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  • Clue Krewe by Jana Deleon

    Clue Krewe by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.76 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Beckett Rousseau is the firstborn son of one of New Orleans’ most prominent families. He’s the quintessential golden boy—great looks, money, and a political career in his future—until his wife murders him. Or at least that’s what everyone thinks.Athena Durand is still reeling from her murder conviction but now that it’s overturned, she’s at a loss on how to proceed with her life...
  • Swamp Spook by Jana Deleon

    Swamp Spook by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    When black cats roam, and spooks are seen, Come celebrate, it’s Halloween. Sinful, Louisiana, really knows how to throw a party, and it goes all out for Halloween. The weeklong celebration kicks off with a maze of horror in the park built of hay bales. And Fortune has the perfect assignment—the executioner...
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  • On Her Watch by Melinda Leigh

    On Her Watch by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Sheriff Bree Taggert becomes a target when she follows the twisting trail of a serial killer in a bone-chilling novel of suspense by #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh.A pair of hikers find a tarp-wrapped body in a clearing in the woods. When a search in the surrounding area yields two more, Sheriff Bree Taggert knows they’ve stumbled onto a serial killer’s dumping ground...
  • A Merciful Promise by Kendra Elliot

    A Merciful Promise by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Wall Street Journal bestselling series continues as Mercy Kilpatrick becomes embedded in the nightmare of a terrorist conspiracy. The job: infiltrate a militia amassing illegal firearms in an isolated forest community. FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick is the ideal candidate. She knows Oregon. She’s near the compound...
  • Secret in the Santa by Kathi Daley

    Secret in the Santa by Kathi Daley

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A heartwarming cozy mystery series about losing everything, taking a chance, and starting again...
  • Save Your Breath by Melinda Leigh

    Save Your Breath by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Morgan Dane and PI Lance Kruger investigate the mysterious disappearance of a true-crime writer. When true-crime writer Olivia Cruz disappears with no signs of foul play, her new boyfriend, Lincoln Sharp, suspects the worst. He knows she didn’t leave willingly and turns to attorney Morgan Dane and PI Lance Kruger to find her before it’s too late...
  • At the River by Kendra Elliot

    At the River by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A Wall Street Journal bestselling series.The mystery of three missing teens and a traumatizing murder unearths decades of buried secrets in a shocking novel of suspense by a Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestselling author.Twenty years ago, five teenage campers disappeared. Two eventually turned up, bound and left for dead on the Columbia River’s rocky shore...
  • 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...
  • A Merciful Fate by Kendra Elliot

    A Merciful Fate by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Raised by preppers, survivalist and FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick has a deep-rooted need for a safe place. Her getaway in the Cascade Foothills is her secret. But when skeletal remains are unearthed—those of a murdered man linked to a notorious heist—Mercy realizes she isn’t the only one with something to hide. Thirty years ago, an armored-car robbery turned deadly. The mastermind was captured...
  • Bullets and Beads by Jana Deleon

    Bullets and Beads by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Let the good times roll? It’s Mardi Gras time and Fortune is looking forward to seeing the spectacle firsthand, but when a visitor to Sinful is murdered during the celebration there, Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie can’t help but wonder what happened...
  • Missing Angel by Roger Stelljes

    Missing Angel by Roger Stelljes

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Isabella pedals her bright red bike on the familiar route home, admiring her charm bracelet catching the light. But half an hour later, she is nowhere to be seen. All her frantic parents find is an angel-shaped charm discarded on the sidewalk…When twelve-year-old Isabella Farner disappears, Agent Tori Hunter races to the scene...
  • What I've Done by Melinda Leigh

    What I've Done by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Morgan Dane’s new client has blood on her hands—and no recollection of what happened—as the #1 Amazon Charts bestselling series continues. Haley Powell wakes up covered in blood, with no memory of the night before...
  • Fortune Furlough by Jana Deleon

    Fortune Furlough by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It’s not a vacation until there’s a murder. Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie are finally off to Florida on the vacation they’ve always talked about. Days filled with white sand, turquoise water, and fruity drinks are the only thing on the agenda...
  • Gone Too Far by Debra Webb

    Gone Too Far by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    This second entry in USA Today bestselling author Debra Webb’s Devlin & Falco series proves that sometimes the past is best left forgotten.As veteran detectives of the Birmingham Police Department, Kerri Devlin and Luke Falco have seen it all. So when the city’s new hotshot deputy district attorney turns up dead as part of a double homicide, the partners immediately get to work...
  • A Merciful Silence by Kendra Elliot

    A Merciful Silence by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    In the fourth book of the Wall Street Journal bestselling series, FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick must unlock the mystery of a mass murder, and the secrets of its silent witness… For Mercy Kilpatrick, returning to rural Oregon has meant coming to terms with her roots. Raised as a prepper, Mercy is now relying on her survivalist instincts to defend her town from the people the law can’t reach...
  • Secrets Never Die by Melinda Leigh

    Secrets Never Die by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Morgan Dane and PI Lance Kruger fight for the innocence of a young murder suspect—if only they could find him. When a retired sheriff’s deputy is shot to death in his home, his troubled teenage stepson, Evan, becomes the prime suspect. Even more incriminating, the boy disappeared from the scene of the crime. Desperate to find her son, Evan’s mother begs PI Lance Kruger for help...
  • Keeper of Secrets by Denise Grover Swank

    Keeper of Secrets by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The final book in the Carly Moore series.Carly had every intention of heading to Dallas to bring down her father, but not as Wyatt Drummand’s hostage. After Wyatt kidnaps her at gunpoint and threatens to turn her over to her father--the man she’s spent the past nine months hiding from--she explains that his plan will get them both killed...
  • Plum Boxed Set 2 by Janet Evanovich

    Plum Boxed Set 2 by Janet Evanovich

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The adventures continue for Stephanie Plum, Trenton's best-known bounty hunter, in these three Complete Plum Novels from #1 Bestselling Author Janet Evanovich!Four to Score: Stephanie Plum is forced to enlist the help of Grandma Mazur, ex-hooker and wannabe bounty hunter Lula, and transvestite rock musician Sally Sweet in an attempt to capture revenge-seeking waitress Maxine Nowicki...
  • Hide and Seek by Mary Burton

    Hide and Seek by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 20 ratings
    She’s hunting. He’s watching. Special Agent Macy Crow is a survivor. After a vicious hit-and-run nearly kills her, she gets right back to work, and now she’s gunning for a spot on the FBI’s elite profiling team. As an audition, she offers to investigate the recently discovered bones of Tobi Turner, a high school girl who disappeared fifteen years ago...
  • The First Death by Kendra Elliot

    The First Death by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A Wall Street Journal bestselling series.For a search and rescue expert, the buried remains of her past are a dangerous obsession in a twisting novel of suspense by a Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestselling author.Rowan Wolff was five years old when she, her brother, and their babysitter were kidnapped by a serial killer in the Pacific Northwest. The babysitter was murdered...
  • A Merciful Secret by Kendra Elliot

    A Merciful Secret by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    A pair of ritual murders could expose Mercy Kilpatrick to something terrifying: her own past… Raised off the grid by survivalists, Mercy Kilpatrick believed in no greater safeguard than the backwoods of Oregon. Unforgiven by her father for abandoning the fold for the FBI, Mercy still holds to her past convictions. They’re in her blood...
  • Bones Don't Lie by Melinda Leigh

    Bones Don't Lie by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Shocking evidence hits close to home for attorney Morgan Dane and PI Lance Kruger as Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s acclaimed series continues. Private investigator Lance Kruger was just a boy when his father vanished twenty-three years ago...
  • Fields' Guide to Smuggling by Julie Mulhern

    Fields' Guide to Smuggling by Julie Mulhern

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hollywood influencer and super-secret spy Poppy Fields is finally taking a well-deserved vacation with her partner Thor.A woman. A man. A private Greek island. What could go wrong?When a storm washes six teenage girls onto the island, trouble comes knocking. The men who trafficked the girls will do anything to get them them back, including killing Poppy and Thor...
  • The Wrong Bones by Melinda Leigh

    The Wrong Bones by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A frantic chase to catch a grave robber reveals a startling discovery in this tenth installment of the Widow’s Island novella series by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh.Deputy Tessa Black spots a man disturbing a grave in the local cemetery and gives chase. But when Tessa catches him, she learns that the ghoulish trespasser wasn’t robbing graves; he was burying a box of bones...
  • Dead Wake by Dawn Lee McKenna

    Dead Wake by Dawn Lee McKenna

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    DIY has a sinister component in historic Apalachicola, FloridaWhen the local florists find a dead guy in their wall, it opens up a decades-old missing persons case. It also opens up a Pandora’s box of secrets - secrets that might have ramifications for Sheriff’s Office investigator Maggie Redmond...
  • Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin

    Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    A POIGNANT RUNAWAY BESTSELLER full of French charm and memorable characters, Fresh Water for Flowers is Valérie Perrin's English debut.Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne...
  • A Storm of Infinite Beauty by Julianne MacLean

    A Storm of Infinite Beauty by Julianne MacLean

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Beyond the Moonlit Sea comes an atmospheric tale of how one woman’s search for the truth uncovers long-hidden secrets and rocks the very foundation of her world.Scarlett Fontaine is a true Hollywood legend—a singer, actress, and beloved fashion icon. But Scarlett dies tragically at just thirty-six years old, leaving behind no children...
  • Face Off by Brenda Novak

    Face Off by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Tortured and left for dead at sixteen, Evelyn Talbot turned her personal nightmare into her life’s work—studying the disturbing psychopathy of some of the world’s most vicious serial killers...
  • The Art of Inheriting Secrets by Barbara O'Neal

    The Art of Inheriting Secrets by Barbara O'Neal

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    When Olivia Shaw’s mother dies, the sophisticated food editor is astonished to learn she’s inherited a centuries-old English estate—and a title to go with it. Raw with grief and reeling from the knowledge that her reserved mother hid something so momentous, Olivia leaves San Francisco and crosses the pond to unravel the mystery of a lifetime...
  • Dirty Dozen by Liliana Hart

    Dirty Dozen by Liliana Hart

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the twelfth installment of the J.J. Graves mystery series from New York Times Bestselling Author Liliana Hart, winter has moved into Bloody Mary with a vengeance. But so has a killer who's bringing a modern flair in his imitation of Jack the Ripper. It's up to J.J. and her husband, Sheriff Jack Lawson, to hunt the hunter and bring justice to the victims...
  • Near You by Mary Burton

    Near You by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In a scorching novel of obsession and revenge, New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton ignites fear in the heart of a woman targeted by a killer who knows her secrets.Forensic psychologist and single mother Ann Bailey has joined forces with Montana Highway Patrol officer Bryce McCabe...
  • Who Glares Wins by Camilla Chafer

    Who Glares Wins by Camilla Chafer

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Only a few weeks into her new job as a private investigator, Lexi Graves thinks she may have bitten off more than she can chew with her first solo cases. In between going undercover as a plush pony at a “Bronie” conference and following her cheating brother-in-law, she’s got a saboteur-turned-killer to catch and a missing woman to find...
  • No Questions Asked by Julie Moffett

    No Questions Asked by Julie Moffett

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One last fling (with danger) before the ring?Nothing’s that simple when you’re a geek girl. Julie Moffett’s beloved Lexi Carmichael mystery series returns with No Questions Asked.Lexi Carmichael: saving scientists one snake at a time.Weddings aren’t my thing—never have been...
  • No Questions Asked (A Lexi Carmichael Mystery) by Julie Moffett

    No Questions Asked (A Lexi Carmichael Mystery) by Julie Moffett

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ONE LAST FLING (WITH DANGER)Lexi Carmichael: saving scientists one snake at a time.Weddings aren’t my thing—never have been. But eloping would break my mother’s heart, especially since the president of the United States put in a good word for me with his daughter’s wedding planner. I’m going to have the wedding of the year…whether I like it or not...
  • Perfect Target by Barbara Freethy

    Perfect Target by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When a yacht blows up in the Newport Beach Harbor killing a California congressman, FBI Agent Beck Murray is reminded of another night ten years earlier when a mega-yacht caught fire. Then a rookie cop, he pulled popular teenage TV star Piper Nolan out of the water. He's never forgotten her terror or her rambling story, but the investigation was shut down before it even got started...
  • A Summer Surprise at the Little Blue Boathouse by Christie Barlow

    A Summer Surprise at the Little Blue Boathouse by Christie Barlow

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Preorder the next book in the heartwarming and bestselling Love Heart Lane series Love Heart Lane – where friends are there for you no matter what When Bea Fernsby discovers her fiancé’s eyes have been wandering, she calls off the wedding and hits the road...
  • 'Til Death by Kathi Daley

    'Til Death by Kathi Daley

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    USA Today Bestselling author Kathi Daley brings you a heartwarming mystery series about finding answers and fostering hope while building friendships and embracing the magic of life by the sea and small town holidays.Ainsley Holloway had come to Gooseberry Bay to find answers about her past...
  • An Enchanted Moment on Ever After Street by Jaimie Admans

    An Enchanted Moment on Ever After Street by Jaimie Admans

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A brand new and utterly enchanting series by bestselling author Jaimie Admans. A picture-perfect town, a place where dreams come true. Welcome to Ever After Street...A tale as old as time…Since her mum’s death, Marnie Platt has shut herself away from everyone who cares about her. Worse, her beloved bookshop on Ever After Street is suffering too...
  • River's End / Remember When / Angels Fall by Nora Roberts, J.D. Robb

    River's End / Remember When / Angels Fall by Nora Roberts, J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    River's End Olivia's parents had been one of Hollywood's glittering golden couples...until the night the monster came. The monster who destroyed their beautiful home and took her mother away from her forever. The monster with the face of her father... Now a young woman, Olivia still yearns to recall those horrifying events, to know the truth about her childhood...
  • Hello Again by Brenda Novak

    Hello Again by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    From NYT bestseller Brenda Novak comes the next installment of Dr. Evelyn Talbot and her murderous home for psychopaths in Hello Again. SHE CAN MAKE SENSE OF A COMPLEX CRIMINAL MIND. Evelyn Talbot, a psychiatrist at a maximum-security prison in Alaska, studies some of the world's worst serial killers. But she’s about to meet her most elusive patient at Hanover House yet: Dr...
  • Maggie by Charles Martin

    Maggie by Charles Martin

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The moving sequel to bestselling author Charles Martin’s The Dead Don’t Dance...
  • Fields' Guide to Voodoo by Julie Mulhern

    Fields' Guide to Voodoo by Julie Mulhern

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Laissez les bon temps rouler!The pleasure of your company is requested at the most over-the-top wedding New Orleans has ever seen…When Poppy Fields, Hollywood IT girl and super-secret agent, agreed to be a bridesmaid, she anticipated gallons of Sazerac, memorable parties and handsome groomsmen. Instead, she’s dodging bullets...
  • Ruthless by Debra Webb

    Ruthless by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The Faces of Evil Series: Book 6 "Gritty, edge-of-your-seat, white-knuckle thriller . . . Move over Jack Reacher-Jess Harris is comin' to town." -Cindy Gerard, New York Times bestselling author, on Obsession "Debra Webb is a master storyteller." -Allison Brennan, New York Times bestselling author He has a ruthless past . . . Three photos of three unknown women...
  • The Dead Don't Dance by Charles Martin

    The Dead Don't Dance by Charles Martin

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    A sleepy rural town in South Carolina. The end of summer and a baby about to be born. But in the midst of hope and celebration comes unexpected tragedy, and Dylan Styles must come to terms with how much he's lost...
  • Beneath Devil's Bridge by Loreth Anne White

    Beneath Devil's Bridge by Loreth Anne White

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    11 hours, 42 minutes A true crime podcast yields new revelations about a shocking murder in a riveting novel of suspense by Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestselling author Loreth Anne White. True crime podcaster Trinity Scott is chasing breakout success, and her brand-new serial may get her there. Her subject is Clayton Jay Pelley...
  • The Silence by Kendra Elliot

    The Silence by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A dead conspiracy theorist. A mass murderer. Two cases collide for Callahan and McLane in a pulse-pounding thriller by Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestselling author Kendra Elliot.A man is savagely murdered outside Portland, and Detective Mason Callahan finds blood-spatter evidence that tells a troubling story. Files reveal the murder victim, Reuben Braswell, was a radical conspiracist...
  • Fields' Guide to Pharaohs by Julie Mulhern

    Fields' Guide to Pharaohs by Julie Mulhern

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Poppy Fields, Hollywood IT girl and super-secret spy, travels to Egypt looking for answers. But amidst assassination attempts, money launderers, and missing treasure, answers are hard to come by. Poppy must trust new allies, forgive old wrongs, and find a forgotten pharaoh or the next tomb she enters may be her own...
  • Fields' Guide to Assassins by Julie Mulhern

    Fields' Guide to Assassins by Julie Mulhern

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Poppy Fields, Hollywood IT girl extraordinaire, accompanies her A-list mother to Paris, and why not? It’s PARIS! What her mother doesn’t know is Poppy’s on assignment. Her mission? To help bankrupt a drug cartel. To do that, she must access encrypted account numbers, evade a drug lord with a grudge, dodge a Russian oligarch, and align herself with a man who looks like a Norse god...
  • Known by Kendra Elliot

    Known by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 21 ratings
    After a brutal snowstorm in the Cascade Mountains, Chris Jacobs discovers two things he never expected to see: the charred shell of a cabin, and Gianna Trask and her sixteen-year-old daughter huddled in an SUV, having barely escaped from their burning vacation rental. Still scarred from a childhood ordeal, Chris knows there’s something sinister about the scene—it’s the stench of burned flesh...
  • The Promise of Tomorrow by Mary Ellen Taylor

    The Promise of Tomorrow by Mary Ellen Taylor

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From the author of The Brighter the Light comes the moving story about one woman’s reason for leaving home and the love that brings her back.When Olympia leaves her small Virginia town, she doesn’t expect to look back, much less ever come home...
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