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  • Rogue Lies by Kathleen Brooks

    Rogue Lies by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The web has begun to untangle. Elizabeth James has been working in the shadows to take down the group that has quietly snatched power in nearly every part of society. But now, Elizabeth is no longer alone. Tate Carlisle was a respected television journalist until an investigation of the wrong person cut her career short. She may be off the air, but she’s not off the job...
  • Perfect Target by Barbara Freethy

    Perfect Target by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a yacht blows up in the Newport Beach Harbor killing a California congressman, FBI Agent Beck Murray is reminded of another night ten years earlier when a mega-yacht caught fire. Then a rookie cop, he pulled popular teenage TV star Piper Nolan out of the water. He's never forgotten her terror or her rambling story, but the investigation was shut down before it even got started...
  • Targeted by Kendra Elliot

    Targeted by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A Wall Street Journal bestseller All Detective Mason Callahan wanted was a quiet fishing trip with the guys—a chance to get away and unwind before Halloween.Until he finds the body of his boss, Denny Schefte, near their remote Oregon cabin. Now all he wants is to catch the sadist who slit Denny’s throat and covered his face with a mask...
  • Golden in Death by J.D. Robb

    Golden in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    In the latest thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, homicide detective Eve Dallas investigates a murder with a mysterious motive―and a terrifying weapon.Pediatrician Kent Abner received the package on a beautiful April morning. Inside was a cheap trinket, a golden egg that could be opened into two halves...
  • The Last Exchange by Charles Martin

    The Last Exchange by Charles Martin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    “Here’s the catch—even if I make it out of here alive, I need a reason to breathe again.”When MacThomas Pockets finished his last tour as part of the Scottish Special Forces, he was hired to consult for a film director to finesse some scenes that weren’t working. In a twist he never saw coming, he ended up moving to L.A. to work as the bodyguard for movie star Maybe Joe Sue...
  • Track Her Down by Melinda Leigh

    Track Her Down by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    For Sheriff Bree Taggert, a gruesome double murder exposes the secrets of the dead in a shocking novel of suspense by #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh.A teenager returns home from work and finds her parents shot to death in their bed. Responding to the call, Sheriff Bree Taggert realizes the crime wasn’t a burglary gone wrong. The couple was executed...
  • Coma Girl: part 3 by Stephanie Bond

    Coma Girl: part 3 by Stephanie Bond

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    NEW! 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...
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    crime  female-mc  humor  secrets  suspense  audiobook  book  comedy
  • Night Road by Kristin Hannah

    Night Road by Kristin Hannah

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Jude Farraday is a happily married, stay-at-home mom who puts everyone’s needs above her own. Her twins, Mia and Zach, are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill enters their lives, no one is more supportive than Jude. A former foster child with a dark past, Lexi quickly becomes Mia’s best friend. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable...
  • Coma Girl: part 2 by Stephanie Bond

    Coma Girl: part 2 by Stephanie Bond

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    NEW! 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.The COMA GIRL daily serial is available on stephaniebond...
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    crime  female-mc  humor  secrets  suspense  audiobook  book  comedy
  • Reckless Whisper by Barbara Freethy

    Reckless Whisper by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    FBI Special Agent Bree Adams has a personal secret, something she has managed to keep hidden for the past ten years-at least she always thought so… But a chance encounter on a train, and whispered words of chilling consequence change everything. Is the truth about to come out or is someone playing with her mind and her life? Nathan Bishop knew Bree when she was a street kid like him...
  • Bridged by Kendra Elliot

    Bridged by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    After a congressman’s tortured body is found dangling from a Portland bridge, the FBI joins the Oregon State Police to investigate the case—and FBI Special Agent Ava McLane, still recovering from a bullet wound, hunts the twisted killer alongside the man who captured her heart, police detective Mason Callahan...
  • Kray: Broken Deeds MC by Esther E. Schmidt

    Kray: Broken Deeds MC by Esther E. Schmidt

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kray and North are like a unit, where there's one, there's the other. When the both of them take a case involving a missing agent, they become more involved than they bargained for. Vienna is willing to do anything to find her sister and bring her home safe. Anything except shacking up with the two bikers who are dead set on solving this case...
  • Nelumbo Nucifera by Cristina Slough

    Nelumbo Nucifera by Cristina Slough

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On the surface, Gaby Parker has it all; however, behind closed doors, is a woman who lives in constant fear of the man who was supposed to love her: her husband, Kyle. Beaten, desperate, and broken, Gaby realizes the only way to escape from her violent husband is to kill herself — on paper...
  • Thunder and Rain by Charles Martin

    Thunder and Rain by Charles Martin

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Third generation Texas Ranger Tyler Steele is the last of a dying breed-- a modern day cowboy hero living in a world that doesn't quite understand his powerful sense of right and wrong and instinct to defend those who can't defend themselves. Despite his strong moral compass, Ty has trouble seeing his greatest weakness...
  • Promise of Hunters Ridge by Sarah Barrie

    Promise of Hunters Ridge by Sarah Barrie

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    By the time this is all over, she’ll know what it’s like to kill, or what it’s like to die. Mia Morgan doesn’t let anything get to her. After freeing herself from an obsessive boss and saving loved ones from a serial killer, she feels like she can handle anything life throws at her. But now that killer – a deranged hunter who preys on women for sport – is coming for her...
  • Wasp by Fiona Quinn

    Wasp by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Zoe knows the secrets, now they're coming for her.The enemy will stop at nothing to get to Zoe and the military secrets that could change everything. What Zoe knows is getting people killed. Is she next?Gage is a hardened Marine special forces operative with only one soft spot: Zoe.Her desperate screams echoing from inside her home switch his instincts from lover to guardian...
  • One Too Many by Melody Anne, John Henley

    One Too Many by Melody Anne, John Henley

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jasmine Anderson, the firstborn grandchild of Billionaire Joseph Anderson, is determined to make it on her own...
  • Thorn by Fiona Quinn

    Thorn by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Thorn Has Met His MatchRetired Navy Seal, turned Iniquus security operative, Thorn Iverson is heading home from Brussels when the call comes in.A U.S. military scientist's daughter, Juliette, was snatched from the streets of France, and she’s in immediate danger.Juliette is desperate.Juliette is fighting for her life...
  • Black Contract by Charlotte Byrd

    Black Contract by Charlotte Byrd

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I don’t belong with her. Born into darkness, life made me a cynic incapable of love. But then Ellie waltzed in. Innocent, optimistic, kind. She’s the opposite of what I deserve. I bought her, but she she stole my heart. Now my business is going up in flames. I have only one chance to make it right. That’s where it happens…something I can never take back...
  • Alone by Kendra Elliot, Tanya Eby

    Alone by Kendra Elliot, Tanya Eby

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    One rainy night in the woods outside of Portland, Dr. Victoria Peres is called to the site of a haunting crime scene. Six beautiful young girls—all in white dresses and arranged in a perfect circle—have been left for dead. Only one girl, fighting for her life at a nearby hospital, has survived the carnage...
  • All the Dead Girls by Rita Herron

    All the Dead Girls by Rita Herron

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When a violent storm hits Graveyard Falls, it unearths the unimaginable: skeletons of teenage girls, each dressed in white and holding a candle. It’s clear to FBI agent Beth Fields that this is the work of a long-standing killer—but could it be the one she escaped years ago? She has no memory of the man who held her captive and murdered her friend...
  • Tell Me to Lie by Charlotte Byrd

    Tell Me to Lie by Charlotte Byrd

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    There was a time when my debt was the only link we had. There was a time when I couldn’t tell him how much I loved him and he couldn’t tell me. There was a time when I thought I could never have enough money. Now, everything is different. Nicholas Crawford is a stranger who is becoming more strange with every moment. I used to think I could make a life with him, but now I’m not so sure...
  • A Stranger in the Family by Jane Casey

    A Stranger in the Family by Jane Casey

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The gripping new thriller featuring DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent from the Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling authorEvery mother's worst nightmare . . .When nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall vanished from her bed one summer night, her disappearance tore her family apart.Now, sixteen years later, her mother Helena is found dead, her husband by her side...
  • You're Not Safe by Mary Burton

    You're Not Safe by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    HE WILL NEVER FORGET The broken body hanging from a tree in Texas Hill Country . . . the frozen figure huddled in a meat locker…only at second glance does the truth become apparent. What seems like suicide is far more sinister, and the terror is only beginning . . .   NEVER FORGIVE One devastating moment changed Greer Templeton’s life and ended two others...
  • All My Lies Are True by Dorothy Koomson

    All My Lies Are True by Dorothy Koomson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Tell Me Your Secret and The Brighton Mermaid comes the breath-taking sequel to the iconic Sunday Times bestseller The Ice Cream Girls.Verity is telling lies...And that's why she's about to be arrested for attempted murder.Serena has been lying for years. . .And that may have driven her daughter, Verity, to do something unthinkable..
    Categorized as:
    crime  family  female-mc  suspense  abuse  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Next Grave by Kendra Elliot

    The Next Grave by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A Wall Street Journal bestselling series.Following a murder and a woman’s sudden disappearance, investigations into old crimes and new collide in an alarming novel of suspense by a Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestselling author.Detective Evan Bolton is gutted by his latest investigation...
  • Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah

    Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Dr. Julia Cates was one of the country's preeminent child psychiatrists until a shocking tragedy ruined her career. Retreating to her small western Washington hometown, Julia meets an extraordinary six-year-old girl who has inexplicably emerged from the deep woods nearby—a child locked in a world of unimaginable fear and isolation...
  • Identity by Nora Roberts

    Identity by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A new thriller about one man's ice-cold malice, and one woman's fight to reclaim her life.Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the mortgage payments, as does Morgan's job as a bartender...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  family  female-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • In Her Father's Shadow by Quinn Avery

    In Her Father's Shadow by Quinn Avery

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sienna Rivers’s aspirations for a normal childhood came crashing down the night they discovered her father was a serial killer. Once her mother’s illusion of a perfect family is destroyed, Sienna is sent to live with the only other “family” she knows...
  • Beast in my Bedroom by B.B. Hamel

    Beast in my Bedroom by B.B. Hamel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s everything I don ’t want . . . but my new bossy Greek mafia husband is going to make a real wife out of me.My rock bottom is a dirty martini in a high-class bar, ten canceled credit cards, and nothing but the clothes on my back.I managed to escape my abusive husband, but a snooty hipster bartender is about to get me arrested for being unable to pay for a drink...
  • 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...
  • To Provence, with Love by T A Williams

    To Provence, with Love by T A Williams

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Escape to the south of France with this perfect feel-good summer romance! Anything is possible… Struggling writer Faye Carter just can’t believe her luck...
  • Breaking the Silence by Diane Chamberlain

    Breaking the Silence by Diane Chamberlain

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Laura Brandon had promised her dying father she would visit Sarah Tolley, but her own agony is drowning out the old woman's ramblings. Her husband killed himself, and the only witness--her daughter, Emma--now refuses to speak. Desperate, Laura turns to a man she met once five years ago: Emma's real father...
  • The Day She Came Back by Amanda Prowse

    The Day She Came Back by Amanda Prowse

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When her loving, free-spirited grandmother Primrose passes away, Victoria is bereft, yet resilient—she has survived tragedy before. But even her strength is tested when a mysterious woman attends Prim’s funeral and claims to be the mother Victoria thought was dead...
  • Shadows Of Hunters Ridge by Sarah Barrie

    Shadows Of Hunters Ridge by Sarah Barrie

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Something’s not right in Hunters Ridge… Ebony Blakely has her life nearly exactly where she wants it. She’s a country vet with a successful business in Hunters Ridge, a town that she loves, and has a close group of friends. The only thing missing is romance...
  • The Pretty Dead Girls by Skylar Finn

    The Pretty Dead Girls by Skylar Finn

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When two young girls go missing from a small Georgia town, the crime remains unsolved for nearly thirty years.When Savannah moves home to the small town of Humble, Georgia, she has no intention of getting involved in a kidnapping investigation. But when her older brother Mac becomes the main suspect, Savannah launches a secret investigation in order to clear her brother’s name...
  • Vanished by Kendra Elliot

    Vanished by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kendra Elliot.When an eleven-year-old is abducted on her way to school, the FBI doesn’t waste a moment, sending agents to scour the area and embedding Special Agent Ava McLane with the distraught family...
  • Tell me to Fight by Charlotte Byrd

    Tell me to Fight by Charlotte Byrd

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I’m a man who takes what he wants. What do I want? Her. Olive Kernes owned me a debt and she thought that she had paid it back. But now I want more. I want more than just her time. I want more than just her body. Her new life has torn us apart. Now, it’s up to me to make things right. I will make the pieces of our love fit back together if it’s the last thing I do...
  • Between Now and Forever by Barbara Freethy

    Between Now and Forever by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From #1 NY Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy comes a romantic and suspenseful new novel in the popular family series, The Callaways. Nicole met Ryan when he was a handsome, cocky teenager with a desire to fly high above the clouds...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • Cub Creek by Grace Greene

    Cub Creek by Grace Greene

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the heart of Virginia, where the forests shelter secrets and the creeks run strong and deep ~ Libbie Havens doesn’t need anyone. She’s fine on her own. When she chances upon the secluded house on Cub Creek she purchases it. She’ll show her cousin Liz, and other doubters, that she can rise above her past and live happily and successfully on her own terms...
  • Be Afraid by Mary Burton

    Be Afraid by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Fear Is Terrifying When police rescue five-year-old Jenna Thompson from the dark closet where she's been held captive for days, they tell her she's a lucky girl. Compared to the rest of her family, it's true. But even with their killer dead of an overdose, Jenna is still trying to find peace twenty-five years later...
  • See No Evil by Allison Brennan

    See No Evil by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A cunning killer hides in plain sight.A troubled teenage girl has been charged with the grisly murder of her stepfather. The evidence is damning: Emily was found alone at the scene with blood on her hands, and an incriminating e-mail she wrote outlines a murder plot identical to the method of the brutal slaying...
  • The Kill by Allison Brennan

    The Kill by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Her worst nightmare brought back to life, she risks everything for a second shot at justice. For thirty years, FBI scientist Olivia St. Martin has lived with guilt and one abiding certainty–that while she wasn’t able to save her sister’s life, she did testify and helped to convict the rapist and killer...
  • Cover Your Eyes by Mary Burton

    Cover Your Eyes by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Now stunningly repackaged and reissued, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Mary Burton unleashes her trademark hard-edged suspense in the first Morgans of Nashville book, as a public defender must seek justice for a murder from the past to prevent new killings in the horrifying present...DON'T LOOKAt first, they struggle to escape...
  • The Lies I Told by Mary Burton

    The Lies I Told by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    For a woman obsessed and a killer in her shadow, remembering the past becomes a mind game in a novel of psychological suspense by New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton.Twin sisters Marisa and Clare Stockton were sixteen when Clare’s body was found in Virginia’s James River. No arrests were made...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  crime  drama  family  secrets  romance  mystery  fiction
  • Her First Mistake by Kendra Elliot, Stephanie Németh-Parker

    Her First Mistake by Kendra Elliot, Stephanie Németh-Parker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    10 hours, 7 minutes When a very personal cold case murder is reopened, a detective’s secrets come to light in a novel of shocking twists and suspense by a Wall Street Journal bestselling author.Thirteen years ago, Assemblyman Derrick Bell was murdered in his home by an intruder. His wife, Noelle Marshall, was left for dead. The crime was unsolved, but it wasn’t forgotten...
  • Almost Dead by Lisa Jackson

    Almost Dead by Lisa Jackson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A Woman Who Wants To Get Even . . . The first victim is pushed to her death. The second suffers a fatal overdose. The third takes a bullet to the heart. Three down, more to go. They're people who deserve to die. People who are in the way. And when she's finished, there will be no one left. . . Will Do Whatever It Takes For Revenge. . . Cissy Cahill's world is unraveling fast...
  • The Night in Question by Susan Fletcher

    The Night in Question by Susan Fletcher

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A lyrical and emotionally engaging novel infused with mystery and wisdom about love, friendship, and the power of forgiveness.Florrie Butterfield—eighty-seven, one-legged, and of cheerful disposition—believes there can't be any more adventures or surprises in life to experience...
  • Curves Ahead by Andi Jaxon

    Curves Ahead by Andi Jaxon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Everyone knows appearances can be deceiving, and in my case, even I’ve been fooled. The last thing I need is immature man-child, Alexander Bennet, trying to smile his way into my pants. I hate everything about him; his stupid smirk, his rumbling chuckle, and the way butterflies riot in my stomach when he aims them at me...
  • Notorious by Carey Baldwin

    Notorious by Carey Baldwin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The woman everyone loves to hate is dead. Dallas socialite Cynthia Langhorne is infamous for her beauty, her philanthropy, and her home wrecking--until she's found shot through the heart and posed nude at a fundraising ball. The case is high profile, and there's a bigger problem: Cindy is the wife of a decorated FBI special agent--the prime suspect in her murder...
    Categorized as:
    crime  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
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