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  • Bite the Bullet by Gina LaManna, Suzie Althens

    Bite the Bullet by Gina LaManna, Suzie Althens

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Listening Length 8 hours and 50 minutesSummer in the Twin Cities is hard to beat, and Detective Kate Rosetti is excited to show FBI Agent Jack Russo a nice, relaxing time while he’s back in town. Unfortunately, her plans go belly up when Tommy “Two-Toed” Bianchi is found floating face down in Kate’s favorite lake...
  • The Lullaby Man by Anni Taylor

    The Lullaby Man by Anni Taylor

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A decade ago, The Lullaby Man preyed upon young girls in Tallman's Valley. He stole into their lives, whispered in their ears, spoke of love...But only the girls themselves ever knew about him. Abby Wakeland was fourteen then. Now twenty-four, she's found the courage to tell her mother--Senior Detective Kate Wakeland--about what happened...
  • Cold-Blooded by Lisa Regan

    Cold-Blooded by Lisa Regan

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Fourteen years ago, high school track star Sydney Adams was gunned down in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. The investigation yielded useless clues, and the case went cold. But homicide detective Augustus Knox never gave up on finding Sydney's killer...
  • So We Lie by Willow Rose

    So We Lie by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Eva Rae Thomas is in over her head on her first assignment as an FBI profiler in multi-million-copy bestselling author Willow Rose’s nail-biting mystery.When the mother of two, Arlene Wood, crashes her car against a tree at four in the morning, the case seems pretty straightforward.But evidence found in the remains of the car soon raises the question of whether this was really an accident...
  • Three Small Bones by Jennifer Chase

    Three Small Bones by Jennifer Chase

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Smoke curls from what’s left of the beautiful family home on the edge of the woods. The heat is unbearable as she descends the stairs to the basement, past a set of bicycles––two big, one small...
  • Home Stretch by Jenna Bennett

    Home Stretch by Jenna Bennett

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The end is near. The end of Savannah’s pregnancy, that is. Less than a month to go, and she’ll be the mother of what will surely be the most adorable baby boy or baby girl in the world. But before that, there’s Thanksgiving with the Martins to get through. Not to mention a little spot of murder at the group home where Mrs. Jenkins, Savannah’s grandmother-in-law, lives...
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    cozy  crime  female-mc  law-enforcement  suspense  adult  book  fiction
  • Two Bare Arms by Blake Banner

    Two Bare Arms by Blake Banner

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It was November in New York. It was raining, it was cold and the trees all looked like skeleton’s hands. And Detective John Stone was having a problem with habeas corpus, because all there was of the body, was two bare arms. Two bare arms that somebody, twelve years ago, had put in a lock up in the East Bronx. What they had done with the rest of the woman, nobody knew...
  • Snowy Misery by Wendy Meadows

    Snowy Misery by Wendy Meadows

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A hazy shade of winter comes.And this time, it brings Sarah Garland some pretty bad memories, mainly in the form of her returning ex-husband, Brad.Determined to speak with Sarah, Brad Garland may seem the same crass, belligerent jerk that Sarah left behind in Los Angeles, but he also comes into Snow Falls carrying a terrible secret...
  • Rise to the Fly by Cheryl Rees-Price

    Rise to the Fly by Cheryl Rees-Price

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Will the police or a devious killer win this battle of wits?A quiet corner of Wales becomes the centre of a murder investigation when the bodies of a retired couple are found near the shore of a reservoir.Police try to establish the methods and motives of their attacker by careful examination of the crime scene. And, bizarrely, fishing flies are found in the victims’ mouths...
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    cozy  crime  law-enforcement  suspense  adult  book  fiction  murder
  • Dagger in the Dahlias by Dale Mayer

    Dagger in the Dahlias by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Riches to rags. … Chaos quiets. … Crime is circling. … And cold cases never cease …After almost a month in picturesque Kelowna, Doreen Montgomery still can’t keep her notoriety to a minimum or her nose out of other people’s business. Now those suffering from the loss of a loved one seek her out, wanting her help...
  • Over The Edge by Lisa Regan

    Over The Edge by Lisa Regan

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When retired Philadelphia detective turned private investigator Joselyn Rush is rear-ended, her knee-jerk response is anger, especially when the well-dressed woman driving tries to flee the scene. But as Jocelyn watches in disbelief, the woman jumps off the bridge, plunging to her death in the Schuylkill River one hundred fifty feet below...
  • Law of Five by Robin Mahle

    Law of Five by Robin Mahle

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The nationwide manhunt for a killer begins and the media quickly dubs him the “Highway Hunter.” Bodies left roadside on display with horrific markings; a calling card. But this case is miles away from Katie Reid and her life with Detective Marshall Avery.That is, until she gets the call from her old friend and reporter, Marc Aguilar, who believes that the killer could be coming their way...
  • Tell No One / Gone For Good by Harlan Coben

    Tell No One / Gone For Good by Harlan Coben

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben comes an unforgettable duet of classic novels—two top-notch thrillers filled with the author’s signature storytelling genius.TELL NO ONEFor Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams...
  • Truth or Dare by M.J. Arlidge

    Truth or Dare by M.J. Arlidge

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Do you want to play the game?A crimewave sweeps through the city and no-one is safe. An arson at the docks. A carjacking gone wrong. A murder in a country park. What connects all these crimes without causes, which leave no clues?Detective Inspector Helen Grace faces the rising tide of cases which threatens to drown the city. But each crime is just a piece of a puzzle which is falling into place...
  • Bad Debt by Jenna Bennett

    Bad Debt by Jenna Bennett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When every member of a rural Sweetwater family is murdered in their beds, Maury County sheriff Bob Satterfield calls on the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation for help...
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    cozy  crime  female-mc  law-enforcement  suspense  adult  book  fiction
  • Second Helping by Stephanie Bond

    Second Helping by Stephanie Bond

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sisters are like chubby thighs--they stick together!The Guy sisters are ready to take their place as top-tier private investigators. The problem is, the only thing top-tier about their strip-mall agency is Octavia’s wardrobe…and the cases that come their way are less on the exciting side, and more on the eccentric side...
  • 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...
  • Free to Deceive by Julie Mellon

    Free to Deceive by Julie Mellon

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Special Agent Katie Freeman and her partner, Michael Powell, step in to assist the local authorities after the discovery of thirteen bodies buried in a small park. The chilling pose of each body and the gruesome manner in which they died indicate a particularly sadistic killer...
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    crime  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  fiction  mystery
  • Inmate 1577 by Alan Jacobson, Christina Traister

    Inmate 1577 by Alan Jacobson, Christina Traister

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    National Bestselling Author Alan Jacobson brings back renowned FBI Profiler Karen Vail in an intelligent thriller that bridges time and space. When an elderly woman is found raped and brutally murdered in San Francisco, Vail heads west to team up with SFPD Inspector Lance Burden and her former task force colleague, Detective Roxxann Dixon...
  • 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...
  • Keeping Secrets by L.A. Dobbs

    Keeping Secrets by L.A. Dobbs

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When long-time White Rock resident Mike Donnelly is found dead at his hunting camp, it appears as if the tragic death was by his own hand. But a gut feeling tells Chief of Police Sam Mason otherwise...
  • FOOD TRUCK MYSTERIES: Books 1-5 by Chloe Kendrick

    FOOD TRUCK MYSTERIES: Books 1-5 by Chloe Kendrick

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Enjoy the first 5 books of the Food Truck Mysteries series in this discounted bundle.All STANDALONE, FULL LENGTH books!MURDER TO GODespite the sudden loss of her aunt, Maeve Kinkaid is thrilled when she inherits the popular food truck Dogs on the Roll. She has no idea how cutthroat the food industry can be...
    Categorized as:
    cozy  female-mc  law-enforcement  mystery
  • FOOD TRUCK MYSTERIES: Books 6-10  (A Cozy Mystery Bundle) by Chloe Kendrick

    FOOD TRUCK MYSTERIES: Books 6-10 (A Cozy Mystery Bundle) by Chloe Kendrick

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Enjoy this discounted cozy mystery bundle featuring books 6-10 of the Food Truck Mysteries series! Get it FREE with Kindle Unlimited. A THIEF OF ANY MAN Maeve Kinkaid, owner of the food truck Dogs on the Roll, prides herself on her financial management skills, until she realizes that someone is pilfering small amounts from the register...
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    cozy  female-mc  law-enforcement  mystery
  • Hollywood Jury by M.Z. Kelly

    Hollywood Jury by M.Z. Kelly

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hollywood Jury, the tenth book in the Hollywood Alphabet Series Thrillers, finds Detective Kate Sexton and her canine partner Bernie continuing their assignment in Section One, an elite homicide unit that works out of Hollywood Station. Kate’s job quickly becomes more stressful than she could ever imagine when a deranged serial killer begins a murderous spree on college campuses...
  • Te-Kill-Ya Sunrise by Patti Larsen

    Te-Kill-Ya Sunrise by Patti Larsen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tequila is a terrible way to go…The young woman who’d ordered the double shot margarita took it with wide eyes and a thumbs up as she sampled it through the straw, walking back toward her table in the sand on wobbling platform sandals unsuited to the footing...
  • There's Something About Marty by Wendy Delaney

    There's Something About Marty by Wendy Delaney

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It was Marty McCutcheon’s bad luck to die on his birthday. Then again, since Marty is the third husband his young widow will be burying, maybe luck had nothing to do with it. As Deputy Coroner Charmaine Digby discovers when she questions Marty’s widow about his sudden death, she had ample opportunity to kill him...
  • Left to Murder by Blake Pierce

    Left to Murder by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When you think that life cannot get better, Blake Pierce comes up with another masterpiece of thriller and mystery! This book is full of twists and the end brings a surprising revelation. I strongly recommend this book to the permanent library of any reader that enjoys a very well written thriller...
    Categorized as:
    cozy  suspense  female-mc  fiction  audiobook  murder  mystery
  • Siren by Celina Grace

    Siren by Celina Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Simon Farraday was a respectable business man; successful, wealthy and with a loving wife and family. He was also heavily into sadomasochistic sex with virtual strangers, judging by the manner of his brutal, squalid murder...
  • Dead to Rights by Jasmine Webb

    Dead to Rights by Jasmine Webb

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Mackenzie—Mack—Owens was supposed to live out every millennial’s dream, but instead it turned into a nightmare. Inheriting a house and bookstore, she was going to leave the New York City rat race after getting fired from her job and start a new life on the coast of Cornwall, in England. No more fourteen-hour work days and rats the size of small toddlers...
  • Sharko by Franck Thilliez

    Sharko by Franck Thilliez

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    " Sharko comparait toujours les premiers jours d'une enquête à une partie de chasse. Ils étaient la meute de chiens stimulés par les cors, qui s'élancent à la poursuite du gibier. À la différence près que, cette fois, le gibier, c'était eux. " Eux, c'est Lucie Henebelle et Franck Sharko, flics aux 36 quai des Orfèvres, unis à la ville comme à la scène, parents de deux petits garçons...
  • The Make by Jessie Keane

    The Make by Jessie Keane

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Murder, loyalty and vengeance collide in Jessie Keane’s gritty fourth novel. Life is good for Gracie Doyle - running her Manchester casino keeps her busy. Until the police turn up at her door one day and her world is turned upside down. She is given news that her two estranged brothers have been viciously attacked. George is in hospital on a ventilator and worringly, Harry is missing...
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    crime  female-mc  thriller  suspense  fiction  mystery  audiobook  book
  • Singularity by Kathryn Casey

    Singularity by Kathryn Casey

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Profiler Sarah Armstrong knows what it's like to be in a sticky situation. As a single mother and one of the few female Rangers in Texas history, she has had to work twice as hard to rank among the best cops in the Lone Star State...
  • 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...
  • Behind You by Rylie Dark

    Behind You by Rylie Dark

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Despite being a rising star in the BAU unit, FBI Special Agent Hailey Rock still lives in the shadow of her older sister, who remained in their small Midwestern town to become a police sheriff, and who remains the favorite in their parents’ eyes...
  • The Worm in the Bud by Chris Collett

    The Worm in the Bud by Chris Collett

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A puncture wound in the arm of a local journalist found dead in his home gives testimony to his death by lethal injection, and the cryptic note by his side—“no more”—suggests suicide. To DI Tom Mariner, however, there is something a little too staged about events, especially given that just that evening Mariner had witnessed the journalist—Edward Barham—pick up a prostitute in a bar...
  • No Way Back by M.J. Arlidge

    No Way Back by M.J. Arlidge

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A treat for fans of DI Helen Grace: an ebook short story from M.J. Arlidge. Jodie's arriving at her third children's home. She's only fifteen.Maybe this time will be different. She'll be safe. Looked after.But the truth is Jodie has no one left to protect her.She must defend herself. She must change...
  • Found You by Molly Black

    Found You by Molly Black

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A notorious stretch of highway is rife with serial killers, unsolved murders and missing-persons cases. The FBI, knowing it must crack this Bermuda Triangle of death, assigns its most brilliant mind—and flawed agent—Rylie Wolf, to dive headfirst into this road of danger...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  female-mc  mystery  fiction  audiobook  book
  • Her Last Wish by Blake Pierce

    Her Last Wish by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    FBI Agent Rachel Gift, 33, unparalleled for her ability to enter the minds of serial killers, is a rising star in the Behavioral Crimes Unit—until a routine doctor visit reveals she has but a few months left to live.Not wishing to burden others with her pain, Rachel decides, agonizing as it is, not to tell anyone—not even her boss, her partner, her husband, or her seven-year-old daughter...
  • Keeping Secrets by L.A. Dobbs

    Keeping Secrets by L.A. Dobbs

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When long-time White Rock resident Mike Donnelly is found dead at his hunting camp, it appears as if the tragic death was by his own hand. But a gut feeling tells Chief of Police Sam Mason otherwise...
  • Blood in the Bayou by C.M. Sutter

    Blood in the Bayou by C.M. Sutter

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    On her first assignment since her promotion to SSA status in the Serial Crimes Unit of the FBI, Jade Monroe and her new partner, Lorenzo DeLeon, are tasked to southern Louisiana, where disturbing discoveries have been made. Human bones have been found in numerous sites deep in bayou country, and the locals aren’t too excited about having outsiders poking around in their business...
  • All Eyes on Me by Linsey Lanier

    All Eyes on Me by Linsey Lanier

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The Las Vegas desert.A once famous pop singer lies dead.The only clue to her murder—a bizarre disfigurement.Only one thing to do.Call in Parker and Steele.To avoid the hassle of a media frenzy, the local police sergeant decides contact his old mentor, Wade Parker, and ask him to consult on the case.After nearly dying eight months ago, Miranda Steele can't wait to get back to real detective work...
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    cozy  crime  law-enforcement  suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction
  • Hide Me Away by Lauren Street

    Hide Me Away by Lauren Street

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ex-police officer Rileigh Bishop never wanted to come back to her hometown. But when a dead teenage girl is found with her tongue cut out, she must return. After all, that’s the same way Rileigh’s sister died.Reluctantly, she joins forces with the county sheriff to solve the brutal murder. The locals maintain a strict code of silence...
  • The Color of Lies by Debra Burroughs

    The Color of Lies by Debra Burroughs

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    If you've become hooked on the Paradise Valley Mystery series, no doubt the sizzling romantic chemistry between Emily and Colin has kept you coming back for more.  The Color of Lies, a Bridge Short Story, is the story of Colin Andrews before he came to Paradise Valley to become the Police Detective and what really happened to his previous fiancee, Miranda...
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    cozy  crime  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  fiction  mystery
  • Fear in February by Camilla Chafer

    Fear in February by Camilla Chafer

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Camilla Chafer comes a brand new mystery. Welcome to Calendar where life is sweet, but death is murder. Ally McKellar loves owning and running her own restaurant, Belle Rose. After working in a busy New York restaurant, managing her own kitchen is like a breath of fresh air...
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    cozy  crime  law-enforcement  suspense  adult  book  fiction  mystery
  • Not Like He Seemed by Ava Strong

    Not Like He Seemed by Ava Strong

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    NOT LIKE HE SEEMED (An Ilse Beck FBI Suspense Thriller) is book #2 in a new series by mystery and suspense author Ava Strong.FBI Special Agent Ilse Beck, victim of a traumatic childhood in Germany, moved to the U.S. to become a renowned psychologist specializing in PTSD, and the world’s leading expert in the unique trauma of serial-killer survivors...
  • An Ear for Murder by Diane Weiner

    An Ear for Murder by Diane Weiner

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Oboist Sara Baron agrees to cat sit for a childhood friend but instead of being greeted by a meowing fluff ball, she walks into a ransacked house and stumbles over her friend’s dead body. Frantic, she runs next door and enlists the help of a mysterious stranger who knows more than he admits...
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    cozy  suspense  female-mc  mystery  fiction  audiobook
  • Busman's Honeymoon by Jenna Bennett

    Busman's Honeymoon by Jenna Bennett

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s official. Margaret Anne Martin’s perfect daughter Savannah has tied the knot with her unsuitable boyfriend Rafe Collier, and they’re off on their honeymoon to sunny Florida, courtesy of Savannah’s brother Dix and sister Catherine...
  • Girl, Unknown by Blake Pierce

    Girl, Unknown by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    FBI Agent Ella Dark has studied serial killers from the time she could read, devastated by the murder of her own sister, and has gained an encyclopedic knowledge of murderers. But when a prolific serial killer begins terrorizing the area, Ella suspects there’s more going on than meets the eye.FBI Agent Ella Dark, 29, is given her big chance to achieve her life’s to join the Behavioral Crimes Unit...
  • Riot Act by Zoë Sharp

    Riot Act by Zoë Sharp

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A self-defence expert with a motorbike and an attitude, Charlie Fox doesn't need to go looking for trouble. It generally finds her. Housesitting for a friend seemed easy at first but the house is in the Lavender Garden Estate. Teenage gangs are running riot and desperate neighbours have employed a ruthless security firm to apply rough justice...
  • 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...
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