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  • Cold-Blooded by Lisa Regan

    Cold-Blooded by Lisa Regan

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Fourteen years ago, high school track star Sydney Adams was gunned down in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. The investigation yielded useless clues, and the case went cold. But homicide detective Augustus Knox never gave up on finding Sydney's killer...
  • So We Lie by Willow Rose

    So We Lie by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Eva Rae Thomas is in over her head on her first assignment as an FBI profiler in multi-million-copy bestselling author Willow Rose’s nail-biting mystery.When the mother of two, Arlene Wood, crashes her car against a tree at four in the morning, the case seems pretty straightforward.But evidence found in the remains of the car soon raises the question of whether this was really an accident...
  • Steeltown Magnolia by Melissa F. Miller

    Steeltown Magnolia by Melissa F. Miller

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Maisy Farley, a Georgia peach transplanted to Pittsburgh, has won the hearts of her audience as their favorite hometown news anchor for seven years running. Then she dared to report the truth about the influential and eccentric billionaire who bought the TV station where she’s worked for over a decade...
  • Three Small Bones by Jennifer Chase

    Three Small Bones by Jennifer Chase

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Smoke curls from what’s left of the beautiful family home on the edge of the woods. The heat is unbearable as she descends the stairs to the basement, past a set of bicycles––two big, one small...
  • The Prisoner by Kiersten Modglin

    The Prisoner by Kiersten Modglin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The epic conclusion to The Messes Series. This book is NOT standalone. Fiona Denali’s mind is a fortress of secrets. Things she can’t tell, people she must protect. She never wanted to hurt anyone, but they hurt her first. Now, she must protect the one person she can still count on—herself...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction
  • Settling Scores by Danielle Stewart

    Settling Scores by Danielle Stewart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Willow has been saved from a painfully dark past and handed a bright future. By all accounts, she should be happy. But no one seems to understand that escaping evil hasn’t left her feeling free of it. The more people try to hold her close, the harder she fights to get away. Even the unconditional support from Edenville isn’t enough to help her keep her head above water...
  • Jagger's Choice: Ruthless Sinners MC by L. Wilder

    Jagger's Choice: Ruthless Sinners MC by L. Wilder

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    *Jagger’s Choice was previously released in the Very Naughty MC Christmas Anthology.*Wall Street Journal and USA Today Best Sell L. Wilder brings you a new addition to the Ruthless Sinner series. Jagger will show readers just how hard it is to resist a bad boy with a good heart.He hadn’t meant to let her in. She was just supposed to be his ticket out...But she became so much more...
  • Elevator Girl: part 3 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    Elevator Girl: part 3 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An Amazon exclusive! In this romantic comedy mystery, a young woman discovers that life is like an elevator--just be sure to get off on the right floor.Hello. My name is Virginia, although I live in Georgia… Atlanta, to be precise...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  suspense  adult  book  fiction  humor  mystery
  • Takeover by Edie Baylis

    Takeover by Edie Baylis

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She's the boss now...Daddy’s girl Samantha Reynold hadn’t bargained on unexpectedly needing to step into her father’s shoes and take over the family casino business.Pampered and spoiled, Sam knows nothing about the rules of this glamorous but deadly new world. She has a lot to learn and even more to prove...
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    female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction
  • Necessary Decisions by Giacomo Giammatteo

    Necessary Decisions by Giacomo Giammatteo

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Gino Cataldi is a man hanging on by a thread. Cancer took his wife, and drugs put his son in rehab. All he has left is his badge. When a teenage girl is kidnapped, it brings back nightmares from the worst case he ever worked—the one that tore his life to shreds and forced him out of Philadelphia. Gino doesn’t want this case, but he knows he has to take it...
  • Enduring Charity by Wayne Stinnett

    Enduring Charity by Wayne Stinnett

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When her position with the government is eliminated, Charity Styles is faced with an uncertain future. The only part of her previous life that she truly enjoyed was sailing her classic sloop. The cruising lifestyle is wonderful and helps keep her mind centered, as she sails from one anchorage to another, looking for her true calling...
  • Truth or Dare by M.J. Arlidge

    Truth or Dare by M.J. Arlidge

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Do you want to play the game?A crimewave sweeps through the city and no-one is safe. An arson at the docks. A carjacking gone wrong. A murder in a country park. What connects all these crimes without causes, which leave no clues?Detective Inspector Helen Grace faces the rising tide of cases which threatens to drown the city. But each crime is just a piece of a puzzle which is falling into place...
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    female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction
  • First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

    First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist.The identity comes to Evie Porter. Once she’s given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it...
  • The Enigma by Jonas Saul

    The Enigma by Jonas Saul

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In Book Six, The Enigma, Sarah Roberts heads to Las Vegas, Nevada. Her dead sister has left her a message with two tasks to complete in Vegas. She is supposed to choose a random guy with a cell phone and send a message to a number her sister has supplied. Before she can complete this first task, she notices a man following her. This man begs her, with tears in his eyes, to not send the text...
  • REST IN PEACE by Willow Rose

    REST IN PEACE by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sarah Chapman is angry at her husband. She’s also drunk… very drunk as she drives down their street, ready to face him.When a neighbor hears the commotion and rushes to help, he finds her inside, gun still in her hand, and her husband, Steven, dead in the bed.Sarah is arrested and taken away but claims to be innocent.The only one who believes her is FBI profiler, Eva Rae Thomas...
  • Hard Knocks by Zoë Sharp

    Hard Knocks by Zoë Sharp

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ‘Perhaps if the army had known what was inside me, what I would eventually turn into, they might not have been so keen to let me go.’Charlie really didn’t care who shot dead her traitorous ex-army comrade Kirk Salter during a bodyguard training course in Germany...
  • Free to Deceive by Julie Mellon

    Free to Deceive by Julie Mellon

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Special Agent Katie Freeman and her partner, Michael Powell, step in to assist the local authorities after the discovery of thirteen bodies buried in a small park. The chilling pose of each body and the gruesome manner in which they died indicate a particularly sadistic killer...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  mystery
  • Sins of the Father by Jen Blood

    Sins of the Father by Jen Blood

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Alternate Cover Edition for ASIN B008OKBNOK. Sins of the Father finds Erin Solomon continuing her quest to find her father by investigating a convicted murderer's claim of innocence. Her investigation leads her down a path of dark secrets, painful truths, and deadly obsessions, as she struggles to reconcile her memories of her father with the cold, ruthless portrait others paint...
  • The GirI Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by David Donaldson

    The GirI Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by David Donaldson

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    NB: This is NOT the novel by Stieg...
  • Warning Signs by G.K. Parks

    Warning Signs by G.K. Parks

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Secrets prove deadly in Alexis Parker's latest case...Alexis Parker is used to humdrum work assignments. Running background checks and tailing cheating spouses is common place for her and most of the private investigators at Cross Security. But she doesn't particularly enjoy digging up other people's dirt and shining a light on their nastier habits. However, it's a paycheck...
  • Surrender to Temptation by E.B. Walters, Ednah Walters

    Surrender to Temptation by E.B. Walters, Ednah Walters

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A playboy in hidingA woman searching for answersWill he let her in or send her packing? After a tragic accident, Chef Chase Fitzgerald left his life in Los Angeles behind and moved to a ranch in Montana. He's convinced that all he needs to be happy are his horses, a few ranch hands and the Big Sky Country...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Mending by R.L. Griffin

    Mending by R.L. Griffin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Novella that will describe from the end of Seamless to the Epilogue...
  • The Brooklyn Drop by Susan Russo Anderson

    The Brooklyn Drop by Susan Russo Anderson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the middle of a wintry night, private investigator Fina Fitzgibbons finds Lorraine’s friend, Phyllida Oxley, slumped over her dining room table, the victim of memory-impairing date rape drugs. When her condition goes from poor to comatose, her distraught fifteen-year-old granddaughter, Kat Oxley disappears...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • The Biker Series Mega Boxed Set by Cassie Alexandra, K.L. Middleton

    The Biker Series Mega Boxed Set by Cassie Alexandra, K.L. Middleton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Written by USA Today Bestselling Author Cassie Alexandra Save big with this MEGA boxed set! An Amazon bestselling biker romance series. Included: Resisting the Biker Surviving the Biker Fearing the Biker Breaking the Biker Loving the Biker Phoenix Rising Luring the Biker Christmas with The Biker What readers are saying - They need to make it into a movie. I would definitely watch - Nikki T...
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    thriller  suspense  crime  fiction  book  adult
  • Hollywood Notorious by M.Z. Kelly

    Hollywood Notorious by M.Z. Kelly

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    LAPD Detective Kate Sexton and her canine partner Bernie return in, Hollywood Notorious, the fourteenth book in the Hollywood Alphabet Thriller Series. Kate and her homicide partner Leo Kingsley are in pursuit of a reality TV star wanted for murder when their case takes a strange turn...
  • Hollywood Murder by M.Z. Kelly

    Hollywood Murder by M.Z. Kelly

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hollywood Murder, book thirteen in the Hollywood Alphabet Thriller Series, finds tough but vulnerable LAPD homicide detective Kate Sexton and her canine partner Bernie in one of the most exclusive neighborhoods of Beverly Hills. The family of a billionaire investment broker has gone missing after their maid is savagely murdered...
  • Hollywood Killer by M.Z. Kelly

    Hollywood Killer by M.Z. Kelly

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    HOLLYWOOD KILLER – A HOLLYWOOD ALPHABET SERIES THRILLER Just when LAPD Detective Kate Sexton thinks maybe she’s finally found the man of her dreams, she gets a call that will turn her world upside down. Kate learns that the family of the high-profile host of the TV show Hollywood Nation has been murdered...
  • Hollywood Lust by M.Z. Kelly

    Hollywood Lust by M.Z. Kelly

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hollywood Lust, the twelfth book in the Hollywood Alphabet Thriller Series, is a high-octane thrill ride that’s three mysteries rolled into one. While Kate tries to untangle a deep mystery that’s at the center of her family life, she and her canine partner Bernie work with cold case Detective Leo Kingsley to try and solve a ten-year-old murder that’s tied to the current homicide of a young woman...
  • The Women by Jacqui Rose

    The Women by Jacqui Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to HMP Ashcroft. An institution run by a corrupt governor whose determination to impose his will at any cost will have far-reaching consequences on all the inmates.Within these walls, friendships are forged that will last beyond a sentence, but some inmates can turn in the blink of an eye, because that’s all part of being locked up...
  • Samaritan by Estelle Ryan

    Samaritan by Estelle Ryan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    sa·mar·i·tan: noun /səˈmærɪt(ə)n/A compassionate person generous in helping those in distressBritish investigative journalist Gabriella Reuben—Bree to everyone but her mother—has worked hard to build a new life in Düsseldorf and put the past behind her...
  • Uccidimi (Blood Bonds) by Chiara Cilli

    Uccidimi (Blood Bonds) by Chiara Cilli

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Non avrei mai immaginato che la mia vita sarebbe finita così.Non avrei mai creduto che la mia vita sarebbe dipesa dalla sua.Ero pronta a morire per mano dell'uomo che mi aveva distrutto.Ero pronto a uccidere la donna che si era presa tutto me stesso.Ma la mia sofferenza non è ancora terminata.Ma me l'hanno portata via.Sta venendo a riprendermi, lo sento.Me la riprenderò, a qualsiasi costo...
  • Two to Die For by Allison Brennan

    Two to Die For by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two tales of murder and betrayal from the Lucy Kincaid and Maxine Revere series Spiral (Lucy Kincaid, #12.5)Sean Rogan and Lucy Kincaid are enjoying their honeymoon in a remote cabin outside Vail, Colorado. They sorely need the quiet time alone—a break from the murder and violence that has defined so much of their lives. And for one blissful week, they are in paradise...
  • Left to Murder by Blake Pierce

    Left to Murder by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When you think that life cannot get better, Blake Pierce comes up with another masterpiece of thriller and mystery! This book is full of twists and the end brings a surprising revelation. I strongly recommend this book to the permanent library of any reader that enjoys a very well written thriller...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  female-mc  fiction  audiobook  murder  mystery  cozy
  • Purview of Flashbulbs by G.K. Parks

    Purview of Flashbulbs by G.K. Parks

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hollywood - the glitz, the glamour, and a threatening stalker. Is it all just part of the limelight? Working in the private sector has its perks, but boring cases isn't one of them. The most dangerous thing about Alexis Parker's latest P.I. gig is the selection of foods at craft services, or so she's been told...
  • The Concierge by Miranda Rijks

    The Concierge by Miranda Rijks

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They hired an assistant to help them. But she has other plans.High-flying duo Goldie and Braun Delucci run a major film production company. But recently their gilded lives were touched by tragedy when one of their leading actors, Ally, died in a car crash.What the Deluccis don’t realise is that their newly hired private assistant is actually Ally’s sister...
  • Dead to Rights by Jasmine Webb

    Dead to Rights by Jasmine Webb

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Mackenzie—Mack—Owens was supposed to live out every millennial’s dream, but instead it turned into a nightmare. Inheriting a house and bookstore, she was going to leave the New York City rat race after getting fired from her job and start a new life on the coast of Cornwall, in England. No more fourteen-hour work days and rats the size of small toddlers...
  • The Make by Jessie Keane

    The Make by Jessie Keane

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Murder, loyalty and vengeance collide in Jessie Keane’s gritty fourth novel. Life is good for Gracie Doyle - running her Manchester casino keeps her busy. Until the police turn up at her door one day and her world is turned upside down. She is given news that her two estranged brothers have been viciously attacked. George is in hospital on a ventilator and worringly, Harry is missing...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  thriller  suspense  crime  fiction  mystery  audiobook  book
  • Vigilant Charity by Wayne Stinnett, Kimberli A. Bindschatel

    Vigilant Charity by Wayne Stinnett, Kimberli A. Bindschatel

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Charity Styles has been wandering the Pacific aimlessly aboard her beloved sloop, Wind Dancer, and only recently returned to the turquoise waters of the Caribbean. Entering a secluded cove in the Sea of Abaco, in the Bahamas, she runs into an old acquaintance and the woman’s young daughter...
  • One Little Lie by Christopher Greyson

    One Little Lie by Christopher Greyson

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    THE TRUTH COULD COST HER EVERYTHING.Kate had high hopes when she moved to her husband‘s hometown, but her domestic bliss was short-lived. Blindsided by her spouse’s very public affair with his high school sweetheart and a painful divorce, Kate’s determined to hold onto custody of her kids and pull herself together...
  • The Perfect Getaway by Kiersten Modglin

    The Perfect Getaway by Kiersten Modglin

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It was the trip of a lifetime…until someone ended up dead. When four couples receive invitations to try out a luxury island resort, they are excited for a week of relaxation and reconnecting.For some, it’s the honeymoon they never had the chance to take.For others, it’s a last-ditch attempt to save their crumbling marriage...
  • Found You by Molly Black

    Found You by Molly Black

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A notorious stretch of highway is rife with serial killers, unsolved murders and missing-persons cases. The FBI, knowing it must crack this Bermuda Triangle of death, assigns its most brilliant mind—and flawed agent—Rylie Wolf, to dive headfirst into this road of danger...
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    suspense  thriller  female-mc  mystery  crime  fiction  audiobook  book
  • Her Last Wish by Blake Pierce

    Her Last Wish by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    FBI Agent Rachel Gift, 33, unparalleled for her ability to enter the minds of serial killers, is a rising star in the Behavioral Crimes Unit—until a routine doctor visit reveals she has but a few months left to live.Not wishing to burden others with her pain, Rachel decides, agonizing as it is, not to tell anyone—not even her boss, her partner, her husband, or her seven-year-old daughter...
  • Want to Know a Secret? by Freida McFadden

    Want to Know a Secret? by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Everyone has secrets.YouTube baking sensation April Masterson knows the secret to the perfect gooey brownies. Or how to make key lime squares that will melt in your mouth. But if you keep watching her offline, you may find out some other secrets about April. Secrets she’d rather you didn’t know...
  • Blind Run by Patricia Lewin

    Blind Run by Patricia Lewin

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Decker was a specialized hunter for a CIA Shadow Organization, working deep undercover to track down and capture ruthless international mercenaries and fugitives. Then a daring mission takes a lethal turn, leaving innocents dead in its wake, and Ethan’s wife a prime target of a ruthless assassin...
  • Stone Cold Fox by Rachel Koller Croft

    Stone Cold Fox by Rachel Koller Croft

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A perfectly wicked debut thriller about an ambitious woman who, after a lifetime of conning alongside her mother, wants to leave her dark past behind and marry the heir to one of the country's wealthiest families.Like any enterprising woman, Bea knows what she’s worth and is determined to get all she deserves—it just so happens that what she deserves is to marry rich. Filthy rich...
  • Lovers and Liars by Nigel May

    Lovers and Liars by Nigel May

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to the Velvet Hotel Barbados where money and sex go hand in hand with murder ... When Millionaire playboy Sheridan Rivers is found dead at his luxurious hotel on the paradise island of Barbados, there are several suspects in the frame... Sutton: Sheridan's long-suffering wife was permanently pushed aside for his younger lovers...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  suspense  adult  book  fiction  mystery
  • To Protect Her: A Damsel in Distress Secret Baby Forbidden Love Romance by Kay Lyons

    To Protect Her: A Damsel in Distress Secret Baby Forbidden Love Romance by Kay Lyons

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    *Previously published as LEAD ME NOT****Buddies know the unwritten rule:hands off your friends’ sisters.Duncan MacGregor is reluctant to team up with his best friend’slittle sister to search for her missing brother, but Bethany Redd’sdetermination to go it alone doesn’t leave him much choice. ASecurity Specialist, Duncan’s worked with plenty of beautifulwomen, so hands off should be easy...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  female-mc  romance  contemporary  fiction  book  adult
  • Before You Found Me by Brooke Beyfuss

    Before You Found Me by Brooke Beyfuss

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    How far would you go to save a child who isn't even yours?Before You Found Me explores the unlikely bond that develops between two abuse survivors and takes a deep dive into personal sacrifice, morality, and the healing powers of family―both blood and found――from the author of After We Were Stolen.Rowan McNamara doesn't open the door to her new life―she's thrown through it...
  • Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda

    Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The new thrilling novel from Megan Miranda, the instant New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls, The Last to Vanish, and The Only Survivors.When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake’s longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she’s warily drawn back to the town—and people—she left behind almost a decade earlier...
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