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Change of Fortune by Jana Deleon
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSinful, Louisiana, is always a hotbed of activity, and despite the steamy heat, August is no exception. Godzilla is terrorizing the town, looking for a home-cooked meal, and Gertie is worried someone will take the gator out before she can get him under control. Francine has a situation of her own at the café, where food is missing from inventory. And Celia is always up to no good... -
![A Death Most Monumental by J.D. Kirk]()
A Death Most Monumental by J.D. Kirk
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWe all have our little secrets.When the remains of a brutally murdered young woman are left hanging from the Glenfinnan Monument in the Highlands of Scotland, DCI Jack Logan and his Major Investigations Team are dispatched to investigate.At first, the case appears to be fairly open and shut... -
![Angels in the Moonlight by Caimh McDonnell]()
Angels in the Moonlight by Caimh McDonnell
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFor Detective Bunny McGarry, life is complicated, and it is about to get more so.It’s 1999 and his hard won reputation amongst Dublin’s criminal fraternity, for being a massive pain the backside, is unfortunately shared by his bosses. His partner has a career-threatening gambling problem and, oh yeah, Bunny's finally been given a crack at the big time... -
![Shaved by Gina LaManna]()
Shaved by Gina LaManna
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen a dazzling destination wedding brings the Luzzi Family to Hawaii, Lacey plans to take advantage of the sunshine and relaxation, along with a healthy diet of papaya and shaved ice. However, Lacey has her work cut out for her... -
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![Take Your Last Breath by Lauren Child]()
Take Your Last Breath by Lauren Child
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsCrack open Ruby Redfort’s second adventure — and you will literally be on the edge of your wits.Everyone’s favorite girl detective is back for a second mind-blowing installment, packed with all the off-the-wall humor, action, and friendship of the first book. This time, though, it’s an adventure on the wide-open ocean, and Ruby is all at sea. . . -
![The Sacred Art of Stealing by Christopher Brookmyre]()
The Sacred Art of Stealing by Christopher Brookmyre
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLet us prey …The press tend to talk about bank robberies as being daring, ingenious and audacious. They don’t describe many as Dadaist, even the ones who know what ‘Dadaist’ means... -
![The Day That Never Comes by Caimh McDonnell]()
The Day That Never Comes by Caimh McDonnell
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRemember those people that destroyed the economy and then cruised off on their yachts? Well guess what – someone is killing them. Dublin is in the middle of a heat wave and tempers are running high... -
![Bend the Rules by Susan Amanda Kelly]()
Bend the Rules by Susan Amanda Kelly
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAccountant-extraordinaire Mary Holmes is determined to make the most of her second chance... a job with Vitruvius Security. Then, her boss hires a specialist, Crash Coolidge, to work undercover to smash a truck-cargo heist gang. Mary is horrified to discover that the sexy, insolent new-hire is a criminal who is scarily relaxed about the prospect of killing people... -
![Lucky Double: A Two-Book Lucky Bundle by Deborah Coonts]()
Lucky Double: A Two-Book Lucky Bundle by Deborah Coonts
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA TWO-BOOK LUCKY STARTER SET! Book One: Wanna Get Lucky? AND Book Two: Lucky Stiff Haven’t met Lucky yet? Here’s your chance! EVERYONE HAS A HIDDEN TALENT For Lucky O’Toole it’s murder…solving it. Surviving in Sin City takes cunning, a pair of five-inch heels, and a wiseass attitude. Lucky has mastered them all and has a pair of legs she uses to kick butt and turn heads... -
![All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye by Christopher Brookmyre]()
All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye by Christopher Brookmyre
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsJane Fleming, forty-six and three years a grandmother, has always played by the rules, never hurt anybody, never lied, never even had a parking ticket. But she’s about to put all that right in a very big way…Intrigue. Espionage. Advanced technology. Clinical violence. Hoovering.It’s all fun and games until somebody loses an eye... -
![Lucky Break by Deborah Coonts]()
Lucky Break by Deborah Coonts
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith Christmas a few days away, Lucky O’Toole, Vice President of Customer Relations for the Babylon, Las Vegas’s premier Strip casino resort, is in a festive mood. The upcoming wedding of her assistant to the Beautiful Jeremy Whitlock and her own engagement to her delish French Chef, Jean-Charles Bouclet have Lucky in full holiday cheer.And even bigger celebrations are afoot... -
![Lucky the Hard Way by Deborah Coonts]()
Lucky the Hard Way by Deborah Coonts
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs Christmases go, this one is proving a bit taxing for Lucky O’Toole, Vice President of Customer Relations for the Babylon, Las Vegas’ most over-the-top Strip resort casino.While facing a murder indictment, Teddie, Lucky’s former lover, has fled to Macau hot on the heels of the man everyone thinks is the real murderer, Irv Gittings... -
![You Only Live Once by Haris Orkin]()
You Only Live Once by Haris Orkin
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJames Flynn believes he's an expert shot, a black belt in karate, fluent in four languages and irresistible to women. He’s also a heavily medicated patient in a Los Angeles psychiatric hospital. Flynn believes his locked ward is the headquarters of Her Majesty’s Secret Service and that he is a secret agent with a license to kill... -
![The Case of the Damaged Detective by Drew Hayes]()
The Case of the Damaged Detective by Drew Hayes
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA mystery/road trip/buddy comedy/action adventure from the author of Second Hand Curses. A dance club full of bodies. Cause of death - a mystery. The lone survivor - a man, raving like a lunatic, wearing only a deerstalker hat. Now, the man who calls himself Sherman Holmes is being studied like a lab rat by a top-secret government agency... -
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![Fight to the Finish by Shannon Greenland]()
Fight to the Finish by Shannon Greenland
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratings[The Specialists, book 5. An award winning spy series.)When someone close to TL disappears, The Specialists pull out all the stops. GiGi is brought into another mission along with Bruiser and Mystic. This time it's a fight to the end where everyone's secrets are revealed... -
![The Rabbit Factory by Marshall Karp]()
The Rabbit Factory by Marshall Karp
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsBringing a fresh duo of cops to the thriller set, The Rabbit Factory is both suspenseful and satiric; a taut mystery wrapped in sharp, comedic prose.The hilarious and suspenseful introduction of Detectives Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs. Welcome to Familyland, an offshoot of Lamaar Studios... -
![Gator A-Go-Go by Tim Dorsey]()
Gator A-Go-Go by Tim Dorsey
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThat's right: Serge and Coleman do spring break!It's been a long time coming, but they're at the party now—and you'll never look at a Frisbee the same way again... -
![House of Shards by Walter Jon Williams]()
House of Shards by Walter Jon Williams
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsDrake Maijstral, the most daring Allowed Burglar in the galaxy, is now setting his sights on the Eltdown Shard, a spectacular necklace embodying the flame of a dying star. Through the media vids, the audience watches him--in an intricate plot designed to both steal the necklace and foil his major rival... -
![Casket for Sale by Jeff Strand]()
Casket for Sale by Jeff Strand
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMeet the new, improved Andrew Mayhem. He has a real job. He's a better father and husband. And he's vowed to quit accepting money from strange women in coffee shops to perform tasks that go terribly, terribly wrong. This time he's just taking a relaxing camping trip with his family and best friend. No shortcuts. The gas tank is full. The sinister warning of the crazy old man is taken seriously... -
![The Henchmen's Book Club by Danny King]()
The Henchmen's Book Club by Danny King
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMark Jones is a henchman for hire. He guards bunkers, patrols perimeters and stands around in a boiler suit waiting to get knocked out by Ninjas. This is his job... -
![Drowned Hopes by Donald E. Westlake]()
Drowned Hopes by Donald E. Westlake
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJohn Dortmunder, anti-hero of such comic crime classics as The Hot Rock and Good Behavior , returns home at dawn after another failed burglary. He is horrified to find his apartment occupied by an old cellmate everyone supposed (and hoped) had been locked up for life. Tom Jinson needs Dortmunder's help. Nearly thirty years ago, before his last prison stretch, Tom pulled a big job up near Albany... -
![Why Me? by Donald E. Westlake]()
Why Me? by Donald E. Westlake
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBe careful what you steal . . . A fast-paced crime caper from the Edgar Award–winning author and “funniest man in the world” (The Washington Post Book World).The Byzantine Fire is much more than a ninety-carat ruby. As a stone it’s worth over a million dollars, a value vastly increased by its pure gold band—but its history makes it priceless... -
![What's The Worst That Could Happen? by Donald E. Westlake]()
What's The Worst That Could Happen? by Donald E. Westlake
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDortmunder is in the midst of a routine burglary of a Long Island mansion when who shows up toting a gun but the owner, nasty billionaire Max Fairbanks. Worse, Fairbanks takes Dortmunder's supposedly lucky ring. Highly insulted, Dortmunder and his gang execute their own peculiar reign of terror, and although they acquire quite a bit of Fairbanks' swag, they never quite get the ring back... -
![Mr. Monk in Trouble by Lee Goldberg]()
Mr. Monk in Trouble by Lee Goldberg
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAmerica's favorite obsessive-compulsive detective is back in a new original tale in the series based on the popular TV show, in a book by the author of Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop. TV tie-in... -
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![Be My Enemy by Christopher Brookmyre]()
Be My Enemy by Christopher Brookmyre
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt was a junket, a freebie. A 'team-building' weekend in the highlands for lawyers, advertising execs, businessmen, even the head of a charity. Oh, and a journalist, specially solicited for his renowned and voluble scepticism - Jack Parlabane... -
![مردی با چهره آشنا by Caimh McDonnell]()
مردی با چهره آشنا by Caimh McDonnell
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe First time somebody tried to kill him was an accident.The second time was deliberate.Now Paul Muchrone finds himself on the run with nobody to turn to except a nurse who has read one-too-many crime novels and a renegade copper with a penchant for violence. Together they must solve one of the most notorious crimes in Irish history……or else they’ll be history... -
![The Scam by Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg]()
The Scam by Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER Nicolas Fox is a charming con man and master thief on the run. Kate O Hare is the FBI agent who is hot on his trail. At least that s what everyone thinks. In reality, Fox and O Hare are secretly working together to bring down super-criminals the law can t touch. Criminals like brutal casino magnate Evan Trace... -
![The Pursuit by Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg]()
The Pursuit by Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNicolas Fox, international con man, thief, and one of the top ten fugitives on the FBI’s most-wanted list, has been kidnapped from a beachfront retreat in Hawaii. What the kidnapper doesn’t know is that Nick Fox has been secretly working for the FBI. It isn’t long before Nick’s covert partner, Special Agent Kate O’Hare, is in hot pursuit of the crook who stole her con man... -
![Bloody Mary by J.A. Konrath]()
Bloody Mary by J.A. Konrath
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsStart with a tough but vulnerable Chicago cop. Stir in a psychopath with a unique mental condition that programs him to kill. Add a hyperactive cat, an ailing mother, a jealous boyfriend, a high-maintenance ex-husband, and a partner in the throes of a mid-life crisis. Mix with equal parts humor and suspense, and enjoy Bloody Mary... -
![A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away by Christopher Brookmyre]()
A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away by Christopher Brookmyre
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBack when they were students, just like everybody else, Ray Ash and Simon Darcourt had dreams about what they'd do when they grew up. In both their cases, it was to be rock stars. Fifteen years later, their mid-thirties are bearing down fast, and just like everybody else, they're having to accept the less glamorous hands reality has dealt them... -
![Bank Shot by Donald E. Westlake]()
Bank Shot by Donald E. Westlake
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen John Dortmunder sets out to rob a bank, he really means it. He steals the whole thing. With the help of his usual crew, as well as a sophomoric ex-FBI man and a militant safecracker, Dortmunder puts a set of wheels under a trailer that just happens to be the temporary site of the Capitalists' & Immigrants' Trust Corp... -
![Rumble Tumble by Joe R. Lansdale]()
Rumble Tumble by Joe R. Lansdale
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHap Collins and Leonard Pine are in for an action-packed adventure when they cross paths with a towering Pentecostal preacher, a midget with a giant attitude, and a gang of bikers turned soldiers of fortune... -
![Shot of Tequila by J.A. Konrath]()
Shot of Tequila by J.A. Konrath
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA GUTSY ROBBERYSeveral million bucks, stolen from the mob...A PERFECT FRAMEAll caught on video, with no chance of redemption...A RED HOT RECIPE FOR RAMPAGING REVENGENow one man must face the entire Chicago Outfit, a group of hardened Mafia enforcers, a psychotic bookie, the most dangerous hitman on earth, and Detective Jacqueline Daniels...His name is Tequila. And he likes those odds... -
![Country Of The Blind by Christopher Brookmyre]()
Country Of The Blind by Christopher Brookmyre
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe murder of a media mogul in his country mansion appears to be the result of his disturbing a gang of would-be thieves. The robbers are swiftly caught, but when they are unexpectedly moved to a different prison they escape. Back in Edinburgh, a young solicitor reveals to the press that one of the subjects had left a letter with her some time before the break-in which proves his innocence... -
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![Bad Guys by Linwood Barclay]()
Bad Guys by Linwood Barclay
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“Fans of the crime caper will rejoice” that Linwood Barclay is back with the hilarious follow-up to his “riotously funny and irreverent” debut, in which paranoid pop Zack Walker plotted to transplant his city-savvy wife and two teenage kids to the tranquillity of the burbs–where planned communities prevail and fathers rest easy... -
![Florida Straits by Laurence Shames]()
Florida Straits by Laurence Shames
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"People go to Key West for lots of different reasons. Joey Goldman went there to become a gangster..."So begins this classic Key West caper, the hilarious and touching book that launched a much-loved series and introduced the world to Bert the Shirt and his chihuahua Don Giovanni, two of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction... -
![Vanilla Ride by Joe R. Lansdale]()
Vanilla Ride by Joe R. Lansdale
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"There's no bullshit in a Joe Lansdale book. There's everything a good story needs, and nothing it doesn't. Joe pulls up the truck, says, 'Get in the back, we're going for a ride.'You know it might get a little scary and it might get a little crazy, but you get in, because you know in the end, it's going to be a fun ride... -
![Native Tongue by Shannon Greenland]()
Native Tongue by Shannon Greenland
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGiGi is back again and on a brandnew mission in the fourth book in this original series Lovable GiGi is pairing up with expert linguist Darren, aka Parrot, on a mission to South America. When a centuries-old vase is found in a cave full of hieroglyphics, it is discovered that this vase was important to at least fifteen different North American and South American Indian tribes... -
![The Winning Element by Shannon Greenland]()
The Winning Element by Shannon Greenland
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBook 3 in The Specialists With two successful missions behind her, GiGi is feeling confident and comfortable with the Specialists. Unfortunately, things are about to change. TL has informed her that a notorious chemical smuggler was personally responsible for the death of both her mother and father. The government has been trying to track him down for years, to no avail... -
![Don't Ask by Donald E. Westlake]()
Don't Ask by Donald E. Westlake
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn his latest caper, Dortmunder is hired to steal the femur of a 16-year-old girl who was canonized because, 800 years ago, she was killed and eaten by her family. Now two European countries and the Catholic church are fighting like dogs over the bone. How will this free-for-all end? Don't Ask... -
![A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering by Andrew Hunter Murray]()
A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering by Andrew Hunter Murray
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne perfect house. One dead body. One bad day.There are thousands and thousands of decent homes - very nice homes - with nobody living in them.There are thousands and thousands of broke young people - very nice young people - with nowhere decent to live.This is where Al comes in.Al lives in wealthy people's second houses when the real owners are away... -
![The Magical Fruit by Jo Nesbø]()
The Magical Fruit by Jo Nesbø
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDoctor Proctor, Nilly, and Lisa take a sporty approach to saving the day in this fart-tastically funny adventure from New York Times bestselling author Jo Nesbø.When a Russian billionaire robs the Norwegian Gold Reserve and melts the last remaining gold bar into the Premier Soccer League trophy, it’s up to Doctor Proctor, Nilly, and Lisa to recapture the precious prize... -
![Strawberries by Casey Bartsch]()
Strawberries by Casey Bartsch
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsStrawberries is the name he has been given. When they let him out, they had no way of knowing what he was. A psychopath. A killer. The body count is at twenty already, and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. Agent Harry Bland can’t see one anyway. He doesn’t have a single clue to go on. It doesn’t help that his mind won’t focus. His heart just isn’t in it anymore... -
![Heart Seizure by Bill Fitzhugh]()
Heart Seizure by Bill Fitzhugh
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSpence Tailor, a lawyer with an actual set of principles, loves his mama, Rose. Rose—with advanced cardiomyopathy and a rare blood type—is scheduled for a heart transplant. But when the president's heart craps out during a photo op three months before the national election, the White House chief of staff orders the FBI to seize the heart that was going to Rose—all in the name of democracy... -
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![Single White Psychopath Seeks Same by Jeff Strand]()
Single White Psychopath Seeks Same by Jeff Strand
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe second book in the wildly popular series of horror/comedy novels featuring Andrew Mayhem!"Sometimes you wake up in the morning and you just know it’s going to be the kind of day where you end up tied to a chair in a filthy garage while a pair of tooth-deprived lunatics torment you with a chainsaw. So as I struggled against the ropes, I can’t say I was all that surprised... -
![The Rake Mistake by Erica Ridley]()
The Rake Mistake by Erica Ridley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEnjoy a Regency-set comedic caper featuring a book club of meddling spinsters and an assist by a very good dog.The closest Miss Philippa York has ever come to adventure is her Thursday afternoon reading circle with her fellow bluestockings of the beau monde... -
![Seven Demons by Aidan Truhen]()
Seven Demons by Aidan Truhen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJack Price and his Seven Demons, the most dangerous and feared assassins in the world, are taking on the bank heist of the century... -
![The Bounty by Janet Evanovich]()
The Bounty by Janet Evanovich
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFBI agent Kate O’Hare and charming con man Nicholas Fox race against time to uncover a buried train filled with Nazi gold.Straight as an arrow special agent Kate O’Hare and international con man Nick Fox have brought down some of the biggest criminals out there. But now they face their most dangerous foe yet—a vast, shadowy international organization known only as the Brotherhood... -
![The Shell Game by Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg]()
The Shell Game by Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIt was love at first con. Find out how FBI Special Agent Kate O’Hare and con artist Nicolas Fox first met in this exclusive eBook original short story! Con man Nick Fox is after Garson Klepper’s golden Peruvian relics. For Fox, convincing Klepper to hire him as security for the relocation of the relics to the Getty museum in L.A. was easy... -
![Większy kawałek świata by Joanna Chmielewska]()
Większy kawałek świata by Joanna Chmielewska
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPrzygody Okrętki i Tereski.Fragment: Robin poczuł, że dłużej tego nie zniesie. - Dajże spokój, rzeczywiście doprowadzisz do tego, że wszyscy rzucimy się do kopania. Masz imponującą wyobraźnię! Takie historie mogły się przytrafiać, oczywiście, ale wątpię, czy akurat tu. Przez tyle lat przeciekłyby jakieś informacje..
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