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  • The Love Note by Joanna Davidson Politano

    The Love Note by Joanna Davidson Politano

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Focused on a career in medicine and not on romance, Willa Duvall is thrown slightly off course during the summer of 1859 when she discovers a never-opened love letter in a crack of her old writing desk. Compelled to find the passionate soul who penned it and the person who never received it, she takes a job as a nurse at the seaside estate of Crestwicke Manor...
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    christian  suspense  mystery  historical  victorian
  • 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...
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  • 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...
  • The House at the End of the Moor by Michelle Griep

    The House at the End of the Moor by Michelle Griep

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What Can a London Opera Star and an Escaped Dartmoor Prisoner Have in Common?   Opera star Maggie Lee escapes her opulent lifestyle when threatened by a powerful politician who aims to ruin her life. She runs off to the wilds of the moors to live in anonymity. All that changes the day she discovers a half-dead man near her house...
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    suspense  christian  mystery  historical  victorian
  • The Runaway Bride by Jody Hedlund

    The Runaway Bride by Jody Hedlund

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Wealthy Arabella Lawrence flees to British Columbia on a bride ship still wearing the scars of past mistakes. One of the few single women in the boomtown, she immediately has suitors, but she is determined not to find herself trapped again by a poor choice.Vying for her hand are two very different men. Lieutenant Richard Drummond is a gentleman in the Navy and is held in high esteem...
  • To Treasure an Heiress by Roseanna M. White

    To Treasure an Heiress by Roseanna M. White

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 7 ratings
    Beth Tremayne has always been drawn to adventure. During her childhood, she fed that desire by exploring every inch of the Isles of Scilly. As an adolescent, she dreamed of love in London's ballrooms. Now, stumbling across an old map on her family's property, she's found more adventure than she ever craved in the hunt for pirate treasure...
  • An Hour Unspent by Roseanna M. White

    An Hour Unspent by Roseanna M. White

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 9 ratings
    Once London’s top thief, Barclay Pearce has turned his back on his life of crime and now uses his skills for a nation at war. But not until he rescues a clockmaker’s daughter from a mugging does he begin to wonder what his future might hold...
  • Secrets at Cedar Cabin by Colleen Coble

    Secrets at Cedar Cabin by Colleen Coble

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Colleen Coble delivers her signature blend of romance and suspense when Brenna Fleming flees to a cabin in Lavender Tides only to discover that everything she believed about herself has been a lie. Six months after her wedding, Bailey Fleming discovers she wasn't really married to Kyle Bearcroft...
  • To Steal a Heart by Jen Turano

    To Steal a Heart by Jen Turano

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After a childhood as a street thief, Gabriella Goodhue thought she'd put her past behind her until a fellow resident at her boardinghouse is unjustly accused of theft. In the middle of breaking into a safe that holds the proof to prove her friend's innocence, Gabriella is interrupted by Nicholas Quinn, the man she once considered her best friend—until he abandoned her...
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    christian  suspense  mystery  historical
  • Anchor in the Storm by Sarah Sundin

    Anchor in the Storm by Sarah Sundin

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One Plucky Female Pharmacist + One High-Society Naval Officer = Romance--and Danger For plucky Lillian Avery, America's entry into World War II means a chance to prove herself as a pharmacist in Boston. The challenges of her new job energize her. But society boy Ensign Archer Vandenberg's attentions only annoy--even if he "is" her brother's best friend...
  • Mystery Loves Company: Another John Pickett Mystery by Sheri Cobb South

    Mystery Loves Company: Another John Pickett Mystery by Sheri Cobb South

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Returning to London after his honeymoon (For Deader or Worse), Bow Street Runner John Pickett soon discovers wedded bliss is not without its pitfalls, as he finds it galling to be financially dependent on Julia, his aristocratic bride...
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    suspense  mystery  christian  regency  historical
  • The Painted Castle by Kristy Cambron

    The Painted Castle by Kristy Cambron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bestselling author Kristy Cambron concludes the Lost Castle novels with this sweeping tale of art and secrets long buried in England. It was supposed to be a one-week job: survey an art find, collect a hefty fee, and use that to settle historian Kiera Foley’s life back into balance...
  • Southern Storm by Terri Blackstock

    Southern Storm by Terri Blackstock

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sequel to the #1 best-selling Cape Refuge First a dead stranger. Now a missing Police Chief. Did Chief Cade run off to elope . . . or has he met with foul play? The body in the morgue had no ID. No one knew who he was or where he came from when he walked out in front of Cade s car. And when Cade learns he had a gunshot wound before he was struck, finding his identity becomes even more urgent...
  • The Incredible Winston Browne by Sean Dietrich

    The Incredible Winston Browne by Sean Dietrich

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Beloved writer Sean Dietrich—also known as Sean of the South—will warm your heart with this rich and nostalgic tale of a small-town sheriff, a mysterious little girl, and a good-hearted community pulling together to help her.Folks in Moab live for ice cream socials, baseball, and the local paper’s weekly gossip column...
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    suspense  christian  mystery  historical  humor
  • The Mistletoe Countess by Pepper D. Basham

    The Mistletoe Countess by Pepper D. Basham

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Will the magic of Christmas bring these two newlyweds closer together, or will the ghosts of the past lead them into a destructive discovery from which not even a Dickens’s Christmas can save them? Mistletoe is beautiful and dangerous, much like the woman from Lord Frederick’s Percy’s past, so when he turns over a new leaf and arranges to marry for his estate, instead of his heart, he never...
  • Heirs of Falcon Point by Traci Hunter Abramson, Sian Ann Bessey

    Heirs of Falcon Point by Traci Hunter Abramson, Sian Ann Bessey

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the early days of World War II, the Lang family lost everything. Eighty years later, it’s time to take it back.The Nazis have taken control of Austria, and wealthy widower Leopold Lang faces a difficult decision: join the ranks of the foreign power that has taken over his homeland or flee with his children to safety. Leopold makes his choice—but too late...
  • Codes of Courage by A.L. Sowards

    Codes of Courage by A.L. Sowards

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In a battle of torpedoes, depth charges, and secret codes, nothing is as vulnerable as the human heart. 1940: Austrian refugee Karl Lang has lost everything―his country, his home, and his family. All that is left to him is a burning ambition to see the Nazis defeated...
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    suspense  christian  mystery  historical  war
  • Distortion by Terri Blackstock

    Distortion by Terri Blackstock

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Juliet Cole’s husband of fifteen years is gunned down in a dark parking lot before her eyes, she thinks it was a random shooting. Devastated and traumatized, she answers hours of questioning. When she’s finally allowed to return home to break the news to her boys, she hears a voicemail that takes the situation from a random shooting to a planned, deliberate attack. ‘Mrs...
  • Embers in the London Sky by Sarah Sundin

    Embers in the London Sky by Sarah Sundin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940, Aleida van der Zee Martens escapes to London to wait out the Occupation. Separated from her three-year-old son, Theo, in the process, the young widow desperately searches for her little boy even as she works for an agency responsible for evacuating children to the countryside...
  • Ends of the Earth: A Bug Man Novel by Tim Downs

    Ends of the Earth: A Bug Man Novel by Tim Downs

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Nick must face the realities of lost opportunities and the passing of time as he struggles to protect a mother and her child from agro-terrorists in this latest novel from award-winning author Tim Downs. Dr. Nick Polchak is called to a farm community in eastern North Carolina to investigate a murder...
  • A Shadow in Moscow by Katherine Reay

    A Shadow in Moscow by Katherine Reay

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A betrayal at the highest level risks the lives of two courageous female spies: MI6's best Soviet spy and the CIA's newest Moscow recruit. As the KGB closes in, a compromise must be struck if either woman hopes to survive...
  • The Gray Chamber (True Colors) by Grace Hitchcock

    The Gray Chamber (True Colors) by Grace Hitchcock

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Step into True Colors -- a new series of Historical Stories of Romance and American Crime Will Edyth prove her sanity before it is too late? On Blackwell Island, New York, a hospital was built to keep its patients from ever leaving...
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    christian  suspense  mystery  historical
  • The Vanishing at Castle Moreau by Jaime Jo Wright

    The Vanishing at Castle Moreau by Jaime Jo Wright

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In 1865, orphaned Daisy Francois takes a position as housemaid at a midwestern Wisconsin castle and finds that the reclusive and eccentric Gothic authoress inside hides more than the harrowing tales in her novels. With women disappearing from the area and a legend that seems to parallel these eerie circumstances, Daisy is thrust into a web that may threaten to steal her sanity, if not her life...
  • Vanishing at Castle Moreau by Jaime Jo Wright

    Vanishing at Castle Moreau by Jaime Jo Wright

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "In 1865, orphaned Daisy Francois takes a housemaid position and finds that the eccentric Gothic authoress inside hides a story more harrowing than those in her novels...
  • On the Cliffs of Foxglove Manor by Jaime Jo Wright

    On the Cliffs of Foxglove Manor by Jaime Jo Wright

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    1885.Adria Fontaine has been sent to recover goods her father pirated on the Great Lakes during the war. But when she arrives at Foxglove Manor--a stone house on a cliff overlooking Lake Superior--Adria senses wickedness hovering over the property...
  • On the Cliffs of Foxglove Manor by Jaime Jo Wright

    On the Cliffs of Foxglove Manor by Jaime Jo Wright

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    1885.Adria Fontaine has been sent to recover goods her father pirated on the Great Lakes during the war. But when she arrives at Foxglove Manor--a stone house on a cliff overlooking Lake Superior--Adria senses wickedness hovering over the property...
  • To Write a Wrong by Jen Turano

    To Write a Wrong by Jen Turano

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Miss Daphne Beekman is a mystery writer by day, inquiry agent by night. Known for her ability to puzzle out plots, she happily works behind the scenes for the Bleecker Street Inquiry Agency, staying well away from danger. However, when Mr...
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    christian  suspense  mystery  historical
  • To Disguise the Truth by Jen Turano

    To Disguise the Truth by Jen Turano

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Arthur Livingston arrives out of the blue at the Bleecker Street Inquiry Agency, anxious to hire the agency to seek out a missing heiress, Eunice Holbrooke realizes her past has finally caught up with her.Having fled from the scene of her grandfather's murder seven years before, Eunice is a lady with secrets--the most important that she is the missing heiress Arthur is seeking...
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    christian  suspense  mystery  historical
  • Above the Fold by Rachel Scott McDaniel

    Above the Fold by Rachel Scott McDaniel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can she nab the headline without losing her heart?Elissa Tillman may be confined behind a secretarial desk, but her heart is out in the open world landing the big story that’ll place her father’s struggling newspaper back on top. When a millionaire inventor is murdered, she finally convinces her hesitant father to give her the break she’s been dreaming of. But there’s a catch...
  • A Mark of Grace by Kimberley Woodhouse

    A Mark of Grace by Kimberley Woodhouse

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ruth Anniston survived an injury that left her physically scarred, broken, and angry at God. Now she finds herself working behind the scenes as a kitchen supervisor at the El Tovar Hotel, hidden away from curious eyes. When money begins to disappear from the hotel, Ruth's entire livelihood is put at risk...
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    christian  suspense  mystery  historical
  • Through Every Danger: Four Christian Romantic Suspense Novels by Lisa Phillips, Michelle Aleckson

    Through Every Danger: Four Christian Romantic Suspense Novels by Lisa Phillips, Michelle Aleckson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Undertow - Lisa PhillipsSelena is ready to retire from her career as a social media stunt star. After a disastrous breakup, one last job—on a cruise—will give her the cash to take charge of her future. Peter wants to make full operative at Vanguard Security...
  • The Starlet Spy by Rachel Scott McDaniel

    The Starlet Spy by Rachel Scott McDaniel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hollywood Star Turns Spy In 1943, Movie producer Henrik Zoltan approaches Amelie Blake under the guise of offering the Hollywood star a leading part in his upcoming film, but he has a more meaningful role in mind. Amelie’s homeland of Sweden declared neutrality in the war, but Stockholm has become the ‘Casablanca of the North...
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    suspense  christian  mystery  historical  regency
  • The Lost Boys of Barlowe Theater by Jaime Jo Wright

    The Lost Boys of Barlowe Theater by Jaime Jo Wright

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Barlowe Theater stole the life of Greta Mercy's brother during its construction. Now in 1915, the completed theater appears every bit as deadly. When Greta's younger brother goes missing after breaking into the building, Greta engages the assistance of a local police officer to help her uncover the already ghostly secrets of the theater...
  • Lost Boys of Barlowe Theater by Jaime Jo Wright

    Lost Boys of Barlowe Theater by Jaime Jo Wright

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "When Greta Mercy's brothers disappear from the Barlowe Theater in 1915, she will do anything to uncover what threat lurks beneath the stage. Decades later, revealing what happened to the boys falls on Kit Boyd, who must determine whether she's willing to pay the price to end the pattern of evil that has marked their hometown for a century...
  • The Juliet Code by Pepper D. Basham

    The Juliet Code by Pepper D. Basham

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Newlyweds Lord and Lady Astley Finally Reach Their Honeymoon Destination Only to Encounter a New Mystery in Need of Solving   Frederick and Grace Percy finally make it to Italy to enjoy a delayed honeymoon and explore the beauties of the historic city of Venice...
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    mystery  christian  suspense  historical  regency
  • Thunder of Heaven: A Joshua Jordan Novel by Tim LaHaye

    Thunder of Heaven: A Joshua Jordan Novel by Tim LaHaye

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Economies have fallen, freedom has been suppressed, and peace is a distant memory. The world is falling apart. Joshua Jordan's protege Ethan March, along with Jimmy Louder and Rivka Reuban have been left behind in a world that is rapidly coming under the complete influence of the Antichrist...
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    suspense  christian  mystery  historical
  • The Haunting at Bonaventure Circus by Jaime Jo Wright

    The Haunting at Bonaventure Circus by Jaime Jo Wright

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    1928The Bonaventure Circus is a refuge for many, but Pippa Ripley was rejected from its inner circle as a baby. When she receives mysterious messages from someone called the "Watchman," she is determined to find him and the connection to her birth...
  • A Tangled Ruse: A Regency Spy Romance by Laura Beers

    A Tangled Ruse: A Regency Spy Romance by Laura Beers

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After a failed abduction attempt, Lady Rachel is sent into hiding on her uncle’s estate near the sleepy village of Rockcliffe on the shores of Scotland. As she struggles to cope with the nightmares of her past, she unwittingly stumbles into even greater danger than she left behind. And this time, Shadow isn't around to save her...
  • A Beautiful Disguise by Roseanna M. White

    A Beautiful Disguise by Roseanna M. White

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Left with an estate on the brink of bankruptcy after their father's death, Lady Marigold Fairfax and her brother open a private investigation firm marketed to the elite . . . to spy on the elite. Dubbed The Imposters, Ltd., their anonymous group soon becomes the go-to for the crème of society when they want answers delivered surreptitiously...
  • Beautiful Disguise by Roseanna M. White

    Beautiful Disguise by Roseanna M. White

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "Dire straits force Lady Marigold Fairfax and her brother to become private investigators in London...
  • A Beautiful Disguise by Roseanna M. White

    A Beautiful Disguise by Roseanna M. White

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Left with an estate on the brink of bankruptcy after their father's death, Lady Marigold Fairfax and her brother open a private investigation firm marketed to the elite . . . to spy on the elite. Dubbed The Imposters, Ltd., their anonymous group soon becomes the go-to for the crème of society when they want answers delivered surreptitiously...
  • Dead of Night by Brandilyn Collins

    Dead of Night by Brandilyn Collins

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    All words fell away. I pushed myself off the path, noticing for the first time the signs of earlier passage---the matted earth, broken twigs. And I knew. My mouth turned cottony. I licked my lips, took three halting steps. My maddening, visual brain churned out pictures of colorless faces on a cold slab---Debbie Lille, victim number one; Wanda Deminger, number three . . . He'd been here...
  • Code Name Edelweiss by Stephanie Landsem

    Code Name Edelweiss by Stephanie Landsem

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "What I am looking for--what I desperately need, Mrs. Weiss--is a spy."Adolf Hitler is still a distant rumble on the horizon, but a Jewish spymaster and his courageous spies uncover a storm of Nazi terror in their own backyard.In the summer of 1933, a man named Adolf Hitler is the new and powerful anti-Semitic chancellor of Germany...
  • Code Name Edelweiss by Stephanie Landsem

    Code Name Edelweiss by Stephanie Landsem

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "What I am looking for--what I desperately need, Mrs. Weiss--is a spy."Adolf Hitler is still a distant rumble on the horizon, but a Jewish spymaster and his courageous spies uncover a storm of Nazi terror in their own backyard.In the summer of 1933, a man named Adolf Hitler is the new and powerful anti-Semitic chancellor of Germany...
  • Beyond a Doubt by Colleen Coble

    Beyond a Doubt by Colleen Coble

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Nothing seems beyond a doubt when Bree opens a cold-case file with clues too close for comfort. Arson. Theft. Murder. When Bree Nichols discovers a corpse in her own basement, a whirlwind investigation ushers an unbidden danger to all she holds dear...
  • The Protector by Carla Capshaw

    The Protector by Carla Capshaw

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Quintus Ambustus is a slave--Adiona Leonia is a wealthy socialite. He fights for his life in the gladiator's ring--she plays cutthroat politics in Rome's high society. He's sacrificed everything for his Christian faith--she believes in nothing and no one. But when Adiona's life is threatened, Quintus is chosen as her bodyguard, and their fascination with one another shocks them both...
  • A Lady in Disguise by Sandra Byrd

    A Lady in Disguise by Sandra Byrd

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In this intriguing novel of romance, mystery, and clever disguise set in Victorian England, a young woman investigates the murder of her own father. After the mysterious death of her father, Miss Gillian Young takes a new job as the principal costume designer at the renowned Drury Lane Theatre Royal...
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    suspense  christian  mystery  victorian  historical
  • Murder is No Accident by A.H. Gabhart

    Murder is No Accident by A.H. Gabhart

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Young Maggie Greene may be trespassing in the old, empty Victorian mansion on a quiet street in Hidden Springs, but all she wants is some private time in the magnificent tower room to write her stories. Certain she'll be in trouble if caught, she hides when a realtor shows up. But someone else is in the house too, someone even more worried about getting caught...
  • A Rumored Fortune by Joanna Davidson Politano

    A Rumored Fortune by Joanna Davidson Politano

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tressa Harlowe's father did not trust banks, but neither did he trust his greedy extended family. He kept his vast fortune hidden somewhere on his estate in the south of England and died suddenly, without telling anyone where he had concealed it. Tressa and her ailing mother are left with a mansion and an immense vineyard and no money to run it...
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    suspense  christian  mystery  historical  victorian
  • Dead Wrong by Susan Sleeman

    Dead Wrong by Susan Sleeman

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Enjoy this thrilling romantic suspense story from Susan Sleeman’s The Justice Agency series!The Justice Agency: Family and law enforcement go hand in hand.When her client and old college friend is murdered, P.I. Kat Justice knows the killer will come for her next. Her survival depends on finding her unknown enemy first…and working with homicide detective Mitch Elliot, her one-time crush...
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