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A Savage Spell by Shannon Mayer
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsAssassins, magic, and mayhemAs the boogeyman to the underworld, Nix isn't afraid of dying. Yet this time, it's not about dying. It's about escaping with her mind intact. I thought I'd finally stepped away from the madness of the underworld, away from the Abnormals, away from all those who would do me and those I love harm. The world though had different plans... -
Symphony of Bones by L.T. Ryan, K.M. Rought
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen a politician's son goes missingThe media fueled investigation accelerates when he turns up deadA ghost's unspoken messageMight be the only thing connecting the dotsAnd it’s up to Cassie to crack the codeTo shine truth's light, Cassie must walk in darkness.The third installment in the bestselling Cassie Quinn Mystery Series from USA Today bestselling author L.T. Ryan & K.M. Rought... -
Etched in Shadow by L.T. Ryan, K.M. Rought
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe fourth installment in the bestselling Cassie Quinn mystery series from Wall Street Journal bestselling author L.T. Ryan & K.M. Rought. A gripping thriller with a touch of the paranormal that will keep you guessing until the last page. When a friend’s relative passes away, the family suspects foul play, but the evidence doesn’t match the accusation... -
Whisper of Bones by L.T. Ryan, K.M. Rought
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA suspicious death mirrors a serial killer signatureA ghostly visitor might hold the answerCassie must decipher the cryptic messageWhispered in the bones of the deadIf she hopes to help solve the crime and save herself in the processThe latest installment from USA Today bestselling author L.T. Ryan & K.M. Rought in the Cassie Quinn Series... -
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Ridin' for Hell by Nikki Landis
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this life, you reap what you sow . . .Not everyone wants to run from their past.Some souls embrace the chance to hunt their prey and seek vengeance.And some bastards just like the carnage a little too much.There's a reason I'm the SGT at Arms.I handle the hard shit.The jobs no one else wants to deal with because its messy.Thing is, I love to lose control... -
A Talon's Wrath by Steve McHugh
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLucas Rurik faces unwanted celebrity, ancient enemies, and dangerous zealots in a thrilling urban-fantasy noir from the author of the Hellequin Chronicles.Centuries of life experience inside and outside the Rift couldn’t prepare former Raven Guild member and riftborn detective Lucas Rurik for his latest set of challenges... -
Lowcountry Boughs of Holly by Susan M. Boyer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt’s the most wonderful time of the year, but Private Investigator Liz Talbot is struggling to feel festive. She hasn’t seen her best friend, Colleen, in weeks and fears she may never see her again in this life. Meanwhile Nate, Liz’s husband and partner, is spending money like he prints it in the attic on a mysterious family Christmas celebration... -
Stolen Dreams by Terri Reid
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“But Sol, it ain’t haunted like you thought,” Marty argued cautiously. It wasn’t a good idea to get Sol too angry. “We’ve tried everything, séances, Ouija boards, mediums—everything. This place is just an old, empty house. A creepy, old house.”Sol shook his head, disregarding Marty’s words, and started up the tall staircase to the second floor. “It just has to seem like a haunted house,” he said... -
Lowcountry Boondoggle by Susan M. Boyer
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPrivate investigators Liz Talbot and Nate Andrews thought they’d put Darius Baker’s troubles to rest—then his recently discovered son ropes him into a hemp farm investment with his college buddies. When a beloved Charleston professor—and potential investor—is murdered, Liz and Nate discover Darius keeps the PIs on speed dial... -
Haunted Tales by Terri Reid
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe death of a beloved fourth-grade teacher has haunted Andrew Tyler his entire life. Was it really an accidental death or was she murdered? And if it was only an accident, why did her ghost haunt the hallways of the old, abandoned school in Polo, Illinois? Andrew calls on Mary O’Reilly to solve the mystery and catch a killer who is still on the loose in the small town... -
Under the Bones: A Lou Thorne Thriller by Kory M. Shrum
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEnemies make the best allies. Louie Thorne is good at only one thing. Killing. She knows peace only when she kills and this relentless thirst drives her to hunt the world's worst crime lords. But when her cancer-stricken aunt makes a dying wish, Louie is torn between her own dark nature and a promise made to the only family she has left... -
Malice by Brooklyn Cross
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMMFM/Dark Motorcycle Club/Rock Star/Enemies to Lovers/Friends to Lovers/Second Chance/PTSD/Trauma/Alphahole/Pierced MMC/World Crossover with T.L. Hodel's Lost SoulsMy life had been a series of tragic events. When Snake stormed back into my world, I was forced to stare into his vengeful blue eyes and the word agony took on a whole new meaning.Innocence is a funny word... -
The Unexpected Hero by Michael C. Grumley
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTRUE COURAGE IS FIGHTING FOR THOSE WHO ARE UNABLE TO FIGHT FOR THEMSELVES...EVEN WHEN YOU HAVE EVERYTHING TO LOSE.The measure of a young man can be a funny thing, especially when the results are not what anyone expects. Eighteen-year-old Evan Nash doesn't look like a hero. Nor does he feel like one. He's not trying to be anything. But what Evan is.. -
Concealed in Shadow by L.T. Ryan, K.M. Rought
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe fifth installment in the bestselling Cassie Quinn mystery series from Wall Street Journal bestselling author L.T. Ryan & K.M. Rought. A gripping thriller with a touch of the paranormal that will keep you guessing until the last page.When Cassie lands in Chicago, all she knows is that Detective Harris has a lead on what happened to David... -
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Devil's Ride by Nikki Landis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI've always been a selfish bastard.As president of the RBMC I've learned how to live and ride hard.I take life one day at a time, never looking back at my past.But I've got a dark and deadly secret.One that could ruin any chance I have with the one woman who owns my black soul.Trish Holloway.She's been my weakness since the day we met.All it takes is one wrong move and her life is in danger... -
Legacy Of Hunters Ridge by Sarah Barrie
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe dazzled with Secrets of Whitewater Creek, now Sarah Barrie kicks off a brand-new trilogy about small towns, secrets, and the love that saves lives. Successful horse trainer Alissa Morgan-Jones has the world at her feet, until a tragic fire destroys everything. Widowed, in debt and under suspicion for arson, Alissa’s life is in tatters... -
Path of Bones by L.T. Ryan, K M Rought
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA murderer's victims haunt Cassie QuinnThe clues lie in shadowed whispersDeath holds no boundary for justiceTo shine truth's light Cassie must walk through the darknessThe debut novel in the Cassie Quinn Series from USA Today bestselling author L.T. Ryan & K.M... -
Collateral Damage by Fern Michaels
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThrough all their adventures, the bond of the Sisterhood has remained steadfast and unshakeable. But for the first time, the Sisterhood verges on falling apart when the ladies have to choose between two difficult assignments. The first job guarantees a huge paycheck; the second offers a presidential pardon — and a chance to finally emerge from hiding... -
Not Quite Clear by Lyla Payne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is the 5th book in USAToday Bestselling Author Lyla Payne's LOWCOUNTRY MYSTERY series. It continues to follow Graciela Harper and her friends as she navigates ghosts, romance, in-laws, and the legal system in rural Heron Creek, SC... -
Not Quite Right by Lyla Payne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor the living, the dead, and the people stuck somewhere in between, Heron Creek has become a battleground. Graciela Harper might be new seeing ghosts, fighting curses, and just living with her old friends again, but there’s no doubt she’s on the front lines—and overwhelmed.Leo and Mel have been arrested. Amelia teeters on the edge of a deep depression that could cost her her child... -
Dad's Irish Wolf Shifter Friend by Flora Ferrari
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings***Includes a link to receive a free, new story delivered to your inbox on Easter morning.*** Keeley Malone is a Mob princess who is none too pleased about being sent to Ireland to stay with her dad’s best friend...until she sees him. She has always loved fairy tales, but this time the princess might just get devoured by the big bad wolf... -
Honor Bound by Al K. Line
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWithout honor, a wizard's nothing but a scruffy man with a stick in his pocket. But honor comes at a price, and I sure as hell paid it. What started as a favor for a vampire—the kind of favor you can't refuse—quickly turned into something epic and life-changing. A team was organized, and we set about performing the largest heist in magical history. Unsurprisingly, things didn't go swimmingly... -
Marriage Lynx by Fiona Quinn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHer happily ever after is so close…and somehow still out of her grasp…Lexi “Lynx” Sabado is no stranger to stressful situations. She can handle the fact that the CIA won’t let her divorce her previously presumed dead husband. She can even figure out a way to legally marry ex-NAVY SEAL Striker Rheas, the love of her life... -
The Bone Harvest by Stacy M. Jones
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe trail had gone cold. Det. Luke Morgan had all but given up hope. Then a letter from his sister's killer changes everything Luke thought he knew about her death - and renews his hope for justice."Lily wasn't the first. She won't be the last. Like the fall leaves that turn orange and red, 23 pretty little girls harvested dead."The killer wants to play a game...Categorized as:
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Burnout by Biba Pearce
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen an unidentified woman is found partially decomposed in the stomach of a Burmese python, along with a 9mm bullet, the search is on to find out who she is, and who murdered her.This leads Reid and his team to a ring of unscrupulous human traffickers to whom life is cheap and extreme violence is their preferred way of doing business... -
Girl in the Grave by C.J. Cross
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGruesome murders. Missing prostitutes. Underground clubs.When the mob strikes in D.C. no one is safe.Have Gray and Shepard finally met their match?Dana Gray never thought she’d find herself knee deep in bodies–literally. But after visiting yet another strange D.C. crime scene at Jake’s behest that’s exactly where the occult specialist finds herself... -
LEVI by Jessie Cooke
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe night Levi's soulmate Krissy, got on the back of his fathers bike, it was the start of an unbelievable ride on the road to a new reality. When you love someone so much that your souls are connected, that connection is forever. A heart wrenching love story that will captivate you to the turn of the final page. One night, one decision and everything changes... -
The Skeleton Stuffs a Stocking by Leigh Perry
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Mirth and murder blend beautifully" in this tale of an amateur sleuth and her bony best friend (Publishers Weekly, starred review).Dr. Georgia Thackery is back home with her parents after finding a new adjunct position at Bostock College. Everyone is excited for their first family Christmas with nothing to hide... -
Already Missing by Blake Pierce
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWomen are turning up dead, clocks found mysteriously around their necks, ticking away the seconds before their death... -
Terror on Top by CeeCee James
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Flamingo Cozy and Baker Street Mystery partnership. Stella O'Neil and Georgie Tanner are on the case.Free recipes!When Georgie agrees to help her friend Stella O'Neil clean up a house she's listing, neither of them are prepared for the dead body that tumbles out of a closet. Stella suspects it's the house's previous owner but is shocked to see it's the man who hired her, the bank representative... -
His Garden of Bones by Vickie McKeehan
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNot all flowers are grown with love. Years earlier, teenage girls began to vanish off the streets of Seattle. Now, they're turning up dead, their mutilated bodies left in prominent locations around the city. Skye Cree suspects there are more... -
A Killer Welcome by Dionne Lister
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA new cozy mystery series from the USA Today bestselling author of the Paranormal Investigation Bureau series.Avery Winters was overjoyed to be brought back to life... unfortunately, the dead were waiting for her... -
Deadly Brew by Karen MacInerney
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt's Halloween in Buttercup, Texas, and reporter-turned-farmer Lucy Resnick is up to her ears in more than goats and wayward cows. Not only has her well dried up, but it turns out the old house Lucy recently moved to the farm has a reputation for spooks... and they are disturbingly active. Then a Tarot card reading at a local mead winery foretells death.. -
Lowcountry Bonfire by Susan M. Boyer
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPrivate Investigators Liz Talbot and Nate Andrews have worked their share of domestic cases. So when Tammy Sue Lyerly hires them to find out what her husband is hiding, they expect to find something looney but harmless. After all, this is the guy who claims to have been a DEA agent, a champion bull rider, and a NASCAR driver... -
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Dark Guardian: A New Dawn by Ammar Habib
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFollowing the events of DARK GUARDIAN, Ethan Daniels has fully embraced his alter ego of The Guardian. His mantle has become a symbol of hope for his nation. After two years of spearheading his mission against the corruption and injustice that has ruled over Crown City for so long, his mission is finally nearing its end... -
Retribution by C.M. Sutter
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe violent drug-related murders of two prominent attorneys have the homicide division of the Chicago Police Department scrambling for answers, but without clues, a motive, or a suspect, not even the FBI can track down the killer... -
Ghost Hunter by Morgana Best
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGhost Hunter (The Middle-aged Ghost Whisperer Book 2) A fun cozy mystery. Is Alum Mullein a ghost or not? When Prudence Wallflower discovers Alum's secret, she has a short time to save him from complete destruction. The key lies with the murderer of another police officer... -
Stalked Justice by Kate Allenton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree years ago, working for a covert supernatural military operation, Lucy Bray took justice into her own hands and paid the ultimate price for stopping a killer who kidnapped her sister. She sits in a psychiatric ward for the criminally insane, and her therapist believes she’s as dangerous as the predator she stopped... -
A Pilgrimage to Death by Alexa Padgett, J.J. Cagney
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCici discovers a body in the forest, and the victim’s wounds are identical to the ones that killed her sister a year ago... Someone murdered her sister. And shot her dog. The killer won't stop until Cici's dead, too. With her identical twin sister hauntingp her dreams, Cici and her dogs must dodge arrows, bullets, and even a demon truck... -
Overboard by Sara Paretsky
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLegendary detective V.I. Warshawski uncovers a nefarious conspiracy during the Covid pandemic, in this thrilling novel from New York Times bestseller Sara Paretsky.On her way home from an all-night surveillance job, V.I. Warshawski’s dogs lead her on a mad chase that ends when they discover a badly injured teen hiding in the rocks along Lake Michigan... -
Cast the First Stone by K.J. Emrick, S.J. Wells
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsImagine seeing your future... in 3-second intervals... Introducing Sidney Stone — Private Investigator - She's smart, she's tough and she never gives up! Sidney Stone isn't rich, if she doesn't work she doesn't get paid. A private investigator's life can be tough in the motor city of Detroit. But she has a few tricks up her sleeve... Like being able to see into her immediate future...Categorized as:
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Sins of the Father by Nikki Landis
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRIDE OR DIE baby . . .I was drunk, angry, and spoiling for a fight. The crowded bar was the perfect distraction until all hell broke loose.She walked in. My world collapsed.It wasn't supposed to happen like this. I never thought I'd see her again. Rae never should have been there that night . . -
A Spirited Swindler by Clare Lockhart
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEmpty nested and excited to start a new chapter in life, Quinn is almost ready to open her new lakeside café in the small town of Bookend Bay.Everything is perfect until she realizes she’s being followed. Confronting the stranger sets Quinn on a course where her problems no longer revolve around selecting a feature scone... -
Mistletoe, Murder & Mayhem by Polly Holmes
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsChristmas is Saltwater Cove’s favourite holiday of the year, but that didn’t stop murder and mayhem from making an unscheduled visit.The festive spirit is out and about, the eggnog is flowing, mistletoe is hung, and the town is pumped for the most exciting event on the Christmas calendar, the Annual Concert... -
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As Dead As A Vampire by April Fernsby
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsListening Length: 6 hoursCassia Winter is a witch. She investigates crime in the supernatural town of Brimstone. There’s an increase in the illegal use of black magic in Brimstone resulting in the crime rate escalating. Taking her gran’s advice, Cassia takes up residence in town so she can observe anyone who’s acting out of character... -
Heard It Through the Grapevine by Lizbeth Lipperman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA debut mystery chock-full of big Texas attitudeSavannah television personality Elaina Garcia has the opportunity of a lifetime as a news anchor in Florida, but her plans are disrupted when she learns about the death of her estranged sister, Tessa, who ran a Texas winery with her ex-husband.Back in her hometown of Vineyard, Texas, Lainey comes face to face with her dead sister... -
Guilty Spark by Al K. Line
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI'd been gone for a year, incarcerated in a Hidden prison. The verdict was guilty, punishment death.Invoking the Law, I've got my freedom until my sentence is carried out. Three days then I'm history. Gone, not even a memory. Wiped from the collective consciousness of those that knew, even loved me.Magic drives me on as I try to right so many wrongs committed in the name of justice... -
Hidden Spark by Al K. Line
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI'd had it with magic. Me and it were no longer friends. This addict went cold turkey. Five years I'd been clean for, not even a taste of the good stuff. No longer a space cadet. Life was quiet, life was good. Life was as boring as a conference on boring hosted by Professor Boring McBoring from Boringsville University... -
Sweets Forgotten by Connie Shelton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen a woman walks into Samantha Sweet's pastry shop, claiming to have amnesia, it's a puzzle that seems to have nothing to do with Sam's new commission for a fantastic one-of-a-kind order of chocolates, although "Jane Doe" seems to know a lot about that. Sam calls Sheriff Beau to help solve the mystery of who this stranger is and where she belongs... -
Junkyard by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMcCall Richter works as a skip tracer, tracking down criminals, con men, and people who stop making payments on their fancy new spaceships. Her job description says nothing about locating vast quantities of stolen maple syrup, but thanks to her helpful new android employee, she finds herself tramping through a “sugar house” on a frosty moon full of suspicious characters...
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