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  • The Magnolia Murders by Aimee Nicole Walker

    The Magnolia Murders by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Everything old is new again in love and murder. Work together, live together, and play together is the name of the game for Royce Locke and Sawyer Key. But one of those things changes when Chief Mendoza taps Sawyer to lead the newly formed cold case unit. His first task: solve the Magnolia Murders that spanned three decades and suddenly stopped in 2000...
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    crime  law-enforcement  lgbtq  mlm  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Somebody to Hold by April Wilson

    Somebody to Hold by April Wilson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In this second installment in the Tyler Jamison and Ian Alexander romantic suspense series, Tyler and Ian face their greatest challenge yet. Homicide detective Tyler Jamison is facing the unthinkable -- a prison sentence for beating the man who assaulted Ian...
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    law-enforcement  lgbtq  mlm  suspense  adult  age-gap  audiobook  book
  • The Hitman's Guide to Righting Wrongs While Causing Mayhem by Alice Winters

    The Hitman's Guide to Righting Wrongs While Causing Mayhem by Alice Winters

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Leland and Jackson are back and ready to cause more mayhem than ever (and sing a song or two)...
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    crime  law-enforcement  lgbtq  mlm  suspense  adult  assassins  book
  • The Evening Wolves by Gregory Ashe

    The Evening Wolves by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Every victory comes at a cost. The trail has gone cold. For months now, Emery Hazard and John-Henry Somerset have been trying to find something—anything—that might help them uncover the truth about the criminal organization operating out of the Cottonmouth Club. But every lead has turned out to be a dead end, and every step forward has cost them two steps back...
  • Good Vibes Only by Gregory Ashe

    Good Vibes Only by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Just vibing. Good Vibes Only is a collection of short stories from Iron on Iron. It includes the “All the Feels” Jem and Tean get settled in their temporary new home. This story is set after The Face in the Water . “Add Me Back” Theo and Auggie (especially Auggie) spend time with their new friends. This story is set before The Girl in the Wind . “Adulting is Hard” North and Shaw are..
  • Killer Honeymoon by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Killer Honeymoon by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Honeymoon, happily ever after, and…homicide?Newlyweds, Royce Locke and Sawyer Key, embark on a honeymoon road trip where their biggest threat should be dodging drunk tourists on golf carts. But their arrival on South Bass Island lands them in the middle of a contentious battle between lifelong islanders and a property developer who won’t accept no for an answer...
  • When I'm Old and Grey by L.M. Krier

    When I'm Old and Grey by L.M. Krier

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    DI Ted Darling doesn't like coincidences. There are too many for comfort surrounding his latest case. They're spilling over into his private life, too, when some toxic family secrets are uncovered. A serial killer appears to be targeting vulnerable elderly people in care homes and despatching them in the most cynical way. Ted and his team are struggling to get a lead on who the killer really is...
  • Body and Soul by Patricia Logan

    Body and Soul by Patricia Logan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    More than ten years ago, a series of train bombings devastated railways throughout Europe. Strange poetry sent to local newspapers right before each bombing, confounded investigators at the time. In one of only a handful of failed covert missions, Jarrett had been sent into North Korea to take out the bomber...
  • The Lies That Bind by Marshall Thornton

    The Lies That Bind by Marshall Thornton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The eighth book of the best-selling Boystown Mystery Series begins with a phone call in the middle of the night. Private investigator Nick Nowak is pulled into the troubled world of freelance journalist, and all around pain-in-the-ass, Christian Baylor. When Christian can’t stop lying about the corpse in his bathroom things slip slowly out of control...
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    crime  law-enforcement  lgbtq  mlm  suspense  adult  book  dark
  • Suspicion by Eden Winters

    Suspicion by Eden Winters

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lucky “Simon Harrison” Lucklighter left behind his criminal past to become one of the best agents in the Southeastern Narcotics Bureau. He’s found a committed partner in fellow agent Bo Schollenberger and built a life. Now, enemies within the SNB and a friend’s betrayal leave him nowhere to turn—not even to his mentor. His boss’s life, the future of the SNB, and Lucky’s career depend on him...
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    crime  law-enforcement  lgbtq  mlm  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • School of Fish by Amy Lane

    School of Fish by Amy Lane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jackson Rivers has been learning how to take care of himself so he can be there for Ellery Cramer, but after eight weeks of healing, body and soul, he’s itching to get back to work. Finally Ellery gives him a simple task: pick up a file on a kid who probably didn’t commit murder but who refuses to participate in his own defense.Nothing is ever that easy...
  • Devoted to the Don by Leighton Greene

    Devoted to the Don by Leighton Greene

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Luca thought keeping me out of the Family business would keep me safe.He was wrong. Now his own life is hanging in the balance, too. While our enemies stalk us, long-buried secrets begin to resurface, and I’m not sure who we can trust.But I won’t let anyone take him from me. No matter what I have to do.I meant every promise I made to Luca in my marriage vows...
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    crime  lgbtq  mlm  suspense  action-adventure  adult  billionaire  book
  • Fish in a Barrel by Amy Lane

    Fish in a Barrel by Amy Lane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jackson and Ellery face their toughest case yet—against the criminal justice system itself.Jackson Rivers and Ellery Cramer have worked difficult jobs before, but usually it’s getting the facts that’s the problem. For their newest client, the trouble isn’t finding the truth—it’s corruption at the highest levels of the justice system...
  • Calem by Christopher Harlan

    Calem by Christopher Harlan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In Calem, the first of the New York's Finest series from contemporary romance author Christopher Harlan, a renowned psychologist and an embattled NYPD detective join forces to end the city's reign of terror, finding salvation and love in each other's arms in the process. Dr. Cordelia Summers is a brilliant psychologist...
  • Interlude by C.S. Poe

    Interlude by C.S. Poe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Interlude is a collection of short stories spanning the complete timeline of the Snow & Winter series, beginning with The Mystery of Nevermore, to after the conclusion of The Mystery of the Bones. They feature the point of view of Sebastian Snow and Calvin Winter and consist of mini-mysteries as well as scenes from daily life...
  • Fade Out by Marshall Thornton

    Fade Out by Marshall Thornton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Lambda Award-winning Boystown Mystery series comes to a close with Boystown 13: Fade Out. When a box containing a woman’s corpse shows up at his doorstep, Private Investigator Nick Nowak finds himself accused of murder. The police are convinced it’s Rita Lindquist—a woman who once shot Nick. Their case is thin, but they and the state’s attorney are determined to prosecute him...
  • The Old Wheel by Gregory Ashe

    The Old Wheel by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Blackmail. Breakups. Boys. Trouble always comes in threes.Life is different for Jack Moreno. Good. Definitely good. Well, better, anyway.He’s back in school (although classes are harder than he expected). And his dad is healthy (which means he’s worrying again about things like Jack’s curfew and, oh yeah, grades)...
  • Thunder and Lightning by Patricia Logan

    Thunder and Lightning by Patricia Logan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jarrett Evans and Thayne Wolfe have been partnered in the ATF for nearly two years and their love and commitment to each other has grown over time. Now faced with one final challenge, the boys are headed to Arizona to help Thayne’s mom, stumbling headfirst into a brand new case...
  • Blue on Blue by Dal Maclean

    Blue on Blue by Dal Maclean

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From Lambda Literary Award Finalist Dal Maclean After three years working as a private investigator, newly reinstated Detective Inspector Will Foster still holds himself responsible for the death of an officer under his command. But he’s returned to the Met bent on redeeming himself and that means bringing down gangland boss Joey Clarkson...
  • 默读 by Priest

    默读 by Priest

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
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    lgbtq  mlm  suspense  crime  law-enforcement  romance  mystery  fiction
  • Reinventing Cato by Barbara Elsborg

    Reinventing Cato by Barbara Elsborg

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Fate is not always written in the stars…Being headhunted by NASA might be his ultimate dream, but Cato’s life still sucks. He’s tired of anonymous one-night stands. He’s tired of being lonely. And, frankly, he’s tired of himself. As the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, he realises the only thing to do if he wants to be happy is to reinvent himself...
  • Waiting by Calle J. Brookes

    Waiting by Calle J. Brookes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Everyone made mistakes, but some were far more dangerous than others… Fin McLaughlin wanted nothing more than to make a difference in his work with the FBI. Headhunted by the deputy director of the Bureau to head up a new division located in St. Louis, Fin was determined to make amends for the mistakes he’d made six years earlier that had almost cost him his career—and his life...
  • Reunion by Eden Winters

    Reunion by Eden Winters

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Reunions can be murder. A dial tone instead of a human voice announced Lucky’s ousting from the Lucklighter clan over twelve years ago. After living a life of crime. After testifying against his drug lord lover. After receiving a ten-year sentence. Ah, hell. Lucky would’ve disowned himself too. Now life’s better...
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    crime  law-enforcement  lgbtq  mlm  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • 'Nother Sip of Gin: A Sinners Gin Anthology by Rhys Ford

    'Nother Sip of Gin: A Sinners Gin Anthology by Rhys Ford

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For Crossroads Gin rock stars Miki, Damien, Rafe, and Forest, life is a Möbius strip of music, mayhem, and murder. Through it all, the sweet, hot moments between tours with lovers, friends, and family keep them sane, healthy, and happy. This Sinners collection features short stories spanning the entire series, from before the first note to after the lights go out...
  • Smoking Gunn by Tatum West

    Smoking Gunn by Tatum West

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jamie:I only have two rules: I don’t tangle with anyone who wants a relationship. And I’m the one who decides when it’s over.The guys I see are quick and dirty—that’s what I want. I keep my head down and my heart to myself. The only person who sees the real me is my daughter, and I need it to stay that way.My life is small, and the guys at my new job hate me—and they’ve got plenty of good reasons...
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    mlm  lgbtq  crime  suspense  contemporary  fiction  mystery  small-town
  • Dirty Bites by Rhys Ford

    Dirty Bites by Rhys Ford

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    **FREE HOLIDAY DOWNLOAD FROM RHYS FORD, GREG TREMBLAY AND DREAMSPINNER PRESS**Danger. Desire. Loss. Love.In every story, there are a thousand more bound up and waiting to be told; here are just a few from the Cole McGinnis Mysteries...
  • Fletcher by M. Tasia

    Fletcher by M. Tasia

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    BLOOD BROTHERSFletcher Daniels has family. The family he chose. His Navy SEAL family.Those who share his DNA are dead to him, except his brother Kyle.When Kyle disappears, Fletcher is forced to confront his “blood” family, whose mere presence makes going through Hell Week at BUD/S feel like a walk in the park.Saving Kyle is fraught with intrigue and betrayal...
  • Follows with Intent by Gregory Ashe

    Follows with Intent by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Keeping your eye on the prize isn’t always a good thing.Nico knows he’s difficult; he has the string of exes to prove it. But staying sharp was the only way to stay safe in the cutthroat world of modeling, and it turns out, graduate school isn’t any gentler. Career first. Boys…later.Jadon knows he’s burning out; his partner at the Metropolitan Police is more than happy to remind him of that fact...
  • If You're Going Through Hell Keep Going by Tinnean

    If You're Going Through Hell Keep Going by Tinnean

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Mark Vincent and Quinton Mann have finally kind of, sort of, exchanged promises. Mark has returned from an assignment on the West Coast, and he’s looking forward to spending some quality time with his lover. After all, it’s the St. Patrick’s Day weekend...
  • Manipulation by Eden Winters

    Manipulation by Eden Winters

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lucky Lucklighter has a new life. His old life wants him back.He traded trafficking for taking down criminals with the Southeastern Narcotics Bureau, and a drug-lord lover for a man on the right side of the law. Bo Schollenberger found the way past the thorny defenses of Lucky’s heart, and made Mr...
  • Dancing Men by Adira August

    Dancing Men by Adira August

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Alternative Cover Edition of ASIN: B075T5CPFRFor adults who love some mystery with their men. A 70k police procedural with a liberal dose of M/M heat. The 2nd of the Hunter Dane Investigations. Matchstick Men, their 1st case, also available on Amazon. An ancient burial urn, empty for millennia, is suddenly not so empty...
  • Real Trouble by Elle Keaton

    Real Trouble by Elle Keaton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Two men on opposite sides of the law: will they be able to set aside their differences and trust love? Danylo Peters has issues, lots of them. He’s not on Piedras Island by accident, he’s not a nice guy, and Peters isn’t his real name. Dany’s in hiding, trying to escape his family’s influence and start a new life...
  • Ghost by R.J. Scott

    Ghost by R.J. Scott

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can you ever hold on to a ghost?Elliot is tracking an elusive killer, codenamed Ghost, with ties to organized crime. Every time the Sanctuary team gets close, Ghost slips their grasp.Cole has nowhere left to turn. With his father dying and his sister in danger, he turns for help to the very people trying to track him down...
  • Locked and Loaded by Patricia Logan

    Locked and Loaded by Patricia Logan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ATF agents Thayne Wolfe and Jarrett Evans are back and this time, they’ll be facing a familiar foe. International arms dealer, Mills Lang, has acquired a stolen cache of tabun, a powerful nerve agent, to sell to the highest bidder. The last thing either Thayne or Jarrett wants to do is get involved with the psychopath again but duty calls...
  • Slip and Slide by Patricia Logan

    Slip and Slide by Patricia Logan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ATF special agents, Thayne Wolfe, and his partner, Jarrett Evans, have gotten into sticky situations in the past but nothing prepares them for the daunting task of being loaned out to a coal mine in West Virginia where Jarrett’s grown up. Investigating a deadly mining explosion may be the end of them yet...
  • The First Time Ever by L.M. Krier

    The First Time Ever by L.M. Krier

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ‘ original, character-driven crime fiction’ Ted Darling is a Specialist Firearms Officer, and a good one. With a promising career in front of him. Then he meets someone who could change everything but who can’t live with his police role. Ted’s wanted to be a copper since he was nine...
  • Leavings by Ripley Hayes

    Leavings by Ripley Hayes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    (Alternate cover edition of ASIN B08XTP4LPF.) Setting up a new home with Mal was all fun and flat pack furniture for Daniel. Until Mal disappears on an undercover operation, leaving Daniel on his own to deal with three dead bodies, and trying to help a friend escape an abusive relationship...
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    mlm  crime  lgbtq  law-enforcement  suspense  romance  mystery  murder
  • Just Say When by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Just Say When by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Someone wants Police Chief Emilio Mendoza dead. And if his unknown assailant doesn’t kill him, pining for Sheriff Abraham Beecham just might. Abe and Lio’s thirty-year journey has taken them from heated rivals to best friends with countless labels and pit stops along the way. Romance is the only avenue left unexplored but not from lack of love or desire...
  • Skin and Bone by T.A. Moore

    Skin and Bone by T.A. Moore

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Digging Up Bones: Book Two Cloister Witte and his K-9 partner, Bourneville, find the lost and bring them home. But the job doesn’t always end there. Janet Morrow, a young trans woman, lies in a coma after wandering away from her car during a storm. But just because Cloister found the young tourist doesn’t mean she’s home...
  • The Paternity Puzzle by Aimee Nicole Walker

    The Paternity Puzzle by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Royce Locke and Sawyer Key are back and better than ever with new mysteries and hilarious shenanigans as they tackle their greatest challenge yet: fatherhood.A perfect holiday weekend takes a twisted turn when Royce investigates a suspicious death involving Dr. Jean Claude Matisse, a retired pioneer in fertility medicine...
  • Hell's Highway by Gerri Hill

    Hell's Highway by Gerri Hill

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    FBI Agents Cameron Ross and Andrea Sullivan found the unexpected when they met amongst the warm red rocks and cliffs of Sedona—each other. That commitment, along with their ingenuity, courage and resolve, will be tested along the most barren of stretches in California’s Mojave Desert...
  • Tracefinder: Changes by Kaje Harper

    Tracefinder: Changes by Kaje Harper

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Brian can Find a lost child or a wanted criminal, but when his secret gets out, even Nick’s skills and connections may not be enough to keep them safe. Brian Kerr is now free of his dangerous boss and his domineering brother. He’s eager to start using his psychic Finding talent to help people, if he can figure out how to do that safely...
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    crime  law-enforcement  lgbtq  mlm  suspense  abuse  adult  book
  • Simple Justice by John Morgan Wilson

    Simple Justice by John Morgan Wilson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Following the death of his lover and a scandal involving his Pulitzer Prize-winning article, crime reporter Benjamin Justice has fallen into a hazy, alcoholic reclusiveness, hiding out in the West Hollywood neighborhood known as the Norma Triangle. He is called back to the world of the living by an unexpected, and unwelcome, visit from Harry Brofsky, his former boss...
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    crime  lgbtq  mlm  suspense  adult  amateur-sleuth  book  contemporary
  • River Home by Elle Keaton

    River Home by Elle Keaton

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    If you don’t know what you want, would you recognize it if you found it? Miguel Ramirez is the definition of pochos; a half-breed-white-washed Mexican–American who doesn’t speak Spanish (also unapologetically bisexual). Three years ago he arrived in Skagit a broken man having barely managed to escape an abusive relationship. Slowly, he’s rebuilt his life...
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    crime  law-enforcement  lgbtq  mlm  suspense  abuse  adult  bisexuality
  • Vanished by Carter Quinn

    Vanished by Carter Quinn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Henry Cooley has good friends and a good life. He’s secure in his job and his relationship. He and Tom, the love of his life, are about to celebrate their twenty-first anniversary as a couple. Their son, CJ, is in his second year at Cal Arts. Henry's only problems are his growing dissatisfaction with his job and the fact that Tom's parents still hate him, even after all these years...
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    crime  lgbtq  mlm  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Oceans Apart by Laura Harner

    Oceans Apart by Laura Harner

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s been two years since Lord Jamie Mainwaring and Detective Remy Remington worked and loved their way through their one and only case before going their separate ways. Now Jamie is once again mixing agency business with pleasure as he and his partner, Agent Ryan Whiteside, are assigned to a case involving piracy in the Caribbean...
  • Double Cross by Lissa Ford

    Double Cross by Lissa Ford

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Happily ever after wasn’t supposed to be this complicated. At last, Jude Anderson and his lover, homicide detective Rowan Muir, are settling into domestic bliss. Or so it seems. Rowan says all the right things, and the sex is still hotter than ever. But something isn’t quite right, and Jude can’t put his finger on what it is...
  • Smoke and Murders by S.C. Wynne

    Smoke and Murders by S.C. Wynne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Maybe my time in Rainy Dale has run its course. Things are spiraling out of control for our indelicate, but occasionally loveable, Doctor Thornton. His romantic life is already in turmoil, but when someone sets fire to his medical practice his finances are also in jeopardy. Sheriff Royce Callum offers Maxwell a safe place to stay, as he searches for the arsonist...
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    crime  law-enforcement  lgbtq  mlm  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Goodnight My Angel by Sue Brown

    Goodnight My Angel by Sue Brown

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Callum Ross has a tough decision to make. After years of working for the covert ops agency in the UK and owning his own security firm in the US, he’s forced to choose between the business he loves, and the new relationship with his partner, Josh Cooper...
  • Fear in February by Camilla Chafer

    Fear in February by Camilla Chafer

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Camilla Chafer comes a brand new mystery. Welcome to Calendar where life is sweet, but death is murder. Ally McKellar loves owning and running her own restaurant, Belle Rose. After working in a busy New York restaurant, managing her own kitchen is like a breath of fresh air...
    Categorized as:
    crime  law-enforcement  suspense  adult  book  cozy  fiction  mystery
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