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  • State of Shock by Marie Force

    State of Shock by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    They never saw this coming… This story picks up right where State of the Union left off with another wild ride for the First Couple as they navigate work, family and an all new and extra baffling murder mystery that has Sam pushing the boundaries to get answers before a killer can strike again...
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    crime  drama  sad  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  family
  • Fatal Reckoning by Marie Force

    Fatal Reckoning by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    When tragedy strikes, a cold case suddenly turns hot—and deadly A peaceful morning is shattered when Washington Metro Police lieutenant Sam Holland’s beloved father succumbs to injuries from an unsolved shooting while on duty four years ago...
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    crime  drama  law-enforcement  sad  adult  audiobook  book  children
  • State of the Union by Marie Force

    State of the Union by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It’s the biggest night of President Nick Cappuano’s life. Will his first lady make it to the Capitol in time for his speech?President Cappuano has been working for months on his first State of the Union address, his highest profile moment yet as the country’s new president...
  • The Lies She Told by Denise Grover Swank

    The Lies She Told by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It's been a week since Carly Moore’s friend Jerry was run off the road and killed, and the sheriff’s department has already struck out on leads. She’s not about to sit back and let it go, but the last thing she wants is to endanger anyone else. Besides, as she learned long ago, problems come in threes...
  • Gone Too Far by Debra Webb

    Gone Too Far by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    This second entry in USA Today bestselling author Debra Webb’s Devlin & Falco series proves that sometimes the past is best left forgotten.As veteran detectives of the Birmingham Police Department, Kerri Devlin and Luke Falco have seen it all. So when the city’s new hotshot deputy district attorney turns up dead as part of a double homicide, the partners immediately get to work...
  • Ripple of Secrets by Denise Grover Swank

    Ripple of Secrets by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Rose Gardner novella #6.5 in the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling series.After her assistant DA boyfriend’s near brush with death, Rose Gardner hopes to make it through the holiday season with a minimal amount of drama. But she can’t forget the promise she made to the king of the Fenton County underworld in exchange for Mason’s life...
  • Hadley by Addison Jane

    Hadley by Addison Jane

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    People change, it's a fact of life. Hadley found that out the hard way after her husband came home one day with darkness in his eyes that she'd never seen before. Realizing that she couldn't allow him to drag her into the shadows, she watched him walk away, thinking she’d be free to move on with her life. But now she was on the run, seeking safety from a man she once vowed to love forever...
  • Picking Up the Pieces by Denise Grover Swank

    Picking Up the Pieces by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    **Novella following Thirty-Two and a Half Complications in the USA Today bestselling Rose Gardner Mystery series** While Rose might be reeling from the news that Joe’s ex-girlfriend is pregnant, she’s got bigger issues to deal with...
  • She Can Hide by Melinda Leigh

    She Can Hide by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Abby Foster just wants a quiet, normal life. The high school teacher left everything about her past behind when she moved to the mountains of Pennsylvania, but only three years after surviving a brutal attack, Abby awakes in an icy river, facing death once again. This time, though, she doesn’t have to face it alone—if she can manage to trust the sexy cop who just risked his life to save her...
  • The Negotiator by Dee Henderson

    The Negotiator by Dee Henderson

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    FBI agent Dave Richman from Danger in the Shadows is back. He's about to meet Kate O'Malley, and his life will never be the same. She's a hostage negotiator. He protects people...
  • Malicious Intent by Lynn H. Blackburn

    Malicious Intent by Lynn H. Blackburn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dr. Ivy Collins, founder and CEO of Hedera, Inc., is ready to begin clinical trials of her company's cutting-edge prosthetic. Her work has been heralded by government, medical, and advocacy groups and everyone hopes the device will be a success. Well, almost everyone...
  • Nice Guys Collection With Added Bonus Material by Kindle Alexander, Reese Dante

    Nice Guys Collection With Added Bonus Material by Kindle Alexander, Reese Dante

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Have you met the Nice Guys? Available for a limited time! Here's your chance to get the complete Nice Guys collection with an additional 30,000 words of bonus material for the low price of $2.99 for fourteen days only...
  • Depraved by Debra Webb

    Depraved by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Depraved is the tenth book in the bestselling, critically acclaimed Faces of Evil series. The finale is coming! Are you ready? Have you ordered Heinous, book 9? Don't miss a single book in this terrifyingly fast paced series! The serial killer obsessed with Deputy Chief Jess Harris has finally been cornered but the body count is still rising...
  • Crosshairs by Patricia Bradley

    Crosshairs by Patricia Bradley

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Investigative Services Branch (ISB) ranger Ainsley Beaumont arrives in her hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, to investigate the murder of a three-month-pregnant teenager. While she wishes the visit was under better circumstances, she never imagined that she would become the killer's next target--nor that she'd have to work alongside an old flame...
  • Sam's Letters To Jennifer by James Patterson

    Sam's Letters To Jennifer by James Patterson

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Grief-stricken by a recent tragedy, Jennifer returns to the resort village where she grew up to help her beloved grandmother. There, Jennifer will discover new meaning in life and experience not one, but two of the most amazing love stories ever...
  • The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks

    The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Julie Barenson's young husband left her two unexpected gifts before he died: a Great Dane puppy named Singer and the promise that he would always be watching over her. Now, four years have passed. Still living in the small town of Swansboro, North Carolina, 29-year-old Julie is emotionally ready to make a commitment to someone again...
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    crime  drama  realistic  sad  animals  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Deadly Deals by Fern Michaels

    Deadly Deals by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    After years of trying to become pregnant without success, Rachel Dawson and her husband Thomas felt their dreams had finally come true the day they brought home their newly adopted twin babies. Though the lawyer Baron Bell who arranged for the surrogate mother charged a hefty six-figure fee, one glance into the eyes of their precious children told them it was all worth it...
  • Trapped by Irene Hannon

    Trapped by Irene Hannon

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When librarian Laura Griffin's sixteen-year-old sister disappears on a frigid February day, leaving only a brief note behind, Laura resolves to do whatever it takes to track down the runaway teen. That includes recruiting ATF agent turned PI James "Dev" Devlin to help. But the deeper he digs, the more he begins to suspect that something sinister is at work in the girl's disappearance...
  • Nicu II and Victoria's Incestuous Romance by Kenneth Jarrett Singleton

    Nicu II and Victoria's Incestuous Romance by Kenneth Jarrett Singleton

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With love for one another resting within their inseparable hearts, and a secret occupying their active, yet silent souls, seventeen-year-old Prince Nicu II and his sixteen-year-old sister Victoria, First Princess of Exubertis, must make a choice between their incestuous love affair, and the maintaining of stability within their royal family...
  • Nothing to Lose by Debra Webb, Regan Black

    Nothing to Lose by Debra Webb, Regan Black

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Claudia Mitchell is the safety net for the Dangerous Protectors. Whatever a Protector needs, Claudia taps a few keys and makes it happen. When she receives a desperate call from her sister, Claudia can't use cyberspace to save her... for this one, Claudia has to be there in person. Nate Jennings showed the world what being a hero looked like despite being in prison...
  • Blue on Blue by Dal Maclean

    Blue on Blue by Dal Maclean

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From Lambda Literary Award Finalist Dal Maclean After three years working as a private investigator, newly reinstated Detective Inspector Will Foster still holds himself responsible for the death of an officer under his command. But he’s returned to the Met bent on redeeming himself and that means bringing down gangland boss Joey Clarkson...
  • Bayward Street by Addison Jane

    Bayward Street by Addison Jane

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The law called me a runaway. A criminal. But after a lifetime in hell, being abused and tortured by my father, I found my real family on the streets. A group of kids like me who society failed to protect. Together we survived day by day. And for me, that was enough. Until Heath showed up. Every wall I put up—he tore down. Every single touch had me searching for another...
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    crime  drama  sad  abuse  book  bullying  contemporary  domestic-drama
  • Waiting by Calle J. Brookes

    Waiting by Calle J. Brookes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Everyone made mistakes, but some were far more dangerous than others… Fin McLaughlin wanted nothing more than to make a difference in his work with the FBI. Headhunted by the deputy director of the Bureau to head up a new division located in St. Louis, Fin was determined to make amends for the mistakes he’d made six years earlier that had almost cost him his career—and his life...
  • The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks

    The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    When confronted by raging fires or deadly accidents, volunteer fireman Taylor McAden feels compelled to take terrifying risks; but there is one leap of faith Taylor can't bring himself to make: He can't fall in love...
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    drama  realistic  sad  audiobook  book  contemporary  family  fiction
  • Every Word by Ellie Marney

    Every Word by Ellie Marney

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rachel is still getting used to the idea of Mycroft being her boyfriend when he disappears to London with Professor Walsh. They're investigating the carjacking death of the rare books conservator, which appears to be linked to the theft of a Shakespeare First Folio from the Bodleian Library...
  • Dead Ringer by Mary Burton

    Dead Ringer by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    SOME NIGHTMARES . . . Beside each body, he leaves a simple charm bearing a woman’s name. Ruth . Judith . Rachel. The victims were strangers to each other, but they have been chosen with the utmost care. Each bears a striking resemblance to Kendall Shaw, a local anchorwoman…each brutally strangled by a madman whose obsession will never end...   DON’T FADE . .
  • Into the Fire by Suzanne Brockmann

    Into the Fire by Suzanne Brockmann

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Suspense doesn't burn any brighter and desire doesn't run any deeper than when Suzanne Brockmann takes the helm, opens the throttle, and takes readers along for a breathless ride as she breaks the thrill barrier -- again and again. With Into the Fire, Brockmann lights the fuse on her most explosive story yet...
  • The Wreck by Marie Force

    The Wreck by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Carly Holbrook and Brian Westbury are weeks away from their high school graduation. The young couple plans to marry before they head to college, and their future seems bright with promise. Everything changes one spring night when their six closest friends, including Brian's younger brother, are killed in a fiery car accident that Carly and Brian witness...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  law-enforcement  sad  adult  alpha-mc  angst  audiobook
  • See No Evil by Allison Brennan

    See No Evil by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A cunning killer hides in plain sight.A troubled teenage girl has been charged with the grisly murder of her stepfather. The evidence is damning: Emily was found alone at the scene with blood on her hands, and an incriminating e-mail she wrote outlines a murder plot identical to the method of the brutal slaying...
  • Unspoken by Dee Henderson

    Unspoken by Dee Henderson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Charlotte Graham is at the center of the most famous kidnapping in Chicago history. The task force of FBI and local cops found her two abductors, killed them, rescued her, but it took four very long years. The fact she was found less than three miles from her home, had been there the entire time, haunts them. She's changed her identity, found a profession she loves, and rebuilt her life...
  • Broken Silence by Natasha Preston

    Broken Silence by Natasha Preston

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Four years after Oakley left for Australia, the trial is ready to begin. After coming to the decision that she needs to face her abusers to finally be able to move on, Oakley and her family return to England to give evidence in person...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  realistic  sad  abuse  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Two for Joy by Louise Collins

    Two for Joy by Louise Collins

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Locked up in a maximum-security prison, Romeo’s highlight each week is a visit from Chad. Despite his friends, colleagues, and therapist all telling Chad to stop, he can’t, and he becomes the only joy in Romeo’s boring, bleak life.More than his need to kill, he needs Chad to live, but a Copycat killer has other ideas...
  • Nepřítel mého nepřítele by Kateřina Petrusová

    Nepřítel mého nepřítele by Kateřina Petrusová

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dluhy se musí platit. To ví i bývalá policistka Joan, která má závazek vůči samotnému králi drogového podsvětí. Ten se nyní hlásí o splacení dluhu a jako pojistku unese Joaninu malou dceru Amy...
  • Disarming My Destiny by Taylor Rylan

    Disarming My Destiny by Taylor Rylan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    US Marshal Bishop Jones has known heartache unlike someone his age should. After losing his only parent, he’s found himself completely and utterly alone with only his dog for company. Working long hours and being new to the area doesn’t give many opportunities for him to get out and meet someone. Veterinarian Xander Garrison has devoted his life to four-legged critters...
  • Crash Into You by Nichole Rose

    Crash Into You by Nichole Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This curvy teacher never anticipated being charged with murder…or falling for the bossy detective in charge of the case.Ivy KendallCameron Lewis is the man of my dreams.Bossy, gorgeous, and fiercely intelligent.When he touches me, I go up in flames.There's only one problem.He's a homicide detective.And I'm the primary suspect in a murder I didn't commit.I could lose everything, and so could Cam...
  • Her True Blue by Sierra Hill

    Her True Blue by Sierra Hill

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to Milltown, Colorado, population 15,000, where the only things hotter than the annual fireworks show are the men in uniform looking for love. Join the authors of Flirt Club with The Fireworks Series of stories that celebrate summertime, BBQs, and all things that end with a bang! Where will you be when the fireworks go off?She’s a big-city girl that ignites his small-town heart...
  • Vanished: When Lightning Strikes / Code Name Cassandra by Meg Cabot

    Vanished: When Lightning Strikes / Code Name Cassandra by Meg Cabot

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    A gift…or a curse? Jessica Mastriani has never liked attention. All she wants is to make it to high school graduation like any ordinary girl. But when Jess is struck by lightning, she becomes anything but ordinary: suddenly she has the ability to locate missing children. Now Jess is getting noticed in all the wrong ways and by all the wrong people. The media is obsessed with her and her story...
  • Deathtrap by Dana Marton

    Deathtrap by Dana Marton

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sophie Curtis is a heart-transplant recipient with some spooky body memories. She's been in her own antiseptic bubble for so long, she just might not be able to venture out into the real world again. Whatever shred of optimism Ethan Bing had left after becoming Broslin Chief of Police had been seared out of him by the unsolved murder of his wife two years ago...
  • Our Happy Time by Gong Jiyoung, Sora Kim-Russell

    Our Happy Time by Gong Jiyoung, Sora Kim-Russell

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Already a wildly popular bestseller in South Korea, this gripping and passionate debut novel is a death row love story of crime, punishment, and forgiveness—vividly told by the exquisitely talented Gong Ji-young.Yu-Jung, beautiful, wealthy, and bright, is lying in her hospital bed, recovering from her third suicide attempt, when she receives a life-changing visit...
  • Smolder by Lacey Weatherford

    Smolder by Lacey Weatherford

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The last thing Russ Weston ever wanted was to be called a hero. A normal guy, out doing the job he was trained to do, he’s nothing special—at least he doesn’t think so. All that changes, though, on the day he rescues renowned psychiatrist, Evelyn McKnight, from drowning. Suddenly thrown in the spotlight, Russ becomes the center of media frenzy and he hates it...
  • The Disappearance of Sloane Sullivan by Gia Cribbs

    The Disappearance of Sloane Sullivan by Gia Cribbs

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    No one wants me to tell you about the disappearance of Sloane Sullivan.Not the lawyers or the cops. Not her friends or family. Not even the boy who loved her more than anyone. And most certainly not the United States Marshals Service...
  • Blood Ties by J.D. Nixon

    Blood Ties by J.D. Nixon

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Beautiful, arrogant and lawless, the Bycrafts have menaced the tiny isolated mountain settlement of ‘Little Town’ for generations in a one-family crime wave. The Bycraft women are uncontrollable, the men violently obsessive and their kids feral. And nobody in town has suffered at their hands as much as the Fuller family...
  • Nothing Gold Can Stay by Dana Stabenow

    Nothing Gold Can Stay by Dana Stabenow

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Shocked by a series of brutal, unexplainable murders, Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell embarks on a desperate journey into the heart of the Alaskan Bush country -- in search of the terrible, earth-shattering truth..
  • Revelation by Kate Brian

    Revelation by Kate Brian

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The biggest mystery of all...and Reed is dying to learn the truth. Two months after Cheyenne Martin was found dead in her Billings House dorm room, exclusive Easton Academy is rocked by another stunning revelation: Cheyenne was murdered. No one knows who the killer is, but everyone agrees that Reed Brennan, who took over Cheyenne's role as Billings's president, gained the most from her death...
  • Ali's Pretty Little Lies by Sara Shepard

    Ali's Pretty Little Lies by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Perfect for fans of the #1 New York Times bestselling series and the hit ABC Family TV show, this Pretty Little Liars prequel novel reveals Ali's secrets from before she was murdered.Rewind a few years to seventh grade: Alison DiLaurentis and her friends are the It girls of Rosewood Day. Boys want to date them. Girls want to be them...
  • Midnight Exposure by Melinda Leigh

    Midnight Exposure by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The first suspenseful thriller in the Midnight series from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh.Point, click, die.When two hikers disappear, their hometown in Maine blames the blinding storms. But the truth is far more sinister. Unaware of the danger, tabloid photographer Jayne Sullivan follows an anonymous tip to find the most reclusive sculptor in the art world...
  • Trace by Casey Hill

    Trace by Casey Hill

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Back at the helm of the Garda Forensic Unit after a short hiatus in the US, Reilly Steel is thrust straight into a series of complicated Dublin murders at which the killer leaves minuscule forensic trace evidence.The investigating team discover that the victims have been targeted because of one worryingly common trait, and need to outsmart the killer before he makes his next move...
  • A Bend in the Road by Nicholas Sparks

    A Bend in the Road by Nicholas Sparks

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. Missy had been his first love, and Miles fervently believes she will be his last. As a deputy in the North Carolina town of New Bern, Miles Ryan not only grieves for Missy, but also longs to bring the unknown driver to justice. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  realistic  sad  audiobook  book  contemporary  death
  • Wings of Fear by Helene Young

    Wings of Fear by Helene Young

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Contemporary Suspense Novel set in Northern Australia. Above the crystal-blue waters of North Queensland, Captain Morgan Pentland patrols the vast Australian coastline. When Customs Agent Rafe Daniels joins her crew, she is immediately suspicious...
  • The Wedding by Debra Webb

    The Wedding by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Don't miss the wedding of the year! The major crimes team in Birmingham, Alabama, has encountered so many faces of evil this year...it's time for a celebration. Someone is getting married! Will it be the long awaited nuptials of Jess and Dan or the passionate vows of Lori and Chet? Or maybe Sylvia has finally found the one. Take this beautiful journey with the cast of the Faces of Evil...
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