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  • Smoked Out by Jeff Carson

    Smoked Out by Jeff Carson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    With over a dozen mending bones and other injuries wreaking havoc on his body, along with a shredded spirit twisting his sanity, former sheriff David Wolf is in no shape for any sort of action. But when FBI surveillance units move into the valley and surround his house, it seems he's about to have no choice...
  • The Blue Pool Murders by Rachel McLean

    The Blue Pool Murders by Rachel McLean

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    DCI Lesley Clarke is a busy woman.She's dealing with the reopened investigation into DCI Mackie's death, supporting DS Dennis Frampton through recurring mental health problems, and making plans for her own future.And then prominent crime boss Arthur Kelvin is found dead at a local beauty spot...
  • If She Ran by H.K. Christie

    If She Ran by H.K. Christie

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

    Trapper Road by Rachel Caine, Carrie Ryan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sometimes danger comes from the most unexpected places.Gwen Proctor has always been willing to do anything it takes to protect her kids. But there are some things even she can’t protect them from. When a violent incident at Connor’s school brings the press to Gwen’s doorstep, she agrees to take a case out of town hoping to keep her family out of the crushing media spotlight...
  • Mission: Possible by Camilla Chafer

    Mission: Possible by Camilla Chafer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After PI Lexi Graves is approached to investigate an accident which has left the homeowner, Sophie Takahashi, in a coma, she quickly realizes the case isn't quite as clear cut as first appears. For one thing, Sophie's injuries are inconsistent with her supposed accident. Secondly, her husband is suspicious she might not be who she says she is...
  • The Surrogate's Gift by L.G. Davis

    The Surrogate's Gift by L.G. Davis

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Her one good deed is about to turn into her worst nightmare.Becoming a surrogate for Marcia and Travis Thorpe is Grace’s chance to overcome her inner demons.Nothing can go wrong. Her life depends on it.Determined to focus on the pregnancy, she drops everything and accepts the Thorpes’ offer to move in with them until the baby is born. A simple decision. One big mistake...
  • A Cold Killing by Anna Smith

    A Cold Killing by Anna Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Crime reporter Rosie Gilmour returns from hiding in Bosnia to a story of a brutal execution. University lecturer Tom Mahoney was shot at point blank range, the killing has all the signs of a hit. But who would want to kill a retired lecturer? Rosie throws herself into the investigation, looking for a witness that has gone missing. A witness that might hold the key to the story...
  • A Quiet Death by Cari Hunter

    A Quiet Death by Cari Hunter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In book three in the Dark Peak series, things are looking up for Detective Sanne Jensen and Dr. Meg Fielding. Dating each other seems to be working, their families are behaving themselves, and the worst of the post-Christmas crime wave is over.The discovery of a Pakistani girl’s body out on the moors changes all that. No one knows who she is, who hurt her, or how she came to be there...
  • The Fugitive's Trail by J.C. Fields

    The Fugitive's Trail by J.C. Fields

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alternate Kindle cover edition ASIN: B00WS00FW8How do you find a ghost? That’s what FBI Agent Sean Kruger must do. He is dispatched to New York City to find a fugitive who is accused of killing one man and wounding another in the lobby of a high profile investment firm. Once there, Kruger learns the only information known about the man is his name. Everything else has been erased from the system...
  • A Deeper Fear by Allison Brennan

    A Deeper Fear by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid’s husband, Sean Rogan, is in a dark place after being held captive. He won’t talk about it with anyone, not even Lucy. She’s hoping a conference in Sacramento, which includes family and the unveiling of a highly sought after drone Sean’s been working on, will help him heal...
  • Dead Tomorrow by Peter James

    Dead Tomorrow by Peter James

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    *Lynn gripped the sides of the armchair, trying to put aside her own inner terror. 'I can't believe I'm thinking this, Ross. I'm not a violent person, even before Caitlin's influence, I never even liked killing flies in my kitchen. Now I'm sitting here actually willing some stranger to die...
  • Pathogen by Jessica L. Webb

    Pathogen by Jessica L. Webb

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When a deadly virus surfaces in the small, wealthy town of Hidden Valley, British Columbia, Dr. Kate Morrison and Sergeant Andy Wyles work together to uncover the source of the outbreak. As the two women navigate their new relationship, Kate and Andy are also forced to navigate a highly political and increasingly panicked community...
  • Hysteria by L.J. Ross

    Hysteria by L.J. Ross

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DCI RYAN MYSTERIES In a beautiful world, murder is always ugly… Recently returned from his last case in Ireland, elite forensic psychologist and criminal profiler Dr Alexander Gregory receives a call from the French police that he can’t ignore...
  • No Way Out by Allison Brennan

    No Way Out by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From Allison Brennan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cut and Run, comes a new e-novella, No Way Out: FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid faces her worst fear when her husband goes missing Nine years ago, mercenary Kane Rogan and photojournalist Siobhan Walsh risked their lives to rescue Hestia Juarez, a thirteen-year-old girl being forced to marry a much older man to expand her father’s crime family...
  • Justice for All by Radclyffe

    Justice for All by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    While Detective Lt. Rebecca Frye's elite unit attempts to uncover the connection between the local organized crime syndicate and a human trafficking ring, she and her team, and those they love, unwittingly become targets. As part of the operation, Dellon Mitchell goes undercover with a young woman posing as her lover--a woman with a secret agenda that might cause them both their lives...
  • Justice in the Shadows by Radclyffe

    Justice in the Shadows by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In a shadow world of secrets, lies, and hidden agendas, Detective Sergeant Rebecca Frye and her lover, Dr. Catherine Rawlings, join forces once again in the elusive search for justice...
  • Deaths of Jocasta by J.M. Redmann

    Deaths of Jocasta by J.M. Redmann

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In this long-awaited reprint, Micky Knight had a pleasant evening to look forward to; she was running security at a party of beautiful lesbians and gay men. But a dead body ruins the affair. When more dead women are found, the police target Dr. Cordelia James as the killer - the same Cordelia who broke Micky's heart. As Micky works to expose the killer she tries to keep her heart hidden...
  • Screams in the Dark by Anna Smith

    Screams in the Dark by Anna Smith

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A gritty, page-turning thriller perfect for fans of Martina Cole.Refugees are disappearing in Glasgow. The mutilated body of one has been found, but the police aren't interested...
  • The Girl Hunter by Leslie Wolfe

    The Girl Hunter by Leslie Wolfe

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    His pale skin is covered with the dirt I threw over his still-warm body. His hands, marked by a struggle that ended in blood, rest over his chest. His once vibrant, loving eyes are now forever closed. I am the one who consigned my husband to the damp earth of the Glades.Seven months ago, I lost everything.I used to have it all. A successful career in television...
  • The Braque Connection by Estelle Ryan

    The Braque Connection by Estelle Ryan

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Forged masterpieces. Hidden messages. A desperate swan song.When world-renowned nonverbal communication expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard wakes up in an unknown location, drugged and kidnapped, it pushes the limits of her autism coping skills.For the last year, Russian philanthropist and psychopath Tomasz Kubanov has been studying Genevieve just as she and her team have been studying him...
  • Third Watch by Robert Dugoni

    Third Watch by Robert Dugoni

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Tracy Crosswhite’s ordinary night patrolling her Seattle beat becomes front page news when she responds to a domestic disturbance call that turns into a hostage crisis...
  • In Harm's Way by Viveca Sten

    In Harm's Way by Viveca Sten

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A woman’s dangerous career comes to a chilling end in this spellbinding thriller by Viveca Sten, bestselling author of In the Heat of the Moment… The body of world-famous journalist Jeanette Thiels is discovered the day after Christmas, frozen in a snow-spotted garden just steps from her hotel on Sandhamn Island...
  • Tumbledown by Cari Hunter

    Tumbledown by Cari Hunter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    How far would you go to protect the one you love? Two years after surviving their ordeal at the hands of white supremacists, Alex Pascal and Sarah Kent have new identities, new careers, and a new home together...
  • The List by Velvet Vaughn

    The List by Velvet Vaughn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the author of The Fan and Committed is the first romantic suspense novel in the COBRA Securities series. The List is an intriguing mixture of pulse-pounding suspense and sizzling passion. It was just supposed to be a game... What started out as a harmless game between friends has turned deadly real. Fourteen men are dead, all from apparent accidents...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • 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...
  • Storm Warning by Allison Brennan

    Storm Warning by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An e-short story by New York Times bestseller Allison Brennan introduces readers to the world of Lucy Kincaid leading up to the release of the next in the series, NOTHING TO HIDE (4/30/2019). FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid and her colleague Nate are racing a hurricane, but the storm is the least of their worries..
  • Two to Die For by Allison Brennan

    Two to Die For by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two tales of murder and betrayal from the Lucy Kincaid and Maxine Revere series Spiral (Lucy Kincaid, #12.5)Sean Rogan and Lucy Kincaid are enjoying their honeymoon in a remote cabin outside Vail, Colorado. They sorely need the quiet time alone—a break from the murder and violence that has defined so much of their lives. And for one blissful week, they are in paradise...
  • His Other Lie by Ava Strong

    His Other Lie by Ava Strong

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Stella Fall, still reeling from the trauma of her deceitful fiancé and her failed engagement, has decided to pursue her dreams, follow in her father’s footsteps, and throw herself into law enforcement. Upon graduating from the FBI’s academy, she isf placed in the FBI’s Connecticut field office...
  • A Matter of Trust (Justice Series) by Radclyffe

    A Matter of Trust (Justice Series) by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A Prequel to In Pursuit of Justice. Michael Lassiter, a theoretical design executive, is about to wage war on the corporate battlefield as she fights to maintain control of her company in the midst of divorce. She hires JT Sloan, an internet security consultant, to protect her most important asset—her dreams and visions, which are suddenly vulnerable within the corporate computer system...
    Categorized as:
    crime  law-enforcement  lgbtq  suspense  wlw  adult  audiobook  book
  • Death by the Riverside by J.M. Redmann

    Death by the Riverside by J.M. Redmann

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Among the moss-covered trees and wrought-iron balustrades of southern Louisiana, Detective Michele Knight (Micky to her friends) takes on the seemingly simple job of shooting a few photos for a client, but the going gets rough as Micky finds herself slugging through thugs and slogging through swamps in an attempt to expose a dangerous drug ring...
    Categorized as:
    crime  female-mc  law-enforcement  lgbtq  suspense  wlw  adult  angst
  • 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 House of Now and Then by Jo Dixon

    The House of Now and Then by Jo Dixon

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    You should leave the past in the past ... or should you? A vividly told, jaw-droppingly twisty and wholly engaging story about the consequences of discovering the truth. For readers of Sally Hepworth, Nicola Moriarty and Adele Parks...
  • The Girl Who Ran Away: The McClintock-Carter Crime Thriller Series by Susan Lund

    The Girl Who Ran Away: The McClintock-Carter Crime Thriller Series by Susan Lund

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A new missing persons case, a prime suspect and questions about an old friend challenge amateur sleuth and crime reporter Tess McClintock and FBI Special Agent Michael Carter in THE GIRL WHO RAN AWAY, a new book in the McClintock-Carter Crime Thriller Series...
  • The Thorn Girl by Laura Elliot

    The Thorn Girl by Laura Elliot

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A swallow flutters its wings into a dimly lit attic as Adele Foyle stumbles across the secret diary of the mother she has never met, and a shocking account of a crime committed over twenty-five years ago...
    Categorized as:
    crime  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  family
  • Sleep Tight by Anne Frasier

    Sleep Tight by Anne Frasier

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    WAKE UP, LITTLE DARLING. DO YOU LIKE WHAT YOU SEE?He's looking for the perfect woman. Someone who won't disappoint him, like so many have before. Someone who'll love him ... someone who won't have to die for her mistakes.GIVE UP, LITTLE DARLING....FBI agent Mary Cantrell has been called to Minneapolis to hunt down a killer...
  • Her Second Death by Melinda Leigh

    Her Second Death by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In this short-story prequel to the Bree Taggert series by #1 Amazon Charts and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh, a murder investigation yields parallels to the Philly detective’s own frightening past.When a man is shot in the head, Bree Taggert and her new partner, veteran detective Dana Romano, respond to the call...
  • Let the Dead Speak by Jane Casey

    Let the Dead Speak by Jane Casey

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When eighteen-year-old Chloe Emery returns to her West London home she finds her mother missing, the house covered in blood. Everything points to murder, except for one thing: there’s no sign of the body.London detective Maeve Kerrigan and the homicide team turn their attention to the neighbours...
  • An Unauthorized Fan Treatise by Lauren James, Wren James

    An Unauthorized Fan Treatise by Lauren James, Wren James

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The exclusive online prequel to the novel Last Seen Online. An Unauthorized Fan Treatise (on the nature of the relationship between actors Rob Hennings and Nathan O’Donnell on TV show Loch & Ness, by @gottiewrites)Gottie is a fangirl for Loch & Ness, a TV show about paranormal detectives...
  • Redemption Lake by Susan Clayton-Goldner

    Redemption Lake by Susan Clayton-Goldner

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Tucson, Arizona – Eighteen-year-old Matt Garrison is harboring two terrible secrets: his involvement in the drowning death of his 12-year-old cousin, and a night of drunken sex with his best friend’s mother, Crystal, whom he finds dead in a bathtub of blood. Guilt forces Matt to act on impulse and hide his involvement with Crystal.Detective Winston Radhauser knows Matt is hiding something...
  • Cover Your Tracks by Claire Askew

    Cover Your Tracks by Claire Askew

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Robertson Bennet returns to Edinburgh after a 25-year absence in search of his parents and his inheritance. But both have disappeared. A quick, routine police check should be enough - and Detective Inspector Helen Birch has enough on her plate trying to help her brother, Charlie, after an assault in prison. But all her instincts tell her not to let this case go. And so she digs...
  • The Paris Widow by Kimberly Belle

    The Paris Widow by Kimberly Belle

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A dream vacation turns deadly when secrets from the past catch up to a married couple in Paris in this new edge-of-your-seat thriller from USA Today bestselling author, Kimberly Belle.When Stella met Adam, she thought she had finally found a nice, normal guy—a welcome change from her previous boyfriend and her precarious jetsetter lifestyle with him...
  • Rescue Me by Michelle L. Teichman

    Rescue Me by Michelle L. Teichman

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Life is exciting if you’re one of the top RCMP officers in the country. With a few good years under her belt and a promotion so close she can almost touch it, Staff Sergeant Kristen Bailey of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has everything figured out. Until she meets Ashleigh Paige. Beautiful, naïve, intelligent, and trusting, Ashleigh is the perfect possible lead for Bailey’s case...
    Categorized as:
    crime  law-enforcement  lgbtq  suspense  wlw  adult  age-gap  book
  • Hard Time by A.J. Carella

    Hard Time by A.J. Carella

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When it comes to family, Kat will do anything. Even if that means going against everything she believes in, and risking her already fragile relationship with the man she loves. Faced with a problem that is too much for her alone, she enlists the help of her one time partner, Kyle. Together they must uncover a deadly secret before any more innocent lives are lost...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • 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...
  • First Bones by Kathy Reichs

    First Bones by Kathy Reichs

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    An e-novella by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs that explores the origins of her vastly popular character, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.In 1980s Charlotte, North Carolina, Temperance Brennan is newly employed as a bioarchaeologist, studying the bones of the ancient dead...
  • Privileged Witness by Rebecca Forster

    Privileged Witness by Rebecca Forster

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Though attorney Josie Baylor-Bates swore off rich clients years ago, she succumbs to Grace McCreary's plea for help. The sister of a Senate hopeful-Josie's former lover-Grace is accused of murdering her disturbed sister-in-law. As Josie steps back into the world of privilege and power to prove her own worth and her client's innocence, she risks everything she now holds dear...
  • So Sure Of Death by Dana Stabenow

    So Sure Of Death by Dana Stabenow

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When the bodies of a local family are found adrift at sea, Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell is drawn straight into the heart of a family scandal involving adultery, tribal taboos, and forbidden romance...
  • In Dark Company by Linda Castillo

    In Dark Company by Linda Castillo

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of DOWN A DARK ROAD comes Linda Castillo's IN DARK COMPANY: a short story about an injured young woman with amnesia who seeks Chief of Police Kate Burkholder’s help to remember her identity—and her attacker...
  • Lies Come True by Emerald O'Brien

    Lies Come True by Emerald O'Brien

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Avery Hart narrowly escapes death after being attacked in the woods of Crown River. Ten years later... The body of a young woman is discovered along the path of a park in the same town. The killer is cunning and ruthless, but even the best killers make mistakes...
  • Once He Sees by Molly Black

    Once He Sees by Molly Black

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    FBI Special Agent Claire King dies chasing a killer—and is resuscitated minutes later to realize she has changed. Dark images flash through her mind in a newfound power, visions leading her towards serial killers. But the riddles that plague her are obscured and conflicting, and Claire soon realizes that they may lead her to crack a case—or may just put her in the crosshairs of a killer...
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