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The Dantes by Day Leclaire
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 11 ratings“My favorite author!” Amazon Reader “What a story! I loved it!” Amazon Reviewer “I started this book hoping for something different and I got it! I loved it! I can’t wait to read the rest in the series!” Amazon Customer Some blazes, once ignited, can’t be extinguished. Just one burning touch connects a Dante with his soul mate. Book #1: Sev's Blackmailed Bride. He'd do anything to have her .. -
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings21 hours, 30 minutes #1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a stranger’s life twenty-five years later... -
Finding Love at Mermaid Terrace by Kate Forster
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLove comes when you least expect it...Tressa Buckland likes her quiet life in Port Lowdy, with its cobbled streets and colourful terraced houses overlooking the sea. Her job at the local paper allows her to pursue her art in her free time, with no one but her tabby cat Ginger Pickles to mind her in Mermaid Terrace...Categorized as:
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The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 87 ratingsPart blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation... -
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The Collected Stories of Richard Yates by Richard Yates
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsRichard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate and accomplished writers of America's post-war generation... -
Los renglones torcidos de Dios by Luca de Tena, Luca de Tena
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsthis book is from Andres Bello... -
Örökké by Laura Leiner
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratings„Okos kis könyv ez, elindult a saját útjára. Én pedig most magára hagyom, elengedem, hiszen én azt hiszem, mindent megtettem, amit lehetett, mindent úgy írtam, ahogy szerettem volna, most pedig elégedett vagyok az eredménnyel, mert tudom, én a kezdetek kezdetén valami ilyesmit akartam a végére. Nem egy finálét, elcsépelt ömlengést vagy túlcsavart szálakat... -
Charming My Broody Billionaire Boss: A Hot Romantic Comedy by Jolie Day
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe’s the devil himself: Damon Copeland (he practically carries a pitchfork).Fiery-hot and a killer smile (if he ever smiled).He’s also the top dog at my father’s company,And my brother’s best friend.Oh, and someone I accidentally slept with.In my defense, that was before I knew who he was—And before he hired me.Now, my one-night stand has turned into my boss.What’s worse, he’s Mr... -
Lighting the Sky by Katharine E. Smith
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAll is set to change for Alice and Sam as they expect their first child together. Just how they are going to fit themselves, their baby and Sam’s daughter Sophie into their little two-bed cottage is a mystery, but Alice is determined not to get stressed out...Categorized as:
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The Man Who Watched Women by Michael Hjorth, Hans Rosenfeldt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAs a heatwave blazes in Stockholm, a series of women are found brutally murdered and the Criminal Investigation Department is getting nowhere. The murders bear all the hallmarks of Edward Hinde, the serial killer jailed by psychological profiler Sebastian Bergman fifteen years earlier.Sebastian desperately needs some order in his chaotic life... -
Guilt by Ferdinand von Schirach
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis devastating dossier of savage stories takes us to the crimes that never reach the newspapers: small-town atrocities where the mundane lurches into the macabre and ordinary people find themselves at the heart of horrific crimes, all the more compelling on account of their truth... -
Stalker by Lars Kepler
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsDetective Joona Linna -- recently returned from compassionate leave -- reunites with hypnotist Erik Maria Bark in a search for a seemingly unassailable sadistic killer.The Swedish National Crime Unit receives a video of a young woman in her home, clearly unaware that she's being watched. Soon after the tape is received, the woman's body is found horrifically mutilated... -
Club Mafia - The Boss: A Dark Mafia Romance by Stella Andrews
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings★★★★★ The dark was never so goodI am The BossI make the rules and punish those who break them.I am good at my job.I arranged a marriage of the darkest kind.A business deal to align myself with a powerful family to start a war.The contract is clear. Be my wife in public and strangers in private.And then I met her.Jasmine Rossi.Reluctant mafia princess and rebel without a cause... -
Under the Surface by Diana Urban
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn epic survival-thriller about four teens who get lost in the Paris catacombs for days—a gripping and propulsive story of love, danger, betrayal, and hope… even when all seems lost.Ruby is terrified to cave to her feelings for Sean and risk him crushing her heart... -
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Rough Around The Edges: A LESBIAN ROMANCE NOVEL by Crystal Chard
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Fresh, fab and funny. The characters leap off the page and swear at you until you love them while the sweet romance quietly captures your heart." CLARE ASHTON.Roxanne Mackenzie is not exactly living her best life. After moving to London to follow her dream of becoming a writer, she thought things would be different – better. Instead, they’re a whole lot worse... -
Guiltless by Viveca Sten
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe tiny Swedish island of Sandhamn has always been a haven for lawyer Nora Linde. With trouble brewing in her marriage, she finds its comforts more welcome than ever, even in the depths of winter. That is, until her two young sons trip across a severed arm in the woods... -
Tonight You’re Dead by Viveca Sten
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSoon to be divorced, attorney Nora Linde is finding her way as a single mother, and even falling in love again, when she’s asked by her childhood friend Detective Thomas Andreasson to help in a disturbing investigation... -
Lazarus by Lars Kepler
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSometimes the past won't stay buried.All across Europe, the most ruthless criminals are suffering gruesome deaths. At first, it seems coincidental that their underworld affiliations are finally catching up to them. But when two of the victims are found to have disturbing connections to Detective Joona Linna, it becomes clear that there's a single killer at work... -
The Fire Witness by Lars Kepler
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsPsychologically tense and as fast-paced as The Hypnotist, the third book in the Joona Linna series by Lars Kepler is already a worldwide sensation, appealing to fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo... -
Bloodhoof by Gerður Kristný
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBloodhoof is the re-casting into compulsively spare modern verse of an ancient Eddic poem - but this only begins to hint at its attractions. It is a minimalist epic telling of the abduction of Gerdur Gymisdottir from the land of giants to the court of Freyr of the 'wolf-grey eyes', and the subsequent events culminating in the birth of her son and her hopes of being saved by her own kin... -
Model Undercover: London by Carina Axelsson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPosing as a model gets Axelle the kinds of connections that make her the fashion elite's go-to detective. Her newest case? The attack on famous fashion photographer Gavin Tempest that's left him in the hospital. The police may have ruled it a mugging, but Gavin's sister has special intel for Axelle that points to something more sinister.. -
Star Crossed by J.S. Taylor
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe final instalment in the bestselling Starlight Trilogy... A young singer and a dangerous mentor 'X Factor meets Fifty Shades - I can't get enough of this series!' Total Book Blog The last book in the Starlight Trilogy sees Summer and Adam explore the dangerous depths of their relationship. But when Adam opens his heart, a deadly threat could tear them both apart... -
The Certainty of Chance by Jacquelyn Middleton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT DECEMBER…Madeleine Joy is feeling more meh than merry. When an Icelandic volcano erupts six days before Christmas, hazardous ash congests European airspace, canceling flights indefinitely—including the thirtysomething's connection to Paris... -
Cimitirul by Adrian Teleşpan, Maria Zurbagiu
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAdrian Green este un homosexual român care se mută la Londra pentru că.. e obosit. Deși nu prea mai are chef de muncă, își găsește, totuși, un job: administrator de cimitir.Pe măsură ce interacționează cu diverși clienți, vii sau morți, Adrian ne spune exact ce crede el despre religie, bani, sex sau moarte, concepte pe care le descrie cu o sinceritate crudă, foarte mult umor si sarcasm... -
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Grand Hotel Europa by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA sweeping, atmospheric novel about European identity, centered on a hotel that encapsulates the continent's manifold contradictions. The love of my life lives in my past. Despite the alliteration it's a terrible line to have to write... -
Hidden in Snow by Viveca Sten
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe splendor of the Swedish mountains becomes the backdrop for a bone-chilling crime.On the day Stockholm police officer Hanna Ahlander’s personal and professional lives crash, she takes refuge at her sister’s lodge in the Swedish ski resort paradise of Åre. But it’s a brief comfort. The entire village is shaken by the sudden vanishing of a local teenage girl... -
The Fairy Gunmother by Daniel Pennac
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsMaybe the worst indignity for a Paris cop is to be shot dead by an old granny he is trying to help cross the street in Paris on a frosty morning. An old lady needs protection with so many druggies around these days. Dressed as an elderly Vietnamese woman, Inspector Van Thian goes to investigate... -
Swan Song by John Galsworthy
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1928. English novelist, playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932, Galsworthy became known for his portrayal of the British upper middle class and for his social satire. To readers of Galsworthy there is a special significance in this novel for it marks the passing of Soames Forsyte and brings the annals of the Forsyte family to an end... -
עניינים אנושיים by Karine Tuil, קארין טואיל
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsמשפחת פארל היא לכאורה משפחה פריזאית לדוגמה: ז'אן הוא פרשן פוליטי ותיק ומוערך, קלייר היא סופרת ופעילה פמיניסטית בולטת, ובנם אלכסנדר הוא סטודנט באוניברסיטת סטנפורד היוקרתית בארצות הברית.אלא שמאחורי תדמית המשפחה המצליחה מסתתרים חיים כפולים של שני בני הזוג, חיים שמתנפצים לעין כול כאשר אלכסנדר מואשם באונס בתו של המאהב של קלייר. הבן הנערץ טוען שהכול קרה בהסכמה... -
The Corner Shop by Elizabeth Cadell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAvailable for the first time on Kindle! Lucille Abbey runs her London secretarial agency with utmost efficiency. When, therefore, a certain Professor Hallam rejects three girls sent by her to apply for the post of his secretary and they each pronounce him “impossible”, Lucille herself sets out to interview the Professor at his home in Hampshire... -
Craving by Cara McKenna
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis is the second title in the Curio Vignettes series, follow-up stories to the novel Curio. What a difference a season makes. In the spring, Caroly arrived on Didier Pedra’s doorstep in Paris as so many women have—ready to buy an evening’s pleasure with a gorgeous man skilled in the craft of seduction. She was a trembling virgin then, but so much has changed... -
Death by Baguette: A Valentine's Day Murder in Paris by Jennifer S. Alderson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDeath by Baguette: A Valentine’s Day Murder in ParisParis—the city of love, lights … and murder? Join tour guide Lana Hansen as she escorts five couples on an unforgettable Valentine-themed vacation to France! Unfortunately it will be the last trip for one passenger…Lana Hansen’s future is looking bright. She has money in her bank account, a babysitter for her cat, and even a boyfriend... -
Reversal by Cara McKenna
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is the third title in the Curio Vignettes series, follow-up stories to the novel Curio. Didier Pedra can read a woman’s body like a book, sense her deepest needs and satisfy her every craving. It’s his job, after all. But drop him in the center of Paris, the only city he’s ever known, and he’s lost, reduced to a trembling wreck by agoraphobia... -
The Heart's Domination by Emily Jane Trent
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNatalie gave her body, but he took her heart. Does she have his? Will her love be enough for both of them? The sex gets hotter, and Tanner just might get burned. “A white rose lay on the table beside Natalie. Swept up in the moment, Tanner had purchased the single rose from a street vendor, and presented it to her with a gallant bow... -
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Bound By Love by Emily Jane Trent
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNatalie’s submission has Tanner’s desire spiraling out of control. She’s in touch with sexual pleasures she never dreamed of, and can’t imagine life without him. Tanner admits to his obsession with Natalie, but is that all it is? “I never met a woman I crave, like I crave you. It’s not so much what we do, as how we do it. There are no words. It’s different with you... -
Playing It Close by Kat Latham
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhere do you go to escape everything when you're one of the most famous rugby players in the world? For Liam Callaghan, that place is a remote lodge on Venezuela's Caribbean coast. Perfect, except he doesn't exactly want to be alone with his thoughts. Enter Tess Chambers, the ultimate distraction... -
Charlotte in Paris by Annie Bryant
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWill Charlotte find Orangina and reunite with her Paris friends, or will a missing drawing by a famous artist send Charlotte and Sophie on a wild goose chase for a mysterious stranger..Categorized as:
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Master's Flame by Annabel Joseph
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the sexually charged world of Cirque du Monde, CEO Michel Lemaitre reigns as king of depravity. He’s a stringent, brutal Master who selects his slaves based on their ability to cope with strict handling and pain. He exerts rigid control over his chosen partners and they submit to him in all things—that is, until fiery Italian acrobat Valentina Sancia enters his life... -
Gaudete by Amy Rae Durreson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEvery Christmas, child chorister Jonah Lennox used to meet Callum Noakes at Aylminster cathedral when Callum's mother came to sell roasted chestnuts at the market. After years of friendship, an argument separates them, apparently forever. Putting away the memories of his lost friend, Jonah left the cathedral and moved on with his life... -
The Maharaja’s Fake Fiancée by Alisha Kay
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA scandal-averse Maharaja.A free-spirited actress.What do you get when throw them together and add a fake engagement to the mix?Depending on whom you ask, you either get a match made-in-heaven or a royal disaster. Nivy Sharma knows exactly what she needs - the freedom to be herself and follow her passion. Guess what she doesn’t need? A tailor-made husband... -
The Colony by Annika Norlin
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA mega best-seller in Sweden, with rights sold to over a dozen countries and a TV adaptation underway, Annika Norlin’s debut novel The Colony is the biggest Swedish literary phenomenon since Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove...Categorized as:
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Spring in London by Ilana Tan
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsGadis itu tidak menyukainya. Kenapa? Astaga, ia—Danny Jo—adalah orang yang baik. Sungguh! Ia selalu bersikap ramah, sopan dan menyenangkan... -
Closed Circles by Viveca Sten
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt’s a beautiful day for a regatta—until one of Sandhamn Island’s most prestigious residents is killed aboard his sailing yacht.Oscar Juliander was a rich lawyer and deputy chairman of the prestigious Royal Swedish Yacht Club. While at first his death seems like a tragic accident, there is evidence of foul play... -
Spring Tide by Cilla & Rolf Börjlind, Rolf Börjlind
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA gripping, cinematic crime thriller from the scriptwriters known as the king and queen of Scandinavian crime, expertly crafted and full of twists and turnsThe spring tides are the highest of the year in Nordkoster; the beach will be covered in particularly deep water tonight. Three men on the beach are digging a hole, covertly watched by a young boy... -
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The Creak on the Stairs by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen a body of a woman is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, it soon becomes clear that she’s no stranger to the area... -
Solo Faces by James Salter
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis novel exposes the obsession that draws climbers away from civilization to test themselves against the most intimidating and inaccessible mountains in the world.James Salter captures the adventure of Gary, a roofer of churches, who feels restrained by conventions and flat ground. Unable to find happiness in his life, he travels to southern France to climb to the summits of the Alps...Categorized as:
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Payoff by L.A. Witt, Aleksandr Voinov
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTristan and Jared have got it made. When they aren’t raking in the cash together at Market Garden, they’re burning up their own sheets and getting closer by the day. But something isn’t right. Tristan’s on edge, and Jared doesn’t understand why. Before they can hash things out, their services are requested by none other than Rolex. And Rolex doesn’t just want to be a bystander this time... -
The Chasing Diaries by Pamela Ann
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRead this after you have read the first novel, Chasing Beautiful. A short novella about Kyle + Sienna + Blake. Sienna Richards was excited to start anew and follow her dreams to study in England--leaving her boyfriend behind, Kyle. She thought since they had gone through so much together, nothing can ever come in between them... -
Star Struck by J.S. Taylor
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe latest read from bestselling romance author JS Taylor!First rule of fame. Don’t fall in love...Summer Evans is a singer with a big talent. So when her girl group gets a shot at the big time, she knows her break has finally come.But when musician Adam Morgan hears her sing, Summer is about to get more than she bargained for. Because Adam doesn’t want Summer’s girl band. He wants her... -
London Bound by Nana Malone
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt wasn’t exactly like spunky, photography student, Abbie Nartey ran away from her life…except, that she left under the cover of darkness and put three thousand miles between her and her ex-boyfriend’s betrayal. She went to London searching for her dream. She never expected to find love, or herself...
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