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  • 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...
  • Gone Too Far by Debra Webb

    Gone Too Far by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    This second entry in USA Today bestselling author Debra Webb’s Devlin & Falco series proves that sometimes the past is best left forgotten.As veteran detectives of the Birmingham Police Department, Kerri Devlin and Luke Falco have seen it all. So when the city’s new hotshot deputy district attorney turns up dead as part of a double homicide, the partners immediately get to work...
  • She Can Kill by Melinda Leigh

    She Can Kill by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Reformed assassin Cristan Rojas just wants to raise his daughter in peace. But after twelve years on the run, he learns that even the quiet little town of Westbury, Pennsylvania, has many hidden dangers...
  • Forever Mine by Linsey Lanier

    Forever Mine by Linsey Lanier

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An old friend. A bad smell. A body stuffed into a wall. You'll never escape. After she left her abusive husband thirteen years ago, Miranda Steele became a fighter. Over the years, she picked up martial arts and street fighting tactics, and now that she works for the Parker Investigative Agency, she can handle a weapon. But the battle with her inner demons? Not so easy...
  • Thin Ice by Linsey Lanier

    Thin Ice by Linsey Lanier

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Take what matters most to her," said the voice. And he knew he would. He had to. Thirteen years ago, Miranda Steele’s abusive husband stole her baby and gave it up for adoption. Then he kicked Miranda out of his house. So she remade herself. Thirteen years later, the feisty, stubborn skeptic came to Atlanta hoping to find her daughter...
  • Bite the Bullet by Gina LaManna, Suzie Althens

    Bite the Bullet by Gina LaManna, Suzie Althens

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Listening Length 8 hours and 50 minutesSummer in the Twin Cities is hard to beat, and Detective Kate Rosetti is excited to show FBI Agent Jack Russo a nice, relaxing time while he’s back in town. Unfortunately, her plans go belly up when Tommy “Two-Toed” Bianchi is found floating face down in Kate’s favorite lake...
  • Point Two by Max Ellendale

    Point Two by Max Ellendale

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The case is reopened..."I can't believe this shit is happening again. Four Point's dead and yet, everyone I care about is unsafe. Again. Brody's gone, Maggie's hurt, and now Ben and I have to fix everything ourselves. This time, I'll be the one watching..
  • Lie to Her by Melinda Leigh, Christina Traister

    Lie to Her by Melinda Leigh, Christina Traister

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    10 hours Lies from the heart lead to a dangerously intimate case for Sheriff Bree Taggert in #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s novel of revenge and fatal deceptions.When a digital marketer is found murdered in his backyard—hands bound and face smothered by plastic wrap—Sheriff Bree Taggert and criminal investigator Matt Flynn respond to the call...
  • Riding Dirty on I-95 by Nikki Turner

    Riding Dirty on I-95 by Nikki Turner

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Queen of hip hop fiction Nikki Turner follows her gritty, emotionally charged novel The Glamorous Life with this new tale from the hood featuring a beautiful down-on-her-luck sister who can out-hustle the best of them as she rises from the ghetto to glory. After Mercy’s beloved dad is murdered in cold blood on her seventh birthday, her mother gives her up to foster care...
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    crime  drama  female-mc  suspense  adult  black-mc  book  female-author
  • Edge Of Darkness by Freya Barker

    Edge Of Darkness by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Road rash and Jack meets handcuffs and street smarts. I am a wandering disaster. A hedonist, a lover, a son, and a rebel. My name is Yuma. I’m sober enough to see the need for redemption, but too blind to realize I already found it. I am an independent seeker. An overachiever, a friend, a misfit, and a cop. My name is Lissie...
  • Bloody Love by Lisa Renee Jones

    Bloody Love by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One. Two. Three. The cat is in the tree. As far as Lilah's concern, her note writing stalker just gets more stupid everyday. One, two, three, the cat is in the tree?What is that? And what does it have to do with a wedding turned bloody? The sixth book in the Lilah Love series...
  • Fire Dancer by Linsey Lanier

    Fire Dancer by Linsey Lanier

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A honeymoon in Maui. A luxury beachfront resort. A handsome wealthy new husband. A vicious murder. After all, this is PI Miranda Steele we're talking about. And where Miranda goes, trouble follows. That lovely honeymoon gets hijacked when she finds the body of a popular fire dancer on the beach. Of course, she has to investigate...
  • Beau by Dale Mayer

    Beau by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What happens when the very men—trained to make the hard decisions—come up against the rules and regulations that hold them back from doing what needs to be done? They either stay and work within the constraints given to them or they walk away. Only now, for a select few, they have another option: The Mavericks...
  • In the Clear by Kathryn Nolan

    In the Clear by Kathryn Nolan

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He needs to keep the gorgeous competition out of his head…and his bed.Former FBI agent Abe Royal believes in hard work, justice, and a suit for every occasion. He’s hot on the trail of an elusive book thief when he realizes he’s being followed…by a sultry, cunning stranger.Ambitious, young detective Sloane Argento has just been handed the case of a lifetime...
  • The Watcher by Linsey Lanier

    The Watcher by Linsey Lanier

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "Another wonderful book with great story and characters." Amazon reviewerHigh in the mountains of southeastern Brazil a killer lurks.An old friend calls.She’s getting death threats.Once again PI Miranda Steele feels the call of her destiny.When she and Parker get to Brazil and discover grisly human remains near a mountain resort, she knows those threats are very real...
  • Playing Dirty by Liliana Hart

    Playing Dirty by Liliana Hart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    J.J. Graves and her husband, Sheriff Jack Lawson, are sworn to protect and serve. The Christmas season brings out the best—and worst—in people, and death hits close to home when a Bloody Mary local is murdered. Bringing justice to the dead is what they do—even when they don’t like the victim...
  • COMEBACK GIRL: part 5 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    COMEBACK GIRL: part 5 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An Amazon exclusive!From the international bestselling author of STOP THE WEDDING! (now a Hallmark Channel movie) and the BODY MOVERS mystery series comes a new story of comedy, suspense, and romance. Home is where the hurt is. In COMEBACK GIRL, a young novelist estranged from her family is forced to return to her small hometown for a family emergency, and deal with the ghosts of her past...
  • COMEBACK GIRL: part 6 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    COMEBACK GIRL: part 6 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An Amazon exclusive!From the international bestselling author of STOP THE WEDDING! (now a Hallmark Channel movie) and the BODY MOVERS mystery series comes a new story of comedy, suspense, and romance. Home is where the hurt is. In COMEBACK GIRL, a young novelist estranged from her family is forced to return to her small hometown for a family emergency, and deal with the ghosts of her past...
  • Walking on Her Grave by Melinda Leigh

    Walking on Her Grave by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The electrifying conclusion of the romantic suspense novella series from Melinda Leigh and Kendra Elliot. The sleepy town of Solitude, Oregon, has turned into ground zero for a turf war between the manufacturers and distributors of a lethal new drug. When a teenage witness disappears, social worker Carly Taylor must find him before he’s silenced permanently...
  • Cold & Deadly by Toni Anderson

    Cold & Deadly by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Hostage Negotiators can talk themselves out of anything—except falling in love.FBI Supervisory Special Agent Dominic Sheridan is an accomplished expert in the Crisis Negotiation Unit. Practiced, professional, used to dealing with high-stake situations under tense conditions, Dominic is a master at manipulating people...
  • Heart Wounds by Linsey Lanier

    Heart Wounds by Linsey Lanier

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "I LOVE this book and the whole series!" Amazon reviewerAt the London Museum of Antiquity,the priceless Marc Antony dagger is stolen.The museum director is heart-broken.He knows only one person can help him now.Actually, two people. Ace private investigator Wade Parker and his new bride and partner, Miranda Steele...
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    crime  investigator  suspense  adult  book  fiction  heist  murder
  • Midnight Obsession by Melinda Leigh

    Midnight Obsession by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s edgy new thriller, Louisa Hancock thought she was safe…but there’s a new killer in town.When a mysterious package lands on Louisa Hancock’s doorstep, the Philadelphia museum curator can hardly anticipate the nightmare that’s about to envelop her...
  • She Can Scream by Melinda Leigh

    She Can Scream by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In one moment, high school teacher and single mother Brooke Davenport interrupts a vicious assault, saves a young woman’s life, and attracts the attention of a serial killer. Sixteen years ago, Brooke lost her roommate to a brutal murder. Now she teaches women’s self-defense, still trying to heal from the guilt and grief that plague her...
  • Noah's Nemesis by Dale Mayer

    Noah's Nemesis by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Noah heard the woman’s cry for help through Levi’s phone, and he was already in the car and moving before anyone could stop him. He hated for any woman to be in distress, and this one sounded devastated. Having helped her once, he was determined to keep her safe, while the team tracked down her attacker...
  • Quinn's Quest by Dale Mayer

    Quinn's Quest by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fed up with always feeling one step behind, Quinn is determined to find out who is trying to annihilate all of Bullard’s team. Only the trail takes him to Izzie, Bullard’s niece. The team knows the saboteur was someone close to Bullard, and Izzie had had a hell of a fight with Bullard the last time they spoke...
  • Aiden by Dale Mayer

    Aiden by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Aiden has high hopes for his own mission, but Las Vegas and a woman accused of killing her own husband wasn’t it. Then he finds out it’s a special request from a man he’s long respected and that the woman in question was his cousin. Even more confusing is the series of other murders that, according to the local law enforcement, are linked to her as well...
  • Shane by Dale Mayer

    Shane by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What happens when the very men—trained to make the hard decisions—come up against the rules and regulations that hold them back from doing what needs to be done? They either stay and work within the constraints given to them or they walk away. Only now, for a select few, they have another option: The Mavericks. A covert black ops team that steps up and break all the rules … but gets the job done...
  • Bonaparte's Belle: A SEALs of Honor World Novel by Dale Mayer

    Bonaparte's Belle: A SEALs of Honor World Novel by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sheriff Angela Zimmerman is not what Bonaparte expects when he arrives in her district. But he was here to help her out at Levi’s request. A little matchmaking by Levi was going on too but didn’t change the fact that she was in trouble.When Levi said he was sending a man over, she didn’t realize he meant this gentle mountain of a man...
  • Perilous Trust by Barbara Freethy

    Perilous Trust by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In PERILOUS TRUST, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy brings you the first book in a new romantic suspense series! OFF THE GRID: An FBI Trilogy offers three breath-stealing books filled with action-packed plot, heart-stopping romance, and page-turning suspense. It was one dark night that brought Damon Wolfe and Sophie Parker together...
  • Xtreme Affairs by Em Petrova

    Xtreme Affairs by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A scarred special operative meets his match with the woman determined to save him from himself.It was just a little accident—but it changed his life.Special Xtreme Ops team, River Hepburn wakes in the hospital to the sight of Sacha—his best friend’s little sister—watching over him. Their emotional bond over her brother’s death is undeniable, but he isn’t prepared to feel more...
  • 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...
  • Stone Investigations : Complete Series by Harper Maguire

    Stone Investigations : Complete Series by Harper Maguire

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book 1 Zoe Holloway is a high-powered attorney, who has always taken financial care of her fly-by-night younger brother, Tucker...
  • Her Grave Secrets by Kendra Elliot

    Her Grave Secrets by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    There are no secrets in a small town—until someone has one worth dying for. Local cop Stevie Taylor and police chief Zane Duncan have startling new proof that a deadly street drug is expanding its poisonous grip on their small town: a skull found on the banks of the Rogue River has two bullet holes in the back...
  • Ruthless by Debra Webb

    Ruthless by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Faces of Evil Series: Book 6 "Gritty, edge-of-your-seat, white-knuckle thriller . . . Move over Jack Reacher-Jess Harris is comin' to town." -Cindy Gerard, New York Times bestselling author, on Obsession "Debra Webb is a master storyteller." -Allison Brennan, New York Times bestselling author He has a ruthless past . . . Three photos of three unknown women...
  • River's End / Remember When / Angels Fall by Nora Roberts, J.D. Robb

    River's End / Remember When / Angels Fall by Nora Roberts, J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    River's End Olivia's parents had been one of Hollywood's glittering golden couples...until the night the monster came. The monster who destroyed their beautiful home and took her mother away from her forever. The monster with the face of her father... Now a young woman, Olivia still yearns to recall those horrifying events, to know the truth about her childhood...
  • Depraved by Debra Webb

    Depraved by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Depraved is the tenth book in the bestselling, critically acclaimed Faces of Evil series. The finale is coming! Are you ready? Have you ordered Heinous, book 9? Don't miss a single book in this terrifyingly fast paced series! The serial killer obsessed with Deputy Chief Jess Harris has finally been cornered but the body count is still rising...
  • Temp Girl: part 5 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    Temp Girl: part 5 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An Amazon exclusive!From the international bestselling author of STOP THE WEDDING! (now a Hallmark Channel movie) and the BODY MOVERS mystery series comes a new story of comedy, suspense, and romance. Change is good... but not great. In TEMP GIRL, an entitled diva is forced to take a job at a temp agency to get by, and takes a tumble into reality...
  • Fatal Finale by Miranda Rijks

    Fatal Finale by Miranda Rijks

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Who is abducting talented young musicians – and why?When a gifted violinist disappears from a prestigious music academy, the police ask psychologist Dr. Pippa Durrant to help with the case.Working alongside new flame, DS Joe Swain, Pippa quickly realises that the world of first class musicianship is not all peace and harmony...
  • Unspeakable by Elisabeth Naughton

    Unspeakable by Elisabeth Naughton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In this electrifying novel from New York Times bestselling author Elisabeth Naughton, love can be a risk when it’s explored in such dark places… All his siblings have moved on from their troubling pasts, but Rusty McClane can’t leave his behind. Not even when his freedom is in jeopardy.Legal investigator Harper Blake can sense a bad boy...
  • A Deadly Affair by Carla Simpson

    A Deadly Affair by Carla Simpson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    London 1889 — Murder, mystery, and two people in a most unlikely partnership.She's an unconventional lady who has traveled the world, practices the art of self defense most excellently, and has an interesting tattoo in, ahem... a very unusual place...
  • Quarter to Midnight by Karen Rose

    Quarter to Midnight by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    There are good cops. And there are bad cops. The question is...who wins?After completing her tours with the Marines in Iraq, Molly Sutton knew she could take down any bad guy she met...
  • Deadly Deals by Fern Michaels

    Deadly Deals by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    After years of trying to become pregnant without success, Rachel Dawson and her husband Thomas felt their dreams had finally come true the day they brought home their newly adopted twin babies. Though the lawyer Baron Bell who arranged for the surrogate mother charged a hefty six-figure fee, one glance into the eyes of their precious children told them it was all worth it...
  • Seeking by Calle J. Brookes

    Seeking by Calle J. Brookes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Shannon Toliver, hacker extraordinaire with the PAVAD division of the FBI, loved her position with one of the best FBI teams in the nation, loved her new city, and loved the people she worked with. She wouldn’t change a thing about her job. Well, almost anything. There was always that thorn in her side, Ezra Hahn...
  • This is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter, Kathleen Early

    This is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter, Kathleen Early

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    12 hours The next thrilling suspense featuring Will Trent and Sara Linton from Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Girls and After That Night!Everyone here is a liar, but only one of us is a killer…A secluded cabin retreatFor GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton, McAlpine Lodge seems like the ideal getaway to celebrate their honeymoon...
  • Locked In by Lori Matthews

    Locked In by Lori Matthews

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the quaint town of Cedar Bluff Maine lies a mystery that even the most secure locks can't contain.Flynn O'Connor, a top-tier operative from the Lock and Key Society, is dispatched to the enigmatic Everlasting Manor—a property whispered to be haunted. Guests report unsettling voices and inexplicable disappearances...
  • Chaos in Death / Possession in Death by J.D. Robb

    Chaos in Death / Possession in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Chaos in Death When eye witness testimony paints the killer as a green-skinned monster with swollen red eyes and goblin ears, even Eve Dallas is shaken. But as she gets closer, the trail suggests something far more disturbing - someone is playing with science... Possession in Death After a Russian woman whispers her dying words to Eve Dallas, strange things begin to happen...
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    crime  female-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  mystery
  • Unfinished Business by Jenna Bennett

    Unfinished Business by Jenna Bennett

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When realtor and recovering Southern Belle Savannah Martin wakes up alone on what is supposed to be her wedding day, she isn’t sure what to think. Did her fiancé—bad-boy TBI agent Rafe Collier—decide he couldn’t face being shackled to one woman for the rest of his life..
  • ISOLATION by Cj Lyons

    ISOLATION by Cj Lyons

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This New Year’s resolution? Stay alive... “Harrowing…irresistible.” ~New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs Click to start reading the exhilarating Angels of Mercy finale!  With Pittsburgh snarled by a New Year’s Eve blizzard and Angels of Mercy Hospital cut off from the outside world, staff and patients are at the mercy of armed gunmen. Their target is Dr...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  suspense  adult  book  fiction  medical  mystery
  • The House of Lies by Debra Burroughs

    The House of Lies by Debra Burroughs

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Debra Burroughs... P.I. Emily Parker and sexy police detective Colin Andrews are back, along with their close circle of friends. The House of Lies is Book 7 and you are in for another exciting and dangerous murder mystery with a thrilling dose of romance. Emily is fighting to clear the prime murder suspect while Colin is working to put him in jail...
    Categorized as:
    crime  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction
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