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  • Clue Krewe by Jana Deleon

    Clue Krewe by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Beckett Rousseau is the firstborn son of one of New Orleans’ most prominent families. He’s the quintessential golden boy—great looks, money, and a political career in his future—until his wife murders him. Or at least that’s what everyone thinks.Athena Durand is still reeling from her murder conviction but now that it’s overturned, she’s at a loss on how to proceed with her life...
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    cozy  crime  humor  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc
  • Cover Shot by LynDee Walker

    Cover Shot by LynDee Walker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It’s been a slow news month in Richmond, and crime reporter Nichelle Clarke is enjoying the downtime when ominous messages and a dead body kick things into high gear. And that’s before the guy with the rifle takes a hospital full of people hostage...
  • 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...
  • COMEBACK GIRL: part 3 of 6  (Kindle Single) by Stephanie Bond

    COMEBACK GIRL: part 3 of 6 (Kindle Single) 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 the Line of Ire by Camilla Chafer

    In the Line of Ire by Camilla Chafer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Private Investigator Lexi Graves receives an expensive bag from her new husband, she’s delighted… for all of five seconds. That’s exactly how long it takes her to realize it’s a fake. Then another fake bag turns up, along with an outraged mall manager that is desperate to find the culprit before the mall’s impeccable reputation for selling quality goods is tarnished...
  • Murder Served Cold by Nancy Skopin

    Murder Served Cold by Nancy Skopin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    PI Nicoli 'Nikki' Hunter is blindsided when someone close to her is murdered, and their body dumped in an alley. Detective Bill Anderson catches the homicide and, knowing Nikki, doesn't even attempt to discourage her from conducting her own investigation, which, in this case, takes a village...
  • 15 Minutes by Larissa Reinhart

    15 Minutes by Larissa Reinhart

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    #10days #findthewoman #getthejob #doNOTfallinlove When ex-teen star Maizie Albright returns to her Southern hometown of Black Pine, Georgia, she hoped to rid herself of Hollywood tabloid and reality show hell for a new career as a private investigator. Instead, Hollyweird follows her home. Maizie’s costar crushing, but now for her gumshoe boss. Her stage-monster mother still demands screen time...
  • Revenge in Paradise by Deborah Brown

    Revenge in Paradise by Deborah Brown

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a man of questionable character’s corpse is found at The Cottages, beaten to death with Madison’s own gardening tools, she and her partner, Fab, set out to prove that the man’s abused girlfriend did not kill him. Along the way, Madison finds herself behind bars twice, held hostage in a mansion, and running from flying bullets...
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    cozy  crime  humor  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc
  • Now or Never by Janet Evanovich

    Now or Never by Janet Evanovich

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    She said yes to Morelli. She said yes to Ranger. Now Stephanie Plum has two fiancés and no idea what to do about it. But the way things are going, she might not live long enough to marry anyone.While Stephanie stalls for time, she buries herself in her work as a bounty hunter, tracking down an unusually varied assortment of fugitives from justice...
  • COMEBACK GIRL: part 4 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    COMEBACK GIRL: part 4 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 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...
  • 'Til Death by Sharon Sala

    'Til Death by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He left in handcuffs. Now it's time to set himself free.  Nearly twenty years after he was wrongly convicted of setting the fire that killed his father, Lincoln Fox returns to Rebel Ridge, Kentucky. There, deep in the Appalachians, the truth of that terrible night lies buried-and he's sworn to uncover it...
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    crime  humor  north-america  suspense  usa  adult  book  contemporary
  • 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...
  • Murder Undeniable by Anita Waller

    Murder Undeniable by Anita Waller

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Looking for a gripping and addictive cozy mystery to enjoy this winter? Katerina Rowe, a Deacon at the church in the sleepy village of Eyam, has a fulfilled life. She is happily married to Leon and her work is rewarding. But everything changes when she discovers the body of a man and a badly beaten woman, Beth, in the alleyway behind her husband’s pharmacy...
  • 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...
  • Too Many Clients by Rex Stout

    Too Many Clients by Rex Stout

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A bidding war for his services interrupts Nero Wolfe's attempts to solve the case of the businessman who died in his love nest--a case in which the police seem oddly uninterested. Reissue...
  • Without Due Process by J.A. Jance

    Without Due Process by J.A. Jance

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What kind of monster would break into a man's home at night, then slaughter him and his family? The fact that the dead man was a model cop who was loved and respected by all only intensifies the horror. But the killer missed someone: a five-year-old boy who was hiding in the closet. Now word is being leaked out that the victim was "dirty." But Seattle P.D. Homicide Detective J.P...
  • Relentless Pursuit by Kathy Herman

    Relentless Pursuit by Kathy Herman

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rich with the Cajun flavors of south Louisiana, this final book in the Secrets of Roux River Bayou Series is a story of what it means to find true peace in an uncertain world. Sax Landry left home at seventeen to escape his father’s abuse, leaving his mother and sister to fend for themselves...
  • Whisper My Name by Maureen Smith

    Whisper My Name by Maureen Smith

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a beautiful professor joins forces with a sexy detective to find a serial killer, shes caught in a web of danger and desire as she becomes the murderers next target. Original...
  • Deadly Illusions by Lily Harper Hart

    Deadly Illusions by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Finn Hardy has watched his brothers find love -- and felt left behind. He's not sure he's ready to settle down -- but he'd at least like the option. Emma Pritchard has a tortured past. Her father is a notorious child molester, her brother a convicted felon. She only has herself to rely on now. That's why she doesn't need -- or want -- anyone to protect her...
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    cozy  crime  humor  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • The Fox and O'Hare Series 3-Book Bundle: The Heist, The Chase, The Job by Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg

    The Fox and O'Hare Series 3-Book Bundle: The Heist, The Chase, The Job by Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From Janet Evanovich, the acclaimed creator of Stephanie Plum, and Lee Goldberg, author and television writer for Monk, comes a series of New York Times bestselling novels that “mix the humor from Evanovich and Goldberg’s books with the intricate cons seen in the best episodes of Mission: Impossible” (Library Journal)...
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    cozy  crime  humor  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • ESCORT GIRL: part 3 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    ESCORT GIRL: part 3 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An Amazon exclusive!In this romantic mystery, a young woman who works for a PR firm is chaperone, babysitter, and therapist to VIPS who come to Atlanta to promote their movies, music, books, TV shows, politics, and products..
  • Dare You by Jennifer Brown

    Dare You by Jennifer Brown

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the second book of the suspenseful Shade Me trilogy, Nikki Kill becomes embroiled in another mystery where only her synesthesia can help her unravel the dark truth.Nikki Kill didn’t realize that trying to find out who killed Peyton Hollis would tangle her in a web of dangerous family secrets that would rock her identity to the core...
  • Dead Even by Annelise Ryan

    Dead Even by Annelise Ryan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In Sorenson, Wisconsin, a local bigshot is found with a pool cue through the heart—and Mattie Winston must untangle a web of lies to sink a killer . . . In her previous career as a nurse, Mattie Winston’s job was to keep death at bay. Now, as a medicolegal investigator, she’s required to study death intimately—to figure out causes and timing, and help deduce whether it was natural or suspicious...
  • Not One Clue by Lois Greiman

    Not One Clue by Lois Greiman

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    L.A. psychologist Christina McMullen’s relationship with Detective Jack Rivera is heating up—until a client threatens to put a damper on their sparks. Chrissy has been counseling Micky Goldenstone to face the secrets from his past, but she had no idea that they would lead to a dangerous confrontation with a criminal even the police can’t protect her from...
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    cozy  crime  humor  law-enforcement  suspense  adult  book  comedy
  • Murder Over Cocktails by Nancy Skopin

    Murder Over Cocktails by Nancy Skopin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Private Investigator Nicoli “Nikki” Hunter, has recovered from a near fatal encounter with a multiple murderer, and is happy to get back to her regular bar and restaurant surveillance jobs. Unfortunately, the universe has other plans...
  • Just Deserts by Jinx Schwartz

    Just Deserts by Jinx Schwartz

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Hetta Coffey is a woman with a yacht, and she's not afraid to use it. As a self employed engineering consultant with a penchant of oddball-read: shady- projects, she has a way of attracting trouble. With her floating home drydocked for repairs in Mexico, Hetta needs a place to live and a job to pay the boatyard...
  • Extra Dirty by Mia Gold

    Extra Dirty by Mia Gold

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    EXTRA DIRTY is book #2 in the Ruby Steele Mystery, which begins with ON THE ROCKS (Book #1).Ruby Steele, 30, beautiful, fit, seems just like any other ex-pat hiding out in the Bahamas and playing local bartender. But unruly patrons find out the hard way: Ruby is a mixed-martial-arts pro, and not one you’d want to cross.A 40-something female tourist seeks out Ruby, desperate for her help...
  • Oranges and Lemons by Christopher Fowler

    Oranges and Lemons by Christopher Fowler

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "The most delightfully, wickedly entertaining duo in crime fiction." The Plain Dealer When a prominent politician is crushed by a fruit van making a delivery, the singular team of Arthur Bryant and John May overcome insurmountable odds to reunite the PCU and solve the case in the brainy new mystery from acclaimed author Christopher Fowler...
  • Blood Stains by Sharon Sala

    Blood Stains by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Mother: Murdered.Father: Unknown.Case: ColdAt the reading of her father's will, Maria Slade receives shocking news—as a four-year-old, she'd witnessed her prostitute mother's murder and been taken into hiding by the well-meaning preacher who'd raised her as his own.Maria remembers none of that...
  • The Eleventh Hour by Anina Collins

    The Eleventh Hour by Anina Collins

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The first book in the Poppy McGuire Mystery Series! Poppy McGuire has always been a curious soul, but it's her life that's usually the topic of conversation in the small town of Sunset Ridge. But now one of the town's most important citizens has been found murdered, and everyone's life is suspect...
  • Dead Certain by Mariah Stewart

    Dead Certain by Mariah Stewart

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes a novel of sexy romantic suspense for fans of Nora Roberts, Catherine Coulter, and Karen Robards. Three devious prisoners vow murderous revenge. Now the second is free. With her stalker captured, antiques dealer Amanda Crosby can finally sleep at night...
  • Triggerfish Twist by Tim Dorsey

    Triggerfish Twist by Tim Dorsey

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When Tim Dorsey sat down to write his first novel, the hilarious and hugely successful Florida Roadkill, he killed off way too many people. Now he needs them back. So in Triggerfish Twist, Dorsey invites us to take a warped trip back in time as he reunites the living with the soon to be very dead...
  • Minor in Possession by J.A. Jance

    Minor in Possession by J.A. Jance

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A gripping story of buried truths, deceit, and sudden, brutal death from the New York Times bestselling author of "Long Time Gone." All manner of sinners and sufferers come to the rehab ranch in Arizona when they hit rock bottom. For Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont, there is a deeper level of Hell here: being forced to room with teenage drug dealer Joey Rothman...
  • Celtic Justice by Rebecca Zanetti

    Celtic Justice by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A stolen treasure, a sabotaged pie, and a town full of trouble…Silverville’s St. Patrick’s Day is bigger than ever, thanks to Nana O’Shea’s Pot of Gold display at her brand-new magic potion shop, Celtic Moon Herbals. The centerpiece? Antique gold nugget boxes that just might form a treasure map. Most people think it’s just another of Nana’s tall tales—until the display vanishes...
  • Dinner and a Murder by Nancy Skopin

    Dinner and a Murder by Nancy Skopin

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An unrelenting PI, a former flame, and an inspired assassin ...Dinner & A Murder is the third book in a mystery series featuring Nicoli "Nikki" Hunter, a Private Investigator specializing in covert bar and restaurant surveillance. After surviving two attempts on her life, Nikki decides to do something normal for a change and attend her high school reunion...
  • To Hatch a Thief by Zara Keane

    To Hatch a Thief by Zara Keane

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An Irish cozy mystery featuring mystery, mayhem, and…chickens? When a valuable diamond necklace is stolen, former American cop and classic movie buff, Maggie Doyle's, peaceful vacation on a remote Irish island comes to an abrupt end. An island lawyer hires Maggie to find the necklace before its owner realizes it's missing...
  • Dirty Minds by Rhys Ford

    Dirty Minds by Rhys Ford

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is a free Cole McGinnis short done for the Dirty Deeds Tour. I want to say thanks to all of the blogs who hosted me in this tour.This is a free story. Hope you enjoy a bit of Cole’s life...
  • Brothers in Arms by T.A. Webb

    Brothers in Arms by T.A. Webb

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Betrayed on every front, Dan O’Leary cashed in all his chips and moved from the big city life of Atlanta to small town Blue Ridge, Georgia. While licking his wounds, he never meant to start a new relationship, especially with closeted Chief of Police Nick Oliver. But now all Dan’s hot buttons are being pushed. One of his employees is being terrorized by seemingly upstanding townspeople...
  • Killer Apple Pie by Carolyn Q. Hunter

    Killer Apple Pie by Carolyn Q. Hunter

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A BRAND NEW SERIES FROM POPULAR COZY AUTHOR CAROLYN Q. HUNTER!!!Bertha Hannah’s two passions in life are books and piping hot homemade pies, and when an opportunity arises for her to open her own pie and book shop, she jumps in headfirst, only to find that preparing to open her own shop isn’t exactly a piece of cake...
  • One Hot Mess by Lois Greiman

    One Hot Mess by Lois Greiman

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In southern California it’s raining crime — and psychologist Christina McMullen could use an umbrella. Her clients are crazy, her on-again-off-again relationship with LAPD lieutenant Jack Rivera has just started heating up again, and now Rivera’s womanizing dad has come calling—asking Chrissy to investigate a mysterious death that might haunt his next campaign: for president of the United States...
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    cozy  crime  humor  law-enforcement  suspense  adult  alpha-mc  book
  • 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...
  • Dead Upon Arrival by Kat Bellemore

    Dead Upon Arrival by Kat Bellemore

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Flying high in the New Mexican sky has never been more lethal.The biggest hot air balloon festival would have been a vacation if Maddie didn’t have to balance her apathetic teenagers, a meddling mother, and act as therapist for a desperate patient. Let alone solve a murder case!When Maddie witnesses someone fall from a hot air balloon, it seems like a tragic accident...
  • Mr. Monk Gets Even by Lee Goldberg

    Mr. Monk Gets Even by Lee Goldberg

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An all-new original mystery starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something’s out of place.... It may be a foggy San Francisco summer, but for Adrian Monk the future is looking bright...
  • Nailed by Joseph Flynn

    Nailed by Joseph Flynn

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ron Ketchum saw his share of the dark side of life as a cop in Los Angeles. Then he left L.A. to become the chief of police in the Sierra Nevada resort town of Goldstrike. One sunny morning in the mountains, though, he comes upon a crime unlike anything he’s ever seen before. He finds the body of an African American man nailed to a tree...
  • Unscrewed by Lois Greiman

    Unscrewed by Lois Greiman

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    L.A. homicide detective Jack Rivera has a killer body, a wicked smile, and a velvet touch. Just ask Christina McMullen. The cocktail-waitress-turned-psychologist has handled obsessed patients, love-struck drunks, and her own guilt-tripping mother with aplomb...
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    cozy  crime  humor  law-enforcement  suspense  adult  alpha-mc  book
  • Unmanned by Lois Greiman

    Unmanned by Lois Greiman

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Even in a city of long, tall beauties, psychologist Christina McMullen is used to getting hit on. But she’s definitely not accustomed to having a hit on her. Until the day a charming stranger shows up at her door—and someone guns him down right in front of her. For Chrissy, shootings and explosions are what pass for normal in her tempestuous relationship with sexy LAPD lieutenant Jack Rivera...
    Categorized as:
    cozy  crime  humor  law-enforcement  suspense  adult  alpha-mc  book
  • Thorns of Rosewood by Gina Marie Barlean

    Thorns of Rosewood by Gina Marie Barlean

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Gloria Larson is happy to take a job as editor of a weekly newspaper in the small town of Rosewood, Nebraska, even though her parents don’t like the idea one bit. The town holds a secret—her birth mother’s identity. Gloria’s parents worry she won’t like what she finds, but once Gloria starts unraveling the story, she can’t be dissuaded...
    Categorized as:
    north-america  usa  suspense  cozy  crime  nebraska  mystery  fiction
  • Killing Her Softly by Beverly Barton

    Killing Her Softly by Beverly Barton

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    WHEN A KILLER DOESN'T WANT TO GET CAUGHT... The woman has been waiting impatiently on her satin sheets. Her lover knows exactly how to satisfy her. But this time, he has something else planned...something that will really take her breath away. THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY TO ELIMINATE HIS VICTIMS..
    Categorized as:
    crime  north-america  suspense  usa  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Dead By Morning by Beverly Barton

    Dead By Morning by Beverly Barton

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ' THE DARKEST SINS He begins his work just before dawn, wielding a knife with the precision of a surgeon. Cunning and meticulous, he’s always in control. Mercy is not an option… WILL ALWAYS Maleah Purdue is touch, outspoken, and completely dedicated to her work at the Powell Security Agency...
    Categorized as:
    cozy  crime  north-america  suspense  usa  adult  audiobook  book
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