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  • The Magnolia Murders by Aimee Nicole Walker

    The Magnolia Murders by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Everything old is new again in love and murder. Work together, live together, and play together is the name of the game for Royce Locke and Sawyer Key. But one of those things changes when Chief Mendoza taps Sawyer to lead the newly formed cold case unit. His first task: solve the Magnolia Murders that spanned three decades and suddenly stopped in 2000...
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    crime  law-enforcement  lgbtq  mlm  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Somebody to Hold by April Wilson

    Somebody to Hold by April Wilson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In this second installment in the Tyler Jamison and Ian Alexander romantic suspense series, Tyler and Ian face their greatest challenge yet. Homicide detective Tyler Jamison is facing the unthinkable -- a prison sentence for beating the man who assaulted Ian...
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    law-enforcement  lgbtq  mlm  suspense  adult  age-gap  audiobook  book
  • The Hitman's Guide to Righting Wrongs While Causing Mayhem by Alice Winters

    The Hitman's Guide to Righting Wrongs While Causing Mayhem by Alice Winters

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Leland and Jackson are back and ready to cause more mayhem than ever (and sing a song or two)...
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    crime  law-enforcement  lgbtq  mlm  suspense  adult  assassins  book
  • The Evening Wolves by Gregory Ashe

    The Evening Wolves by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Every victory comes at a cost. The trail has gone cold. For months now, Emery Hazard and John-Henry Somerset have been trying to find something—anything—that might help them uncover the truth about the criminal organization operating out of the Cottonmouth Club. But every lead has turned out to be a dead end, and every step forward has cost them two steps back...
  • Good Vibes Only by Gregory Ashe

    Good Vibes Only by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Just vibing. Good Vibes Only is a collection of short stories from Iron on Iron. It includes the “All the Feels” Jem and Tean get settled in their temporary new home. This story is set after The Face in the Water . “Add Me Back” Theo and Auggie (especially Auggie) spend time with their new friends. This story is set before The Girl in the Wind . “Adulting is Hard” North and Shaw are..
  • Killer Honeymoon by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Killer Honeymoon by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Honeymoon, happily ever after, and…homicide?Newlyweds, Royce Locke and Sawyer Key, embark on a honeymoon road trip where their biggest threat should be dodging drunk tourists on golf carts. But their arrival on South Bass Island lands them in the middle of a contentious battle between lifelong islanders and a property developer who won’t accept no for an answer...
  • Depraved by Debra Webb

    Depraved by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Depraved is the tenth book in the bestselling, critically acclaimed Faces of Evil series. The finale is coming! Are you ready? Have you ordered Heinous, book 9? Don't miss a single book in this terrifyingly fast paced series! The serial killer obsessed with Deputy Chief Jess Harris has finally been cornered but the body count is still rising...
  • 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...
  • Body and Soul by Patricia Logan

    Body and Soul by Patricia Logan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    More than ten years ago, a series of train bombings devastated railways throughout Europe. Strange poetry sent to local newspapers right before each bombing, confounded investigators at the time. In one of only a handful of failed covert missions, Jarrett had been sent into North Korea to take out the bomber...
  • Suspicion by Eden Winters

    Suspicion by Eden Winters

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lucky “Simon Harrison” Lucklighter left behind his criminal past to become one of the best agents in the Southeastern Narcotics Bureau. He’s found a committed partner in fellow agent Bo Schollenberger and built a life. Now, enemies within the SNB and a friend’s betrayal leave him nowhere to turn—not even to his mentor. His boss’s life, the future of the SNB, and Lucky’s career depend on him...
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    crime  law-enforcement  lgbtq  mlm  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • School of Fish by Amy Lane

    School of Fish by Amy Lane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jackson Rivers has been learning how to take care of himself so he can be there for Ellery Cramer, but after eight weeks of healing, body and soul, he’s itching to get back to work. Finally Ellery gives him a simple task: pick up a file on a kid who probably didn’t commit murder but who refuses to participate in his own defense.Nothing is ever that easy...
  • Fish in a Barrel by Amy Lane

    Fish in a Barrel by Amy Lane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jackson and Ellery face their toughest case yet—against the criminal justice system itself.Jackson Rivers and Ellery Cramer have worked difficult jobs before, but usually it’s getting the facts that’s the problem. For their newest client, the trouble isn’t finding the truth—it’s corruption at the highest levels of the justice system...
  • Calem by Christopher Harlan

    Calem by Christopher Harlan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In Calem, the first of the New York's Finest series from contemporary romance author Christopher Harlan, a renowned psychologist and an embattled NYPD detective join forces to end the city's reign of terror, finding salvation and love in each other's arms in the process. Dr. Cordelia Summers is a brilliant psychologist...
  • Interlude by C.S. Poe

    Interlude by C.S. Poe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Interlude is a collection of short stories spanning the complete timeline of the Snow & Winter series, beginning with The Mystery of Nevermore, to after the conclusion of The Mystery of the Bones. They feature the point of view of Sebastian Snow and Calvin Winter and consist of mini-mysteries as well as scenes from daily life...
  • The Old Wheel by Gregory Ashe

    The Old Wheel by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Blackmail. Breakups. Boys. Trouble always comes in threes.Life is different for Jack Moreno. Good. Definitely good. Well, better, anyway.He’s back in school (although classes are harder than he expected). And his dad is healthy (which means he’s worrying again about things like Jack’s curfew and, oh yeah, grades)...
  • Thunder and Lightning by Patricia Logan

    Thunder and Lightning by Patricia Logan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jarrett Evans and Thayne Wolfe have been partnered in the ATF for nearly two years and their love and commitment to each other has grown over time. Now faced with one final challenge, the boys are headed to Arizona to help Thayne’s mom, stumbling headfirst into a brand new case...
  • Blue on Blue by Dal Maclean

    Blue on Blue by Dal Maclean

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From Lambda Literary Award Finalist Dal Maclean After three years working as a private investigator, newly reinstated Detective Inspector Will Foster still holds himself responsible for the death of an officer under his command. But he’s returned to the Met bent on redeeming himself and that means bringing down gangland boss Joey Clarkson...
  • 默读 by Priest

    默读 by Priest

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
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    lgbtq  mlm  suspense  crime  law-enforcement  romance  mystery  fiction
  • Reinventing Cato by Barbara Elsborg

    Reinventing Cato by Barbara Elsborg

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Fate is not always written in the stars…Being headhunted by NASA might be his ultimate dream, but Cato’s life still sucks. He’s tired of anonymous one-night stands. He’s tired of being lonely. And, frankly, he’s tired of himself. As the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, he realises the only thing to do if he wants to be happy is to reinvent himself...
  • Tied Up in Steele by Annabella Stone

    Tied Up in Steele by Annabella Stone

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Steele Givens doesn’t do relationships and he knows better than to fall for a man he rescued during a CIA Operation; but then he’s never been a ‘follow the rules’ kinda man. He always swore he’d never drag someone he cared about into a world of danger. But what do you do, when danger stalks him anyway? Kalon Roberts wanted to move on. He’s done with danger and Black Ops Operators...
  • 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...
  • Dead Ringer by Mary Burton

    Dead Ringer by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    SOME NIGHTMARES . . . Beside each body, he leaves a simple charm bearing a woman’s name. Ruth . Judith . Rachel. The victims were strangers to each other, but they have been chosen with the utmost care. Each bears a striking resemblance to Kendall Shaw, a local anchorwoman…each brutally strangled by a madman whose obsession will never end...   DON’T FADE . .
  • Reunion by Eden Winters

    Reunion by Eden Winters

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Reunions can be murder. A dial tone instead of a human voice announced Lucky’s ousting from the Lucklighter clan over twelve years ago. After living a life of crime. After testifying against his drug lord lover. After receiving a ten-year sentence. Ah, hell. Lucky would’ve disowned himself too. Now life’s better...
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    crime  law-enforcement  lgbtq  mlm  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Disarming My Destiny by Taylor Rylan

    Disarming My Destiny by Taylor Rylan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    US Marshal Bishop Jones has known heartache unlike someone his age should. After losing his only parent, he’s found himself completely and utterly alone with only his dog for company. Working long hours and being new to the area doesn’t give many opportunities for him to get out and meet someone. Veterinarian Xander Garrison has devoted his life to four-legged critters...
  • 'Nother Sip of Gin: A Sinners Gin Anthology by Rhys Ford

    'Nother Sip of Gin: A Sinners Gin Anthology by Rhys Ford

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For Crossroads Gin rock stars Miki, Damien, Rafe, and Forest, life is a Möbius strip of music, mayhem, and murder. Through it all, the sweet, hot moments between tours with lovers, friends, and family keep them sane, healthy, and happy. This Sinners collection features short stories spanning the entire series, from before the first note to after the lights go out...
  • Fire and Obsidian by Andrew Grey

    Fire and Obsidian by Andrew Grey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Carlisle Deputies Novel Can a couple be more opposite than a thief and a cop? Or do they have more in common than they think? Mattias stole to survive. He was damn good at it. But there’s no such thing as a victimless crime, and when he saw how his theft hurt people, he resolved to change...
  • Smoking Gunn by Tatum West

    Smoking Gunn by Tatum West

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jamie:I only have two rules: I don’t tangle with anyone who wants a relationship. And I’m the one who decides when it’s over.The guys I see are quick and dirty—that’s what I want. I keep my head down and my heart to myself. The only person who sees the real me is my daughter, and I need it to stay that way.My life is small, and the guys at my new job hate me—and they’ve got plenty of good reasons...
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    mlm  lgbtq  crime  suspense  contemporary  fiction  mystery  small-town
  • Dirty Bites by Rhys Ford

    Dirty Bites by Rhys Ford

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    **FREE HOLIDAY DOWNLOAD FROM RHYS FORD, GREG TREMBLAY AND DREAMSPINNER PRESS**Danger. Desire. Loss. Love.In every story, there are a thousand more bound up and waiting to be told; here are just a few from the Cole McGinnis Mysteries...
  • North and Shaw: Out of Office by Gregory Ashe

    North and Shaw: Out of Office by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    North and Shaw: Out of Office is a collection of short stories. It includes the following: “Bad Boys at the Radio Girls” Radio Girls is a lesbian bar. A group of straight guys thinks it’s funny to crash. North and Shaw are hired to take care of this problem (and they try not to fulfill the white savior stereotype while doing so). This story takes place before Orientation...
  • Follows with Intent by Gregory Ashe

    Follows with Intent by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Keeping your eye on the prize isn’t always a good thing.Nico knows he’s difficult; he has the string of exes to prove it. But staying sharp was the only way to stay safe in the cutthroat world of modeling, and it turns out, graduate school isn’t any gentler. Career first. Boys…later.Jadon knows he’s burning out; his partner at the Metropolitan Police is more than happy to remind him of that fact...
  • If You're Going Through Hell Keep Going by Tinnean

    If You're Going Through Hell Keep Going by Tinnean

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Mark Vincent and Quinton Mann have finally kind of, sort of, exchanged promises. Mark has returned from an assignment on the West Coast, and he’s looking forward to spending some quality time with his lover. After all, it’s the St. Patrick’s Day weekend...
  • Manipulation by Eden Winters

    Manipulation by Eden Winters

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lucky Lucklighter has a new life. His old life wants him back.He traded trafficking for taking down criminals with the Southeastern Narcotics Bureau, and a drug-lord lover for a man on the right side of the law. Bo Schollenberger found the way past the thorny defenses of Lucky’s heart, and made Mr...
  • Dancing Men by Adira August

    Dancing Men by Adira August

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Alternative Cover Edition of ASIN: B075T5CPFRFor adults who love some mystery with their men. A 70k police procedural with a liberal dose of M/M heat. The 2nd of the Hunter Dane Investigations. Matchstick Men, their 1st case, also available on Amazon. An ancient burial urn, empty for millennia, is suddenly not so empty...
  • Real Trouble by Elle Keaton

    Real Trouble by Elle Keaton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Two men on opposite sides of the law: will they be able to set aside their differences and trust love? Danylo Peters has issues, lots of them. He’s not on Piedras Island by accident, he’s not a nice guy, and Peters isn’t his real name. Dany’s in hiding, trying to escape his family’s influence and start a new life...
  • Ghost by R.J. Scott

    Ghost by R.J. Scott

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can you ever hold on to a ghost?Elliot is tracking an elusive killer, codenamed Ghost, with ties to organized crime. Every time the Sanctuary team gets close, Ghost slips their grasp.Cole has nowhere left to turn. With his father dying and his sister in danger, he turns for help to the very people trying to track him down...
  • Locked and Loaded by Patricia Logan

    Locked and Loaded by Patricia Logan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ATF agents Thayne Wolfe and Jarrett Evans are back and this time, they’ll be facing a familiar foe. International arms dealer, Mills Lang, has acquired a stolen cache of tabun, a powerful nerve agent, to sell to the highest bidder. The last thing either Thayne or Jarrett wants to do is get involved with the psychopath again but duty calls...
  • Slip and Slide by Patricia Logan

    Slip and Slide by Patricia Logan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ATF special agents, Thayne Wolfe, and his partner, Jarrett Evans, have gotten into sticky situations in the past but nothing prepares them for the daunting task of being loaned out to a coal mine in West Virginia where Jarrett’s grown up. Investigating a deadly mining explosion may be the end of them yet...
  • The First Time Ever by L.M. Krier

    The First Time Ever by L.M. Krier

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ‘ original, character-driven crime fiction’ Ted Darling is a Specialist Firearms Officer, and a good one. With a promising career in front of him. Then he meets someone who could change everything but who can’t live with his police role. Ted’s wanted to be a copper since he was nine...
  • Deathtrap by Dana Marton

    Deathtrap by Dana Marton

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sophie Curtis is a heart-transplant recipient with some spooky body memories. She's been in her own antiseptic bubble for so long, she just might not be able to venture out into the real world again. Whatever shred of optimism Ethan Bing had left after becoming Broslin Chief of Police had been seared out of him by the unsolved murder of his wife two years ago...
  • Just Say When by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Just Say When by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Someone wants Police Chief Emilio Mendoza dead. And if his unknown assailant doesn’t kill him, pining for Sheriff Abraham Beecham just might. Abe and Lio’s thirty-year journey has taken them from heated rivals to best friends with countless labels and pit stops along the way. Romance is the only avenue left unexplored but not from lack of love or desire...
  • Skin and Bone by T.A. Moore

    Skin and Bone by T.A. Moore

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Digging Up Bones: Book Two Cloister Witte and his K-9 partner, Bourneville, find the lost and bring them home. But the job doesn’t always end there. Janet Morrow, a young trans woman, lies in a coma after wandering away from her car during a storm. But just because Cloister found the young tourist doesn’t mean she’s home...
  • The Paternity Puzzle by Aimee Nicole Walker

    The Paternity Puzzle by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Royce Locke and Sawyer Key are back and better than ever with new mysteries and hilarious shenanigans as they tackle their greatest challenge yet: fatherhood.A perfect holiday weekend takes a twisted turn when Royce investigates a suspicious death involving Dr. Jean Claude Matisse, a retired pioneer in fertility medicine...
  • Tracefinder: Changes by Kaje Harper

    Tracefinder: Changes by Kaje Harper

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Brian can Find a lost child or a wanted criminal, but when his secret gets out, even Nick’s skills and connections may not be enough to keep them safe. Brian Kerr is now free of his dangerous boss and his domineering brother. He’s eager to start using his psychic Finding talent to help people, if he can figure out how to do that safely...
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    crime  law-enforcement  lgbtq  mlm  suspense  abuse  adult  book
  • Simple Justice by John Morgan Wilson

    Simple Justice by John Morgan Wilson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Following the death of his lover and a scandal involving his Pulitzer Prize-winning article, crime reporter Benjamin Justice has fallen into a hazy, alcoholic reclusiveness, hiding out in the West Hollywood neighborhood known as the Norma Triangle. He is called back to the world of the living by an unexpected, and unwelcome, visit from Harry Brofsky, his former boss...
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    crime  lgbtq  mlm  suspense  adult  amateur-sleuth  book  contemporary
  • River Home by Elle Keaton

    River Home by Elle Keaton

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    If you don’t know what you want, would you recognize it if you found it? Miguel Ramirez is the definition of pochos; a half-breed-white-washed Mexican–American who doesn’t speak Spanish (also unapologetically bisexual). Three years ago he arrived in Skagit a broken man having barely managed to escape an abusive relationship. Slowly, he’s rebuilt his life...
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    crime  law-enforcement  lgbtq  mlm  suspense  abuse  adult  bisexuality
  • Talk Dirty to Me by Jessie G.

    Talk Dirty to Me by Jessie G.

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As a secret agent for the DEA, Snake’s gone deep into Devils Pride MC with the hope of bringing down the head of Miami’s lucrative drug trade and finds himself saddled with the club’s volatile and secretive SA instead. Unfortunately, after years as partners doing shit neither of them wanted to do for reasons neither of them felt comfortable sharing, Snake considers Trick his best friend...
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    law-enforcement  lgbtq  mlm  suspense  adult  biker  book  contemporary
  • Vanished by Carter Quinn

    Vanished by Carter Quinn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Henry Cooley has good friends and a good life. He’s secure in his job and his relationship. He and Tom, the love of his life, are about to celebrate their twenty-first anniversary as a couple. Their son, CJ, is in his second year at Cal Arts. Henry's only problems are his growing dissatisfaction with his job and the fact that Tom's parents still hate him, even after all these years...
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    crime  lgbtq  mlm  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Wings of Fear by Helene Young

    Wings of Fear by Helene Young

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Contemporary Suspense Novel set in Northern Australia. Above the crystal-blue waters of North Queensland, Captain Morgan Pentland patrols the vast Australian coastline. When Customs Agent Rafe Daniels joins her crew, she is immediately suspicious...
  • Oceans Apart by Laura Harner

    Oceans Apart by Laura Harner

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s been two years since Lord Jamie Mainwaring and Detective Remy Remington worked and loved their way through their one and only case before going their separate ways. Now Jamie is once again mixing agency business with pleasure as he and his partner, Agent Ryan Whiteside, are assigned to a case involving piracy in the Caribbean...
  • The Wedding by Debra Webb

    The Wedding by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Don't miss the wedding of the year! The major crimes team in Birmingham, Alabama, has encountered so many faces of evil this year...it's time for a celebration. Someone is getting married! Will it be the long awaited nuptials of Jess and Dan or the passionate vows of Lori and Chet? Or maybe Sylvia has finally found the one. Take this beautiful journey with the cast of the Faces of Evil...
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