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Flame and Fortune by Jana Deleon
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNo smoke without a fire. It’s New Year’s in Sinful, and the competition for the New Year’s Queen is heating up as the warring churches go head-to-head. Fortune Redding is not the sequined dress kind of woman, but reluctantly agrees to partake in the debacle so that Ida Belle and Gertie can best their nemesis, Celia, who’s put up former Sinful mean girl RJ Rogers... -
Fortune Furlough by Jana Deleon
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt’s not a vacation until there’s a murder. Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie are finally off to Florida on the vacation they’ve always talked about. Days filled with white sand, turquoise water, and fruity drinks are the only thing on the agenda... -
Unwritten & Underwater by Amanda M. Lee
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAvery Shaw is living the dream … kind of. She’s officially moved to her dream house and her boyfriend Eliot Kane is making her host a housewarming party to show off the new digs to her family. All is going well – other than the endless arguments over food and hiding from Avery’s family, of course – until one of Avery’s enemies comes calling... -
Suckered by Gina LaManna
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Violet Society. Are you ready? When Lacey, Meg, and The Family find themselves buckled into airplane seats and jetting across the Atlantic Ocean, it’s not a sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride sort of flight. Between Meg’s new diet, Lacey’s feverish wedding nightmares, and an unwanted stowaway, the gang’s first trip out of the country promises to be one chaotic disaster... -
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Spiced by Gina LaManna
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLove is in the air at Casa Luzzi! Hearts, stars, and tiny gel-cling cupids line the windows while Meg, Clay, Anthony, and Lacey struggle to navigate the waters of their new and (mostly) improved relationships. But all is not sparkles and sprinkles over at the Luzzi Estate. With Marissa and Clarissa on the run from home, Lacey is tasked to find them – and find them fast... -
Shaved by Gina LaManna
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen a dazzling destination wedding brings the Luzzi Family to Hawaii, Lacey plans to take advantage of the sunshine and relaxation, along with a healthy diet of papaya and shaved ice. However, Lacey has her work cut out for her... -
Sliced by Gina LaManna
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWith Thanksgiving on the horizon, Lacey Luzzi is all set to cuddle her adorable baby and sexy husband after a giant feast. However, her plans turn belly-up when a dead body appears during the largest bake-off event in St. Paul history.Amelia Rapport, the front runner to win the state-wide bake-off, has landed face-down in a pool of royal icing, and, somehow, it’s Lacey’s job to save the event... -
Coma Girl: Part 5 by Stephanie Bond
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNEW! An Amazon exclusive! From the international bestselling author of STOP THE WEDDING! and the BODY MOVERS mystery series comes a new story of family drama, suspense, comedy, and romance. In COMA GIRL, a victim of a tragic event lies in a hospital bed, at the mercy of friends and relatives who think she can't hear them. But she SO can. COMA GIRL is a daily serial available on stephaniebond... -
S'mored by Gina LaManna
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLacey Luzzi just wants a s’more. After her grandfather gifts her a relaxing weekend at his luxury cabin, Lacey packs her best friend Meg into the Lumina and together they take off, dreaming of a girls’ weekend filled with bonfires, boat rides, and work-free days. However, when three unexpected visitors show up on the doorstep of the Luzzi cabin, her plans of peace and quiet are foiled... -
Double Mint by Gretchen Archer
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsUSA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR "Seriously funny, wickedly entertaining. Davis gets me every time." - Janet Evanovich It's convention season at the Bellissimo Resort and Casino and Davis Way Cole barely notices. It's hard to pay attention when you live in a Jambalaya Junkyard... -
Double Knot by Gretchen Archer
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsUSA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR "Powerfully heartfelt and knock-your-socks-off hilarious. I'm a fan!" - Janet Evanovich Super Spy Davis Way sets sail on a Caribbean cruise aboard the MS Probability with fifty billionaires, a boatload of Louis Vuitton luggage, Anderson Cooper, and her mother. (Her mother?) The weather is perfect, the seas are calm, and Suite 704 is spectacular... -
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by Liliana Hart
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhat do an art forger, a missing clown and a dead cop have in common? Nothing except for Addison Holmes.Addison is back and better than ever. Err...or at least better than she was. She has the P.I. license to prove it and a stack full of cases to solve. But the biggest mystery is Nick. She knows he's keeping something important from her regarding one of her cases... -
Lucky Ride by Deborah Coonts
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWho would want to kill a clown? Lucky O’Toole, chief problem solver for the Babylon Hotel, the primo property on the Las Vegas Strip, isn’t in any mood to find out. For one, it’s New Year’s Day and Lucky’s birthday. And she hasn’t caught her breath after a chase to the death in Hong Kong and Macau. Her French chef is pushing to set the wedding date... -
No Such Thing as a Lost Cause by Shelly Fredman
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen rookie cop, Dave Wolinski is shot during a routine traffic stop, Brandy (who's along for the ride) finds herself face to face with the shooter; drug-crazed, pit bull fighting, gang member, Mario Lewis. Brandy shoots Lewis in self defense and becomes the target of gang retaliation... -
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Five Oh: Fifty is the New F-Word by Margaret Lashley
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEver Notice How a Wedding Ring and a Noose have the Same Basic Shape? Val’s always been unlucky at love – and a whole bunch of other things. But she’s never actually felt cursed. Until now. When fiancé Tom plans a romantic getaway and can’t go, one of Val’s pals goes instead. On the first day, her friend entangles Val in a prank that ticks off the wrong tourist... -
Whiskey and Gunpowder by Liliana Hart
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSomething old, Something new, Something borrowed, Something…bedazzled? In twenty-four hours, Addison Holmes will be a married woman. Maybe. A week to plan a wedding in the south is not for the fainthearted, but Addison (along with the help of her neurotic mother, unreliable sister, and unpredictable Aunt Scarlet) are determined to pull it off. There’s just one problem. Okay…two problems... -
Fargo by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWinner of the Academy Award as the best Original Screenplay of 1996.Set in the midst of the bleak midwinter snow drifts of the American Midwest, Fargo is a story of murder and mayhem.Stylistically, Fargo -in its observation of a specific Minnesota community-is at the opposite end of the spectrum from the post-modernism of The Hudsucker Proxy and the baroque hallucinations of Barton Fink... -
Salted by Gina LaManna
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAfter taking a gig with her grandfather – the Don of the Italian mafia – Lacey Luzzi has been in for a wild ride. Stolen property, rogue weddings and uncomfortable Family dinners – she’s seen it all. However this time, when Carlos interrupts Lacey’s sugar-induced nap with a phone call, he gives her an assignment that sends her skidding into a place she least expects: the local spa... -
Going Rogue: Rise and Shine Twenty-Nine (29) by Janet Evanovich
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsStephanie Plum breaks the rules, flirts with disaster, and shows who’s boss in this “fast and fun” (Publishers Weekly) thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich.Monday mornings aren’t supposed to be fun, but they should be predictable... -
The First Rumpole Omnibus by John Mortimer
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWho rose to enduring fame on Blood and Typewriters, told the pregnant Portia of the Chambers it would come out in the end, advised Guthrie Featherstone, Q.C... -
Murder Carries a Torch by Anne George
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTrue love never dies. Well…almost never.Though unalike as snowflakes, sisters Patricia Anne and Mary Alice share a sympathetic heart for their distraught cousin Luke—known affectionately in his boyhood as “Pukey Lukey,” because of his penchant for getting sick in moving vehicles... -
Rumble on the Bayou by Jana Deleon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDeputy Dorie Berenger knew the day would go from bad to worse when she found a stoned alligator in the town drunk’s swimming pool. Then DEA agent Richard Starke shows up in Gator Bait, Louisiana, giving out orders and insults faster than you can cast a fishing line... -
Murder Makes Waves by Anne George
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThose hilarious southern sisters, who prove that sibling rivalry never ends, are heading for a vacation at the beach... -
Whiskey, You're The Devil by Liliana Hart
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThings are looking up for Addison Holmes. She's about to take her P.I. exams, she's living in sin with the man of her dreams, and she hasn't had a phone call from her mother in three whole days. But she should have known things were too good to last... -
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Murder Gets a Life by Anne George
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPatricia Anne can’t imagine why Mary Alice is in such an uproar over her boy marrying sweet little Sunshine Dabbs. Ray found the Barbie doll lookalike on a trip to Bora Bora and Mary Alice is sure her new daughter-in-law is just after Ray’s money. The marriage is a done deal, but it’s only proper to pay a call on the family and see how bad things really are... -
Witch Silenced in Westerham by Dionne Lister
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Will invites Lily to meet his grandmother at the Saint Catherine Laboure care home for witches, she learns the residents have been dying at an alarming rate. Will's grandmother is scared she'll be next--but they put it down to the paranoid ramblings of a dementia patient. Until Will's grandmother dies unexpectedly for no apparent reason... -
Sandraker by Heide Goody, Iain Grant
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe aristocracy abide by a different set of rules......or so it seems to Sam Applewhite when her job brings her to Candlebroke Hall, the stately home. The burglary definitely wasn't what it appeared to be, and the subsequent accidents suggest that it's a dangerous place to spend time... -
Doggerland by Heide Goody, Iain Grant
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere's something very wrong at the Otterside care home.When Sam Applewhite tries to help a friend who's lost a beloved pet she finds that it's just the first in a series of seemingly unconnected deaths... -
Double Strike by Gretchen Archer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBellissimo Resort and Casino Super Spy Davis Way knows three things: Cooking isn't a prerequisite for a happy marriage, don't trust men who look like David Hasselhoff, and money doesn't grow on Christmas trees. None of which help when a storm hits the Gulf a week before the most anticipated event in Bellissimo history: the Strike It Rich Sweepstakes... -
Lucky Double: A Two-Book Lucky Bundle by Deborah Coonts
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA TWO-BOOK LUCKY STARTER SET! Book One: Wanna Get Lucky? AND Book Two: Lucky Stiff Haven’t met Lucky yet? Here’s your chance! EVERYONE HAS A HIDDEN TALENT For Lucky O’Toole it’s murder…solving it. Surviving in Sin City takes cunning, a pair of five-inch heels, and a wiseass attitude. Lucky has mastered them all and has a pair of legs she uses to kick butt and turn heads... -
Murder Shoots the Bull: A Southern Sisters Mystery by Anne George
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPatricia Anne would swear that either she or her sister Mary Alice were switched at birth, except they were both born at home.Flashy, flirtatious Mary Alice is one foot taller, twice the body weight of Patricia Anne, and three times as likely to do something completely off the wall... -
Murder on a Bad Hair Day by Anne George
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsArguing about everything from hair color to husbands, sisters Patricia Anne and Mary Alice dispute over two local artists and are shocked when the first artist is murdered and the second narrowly escapes the same fate... -
Murder Runs in the Family: A Southern Sisters Mystery by Anne George
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMary Alice has spared nothing for her only daughter's wedding -- from seventy-five yards of bridal train to gourmet food for over three hundred guests and enough glittering elegance to make Mary Alice think about finding herself a fourth rich husband to pay for it all... -
The Stingray Shuffle by Tim Dorsey
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsWhen serial-killing local Florida historian Serge A. Storms is off his meds, no one is safe -- not Russian hoods, Jamaican mobsters, spoiled frat boys, women's book clubs, drug dealers, bad Vegas-rejected local lounge acts -- especially when $5 million in cash in a bugged suitcase is still racing up and down the Eastern Seaboard... -
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GORGE by Katherine Carlson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA litany of confessions.A maze of tribulations.A test of endurance.Dangerously obese Marty Clawson persuades her cheating husband to dump her in the woods where she hopes to be scared skinny. But her fantasies about heroic outdoor survival flop as hard as her marriage... -
Noir by Renita Nozaria
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Kalau aku bilang aku suka kamu, kamu bakal jawab apa?""Sori, tapi lo bukan tipe gue.""Emang kurangnya aku apa, sih?""Lo itu masih SMA.""Cuma itu?""Lo punya tiga kakak cowok yang buasnya nyaingin raja hutan.""Itu aja?""Lo bisa liat hantu. Gue benci hantu. Apalagi pacaran sama cewek yang bisa liat hantu. Ogah!"Sebastian memang takut hantu... -
Lucky Break by Deborah Coonts
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith Christmas a few days away, Lucky O’Toole, Vice President of Customer Relations for the Babylon, Las Vegas’s premier Strip casino resort, is in a festive mood. The upcoming wedding of her assistant to the Beautiful Jeremy Whitlock and her own engagement to her delish French Chef, Jean-Charles Bouclet have Lucky in full holiday cheer.And even bigger celebrations are afoot... -
Dog Gone and Dead by Colleen Mooney
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Much Needed Vacation Turns Deadly A weekend getaway at the beach with Jiff was just what they both needed, but their plans for a relaxing escape are ruined when Brandy discovers a dead body under a pier. ˃˃˃ Does A Dog Holds The Key To Solving The Case? There’s a leash wrapped around the dead woman’s wrist and no dog... -
Lucky the Hard Way by Deborah Coonts
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs Christmases go, this one is proving a bit taxing for Lucky O’Toole, Vice President of Customer Relations for the Babylon, Las Vegas’ most over-the-top Strip resort casino.While facing a murder indictment, Teddie, Lucky’s former lover, has fled to Macau hot on the heels of the man everyone thinks is the real murderer, Irv Gittings... -
Not One Clue by Lois Greiman
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsL.A. psychologist Christina McMullen’s relationship with Detective Jack Rivera is heating up—until a client threatens to put a damper on their sparks. Chrissy has been counseling Micky Goldenstone to face the secrets from his past, but she had no idea that they would lead to a dangerous confrontation with a criminal even the police can’t protect her from... -
Uncorked by Lois Greiman, Caitlin Alexander
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe romance between LA psychologist Christina McMullen and Lieutenant Jack Rivera is finally sizzling...until Chrissy catches the lieutenant in a compromising position... -
You Only Live Once by Haris Orkin
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJames Flynn believes he's an expert shot, a black belt in karate, fluent in four languages and irresistible to women. He’s also a heavily medicated patient in a Los Angeles psychiatric hospital. Flynn believes his locked ward is the headquarters of Her Majesty’s Secret Service and that he is a secret agent with a license to kill... -
Nearly Departed by Shari Hearn
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsYou're invited to the hottest bash in Sinful, Louisiana. It's Gertie's Tenth Annual Funeral (because why have a funeral after she's gone and can't hear all the good things people say about her?) and she's pulling out all the stops, hoping to make this year's celebration the best one yet.Only someone has a different idea... -
Sparkled by Gina LaManna, Caitlin Kelly
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLacey, Clay and Meg are back—this time headed to...a wedding? Assignment Numero Dos for Lacey comes straight from the Godfather himself. When one of the Luzzi Family’s low-ranking associates is found dead, Carlos believes it may be the doing of the rival Russian mob, and he orders Lacey to find the killer... -
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The Case of the Damaged Detective by Drew Hayes
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA mystery/road trip/buddy comedy/action adventure from the author of Second Hand Curses. A dance club full of bodies. Cause of death - a mystery. The lone survivor - a man, raving like a lunatic, wearing only a deerstalker hat. Now, the man who calls himself Sherman Holmes is being studied like a lab rat by a top-secret government agency... -
Bake, Battle & Roll by Leighann Dobbs
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen Lexy Baker temporarily fills in for the pastry chef at a lakeside resort it seems like a great way to combine business and pleasure.... Until the head chef ends up with a knife through his chest and Lexy is found bending over the body.Suddenly, she finds herself in a race against time and battling a quirky dessert devouring detective to find the real killer in a long line of suspects... -
How to Raise an Elephant by Alexander McCall Smith
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe next book in the perennially adored No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series sees Precious Ramotswe calling upon all her maternal instincts when she's faced with a two-ton case. They say it takes a village to raise a child, but can Mma Ramotswe and the rest of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency come together to raise a pipsqueak pachyderm? We may find out in this novel. We may not... -
Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder by Kerryn Mayne
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLenny Marks is excellent at not having a life.She bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day, buys the same groceries for the same meals every week, and owns thirty-six copies of The Hobbit (currently arranged by height). The closest thing she has to a friendship is playing Scrabble against an imaginary Monica Gellar while watching Friends reruns... -
The Enigma of Garlic: 44 Scotland Street Series by Alexander McCall Smith
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe latest installment in the charming and congenial 44 Scotland Street series finds all our favorite residents of Scotland's most celebrated address up to their usual hilarious hijinks.It's the most anticipated event of the decade--Big Lou and Fat Bob's wedding--and everyone is invited! But the relative peace and tranquillity of 44 Scotland Street is about to be disrupted... -
Johnny Cakes by Paisley Ray
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's junior year and Rachael is psyched to ditch dorm life and share a house with her girlfriends. But, she can't shake the nigling feeling about the narcissistic live-in landlady, who has a history of derailing Rachael’s love life...
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