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  • Scarlet Angel by S.T. Abby

    Scarlet Angel by S.T. Abby

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    To kill a monster, you have to be twice as monstrous. To love a monster, you have to share your soul...Logan Bennett makes me want to have a future not tainted by the constant hunger for revenge. Doesn't mean I can stop. Doesn't mean I want to stop. It just means I want more...one day...
  • Faithless in Death: An Eve Dallas thriller by J.D. Robb

    Faithless in Death: An Eve Dallas thriller by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    In the new Eve Dallas police thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author J. D. Robb, what looked like a lover's quarrel turned fatal has larger--and more terrifying--motives behind it...The scene in the West Village studio appears to be classic crime-of-passion: two wine glasses by the bed, music playing, and a young sculptor named Ariel Byrd with the back of her head bashed in...
  • Sweet Dreams by Kristen Ashley

    Sweet Dreams by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    She's ready for the ride of her life . . .Lauren Grahame is looking to reinvent herself. After leaving her cheating husband, Lauren moves to Carnal, Colorado, and gets a job as a waitress in a biker bar called Bubba's. It's a nothing job in a nowhere joint . . . until Tatum Jackson walks in. Lauren has never seen a man with such good looks, muscles, and attitude...
  • Saving Meadow by Riley Edwards

    Saving Meadow by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A sexy FBI suspense thriller romance Meadow The road was long, it was painful, and it was raw. It has taken me four years to come to terms with my new reality. A life in which I live with the daily reminders of a vicious attack that has left me scarred both emotionally and physically...
  • A Merciful Silence by Kendra Elliot

    A Merciful Silence by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 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...
  • Forgotten In Death by J.D. Robb

    Forgotten In Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    In the latest novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, homicide detective Eve Dallas sifts through the wreckage of the past to find a killer.The body was left in a dumpster like so much trash, the victim a woman of no fixed address, known for offering paper flowers in return for spare change―and for keeping the cops informed of any infractions she witnessed on the street...
  • The Last Straw by Sharon Sala

    The Last Straw by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 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...
  • Into the Dark by Karen Rose

    Into the Dark by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose returns to the chilling Cincinnati series, and this time, the stakes are higher than ever. Former army ranger Diesel Kennedy considers himself a dead man walking. To help cope with his PTSD, he coaches youth-league soccer, during which he notices two brothers, Joshua and Caleb, who seem to have a troubled home life...
  • Echoes in Death by J.D. Robb

    Echoes in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Lieutenant Eve Dallas encounters her toughest case yet when New York’s wealthiest couples are the targets of a calculated killer in Echoes in Death, a crime thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author J.D. Robb.When the young woman―dazed, naked, and bloody―wanders in front of their car, Roarke slams on the brakes just in time, and Eve―still in glittering gown and heels―springs into action...
  • Purity in Death by J.D. Robb

    Purity in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Louie Cogburn had spent three days holed up in his apartment, staring at his computer screen. His pounding headache was unbearable - it felt like spikes drilling into his brain. And it was getting worse. Finally, when someone knocked at his door, Louie picked up a baseball bat, opened up the door, and started swinging....The first cop on the scene fired his stunner twice. Louie died instantly...
  • Tickle His Fancy by Samantha A. Cole

    Tickle His Fancy by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    All around him, Brody ‘Egghead’ Evans’ Trident Security teammates have fallen in love and gotten their happily ever after. Ironically, they had always thought the charismatic Dominant would be the first one to fall—not the last...
  • Trusting Taylor by Susan Stoker

    Trusting Taylor by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Susan Stoker comes a scorching Silverstone installment that finds a former military man racing to save the woman he loves as danger closes in on them both.Former military man turned government assassin Kellan “Eagle” Trowbridge isn’t looking for love. He’d rather keep his head down at his cover job as an employee of Silverstone Towing...
  • See Her Die by Melinda Leigh

    See Her Die by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Sheriff Bree Taggert is both hunter and hunted in #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s blood-freezing thriller of murder, rage, and revenge.New sheriff Bree Taggert is called to a shooting in a campground shuttered for the winter. But she arrives to find a perplexing crime. There is no shooter, no victim, and no blood...
  • Targeted by Kendra Elliot

    Targeted by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A Wall Street Journal bestseller All Detective Mason Callahan wanted was a quiet fishing trip with the guys—a chance to get away and unwind before Halloween.Until he finds the body of his boss, Denny Schefte, near their remote Oregon cabin. Now all he wants is to catch the sadist who slit Denny’s throat and covered his face with a mask...
  • Seconds to Live by Melinda Leigh

    Seconds to Live by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A Wall Street Journal bestseller Wildlife biologist Mac Barrett avoided his hometown of Scarlet Falls for years—too many bad memories. But when he receives the news that his father is dying, he rushes home only to discover he’s too late. Shaken, Mac retreats to his remote cabin seeking peace and solace...
  • New York to Dallas by J.D. Robb

    New York to Dallas by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Twelve years ago, Eve Dallas was just a rookie NY cop when her instincts led her to the apartment of Isaac McQueen, a man she discovered to be a sick murderer and pedophile, who was keeping young girls in cages. Now a homicide Lieutenant, Eve is one of the most distinguished officers in the city—and then she learns that McQueen has escaped from jail...
  • The Hangman by Mary Burton

    The Hangman by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Julia Vargas is a cop with a mission. When she’s not chasing down bad guys, Julia dedicates her time to investigating the Hangman serial killer…the same unsolved case that her father, Jim Vargas, was working on when he supposedly shot and killed himself three decades before. While rumors continue to swirl around her father’s death, Julia attempts to hunt down the truth...
  • Visions in Death by J.D. Robb

    Visions in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    "The summer had been long hot and bloody. Fall, with its cooler temperatures was coming. Maybe people wouldn't be as inclined to kill each other. But she doubted it." Eve Dallas' latest case involves the murder of a young mother, found raped and strangled. As Eve starts investigating an offer of help comes from an unlikely source...
  • Never Stay Gone by Tal Bauer

    Never Stay Gone by Tal Bauer

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Six bodies in a single grave… in the same West Texas country where Dakota left everything behind. Every beat of my heart belongs to you. Thirteen years ago, Dakota Jennings thought he'd found his forever when he fell in love with Shane Carson. But one afternoon shattered their love story, and both Dakota and Shane left Rustler, Texas, with broken hearts...
  • Driven by Rebecca Zanetti

    Driven by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Unswerving: Angus Force is determined to hunt down the serial killer he’d once shot dead—or so he thought. But an anonymous source reports that Lassiter is alive. Force hasn't slept since, knowing it’s only a matter of time before “the Surgeon” strikes again. And soon, a body is found, bearing Lassiter’s same maniacal MO...
  • Judgment in Death by J.D. Robb

    Judgment in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    'She stood in Purgatory and studied death. The blood and the gore of it, the ferocity of its glee. It had come to this place with the wilful temper of a child, full of heat and passion and careless brutality.' In an uptown strip joint a cop is found bludgeoned to death. The weapon's a baseball bat. The motive is a mystery...
  • Buried by Kendra Elliot

    Buried by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Reporter Michael Brody is used to getting answers. The one that’s eluded him, though, for twenty long years is learning what happened to his brother Daniel the day his school bus disappeared. When the remains of the other children are discovered—and Daniel’s aren’t among them—a desperate Michael calls upon the sole survivor of the tragedy, Chris Jacobs, hoping he will finally break his silence...
  • Mine to Protect by Kennedy L. Mitchell

    Mine to Protect by Kennedy L. Mitchell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "Outstanding!! Mystery, intrigue, action and an edge of your seat nail biter." "Holy Moly Mine to Protect was exciting, and suspenseful and oh so sexy." A standalone, romantic thriller novel where obsession is the name of the game. Recruited to the FBI Cas Mathews has one focus - catch the killer...
  • A Merciful Secret by Kendra Elliot

    A Merciful Secret by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    In this Wall Street Journal bestseller, 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...
  • Reunion in Death by J.D. Robb

    Reunion in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    A birthday bash sets the scene for a frightening reunion with a killer from Eve Dallas's past. At exactly 7:30 p.m., Walter Pettibone arrived home to over a hundred friends and family shouting, surprise! It was his birthday. Although he had known about the planned event for weeks, the real surprise was yet to come. At 8:45 p.m...
  • Cold Hearted by Toni Anderson

    Cold Hearted by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Hunting For A Killer...Who Doesn't Play By The Rules. Detective Erin Donovan expects life to quiet down after the arrest and conviction of a serial rapist who terrified her university town last summer. Then two young women are brutally slain and the murders bear all the hallmarks of the campus rapist...
  • Logan by Nyssa Kathryn

    Logan by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Her scars are invisible, to everyone but him. Grace Castle lived through hell, and she's never fully recovered. Nor may she ever. But she's better than she was, and now devotes her time and energy to helping other women...until someone connects her old life to her new one. Suddenly, she's forced to do something that goes against her conscience, her moral compass...her heart...
  • Conspiracy in Death by J.D. Robb

    Conspiracy in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    It was always a shock, not the hard one Bowers had hoped for. Eve had seen too much for that. But what one human could do to another was never routine for her. With the precision of a surgeon, a serial killer preys on the most vulnerable of souls of the world's city streets. The first victim: a homeless person, found dead in New York City. No bruises, no signs of a struggle...
  • Innocent in Death by J.D. Robb

    Innocent in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    When history teacher Craig Foster is found dead in his classroom, his young wife is devastated, and his family, friends and colleagues all shocked. The two ten-year old students who discovered his body may be traumatised for life.Magdalena Percell, an old flame of Eve's billionaire husband Roarke, has turned up in New York, and she's anything but innocent...
  • Betrayal in Death by J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts

    Betrayal in Death by J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    At the luxurious Roarke Palace Hotel, a maid walks into suite 4602 for the nightly turndown - and steps into her worst nightmare. A killer leaves her dead, strangled by a thin silver wire. He's Sly Yost, a virtuoso of music and murder. A hit man for the elite. Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows him well. But in this twisted case, knowing the killer doesn't help solve the crime...
  • Imitation in Death by J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts

    Imitation in Death by J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Lieutenant Eve Dallas becomes entangled in the deadly mind game of a vicious copycat killer...Summer 2059. A man wearing a cape and a top hat approaches a prostitute on a dark New York City street. Minutes later, the woman is dead. Left at the scene is a letter addressed to Lieutenant Eve Dallas, inviting her to play his game and unveil his identity. He signs it "Jack...
  • Trick Roller by Cordelia Kingsbridge

    Trick Roller by Cordelia Kingsbridge

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    It’s the height of summer in Las Vegas. Everyone believes the serial killer Seven of Spades is dead—except Levi Abrams and Dominic Russo—and it’s back to business as usual. For Levi, that means investigating a suspicious overdose at the Mirage that looks like the work of a high-class call girl, while Dominic pursues a tough internship with a local private investigator...
  • Cold Justice Series Box Set: Volume I: Books 1-3 by Toni Anderson

    Cold Justice Series Box Set: Volume I: Books 1-3 by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Now you can get the first three books of the Cold Justice Series in one bundle! Justice isn’t always black or white. Sometimes it’s cold and dark. A Cold Dark Place: Former CIA assassin Alex Parker works for The Gateway Project, a clandestine government organization hell-bent on taking out serial killers and pedophiles before they enter the justice system...
  • Seduction in Death by J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts

    Seduction in Death by J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Lieutenant Eve Dallas is searching for a Casanova killer with a deadly appetite for seduction. Dante had been courting his victim in cyberspace for weeks before meeting her in person. A few sips of wine and a few hours later, she was dead. The murder weapon: a rare, usually undetectable date-rape drug with a street value of a quarter million dollars...
  • I'm Watching You by Karen Rose

    I'm Watching You by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here: I'm Watching YouI KNOW THEIR CRIMESStar prosecutor Kristen Mayhew has a dangerous secret admirer. He seems to knows her every thought, her every move. He sends her letters. And he kills the criminals she herself is powerless to stop...
  • A Killer's Kiss by Helen Harper

    A Killer's Kiss by Helen Harper

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A twisted killer is making his mark in London, leaving a trail of blood and devastation in his wake. It’s not only humans who are being targeted. Vampires, werewolves and pixies are in mortal danger too.I’ve been called in to help with the investigation but I can’t shake the feeling that there’s more to the murders. Someone is playing a very sick game - and it’s up to me to put a stop to it...
  • Devoted in Death by J.D. Robb

    Devoted in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Eve Dallas tracks a couple whose passion is fueled by cold brutality in the newest crime thriller from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Obsession in Death and Festive in Death. When Lieutenant Eve Dallas examines a body in a downtown Manhattan alleyway, the victim’s injuries are so extensive that she almost misses the clue...
  • Immortal in Death by J.D. Robb

    Immortal in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 52 ratings
    She was one of the most sought after women in the world. A top model who would stop at nothing to get what she wanted—even another woman's man. And now she was dead, the victim of a brutal murder. Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas put her life on the line to take the case when suspicion fell on her best friend, the other woman in the fatal love triangle...
  • Holiday in Death by J.D. Robb

    Holiday in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    IN A FUTURE WHEN COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY BRINGS LOVERS TOGETHER, DATING CAN BE A DEADLY GAME...No one likes to be alone during the holidays. And for New York's most posh dating service, Personally Yours, it is the season to bring lonely hearts together...
  • One-Eyed Royals by Cordelia Kingsbridge

    One-Eyed Royals by Cordelia Kingsbridge

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Spoiler Alert! The following blurb contains spoilers for Cash Plays, book three of Seven of Spades. Shattered by their devastating breakup, Detective Levi Abrams and PI Dominic Russo find themselves at war right when they need each other most. While Dominic is trapped in a vicious cycle of addiction, Levi despairs of ever catching the Seven of Spades...
  • You Can Run by Rebecca Zanetti

    You Can Run by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fans of Laura Griffin and Jayne Ann Krentz won’t want to miss this brand new thriller series by New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Zanetti, as FBI Special Agent Laurel Snow, a rising star profiler, strives to stay one step ahead of the criminal mind—and discovers that her own demons may be the hardest to outrun… Laurel Snow wouldn’t call hunting a serial killer a vacation, but with a pile...
  • Spiraled by Kendra Elliot, Nick Podehl

    Spiraled by Kendra Elliot, Nick Podehl

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    FBI Special Agent Ava McLane solves crimes; she doesn’t witness them. When she’s trapped in a mall without her weapon as a shooter picks off victims, she hides with a wounded teen and prays for her survival.But that’s only the beginning…An epidemic of mass shootings has has swept across Oregon. The young shooters terrify the public, committing random murders before taking their own lives...
  • Bridged by Kendra Elliot

    Bridged by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    After a congressman’s tortured body is found dangling from a Portland bridge, the FBI joins the Oregon State Police to investigate the case—and FBI Special Agent Ava McLane, still recovering from a bullet wound, hunts the twisted killer alongside the man who captured her heart, police detective Mason Callahan...
  • She Can Scream by Melinda Leigh

    She Can Scream by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In one moment, high school teacher and single mother Brooke Davenport interrupts a vicious assault, saves a young woman’s life, and attracts the attention of a serial killer. Sixteen years ago, Brooke lost her roommate to a brutal murder. Now she teaches women’s self-defense, still trying to heal from the guilt and grief that plague her...
  • Security Risk by Janie Crouch

    Security Risk by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Risking it all—again.Now his past is threatening both of them.Deputy Tanner Dempsey paid a high price for an undercover op gone wrong. Nobody understands a dangerous past better than Bree Daniels. Together they have to take on those real-life demons in order to stay alive. Keeping one step ahead of ruthless killers is their only option and risk is their constant companion...
  • The Devil's Spare Change by Samantha A. Cole

    The Devil's Spare Change by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    FBI agent Sean Malone put in a transfer to return home to North Carolina in order to be closer to his expanding family. What he didn’t expect was a pleasant surprise from his youth. Little Gracie Whitman is all grown up now and drop-dead gorgeous, and he finds himself thinking about her in ways he’d never done before...
  • Jon's Crazy Head-Boppin' Mystery by A.J. Sherwood

    Jon's Crazy Head-Boppin' Mystery by A.J. Sherwood

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I’m rather used to the crazy cases, because let’s face it, most cops can handle the run-of-the-mill with their eyes closed. I’m only called in when the situation is weird or they need to solve the case fast. This case is a little of both. Someone’s attacking women as they get off of work, hitting them in the back of the head. What started as a case of battery has steadily built up to homicide...
  • Lost in Bliss by Sophie Oak

    Lost in Bliss by Sophie Oak

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    [Siren Menage Everlasting: Erotic Cowboy Menage a Trois Romance, M/F/M] Laura Niles left her past behind. She fled Washington, DC, with her career in ruins and her love life decimated. In her desperate flight, she found a home in Bliss, Colorado. For five years, Rafe Kincaid and Cameron Briggs have searched for the only woman they've ever loved...
  • Cold Fear by Toni Anderson

    Cold Fear by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A relentless FBI profiler hunts a vicious killer. When old evidence turns up on a fresh corpse, ASAC Lincoln Frazer is determined it won’t delay the execution of a convicted serial killer. But when more young women are brutally slain, it becomes clear—this new killer is intimately familiar with the old murders. A dedicated emergency physician hides a dark secret. Former Army Captain Dr...
  • Vendetta in Death by J.D. Robb

    Vendetta in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Lieutenant Eve Dallas must keep the predator from becoming the prey in Vendetta in Death, the newest thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author J.D. Robb. She calls herself Lady Justice. And once she has chosen a man as her target, she turns herself into a tall blonde or a curvaceous redhead, makes herself as alluring and seductive as possible to them...
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