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  • 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...
  • Buried in Secrets by Denise Grover Swank

    Buried in Secrets by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Book four of the USA Today bestselling Carly Moore series.Be careful where you dig…Life in Drum, Tennessee has been quiet since corruption was uncovered in the sheriff’s department three months ago—too quiet. Still, Carly is shocked when she discovers one of her sweetest lunch customers at the tavern has committed murder in cold blood...
  • Say It Again by Catherine Bybee

    Say It Again by Catherine Bybee

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A Wall Street Journal bestseller. In the final First Wives novel by New York Times bestselling author Catherine Bybee, falling in love could become the most dangerous dare of one woman’s life. Protector-for-hire Sasha Budanov is accustomed to life as a loner. Always on the move, she’s now reached a crossroad...
  • 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...
  • She Can Kill by Melinda Leigh

    She Can Kill by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Reformed assassin Cristan Rojas just wants to raise his daughter in peace. But after twelve years on the run, he learns that even the quiet little town of Westbury, Pennsylvania, has many hidden dangers...
  • Bloody Love by Lisa Renee Jones

    Bloody Love by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One. Two. Three. The cat is in the tree. As far as Lilah's concern, her note writing stalker just gets more stupid everyday. One, two, three, the cat is in the tree?What is that? And what does it have to do with a wedding turned bloody? The sixth book in the Lilah Love series...
  • Tapped by Brynne Asher

    Tapped by Brynne Asher

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling author Brynne Asher comes a single-mom, protective-hero romantic suspense where he falls first. My son and I are in danger. The life and death kind. The kind that forces me to make choices no mother should have to. I’ll do anything to keep my son safe and not sacrifice my responsibility to my patients. I’m desperate...
  • 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...
  • COMEBACK GIRL: part 5 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    COMEBACK GIRL: part 5 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An Amazon exclusive!From the international bestselling author of STOP THE WEDDING! (now a Hallmark Channel movie) and the BODY MOVERS mystery series comes a new story of comedy, suspense, and romance. Home is where the hurt is. In COMEBACK GIRL, a young novelist estranged from her family is forced to return to her small hometown for a family emergency, and deal with the ghosts of her past...
  • COMEBACK GIRL: part 6 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    COMEBACK GIRL: part 6 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An Amazon exclusive!From the international bestselling author of STOP THE WEDDING! (now a Hallmark Channel movie) and the BODY MOVERS mystery series comes a new story of comedy, suspense, and romance. Home is where the hurt is. In COMEBACK GIRL, a young novelist estranged from her family is forced to return to her small hometown for a family emergency, and deal with the ghosts of her past...
  • Montana Ranger's Wedding Vow by Elle James

    Montana Ranger's Wedding Vow by Elle James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dallas Hayes muscled her way through Army Ranger training only to be considered a curse on her all-male unit in an operation in Syria. When half the team is killed, she’s left Injured, losing the lower portion of her left leg. Back in the States, she’s fitted with a prosthetic, still jogs and works out, but she’s medically discharged. Angry and resentful, she doesn't trust anyone...
  • Only the Good Spy Young by Ally Carter

    Only the Good Spy Young by Ally Carter

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    When Cammie Morgan enrolled at the Gallagher Academy, she knew she was preparing for the dangerous life of a spy. What she didn’t know was that the serious, real-life danger would start during her junior year of high school. But that’s exactly what happened two months ago when Cammie faced off against an ancient terrorist organization dead set on kidnapping her...
  • Walking on Her Grave by Melinda Leigh

    Walking on Her Grave by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The electrifying conclusion of the romantic suspense novella series from Melinda Leigh and Kendra Elliot. The sleepy town of Solitude, Oregon, has turned into ground zero for a turf war between the manufacturers and distributors of a lethal new drug. When a teenage witness disappears, social worker Carly Taylor must find him before he’s silenced permanently...
  • Midnight Obsession by Melinda Leigh

    Midnight Obsession by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s edgy new thriller, Louisa Hancock thought she was safe…but there’s a new killer in town.When a mysterious package lands on Louisa Hancock’s doorstep, the Philadelphia museum curator can hardly anticipate the nightmare that’s about to envelop her...
  • She Can Scream by Melinda Leigh

    She Can Scream by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In one moment, high school teacher and single mother Brooke Davenport interrupts a vicious assault, saves a young woman’s life, and attracts the attention of a serial killer. Sixteen years ago, Brooke lost her roommate to a brutal murder. Now she teaches women’s self-defense, still trying to heal from the guilt and grief that plague her...
  • The Man in 3B by Carl Weber

    The Man in 3B by Carl Weber

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Daryl Graham has just moved into a Jamaica, Queens, apartment building and his neighbors, both male and female alike, can't stop talking about him. From his extreme attractiveness to his undeniable swag, Daryl is the man every woman wants and every man wants to be.Connie, an unhappy wife, turns to Daryl for help losing weight, hoping to fix her marriage...
  • Perilous Trust by Barbara Freethy

    Perilous Trust by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In PERILOUS TRUST, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy brings you the first book in a new romantic suspense series! OFF THE GRID: An FBI Trilogy offers three breath-stealing books filled with action-packed plot, heart-stopping romance, and page-turning suspense. It was one dark night that brought Damon Wolfe and Sophie Parker together...
  • Her Grave Secrets by Kendra Elliot

    Her Grave Secrets by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    There are no secrets in a small town—until someone has one worth dying for. Local cop Stevie Taylor and police chief Zane Duncan have startling new proof that a deadly street drug is expanding its poisonous grip on their small town: a skull found on the banks of the Rogue River has two bullet holes in the back...
  • One Too Many by Melody Anne, John Henley

    One Too Many by Melody Anne, John Henley

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jasmine Anderson, the firstborn grandchild of Billionaire Joseph Anderson, is determined to make it on her own...
  • 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...
  • Hide and Seek by Fern Michaels

    Hide and Seek by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Whoever said living well is the best revenge never met the Sisterhood... Together, the seven fearless friends known as the Sisterhood have served sweet justice to villians who thought they were above the law. But paycheck has its price, and the Sisterhood's last assignment almost landed them in jail...
  • Hokus Pokus by Fern Michaels

    Hokus Pokus by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    There is no match for the Sisterhood the seven friends who have taken vigilante justice to a new level not even the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Although the women foiled former FBI director Mitch Riley’s plot to frame their friends Judge Nellie Easter and lawyer Lizzie Fox, now they must remain in exile or risk capture...
  • Identity by Nora Roberts

    Identity by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A new thriller about one man's ice-cold malice, and one woman's fight to reclaim her life.Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the mortgage payments, as does Morgan's job as a bartender...
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  • Locked by Eva Morgan

    Locked by Eva Morgan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When eighteen-year-old Irene Adler meets her new neighbor, the gorgeous, brilliant, and arrogant Sherlock Holmes, she never expects him to be the one to make her feel like life is worth living again. Ever since her sister's death, she's been addicted to risk-taking as a way to deal with her depression, and Sherlock quickly becomes the biggest risk she's ever taken...
  • Neighbors: A Novel by Danielle Steel

    Neighbors: A Novel by Danielle Steel

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In Danielle Steel’s gripping new novel, a reclusive woman opens up her home to her neighbors in the wake of a devastating earthquake, setting off events that reveal secrets, break relationships apart, and bring strangers together to forge powerful new bonds.Meredith White was one of Hollywood’s most recognizable faces...
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    crime  drama  female-mc  friendship  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Saving Mitch by Emily Matthews

    Saving Mitch by Emily Matthews

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Do opposites always attract? Will sweet, clumsy Maggie and troubled, bad-boy Mitch find love amidst the danger that surrounds them? Find out in this romantic, suspenseful, sometimes funny debut novel by Emily Matthews. Tormented police officer Mitch MacDonald will stop at nothing to find a killer, and his obsession is about to cost him his job...
  • 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...
  • In Plain Sight by Fern Michaels

    In Plain Sight by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    THE BOND OF SISTERHOOD For years Myra Rutledge and Annie de Silva, founding members of the Sisterhood, have funded an underground network run by former Supreme Court Justice Pearl Barnes to help women escape abusive relationships...
  • Dangerous to Love by Toni Anderson, Barbara Freethy

    Dangerous to Love by Toni Anderson, Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “Dark, gritty, and gripping. I couldn't put it down!” —New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh on COLD SIGHTDANGEROUS TO LOVE is a limited-time boxed set of TEN full-length novels by some of the most exciting Romantic Suspense authors in the business.Included in the box set: Cold & Deadly by Toni Anderson Desperate Play by Barbara Freethy Endgame by Dee Davis Cold Sight by Leslie A...
  • The Hidden Life by Adina Senft

    The Hidden Life by Adina Senft

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Emma Stolzfus has never been courted or kissed, and now that she's 30, it has become her place as the unmarried daughter to look after her elderly mother. But in the dark hours when her mother is asleep, Emma writes letters and essays to Amish periodicals, short stories, and even a novel she's been working on for the last five years...
  • Not Like Other Girls by Meredith Adamo

    Not Like Other Girls by Meredith Adamo

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A girl risks everything to find her former best friend in this powerful debut mystery about trauma, girlhood, and what we deserve.When Jo-Lynn Kirby's former best friend—pretty, nice Maddie Price—comes to her claiming to be in trouble, Jo assumes it's some kind of joke. After all, Jo has been an outcast ever since her nude photos were leaked—and since everyone decided she deserved it...
  • Pure Vengeance by Lori Ryan

    Pure Vengeance by Lori Ryan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A cop with an axe to grind. An FBI agent with attitude. Will their immediate attraction turn their vigilante case cold? Police Detective Cal Rylan swore an oath to protect the innocent. So when a sniper shoots his witness dead and clips his partner in the crossfire, Cal's sense of justice goes into overdrive...
  • Smoke over Owl Creek by Caren Hahn

    Smoke over Owl Creek by Caren Hahn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Valerie Fisher came to Owl Creek looking for a fresh beginning. What she finds could tear the small town apart.After her husband's tragic death, Val returns to her childhood home with her seven-year old daughter, hoping to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. But the sleepy logging community isn't as safe as it once was...
  • A Field of Poppies by Sharon Sala

    A Field of Poppies by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Two families. One secret. Separated by a river and twenty years of lies. Five minutes changed Poppy Sadler’s life forever. Tick. The hospital called. Her mother’s battle with cancer was finally over. Tock. The police showed up at her door. Her father’s body has just been pulled from the River. Tick. Murdered. Tick, Tock. Five minutes and a secret is coming undone...
  • 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...
  • Vanishing Act by Fern Michaels

    Vanishing Act by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It’s a hot, sunny afternoon on the mountain top, and the sisters are enjoying sitting around the pool chatting and laughing, frosty glasses of lemonade to keep them cool and relaxed. It’s a welcome hiatus after their last harrowing mission, and the only cloud over the happy occasion is that Charles, their mentor, is still mysteriously absent...
  • Wanted by Sara Shepard

    Wanted by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Back in middle school, Ali plucked Emily, Hanna, Spencer and Aria from obscurity and turned them into the beautiful, popular girls everyone wanted to be. Ali was the best friend they ever had. But she also made them do terrible things and taunted them with their secrets. Now three years later, all their questions about Ali have been answered...
  • 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...
  • Accidental Heroes by Danielle Steel

    Accidental Heroes by Danielle Steel

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A decorated former Air Force pilot. A pregnant flight attendant. A dedicated TSA agent. The fates of these three, and many others, converge in Danielle Steel's gripping new novel--a heart-stopping thriller that engages ordinary men and women in the fight of their lives during a flight from New York to San Francisco. On a beautiful May morning at New York's John F...
  • 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...
  • The Rise by Shari King, Shari Low

    The Rise by Shari King, Shari Low

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When we bury our secrets, they always come back to haunt us...Their rise was meteoric.Only a few years before, they had been three friends from Glasgow, just trying to survive tough lives of danger and dysfunction.But on one Hollywood evening in 1993, they were on the world’s biggest stage, accepting their Oscar in front of the watching world.That night was the beginning of their careers...
  • Ruthless Bastard by Stacey Kennedy

    Ruthless Bastard by Stacey Kennedy

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Stacey Kennedy delivers a riveting story about a former army ranger who will stop at nothing to protect the woman he loves.He has what it takes to protect her from everyone . . . except himself.Bar owner Kinsley Knight knows exactly what she wants: Rhett West...
  • Sacrificial Muse by Maegan Beaumont

    Sacrificial Muse by Maegan Beaumont

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She is his muse, and the fates require sacrifice. San Francisco Detective Sabrina Vaughn is able to shrug off the nine red roses being delivered to her office every day. But when only eight roses arrive on the same day a Berkeley student's mutilated body is found, Sabrina fears that the killer is taunting her...
  • Trust Me by Romily Bernard

    Trust Me by Romily Bernard

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Jay Asher called Find Me “a thriller that keeps picking up speed,” while New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan hailed Romily Bernard as “an exceptional new voice in YA.” Now in paperback!Trust Me is the thrilling conclusion to the Find Me trilogy, in which loose ends come together and chilling plot twists complicate Wick Tate’s life more than ever...
  • Dark Places by Linda Ladd

    Dark Places by Linda Ladd

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Missouri detective Claire Morgan is eager to get back to work after recuperating from injuries sustained on her last job. But the missing persons case that welcomes her home in the dead of winter soon turns more twisted and treacherous than Lake of the Ozarks' icy mountain roads...The woman's body is found suspended from a tree overlooking a local school...
  • The Pursuit of Lies by Debra Burroughs

    The Pursuit of Lies by Debra Burroughs

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The 4th book in the Paradise Valley Mystery series, small town private eye Emily Parker's world is flipped upside down when the man she loves is accused of murdering a female Assistant District Attorney. The police believe he was having an affair with the ADA and murdered her to keep her quiet when she threatened to go public with their relationship...
  • Chasing Truth by Julie Cross

    Chasing Truth by Julie Cross

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    At Holden Prep, the rich and powerful rule the school—and they’ll do just about anything to keep their dirty little secrets hidden.When former con artist Eleanor Ames’s homecoming date commits suicide, she’s positive there’s something more going on. The more questions she asks, though, the more she crosses paths with Miles Beckett...
  • Going Twice by Sharon Sala

    Going Twice by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Sharon Sala enters the eye of the maelstrom as death and disaster stalk Tornado Alley—aided by an obsessive madman. As bodies pile up in the wake of a storm—stripped, tortured and grimly posed—authorities must admit the unthinkable...
  • Stolen in Paradise by Toby Neal

    Stolen in Paradise by Toby Neal

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    One betta fish, two dead biologists, three trysts, four suspects and thirty-five pairs of shoes add up to complicated days in paradise for Special Agent Marcella Scott. Marcella gets into sand way over her Manolos investigating the death of a prominent scientist washed up on a Waikiki beach with a bullet hole between the eyes...
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