mother didn’t die... -
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Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Set in the Soviet Union in 1953, this stellar debut from British author Smith offers appealing characters, a strong plot and authentic period detail... -
Anger by Lily White
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFifth CircleAngerAlso Known as Damon CrossThere is darkness that surrounds this man.One fueled by his past and ignited by his presentHe knows what it means to lose, but he never stops fightingHe wears his heart on his sleeveBut exists within nightmaresHe is shrouded in the name the Inferno gave him.Angry.Feral.Wild and CarelessDamon is an unpredictable storm without rhyme or reason... -
Wraith by Kathleen Kelly
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou think you can take what’s mine, and there’ll be no repercussions?I will hunt you.I will torture you.I will make you tell me your secrets, then dispose of you.My daughter is my most precious possession.I will make them regret the day they came near her.I will destroy the Harbingers of Death MC and the Petrov family. They will regret ever having touched what I protect... -
Perfect Mistake Book Two by Amber Nicole
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTrapped on an island, you would think that's the worst thing to find out... Wrong. Now I'm carrying a psychopaths baby. One I dreamed of having before, now I pray the same thing from my past comes to fruition again. Rexley is not meant to be a father. He may be the monster of my nightmares, but the only way to survive is to let my demons out to play, too... -
Lay Your Sleeping Head by Michael Nava
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA completely revised edition of the first Henry Rios mystery, The Little Death, Lay Your Sleeping Head introduces Michael Nava’s singular protagonist, gay, Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios... -
The Burning Plain by Michael Nava
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRios, raw from the death of his lover from AIDS, becomes involved with a young man who is murdered after spending the night with Rios. Rios becomes a suspect in the murder. In the process of clearing himself, he is drawn into the search for a serial killer who preys on young gay men in West Hollywood... -
Decision at Delphi by Helen MacInnes
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsKenneth Strang sets out for Sicily and Greece on a seemingly innocent, though fascinating, magazine assignment. But even before his ship sails from New York, the atmosphere becomes charged with sinister omens. In the course of the voyage one mysterious event follows another... -
Dark Obsessions: A dark mafia romance - Pink Interior Special Edition by Effie Campbell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTingles creep up my spine as I feel eyes on me. Something, or someone is watching.My life is falling to pieces.My boyfriend is hiding a secret and I’m determined to find out what it is. Why has he gone from cherishing me to hurting me?But there is someone else determined to catch my attention... -
The Laughing Cavalier (The Scarlet Pimpernel (chronological order) #0.4) by Emmuska Orczy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis 1913 adventure tale, The Laughing Cavalier, centres on Percy Blakeney, a foreign adventurer and the progenitor of Baroness Orczy's well-known figure, the Scarlet Pimpernel. Frans Hals' artwork The Laughing Cavalier served as the model for a section of the story, which takes place in Holland between 1623 and 1624... -
Wreckage by Ripley Proserpina
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsI made a promise.Mom demanded only one thing from me before she died—go to her sister in Maine and find comfort with the only family I had left. But, from the moment I laid eyes on Paradise Inn and my terrified aunt, my mistake was undeniable.This place isn’t an inn, and it’s far from paradise... -
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The Truths We Seek by Lily Wildhart
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsJust when I thought I'd finally found happiness, the nightmare I've been running from finds me, and my world goes dark.Taking more from me than one person should ever have to lose, I end up on a new path, discovering I'm capable of things I never imagined possible not even in the darkest parts of my imagination.So much blood.So much pain.So. Much. Death... -
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsSam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby... -
On Good Authority by Briana Una McGuckin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRepressed desires, irresistible obsessions, and perception-twisting games.When lady’s maid Marian Osley and footman Valentine Hobbs assume their positions at the cliff-top estate of Valor Rise, they already share a history. Raised together as paupers in a London workhouse, they escaped through games of imaginary crimes and sublime punishment... -
On Good Authority by Briana Una McGuckin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRepressed desires, irresistible obsessions, and perception-twisting games.When lady’s maid Marian Osley and footman Valentine Hobbs assume their positions at the cliff-top estate of Valor Rise, they already share a history. Raised together as paupers in a London workhouse, they escaped through games of imaginary crimes and sublime punishment... -
Skin Lane by Neil Bartlett
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAt 47, Mr. F's working life on London's Skin Lane is one governed by calm, precision and routine. So when he starts to have frightening, recurring nightmares, he does his best to ignore them. The images that appear in his dream are disturbing, Mr. F can't for the life of him think where they have come from. After all, he's a perfectly ordinary middle-aged man... -
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear by Suzanne Brockmann
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSomething Worth Fighting For As Christmastime settled quietly over the countryside, Navy SEAL William "Crash" Hawken was faced with a deadly conspiracy. And he had only one person to turn to -- the caring passionate Nell Burns... -
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
A chilling, mesmerizing novel that combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the detail and drama of historical fiction. In medieval Cambridge, England, four children have been murdered. The crimes are immediately blamed on the town's Jewish community, taken as evidence that Jews sacrifice Christian children in blasphemous ceremonies... -
The Price of Desire (Lady Rivendale's Connections, Book Four): Regency Romance by Jo Goodman
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsForbidden Desires and a Hidden Past Collide in The Price of Desire, by Jo Goodman a Historical Regency Romance from Jo GoodmanNo stranger to society's scandalous whispers, Griffin Wright-Jones, Viscount Breckenridge, operates a gaming hell teeming with temptation—a sanctuary for those eager to test their luck... -
The Twin's Daughter by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLucy Sexton is stunned when a disheveled woman appears at the door one day…a woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to Lucy's own beautiful mother. It turns out the two women are identical twins, separated at birth, and raised in dramatically different circumstances. Lucy's mother quickly resolves to give her less fortunate sister the kind of life she has never known... -
Ritual Sins by Anne Stuart
Rachel Connery is on a seek-and-destroy mission, out for revenge against the mysterious, charismatic man who enticed millions of dollars from her dying mother and cheated her out of her inheritance. She wants retribution and is willing to use every seductive trick at her disposal to obtain it...Categorized as:
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Dragonwyck by Anya Seton
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA novel of seduction, mystery, and danger set in New York’s Hudson Valley in the nineteenth century, by the author of Foxfire. There was, on the Hudson, a way of life such as this, and there was a house not unlike Dragonwyck . . . In the spring of 1844, the Wells family receives a letter from a distant relative, the wealthy landowner Nicholas Van Ryn... -
Walking on Glass by Iain Banks
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 19 ratings'Her eyes were black, wide as though with some sustained surprise, the skin from their outer corners to her small ears taut. Her lips were pale, and nearly too full for her small mouth, like something bled but bruised. He had never seen anyone or anything quite so beautiful in his life.' Graham Park is in love. But Sara Fitch is an enigma to him, a creature of almost perverse mystery... -
The Daydreams by Laura Hankin
Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsA deliciously entertaining novel about the stars of a popular teen show from the early 2000s—and the reunion special, thirteen years after their scandalous flameout, that will either be their last chance at redemption, or destroy them all for good... -
The Price Of Desire by Jo Goodman
USA Today bestselling author Jo Goodman delivers a deliciously wicked tale of forbidden desire that knows no limits. Olivia Cole is devastated to learn that her ne'er-do-well brother has promised her to the operator of a London gaming hall as payment of his debts. Olivia accepts her fate-even if it means that her reputation will suffer from living among rogues and gamblers...Categorized as:
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A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 20 ratings"I'd gladly sell my soul to Satan for a year of freedom," shouts impulsive Rosamond Vivian to her heartless grandfather. Suddenly, on a dark night, a moody stranger shows up at Rosamond's isolated island home, ready to believe her when she says she will... -
A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 19 ratings"I'd gladly sell my soul to Satan for a year of freedom," cries Rosamond Vivian to her callous grandfather. A brooding stranger seduces her from the remote island onto his yacht. Trapped in a web of intrigue, cruelty, and deceit, she flees to Italy, France, Germany, from Paris garret to mental asylum, from convent to chateau - stalked by obsessed Phillip Tempest... -
In the Shadow of Lakecrest by Elizabeth Blackwell
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe year is 1928. Kate Moore is looking for a way out of the poverty and violence of her childhood. When a chance encounter on a transatlantic ocean liner brings her face-to-face with the handsome heir to a Chicago fortune, she thinks she may have found her escape—as long as she can keep her past concealed... -
Wonderland by Stacey D'Erasmo
Rated: 3.09 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn NPR Best Book of 2014A Time Top Ten Fiction Book of 2014A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA BBC Top Ten Book of 2014"Exquisite...As inspiring in its way as Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids ." — Los Angeles Times “Briskly addictive . . . Told in the voice of a female rock Ulysses.” — O, the Oprah Magazine “Marvelous . . -
A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe
Rated: 3.29 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIn A Sicilian Romance (1790) Ann Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the Gothic novel, and the idol of the Romantics. This early novel explores the cavernous landscapes and labyrinthinepassages of Sicily's castles and convents to reveal the shameful secrets of its all-powerful aristocracy...
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