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  • Dying Wishes by Colleen Helme

    Dying Wishes by Colleen Helme

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Shelby Nichols needs some time off, but for a mind-reader with ties to the police and the mob, is that even possible?Her kids want the dog she's promised them, the police need her to talk to a counselor, and Uncle Joey has unexpected news that could change her life. Is Shelby up to the task? Let's hope so, because solving a murder might be easier than granting a dying wish...
  • Top Secret Twenty-One : A Stephanie Plum Novel by Janet Evanovich - Review Summary by J.T. Salrich

    Top Secret Twenty-One : A Stephanie Plum Novel by Janet Evanovich - Review Summary by J.T. Salrich

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Top Secret Twenty-One by Janet Evanovich is finally here! Janet Evanovich fans will be glad to know that Stephanie Plum is at it again. "Top Secret Twenty-One: A Stephanie Plum Novel" picks up right where Takedown Twenty left off...
  • Wakes and High Stakes by Trixie Silvertale

    Wakes and High Stakes by Trixie Silvertale

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A flamboyant funeral. A dashing gigolo. Can this psychic sleuth beat the odds on murder?Mitzy Moon is never one to celebrate death. But a compelling invitation to a 1920s themed memorial service, aboard a riverboat casino, entices her to take a gamble. And the only thing hotter than the tables is the newly wealthy widower—until he disappears...
    Categorized as:
    cozy  culinary  female-mc  romance  paranormal  mystery  fantasy  humor
  • No Questions Asked (A Lexi Carmichael Mystery) by Julie Moffett

    No Questions Asked (A Lexi Carmichael Mystery) by Julie Moffett

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ONE LAST FLING (WITH DANGER)Lexi Carmichael: saving scientists one snake at a time.Weddings aren’t my thing—never have been. But eloping would break my mother’s heart, especially since the president of the United States put in a good word for me with his daughter’s wedding planner. I’m going to have the wedding of the year…whether I like it or not...
  • Nona the Ninth Sneak Peek by Tamsyn Muir

    Nona the Ninth Sneak Peek by Tamsyn Muir

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tamsyn Muir's New York Times and USA Today bestselling Locked Tomb Series continues with Nona ...the Ninth? Download a FREE sneak peek today!“You will love Nona, and Nona loves you.” —Alix E. Harrow“Unlike anything I've ever read.” —V.E. Schwab on Gideon the Ninth“Deft, tense and atmospheric, compellingly immersive and wildly original...
  • Never Fade by Alexandra Bracken

    Never Fade by Alexandra Bracken

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 68 ratings
    Ruby never asked for the abilities that almost cost her her life. Now she must call upon them on a daily basis, leading dangerous missions to bring down a corrupt government and breaking into the minds of her enemies. Other kids in the Children’s League call Ruby “Leader”, but she knows what she really is: a monster...
  • Contagious Chaos by Emily Goodwin

    Contagious Chaos by Emily Goodwin

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Contagious Chaos, the highly anticipated third book in the Contagium Series, winner of the Contagious Reads Horror Con’s 2014 best horror series, follows Orissa and her friends as they struggle through a zombie filled world...
  • Book of the Lost: AAV-07d25-11 by V.E.S. Pullen

    Book of the Lost: AAV-07d25-11 by V.E.S. Pullen

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    We’ve escaped Salem, leaving behind thousands of people to an uncertain fate. The bunker is a short-term haven, providing more than we ever imagined — proving once again that Azzie and Mouse weren’t the compliant little puppets everyone believed them to be.But it’s time to leave now, to go out into the world.A world that isn’t remotely prepared for Azzie...
  • The Fighter by Elin Peer, Noelle Bridges

    The Fighter by Elin Peer, Noelle Bridges

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Unabridged, 1 audiobook sound file (9 parts), 9 hours 25 minutes_______________I’ve lived half of my life on each side of the border. I know what greatness women are capable of and how amazing men can be. For those Nmen who think I can’t be a police officer because I’m a “fragile female,” I have only one thing to say; watch me! Raven is a force of nature who won’t take no for an answer...
  • Ritual in Death / Missing in Death by J.D. Robb

    Ritual in Death / Missing in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dark, mystifying and powerful forces are at work in these two superb J.D. Robb short stories.Ritual in DeathWhen a naked, knife-wielding man who thinks he has killed someone crashes a glamorous ball she's attending, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is almost relieved. The clues point towards ritual murder, but Eve knows there is nothing supernatural about a deadly lust for power..
  • Outcast by Vanessa Nelson

    Outcast by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If no one knows that you saved the world, does it really count?Eight years ago the world almost ended and Max lost everything, accused of betrayal and failure.Now working as a Marshal, keeping the city and its people safe from supernatural dangers, Max thinks she's broken all ties to her past. She's just trying to do her job and live her life...
  • The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

    The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 70 ratings
    When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp...
  • Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers

    Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be identified as the beginning of the decline. For Helen it was the weekend that the Hidden Man came to Westbury Park.Croydon, 1964. Helen Hansford is in her thirties and an art therapist in a psychiatric hospital where she has been having a long love affair with a charismatic, married doctor...
  • Calculated in Death by J.D. Robb

    Calculated in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    On Manhattan's Upper East Side a woman lies dead at the bottom of the stairs, stripped of all her valuables. Most cops might call it a mugging gone wrong, but Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows better.A well-off accountant and a beloved wife and mother, Marta Dickenson doesn't seem the type to be on anyone's hit list...
  • Destruction by J.M. Madden

    Destruction by J.M. Madden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Going back into the torture camp where he’d been so brutally abused is the last thing Navy SEAL Drake Fontana wants to do, but if there are other men being experimented upon he has to be the one to get them out. And he has to give them an option other than to be a test subject to the Silverstone Collaborative, the pharmaceutical company funding the diabolical experiments...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction  mystery  suspense
  • Cloud Dust by Connie Suttle

    Cloud Dust by Connie Suttle

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I got out five years ago.Untalented, they said.In other words, they didn't know what to do with me, and murder usually leaves a mess.I understood messes. Saw too many of them in my dreams. That's why I live where I do, still in their shadow but outside their walls. The conditions, of course, are that I have to move every five years, check in now and then and never, ever, talk about them to anyone...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  adult  aliens  book  fiction  mystery  myths  paranormal
  • Annihilation by Tarah Benner

    Annihilation by Tarah Benner

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Eli and Harper have fled the compound — running from people who once fought by their side. Owen has been captured, Sawyer is infected, and Celdon is facing a crisis of conscience. When Eli gets wind of an attack that puts Owen’s life in jeopardy, everything changes...
  • Justice Ascending by Rebecca Zanetti

    Justice Ascending by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Before surviving the Scorpius bacterium, Tace Justice was a good ole Texas cowboy who served his country and loved his mama. After Scorpius, the world became dark, dangerous, and deadly... and so did he. The Vanguard medic is stronger, faster, and smarter than before, but he's lost the line between right and wrong...
  • Raksha by Frankie Rose

    Raksha by Frankie Rose

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ** Please note: The title of Raksha has been changed to Halo **She has no name. She has her knives; her training; her halo. The first and second give her the tools and the skill to defeat the opponents she is pitched against each month. The third frees her from pain and fear. From any kind of emotion at all. Everything is as it should be...
  • Murder at Keyhaven Castle by Clara McKenna

    Murder at Keyhaven Castle by Clara McKenna

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    With her wedding to Viscount “Lyndy” Lyndhurst just days away, strong-willed American ex-pat Stella Kendrick is the talk of Edwardian society—and the focus of a deadly mystery—in Clara McKenna’s third historical mystery set in England’s New Forest region at the turn of the 20th century...
  • For Batter or Worse by Jenn McKinlay

    For Batter or Worse by Jenn McKinlay

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Fairy Tale Cupcake crew must discover the truth behind a death sprinkled with suspicion before Mel and Joe can say I do", in the thirteenth Cupcake Bakery Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay.Life is sweet and business is booming at the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery--and the fact that Mel and Joe are getting married is the icing on the cake...
  • Cured by Bethany Wiggins

    Cured by Bethany Wiggins

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Now that Fiona Tarsis and her twin brother, Jonah, are no longer beasts, they set out to find their mother, with the help of Bowen and a former neighbor, Jacqui. Heading for a safe settlement rumored to be in Wyoming, they plan to spread the cure along the way--until they are attacked by raiders...
  • All In A Name by Honor Raconteur

    All In A Name by Honor Raconteur

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Someone left Jamie a prezzie and she would like to return it with a no thank you.It all starts with a dead Robert Martin, the man who killed RM Burtchell. Jamie doesn’t know how, but it’s obvious he was yanked out of high security prison, murdered, and dumped on her front doorsteps.Now the situation is entirely out of control...
  • Saved by the Rakian Scout by Elin Wyn

    Saved by the Rakian Scout by Elin Wyn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bewitched by her scent, can he discover the truth behind the secrets of the past?Spy and scout Jormoi must prevent a secret document from falling into the hands of the sworn enemy of his brothers - who has already befriended the book's beautiful keeper.But the shy, lovely Rhela is hiding more than he realized...
  • Renegades: Badlands Next Generation by Natalie Bennett

    Renegades: Badlands Next Generation by Natalie Bennett

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Of the devil’s flesh and bone, the prince is ready to claim his throne.I want power.Cam wants penance.I've got a black cult religion backing my decisions.He's got demons hungry for carnage.Everything was going smoothly.Until her.She's the forbidden fruit we're supposed to beware of, but something carnal is growing between us...
  • The Tycoon Murderer by Maureen Driscoll

    The Tycoon Murderer by Maureen Driscoll

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THE TYCOON MURDERER is the first book in a new time-travel romance/cozy mystery series set in the Pacific Northwest. When Josie Matthews buys a Victorian mansion with a notorious past, she hopes to turn it into a successful inn...
  • On a Cyborg Planet by Anna Hackett

    On a Cyborg Planet by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After a vicious coup, cyborg Axton Saros, Prime of the planet of Centax, is trying to rebuild his world. Still recovering from his captivity and dark guilt, he won’t let anything get in his way. But a priceless artifact, stolen during the attack, is still missing and Axton wants it back...
  • Endgame by Jaye Pratt

    Endgame by Jaye Pratt

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Even after the death of Mr. Z, he still manages to screw me from the grave.One letter was all it took to irrevocably change my life forever. It not only changes the course of my future, but also for those I am close to.Ending Mr. Z’s life should have made things easier, yet his death has revealed so many more secrets and lies, and unleashed new enemies that were once allies...
  • Coached in the Act by Victoria Laurie

    Coached in the Act by Victoria Laurie

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As East Hampton's go-to life coach, Cat Cooper and her BFF, Gilley, delve into the exclusive personal lives of the rich and infamous. But with local gossip growing vicious, knowing too much information can be a death sentence....Wild rumors are swirling in the Hamptons over Twelve Angry Men, a ruthlessly revealing one-woman show written and performed by Yelena Galanis...
  • Yews with Caution by Kate Collins

    Yews with Caution by Kate Collins

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Flower shop owner Abby Knight is out to help a friend in need but soon finds herself in the weeds... The Spring of Abby's Discontent It's April in New Chapel, and Abby and her husband, Marco, are off to buy shrubs for their new house. But the owner of the local landscaping company is nowhere to be found...
  • Fatal Fascinator by Jenn McKinlay

    Fatal Fascinator by Jenn McKinlay

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Hip hip beret! Hatmakers Scarlett Parker and Vivian Tremont return and must collar a killer when a castle wedding goes awry in New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay’s new Hat Shop Mystery.It’s wedding season and Viv’s longtime frenemy Piper May is getting married. She convinces Viv and Scarlett to take on the job of designing the headpieces for her “wedding of the year...
  • Strawberried Alive by Jenn McKinlay

    Strawberried Alive by Jenn McKinlay

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The crew from the Fairy Tale Cupcakes shop risks getting burned when they set out to find a murderer who is terrorizing their townLife is smooth as buttercream at the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery, and newlyweds Mel and Joe are stopping to smell the flours. But things start to crumble one night when an unknown gunman takes a shot at Mel...
  • Inhuman by Kat Falls

    Inhuman by Kat Falls

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    In a world ravaged by mutation, a teenage girl must travel into the forbidden Savage Zone to recover lost artifacts or her father’s life is forfeit.America has been ravaged by a war that has left the eastern half of the country riddled with mutation. Many of the people there exhibit varying degrees of animal traits. Even the plantlife has gone feral...
  • Eve of Man by Giovanna Fletcher, Tom Fletcher

    Eve of Man by Giovanna Fletcher, Tom Fletcher

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    ***PRE-ORDER EVE OF MAN, THE FIRST BOOK IN A BRAND-NEW TRILOGY, JOINTLY WRITTEN BY BESTSELLING AUTHORS GIOVANNA & TOM FLETCHER***AGAINST ALL ODDS, SHE SURVIVED.THE FIRST GIRL BORN IN FIFTY YEARS.THEY CALLED HER EVE.THE WORLD HAD WAITED FOR HER ARRIVAL WITH BATED BREATH.She is the last girl on earth, and all her life Eve has been kept away from the opposite sex. Kept from the truth of her past...
  • Whiskers and Lies by Sofie Kelly

    Whiskers and Lies by Sofie Kelly

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Librarian Kathleen Paulson is always willing to help a friend, but to save one from a wrongful arrest, she’ll need magical backup from her affectionate cats in the newest installment of this New York Times bestselling series...
    Categorized as:
    cozy  female-mc  romance  mystery  cats  animals  fiction  paranormal
  • The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau, Amélie Hesnard

    The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau, Amélie Hesnard

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Isn't that what they say? But how close is too close when they may be one and the same?The Seven Stages War left much of the planet a charred wasteland. The future belongs to the next generation's chosen few who must rebuild it...
  • The Famoux  (The Famoux, #1) by Kassandra Tate

    The Famoux (The Famoux, #1) by Kassandra Tate

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Updated every Friday for Famoux Friday.From The Famoux:"The murmurs of Bree Arch’s name echo around the hallway between classes...
    Categorized as:
    apocalyptic  book  dark  death  dystopia  female-author  fiction  lgbtq
  • Vanquished by S.E. Green

    Vanquished by S.E. Green

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One island. Seven deadly sins.*Abducted from their life in Miami, Valerie and her sister wake up in a secret society run by the world's most powerful people. Now "property" of a sadistic tyrant, Valerie joins other captives who are forced to compete in gladiator style fights and to participate in the elite's deviant fantasies...
  • เพชรยอดคทา เล่ม 1 by Qian Lu, 浅绿

    เพชรยอดคทา เล่ม 1 by Qian Lu, 浅绿

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    หนึ่งหญิงงาม ทรามวัยอัจฉริยะหนึ่งอัครเสนาบดี ยอดกุนซือผู้อยู่เหนือผู้คนทั่วทั้งแคว้นลุ้นไปกับความรักของเขาและเธอ ภายใต้สายลมแห่งกาลเวลา...“จั๋วฉิง” คือแพทย์หญิงอัจฉริยะอันดับหนึ่งของจีน เธอเด็ดเดี่ยว เยือกเย็น เป็นมืออาชีพ เป็นนิติเวชที่อายุน้อยที่สุด อนาคตรุ่งโรจน์ที่สุดในยุกไซเบอร์ แต่ชีวิตเธอกลับพลิกผันเพราะเรื่องไม่คาดฝันเรื่องหนึ่ง ‘การเดินทางผ่านห้วงเวลา’ ปัจจุบัน..
  • Daring Duplicity by Edale Lane

    Daring Duplicity by Edale Lane

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Solving mysteries is her business. Finding love is her dream. Will combining the two get her killed?Victorian Era England. Stetson revels in being unconventional. So when society shies away from her independent nature, the bold woman creates an imaginary boss and opens her own detective agency...
  • Better Than Friends by Jill Shalvis

    Better Than Friends by Jill Shalvis

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Old flames reignite in Sunrise Cove in this charming enemies-to-lovers, second-chance, small-town, forced-proximity love story about family, friendships, and true love from New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis.When Olive Porter’s off-the-grid parents go missing, she reluctantly seeks out Noah Turner, her ex and the only person she both trusts implicitly and not at all...
  • A Crime of Poison by Nancy Haddock

    A Crime of Poison by Nancy Haddock

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Silver Six are known for their arts and crafts—but they’re about to be tested in the art of catching a crafty killer.It’s early October, time for the Fall Folk Art Festival and Bake Sale in Lilyvale, Arkansas. Every business along the town square will benefit from the event, including the craft store run by Leslee Stanton Nix—aka Nixy—and the Silver Six, a group of retirees...
  • Kilty as Charged by Amy Vansant

    Kilty as Charged by Amy Vansant

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A blend of suspense, romance and laughs with just a dash of time-traveling Highlander from author Amy Vansant.When Catriona spots a plaid posterior passed out on the Hollywood movie lot where she works, she doesn't know her life as a fixer for Hollywood's spoiled elite is about to grow more complicated...
  • One for the Hooks by Betty Hechtman

    One for the Hooks by Betty Hechtman

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Molly Pink and the Tarzana Hookers must unwind a fiendish skein in national bestselling author Betty Hechtman's fourteenth Crochet mystery.These are the dog days of August, but you won't catch the Tarzana Hookers crochet club napping. While Molly Pink knits together an idea for a new project, Miami Wilson busily converts a house she inherited into a rental property...
  • Coached Red-Handed by Victoria Laurie

    Coached Red-Handed by Victoria Laurie

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Life coach Cat Cooper and her best friend Gilley can’t wait to take a long vacation from low-key East Hampton. There’s just one more item left on their planning stopping a killer . . .With Gilley heartbroken over the collapse of his marriage, Cat has the perfect remedy—a long getaway to Italy...
    Categorized as:
    cozy  female-mc  romance  mystery  fiction  audiobook  humor  grief
  • A Root Awakening by Kate Collins

    A Root Awakening by Kate Collins

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Abby Knight's marriage may be in full bloom, but house hunting is no bed of roses in latest novel in the New York Times bestselling Flower Shop Mystery series... Now that they’ve tied the knot, flower shop owner Abby Knight and her husband, Marco, want to put down roots. When it comes to picking a house, Marco can’t wait to get his hands dirty, while Abby isn’t ready for a fixer-upper...
  • High Energy by Dara Joy

    High Energy by Dara Joy

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From the bestselling author of "Tonight or Never" comes the tale of a reporter and the physicist she's sent to interview--and it's turn into the sizzling story of true love and passion.Physics. Zanita Masterson knew nothing about the subject, and cared little to learn--until a reporting job led her to one Tyberius Augustus Evans...
    Categorized as:
    cozy  adult  animals  book  comedy  contemporary  fiction  humor
  • Fire Country by David Estes

    Fire Country by David Estes

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In a changed world where the sky bleeds red, winter is hotter than hell and full of sandstorms, and summer's even hotter with raging fires that roam the desert-like country, the Heaters manage to survive, barely. Due to toxic air, life expectancies are so low the only way the tribe can survive is by forcing women to procreate when they turn sixteen and every three years thereafter...
  • Sugar Plum Poisoned by Jenn McKinlay

    Sugar Plum Poisoned by Jenn McKinlay

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It's Christmastime, and this holiday season, things are heating up for the bakers at Fairy Tale Cupcakes, in the newest Cupcake Bakery Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay...
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