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  • Between Black and White by Robert Bailey, Eric G. Dove

    Between Black and White by Robert Bailey, Eric G. Dove

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In 1966 in Pulaski, Tennessee, Bocephus Haynes watched in horror as his father was brutally murdered by ten local members of the Ku Klux Klan. As an African American lawyer practicing in the birthplace of the Klan years later, Bo has spent his life pursuing justice in his father’s name...
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    black-mc  crime  investigator  poc-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Woman in the Water by Elle Gray

    Woman in the Water by Elle Gray

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Charlotte's body lays lifeless floating in a pool. Ruby red water surrounds her.Her daughter's desperate screams fill the air..."Mom?!!!!".Charlotte MacMillan, the mother of three, found dead. Murdered in broad daylight.Only two know the twisted truth. The victim and her killer.To solve this case, Paxton must bring light to the unrelenting darkness.Unmask the truth behind the devastating lies...
  • Her Last Call by Elle Gray

    Her Last Call by Elle Gray

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    “Come out, come out, wherever you are...” A beautiful young woman trapped within a killer’s sick and twisted game.Stella Hughes called for help, but help did not come in time.She could not hide, fight, or escape.Stella was ensnared in the killer’s web.The victim of a twisted serial killer’s mind...
  • Firewalk by L.T. Ryan, Brian Christopher Shea

    Firewalk by L.T. Ryan, Brian Christopher Shea

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Starting over is never easy.For Hatch nothing ever is.Seeking a connection to her past,Hatch crosses paths with a girl in need.And she'll risk everything to save her.In the most intense novel to date, ex-military police officer Rachel Hatch faces off with a criminal enterprise trafficking girls. Hatch can't look the other way and is called by her code of justice to seek resolution...
  • The Girl and the Twisted End by A.J. Rivers

    The Girl and the Twisted End by A.J. Rivers

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A horrific beginning.Ends with the most unexpected twist...Marie was young, beautiful, and vibrant.Her life was cruelly taken from her.Her murderer still roams this world, potentially looking for a new prey...
  • Perfect Alibi by Sheldon Siegel

    Perfect Alibi by Sheldon Siegel

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    ** PERFECT ALIBI is BOOK 7 in the legal thriller series featuring Mike Daley & Rosie Fernandez. ** Another super novel from Sheldon Siegel in the Mike Daley mystery series.For Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez—former spouses and current law partners—the stakes have never been higher...
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    crime  poc-mc  suspense  adult  book  fiction  legal  murder
  • Whip Crack by Alex Smith

    Whip Crack by Alex Smith

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Every time you hear his voice, another child will die.DCI Robert Kett’s family may be whole again, but he is a broken man.Suspended from duty, he takes his girls out of the city for a much-needed holiday on the Norfolk Coast.Instead of the peace he desperately needs, however, Kett finds a community in chaos. Four teenagers are missing, and time is running out before they meet a horrific fate...
  • The Girl and the 7 Deadly Sins by A.J. Rivers

    The Girl and the 7 Deadly Sins by A.J. Rivers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Pride. Greed. Lust. Envy. Gluttony. Wrath. Sloth.The sins that make us our own worst enemy.And at any given time, we all could fall victim to them.Fighting those demons at times seems impossible.Especially when they come to life…FBI agent Emma Griffin has seen her share of dark and twisted murders.When she's called onto a new case, Emma finds herself baffled and horrified by the crime scene...
  • The Girl and the Midnight Murder by A.J. Rivers

    The Girl and the Midnight Murder by A.J. Rivers

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It was just another ordinary night.And an ordinary meal to accompany it.A glass of wine, a plate of chicken.And the sound of the ticking clock. But then, the unexpected feeling of disorientation seeps in.Cheryl suddenly felt dizzy and nauseous...Then something far more unexpected happened.And in an instant an ordinary night turned into a night full of incomprehensible mysteries...
  • 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...
  • Bankroll Squad by David Weaver

    Bankroll Squad by David Weaver

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Bankroll Squad rules the under world with an iron fist. The women in the squad are willing to ride or die for their principles and everything that they stand for...
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    black-mc  crime  poc-mc  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  mystery
  • Proving Grounds by B.J. Bourg

    Proving Grounds by B.J. Bourg

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When the sniper-style murder of an alligator poacher puts two rival families on edge, Police Sniper London Carter and Detective Sergeant Dawn Luke join forces to solve the case. But they'll have their work cut out for them as the two families recruit small armies to fight each other...
  • At Dusk by AshleyNicole

    At Dusk by AshleyNicole

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There’s a killer on the loose…A monster who hides in plain sight, waiting to make his move when you least expect it. When you’re tired. When you’re alone. When you’re not paying attention. At Dusk.Special Agent Harlan Tate of the FBI knows this particular killer’s work well– too well. The killer took somebody important from him when he was a teenager, then disappeared...
  • Hunted by Sharon C Cooper

    Hunted by Sharon C Cooper

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s everything he never knew he wanted…Former CIA spy Myles Carrington experienced enough danger in his clandestine days. The last thing he needs in his life right now is trouble, but that’s what he gets when salon owner Geneva Ramsey crosses his path. She’s combative, fierce, and the sexiest woman he’s ever met, but he’s not looking for anything serious...
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    suspense  black-mc  poc-mc  mystery  fiction  book  adult
  • Deadly Game by D.S. Butler

    Deadly Game by D.S. Butler

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What if the only way to save your child’s life was to take part in a deadly game? For the Watsons their worst nightmare becomes a reality when their daughter, Ruby, is kidnapped. But that’s only the beginning. When they receive a text message inviting them to take part in a deadly game, things get a whole lot worse...
  • Pretty Little Girls by Jenifer Ruff

    Pretty Little Girls by Jenifer Ruff

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Until you know who to trust, trust no one.The disappearance of a prep school girl from an affluent family leads to a hidden world of shocking secrets.FBI Agent Victoria Heslin investigates alongside local police, but the mysteries only get deeper...
  • If She Ran by H.K. Christie

    If She Ran by H.K. Christie

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Three months. Three missing women. One PI determined to discover the truth.Back from break, PI Martina Monroe clears the air with her boss at Drakos Security & Investigations and is ready to jump right into solving cold cases for the CoCo County Sheriff’s Department...
  • Mine to Hold by Ashley Nicole

    Mine to Hold by Ashley Nicole

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For years, she maintained her composure and played the role of dutiful wife as her husband lied and cheated with more women than he could count. Now, Janie is fed up and ready to call it quits, but he wants to hold on. As secrets are revealed, Janie realizes her husband’s double life may just cost her own...
  • The Girl in the Manor by A.J. Rivers

    The Girl in the Manor by A.J. Rivers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The sound of a blood curdling scream echoed through the manor. Her pleas ignored, her screams unheard...
  • Final Verdict by Sheldon Siegel

    Final Verdict by Sheldon Siegel

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Fate throws a curveball at the San Francisco ex-husband-and-wife legal team of Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez, when Mike picks up the phone and hears the voice of Leon Walker. This is not good news-because Walker was the one who ruined their marriage. Years ago, he and his brother participated in a stickup that left a man dead...
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    crime  poc-mc  suspense  adult  book  fiction  legal  mystery
  • Judgment Day by Sheldon Siegel

    Judgment Day by Sheldon Siegel

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    New York Times best-selling author Sheldon Siegel returns with a dramatic new case for the San Francisco law firm of Daley and Fernandez. As husband and wife, Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez couldn't make it work. Luckily for Bay Area criminals, they didn't let that stop them from joining forces to open San Francisco's most tenacious law firm...
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    crime  poc-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  legal
  • 2nd Strike by Misty Evans, Adrienne Giordano

    2nd Strike by Misty Evans, Adrienne Giordano

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Meg and Charlie Schock return for another intriguing case. This one hiding a secret that could wreck Charlie’s life.The newborn son of popular D.C. morning show host Carl Havers and his wife was kidnapped fifteen years ago. Charlie Schock, then an FBI agent, solved the open-and-shut case, returning Ethan to his parents...
  • The Streets Have No King by JaQuavis Coleman

    The Streets Have No King by JaQuavis Coleman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A street thriller of kidnapping, murder, trickery, and love that will have you at the edge of your seat.After 7 years of prison, multi-millionaire drug mogul Kane Garrett is back on the streets. But instead of diving back into the drug game, he’s teaching a college class, infusing business principles with his signature ruthless edge he developed in the streets...
  • Missing Persons by James Patterson, Adam Hamdy

    Missing Persons by James Patterson, Adam Hamdy

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In Afghanistan, a US Special Forces pilot is shot down during a covert mission.In New York, a mother is forced to flee with her two young children.A wealthy businessman approaches Jack Morgan, head of Private - the world's largest investigation agency - with a desperate plea to track down his daughter and grandchildren, who have disappeared without a trace...
  • Wired Justice by Toby Neal

    Wired Justice by Toby Neal

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ****WIRED JUSTICE***** Paradise hides too many bodies. Sophie Ang's lovable dog Ginger has a nose for murder, and leads her tech sleuth mistress through perilous lava fields on the Big Island to a terrible discovery. Sophie is plunged into a new investigation with dynamic partner Jake Dunn, searching for a missing young woman who is just one of many...
  • The Spike by Matthew Iden

    The Spike by Matthew Iden

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Retired DC homicide cop Marty Singer witnesses a horrific murder and the family of the victim hires him to find the killer. But when he peels back the cover on the case, Marty discovers a rotten core of corruption, graft, and violence that runs from the lowest city street to the top of the political food chain...
  • Betrayed by Sharon C. Cooper

    Betrayed by Sharon C. Cooper

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When secrets turn into lies… Former DEA agent Angelo González’s final undercover operation exploded in a betrayal he’ll never forget or forgive. He’s moved on. As one of Atlanta’s Finest, providing personal security for the rich and famous, Angelo is living his best life—until he has to play fake boyfriend to one of their clients. Not just any client...
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    black-mc  poc-mc  suspense  adult  book  fiction  mystery
  • Accused by Sharon C. Cooper

    Accused by Sharon C. Cooper

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He wants to forget his past… She’s hiding from hers… Former FBI agent Kenton Bailey traded in his badge when an assignment went horribly wrong. Now he provides personal security to high-end clients. But falling for Egypt Durand, the Queen of Supreme Security, wasn’t part of the plan. She’s smart, classy, and ignites a fire in him that only she can extinguish...
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    black-mc  poc-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  mystery
  • Reckless Love by Té Russ

    Reckless Love by Té Russ

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Victoria Grey and Dexter McAllister meet, the sparks are there from the beginning. There's no denying their attraction. But Dex has a secret. He wants to tell Vicki, but the last thing he wants to do is put her in danger. However, Vicki is no damsel in distress...
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    poc-mc  suspense  black-mc  romance  mystery  fiction  book  adult
  • Soul and Diana 3 by Jade Jones

    Soul and Diana 3 by Jade Jones

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Soul and Diana are back for the biggest fight of their lives! Skeletons are revealed and secrets are exposed. The wounds they cause seem incapable of healing, but will these two persevere in spite of it all? After all, finding out your cheating husband had a baby on the side is not that easy to deal with...
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    crime  black-mc  poc-mc  mystery  fiction  romance  urban  book
  • White Hot by Elise Noble

    White Hot by Elise Noble

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When private investigator Daniela di Grassi is given a new case, the evidence is so compelling that even her client himself thinks he did it. Ethan White was one of the world’s top music producers, at least until last week, when his spectacular fall from grace began with the discovery of a mutilated college student in his bed...
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    investigator  suspense  poc-mc  romance  mystery  humor  fiction  book
  • Dangerous Love by Té Russ

    Dangerous Love by Té Russ

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Zeke Bostick wanted Laila Stanton from the first time he saw her. Well...maybe not the first time...But it takes very little time for him to realize that she's completely irresistible. Laila wasn't ready for a relationship when Zeke first attempted to approach her. But time has passed and when they meet again, her attraction towards him is stronger than ever...
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    crime  poc-mc  black-mc  mystery  romance  female-mc  fiction  book
  • The Porn Star Murders by Victor Methos

    The Porn Star Murders by Victor Methos

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A FAMILY MURDERED... In 2006, the Blum family were brutally killed in their home. Detective Jon Stanton worked the case but was never able to turn up enough to make an arrest. Now, having left the San Diego PD, he still keeps the Blum file in his home. A SADISTIC KILLER WITH A MOTIVE TO LIE..
  • Chosen Prey by John Sandford

    Chosen Prey by John Sandford

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A New York Times bestseller! Lucas Davenport returns in the most harrowing and unexpected Prey novel yet—the story of a congenial man, and his most uncongenial obsession...An art history professor and writer and cheerful pervert, James Qatar had a hobby: he took secret photographs of women and turned them into highly sexual drawings. One day, he took the hobby a step further and..
  • The Girl Next Door by A.J. Rivers

    The Girl Next Door by A.J. Rivers

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sherwood is a sleepy little town. A town full of friendly faces, and even friendlier neighbors.Which is why FBI agent Emma Griffin isn't surprised when her new neighbor starts stopping by to chat.Turns out her neighbor has a dark past and secrets that made her run...
  • Jacks Are Wild by Christopher Greyson

    Jacks Are Wild by Christopher Greyson

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    AMAZON BEST-SELLER! • Best-Seller – Romance Mystery & Suspense – Organized Crime If you love a strong hero, smart women sleuths, and more twists and turns than a piece of licorice – you have found your book! Handsome, white-knight, Police Officer Jack Stratton is back in this action-packed, thrilling adventure...
  • Never Too Late by Sally Rigby

    Never Too Late by Sally Rigby

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A vicious attack. A dirty secret. And a chance for justiceEx-police officer Sebastian Clifford is quickly finding that life as a private investigator is never quiet. His doors have only been open a few weeks when DCI Whitney Walker approaches him to investigate the brutal attack that left her older brother, Rob, with irreversible brain damage...
  • 白夜行 下 by Keigo Higashino, 東野圭吾

    白夜行 下 by Keigo Higashino, 東野圭吾

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Traditional Chinese first edition can be found...
  • Murder Served Cold by Nancy Skopin

    Murder Served Cold by Nancy Skopin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    PI Nicoli 'Nikki' Hunter is blindsided when someone close to her is murdered, and their body dumped in an alley. Detective Bill Anderson catches the homicide and, knowing Nikki, doesn't even attempt to discourage her from conducting her own investigation, which, in this case, takes a village...
  • Rise to the Fly by Cheryl Rees-Price

    Rise to the Fly by Cheryl Rees-Price

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Will the police or a devious killer win this battle of wits?A quiet corner of Wales becomes the centre of a murder investigation when the bodies of a retired couple are found near the shore of a reservoir.Police try to establish the methods and motives of their attacker by careful examination of the crime scene. And, bizarrely, fishing flies are found in the victims’ mouths...
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    crime  law-enforcement  suspense  adult  book  cozy  fiction  murder
  • Torn Between a Goon and a Gangsta by Jade Jones

    Torn Between a Goon and a Gangsta by Jade Jones

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    THE HIGHLY-POPULAR SERIES BY JADE JONES Take a look inside the lives of three close friends. Dre and Hassan have been robbing convenience stores and small banks together since high school, but they share something else in common other than making cold, hard cash...their love for Nikki. The stakes are high after the trio takes on a scheme that unexpectedly sets off a chain of deadly events...
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    black-mc  crime  poc-mc  suspense  adult  betrayal  book  fiction
  • No Good Deed by James Swain

    No Good Deed by James Swain

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A human-trafficking case hits dangerously close to home in a heart-racing thriller by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The King Tides.A disturbing missing-person case reunites ex-Navy SEAL Jon Lancaster and FBI Agent Beth Daniels. Skye is just one of a dozen young women who have disappeared from Florida without a trace. Beth can do more than just imagine their fear...
  • Over The Edge by Lisa Regan

    Over The Edge by Lisa Regan

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When retired Philadelphia detective turned private investigator Joselyn Rush is rear-ended, her knee-jerk response is anger, especially when the well-dressed woman driving tries to flee the scene. But as Jocelyn watches in disbelief, the woman jumps off the bridge, plunging to her death in the Schuylkill River one hundred fifty feet below...
  • One-way Tickets: A Case For Willows and Lane by Peter Grainger

    One-way Tickets: A Case For Willows and Lane by Peter Grainger

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    When a local man, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, goes missing, his parents have good reason to be concerned. Emily Willows is a friend of the family and says that she knows just the person to find him – and, as Summer Lane soon points out, the fact that this also fits in with Emily’s plan to set up her very own detective agency is surely just a fortuitous coincidence...
  • Tell No One / Gone For Good by Harlan Coben

    Tell No One / Gone For Good by Harlan Coben

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben comes an unforgettable duet of classic novels—two top-notch thrillers filled with the author’s signature storytelling genius.TELL NO ONEFor Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams...
  • Less Than a Treason by Dana Stabenow, Marguerite Gavin

    Less Than a Treason by Dana Stabenow, Marguerite Gavin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    KATE SHUGAK is a native Aleut working as a private investigator in Alaska. She's 5 foot 1 inch tall, carries a scar that runs from ear to ear across her throat and owns a half-wolf, half-husky dog named Mutt. Resourceful, strong-willed, defiant, Kate is tougher than your average heroine – and she needs to be to survive the worst the Alaskan wilds can throw at her...
  • No Fixed Line by Dana Stabenow

    No Fixed Line by Dana Stabenow

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It is New Year’s Eve, nearly six weeks into an off-and-on blizzard that has locked Alaska down, effectively cutting it off from the outside world. But now there are reports of a plane down in the Quilak mountains...
  • The Clockmaker's Secret by Jack Benton

    The Clockmaker's Secret by Jack Benton

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A buried clock holds the key to a decades-old mystery. On holiday to escape the nightmares of his last case, disgraced soldier turned private detective John “Slim” Hardy comes upon something buried in the peat on Bodmin Moor. Unfinished and water-damaged but still ticking, the old clock provides a vital clue to an unsolved missing-persons case...
  • A Cross to Bear by Vince Vogel

    A Cross to Bear by Vince Vogel

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    "They burned it down once…They should burn it down again." Once the star of Scotland Yard, burnt out East London detective Jack Sheridan is now a washed up cop working a low end station, estranged from his family and haunted by his past...
  • A Thug Made For Me: A BBW Love Story by P. Wise

    A Thug Made For Me: A BBW Love Story by P. Wise

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Indigo Taylor-Anderson thought she had it all — until her husband's betrayal shattered her world. With newfound courage, she walks away from a life of mistreatment, leaving everything behind. Indigo finds herself navigating the tough streets of Philadelphia, facing challenges only the truly resilient woman can endure...
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    suspense  black-mc  poc-mc  romance  urban  fiction  mystery  book
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