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  • Swamp Spook by Jana Deleon

    Swamp Spook by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 20 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...
  • Change of Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Change of Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 20 ratings
    Sinful, Louisiana, is always a hotbed of activity, and despite the steamy heat, August is no exception. Godzilla is terrorizing the town, looking for a home-cooked meal, and Gertie is worried someone will take the gator out before she can get him under control. Francine has a situation of her own at the café, where food is missing from inventory. And Celia is always up to no good...
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  • 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...
  • The Last Straw by Sharon Sala

    The Last Straw by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 6 ratings
    Charlie Dodge may be down, but he’s most definitely not out. He’s still reeling after a series of earth-shattering events, so when a desperate woman hires Dodge Investigations to find her missing sister, the head-scratcher of a case is exactly the distraction Charlie and his steadfast partner, Wyrick, need...
  • Swamp Santa by Jana Deleon

    Swamp Santa by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    It’s Christmas in Sinful and Fortune is set to participate in all the local hoopla. A Christmas gala, caroling, and a sleigh ride are on the agenda. Murder is not. But when someone bumps off Santa, Fortune is aware a killer is lurking among the holiday cheer...
  • Fatal Threat by Marie Force

    Fatal Threat by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    With a killer on the loose, it's the worst time to be on lockdown… It's just another day at the office for Washington Metro Police lieutenant Sam Holland when a body surfaces off the shores of the Anacostia River. But before Sam can sink her teeth into the new case, Secret Service agents seize her from the crime scene...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  contemporary
  • Fatal Fraud by Marie Force

    Fatal Fraud by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Previously title Fatal VengeanceA dangerous truth revealed... A prominent member of the D.C. community has been murdered, pulling Lieutenant Sam Holland into yet another high-stakes homicide investigation that has her trying to connect the dots between a dead woman and the friends and family who’d turned against her right before her untimely death...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  contemporary
  • State of Grace by Marie Force

    State of Grace by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The exciting new First Family Series continues with the Cappuano family’s first Christmas at the White House shadowed by a murder investigation that strikes a little too close to home...
  • Reel of Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Reel of Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Nothing says Welcome Home like a murder. It’s official. Fortune Redding is out of the CIA and a newly minted resident of Sinful, Louisiana. She never expected her homecoming to be all apple pie and hugs, but a murder wasn’t on her list of things to deal with before she’d even gotten her name stenciled on her mailbox...
  • Fatal Flaw: Fatal Flaw Epilogue by Marie Force

    Fatal Flaw: Fatal Flaw Epilogue by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The honeymoon's over, and now someone wants them dead…   Back from their honeymoon, Senator Nick Cappuano and DC police lieutenant Sam Holland are ready for some normalcy after the whirlwind of their wedding, but someone has other plans for them. When Sam discovers wedding cards containing thinly veiled death threats, she's not sure if she or Nick is the target...
  • One Tuesday Morning by Karen Kingsbury

    One Tuesday Morning by Karen Kingsbury

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 24 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...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  christian  contemporary
  • Tangled in Ivy: True Love and Family Dysfunction that Spans Decades by Ashley Farley

    Tangled in Ivy: True Love and Family Dysfunction that Spans Decades by Ashley Farley

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Sweet Tea Tuesdays comes a story of true love that spans decades.Lillian Alexander's father is dying of cancer. When he rambles on in a morphine-delirium, Lillian can't ignore the feeling he's trying to tell her something...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  contemporary
  • State of Shock by Marie Force

    State of Shock by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    They never saw this coming… Hold on to your hat for the next First Family book, coming December 20, 2022...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  contemporary  death
  • State of Affairs by Marie Force

    State of Affairs by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The phone call that changed their lives forever…Minutes after Vice President Nick Cappuano and Lt. Sam Holland get the call that President Nelson has been found dead in the residence on Thanksgiving, they’re still processing that Nick has been asked to come to the White House to take the oath of office...
  • State of Denial by Marie Force

    State of Denial by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Denial: refusing to admit the truth or reality of something unpleasant… His mother has been arrested, his government is under new threat, the relentless media is driving him mad, and denial becomes the word of the day for President Nick Cappuano. Meanwhile, his wife, DC Metro Police Lt. Sam Holland Cappuano has caught a big new case with suspects everywhere she looks...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  contemporary  death
  • 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...
  • Edge Of Darkness by Freya Barker

    Edge Of Darkness by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Road rash and Jack meets handcuffs and street smarts. I am a wandering disaster. A hedonist, a lover, a son, and a rebel. My name is Yuma. I’m sober enough to see the need for redemption, but too blind to realize I already found it. I am an independent seeker. An overachiever, a friend, a misfit, and a cop. My name is Lissie...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  contemporary  bikers
  • Fatal Mistake: After the Final Epilogue by Marie Force

    Fatal Mistake: After the Final Epilogue by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A critical error.  A Cinderella season cut short.  A star player murdered.   DC is recovering from angry riots after one player's mistake blew the DC Federals' chance at the World Series, and Lieutenant Sam Holland is determined to unravel the twisted web of motives behind the star center fielder's death...
  • Fatal Invasion by Marie Force

    Fatal Invasion by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    First the fire, then the heat…A brutal home invasion. Two small traumatized survivors who may have witnessed the horror. Lieutenant Sam Holland has never worked a case quite like this one, in which her eyewitnesses are five-year-old twins. But when Sam steps up in a big way for them, she risks her heart as much as her career...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  contemporary
  • Second Sight by Sharon Sala

    Second Sight by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 10 ratings
    The clock is ticking… When Charlie Dodge gets a phone call from a frantic woman stating her daughter has been kidnapped by her ex-husband and taken into a cult called Fourth Dimension, he takes the case without hesitation. The cult’s rumored purpose is to gather men with psychic abilities with the goal of breeding a race of people who have supernatural powers...
  • Later Gator by Jana Deleon

    Later Gator by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 20 ratings
    A poacher is at work in Sinful, Louisiana, and Deputy Carter LeBlanc is hot on the trail of the outlaw, trying to apprehend him before the state gets wind of the crime and sends a game warden to take over his investigation...
  • The Girl in the Moss by Loreth Anne White

    The Girl in the Moss by Loreth Anne White

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    A shallow grave exposes deadly secrets as bestselling author Loreth Anne White brings her thrilling series of romantic suspense to its shocking conclusion… Disgraced ex-cop Angie Pallorino is determined to make a new start for herself as a private investigator...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  contemporary
  • At the River by Kendra Elliot

    At the River by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 17 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...
  • State of the Union by Marie Force

    State of the Union by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    It’s the biggest night of President Nick Cappuano’s life. Will his first lady make it to the Capitol in time for his speech?President Cappuano has been working for months on his first State of the Union address, his highest profile moment yet as the country’s new president...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  contemporary
  • A Merciful Secret by Kendra Elliot

    A Merciful Secret by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 18 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...
  • Bamburgh by L.J. Ross

    Bamburgh by L.J. Ross

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When a cantankerous old woman dies at her home in the sleepy, picturesque village of Bamburgh, DCI Ryan doesn’t think much of it—except, that is, for the small matter of it having been his wife who happened to find her body...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  contemporary
  • Forever Covert by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Covert by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.77 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Kale Mueez just wants to work on his computer programs and, okay, some not-so-legal hacking. Even though he sold one of his computer software companies for more money than he’d ever need, he wasn’t one to sit back and do nothing. That is especially true since his father is a super soldier known around the world...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  contemporary  humor
  • 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...
  • Breathe Your Last by Lisa Regan

    Breathe Your Last by Lisa Regan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Josie presses her hands into the center of the drowned girl’s chest and pumps, counting off compressions. She takes in the girl’s beautiful face, her brown eyes glassy. The memory of a champion swimmer on the podium with her teammates—a red swim cap on, her head thrown back in laughter—a stark contrast to the cold, still body before her. Breathe. Just breathe..
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    mystery  suspense  contemporary  abuse  mafia
  • A Merciful Promise by Kendra Elliot

    A Merciful Promise by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 17 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...
  • Save Your Breath by Melinda Leigh

    Save Your Breath by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 19 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...
  • Cuthbert's Way: A DCI Ryan Mystery by L.J. Ross

    Cuthbert's Way: A DCI Ryan Mystery by L.J. Ross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    A SECRET KEPT FOR A THOUSAND YEARS...After the dramatic theft of a priceless artefact from Durham Cathedral, the rest of the world believes that DCI Ryan and his team were able to recover and return St. Cuthbert’s cross to its rightful home...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  contemporary
  • Rydeville Elite Box Set: A Dark High School Bully Romance Trilogy by Siobhan Davis, Sara Eirew

    Rydeville Elite Box Set: A Dark High School Bully Romance Trilogy by Siobhan Davis, Sara Eirew

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    This box set includes the first three books in the Rydeville Elite series. Complete trilogy with HEA. In the power struggle between two elite groups, one feisty girl will bring them to their knees… Life is a cruel game where only the most ruthless survive. It’s a truth my mother rebelled against, and she paid for it with her life. Now, I play their game...
  • 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...
  • Lost in You by Lexi Blake

    Lost in You by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Robert McClellan was forced to serve as a soldier in a war he didn’t understand. Liberated by McKay-Taggart, he struggles every day to reclaim the life he lost and do right by the men he calls his brothers, The Lost Boys. Only one thing is more important – Ariel Adisa. The gorgeous psychologist has plagued his dreams since the day they met...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  bdsm  contemporary
  • Romeo by R.J. Gray

    Romeo by R.J. Gray

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    She’s twenty years younger than him.And his best friend’s baby sister.He had no right claiming her as his.Author note: Romeo is a age gap romance with steamy heat in and out of the bedroom for mature readers...
  • His Submissive by Jane Henry, Maisy Archer

    His Submissive by Jane Henry, Maisy Archer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    *** Special release weekend price of $2.99 (will be $4.99 on Monday, June 27th) *** Matteo Angelico, former Marine and experienced, longtime dominant, knows what he likes--sexy, submissive women who do what they're told and are willing and able to give him the control he craves. But he also knows what he doesn't like--the demands of a full-time dynamic and a committed relationship...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  bdsm  contemporary  spanking
  • Hailey's Truth by Cate Beauman

    Hailey's Truth by Cate Beauman

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Hailey Roberts has never had it easy. Despite the scars of a tragic childhood, she’s made a life for herself. As a part-time student and loving nanny, she yearns for a family of her own and reluctant Austin Casey, Ethan Cooke Security’s best close protection agent. Hailey’s past comes back to haunt her when her long lost brother tracks her down, bringing his dangerous secrets with him...
  • The Vigilante's Lover II by Annie Winters, Tony West

    The Vigilante's Lover II by Annie Winters, Tony West

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If this is what it’s like to be a captive, Mia wants to be a prisoner forever. The second volume of the addictive romantic suspense series from the desk of USA Today bestselling author Deanna Roy / JJ Knight Jax may have kidnapped her. But now Mia wants to stay. The man is skilled. Intelligent. And gorgeous. His life is dangerous and wild...
  • The Dying Game by Beverly Barton

    The Dying Game by Beverly Barton

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Play To Win... It's the ultimate game--the adrenaline surge of the hunt, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat. For in this game, the rules are simple: To win, you only have to kill. To lose, you will have to die... Play To Scream... The victims are former beauty queens found with a single rose beside their bodies...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  cruel hero  contemporary
  • The Rookie: A Steamy Romantic Suspense by Delta James

    The Rookie: A Steamy Romantic Suspense by Delta James

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    He's supposed to protect her, NOT fall in love.Stunning. That’s the first word that comes to mind when I see the brilliant, curvy beauty performing comedy in a club. At the time I didn’t know who she was.With the soul of an artist and the spirit of a warrior, Pippa is gorgeous, quirky, and unique.She’s also my friend’s little sister...
  • Lick of Fire by Clara Elroy

    Lick of Fire by Clara Elroy

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    You can’t escape fate, no matter how fast you run. That was a lesson hard learned for me.I spent years trying to bury my past, but my future held skeletons bleaker than the ones I'd left behind.Darkness follows me everywhere I go, hanging over my shoulders like a scythe. A byproduct of my bad karma.For so long, I refused to even look at my hometown on a postcard...
  • Safeguard by Jane Henry

    Safeguard by Jane Henry

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A standalone entry in the NYC Doms seriesShe's feisty, gorgeous, impossible.Submissive.And all mine.I don't do half-assed relationships. When I set my sights on the most headstrong, tenacious submissive I've ever met, I'm all in. I'll show her the dark, sensual world she craves, dominate her, and leave her begging for more...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  bdsm  contemporary
  • The Boss Vol. 6: a Hot Billionaire Romance by Cari Quinn, Taryn Elliott

    The Boss Vol. 6: a Hot Billionaire Romance by Cari Quinn, Taryn Elliott

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Librarian's Note: This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN: B01CXUZ8RO This is the FINAL book in the six part serial. This book is from BOTH Grace and Blake's points-of-view and will be more than twice the size of the other serial installments. She doesn’t know how bad I’m willing to be… For years, Grace Copeland was the one woman I couldn’t have. Now she’s mine. Mine to possess...
  • Allegiances by Cynthia Eden

    Allegiances by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    An old enemy returns…with a new victim in the conclusion of The Battling McGuire Boys by New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Eden Private investigator Sullivan "Sully" McGuire has a reputation for danger. He's spent most of his life tracking the men who murdered his parents. The one woman who sees past Sully's predatorial pursuit is the wife he abandoned years ago...
  • Stone Walls: A True Heroes Novel by A. M. Madden

    Stone Walls: A True Heroes Novel by A. M. Madden

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    What happens when a supposedly perfect match is so wrong it’s right? In this roller-coaster novel of destiny and desire from A. M. Madden, a red-hot cop and a broken beauty are linked by painful pasts . . . and one tempting future.   As an NYPD officer, Benjamin Stone is married to his job, determined to clean up the drug-infested streets...
  • Command Performance by Nora Roberts

    Command Performance by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 15 ratings
    RETURN ENGAGEMENT In Eve Hamilton's youth, His Royal Highness Alexander de Cordina had played the part of a fairy-tale prince, but seven years ago Eve had learned that its villains were undeniably real. She had also learned to put her childhood dreams behind her. It was Alexander's request that brought Eve, along with her theatrical troupe, back to Cordina...
  • The Playboy Prince by Nora Roberts

    The Playboy Prince by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 15 ratings
    LADY OF MYSTERY Prince Bennett of Cordina had been making gossip headlines since his teens - but the prim and proper Lady Hannah Rothchild wasn't his usual choice in women. Something in her eyes intrigued him, and he was determined to discover what she was trying to hide. Hannah knew that Bennett could easily jeopardize her safety, so from the moment they met she was on her guard...
  • Tough Customer by Sandra Brown

    Tough Customer by Sandra Brown

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Hard-living detective-turned-P.I., Dodge Hanley tries not to dwell on the past. But when he gets a call from Caroline King, “the one” who got away, there’s no time for looking back; their daughter is in trouble. Caroline has told Berry that Dodge is an old friend they can rely on to prove she didn’t shoot her ex-lover, even though she’s already told the cops she saw the real culprit...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  cruel hero  contemporary
  • Morgan's Hunter by Cate Beauman

    Morgan's Hunter by Cate Beauman

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Morgan Taylor, D.C. socialite and wildlife biologist, leads a charmed life until everything changes with a phone call. Her research team has been found dead—slaughtered—in backcountry Montana. As the case grows cold, Morgan is determined to unravel the mystery behind her friends’ gruesome deaths...
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