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  • Gators and Garters by Jana Deleon

    Gators and Garters by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    ‘Til death do us part?Ida Belle, Fortune, and Gertie are gearing up for the big day—Ida Belle’s wedding to Walter—but when the caterer goes missing just a week before the big day, it puts a huge black mark on the joyous celebration...
  • Fortune Funhouse by Jana Deleon

    Fortune Funhouse by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The traveling carnival has made its stop in Sinful and everyone is ready for thrilling rides, challenging games, and most importantly, funnel cake. But when a man is murdered in the funhouse and Emmaline LeBlanc is knocked unconscious so the killer can escape, the good times are over...
  • Change of Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Change of Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sinful, Louisiana, is always a hotbed of activity, and despite the steamy heat, August is no exception. Godzilla is terrorizing the town, looking for a home-cooked meal, and Gertie is worried someone will take the gator out before she can get him under control. Francine has a situation of her own at the café, where food is missing from inventory. And Celia is always up to no good...
  • A Merciful Promise by Kendra Elliot

    A Merciful Promise by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The Wall Street Journal bestselling series continues as Mercy Kilpatrick becomes embedded in the nightmare of a terrorist conspiracy.The job: infiltrate a militia amassing illegal firearms in an isolated forest community. FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick is the ideal candidate. She knows Oregon. She’s near the compound...
  • Cajun Fried Felony by Jana Deleon

    Cajun Fried Felony by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Venus Thibodeaux had a reputation for being trouble. Some said she started at birth. When she finally left Sinful shortly after turning eighteen, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. When she blew back into town four years later, no one was happy about her return...
  • Swamp Santa by Jana Deleon

    Swamp Santa by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It’s Christmas in Sinful and Fortune is set to participate in all the local hoopla. A Christmas gala, caroling, and a sleigh ride are on the agenda. Murder is not. But when someone bumps off Santa, Fortune is aware a killer is lurking among the holiday cheer...
  • Swamp Sweets by Jana Deleon

    Swamp Sweets by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It’s November in Sinful and everyone is gearing up for Thanksgiving. But when Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie bag a body on their turkey hunting trip, the quiet enjoyment of fall is over. No one really knew Miles Broussard well, and as he’d recently sold the building his business was in to retire in another state, no one could explain how he’d ended up murdered and dumped in the bayou...
  • One Foot in the Grave by Denise Grover Swank

    One Foot in the Grave by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The third book in the Carly Moore series by Denise Grover Swank.The dead can’t speakAfter months of living in the Smoky Mountains town of Drum, Tennessee, Carly knows firsthand the financial hardship the citizens face. Still, she can’t muster the same excitement as everyone else when town patriarch Bart Drummond breaks ground on his new resort that promises more jobs and money...
  • Right Behind Her by Melinda Leigh

    Right Behind Her by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The discovery of human remains unearths another nightmare from Sheriff Bree Taggert’s past in a bone-chilling thriller by #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh.Twenty-seven years ago, Sheriff Bree Taggert’s father killed her mother, then himself. Now Bree and her younger brother, Adam, find human bones on the grounds of their abandoned family farm...
  • Twined Bond by Emma Hart

    Twined Bond by Emma Hart

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    All is well in Holly Woods. My best friend's love triangle is now a happy little circle. My sister-in-law just gave birth to my gorgeous new niece who is the world's best cuddler, and Nonna's—kind of—not on my back every ten minutes about the fact we're getting married in one month. *Supposedly.* Until the mayor's niece—our baker for the wedding—commits suicide...
  • Reel of Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Reel of Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Nothing says Welcome Home like a murder. It’s official. Fortune Redding is out of the CIA and a newly minted resident of Sinful, Louisiana. She never expected her homecoming to be all apple pie and hugs, but a murder wasn’t on her list of things to deal with before she’d even gotten her name stenciled on her mailbox...
  • Hurricane Force by Jana Deleon

    Hurricane Force by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon, the seventh book in the Miss Fortune series. A force to be reckoned with… During missions as a CIA assassin, Fortune Redding saw and overcame most every obstacle, but Sinful, Louisiana, keeps producing new challenges for her. When a hurricane blows through, it brings a shower of counterfeit money raining down on the tiny bayou town...
  • In the Air Tonight by Marie Force

    In the Air Tonight by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I was there. I saw what you did.BlaiseI wasn’t supposed to be there that night, but my friend Sienna talked me into going to the party in Land’s End so she could spy on her boyfriend. While hiding out in the woods, we witnessed an unspeakable crime. And we did everything wrong afterward.Connections run deep in our small town...
  • Frightfully Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Frightfully Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Rest when you’re dead?It’s time for the annual Halloween festival in Sinful, and Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie can’t wait to suit up and enjoy the food and activities. But when a dead man gallops through the park on a black stallion and slides to a decapitated stop right in front of Swamp Team 3, they know another festival is about to be turned on its head…so to speak...
  • Bones Don't Lie by Melinda Leigh

    Bones Don't Lie by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Shocking evidence hits close to home for attorney Morgan Dane and PI Lance Kruger as Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s acclaimed series continues. Private investigator Lance Kruger was just a boy when his father vanished twenty-three years ago...
  • Secret in the Santa by Kathi Daley

    Secret in the Santa by Kathi Daley

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
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  • The Truth in Tiramisu by Rachael Bloome

    The Truth in Tiramisu by Rachael Bloome

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Eliza Carter can't keep a secret.Except the one she's been hiding for over eight years. And it's not the recipe for her world-famous tiramisu. With her bakery undergoing a remodel, her son struggling in school, and planning her best friend's wedding, Eliza's secret is the last thing on her mind. Until her high school sweetheart reappears, stirring up old feelings faster than her electric mixer...
  • A Streak of Bad Cluck by Ellen Riggs

    A Streak of Bad Cluck by Ellen Riggs

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With hens like these, who needs enemies?Ivy is finally starting to feel at home on Runaway Farm and she’s even settled the feathers of a formerly feisty neighbor with frequent gourmet food bribes. Unless the nosy neighbor has an ulterior motive, that is. She’s as sly as Ivy’s runaway sow.New guests descend on the inn and Ivy puts the mayhem of recent weeks behind her...
  • Backrush by Jana Deleon

    Backrush by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The sea heals all things.Tempest Island has weathered the worst of storms and still stands proud, providing its residents with the healing power of the sea and sun. When Alayna Scott’s life falls spectacularly apart, both professionally and personally, the executive chef’s only thought is getting back home to the island and her aunt Bea...
  • Blind Bake by Denise Grover Swank

    Blind Bake by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a young woman is at the wrong place at the wrong time, she becomes a person of interest in a murder investigation. Maddie Baker just wants to make ends meet. She gave up her school librarian career to return to her hometown and take care of her elderly aunt...
  • One in Vermillion by Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer

    One in Vermillion by Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the NY Times Bestselling duo that wrote Agnes and the Hitman, the third book in a new trilogy.Liz Danger is stuck in her hometown of Burney, Ohio, because her insane employer has rented a house there for the summer, which means she has three more months of trying to get a copy edit done, babysitting a seven-year-old, and figuring out what to do with three hundred and ninety-two teddy bears...
  • Bred in the Bone by Kendra Elliot

    Bred in the Bone by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the fourth Widow’s Island novella by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kendra Elliot, the truth of a twenty-year disappearance will finally come to light. When the town drunk ends up dead in a hit-and-run, FBI special agent Cate Wilde expects that solving the case will be cut and dried. But evidence quickly surfaces that the victim was involved with another crime...
  • Buried Bones by Melinda Leigh

    Buried Bones by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A college student’s murder shines light on community secrets left in the dark in the seventh Widow’s Island novella by #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh.All communities have their secrets…but on Widow’s Island, there’s a skeleton in every closet, as Deputy Tessa Black knows all too well...
  • A Broken Bone by Melinda Leigh

    A Broken Bone by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The mysterious death of a local teen leads to a hunt for a killer in the sixth Widow’s Island novella by #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh.On Widow’s Island, the secrets are dark…and everybody has one. So when Deputy Tessa Black responds to a call about an explosion in a quiet neighborhood, she gets more than she bargained for: the body of a teen who went missing weeks ago...
  • Corpse in the Carnations by Dale Mayer

    Corpse in the Carnations by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Riches to rags. … Chaos calms. … Crime quiets. … But does it really? After getting involved in two murder cases in the short time she’s lived in picturesque Kelowna, divorcee and gardener Doreen Montgomery has developed a reputation almost as notorious as her Nan’s...
  • Montana Ranger's Wedding Vow by Elle James

    Montana Ranger's Wedding Vow by Elle James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dallas Hayes muscled her way through Army Ranger training only to be considered a curse on her all-male unit in an operation in Syria. When half the team is killed, she’s left Injured, losing the lower portion of her left leg. Back in the States, she’s fitted with a prosthetic, still jogs and works out, but she’s medically discharged. Angry and resentful, she doesn't trust anyone...
  • Rest in Pink by Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer

    Rest in Pink by Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From the NY Times Bestselling duo that wrote Agnes and the Hitman, the second book in a new series.Liz Danger is a ghostwriter, trapped in her old hometown for the summer...
  • Forgotten Legacy by Robin Perini

    Forgotten Legacy by Robin Perini

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Forgotten secrets. Forgotten lies. A family legacy…A determined killer. On the outskirts of Singing River, Wyoming, a couple dies in a fire that ravages their remote mountain home. Everyone believes it’s a tragic accident—except FBI profiler Riley Lambert. She isn’t convinced, and neither is her fiancé, ex–Navy SEAL turned sheriff Thayne Blackwood...
  • Dirty Laundry by Liliana Hart

    Dirty Laundry by Liliana Hart

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A new novel in the New York Times bestselling series: Coroner JJ Graves and her husband Sheriff Jack Lawson are back on the job when the body of an elderly woman is found in Bloody Mary. Rosalyn McGowen is everyone’s favorite great-grandmother. She always has baked treats in her bag, she smells of roses, and she takes in stray cats. No one knows who could hurt a sweet old lady...
  • Espresso and Evil by Agatha Frost

    Espresso and Evil by Agatha Frost

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The 6th book in the BESTSELLING Peridale Cafe Cozy Mystery series!When a coffee shop opens in the village, Julia is surprised when her customers flock to the new business, leaving her café almost empty...
  • The Devil's Spare Change by Samantha A. Cole

    The Devil's Spare Change by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    FBI agent Sean Malone put in a transfer to return home to North Carolina in order to be closer to his expanding family. What he didn’t expect was a pleasant surprise from his youth. Little Gracie Whitman is all grown up now and drop-dead gorgeous, and he finds himself thinking about her in ways he’d never done before...
  • Blazing Summer by Denise Grover Swank

    Blazing Summer by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Summer Butler is killing it in the ratings—and all of America is tuning in as New York Times bestselling author Denise Grover Swank greenlights a new season of TV’s hottest sleuth… Summer Butler had no idea that Darling Investigations would be such a smash. But ratings don’t lie—fans love watching the former star solve real-life crimes in her hometown...
    Categorized as:
    cozy  crime  female-mc  law-enforcement  adult  audiobook  book  comedy
  • The Skeleton in the Closet by Angie Fox

    The Skeleton in the Closet by Angie Fox

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    **USA Today Bestselling series!**From New York Times bestseller Angie Fox, the second book in the Southern Ghost Hunter mysteriesA haunted library is no place for a girl who can see ghosts, but when Verity Long stumbles on a dead body in the middle of the main reading room, she has to believe someone…even a dead someone…must have witnessed the crime...
  • Below the Bones by Kendra Elliot

    Below the Bones by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A former FBI special agent must come out of retirement to solve a murder in the fifth novella in the Widow’s Island series from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kendra Elliot.Former FBI special agent Cate Wilde is a new bakery and bookstore owner—and retirement is now complete with a doctor boyfriend...
  • Truth Be Told by Kendra Elliot

    Truth Be Told by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A torrential two-day storm has cut off the small town of Solitude, Oregon, from the outside world. But for police officers Stevie Duncan and her husband, Zane, the ravages of nature have nothing on the nature of man...
  • Burned by Her Devotion by Melinda Leigh

    Burned by Her Devotion by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In the second Rogue Vows novella, the town of Solitude, Oregon, will learn that good TV makes for terrible reality. When Chase Ryan, a popular crime TV star, turns up dead, the entire town of Solitude is shaken—but the show isn’t over yet. The confessed murderer is violently abducted on the way to the county jail, and now Detective Seth Harding must find both the killer and the kidnapper...
  • Her Last Goodbye by Melinda Leigh

    Her Last Goodbye by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s Morgan Dane series continues as the fearless attorney and her partner, investigator Lance Kruger, take on a disturbing disappearance…Young mother Chelsea Clark leaves the house for a girls’ night out…and vanishes. Her family knows she would never voluntarily leave her two small children...
  • Bluegrass Undercover by Kathleen Brooks

    Bluegrass Undercover by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In her first follow-up to the Best Selling Bluegrass Series, Kathleen Brooks brings Keeneston back to life through the Davies Brothers. Cade Davies had too much on his plate to pay attention to newest resident of Keeneston. He was too busy avoiding the Davies Brothers marriage trap set by half the town...
  • The Reunion: The Secret of Cypriere Bayou by Jana Deleon

    The Reunion: The Secret of Cypriere Bayou by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An heiress comes home to terror in New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon's Mystere Parish: Family Inheritance miniseries.  Bodyguard to an heiress is Tyler Duhan's idea of hell. The steely, sexy ex-marine has heard—and dismissed—the gossip about the haunted old LeBeau mansion and its "cursed" heiresses...
  • Dirty Money by Liliana Hart

    Dirty Money by Liliana Hart

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When the past meets the present… King George County, Virginia has it’s share of crime, but it’s generally a good place to live and raise a family. So when a string of violent murders sweeps through the county, J.J. Graves and her husband, Sheriff Jack Lawson, are left scratching their heads. It’s soon discovered all the victims have a connection—Malachi Graves—J.J.’s father...
  • Marshal by Jodi Burnett

    Marshal by Jodi Burnett

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The U.S. Marshals service seeks a K9 Unit for their elite strike team tasked with hunting down America's most wanted criminals. Caitlyn Reed and her K9 partner, Renegade, are called up to the varsity to face this harrowing challenge. Has she bitten off more than she can handle?Moose Creek Sheriff Colt Branson finds himself in the foray as a part of the U.S...
  • No Holding Back by Lori Foster

    No Holding Back by Lori Foster

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Not needing him won’t stop her from wanting him…Trucker Sterling (Star) Parson is no stranger to the challenges a woman faces, both in her industry and in life. But she can take care of herself. She’s never needed—or wanted—a man around...until she meets Cade McKenzie. The take-charge bar owner sets off all kinds of alarm bells for Sterling, but he also sets her heart racing...
  • Vanilla Bean Vengeance by Agatha Frost

    Vanilla Bean Vengeance by Agatha Frost

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The FIRST BOOK in a BRAND NEW cozy mystery series!Claire Harris loves nothing more than crafting homemade candles. She has always dreamed of one day opening a quaint candle shop in her home village of Northash, but at thirty-five, she still can't afford to take the risk. Stuck in a dead-end job at the local candle factory, and back living with her parents, Claire knows her life needs a shakeup...
    Categorized as:
    cozy  crime  female-mc  romance  mystery  fiction  contemporary  wlw
  • Chocolate Cake and Chaos by Agatha Frost

    Chocolate Cake and Chaos by Agatha Frost

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The 4th book in the BESTSELLING Peridale Cafe Cozy Mystery series is 28th April 2017! A funeral wreath is delivered to Barker’s cottage. Is it a prank, or a grim warning? Julia’s fears that somebody is trying to kill Barker are confirmed when a dead body with a striking resemblance to him is found on his doorstep the very next day, just as their romance is deepening...
  • Macarons and Mayhem by Agatha Frost

    Macarons and Mayhem by Agatha Frost

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Excitement blossoms through Peridale when a prestigious gardening magazine picks the village as the spotlight for their next issue, but that joy quickly turns to dread when members of the local gardening society, The Peridale Green Fingers, start dying one by one after their obituaries are sent to The Peridale Post the day before their murders...
  • Murder in the Cookbook Nook by Ellery Adams

    Murder in the Cookbook Nook by Ellery Adams

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The witty new story from the bestselling author of The Secret Book & Scone Society series is perfect for bibliophiles who love a A Bookish Cook-Off with a little murder on the side… Six chefs are preparing to compete in an outdoor tent at Storyton Hall in Virginia for prizes that will boost their careers—but is there someone who can’t stand the heat? It looks that way when one of the...
  • A Circle of Crows by Kelsey Kingsley

    A Circle of Crows by Kelsey Kingsley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nothing ever happens in Fort Crow, Scotland, or so Inspector Alec Brodie thinks. But when the body of a tourist is found in the woods, the detective begins to see that things aren't all that they seem in the sleepy little town, especially when the murder is ruled as an accident...
  • On Her Watch by Melinda Leigh

    On Her Watch by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sheriff Bree Taggert becomes a target when she follows the twisting trail of a serial killer in a bone-chilling novel of suspense by #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh.A pair of hikers find a tarp-wrapped body in a clearing in the woods. When a search in the surrounding area yields two more, Sheriff Bree Taggert knows they’ve stumbled onto a serial killer’s dumping ground...
  • Living Fast by Adrienne Giordano

    Living Fast by Adrienne Giordano

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Green Beret Reid Steele needs a new career ASAP. After a knee injury permanently sidelines him from his dream job, Reid heads home to the mountains of Steele Ridge to regroup, but small-town life isn’t cutting it for a man accustomed to action. When sexy boutique owner Brynne Whitfield captures his attention, Reid thinks he’s found the perfect distraction from boredom...
  • The Fearless One by Lori Foster

    The Fearless One by Lori Foster

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Count on Lori Foster for sexy, edgy romance.” —Jayne Ann Krentz, New York Times bestselling authorHe had it all planned…until she showed up. Jedidiah Stephens came to the Colorado Rockies for one to uncover the truth behind the fire that killed her family. She’s been chasing down clues, and everything has led her to an isolated campground...
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