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  • Faithless in Death: An Eve Dallas thriller by J.D. Robb

    Faithless in Death: An Eve Dallas thriller by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    In the new Eve Dallas police thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author J. D. Robb, what looked like a lover's quarrel turned fatal has larger--and more terrifying--motives behind it...The scene in the West Village studio appears to be classic crime-of-passion: two wine glasses by the bed, music playing, and a young sculptor named Ariel Byrd with the back of her head bashed in...
  • The First Death by Kendra Elliot

    The First Death by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A Wall Street Journal bestselling series.For a search and rescue expert, the buried remains of her past are a dangerous obsession in a twisting novel of suspense by a Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestselling author.Rowan Wolff was five years old when she, her brother, and their babysitter were kidnapped by a serial killer in the Pacific Northwest. The babysitter was murdered...
  • Forgotten In Death by J.D. Robb

    Forgotten In Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    In the latest novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, homicide detective Eve Dallas sifts through the wreckage of the past to find a killer.The body was left in a dumpster like so much trash, the victim a woman of no fixed address, known for offering paper flowers in return for spare change―and for keeping the cops informed of any infractions she witnessed on the street...
  • Into the Dark by Karen Rose

    Into the Dark by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose returns to the chilling Cincinnati series, and this time, the stakes are higher than ever. Former army ranger Diesel Kennedy considers himself a dead man walking. To help cope with his PTSD, he coaches youth-league soccer, during which he notices two brothers, Joshua and Caleb, who seem to have a troubled home life...
  • Echoes in Death by J.D. Robb

    Echoes in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Lieutenant Eve Dallas encounters her toughest case yet when New York’s wealthiest couples are the targets of a calculated killer in Echoes in Death, a crime thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author J.D. Robb.When the young woman―dazed, naked, and bloody―wanders in front of their car, Roarke slams on the brakes just in time, and Eve―still in glittering gown and heels―springs into action...
  • Tickle His Fancy by Samantha A. Cole

    Tickle His Fancy by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    All around him, Brody ‘Egghead’ Evans’ Trident Security teammates have fallen in love and gotten their happily ever after. Ironically, they had always thought the charismatic Dominant would be the first one to fall—not the last...
  • In the Waning Light by Loreth Anne White

    In the Waning Light by Loreth Anne White

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Two decades after her sister’s brutal attack and murder, Meg Brogan has finally found happiness…or so it appears. A bestselling true-crime writer, Meg has money, fame, and a wealthy fiancé. But when a television-show host presses her to tackle the one story everyone claims she cannot write—the story of her own family’s destruction—her perfect life shatters...
  • 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...
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    suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime  drama  female-mc  fiction
  • 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...
  • Mission to Protect by Terri Reed

    Mission to Protect by Terri Reed

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Enter the world of the Military K-9 UnitA riveting new series begins!When the Red Rose Killer leaves his calling card for Staff Sergeant Felicity Monroe, she knows exactly what that means—she’s on his revenge list. Her boss, Master Sergeant Westley James, and K-9 German shepherd Dakota become her guardians, but they’ll have to act fast to escape the man who wants her dead...
  • Buried by Kendra Elliot

    Buried by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Reporter Michael Brody is used to getting answers. The one that’s eluded him, though, for twenty long years is learning what happened to his brother Daniel the day his school bus disappeared. When the remains of the other children are discovered—and Daniel’s aren’t among them—a desperate Michael calls upon the sole survivor of the tragedy, Chris Jacobs, hoping he will finally break his silence...
  • 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...
  • Fated for Felony by Victoria Laurie

    Fated for Felony by Victoria Laurie

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In New York Times bestselling author Victoria Laurie’s newest Psychic Eye Mystery, Abby is after a serial killer who’s simply fated for felonies...
  • Life Flight by Lynette Eason

    Life Flight by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    EMS helicopter pilot Penny Carlton is used to high stress situations, but being forced to land on a mountain in a raging storm with a critical patient--and a serial killer on the loose--tests her skills and her nerve to the limit. She survives with FBI Special Agent Holt Satterfield's help. But she's not out of the woods yet.In the ensuing days, Penny finds herself under attack...
  • Hostile Intent by Lynette Eason

    Hostile Intent by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ava Jackson entered the military shortly after high school, but her mother's illness has forced her to request an early discharge. She already lost her father while deployed, and there's no way she's going to let her mother die alone. But after a visit to the nursing facility where her mother lives, Ava is attacked walking back to her car...
  • A Merciful Secret by Kendra Elliot

    A Merciful Secret by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    In this Wall Street Journal bestseller, a pair of ritual murders could expose Mercy Kilpatrick to something terrifying: her own past…Raised off the grid by survivalists, Mercy Kilpatrick believed in no greater safeguard than the backwoods of Oregon. Unforgiven by her father for abandoning the fold for the FBI, Mercy still holds to her past convictions. They’re in her blood...
  • Survivor In Death by J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts

    Survivor In Death by J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    No affairs. No criminal connections. No DNA. No clues. Eve Dallas may be the best cop in the city - not to mention having the lavish resources of her husband Roarke at her disposal - but the Swisher case has her baffled. The family members were murdered in their beds with brutal, military precision...
  • Ghost of Deceit by Alice Winters

    Ghost of Deceit by Alice Winters

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    HiroSeeing the dead has never been easy, but the last thing I expected was to be a pawn in a serial killer’s game.Moving in with Maddox was supposed to be the only thing we needed to worry about. Not a dead teacher, and not the fact that a serial killer knows my abilities...
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    suspense  family  romance  paranormal  mlm  mystery  ghosts  fantasy
  • Dirty Hearts by Kenya Wright

    Dirty Hearts by Kenya Wright

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Darkly intense and deeply erotic, we return to the Lion and Mouse. The war has ended. Kazimir hopes to spend quiet time with Emily, but there are more enemies creeping within the shadows. New dangers that threaten the couple’s happiness...
    Categorized as:
    family  suspense  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • The Grave Between Us by Tal Bauer

    The Grave Between Us by Tal Bauer

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It was just one moment.It was just one mistake.For years, men have been disappearing. A father in North Carolina. A boater in California. A hiker in Arkansas. And more, scattered across the United States. The FBI knows who’s responsible: a serial killer they caught, a man they sent young profiler Cole Kennedy to interrogate...
    Categorized as:
    family  suspense  adult  age-gap  angst  book  boss-employee  children
  • Forgotten Legacy by Robin Perini

    Forgotten Legacy by Robin Perini

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Forgotten secrets. Forgotten lies. A family legacy…A determined killer. On the outskirts of Singing River, Wyoming, a couple dies in a fire that ravages their remote mountain home. Everyone believes it’s a tragic accident—except FBI profiler Riley Lambert. She isn’t convinced, and neither is her fiancé, ex–Navy SEAL turned sheriff Thayne Blackwood...
  • Blood Truth by J.R. Ward

    Blood Truth by J.R. Ward

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    As a trainee in the Black Dagger Brotherhood's program, Boone has triumphed as a soldier and now fights side by side with the Brothers. Following his sire's unexpected death, he is taken off rotation against his protests—and he finds himself working with Butch O'Neal, former homicide cop, to catch a serial killer: Someone is targeting females of the species at a live action role play club...
  • Thankless in Death by J.D. Robb

    Thankless in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    In the latest suspense thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, the year 2060 is drawing to a close in New York City and loved ones are coming together for Thanksgiving. But sometimes the deepest hatreds seethe within the closest relationships, and blood flows faster than water… Lieutenant Eve Dallas has plenty to be grateful for this season...
  • Reining It In by Winter Travers

    Reining It In by Winter Travers

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When shadowed evil finally has a face the fight really begins...
    Categorized as:
    family  suspense  adult  biker  book  contemporary  fiction  humor
  • The Devil's Spare Change by Samantha A. Cole

    The Devil's Spare Change by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    FBI agent Sean Malone put in a transfer to return home to North Carolina in order to be closer to his expanding family. What he didn’t expect was a pleasant surprise from his youth. Little Gracie Whitman is all grown up now and drop-dead gorgeous, and he finds himself thinking about her in ways he’d never done before...
  • A Killer Among Us (Women of Justice) by Lynette Eason

    A Killer Among Us (Women of Justice) by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When they are thrown into a grisly murder case, hostage negotiator Kit Kenyon and detective Noah Lambert soon realize they are on the hunt for a serial killer. The stakes are raised when they discover he may be hunting one of them too...
  • When a Heart Stops by Lynette Eason

    When a Heart Stops by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Spunky and outgoing, nothing much bothers medical examiner Serena Hopkins--except for the thought of falling in love again. But when a serial killer is picking off her former classmates, Serena's life becomes intertwined with her old high school crush, FBI agent Dominic Allen...
  • Vendetta in Death by J.D. Robb

    Vendetta in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Lieutenant Eve Dallas must keep the predator from becoming the prey in Vendetta in Death, the newest thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author J.D. Robb. She calls herself Lady Justice. And once she has chosen a man as her target, she turns herself into a tall blonde or a curvaceous redhead, makes herself as alluring and seductive as possible to them...
  • Dungeon Games by Lexi Blake

    Dungeon Games by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Obsessed: Derek Brighton has become one of Dallas’s finest detectives through a combination of discipline and obsession. Once he has a target in his sights, nothing can stop him. When he isn’t solving homicides, he applies the same intensity to his playtime at Sanctum, a secretive BDSM club. Unfortunately, no amount of beautiful submissives can fill the hole that one woman left in his heart...
  • Celebrity in Death by J.D. Robb

    Celebrity in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Lieutenant Eve Dallas is no party girl, but she's managing to have a good time at the celebrity-packed bash celebrating 'The Icove Agenda', a film based on one of her cases. What comes as a surprise however is seeing the actress who plays Peabody drowned in the pool on the roof of the director's luxury building...
  • Hesitate by K.E. Osborn

    Hesitate by K.E. Osborn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Family is a bond.One that can’t be broken.But what if I want to bend the rules?I wasn’t supposed to look at her that way. I’d practically grown up beside her. You shouldn’t ignite inside when you stare at your stepsister.Now she’s caught the eye of someone else.Someone more sinister than me.The problem is—he’s dangerous...
  • Killer Secrets by Kathleen Donnelly

    Killer Secrets by Kathleen Donnelly

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A small town’s deadly past is exposed in the newest installment of the suspenseful National Forest K-9 series by Kathleen Donnelly.Until an avalanche ripped down a mountainside, exposing a serial killer’s dumping grounds, Antler Valley, Colorado was a quiet town. Now Forest Service officer Maya Thompson and her beautiful K-9, Juniper, must catch the murderer before they become the next targets...
  • Possession in Death by J.D. Robb

    Possession in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    “The devil killed my body. I cannot fight, I cannot find. I cannot free her. You must. You are the one. We speak to the dead...
  • Vile by Debra Webb

    Vile by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Deputy Chief Jess Harris knows her time is running out. Somehow she must protect the people she loves and any more innocent victims from the serial killer obsessed with her...
  • Vicious by Debra Webb

    Vicious by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book 7 in the Faces of Evil series. Serial killer Eric Spears is far from done. He has chosen his next victim and Deputy Chief Jess Harris knows it's only a matter of time until he comes for her. The murders are vicious, the killer relentless...
  • Heinous by Debra Webb

    Heinous by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The body count is rising. The serial killer obsessed with Birmingham’s Deputy Chief Jess Harris is getting closer, and he knows Jess’s secret. Can she protect the child she carries and the people she loves from Eric Spears and his followers? The body farm discovered in a small Alabama town has many buried secrets...
  • Legacy Of Hunters Ridge by Sarah Barrie

    Legacy Of Hunters Ridge by Sarah Barrie

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She dazzled with Secrets of Whitewater Creek, now Sarah Barrie kicks off a brand-new trilogy about small towns, secrets, and the love that saves lives. Successful horse trainer Alissa Morgan-Jones has the world at her feet, until a tragic fire destroys everything. Widowed, in debt and under suspicion for arson, Alissa’s life is in tatters...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime  female-mc  fiction  murder
  • Hollow Veins by J. Rose

    Hollow Veins by J. Rose

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    All I ever wanted was the chance to live. From the moment I left my cage, I’ve fought for every single breath. But my new life came at a cost.The rapture approaches. Hysteria is taking over the country.Michael Abaddon stole everything from me. My freedom. My sanity. My soul. As his reign of terror escalates, the time has come to take my life back.He wants to burn us all...
  • Dark in Death by J.D. Robb

    Dark in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    It was a stab in the dark.On a chilly February night, during a screening of Psycho in midtown, someone sunk an ice pick into the back of Chanel Rylan’s neck, then disappeared quietly into the crowds of drunks and tourists in Times Square...
  • Dirty Love by Kenya Wright

    Dirty Love by Kenya Wright

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I’d found God in her eyes and a prayer in the subtle way she moaned. I found my soul, the spirit of humanity between her thighs. Devilish temptress or holy angel, I would have her all to myself. Nothing could happen to her, ever. Not one scratch. Not one frown on her face. I would kill to make her happy. * * * * * From Harlem to Prague, Moscow to St. Petersburg...
  • Six Degrees of Separation by Taylor V. Donovan

    Six Degrees of Separation by Taylor V. Donovan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Note from the author:By Degrees is an ensemble serial with continuing story lines. Six Degrees of Separation is the second installment, and it must be read after Six Degrees of Lust. Thanks.In the sequel to Six Degrees of Lust, F.B.I. team leader Samuel Shaughnessy and bar manager Machlan O’Bannon are exploring a new phase in their non-relationship...
  • Dead End by Nancy Mehl

    Dead End by Nancy Mehl

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a body is discovered in a field in Iowa, the police uncover fourteen additional corpses ranging from 20 years old to recent. The remains point to a serial killer with an MO the authorities have seen before--Ed Oliphant, a man who has been in prison for over 20 years . . . and is Special Agent Kaely Quinn's father...
  • Leopard's Prey by Christine Feehan

    Leopard's Prey by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author "Christine Feehan knows how to weave a tale of action, suspense and paranormal passion" (Romance Junkies). Now, she’s back -- and the New Orleans nights have never felt so torrid or so dangerous...From a tough stint in the armed forces to stalking the unknown as a bayou cop, leopard-shifter Remy Boudreux has been served well by his uncanny gifts...
  • No Rep by Lani Lynn Vale

    No Rep by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Taos was tired.Tired of everything that came with living. Not to the point where he was suicidal or anything, but tired enough that he just didn’t give a crap anymore.He’d seen all the ugliness this world had to offer due to his job as a police officer for way too many damn years of his less than stellar life...
  • Beneath the Surface by Lynn H. Blackburn, Lynn Huggins Blackburn

    Beneath the Surface by Lynn H. Blackburn, Lynn Huggins Blackburn

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After a harrowing experience with an obsessed patient, oncology nurse practitioner Leigh Weston needed a change. She thought she'd left her troubles behind when she moved home to Carrington, North Carolina, and took a job in the emergency department of the local hospital. But when someone tampers with her brakes, she fears the past has chased her into the present...
  • 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...
  • Say No More (Sacramento Series, The) by Karen Rose

    Say No More (Sacramento Series, The) by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Mercy Callahan thought she'd escaped the cult decades ago, but its long fingers are reaching out for her again in this electrifying novel in the Sacramento series by New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose.Seventeen years ago. That was the last time Mercy Callahan saw Ephraim Burton, the leader of the twisted Eden cult where she was raised...
  • Scream For Me: A Novel of the Night Hunter by Cynthia Eden

    Scream For Me: A Novel of the Night Hunter by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Nothing is deeper than the desire they can’t fight—or deadlier than the evil they can’t escape. They were only supposed to have a professional relationship, but FBI agent Kyle McKenzie has been fantasizing about his sexy partner, Cadence Hollow, from the moment they first moment. It takes the darkest case of their careers to finally bring their hidden desire bubbling to the surface...
  • Survive the Night by Carol J. Post

    Survive the Night by Carol J. Post

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tracking a serial killer in Harmony Grove turns personal for Detective Lexi Simmons when her cousin becomes a victim. The situation goes from bad to worse when she’s teamed up with Officer Alan White whose heart she broke seven years ago. But she is determined to find justice for Kayla and the other women brutally murdered and won’t let her and Alan’s shared past interfere...
  • Valiant Defender by Shirlee McCoy

    Valiant Defender by Shirlee McCoy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    His daughter’s been taken… The last showdown in the Military K-9 Unit series After relentless searching, Captain Justin Blackwood’s closing in on the Red Rose Killer. But when his daughter becomes a target, the hunt turns personal...
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