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  • A Merciful Silence by Kendra Elliot

    A Merciful Silence by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the fourth book of the Wall Street Journal bestselling series, FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick must unlock the mystery of a mass murder, and the secrets of its silent witness… For Mercy Kilpatrick, returning to rural Oregon has meant coming to terms with her roots. Raised as a prepper, Mercy is now relying on her survivalist instincts to defend her town from the people the law can’t reach...
  • The Keeper of Bees by Gregory Ashe

    The Keeper of Bees by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Emery Hazard has pretty much everything under control. He and his fiancé, John-Henry Somerset, are more in love than ever, despite the stress of wedding preparations hanging over them. His business as a private investigator is growing. He’s even enjoying time with his growing circle of friends...
  • The Hangman by Mary Burton

    The Hangman by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Julia Vargas is a cop with a mission. When she’s not chasing down bad guys, Julia dedicates her time to investigating the Hangman serial killer…the same unsolved case that her father, Jim Vargas, was working on when he supposedly shot and killed himself three decades before. While rumors continue to swirl around her father’s death, Julia attempts to hunt down the truth...
  • Never Stay Gone by Tal Bauer

    Never Stay Gone by Tal Bauer

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Six bodies in a single grave… in the same West Texas country where Dakota left everything behind. Every beat of my heart belongs to you. Thirteen years ago, Dakota Jennings thought he'd found his forever when he fell in love with Shane Carson. But one afternoon shattered their love story, and both Dakota and Shane left Rustler, Texas, with broken hearts...
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    angst  crime  in-uniform  law-enforcement  lgbtq  mlm  suspense  abuse
  • Edge of Darkness by Karen Rose

    Edge of Darkness by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The fourth and final book in Karen Rose's nail-biting Cincinnati Series revisits your favourite characters battling crime in the city's dark underbelly. Fans of Tess Gerritsen, James Patterson and Karin Slaughter will not be able to tear themselves away from this explosive thriller. Homicide detective Adam Kimble is no stranger to battling demons...
  • Tallowwood by N.R. Walker

    Tallowwood by N.R. Walker

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Cold cases, murder, lies, and an unimaginable truth.Sydney detective August Shaw has spent the last decade of work solving cold cases. Since the death of his boyfriend eight years ago, August works alone, lives alone, is alone — and that’s exactly how he likes it...
  • Cold Hearted by Toni Anderson

    Cold Hearted by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Hunting For A Killer...Who Doesn't Play By The Rules. Detective Erin Donovan expects life to quiet down after the arrest and conviction of a serial rapist who terrified her university town last summer. Then two young women are brutally slain and the murders bear all the hallmarks of the campus rapist...
  • Ghost of Deceit by Alice Winters

    Ghost of Deceit by Alice Winters

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    HiroSeeing the dead has never been easy, but the last thing I expected was to be a pawn in a serial killer’s game.Moving in with Maddox was supposed to be the only thing we needed to worry about. Not a dead teacher, and not the fact that a serial killer knows my abilities...
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    mlm  crime  lgbtq  law-enforcement  suspense  in-uniform  dark  romance
  • Fish on a Bicycle by Amy Lane

    Fish on a Bicycle by Amy Lane

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fish Out of Water: Book Five Jackson Rivers has always bucked the rules—and bucking the rules of recovery is no exception. Now that he and Ellery are starting their own law firm, there’s no reason he can’t rush into trouble and take the same risks as always, right? Maybe not...
  • Vulnerable by Mary Burton

    Vulnerable by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Smallest Mistake Three went in; one came out. For five years, no trace has been found of two high-school friends who went hiking in the woods near Nashville. The third teen, Amber Ryder, was discovered at the bottom of a ravine with a broken arm, head trauma--and zero memory of the horror that put her there...
  • 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...
  • Trick Roller by Cordelia Kingsbridge

    Trick Roller by Cordelia Kingsbridge

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    It’s the height of summer in Las Vegas. Everyone believes the serial killer Seven of Spades is dead—except Levi Abrams and Dominic Russo—and it’s back to business as usual. For Levi, that means investigating a suspicious overdose at the Mirage that looks like the work of a high-class call girl, while Dominic pursues a tough internship with a local private investigator...
  • Every Dark Corner by Karen Rose

    Every Dark Corner by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Every Dark Corner is the nail-biting new thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Karen Rose, and Book 3 in the Cincinnati series, following on from Closer Than You Think and Alone in the Dark. When FBI Special Agent Griffin "Decker" Davenport wakes from his coma, he is desperate to find the missing children he knows are in danger...
  • Cold Justice Series Box Set: Volume I: Books 1-3 by Toni Anderson

    Cold Justice Series Box Set: Volume I: Books 1-3 by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Now you can get the first three books of the Cold Justice Series in one bundle! Justice isn’t always black or white. Sometimes it’s cold and dark. A Cold Dark Place: Former CIA assassin Alex Parker works for The Gateway Project, a clandestine government organization hell-bent on taking out serial killers and pedophiles before they enter the justice system...
  • I'm Watching You by Karen Rose

    I'm Watching You by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here: I'm Watching YouI KNOW THEIR CRIMESStar prosecutor Kristen Mayhew has a dangerous secret admirer. He seems to knows her every thought, her every move. He sends her letters. And he kills the criminals she herself is powerless to stop...
  • The Grave Between Us by Tal Bauer

    The Grave Between Us by Tal Bauer

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It was just one moment.It was just one mistake.For years, men have been disappearing. A father in North Carolina. A boater in California. A hiker in Arkansas. And more, scattered across the United States. The FBI knows who’s responsible: a serial killer they caught, a man they sent young profiler Cole Kennedy to interrogate...
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    age-gap  angst  crime  dark  in-uniform  law-enforcement  lgbtq  mlm
  • Cold & Deadly by Toni Anderson

    Cold & Deadly by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Hostage Negotiators can talk themselves out of anything—except falling in love.FBI Supervisory Special Agent Dominic Sheridan is an accomplished expert in the Crisis Negotiation Unit. Practiced, professional, used to dealing with high-stake situations under tense conditions, Dominic is a master at manipulating people...
  • One-Eyed Royals by Cordelia Kingsbridge

    One-Eyed Royals by Cordelia Kingsbridge

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Spoiler Alert! The following blurb contains spoilers for Cash Plays, book three of Seven of Spades. Shattered by their devastating breakup, Detective Levi Abrams and PI Dominic Russo find themselves at war right when they need each other most. While Dominic is trapped in a vicious cycle of addiction, Levi despairs of ever catching the Seven of Spades...
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    angst  crime  dark  in-uniform  law-enforcement  lgbtq  mlm  suspense
  • 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...
  • I See You by Mary Burton

    I See You by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton comes a gritty, suspenseful story in the Criminal Profiler series. FBI special agent Zoe Spencer uses skeletal remains to recreate the faces of murder victims through sculpture. Though highly scientific, the process is also sensitive and intimate; she becomes attached to the individuals she identifies, desperate to find justice for each...
  • Somebody to Love by April Wilson

    Somebody to Love by April Wilson

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Chicago homicide detective Tyler Jamison has accepted that fact that he was born defective. Women just don't do it for him, and he can't contemplate any other option. So, loneliness it is. Ian Alexander has met the man of his dreams, but the guy's in complete denial of his sexuality. Ian's not giving up on Tyler, though. Tyler's a domineering, controlling force of nature..
  • Merciless by Mary Burton

    Merciless by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In this riveting linked novel, rising romantic suspense star Burton deftly heightens the suspense that began in "Senseless." No Pity. Each skeleton is flawless—gleaming white and perfectly preserved, a testament to his skill. Every scrap of flesh has been removed to reveal the glistening bone beneath. And the collection is growing… No Compassion...
  • The Murder Between Us by Tal Bauer

    The Murder Between Us by Tal Bauer

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    It was just one night. It was just one mistake. FBI Agent Noah Downing had questions about his sexuality that a single night in Vegas should have answered. But dawn finds him on a plane back to Iowa, back on the trail of a vicious serial killer who disappeared six years ago and has suddenly resurfaced. There's nothing like a murder investigation to escape an existential crisis...
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    age-gap  angst  crime  dark  in-uniform  law-enforcement  lgbtq  mlm
  • You Can't Hide by Karen Rose

    You Can't Hide by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0446616893 / 9780446616898 is located here Terror has forever changed the life of psychiatrist Tess Ciccotelli. Someone is tormenting her patients, pushing them to commit suicide, and setting her up to take the blame. But Tess can't break her oath to protect her patients' privacy at all costs...
  • Burn You Twice by Mary Burton, Melissa Moran

    Burn You Twice by Mary Burton, Melissa Moran

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    8 hours, 56 minutesFire can destroy the past. It can also uncover secrets in this novel of searing suspense by New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton.Ten years ago as an undergrad, Joan Mason escaped an arsonist’s fire. Shaken, she fled the small collegiate Montana town, leaving behind friends and not looking back...
  • Count to Ten by Karen Rose

    Count to Ten by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In all his years in the Chicago Fire Department, Lieutenant Reed Solliday ahs never experienced anything like this recent outbreak of house fires - devastating, vicious and in one case, homicidal. He has another problem - his new partner, Detective Mia Mitchell. She's brash, bossy, and taking the case in a direction he never imagined...
  • The Silent Dolls by Rita Herron

    The Silent Dolls by Rita Herron

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Silent tears trickle down her cheeks as she curls inside the tiny cave-like space. She lies on her side, darkness all around her, rubbing her fingers over the little wooden doll he’d carved. He told her to be quiet, not to cry or scream. Not to be a baby. Her throat was raw, her eyes swollen shut. She wanted her mommy and daddy. She wanted to go home...
  • Deep Spiral by Cole McCade

    Deep Spiral by Cole McCade

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ABOUT THIS EPISODE A deadly, unstable shooter. A trap Malcolm and Seong-Jae can't escape. And more than one life on the line as they find themselves facing down one of the Golden Ratio Killer's proxies in a high-stakes hostage situation that could ramp up the serial murderer's mathematical body counts exponentially. And if Malcolm and Seong-Jae aren't careful, they'll be among the tally...
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    age-gap  angst  crime  dark  in-uniform  law-enforcement  lgbtq  mlm
  • Scream for Me by Karen Rose

    Scream for Me by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    For her exciting debut in hardcover, New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose delivers a heart-stopping suspense novel that picks up where DIE FOR ME left off, with a detective determined to track down a brutal murderer...
  • Be Still My Heart by Emily McIntire, Sav R. Miller

    Be Still My Heart by Emily McIntire, Sav R. Miller

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Skelm Island, Maine has always been known for two things: lobsters and its broken lighthouse.But when corpses start showing up in the water, the isolated town becomes the face of a cryptic investigation.At the heart of which stands Lincoln Porter, a grumpy ex-SEAL whose lobstering business seems to attract more dead bodies than fish...
  • Vile by Debra Webb

    Vile by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Deputy Chief Jess Harris knows her time is running out. Somehow she must protect the people she loves and any more innocent victims from the serial killer obsessed with her...
  • Vicious by Debra Webb

    Vicious by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book 7 in the Faces of Evil series. Serial killer Eric Spears is far from done. He has chosen his next victim and Deputy Chief Jess Harris knows it's only a matter of time until he comes for her. The murders are vicious, the killer relentless...
  • Heinous by Debra Webb

    Heinous by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The body count is rising. The serial killer obsessed with Birmingham’s Deputy Chief Jess Harris is getting closer, and he knows Jess’s secret. Can she protect the child she carries and the people she loves from Eric Spears and his followers? The body farm discovered in a small Alabama town has many buried secrets...
  • Shut Up and Drive by L.M. Krier

    Shut Up and Drive by L.M. Krier

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A serial sex attacker is spreading fear in Stockport and DI Ted Darling and his team are on the case.The man randomly targets young women and abducts them from busy supermarket car parks. He's armed with a knife and is clearly highly trained in how to handle it.Ever-dwindling police resources make the manhunt harder, even though the attacker clearly doesn't care whether or not he's caught...
  • When I'm Old and Grey by L.M. Krier

    When I'm Old and Grey by L.M. Krier

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    DI Ted Darling doesn't like coincidences. There are too many for comfort surrounding his latest case. They're spilling over into his private life, too, when some toxic family secrets are uncovered. A serial killer appears to be targeting vulnerable elderly people in care homes and despatching them in the most cynical way. Ted and his team are struggling to get a lead on who the killer really is...
  • Why the Devil Stalks Death by L.J. Hayward

    Why the Devil Stalks Death by L.J. Hayward

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jack Reardon uncovers secrets for a living, and the Meta-State spy is pretty good at it. Or rather he thought so until he met Ethan Blade—assassin, warrior, enigma. The unlikely pair have decided to give living together a shot, but Jack’s not entirely certain what he’s gotten himself into—or exactly who he’s in it with...
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    angst  crime  dark  in-uniform  law-enforcement  lgbtq  mlm  suspense
  • Six Degrees of Separation by Taylor V. Donovan

    Six Degrees of Separation by Taylor V. Donovan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Note from the author:By Degrees is an ensemble serial with continuing story lines. Six Degrees of Separation is the second installment, and it must be read after Six Degrees of Lust. Thanks.In the sequel to Six Degrees of Lust, F.B.I. team leader Samuel Shaughnessy and bar manager Machlan O’Bannon are exploring a new phase in their non-relationship...
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    angst  crime  dark  in-uniform  law-enforcement  lgbtq  mlm  suspense
  • The Mercenary and the Mortician by Alexandra St. Pierre

    The Mercenary and the Mortician by Alexandra St. Pierre

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What do a mercenary and a mortician have in common?Dead. Freaking. Bodies.___Callum Walker kills people for a living. Although he doesn’t get a say in who his boss puts on his list, he likes to hunt people who hurt children in his spare time...
    Categorized as:
    mlm  dark  crime  lgbtq  grumpy-sunshine  cheerful-mc  grumpy-mc  angst
  • A Chip and a Chair by Cordelia Kingsbridge

    A Chip and a Chair by Cordelia Kingsbridge

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It's time to lay all the cards on the table. Detective Levi Abrams and PI Dominic Russo are reunited and more committed to each other than ever, but they can’t truly move forward with their lives until the serial killer who’s been tormenting them is behind bars...
  • All the Dead Girls by Rita Herron

    All the Dead Girls by Rita Herron

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When a violent storm hits Graveyard Falls, it unearths the unimaginable: skeletons of teenage girls, each dressed in white and holding a candle. It’s clear to FBI agent Beth Fields that this is the work of a long-standing killer—but could it be the one she escaped years ago? She has no memory of the man who held her captive and murdered her friend...
  • Cash Plays by Cordelia Kingsbridge

    Cash Plays by Cordelia Kingsbridge

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The Seven of Spades is back with a vengeance—the vigilante serial killer has resumed their murderous crusade, eluding the police at every turn. But a bloodthirsty killer isn’t the only threat facing Sin City. A devious saboteur is wreaking havoc in Las Vegas’s criminal underworld, and the entire city seems to be barreling toward an all-out gang war...
  • Local Girl Missing by Lisa Regan

    Local Girl Missing by Lisa Regan

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Through swirling dawn fog, they follow the trail of discarded items at their feet: a tube of glittery lip gloss; a cell phone; a cracked make-up compact, broken chunks of ivory powder spilling into the grass...
  • Death is Not Enough by Karen Rose

    Death is Not Enough by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The past comes back to haunt a high-profile defense attorney in the newest book in the Baltimore series from the New York Times bestselling author of Edge of Darkness and Monster in the Closet.In his work as a defense attorney in Baltimore, Thorne has always been noble to a fault--specializing in helping young people in trouble just as someone did for him when he was younger...
  • Say No More (Sacramento Series, The) by Karen Rose

    Say No More (Sacramento Series, The) by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Mercy Callahan thought she'd escaped the cult decades ago, but its long fingers are reaching out for her again in this electrifying novel in the Sacramento series by New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose.Seventeen years ago. That was the last time Mercy Callahan saw Ephraim Burton, the leader of the twisted Eden cult where she was raised...
  • Senseless by Mary Burton

    Senseless by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Every Serial Killer Knows. . . The vicious burns scarring the victims' flesh reveal the agony of their last moments. Each woman was branded with a star, then stabbed through the heart. With every death, a vengeful killer finds a brief, blissful moment of calm. But soon it's time for the bloodshed to start again. . . The Perfect Time. .
  • No Escape by Mary Burton

    No Escape by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    He Was Taught How To Kill Even behind bars, serial killer Harvey Day Smith exudes menace. Psychologist Jolene Granger has agreed to hear his dying confession, vowing not to let the monster inside her head...
  • Alone In the Dark by Karen Rose

    Alone In the Dark by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling author of Closer Than You Think returns with a breathtaking new novel of suspense that crosses the line between danger and desire, and justice and revenge. Homicide Detective Scarlett Bishop has seen enough bad guys slip through the cracks and too many innocent victims go unavenged to know good doesn't always prevail...
  • Watch Your Back by Karen Rose

    Watch Your Back by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A cold case reopened. A murderer re-emerging more deadly than ever before…   Baltimore Homicide Detective Stevie Mazzetti has suffered losses no woman should have to endure. And, despite it all, she’s still a fighter. When she learns that her ex-partner might have miscarried justice, she’s determined to put the past to rights, even when she becomes a target...
  • Have You Seen Her? by Karen Rose

    Have You Seen Her? by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Special Agent Steven Thatcher has a lot on his hands. Not only is there a serial killer on the loose, stalking area high schools, but Steven's teenage son Brad is suddenly acting up and failing in school. His schoolteacher, Jenna Marshall, is also worried about Brad...
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