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  • Gators and Garters by Jana Deleon

    Gators and Garters by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    ‘Til death do us part?Ida Belle, Fortune, and Gertie are gearing up for the big day—Ida Belle’s wedding to Walter—but when the caterer goes missing just a week before the big day, it puts a huge black mark on the joyous celebration...
  • Swamp Spirits by Jana Deleon

    Swamp Spirits by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Ghost of a chance?Fortune is thrilled when Ben Harrison, her former CIA partner, and his fiancée, Cassidy, decide to leave DC and move to the Louisiana bayous. They’ve already secured jobs and are only lacking a place to live, so everyone is excited when they quickly find a home. There’s only one problem—the house has a reputation. It’s haunted...
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    cozy  humor  crime  suspense  female-mc  romance  mystery  contemporary
  • Fortune Funhouse by Jana Deleon

    Fortune Funhouse by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The traveling carnival has made its stop in Sinful and everyone is ready for thrilling rides, challenging games, and most importantly, funnel cake. But when a man is murdered in the funhouse and Emmaline LeBlanc is knocked unconscious so the killer can escape, the good times are over...
  • Bullets and Beads by Jana Deleon

    Bullets and Beads by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 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...
  • Change of Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Change of Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 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...
  • Flame and Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Flame and Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    No smoke without a fire. It’s New Year’s in Sinful, and the competition for the New Year’s Queen is heating up as the warring churches go head-to-head. Fortune Redding is not the sequined dress kind of woman, but reluctantly agrees to partake in the debacle so that Ida Belle and Gertie can best their nemesis, Celia, who’s put up former Sinful mean girl RJ Rogers...
  • Swamp Spook by Jana Deleon

    Swamp Spook by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 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...
  • Fortune Furlough by Jana Deleon

    Fortune Furlough by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 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...
  • Cajun Fried Felony by Jana Deleon

    Cajun Fried Felony by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Venus Thibodeaux had a reputation for being trouble. Some said she started at birth. When she finally left Sinful shortly after turning eighteen, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. When she blew back into town four years later, no one was happy about her return...
  • Swamp Santa by Jana Deleon

    Swamp Santa by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 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...
  • Swamp Sweets by Jana Deleon

    Swamp Sweets by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It’s November in Sinful and everyone is gearing up for Thanksgiving. But when Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie bag a body on their turkey hunting trip, the quiet enjoyment of fall is over. No one really knew Miles Broussard well, and as he’d recently sold the building his business was in to retire in another state, no one could explain how he’d ended up murdered and dumped in the bayou...
  • Lasting Shadows by Kathleen Brooks

    Lasting Shadows by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ridge Faulkner was a renowned luxury house builder. When Ridge was selected at a charity bachelor auction, he was surprised when it wasn’t for an actual date. The woman only wanted him to help fix up her house. Savannah Ambrose was starting her life over in Shadows Landing. But she needed help with the fixer-upper she was moving into...
  • Rock Chick Renegade by Kristen Ashley

    Rock Chick Renegade by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Jules has got a score to settle against the drug dealers of Denver. Vance has made it his mission that Jules won’t get dead while dishing out vigilante justice. Jules doesn’t have time for romance, she’s too busy saving the world and she enlists Zip (the gunstore owner), Heavy (an ex-PI) and Frank (a mysterious recluse) to help...
  • Hook, Line and Blinker by Jana Deleon

    Hook, Line and Blinker by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Nobody knows speed like Ida Belle. Behind the wheel of her hopped-up Blazer, she’s the queen of the back roads. But when someone tries to kill Hot Rod and steals only black SUVs from his shop, Fortune worries that excessive horsepower is the least of the trouble that comes along with her friend’s new ride...
  • Reel of Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Reel of Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 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...
  • Fortune Hunter by Jana Deleon

    Fortune Hunter by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon, the eighth book in the Miss Fortune mystery series. Someone has created a fake social media identity and is online romancing the lonely women of Sinful in order to scam them out of money...
  • Hurricane Force by Jana Deleon

    Hurricane Force by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon, the seventh book in the Miss Fortune series. A force to be reckoned with… During missions as a CIA assassin, Fortune Redding saw and overcame most every obstacle, but Sinful, Louisiana, keeps producing new challenges for her. When a hurricane blows through, it brings a shower of counterfeit money raining down on the tiny bayou town...
  • Swamp Team 3 by Jana Deleon

    Swamp Team 3 by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jana DeLeon, a new installment in her bestselling Miss Fortune series. What’s a little arson between friends? Undercover CIA agent Fortune Redding spent her first three weeks in Sinful, Louisiana dodging insults, makeup advice, guard dogs, bullets, and Deputy Carter LeBlanc, both professionally and personally...
  • Frightfully Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Frightfully Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Rest when you’re dead?It’s time for the annual Halloween festival in Sinful, and Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie can’t wait to suit up and enjoy the food and activities. But when a dead man gallops through the park on a black stallion and slides to a decapitated stop right in front of Swamp Team 3, they know another festival is about to be turned on its head…so to speak...
  • Fierce Shadows by Kathleen Brooks

    Fierce Shadows by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dare Reigns is Charleston’s newest undercover ATF agent. Dare and his bosses believe a nearby resort is responsible for several deaths from tainted alcohol. As a favor to his friend, Marcy Davies, Dare agrees to a blind date with her grand-niece who lives in the area. What he didn’t tell her was having a date night at the resort would be the perfect cover for him to begin his investigation...
  • Secrets Collide by Kathleen Brooks

    Secrets Collide by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The mysterious Cy Davies is coming home. He’s not coming alone either. Having rescued Gemma Perry, a sassy investigative reporter for a gossip magazine, he takes her to the one place he knows he can keep her safe. Keeneston. Gemma Perry was having a bad week. Now she was in a small town where gossip was a currency...
  • Later Gator by Jana Deleon

    Later Gator by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 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...
  • Soldiers of Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Soldiers of Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jana DeLeon, the sixth installment in the bestselling Miss Fortune series. When Celia Arceneaux was elected mayor of Sinful, Louisiana, Fortune Redding expected trouble. The woman has an unmatched talent for making the worst of any situation, especially if it means getting revenge on her sworn enemies Ida Belle and Gertie...
  • Swamp Sniper by Jana Deleon

    Swamp Sniper by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jana DeLeon, the third book in the Miss Fortune Mystery series.When only a crack shot will do…In the two weeks CIA assassin Fortune Redding has been hiding in Sinful, Louisiana, she’s been harassed, poisoned, and shot at…and that was the easy part. But now, she’s about to face her biggest challenge since setting foot in the tiny bayou town...
  • Ghostly Serenade: by Colleen Helme

    Ghostly Serenade: by Colleen Helme

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An unsolved murder, a mob boss out for revenge, and a message from a ghost? Just another day in the life of Shelby Nichols. Shelby's family trip to meet the New York Manettos is not turning out to be the enjoyable break she'd hoped for...
  • Rising Storm by Kathleen Brooks

    Rising Storm by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Katelyn Jacks was used to being front and center as a model. But she never had to confront the Keeneston Grapevine! After retiring from the runway and returning to town to open a new animal clinic, Katelyn found that her life in the public eye was anything but over...
  • Rock Chick Rescue by Kristen Ashley

    Rock Chick Rescue by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Jet McAlister has a secret. Eddie Chavez has the hots for Jet (not to mention Eddie’s just plain hot). Jet has too many problems to realize that Eddie’s interested. Eddie loses patience when Jet ends her waitressing shift at a strip club with a knife at her throat. Since Eddie’s a cop, he figures he can help. Since Jet’s used to solving everyone’s problems she doesn’t want Eddie’s help...
  • Poison and Prejudice by Chelsea Field

    Poison and Prejudice by Chelsea Field

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Izzy agreed to become an undercover poison taster, she didn’t anticipate that it might involve driving around the streets of Los Angeles with a corpse in the trunk. Because the police asked her to. She also didn’t think finding a body together could be considered a bonding experience until she met Connor’s family...
  • Deception in Darkness: by Alice Winters

    Deception in Darkness: by Alice Winters

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Felix and Lane are struggling with just how boring a “normal” life is, so when they get a chance to jump into action, they do so without a second thought—especially since they’re offered a lot of money. The request is simple: find a way to retrieve a watch from police custody. But things are never as easy as they seem. Suddenly, they’re caught in the middle of a family feud that could turn deadly...
  • Hot Six by Janet Evanovich

    Hot Six by Janet Evanovich

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Low-rent bounty hunter Stephanie Plum reaches depths of personal experience that other women detectives never quite do. In Hot Six, for example, a sequence of new and hideous cars bite the dust; she finds herself lumbered with a policeman's multiply incontinent dog; and she has several bad skin days...
  • Dirty Thirty by Janet Evanovich

    Dirty Thirty by Janet Evanovich

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Stephanie Plum, Trenton’s hardest working, most underappreciated bounty hunter, is offered a freelance assignment that seems simple enough. Local jeweler Martin Rabner wants her to locate his former security guard, Andy Manley (a.k.a. Nutsy), who he is convinced stole a fortune in diamonds out of his safe...
  • Thirty and a Half Excuses by Denise Grover Swank

    Thirty and a Half Excuses by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Life in Henryetta, Arkansas is turned upside down with the arrival of a televangelist, but it’s the death of a little old lady on Rose’s street that catches her attention. The Henryetta police deem her death natural causes, but Rose suspects foul play and so does an unlikely supporter — the president of the Busy Body Club, her eighty-two year old neighbor Mildred...
  • Dead Heat by Kathleen Brooks

    Dead Heat by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Paige Davies finds her world turned upside down as she becomes involved in her best friends' nightmare. The strong-willed Paige doesn't know which is worse: someone trying to kill her, or losing her dog to the man she loves to hate. FBI Agent Cole Parker can't decide whether he should strangle or kiss this infuriating woman of his dreams...
  • A Good Day for Chardonnay by Darynda Jones

    A Good Day for Chardonnay by Darynda Jones

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Running a small-town police force in the mountains of New Mexico should be a smooth, carefree kind of job. Sadly, full-time Sheriff--and even fuller-time coffee guzzler--Sunshine Vicram, didn't get that memo.All Sunshine really wants is one easy-going day. You know, the kind that starts with coffee and a donut (or three) and ends with take-out pizza and a glass of chardonnay (or seven)...
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    cozy  crime  family  female-mc  humor  law-enforcement  suspense  abuse
  • Tethered Bond by Emma Hart

    Tethered Bond by Emma Hart

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Detective Drake Nash: hot, alpha, bossy, and… mine. Now, if someone could tell his ex that... I don’t care if the summer fair is coming to Holly Woods and she’s on the planning committee. What I do care about is sugar-filled food, bright lights, late nights… and danger. The type that won’t come in the form of Nonna’s new cantankerous British parrot, Gio...
  • Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover by Ally Carter

    Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover by Ally Carter

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 57 ratings
    When Cammie "The Chameleon" Morgan visits her roommate Macey in Boston, she thinks she's in for an exciting end to her summer break. After all, she's there to watch Macey's father accept the nomination for vice president of the United States. But when you go to the world's best school (for spies), "exciting" and "deadly" are never far apart...
  • Whiskey for Breakfast by Liliana Hart

    Whiskey for Breakfast by Liliana Hart

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Private Investigator's HandbookRule #1: Don't break the lawRule #2: See Rule #1...And then there's Addison Holmes, who makes up her handbook as she goes along. Addison is licensed to carry and she means business. The only thing getting in her way is a sexy detective, a neighborhood watch from hell, a dead billionaire, a black market sperm bank, and a long lost heir. Piece of cake..
  • To the Nines by Janet Evanovich

    To the Nines by Janet Evanovich

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Stephanie Plum's got rent to pay, people shooting at her, and psychos wanting her dead every day of the week (much to the dismay of her mother, her family, the men in her life, the guy who slices meat at the deli...oh, the list goes on). An ordinary person would cave under the pressure.But hey, she's from Jersey...
  • A Body on Fitzgerald’s Bluff by Anna Celeste Burke

    A Body on Fitzgerald’s Bluff by Anna Celeste Burke

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Miriam Webster’s a woman with a few secrets—can she keep them after she and her spirited Dalmatian, Domino, find a body on Fitzgerald’s Bluff? When Miriam Webster moves into the Seaview Cottages active adult community, the last thing she expects is to find a body on the bluffs nearby...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  suspense  cozy  crime  humor  romance  mystery  fiction
  • Four to Score by Janet Evanovich

    Four to Score by Janet Evanovich

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Nabbing Maxine Nowicki, thief and extortionist, would be the answer to Stephanie’s prayers and monetary woes. The only trouble is that Maxine is no where to be found, and her friends have been mysteriously turning up dead. To make matters worse, Stephanie’s arch nemesis since grade school is also looking for Nowicki, hoping to cash in first.Stephanie’s mentor and tormentor, Ranger, needs her...
  • High Five by Janet Evanovich

    High Five by Janet Evanovich

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Stephanie Plum has a whole lot of trouble on her doorstep.Her Uncle Fred has disappeared and Grandma Mazur is convinced he's been abducted by aliens.Meanwhile, Cousin Vinnie has asked her to bring in the vertically challenged Randy Briggs who's jumped bail. But instead of coming quietly, he has taken up residence in Stephanie's closet...
  • Heated by Kathleen Brooks

    Heated by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Wilder Townsend was just a small-town guy when he left home for college in New York City. He got a weekend job as a bouncer at the hottest nightclub in the city. The rest is history. He now owned a chain of the hottest, most luxurious, and exclusive nightclubs all over the world...
  • Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich, Lorelei King

    Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich, Lorelei King

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Length: 8 hrs and 31 minsFugitive Apprehension Agent Stephanie Plum has a big problem on her hands: Seven-year-old Annie Soder and her mother, Evelyn, have disappeared.Evelyn's estranged husband, Steven, a shady owner of a seedy bar, is not at all happy...
  • Louisiana Longshot by Jana Deleon

    Louisiana Longshot by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    It was a hell of a longshot...CIA Assassin Fortune Redding is about to undertake her most difficult mission ever--in Sinful, Louisiana.With a leak at the CIA and a price on her head by one of the world's largest arms dealers, Fortune has to go off grid, but she never expected to be this far out of her element...
  • Going Rogue: Rise and Shine Twenty-Nine (29) by Janet Evanovich

    Going Rogue: Rise and Shine Twenty-Nine (29) by Janet Evanovich

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Stephanie Plum breaks the rules, flirts with disaster, and shows who’s boss in this “fast and fun” (Publishers Weekly) thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich.Monday mornings aren’t supposed to be fun, but they should be predictable...
    Categorized as:
    humor  crime  cozy  suspense  female-mc  romance  mystery  fiction
  • Rumble on the Bayou by Jana Deleon

    Rumble on the Bayou by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Deputy Dorie Berenger knew the day would go from bad to worse when she found a stoned alligator in the town drunk’s swimming pool. Then DEA agent Richard Starke shows up in Gator Bait, Louisiana, giving out orders and insults faster than you can cast a fishing line...
  • A Light in the Darkness by Alice Winters

    A Light in the Darkness by Alice Winters

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Felix and Lane are trying out their new normal. Normal means no more car chases, no more drug lords, and definitely no more kidnapping bad guys. All of that is a thing of the past in this new, normal(ish) life style filled with family get-togethers, torturous jogs through the park, and the occasional romp in the parking lot. Felix is done stealing (all but for the cat)...
  • Engagement and Espionage by Penny Reid

    Engagement and Espionage by Penny Reid

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Jennifer Sylvester made her deal with the devil . . . and now they’re engaged!But all is not well in Green Valley. A chicken choker is on the loose, 61 dead birds most "fowl" need plucking, and no time remains for Jennifer and her devilish fiancé. Desperate to find a spare moment together, Jenn and Cletus’s attempts to reconnect are thwarted by one seemingly coincidental disaster after another...
  • Whiskey Sour by Liliana Hart

    Whiskey Sour by Liliana Hart

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Addison Holmes is at it again. When priceless Russian gems are stolen on their way to Savannah and the courier is murdered, all the clues lead to back to an escort service that seems above reproach. But looks can be deceiving. Throw in a sexy detective and a dangerous FBI agent, and Addison finds out very quickly that she's in way over her head...
  • Ten Big Ones by Janet Evanovich

    Ten Big Ones by Janet Evanovich

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
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