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  • Six Graves by Angela Marsons

    Six Graves by Angela Marsons

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It’s a typical teenage bedroom with posters covering the walls and clothes littering the floor. But the girl lying on her bed, wearing a delicate chain around her neck, is lifeless. A circle of red stains her white vest top and Kim feels a sharp stab of sadness...
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    crime  noir  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Deadly Fate by Angela Marsons

    Deadly Fate by Angela Marsons

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The woman’s bright blonde hair floats in the breeze. She almost looks like she could be resting on the soft green grass. But her brown eyes stare unblinking up at the sky, and the final cut across her mouth is dark with blood...
  • The Killing Code by J.D. Kirk

    The Killing Code by J.D. Kirk

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    What would you do if there weren't any consequences?After twenty years on the force, Detective Chief Inspector Jack Logan thinks he has seen it all.He is wrong.When a nurse is murdered on her way home from nightshift, Jack and his team go on the hunt for her killer...
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    crime  noir  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Think Twice by Harlan Coben

    Think Twice by Harlan Coben

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Myron Bolitar and Windsor Horne Lockwood III​ reunite to find a dead man come back to life in this gripping thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I Will Find You.Former basketball star Myron Bolitar has barely restarted his agency for sports stars and celebrities when two federal agents walk into his office, asking for answers...
  • Beware the Past by Joy Ellis

    Beware the Past by Joy Ellis

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    One terrible case always haunted detective Matt Ballard. Now many years later, the killer seems to be back. And this time he's after Matt. When Matt Ballard was starting out his career, three boys were murdered in the same area, the remote and bleak Gibbet Fen. When the main suspect was killed in a hit-and-run, the killings stopped...
  • The Girl in the River by Rita Herron

    The Girl in the River by Rita Herron

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The body lay in the river, arms outstretched. Long brown hair swirled in all directions, flowing with the current of the water. Her eyes were wide open in death, pale pink lips parted in a scream.Detective Ellie Reeves should be enjoying the wedding of her dear friend Mia Norman. But instead of celebrating, she is frantically searching for the missing bride...
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    animals  crime  dogs  noir  suspense  adult  book  contemporary
  • Concealed Cargo: Children for Sale by Jodi Burnett

    Concealed Cargo: Children for Sale by Jodi Burnett

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Special Agent Clay Jennings and his K9 partner, Ranger, take to the streets of Denver to fight human trafficking, he is shocked by the inordinate number of stolen innocents who’ve been forced into the sex trade. With each new face, his resolve to help these children escape their personal horror grows stronger...
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    suspense  dogs  animals  crime  cozy  mystery  audiobook  romance
  • Such a Good Girl by Willow Rose

    Such a Good Girl by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas faces a devious plan in bestselling author Willow Rose’s blood-rushing thriller of murder and revenge.A girl falls from the penthouse floor of an apartment in Washington, D.C.Media Mogul Richard Wanton owns the apartment and is seen standing on the balcony when the girl falls...
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    amateur-sleuth  crime  noir  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  dark
  • The Kid: A Suspense Thriller by Dustin Stevens

    The Kid: A Suspense Thriller by Dustin Stevens

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    What do you do when somebody targets one of your own?Alone on the couch one night, Reed and his partner are both summoned to the hospital to find two of their colleagues have been viciously attacked, left for dead on the side of the road with very little evidence to go on...
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    animals  cozy  crime  dogs  suspense  adult  book  fiction
  • Her Dying Secret by Lisa Regan

    Her Dying Secret by Lisa Regan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She gently opens the woman’s tightly clenched fist, uncurling each finger to reveal a square of folded paper hidden in her palm...
  • Mania: An Alexander Gregory Thriller by LJ Ross

    Mania: An Alexander Gregory Thriller by LJ Ross

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DCI RYAN MYSTERIESYou can’t run from the past…Back in London after a dramatic trip to North America, Doctor Alexander Gregory finds himself without an occupation while he awaits the all-important decision of the disciplinary panel at Southmoor Hospital...
  • Riddle Me This by Gina LaManna

    Riddle Me This by Gina LaManna

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Detective Kate Rosetti is not a big fan of February 14th. Even worse than gigantic bouquets of roses and buckets of chocolate, however, are the love notes she’s been receiving from the murderer who very nearly stole her life.Unfortunately, a peaceful Valentine’s Day isn’t in the cards for Kate Rosetti...
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    amateur-sleuth  animals  cozy  crime  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • TO DIE FOR by Willow Rose

    TO DIE FOR by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️…Very suspenseful up to the last page. One of my new favorites. Former FBI-profiler, Eva Rae Thomas is caught off guard by a murderous plan that sends her on a pulse-pounding race against time in this romantic thriller by Willow Rose. It is a typical Tuesday morning. Scott Benton gets up, kisses his girlfriend Sarah goodbye, and goes to work...
  • Never Ever by Willow Rose

    Never Ever by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Former FBI profiler Eva Rae Thomas returns in Willow Rose’s most hair-raising thriller yet. Ex-agent Eva Rae Thomas is on the run. The past month she has done things she never knew she was capable of while hunting for her kidnapped daughter. Eva Rae has risked everything, -her career, -her newfound love, -her freedom. She’s looking for the man they call the Iron Fist...
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    amateur-sleuth  crime  noir  suspense  abuse  adult  audiobook  book
  • What You Did by Willow Rose

    What You Did by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Former FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas faces the most personal case in her career, as bestselling author Willow Rose’s new hit-series continues. Three girls disappear on prom night at the local high school. One of them is the prom queen...
  • Five Days Post Mortem by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    Five Days Post Mortem by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Her body floats. A bloated thing half atop the river. Naked. Pale. Mouth and eyes open wide. When two fishermen discover a corpse floating in the Clackamas river, profiler Violet Darger heads to rural Oregon to hunt another serial killer. What she discovers in the woods might change the course of her life...
  • Body Count by Jodi Burnett

    Body Count by Jodi Burnett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Abducted and hidden away deep in the Rocky Mountains, Susan Bell is frantic to escape her murderous captor.Freshman Special Agent Burke Cameron is straight laced, traditionally minded, and comes with a hefty set of old-fashioned values. Burke doesn’t know what to do with the free spirited, progressive woman he’s falling for...
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    animals  crime  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  murder
  • Only the Lonely by L.M. Krier

    Only the Lonely by L.M. Krier

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    'Blind dates end in bleeding hearts'Ted Darling is back and his boss has news for him. He'll be taking on more responsibility over an expanded area, with a bigger team. Before he even has chance to take stock, he's facing his first body in what could be the most cynical murder he's ever encountered...
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    crime  suspense  cozy  noir  romance  mystery  mlm  law-enforcement
  • The Sirani Connection by Estelle Ryan

    The Sirani Connection by Estelle Ryan

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Stolen masterpieces. Deadly narcotics. Artificial intelligence.A mysterious email and the arrest of a fugitive art thief send Doctor Genevieve Lenard and her team to Prague, where it soon becomes apparent that this theft has a close connection to a sadistic killer they've been tracking for almost a year...
  • The Recipient by Audrey J. Cole

    The Recipient by Audrey J. Cole

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sergeant Wade McKinnon knows who killed Samantha the moment he arrives at her crime scene. Problem is, he watched her killer die a year ago.​A year after serial killer Michael Rhodes is executed and allowed to donate part of his brain as an organ transplant, Wade gets called to a murder scene that shares uncanny similarities to those of the late Michael Rhodes...
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    crime  noir  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  law-enforcement
  • The Night Thief by Joy Ellis

    The Night Thief by Joy Ellis

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When everyone is sleeping, he comes into their houses.He takes one thing. A photo of their child.A thief on a power trip or something even darker and more sinister?Detectives Jackman and Evans find themselves on the hunt for a highly unusual burglar who seemingly only steals photographs. But then, late one night, an elderly woman falls to her death after seeing someone in her home...
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    crime  suspense  whodunit  cozy  noir  mystery  audiobook  fiction
  • Eyes Tight Shut by D.K. Hood

    Eyes Tight Shut by D.K. Hood

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Her heart races as she waits for her date to arrive. When the doorbell rings, her excitement quickly turns to fear when she takes in her date’s menacing stare as he closes the door behind him...
  • Shoot the Breeze by Gina LaManna

    Shoot the Breeze by Gina LaManna

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Welcome to St. Paul, Minnesota—home to strong coffee, deadly winters, and Detective Kate Rosetti—a rising star in the local homicide department. When a young woman turns up dead along the Mississippi River in her latest assignment, Detective Rosetti quickly realizes it’s the work of a notorious cross-country serial killer...
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    cozy  crime  culinary  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Below the Bones by Kendra Elliot

    Below the Bones by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A former FBI special agent must come out of retirement to solve a murder in the fifth novella in the Widow’s Island series from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kendra Elliot.Former FBI special agent Cate Wilde is a new bakery and bookstore owner—and retirement is now complete with a doctor boyfriend...
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    cozy  crime  suspense  whodunit  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • The Stolen Boys by Joy Ellis

    The Stolen Boys by Joy Ellis

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From #1 best-selling author Joy Ellis, a totally absorbing mystery full of stunning twists and turns. Discover the author everyone’s talking about. A MYSTERY WHICH WILL CAPTIVATE YOU TILL THE STUNNING ENDING A crime wave has hit town. The target is a highly sought-after brand of streetwear called Hybird X, clothing that costs a fortune and resells for unbelievable prices...
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    crime  noir  suspense  whodunit  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • The Hunter of the Dark by Donato Carrisi

    The Hunter of the Dark by Donato Carrisi

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A brutal killer is on the streets of Rome. He leaves no trace. And shows no mercy.A series of gruesome murders leaves the police force in Rome reeling, with no real clues or hard evidence to follow. Assigned to the case is Sandra Vega, a brilliant forensic analyst, struggling to come to terms with the crimes and her own past...
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    crime  noir  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  law-enforcement
  • In the Cold Dark Ground by Stuart MacBride

    In the Cold Dark Ground by Stuart MacBride

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sergeant Logan McRae is in trouble…His missing-persons investigation has just turned up a body in the woods – naked, hands tied behind its back, and a bin bag duct-taped over its head. The Major Investigation Team charges up from Aberdeen, under the beady eye of Logan’s ex-boss Detective Chief Inspector Steel. And, as usual, she wants him to do her job for her...
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    animals  cozy  crime  noir  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Safe Haven by Patricia MacDonald

    Safe Haven by Patricia MacDonald

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    She finally had everything she ever wanted . . .Dena returns to her hometown for a high school reunion. She gets together with Brian, her high school crush, and ends up pregnant.She moves back to the small town where she grew up to start a new life with horse breeder Brian.But behind closed doors, Dena’s perfect life becomes the perfect nightmare...
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    crime  noir  suspense  action-adventure  adult  book  family  fiction
  • The Clifftop Murders by Rachel McLean

    The Clifftop Murders by Rachel McLean

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    DCI Lesley Clarke is settling into her new job in Dorset's Major Crimes Unit, and becoming accustomed to a slower pace of life.But then she's called in to solve the murder of a woman with links to Lesley's new girlfriend...
  • Every Little Breath by Keri Beevis

    Every Little Breath by Keri Beevis

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I was nineteen when I discovered my boyfriend’s father was a serial killer. I stumbled upon his latest victim tied up in the basement of the house he was renovating, and it was my evidence that helped convict him to a life in prison.My boyfriend never forgave me for turning against his dad and a couple of years later took his own life. That was fifteen years ago...
  • The Body in the Marsh by Nick Louth

    The Body in the Marsh by Nick Louth

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    When a woman goes missing, it gets personal for DCI Craig Gillard. But he could never imagine what happens next. Criminologist Martin Knight lives a gilded life and is a thorn in the side of the police. But then his wife Liz goes missing. There is no good explanation and no sign of Martin…To make things worse, Liz is the ex-girlfriend of DCI Craig Gillard who is drawn into the investigation...
  • First Cut by J.T. Bishop

    First Cut by J.T. Bishop

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A serial killer returns to taunt the woman once determined to catch him.In this gripping thriller, former detective Jill Jacobs must confront the Makeup Artist, an elusive psychopath whose trail of terror left seven dead and whose obsession almost destroyed her...
  • Girl Next Door by Willow Rose

    Girl Next Door by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    “We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere”-Ted BundyInspired by a true story.He came in the morning when they were still making lunches and getting ready for school and work. He killed them all. Mother, father, children. Brutally slaughtered them in the comfort of their own home.They called him the Monday Morning Killer...
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    cozy  crime  noir  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Exposed by C.J. Carmichael

    Exposed by C.J. Carmichael

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When a young boy goes missing shortly after his father is arrested for murdering the boy’s mother, the residents of Twisted Cedars are in a panic. They would be even more fearful if they knew a serial murderer has secretly moved back to town...
    Categorized as:
    cozy  crime  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  killer
  • Rush to Judgement by John Carson

    Rush to Judgement by John Carson

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A woman is found hanging in the woods in a small Highland town.A hearse crashes into an old church and is abandoned. The police find a coffin inside but the body isn't a recent death. It's the badly decomposed body of a girl who went missing thirty years ago.DCI Harry McNeil is sent north to co-ordinate the hunt for a killer, along with colleagues from Glasgow...
  • Senseless by Mary Burton

    Senseless by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Every Serial Killer Knows. . . The vicious burns scarring the victims' flesh reveal the agony of their last moments. Each woman was branded with a star, then stabbed through the heart. With every death, a vengeful killer finds a brief, blissful moment of calm. But soon it's time for the bloodshed to start again. . . The Perfect Time. .
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    cozy  crime  suspense  abuse  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • The Dare by Carol Wyer

    The Dare by Carol Wyer

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Jane’s daughter is a good girl. What is she hiding? When thirteen-year-old Savannah Hopkins doesn’t come straight home from school, as she always does, her mother Jane immediately raises the alarm. Leading the investigation is Detective Natalie Ward whose daughter Leigh is the same age as Savannah...
    Categorized as:
    crime  noir  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  female-mc  fiction
  • The Boat Man by Dustin Stevens

    The Boat Man by Dustin Stevens

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Detective Reed Mattox, just three months removed from the death of his partner, has turned invisibility into an art form. Switching to the K-9, taking over the graveyard shift, moving to a farmhouse miles outside of Columbus, his every move has become predicated on putting as much distance between himself and the outside world as possible...
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    animals  cozy  crime  dogs  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Shrine by L.J. Ross

    The Shrine by L.J. Ross

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A murder for the history books…After a long and eventful winter, DCI Ryan and his team are looking forward to the joys of spring. But, when one of their colleagues is shot dead on her own doorstep and the brass think it’s an inside job, Ryan finds himself drafted in to investigate.He’s barely scratched the surface when reports flood in of a terror explosion at Durham Cathedral...
  • The Chale Bay Murders by Pauline Rowson

    The Chale Bay Murders by Pauline Rowson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Meet DI Andy Horton. He’s a risk-taking Harley-Davidson-riding detective who doesn’t always play by the rules . . . which often lands him in trouble with his bosses.Suspicious lights at sea, decomposing bodies and an old flame send Horton down a rabbit hole in this captivating crime thriller.An elderly man obsessively watches the coast from his Victorian house high on the hill above Ventnor...
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    cozy  crime  noir  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  heist
  • Murdered by Prejudice: A Liz Lucas Cozy Mystery Series by Dianne Harman

    Murdered by Prejudice: A Liz Lucas Cozy Mystery Series by Dianne Harman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A prison guard. A postmaster. A Forest Service employee. A U.S. Department of Agriculture employee. All murdered. They worked for the federal government, but so do a lot of other people. What else did they share? Seems like a serial killer is on the loose. And it looks like he’s targeting the sleepy community of Red Cedar...
  • A Song for the Dead by D.K. Hood

    A Song for the Dead by D.K. Hood

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As she steps out of the shower and wraps herself in a warm towel, her breath catches. There’s writing scrawled in the condensation on the mirror. I’m going to kill you . She doesn’t even have time to scream… It’s Halloween when a young woman is reported missing from the small town of Black Rock Falls and Sheriff Jenna Alton and her partner, Deputy David Kane , race to her remote home...
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    suspense  crime  dogs  animals  noir  mystery  fiction  thriller
  • Left for Dead by Joy Kluver

    Left for Dead by Joy Kluver

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The detective stared at the young woman lying on the bed. She almost looked peaceful, her face like porcelain. Despite everything she had been through, she was still beautiful.When DI Bernie Noel hurries to Keira Howard’s hospital bedside, she knows that Keira has been lucky. Barely conscious and badly injured, at least she is alive...
  • The Pier by Matt Brolly

    The Pier by Matt Brolly

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    DI Blackwell will do anything to keep her niece safe. And the bomber knows it.When a local school is the target of a bomb threat, DI Louise Blackwell finds herself embroiled in her most personal case to date...
  • Three Silent Things by Margaret Mayhew

    Three Silent Things by Margaret Mayhew

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A village mystery from a bestselling author - The colonel has been living in peaceful Dorset village Frogs End for nearly a year, and is well respected for his role in solving the murder of the late Lady Swynford. But then the colonel encounters another dead body that of the once-famous actress, Lois Delaney...
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    amateur-sleuth  animals  cozy  crime  culinary  noir  adult  book
  • The House on Gallows Green by Frances Lloyd

    The House on Gallows Green by Frances Lloyd

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Dick and Rosemary Brown move to the countryside to escape the city and its violence, the last thing they worried about was the disappearance of the previous owners of their house, Gallows Green...
  • The Dead Man by Joel Goldman

    The Dead Man by Joel Goldman

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    If you like John Grisham's twists and turns and James Patterson's page-turning thrills, you'll love Joel Goldman's The Dead Man, the second book in the Jack Davis Thriller series! "A masterful blend of rock-solid detective work and escalating dread. The Dead Man is both a top-notch thriller and a heart-rendering story of loss, courage and second chances. I loved it...
  • The Oxford Mystery by Joyce Cato, Faith Martin

    The Oxford Mystery by Joyce Cato, Faith Martin

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Discover a new series of whodunits by million-selling author Faith Martin. These charming mysteries will have you scratching your head to work out who the murderer is. Meet Jenny Starling: travelling cook and reluctant amateur detective. Please note this book was first published as “DEADLY STUFF” under Faith Martin’s pen name JOYCE CATO...
    Categorized as:
    amateur-sleuth  cozy  crime  noir  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc
  • Certain Blindness by Roy Lewis

    Certain Blindness by Roy Lewis

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Things other than beauty are in the eye of the beholder. In the eyes of solicitor Eric Ward there was something odd abut Arthur Egan's life and death. But Ward was a former police inspector, and trained to be suspicious. And he could no longer trust his eyesight, since it was a serious eye condition that had led to his resignation from the Force...
    Categorized as:
    crime  noir  suspense  adult  book  fiction  law-enforcement  legal
  • Old Soldiers Never Die by Margaret Mayhew

    Old Soldiers Never Die by Margaret Mayhew

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Meet the Colonel (hardly anyone calls him Hugh). He moves to a quiet country cottage in Dorset, which he’d once visited with his late wife.He finds it easy to slip into local society and decides that Frog End’s upcoming annual fete will be the start of his mission to be a pillar of the community...
    Categorized as:
    amateur-sleuth  animals  cozy  crime  culinary  noir  adult  book
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