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  • Pretty Little Liars by Lambert M. Surhone

    Pretty Little Liars by Lambert M. Surhone

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    This is a print-on-demand book containing articles from Wikipedia -- the free encyclopedia -- about the Pretty Little Liars television show and related topics...
  • Life of Crime by Kimberley Chambers

    Life of Crime by Kimberley Chambers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    If you could get away with the perfect crime - would you? HEAVEN HAS NO RAGE, LIKE LOVE TO HATRED TURNED.NOR HELL A FURY, LIKE A WOMAN SCORNED...
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    crime  drama  family  female-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • 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...
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    suspense  crime  drama  family  female-mc  mystery  fiction  audiobook
  • 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...
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    crime  drama  family  female-mc  suspense  abuse  adult  audiobook
  • Forever Mine by Linsey Lanier

    Forever Mine by Linsey Lanier

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An old friend. A bad smell. A body stuffed into a wall. You'll never escape. After she left her abusive husband thirteen years ago, Miranda Steele became a fighter. Over the years, she picked up martial arts and street fighting tactics, and now that she works for the Parker Investigative Agency, she can handle a weapon. But the battle with her inner demons? Not so easy...
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    crime  drama  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Playing Dirty by Liliana Hart

    Playing Dirty by Liliana Hart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    J.J. Graves and her husband, Sheriff Jack Lawson, are sworn to protect and serve. The Christmas season brings out the best—and worst—in people, and death hits close to home when a Bloody Mary local is murdered. Bringing justice to the dead is what they do—even when they don’t like the victim...
  • 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...
  • Stone Sober by Gwyn McNamee

    Stone Sober by Gwyn McNamee

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Stone Hawke is precisely the kind of man women are warned about—handsome, intelligent, arrogant, and intricately entangled with some dangerous people. I should stay away, but he manages to strip my soul bare with just a look and dominates my thoughts. Bad decisions are in my past. My life is (mostly) on track, even if it is no longer the one to medical school...
  • Tooth for Tooth by J.K. Franko

    Tooth for Tooth by J.K. Franko

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What would YOU do?What would you do if you got away with murder? Would you stop there? Could you?Susie and Roy thought that they committed the perfect crime.Their planning was meticulous. Their execution was flawless. But, there is always a loose end, isn’t there? Always a singing bone.Now, while enemies multiply and suspicions abound, their perfect world begins to crumble...
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    drama  suspense  contemporary  epic  fiction  mystery
  • Center Stage by Denise Grover Swank

    Center Stage by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    First book in the Magnolia Steele Mystery series by the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Denise Grover Swank. Ten years ago, Magnolia Steele fled Franklin, Tennessee after an incident that left her with hazy memories and a horror of the place where she had been born and bred. Though her abrupt departure destroyed most of her treasured relationships, she vowed never to return . .
  • Dangerous Lady by Martina Cole

    Dangerous Lady by Martina Cole

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Martina's explosive first novel of corruption and...
  • Runaway by Martina Cole

    Runaway by Martina Cole

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Book by Cole,...
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    crime  drama  family  female-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Maura's Game by Martina Cole

    Maura's Game by Martina Cole

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Maura Ryan was the queen of the criminal underworld when she pulled off the most audacious gold bullion robbery of all time. Since then she's retired from a life of crime to be with the only man she's ever loved. But enemies from her past are closing in and they're about to learn that they should never cross Maura Ryan. The dangerous lady is back and she's as lethal as ever . .
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    crime  drama  family  female-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Reign of Royal by Samantha Barrett

    Reign of Royal by Samantha Barrett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    YWhen the card is dropped, you are marked.There is no escaping them, they come for their prey and will hunt until your blood soaks the ground beneath your cold lifeless body. They are the new generation and they have something to prove...
  • The Secrets She Kept by Brenda Novak

    The Secrets She Kept by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Exciting, emotional, intense. The thrilling follow-up to New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak's highly acclaimed The Secret Sister. The things that happen in families are always surprising and sometimes shocking! The rich and powerful Josephine Lazarow, matriarch of Fairham Island, is dead. The police say it's suicide, but Keith, her estranged son, doesn't believe it...
  • A Dead Draw by Robert Dugoni

    A Dead Draw by Robert Dugoni

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling series.A killer fueled by revenge. A detective haunted by the past. They are headed for a high-stakes showdown in this bone-chilling new Tracy Crosswhite novel by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni.Detective Tracy Crosswhite isn’t one to lose her cool...
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    crime  suspense  drama  family  female-mc  mystery  fiction  audiobook
  • 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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    crime  drama  family  female-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Fearless by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Fearless by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Life teeters in the balance when tragedy strikes the small mountain town of McKenzie Ridge… Everly Shaw’s world takes a direct hit leaving her battling demons she thought she buried long ago. A daredevil at heart that throws caution to the wind, the only risk she wouldn’t gamble on was love...
  • The Weight of Silence by Gregg Olsen

    The Weight of Silence by Gregg Olsen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A heart-pounding novel of unspeakable crimes and unforgivable sins from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Sound of Rain. Homicide detective Nicole Foster has finally balanced an unsteady life and is anxious for a second chance...
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    crime  drama  family  female-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • 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  family  female-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Dark Signal by Shannon Baker

    Dark Signal by Shannon Baker

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dark Signal by Shannon Baker is the second installment in the Kate Fox mystery series, called "A must read" by New York Times bestselling author Alex Kava, starring a female Longmire in the atmospheric Nebraska Sandhills.Reeling from her recent divorce, Kate Fox has just been sworn in as Grand County, Nebraska Sheriff when tragedy strikes...
  • Sweet Vengeance by Fern Michaels

    Sweet Vengeance by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels’ new novel is a deeply satisfying and uplifting story of one woman’s journey from heartbreak to triumph.   Tessa Jamison couldn’t have imagined anything worse than losing her beloved twin girls and husband—until she was convicted of their murder...
  • What She Saw by Wendy Clarke

    What She Saw by Wendy Clarke

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She lied to her daughter to save her family. Everyone knows Leona would do anything for her daughter Beth: she moved to Church Langdon to send Beth to the best school, worked hard to build a successful business to support them and found them the perfect little cottage to call home. Leona and Beth hike together, shop together, share their hopes and fears with one another...
  • 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...
  • No Child of Mine by Susan Lewis

    No Child of Mine by Susan Lewis

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From internationally bestselling British author Susan Lewis comes an unflinching, thoroughly suspenseful novel—perfect for readers of Jodi Picoult—about the darkest secrets a family can hide.   Alex Lake’s life is centered on helping people. Her job as a social worker in a British seaside town is more than a career: It’s the very essence of who she is...
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    crime  drama  family  female-mc  suspense  abuse  adult  book
  • The Take by Martina Cole

    The Take by Martina Cole

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Freddie Jackson thinks he owns the underworld when he gets out of prison. He's done his time, made the right connections, and now he's ready to use them. His wife Jackie just wants her husband home, but she's forgotten the rows, the violence, and the girls Freddie can't leave alone...
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    crime  drama  family  female-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Good as Dead by Susan Walter

    Good as Dead by Susan Walter

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    It all starts with a promise from a stranger: We’ll take care of everything.Holly Kendrick’s husband is dead. Holly saw it all. In one violent moment, a hit-and-run accident turns Holly’s life upside down. Then a fixer for the high-powered guilty party approaches Holly with an offer she is in no position to refuse...
  • Friends with Secrets by Christine Gunderson

    Friends with Secrets by Christine Gunderson

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    In a funny and suspenseful debut, Christine Gunderson explores the myth of the perfect mother, the bonds of female friendship, and the haunting impact of secrets.What you see isn’t always what you get.Take Ainsley. The gorgeous mother of two lives a picture-perfect life with her husband, Ben—aspiring politician and heir to a candy fortune—in suburban Washington, DC...
  • Cut in Darkness by Heather Sunseri

    Cut in Darkness by Heather Sunseri

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An outlaw biker gang, a US Senator hell-bent on vengeance, and a killer blend of heroin. None is as dangerous to Agent Brooke Fairfax as falling for Declan O'Roark...
  • Diamond Days by Suzanne Steele

    Diamond Days by Suzanne Steele

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When shots ring out at a wedding, it leaves the Glazov family wondering if they are up against their most dangerous enemy to date--an insider... This is the first time the family has ever faced a betrayal from within. Told in third person past tense, all the couples make an appearance, with Glazov being the strong lead...
  • Not in the Heart by Chris Fabry

    Not in the Heart by Chris Fabry

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A Christy Award winner from the bestselling author of War Room!Truman Wiley used to report news stories from around the world, but now the most troubling headlines are his own. He's out of work, out of touch with his family, out of his home. But nothing dogs him more than his son's failing heart...
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    drama  family  female-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  christian
  • The Perfect Murder by Brenda Novak

    The Perfect Murder by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    For more than a year, Sebastian Costas has been trying to unravel the truth behind the murder of his ex-wife and son. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, he's convinced that her second husband—a cop—committed both murders, then faked his own death. Now Sebastian has followed the slimmest of leads to Sacramento…and that's where he finally gets the break he needs...
  • 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...
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    crime  family  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Deserve To Die by Miranda Rijks

    Deserve To Die by Miranda Rijks

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dom and Stacey have the perfect life. Until they meet Tamara. Brilliant, beautiful, she hides a horrifying secret. One that may destroy them all.Happily married with two wonderful children, Dom and Stacey are living the dream. He runs a successful design agency, she is finding fame as an author of children’s books.Everything is perfect...
  • Forgotten by Mariah Stewart

    Forgotten by Mariah Stewart

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 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...
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    crime  drama  family  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • 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...
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    crime  family  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • In His Blood by Kate Bold

    In His Blood by Kate Bold

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    FBI Special Agent Eve Hope can’t escape the shadow of her notorious serial killer father—though he is jailed, the puzzle of the loving father of her childhood haunts her, and now, assigned to a copycat case, she is forced to face her worst memories...
  • The Passions of Chelsea Kane by Barbara Delinsky

    The Passions of Chelsea Kane by Barbara Delinsky

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    After the death of her adoptive mother, thirty-six-year-old Chelsea Kane is consumed by the need to uncover her biological heritage. Taking a break from her successful architecture career, she arrives in the New Hampshire town where she was born, determined to learn the truth, her only clue a tarnished silver key...
  • Forgive Me by Lesley Pearse

    Forgive Me by Lesley Pearse

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Cheltenham, 1991 When Eva Patterson returns home from work one day, a devastating scene awaits her. Her mother, Flora, lies dead in the bath. Beside her is a note saying only: 'Forgive Me'. Until then, Eva always believed her family's life would be comfortable and secure - but Flora's suicide changes everything...
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    drama  family  female-mc  suspense  abuse  adult  book  contemporary
  • Lesser Evil by Lesley Pearse

    Lesser Evil by Lesley Pearse

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Would you cross the street if wickedness lived there? When Fifi moves to London with her bricklayer boyfriend Dan, her mother is outraged. Despite initial feelings of horror at her new surroundings, Fifi finds the freedom from her middle-class family background exhilarating...
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    crime  drama  family  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary
  • The Guest List by Fern Michaels

    The Guest List by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Guest...
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    crime  drama  family  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary
  • When I Was Invisible by Dorothy Koomson

    When I Was Invisible by Dorothy Koomson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    'Do you ever wonder if you've lived the life you were meant to?' I ask her. She sighs, and dips her head. 'Even if I do, what difference will it make?' In 1988, two eight-year-old girls with almost identical names and the same love of ballet meet for the first time. They seem destined to be best friends forever and to become professional dancers...
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    crime  drama  family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • 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...
  • The Ex-Wife by Jess Ryder

    The Ex-Wife by Jess Ryder

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    You’ve got everything she wants …Newly married Natasha has the perfect house, a loving husband and a beautiful little girl called Emily. She’d have it all if it wasn’t for Jen, her husband’s ex-wife who just won’t leave them alone …Then Natasha returns home one day to find her husband and Emily gone without trace...
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    crime  drama  family  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • The Love of my Life by Rosie Walsh, Imogen Church

    The Love of my Life by Rosie Walsh, Imogen Church

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghosted comes a love story wrapped in a mystery: an up-all-night page-turner with a dark secret at its coreI have held you at night for ten years and I didn't even know your name. We have a child together. A dog, a house. Who are you?Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she’d do anything for them...
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    drama  family  female-mc  secrets  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Ripley: Lost in a Sea of Secrets: A lost love, second chance novel by Jacqui Penn

    Ripley: Lost in a Sea of Secrets: A lost love, second chance novel by Jacqui Penn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A secret. A suspicion. A shattered heart. Ripley Bradford’s world is torn apart. Her lover and best friend, Joe, has mysteriously disappeared without trace, and everything points to her father, who she suspects has been involved in foul-play in the past. Years pass, and with the realisation that Joe is gone forever, Ripley marries...
  • Kade by Delores Fossen

    Kade by Delores Fossen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One look at the baby girl, and there was no question Kade Ryland was the father. For three months, Kade had posed as Bree Winston's husband at the Fulbright Fertility Clinic, while the two FBI agents investigated a trail of illegal adoptions and surrogates. Nine months later, a baby was dropped at his feet - and Bree was nowhere to be found...
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    crime  family  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • The Princess of Greektown by Suzanne Jenkins

    The Princess of Greektown by Suzanne Jenkins

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Thirty years ago, Terry Smith was Detroit’s top news anchor. She set the standard for excellence in investigative journalism, staying at the news desk long after her time should have been over. Just as Terry’s son-in-law is murdered in the city, Detective Jill Zannos faces upheaval in her own life...
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