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Dying Wishes by Colleen Helme
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShelby Nichols needs some time off, but for a mind-reader with ties to the police and the mob, is that even possible?Her kids want the dog she's promised them, the police need her to talk to a counselor, and Uncle Joey has unexpected news that could change her life. Is Shelby up to the task? Let's hope so, because solving a murder might be easier than granting a dying wish... -
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Born in Death by J.D. Robb
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsEve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers—both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm—are brutally killed on the same night. It doesn't leave Eve a lot of leftover time to put together a baby shower for her buddy Mavis, but that's supposedly what friends are for.Now Mavis needs another favor... -
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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... -
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Loyalty in Death by J.D. Robb
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 31 ratings#1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb's phenomenal series has captivated readers with it tantalizing blend of romance, suspense, and futuristic police procedural. Now, New York cop Eve Dallas returns to face her most ingenious foe -- a "secret admirer" who taunts her with letters...and kills without mercy.LOYALTY IN DEATHAn unknown bomber is stalking New York City... -
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More of Us to the West (The Adrift Series Book 1) by Trinity Dunn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsI wanted to disappear...and then I did. On a trip to reignite the spark in her marriage, Alaina Grace’s upgraded first-class ticket places her far from her husband and next to the notorious Jack Volmer, a former teen actor who’d previously hung on posters in her childhood bedroom... -
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How to Defy a Vampire by Alice Winters
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFinnStumbling into a crime scene is pretty typical for me. As a human, joining the VRC has done everything but keep me out of trouble. And now I seem to be playing a part that I’d really rather not play… if I want to keep my head, that is.By my side is my partner Marcus, a vampire who has vowed to tear the world apart—and even a mattress—to keep me safe... -
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薄雾 Mist by 微风几许, 微風幾許
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHyperthymesia. Those with this condition can remember every detail of their lives from something as significant as the world’s turning point to something as small and as insignificant as a minor fleeting thought. They cannot forget and their thirst for knowledge allows them to be considered a genius in some senses.Legend has it that Ji Yushi was this kind of genius... -
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Seduction in Death by J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsLieutenant 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... -
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Memory In Death by J.D. Robb
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsFor once detective Eve Dallas can look at her latest murder victim and feel absolutely nothing. For Trudy Lombard awakens memories in Eve she'd rather forget. A seemingly ordinary middle-aged woman, Lombard was also one of Eve's foster parents and Eve was one of many traumatised children placed in her haphazard care. But now - only a few days after showing up in Eve's office - Lombard is dead... -
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Divided in Death by J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsReva Ewing, a former member of the Secret Service and a security specialist for Roarke Enterprises, is a prime suspect in a double homicide. She had every reason to want to kill her husband, the renowned artist Blair Bissel. Not only was he having an affair, he was having it with her best friend.But Lieutenant Eve Dallas, who's on the case, believes Reva is innocent... -
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Delusion in Death by J.D. Robb
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsAfter years on the force, Eve Dallas didn't think she could be shocked anymore... until now.It was just another after-work happy-hour bar downtown, where business professionals unwound with a few drinks, complained about the boss, maybe hooked up with someone for the night. Until something went terribly wrong. At first it was just a friction in the air. The noise intensified... -
![Origin in Death by J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts]()
Origin in Death by J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsSet in 2059 in New York City, the number-one bestselling In Death series has given fans a searing glimpse into near-future law and order. Now, as scientists work to expand the limits of technology, Detective Eve Dallas tracks the cunning, cold-blooded killer of a father and son.A pioneer of modern reconstructive and cosmetic surgery, Dr. Wilfred B... -
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Mission: Her Rescue by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen archeologist January’s plane is shot down over the Guatemalan jungle, she knows she’s being hunted for the invaluable Mayan artifacts she’s carrying. Only one man and his team can save her…the covert, black ops Team 52, and the distrusting former CIA operative who drives her crazy…Dr. January James has a motto: live life to the fullest... -
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Ritual in Death by J.D. Robb
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsJ. D. Robb’s In Death novels have been praised as “Law & Order: SVU – in the future” (Entertainment Weekly). Now, together for the first time in one volume, are three stories that spotlight Lieutenant Eve Dallas doing what she does best: solving crime with skill, integrity, and passion. Eternity in Death A seductive killer is luring in victims with a promise of the impossible – immortality... -
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Three in Death by J.D. Robb
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 29 ratings#1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb delivers a potent combination of futuristic suspense, thrills, and passion in these three favorite In Death stories—together in one volume for the first time.INTERLUDE IN DEATHLieutenant Eve Dallas is resigned to the fact that she’s been ordered to give a seminar at a police conference—and that she’ll have to leave Earth to do it... -
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The Refuge by John A. Heldt
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the author of THE LANE BETRAYAL, THE FAIR, and SEA SPRAY comes the fourth novel in the Time Box saga.Months after stealing two time machines, the Lanes, a modern family of seven, make a stand against the unhinged software mogul who wants them back. They travel to 1941 Oahu to eliminate the billionaire's mercenary, an assassin who has chased them through time... -
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Wedding the Highlander by Janet Chapman
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"A runaway beauty finds love in the brawny arms of a handsome stranger..."Talented surgeon Libby Hart is fleeing to Pine Creek, Maine, when her car spins out of control and crashes into a pond. She is rescued by Michael MacBain, a medieval highlander trapped in the modern world by a wizard's spell... -
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Witness in Death by J.D. Robb
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb comes a new novel in the futuristic series that has captivated readers everywhere. When a celebrity is killed right before her eyes, New York detective Eve Dallas takes a new place in crime - as both officer and witness to murder.. -
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Terminal by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe thrilling finale to Kathy and Brendan Reichs’ New York Times bestselling VIRALS seriesThe Virals are back—but they’re not the only pack in town anymore. Terminal finds Tory Brennan—grandniece of the famous forensic anthropologist (star of the hit show Bones)—and the rest of the Morris Island gang tracking a pack of rogue Virals who call themselves the Trinity...Categorized as:
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Celebrity in Death by J.D. Robb
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsLieutenant Eve Dallas is no party girl, but she's managing to have a good time at the celebrity-packed bash celebrating 'The Icove Agenda', a film based on one of her cases. What comes as a surprise however is seeing the actress who plays Peabody drowned in the pool on the roof of the director's luxury building... -
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Taken in Death by J.D. Robb, Susan Ericksen
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsUnabridged, 3 audio compact discs, 3 hours 17 minutes_______________Two young children disappear from their East Side home in New York City, their nanny killed in cold blood. As Lieutenant Eve Dallas begins to unravel the crime scene and search for the children, she's drawn into the twisted mind of a kidnapper who will stop at nothing to take revenge... -
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Mist by 微风几许
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsyperthymesia. Those with this condition can remember every detail of their lives from something as significant as the world’s turning point to something as small and as insignificant as a minor fleeting thought. They cannot forget and their thirst for knowledge allows them to be considered a genius in some senses.Legend has it that Ji Yushi was this kind of genius... -
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Possession in Death by J.D. Robb
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratings“The devil killed my body. I cannot fight, I cannot find. I cannot free her. You must. You are the one. We speak to the dead... -
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Dark in Death by J.D. Robb
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsIt was a stab in the dark.On a chilly February night, during a screening of Psycho in midtown, someone sunk an ice pick into the back of Chanel Rylan’s neck, then disappeared quietly into the crowds of drunks and tourists in Times Square... -
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Rapture in Death by J.D. Robb
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 49 ratingsThey died with smiles on their faces. Three apparent suicides: a brilliant engineer, an infamous lawyer, and a controversial politician. Three strangers with nothing in common - and no obvious reasons for killing themselves. Lieutenant Eve Dallas found the deaths suspicious. And her instincts paid off when autopsies revealed small burns on the brains of the victims... -
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Eternity in Death by J.D. Robb
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhen club-hopping bad girl Tiara Kent is found dead in her plush Manhattan apartment, the killing has all the earmarks of a vampire attack. The ever-practical Lieutenant Eve Dallas has to deal with superstitious cops carrying garlic and stakes, as well as the ever-hysterical press. None of the wealthy young victim’s friends seem to know much about the Dark Prince she has been secretly seeing... -
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Remember When by Nora Roberts, J.D. Robb
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsPart 1: Hot RocksPart 2: Big JackShe's one author - with two number-one New York Times-bestselling careers. As Nora Roberts, her novels include Three Fates and Birthright. As J. D. Robb, she offers such novels as Portrait in Death. Now she unites her separate identities in a riveting two-part novel that combines edgy suspense and romantic passion - and journeys through past, present, and future... -
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Missing in Death by J.D. Robb
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsJ. D. Robb’s In Death novels have been praised as “Law & Order: SVU – in the future” (Entertainment Weekly). Now, together for the first time in one volume, are three stories that spotlight Lieutenant Eve Dallas doing what she does best: solving crime with skill, integrity, and passion. Eternity in Death A seductive killer is luring in victims with a promise of the impossible – immortality... -
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Destruction by J.M. Madden
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGoing back into the torture camp where he’d been so brutally abused is the last thing Navy SEAL Drake Fontana wants to do, but if there are other men being experimented upon he has to be the one to get them out. And he has to give them an option other than to be a test subject to the Silverstone Collaborative, the pharmaceutical company funding the diabolical experiments... -
![The Strangest Forms by Gregory Ashe]()
The Strangest Forms by Gregory Ashe
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWatson is dead. Holmes is alone. And Jack is desperate.Sixteen-year-old Jack Moreno is managing to hold his life together. Barely. After a terrible car accident leaves his father unable to work, Jack makes ends meet by dropping out of school and covering his dad’s custodial shifts at a school for troubled teens, high in the Wasatch Mountains... -
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In Black We Trust by J.C. Andrijeski
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“This strike you as a particularly wise idea, brother?” Manny asked under his breath. “Striking a deal with vampires?”Black gave him a look. “No. But all my other ideas were worse.” * *A coup is underway.That coup threatens the entire United States––possibly the whole of the human race.Psychic detective, Quentin Black, has no idea who’s behind it, what their goal is, or what they want with him... -
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Critical Alliance by Elizabeth Goddard
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"A cybersecurity specialist with a criminal past joins a troubled federal agent to disarm deadly threats and protect national security secrets hidden in an up-and-coming tech company headquartered in backcountry... -
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Liar City by Allie Therin
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA murder has Seattle on edge, and it falls to a pacifist empath—and a notorious empath hunter—to find the killer before it's too lateIt’s the middle of the night when part-time police consultant and full-time empath Reece gets an anonymous call warning him that his detective sister needs his help... -
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Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsBart Minnock, founder of the computer gaming giant U-Play, is found in his locked private playroom, in a pool of blood, his head separated from his body. Despite his violent end, Eve can’t find anyone—girlfriend and business partners included—who seemed to have a problem with the enthusiastic, high-spirited millionaire... -
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![Intersect by Elizabeth O'Roark, Elle O'Roark]()
Intersect by Elizabeth O'Roark, Elle O'Roark
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe stunning conclusion to Parallel. Someone has torn them apart in the past, and she plans to do it again… As Nick and Quinn piece together the truth about the life they once shared, they discover it was much deeper and darker than they ever imagined... -
![Curse of the Painted Lady by K. Patrick Donoghue]()
Curse of the Painted Lady by K. Patrick Donoghue
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe gruesome death of Anabel Simpson, a retired archaeologist living in a small college town, had rocked her friends and neighbors and stymied the medical examiner. After all, she had been a quiet woman known for her ornate garden, Holstein knickknacks and stories of her days exploring ancient ruins... -
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The Night Island by Jayne Ann Krentz
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe disappearance of a mysterious informant leads two people desperate for answers to an island of deadly deception in this new novel in the Lost Night Files trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz... -
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Remember Me Tomorrow by Farah Heron
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA missing student. A singular investigation. A new romance. Every bit of it is a mystery in a delightful novel of cosmic twists by the author of How to Win a Breakup.East House is the oldest and least desirable dorm on campus, but it has a draw for lonely university freshman Aleeza Kassam: Jay Hoque, the hot and broody student who vanished from East House five months ago without a trace... -
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Secrets of the Highlander by Janet Chapman
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHe is the father of her child, but the secrets they are hiding are tearing them apart.... Megan MacKeage escaped the smothering protectiveness of the Highland MacKeage clan to work as a scientist on the Canadian tundra. But when fellow researcher Wayne Ferris breaks her heart by rejecting her, Megan returns to Maine alone... -
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Loving the Highlander by Janet Chapman
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA tempestuous passion begins with a battle of wills... When Sadie Quill comes upon an unbelievably gorgeous man lying naked beside a lake, she can't resist taking his photo -- and is quickly trapped in a passionate confrontation with the fierce stranger. Discovering the identity of this irresistible warrior will complicate Sadie's search for a legendary gold mine... -
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Wonderment in Death by J.D. Robb
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSomeone is hosting dangerous tea parties in 2061 New York... Thing aren't what they seem when Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates what appears to be a routine murder/suicide. When friends of Darlene and Marcus Fitzwilliams insist Darlene would never hurt her brother, Eve digs deeper... -
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All In A Name by Honor Raconteur
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSomeone left Jamie a prezzie and she would like to return it with a no thank you.It all starts with a dead Robert Martin, the man who killed RM Burtchell. Jamie doesn’t know how, but it’s obvious he was yanked out of high security prison, murdered, and dumped on her front doorsteps.Now the situation is entirely out of control... -
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Chaos in Death by J.D. Robb
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsEve Dallas is the tough lieutenant hot on his trail, but this is unlike any case she's ever been assigned—or any killer she's ever pursued. A police sketch based on eye-witness testimony reveals the killer has green skin, swollen red eyes, goblin ears, and a dislocated jaw-structure that defies the human form... -
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Ascension Saga: 9 - Destiny, Part 3 by Grace Goodwin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDestiny is doing everything she can to find her mother and stop the evil traitors from taking over her planet. But explosions, murder plots and chaos are just the beginning. And now she has more on the line than ever before. Now, she's in love. And Nix isn't the sit-by-and-watch kind of guy. He's right there next to her, risking everything. For her... -
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![Rise of the Demon by Diana Rowland]()
Rise of the Demon by Diana Rowland
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe long-awaited ninth book in the Demon series returns to the adventures of Kara Gillian and the supernatural threats that surround her Kara’s drastic ceasefire deal with the formidable demon Imperator Dekkak slowed the attacks on Earth to a trickle, but her troubles are far from over... -
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A Spell of Rowans by Byrd Nash
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRaised by a narcissistic mother, the Rowan children’s magical talents were twisted to fit her needs. When Rachel dies, her children must confront the past to have a future.Rachel Rowan could sniff out secrets and her antique shop, Rosemary Thyme, was a front to torment the residents of Grimsby. When she dies, her children are faced with the deadly fallout of blackmail, murder, and magic... -
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Tigre by Cara Bristol
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen feral fever strikes, more than tempers get hot…During an investigation, small town cop Kat Kelley encounters the most arresting man she’s ever seen. But before she can make her move, the soul-stirring, saber-toothed alien with topaz eyes growls at her. Who does that? This potential relationship is DOA, case closed... -
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Reactivated: Oz by Charissa Gracyk
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Project Phoenix…Find Oz…”Those were the last words her brother Jonah said when he died in her arms. Convinced that he was murdered, Navy Intel Officer Allegra Steele learns that “Oz” is her brother’s former Navy SEAL teammate, Jack “Oz” Cullen.When Allegra asks for Jack’s help, she doesn’t expect the undeniable electricity that sparks between them... -
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Replay by Ken Grimwood
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsAt forty-three Jeff Winston is tired of his low-paid, unrewarding job, tired of the long silences at the breakfast table with his wife, saddened by the thought of no children to comfort his old age. But he hopes for better things, for happiness, maybe tomorrow ...But a sudden, fatal heart attack puts paid to that... -
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Skeleton Crew by Jordan Castillo Price
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlthough Victor Bayne is a valued asset of the FPMP, he still vividly recalls his PsyCop days: the eye rolls, the nasty looks, and the occasional utterance of the words “Spook Squad” whenever he showed up on a scene. So he really should empathize with Howard Jibben, the weekend lab manager known as Heebie Jeebie...
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