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  • Smoke Signal by L.T. Ryan, Brian Christopher Shea

    Smoke Signal by L.T. Ryan, Brian Christopher Shea

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Some people can't start over.Some pasts you can't outrun.And when Rachel Hatch's past comes back to haunt her,The only thing she can do is what she does best.Fight.Rachel Hatch returns to Hawk's Landing after closing the chapter on her father's death. She wants nothing more than to reconnect with her family and to find a new sense of normal...
  • Rising Water by Wayne Stinnett

    Rising Water by Wayne Stinnett

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a group of strangers purchase land on Tortola and Norman Island to set up a commune, the locals simply write them off as an odd sort—until one of their bloated bodies washes up on the shore of a nearby resort island. As luck would have it, Jesse McDermitt is visiting a friend on Norman Island after tracking a terrorist submarine from the Windward Islands...
  • Black Sheep by David Archer

    Black Sheep by David Archer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Noah is called in for debriefing after the mission that lost Sarah and reveals his worries that one of the team members is a traitor..
  • The Alamo by Mark Dawson

    The Alamo by Mark Dawson

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    John Milton has finally found a place to escape the bloodshed: off-season Coney Island. No tourists. No special ops. Just peace and quiet. But when a local boy witnesses a grisly murder, Milton can’t resist investigating.Milton uncovers a vicious drug kingpin and a group of crooked cops from a notorious precinct known as “The Alamo...
  • Her Broken Wings by D.K. Hood

    Her Broken Wings by D.K. Hood

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The sound that wakes her from sleep is unmistakable—someone is in their house...
  • Swift and Silent: A Jesse McDermitt Novel by Wayne Stinnett

    Swift and Silent: A Jesse McDermitt Novel by Wayne Stinnett

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Things in the Middle Florida Keys aren’t as idyllic as they seem. If one looks closely, there’s a layer of dirt just below the surface. The butt-ugly kind of dirt that’s hard to get off...
  • Gray After Dark by Noelle W. Ihli

    Gray After Dark by Noelle W. Ihli

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A merciless wilderness. A harrowing attack. A desperate escape.When a tragic accident sidelines Miley's dreams of Olympic gold, she takes a summer job at a mountain guest lodge.The Frank Church Wilderness is remote, but it’s the perfect place to train and recover. Local lore about a staffer who died years ago doesn’t scare her. But it should...
  • Missing Persons by James Patterson, Adam Hamdy

    Missing Persons by James Patterson, Adam Hamdy

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In Afghanistan, a US Special Forces pilot is shot down during a covert mission.In New York, a mother is forced to flee with her two young children.A wealthy businessman approaches Jack Morgan, head of Private - the world's largest investigation agency - with a desperate plea to track down his daughter and grandchildren, who have disappeared without a trace...
  • ARCADIA: A Case For Willows And Lane by Peter Grainger

    ARCADIA: A Case For Willows And Lane by Peter Grainger

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sir Roger Parkes is a man of some influence in the West Country. When he loses touch with his youngest daughter, he has a word with the Assistant Chief Constable of the local force. It’s not a police matter, he is told, but if Sir Roger wants to pursue it privately, there is a lady who might be able to help – two of them, actually...
  • Vigilante Assassin by Mark Nolan

    Vigilante Assassin by Mark Nolan

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Every marriage has a secret, but this one is deadly. Lauren Stephens wakes up to find her husband, Gene, has vanished during the night. His phone is dead. Desperate, she hires Jake Wolfe and his war dog, Cody. They search the house and discover something so disturbing that Jake won't allow Lauren near it. "No, if you see this, there is no unseeing it...
  • Dark Justice by Kristi Belcamino

    Dark Justice by Kristi Belcamino

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A ruthless killer intent on wreaking havoc in San Francisco through a series of senseless slayings will do anything to escape detection, including making sure Gia Santella is the one who takes the fall ...After years abroad, Gia Santella has finally gone home to San Francisco searching for meaning in a life full of loss...
  • Border Line by Kristi Belcamino

    Border Line by Kristi Belcamino

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    not a choice...It's her destiny.Gia Santella has settled into domestic life with a vengeance. The days of drinking too much, driving too fast, and going home with an assortment of cute boys have come to a screeching halt.But her world is upended when a little girl escaping a brutal life in Guatemala is thrust into her life...
  • Deadly Justice by Kristi Belcamino

    Deadly Justice by Kristi Belcamino

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book 14 in the USA Today Bestselling Gia Santella Crime Thriller series by Agatha, Anthony, Barry & Macavity finalist Kristi Belcamino...
  • The Ace of Clubs: A Thriller by Kristi Belcamino

    The Ace of Clubs: A Thriller by Kristi Belcamino

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The fourth book in the acclaimed Queen of Spades Thriller Series featuring former Italian mob boss Eva Santella.When an American girl goes missing on spring break in Cabo San Lucas, her desperate mother turns to the Queen of Spades for help. Drunk tourists on spring break are a dime a dozen in the popular resort town, but nobody who lives there wants to help find the missing girl...
  • Dark Shadows by Kristi Belcamino

    Dark Shadows by Kristi Belcamino

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The 11th book in the USA TODAY Bestselling series.From the moment a killer took her family away from her, Gia has fought tooth and nail against a threatening/looming destiny she’s been unwilling to confront—that of a lone wolf vigilante assassin...
  • Rising Spirit: A Jesse McDermitt Novel by Wayne Stinnett

    Rising Spirit: A Jesse McDermitt Novel by Wayne Stinnett

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, Jesse McDermitt has rebuilt his island in the Content Keys far better than it was before the storm. The task was enormous, but so was his need to make things better. Unbeknownst to Jesse, an environmentally conscious woman from his past has stumbled onto a drug manufacturing cartel in Virginia while working on a pollution mitigation problem...
  • Chosen Prey by John Sandford

    Chosen Prey by John Sandford

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A New York Times bestseller! Lucas Davenport returns in the most harrowing and unexpected Prey novel yet—the story of a congenial man, and his most uncongenial obsession...An art history professor and writer and cheerful pervert, James Qatar had a hobby: he took secret photographs of women and turned them into highly sexual drawings. One day, he took the hobby a step further and..
  • Fallen Hero by Wayne Stinnett

    Fallen Hero by Wayne Stinnett

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A young treasure diving couple is sadistically murdered in the back country of the Florida Keys—and Jesse McDermitt's friend is the prime suspect. The reclusive federal agent and former combat Marine launches his own investigation in the face of overwhelming evidence. McDermitt is certain of his friend’s innocence...
  • No Way Back by Rick Mofina, Christian Rummel

    No Way Back by Rick Mofina, Christian Rummel

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    San Francisco crime reporter Tom Reed is burned out. On the day he decides to finally quit the news business, a sensational story breaks. A heart-stopping robbery-homicide at a jewelry store. The suspects have shot and killed a police officer before fleeing with a female hostage. Reed rushes to the scene, his passion resurrected for one last big story...
  • Silas by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Silas by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cora Walsh had no idea how drastically her life would change when a mob boss hired her to cook for him.After witnessing a bloody massacre, she tries to pretend it was all just a bad dream when she returns to her normal life. That is, until two detectives show up at the restaurant where she works, asking questions about who killed the man who hired her and his four guards...
  • One-Eyed Jack by Kristi Belcamino

    One-Eyed Jack by Kristi Belcamino

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The men, mostly virgins, gather in the darkest corners online, drawn together by a common self-hatred. They hate the way they look. They hate their disastrous sex lives. They hate alpha malesThere is only one thing they hate women.Women are the root of all their problems. Women are inferior and deserve to be punished for rejecting them...
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  • Noble Legend by L.T. Ryan

    Noble Legend by L.T. Ryan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jack Noble found freedom from the CIA. A rogue assassin doesn’t care.When Jack Noble is sent to Brugge, Belgium to wait for further instruction, he finds himself at battle with a group of thugs harassing local businesses. But they aren't his only problem...A rogue assassin who had Noble in his sights once before and missed is determined to finish the job, no matter the consequences...
  • Hail Storme by W.L. Ripley

    Hail Storme by W.L. Ripley

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Vietnam vet and former pro football player Wyatt Storme is bow-hunting in Missouri when he stumbles upon a hidden field of marijuana…and is attacked by a vicious dog and shot at by a sniper. He reports violent incident confidentially to the local Sheriff…who is murdered the next day...
  • Betrayal by Russell Blake

    Betrayal by Russell Blake

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Twenty-eight year old Jet, the former Mossad operative from the eponymous novel JET, must battle insurmountable odds to protect those she loves in a deadly race that stretches from the heartland of Nebraska to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C., from the lurid streets of Bangkok to the deadly jungles of Laos and Myanmar...
  • Little Girl Lost by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Little Girl Lost by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    For the past two years, former detective Georgiana "Gigi" Germaine has been living off the grid, until today, when she hears some disturbing news that shakes her. Georgiana's brother-in-law has been murdered, her seven-year-old niece kidnapped. As the hours waste away, Georgiana races back to a town she left behind, and a former life she's still not ready to face...
  • Bad Blood by Casey Kelleher

    Bad Blood by Casey Kelleher

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.In the underbelly of Soho’s organised crime ring, everyone knows that retired boxer Harry Woods is not one to mess with. And that goes double for his family.Harry has it all: the big house, the flashy cars, and an abundance of wealth. As much as money talks in his world, Harry knows deep down the only thing that really counts is family...
  • Twelve Years Gone by K.J. Kalis

    Twelve Years Gone by K.J. Kalis

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Twelve years gone…Sarah Schmidt went out for a hike a month before heading to college on a cross-country scholarship. She never came back.In the twelve years she’s been gone, the local police have done little to help the family, leaving them with the desperate knowledge that Sarah could still be alive, somewhere, somehow...The family hasn’t given up their hope for revenge, or at least answers...
  • Caleb by Jeff Menapace

    Caleb by Jeff Menapace

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Vengeance is therapy.Caleb Lambert kills people for a living. The money is nice, but it comes a distant second to his primary reason for choosing such a Caleb often calls it “scratching an itch.”Here’s the thing, Caleb won’t just accept any contract. He and his team thoroughly vet each and every prospective mark to make sure they deserve to be punished...
  • Rising Fury by Wayne Stinnett

    Rising Fury by Wayne Stinnett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In the backcountry of the Florida Keys, you can see and hear trouble coming for miles in any direction. If you’re paying attention. Jesse McDermitt lives in the backcountry and very little happens near him that he’s not aware of. During a quiet moment, he watches a slow-moving shrimp trawler as it serenely cruises by, far out on the Gulf, at the edge of the three-mile limit...
  • Man on Fire by A.J. Quinnell

    Man on Fire by A.J. Quinnell

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Known only as Creasy, he was hired to protect, not to kill. A battle-scarred, burnt-out mercenary, working as a bodyguard for the young daughter of an Italian industrialist, he thought he had lost the power of feeling. Until the girl's beguiling touch awakens in him the ability to love.Then something happens, something so devastating that Creasy is consumed by a single-minded rage for revenge...
  • Flesh and Bones by Paul Levine

    Flesh and Bones by Paul Levine

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    SPELLBINDING  THRILLER FROM EDGAR NOMINEE PAUL LEVINE"I was sitting at the end of the bar sipping single-malt Scotch when I spotted the tall blond woman with the large green eyes and the small gray gun." The next thing Jake Lassiter knows, the woman pumps three bullets into the man on the next bar stool. Lassiter, the linebacker-turned-lawyer, has a new client...
  • The Last Teacher by Alan Lee

    The Last Teacher by Alan Lee

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Mackenzie August is starting a new life. After a successful but destructive career as a high-profile California homicide detective, and then a less successful and even more destructive stint working for a church, he has moved to Virginia to start over as a teacher. The only thing he’s bringing with him is Kix, his infant baby boy...
  • Blood of Others by Rick Mofina

    Blood of Others by Rick Mofina

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The disappearance and murder of a lonely San Francisco insurance clerk puts a relentless crime reporter and legendary homicide cop on separate tracks in their pursuit of a killer.The suspect lures solitary women out of their quiet worlds and into his nightmare as he races the clock and travels the globe searching for the one woman who will forgive the unforgivable...
  • The Pilot's Daughter by Audrey J. Cole

    The Pilot's Daughter by Audrey J. Cole

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Welcome aboard Pacific Air Flight 385, with nonstop service from Seattle to Honolulu.Cora is scared to fly again after her husband died in a recent helicopter crash in Pago Pago.A thousand times she has told herself to turn around, not get on the flight, go back to her young children...
  • Las Vegas Girl by Leslie Wolfe

    Las Vegas Girl by Leslie Wolfe

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Detectives Laura Baxter and Jack Holt are members of the elite: Las Vegas Metro PD, one of the toughest and most respected law enforcement agencies in the United States. In the middle of a city with two million residents and 43 million annual visitors, they’re hunting for a killer...
  • Serenity Engulfed by Craig A. Hart

    Serenity Engulfed by Craig A. Hart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Familiar enemies resurface in this blazing new thriller that finds Shelby racing against time to save the most important person in his life: his own child. When Shelby's daughter, Leslie, fails to show up at his cabin for her long-planned visit to northern Michigan, he's concerned, but makes excuses. When her car is found abandoned by the side of a tree-lined highway, he fears the worst...
  • Bloodlands by Mark Dawson

    Bloodlands by Mark Dawson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The cold of Siberia meets the chill of betrayal.In a world where loyalty is fleeting and alliances are temporary, John Milton is on a mission that will bring him face-to-face with enemies old and new. When his friend, Alex Hicks, finds himself pursued by mysterious adversaries, the two men are thrust back into the web of international espionage...
  • The Joker: A thriller by Kristi Belcamino

    The Joker: A thriller by Kristi Belcamino

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THE CHILDREN HAVE LITTLE KILL OR BE KILLED In this new pulse-pounding thriller, Eva will risk everything to free the most vulnerable from a life of violence and tyranny.The gun-toting children are lethal and highly trained instruments of death. The cartel has given them little kill or be killed...
  • The Suicide King by Kristi Belcamino

    The Suicide King by Kristi Belcamino

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Former assassin and mafia boss Eva Lucia Santella has lost everything she’s ever cared about, but is still attempting to carve out a new life for herself back in Italy as a modern day Robin Hood, devoted to taking down those who prey on the innocent. And she’s training an army of female assassins to help her do it. When one of her top lieutenants comes under attack, Eva vows revenge...
  • Wild Storm by Tripp Ellis

    Wild Storm by Tripp Ellis

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A new menace.A shocking killing.A disturbing secret. When a beautiful reporter is murdered, Tyson and his Navy buddy, JD, hunt for the killer. A crazed fan? A disgruntled coworker? Or had the ambitious journalist uncovered something sinister? As the deputies investigate the slaying, a slew of sordid details emerge, and the case takes a wicked turn...
  • Elusive Charity by Wayne Stinnett

    Elusive Charity by Wayne Stinnett

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Since the recent death of a wealthy but perverted businessman, Charity Styles has been hiding in plain sight, as if challenging anyone to come after her.She’s on her own once more, living day to day on her beloved Wind Dancer, anchored near a quaint little Gulf Coast town in the Florida Panhandle...
  • Rising Storm by Wayne Stinnett

    Rising Storm by Wayne Stinnett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Miles from the laid-back lifestyle of No Name Key, and just shy of the raucous nightlife of Miami and South Beach, lies Coconut Grove, a tropical oasis with a distinct Bohemian flair. Lately, a seedy underside has emerged along the Grove’s waterfront, preying on adventurous young women. Somewhere amid all the glitz and glamour, hides a thief who stole a fortune in Aztec emeralds...
  • Rising Force by Wayne Stinnett

    Rising Force by Wayne Stinnett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Paradise has a price. For Jesse McDermitt, that price is his moral compass and a bullet. The retired Marine and charter skipper takes on a passenger in Nassau, a young woman who is a breath of fresh air. She introduces him to the laid-back cruising crowd on an idyllic small cay in the Berry Islands. Jesse takes to the relaxing lifestyle like a fish to water...
  • Rising Thunder by Wayne Stinnett

    Rising Thunder by Wayne Stinnett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Paradise isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be. Few people know this as well as Jesse McDermitt, retired Marine and former government operative. In the aftermath of an intense mission in coastal Mexico, Jesse wants nothing more than to get back to his boat; to just sail away and forget all about the firefight and his warrior past...
  • Lockstep by Robert P. French

    Lockstep by Robert P. French

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A mysterious kidnapping. A political ransom. To save a child, an ex-cop with a dark past must risk his future… Recovering addict Cal Rogan would do anything to preserve his relationship with his daughter. So when one of her friends disappears, Cal splits his efforts between three separate cases...
  • Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino

    Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An exciting new series character ...Gia Santella is a fast-driving, hard-drinking, karate-trained free spirit, who is gorgeous, sexy, and a young heiress. She also has a fierce temper and zero tolerance for people in power preying on the vulnerable ... especially when the injustice takes place in her neighborhood...
  • Girl With The Gun by Emily Kimelman

    Girl With The Gun by Emily Kimelman

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Letting go is an art.And I am not an artist.I'm a killer.Suds slipped down my body and gathered at my ankles before traveling in a flotilla to the drain. The white, iridescent bubbles jiggled as droplets of water crashed around them. They popped one by one, the mass sinking into the pipe as each bubble lost tension and let go.I don’t kill for pleasure, though there is some...
  • The Girl and the Silent Night by A.J. Rivers

    The Girl and the Silent Night by A.J. Rivers

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    T’was the night before Christmas when all through the house,Not a creature was stirring inside Agent Emma Griffin's house.But then out of nowhere a dark shadow appeared.And all of a sudden this holiday season is no longer filled with cheer.After facing many misfortunes throughout her life.FBI Agent Emma Griffin has opted to make work her main priority...
  • Red Means Run by Brad Smith

    Red Means Run by Brad Smith

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Mickey Dupree is one of the most successful criminal attorneys in upstate New York, having never lost a capital murder case. That is the upside of being Mickey. The downside—Mickey has a lot of enemies and one of them drives the shaft of a golf club through his heart, leaving him dead in a sand trap at his exclusive country club...
  • Love and Rage by Kaylie Hunter

    Love and Rage by Kaylie Hunter

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Run? Living the rest of my life in hiding?Or fight back? Starting with the man who hurt me in the worst of ways…After everything I survived, am I strong enough to do either? Am I strong enough to walk away from the protection that my family offered? The loving arms of my only son?And, if I fight, while already injured and barely holding on to reality, can I survive yet another war?Her enemies...
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