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  • Inevitable Disclosure by Nicky James

    Inevitable Disclosure by Nicky James

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Quaid is adrift in MPU. With his partner on extended leave, he’s alone and unsure if he wants to continue working on missing persons cases now that his sister’s case is closed. When the missing teen he’s been seeking for a week turns up dead, it’s the icing on the cake.Maybe it’s time to explore a different career path...
  • Lure by Gianni Holmes

    Lure by Gianni Holmes

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When it comes to book smarts, I'll never be anyone's first choice.Luckily, when a wealthy and dangerous stranger picks me off the street to work for him, he uses me for my body, not my brains.KITI'm the bait tasked with luring men into his trap.I have no idea what he does with them.I don't want to know.Until the night he tells me to run, but I stay.Now I know what he's really capable of..
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    crime  dark  lgbtq  mlm  action-adventure  adult  age-gap  assassins
  • Final Orders by Gregory Ashe

    Final Orders by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An embattled author. Fanatical parents. A son who can’t stay out of trouble. It’s the last one that’ll probably kill him.When Emery Hazard gets drawn into a brawl at a monthly school board meeting, he knows he’s in trouble; his husband, John-Henry Somerset, is chief of police, and they’re already under enough scrutiny as they try to finalize their foster son’s permanency plan...
  • The Hatter's Game, Part II by Cole McCade

    The Hatter's Game, Part II by Cole McCade

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ABOUT THIS EPISODE Malcolm Khalaji is missing. And Seong-Jae Yoon is the only one who can find him. But to do so means walking paths he swore he would never tread again. Descending into the blackest hallways of a twisted and sadistic mind. Breaking down every wall he's ever built around himself, to try to predict what Sila will do next...
  • Marriage Is Murder by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Marriage Is Murder by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Spring is in full bloom, love is in the air, and Cupid has taken deadly aim in Savannah.Newly engaged, Royce Locke and Sawyer Key are ready to set the date and charge full-steam ahead into their happily ever after, but homicides and unresolved conflicts keep getting in their way...
  • Murder Book by Marshall Thornton

    Murder Book by Marshall Thornton

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the second of the Boystown mysteries to be a finalist for the Lambda Award, it’s fall 1982 and Chicago is gripped by panic after five people die from poisoned Tylenol capsules. Amid the chaos, the Bughouse Slasher takes his eighth victim, this time striking close to private investigator Nick Nowak. With the Chicago Police Department stretched to its limit, Nick takes matters into his own hands...
  • Unbreakable by Cari Hunter

    Unbreakable by Cari Hunter

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dr. Grace Kendal never stands a chance. The injured woman comes out of nowhere, bleeding heavily and holding a gun. Compelled to help her, Grace is dragged into Elin Breckenridge’s nightmare. Their fight to survive will take them across the country and to the limits of their endurance...
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    lgbtq  crime  law-enforcement  dark  romance  mystery  audiobook  wlw
  • Dead Sea by Pandora Pine

    Dead Sea by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a new client asks the West Side Detectives to look into the Redcoat Murders on Dead Man’s Rock in the years before the start of the Revolutionary War, Ronan O’Mara thinks he might have the perfect case to put his new detective agency on the map. The only problem is that while Ronan’s specialty is cold case murders, he’s never investigated a case nearly three centuries cold...
  • The Evening Wolves by Gregory Ashe

    The Evening Wolves by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Every victory comes at a cost. The trail has gone cold. For months now, Emery Hazard and John-Henry Somerset have been trying to find something—anything—that might help them uncover the truth about the criminal organization operating out of the Cottonmouth Club. But every lead has turned out to be a dead end, and every step forward has cost them two steps back...
  • Killer Honeymoon by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Killer Honeymoon by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Honeymoon, happily ever after, and…homicide?Newlyweds, Royce Locke and Sawyer Key, embark on a honeymoon road trip where their biggest threat should be dodging drunk tourists on golf carts. But their arrival on South Bass Island lands them in the middle of a contentious battle between lifelong islanders and a property developer who won’t accept no for an answer...
  • The Hatter's Game, Part I by Cole McCade

    The Hatter's Game, Part I by Cole McCade

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ABOUT THIS EPISODE Broken trust. Shattered hearts. Secrets exposed--and yet still no closer to the truth. When Malcolm and Seong-Jae's relationship hits a wall, their partnership fragments as well...and they may not be able to withstand the crushing tide when protests over Tomasz Kowalczyk's death turn into deadly riots. Too many familiar faces return, and one will be leaving in a bodybag...
  • The Golden Ratio by Cole McCade

    The Golden Ratio by Cole McCade

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ABOUT THIS EPISODE The boys are back, and an old face from Seong-Jae’s past plunges BPD Detectives Malcolm Khalaji and Seong-Jae Yoon from a two-month suspension right into the depths of hell — and into one of the most horrific, grisly cases of Malcolm’s life. He's never seen anything like it...
  • Custody Battles by Gregory Ashe

    Custody Battles by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Some parents would die for their children. Others will do a whole lot worse.Emery Hazard and his husband, John-Henry Somerset, are settling into their new normal—at home, with the latest addition to their family, and at work, as Somers adapts to his new role and Hazard manages his expanding agency. The only thing Hazard is worried about is getting through dinner with his in-laws...
  • Collide by Reese Knightley

    Collide by Reese Knightley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ex hacker Seth O’Leary enjoys the hell out of being part of an elite team of operatives known only as Phoenix. In fact, he’s pretty much made it his whole life. When things go horribly wrong with his deadbeat boyfriend, Seth is surprised to find help coming from an unexpected source. The man he’s secretly fantasized about for years finally takes notice...
  • Body and Soul by Patricia Logan

    Body and Soul by Patricia Logan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    More than ten years ago, a series of train bombings devastated railways throughout Europe. Strange poetry sent to local newspapers right before each bombing, confounded investigators at the time. In one of only a handful of failed covert missions, Jarrett had been sent into North Korea to take out the bomber...
  • Guns n' Boys: Black Lies (Book 10) (gay dark mafia romance) by K.A. Merikan

    Guns n' Boys: Black Lies (Book 10) (gay dark mafia romance) by K.A. Merikan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "That man is not your fairytale ending." Griffith has spent two of the most amazing years with his boyfriend Mark, who is undoubtedly The One. Mark is everything Griffith could want in a man. Sexy, kind, always there for him, showering him with gifts and anticipating his needs...
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    crime  dark  lgbtq  mlm  action-adventure  adult  angst  anti-hero
  • School of Fish by Amy Lane

    School of Fish by Amy Lane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jackson Rivers has been learning how to take care of himself so he can be there for Ellery Cramer, but after eight weeks of healing, body and soul, he’s itching to get back to work. Finally Ellery gives him a simple task: pick up a file on a kid who probably didn’t commit murder but who refuses to participate in his own defense.Nothing is ever that easy...
  • Devoted to the Don by Leighton Greene

    Devoted to the Don by Leighton Greene

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Luca thought keeping me out of the Family business would keep me safe.He was wrong. Now his own life is hanging in the balance, too. While our enemies stalk us, long-buried secrets begin to resurface, and I’m not sure who we can trust.But I won’t let anyone take him from me. No matter what I have to do.I meant every promise I made to Luca in my marriage vows...
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    crime  lgbtq  mlm  action-adventure  adult  billionaire  book  fiction
  • Law of Attraction by Pandora Pine

    Law of Attraction by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Boston Police rookie Greeley Fitzgibbon has seen the worst life has to offer. Shunned by his family for coming out, he lived life fast and hard on the mean streets of Boston, until he came up against a serial killer, who nearly made him a statistic on his kill list. Like the fabled phoenix, Greeley rose from the ashes by getting clean and then adopted by BPD Captain Kevin Fitzgibbon...
  • Fish in a Barrel by Amy Lane

    Fish in a Barrel by Amy Lane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jackson and Ellery face their toughest case yet—against the criminal justice system itself.Jackson Rivers and Ellery Cramer have worked difficult jobs before, but usually it’s getting the facts that’s the problem. For their newest client, the trouble isn’t finding the truth—it’s corruption at the highest levels of the justice system...
  • Hideout at Whiskey Gulch by Elle James

    Hideout at Whiskey Gulch by Elle James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The town's former bad boy...is aiding and abetting the lawAfter saving a woman and baby from would-be kidnappers, ex-marine Matt Hennessey discovers he and Aubrey Blanchard have much in common--starting over, painful pasts and an ice-cold murder case. Their attraction is instant and undeniable. But as they search for the baby's abducted sister, a human trafficking cartel threatens their lives...
  • Interlude by C.S. Poe

    Interlude by C.S. Poe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Interlude is a collection of short stories spanning the complete timeline of the Snow & Winter series, beginning with The Mystery of Nevermore, to after the conclusion of The Mystery of the Bones. They feature the point of view of Sebastian Snow and Calvin Winter and consist of mini-mysteries as well as scenes from daily life...
  • A Time For Secrets by Marshall Thornton

    A Time For Secrets by Marshall Thornton

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the first full-length novel of the Boystown series, it’s late summer 1982 and private detective Nick Nowak is asked to find a retired gentleman’s long lost lover. Instead, he finds himself embroiled in a decades old murder connected to the man who wants tobe Chicago’s next mayor...
  • Enticed by the Enemy by Leighton Greene

    Enticed by the Enemy by Leighton Greene

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s an FBI profiler who’s half my age. Contact between us is forbidden. But I can’t stay away from him.As the Morelli Underboss, I'm the Family problem-solver. So when a task force blames the Morellis for a series of murders in Central Park, it's up to me to restore our reputation...
  • Thunder and Lightning by Patricia Logan

    Thunder and Lightning by Patricia Logan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jarrett Evans and Thayne Wolfe have been partnered in the ATF for nearly two years and their love and commitment to each other has grown over time. Now faced with one final challenge, the boys are headed to Arizona to help Thayne’s mom, stumbling headfirst into a brand new case...
  • 默读 by Priest

    默读 by Priest

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
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    lgbtq  mlm  dark  crime  law-enforcement  romance  mystery  fiction
  • A Heart's Desire by Kris Michaels

    A Heart's Desire by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Agent McKenzie is nobody's 'yes' boy and has the letters of reprimand to prove it. He smells the stink of political maneuvering in this case, and he can see the handwriting on the wall. Hell, the words are three feet high and written in crayon. Someone in his agency wants a target on Liam Mercier's back, but McKenzie would be damned if he'd put one there...
  • Lost in the Mind by Alice Winters

    Lost in the Mind by Alice Winters

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After the last incident—which involved a serial killer—Chevy and Seneca are considering puppy wrangling as a new, safer profession than psychic detective work. Honestly, Seneca would prefer to focus on his new relationship with Chevy, even if he’s worried about the menacing countdown calendar leading to Chevy’s birthday...
  • High Fidelity by M. Chandler

    High Fidelity by M. Chandler

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A fellow FBI agent with an old grudge picks Simon as the instrument of his revenge. And he knows the hidden truth behind one of Simon's closest-kept secrets... or does he? On the other side of the world, two steps ahead of a ruthless, implacable foe accidentally set on his trail by Simon, Jeremy Archer is running for his life..
  • Matchstick Men by Adira August

    Matchstick Men by Adira August

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sometimes it's the cop who needs to hit the floor... Haunted by the worst case of my career, I knew only one way to exorcise the images from my mind, the victim from my soul ... Inside the club, I scanned the room. He was here—Camden Snow—a sex god in the guise of unpretentious youth...
  • Beloved by the Boss by Leighton Greene

    Beloved by the Boss by Leighton Greene

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    M/M Mafia Romance It’s good to be the Boss. That’s what I thought my whole life.Now I am the Boss. I’ll shoulder that responsibility with my beloved husband beside me. As long as I have Finch, I can handle whatever life throws at me.But what they say is true: Be careful what you wish for.My Family has been decimated. My allies are few. I’m holding onto power by a thread...
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    crime  dark  lgbtq  mlm  action-adventure  adult  billionaire  book
  • Saving Mitch by Emily Matthews

    Saving Mitch by Emily Matthews

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Do opposites always attract? Will sweet, clumsy Maggie and troubled, bad-boy Mitch find love amidst the danger that surrounds them? Find out in this romantic, suspenseful, sometimes funny debut novel by Emily Matthews. Tormented police officer Mitch MacDonald will stop at nothing to find a killer, and his obsession is about to cost him his job...
  • Protecting the Soul by Annabella Michaels

    Protecting the Soul by Annabella Michaels

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    For Landon Greene, managing the band Carter’s Creed is more than just a job. It also means being there to keep his brother safe. When someone begins sending threatening letters to Carter, Landon feels overwhelmed with the need to protect him...
  • Found by Annabella Michaels

    Found by Annabella Michaels

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    As a former USAF pararescueman, Jeremy O’Brien is used to following orders, no questions asked. So, when Micah, his boss at Hamilton Security, asks him to take on a special case, he readily accepts. Micah’s instructions are simple, find the man in the picture and bring him back to Chicago...
  • Barrel Proof: by Layla Reyne

    Barrel Proof: by Layla Reyne

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    FBI agents Aidan "Irish" Talley and Jameson "Whiskey" Walker can't get a moment's peace. Their hunt for the terrorist Renaud seems to be nearing an end, until a fire allows him to slip through their fingers-and puts Jamie's life in danger. When Jamie is nearly killed, Aidan learns how many forms loss can take...
  • Fairs' Point by Melissa Scott

    Fairs' Point by Melissa Scott

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    During Dog Moon, the chief entertainment in the great city of Astreiant, for nobles and commons alike, is the basket-terrier races at New Fair. This year, with spectacularly bad timing, the massive and suspicious bankruptcy of a young nobleman has convulsed the city, leading to suicides, widespread loss of employment, and inconvenient new laws around the universal practice of betting on the races...
  • Modern Warfare by Valerie Vaughn

    Modern Warfare by Valerie Vaughn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Covert Affairs M/M Romance Book Two Navigating a new relationship is never easy, but Deputy Director Syler Perrin has the uniquely hair-raising privilege of doing it with one Special Agent Arthur Dufault, premiere CIA operative and all around menace...
  • Triangulation by Cole McCade

    Triangulation by Cole McCade

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ABOUT THIS EPISODE Less than a day. Less than a day of peace, of calm, of comfort before the white rabbit returns to tear Malcolm and Seong-Jae's lives apart. An eerie video presents them with a deadly ultimatum, which leaves our intrepid pair racing to discover the identity of the latest victim — and desperate to protect their families from the threat hanging over their heads...
  • Pros & Cons of Obsession by A.E. Wasp

    Pros & Cons of Obsession by A.E. Wasp

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    FIVE JOBS. FIVE CHANCES FOR REDEMPTION.One thing’s for sure: these men are no angels...
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    crime  dark  lgbtq  mlm  action-adventure  adult  book  contemporary
  • One Vote for Murder by S.C. Wynne

    One Vote for Murder by S.C. Wynne

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Frenemies and psychopaths keep life interesting. If they don't kill you, that is.Maxwell foolishly hoped things might settle down once he found the perfect new location for his medical practice.Not. So. Much.After a shocking revelation, Maxwell finally knows why River Martin hates him with a passion. And River isn't willing to let bygones be bygones. To put it mildly...
  • Killer vs. Kingpin by Cari Z., L.A. Witt

    Killer vs. Kingpin by Cari Z., L.A. Witt

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    August Morrison and Ricardo Torralba would really like to live a quiet life—as quiet as life can be for a couple of eccentric hitmen, anyway. Unfortunately for them, they pushed their luck with the authors and demanded a second book. So now, whether they like it or not, they’re getting a third installment.Yes, this is a revenge book. Because we’re the authors, that’s why...
  • War of the Wicked by Davidson King

    War of the Wicked by Davidson King

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lucifer’s Landing is full of unscrupulous people: five families desperate to own every inch. For years, under the watchful and most powerful eye, there has been peace. With the murder of the most powerful man, it’s as if the gates of Hell have opened.Dante Scavo is trying to fill his father’s shoes, find the person responsible for killing him, and stop Lucifer’s Landing from becoming a war zone...
  • Find and Keep by K. Sterling

    Find and Keep by K. Sterling

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Aiden and Lane return with Lavender and Sage in another Boys Of Lake Cliff book. A baby can cause quite a stir in a town like Lake Cliff. Sometimes, in ways you wouldn't expect. Mr. Lavender reminds us that he'll only be predictable when it suits him and changing one's stripes can be tricky. Big changes are coming to Lake Cliff and a baby's just the beginning...
  • Fletcher by M. Tasia

    Fletcher by M. Tasia

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    BLOOD BROTHERSFletcher Daniels has family. The family he chose. His Navy SEAL family.Those who share his DNA are dead to him, except his brother Kyle.When Kyle disappears, Fletcher is forced to confront his “blood” family, whose mere presence makes going through Hell Week at BUD/S feel like a walk in the park.Saving Kyle is fraught with intrigue and betrayal...
  • The Enforcer by R.S. McKenzie

    The Enforcer by R.S. McKenzie

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Shane I’ve been in love with Zeke for years. He’s my best friend—the man of my dreams—but I’m afraid to confess my feelings. What’s more, if I’m with Zeke I could lose everything I’ve worked for. I don't want to have to choose between my family and Zeke or the career I’ve been working towards for the past decade...
    Categorized as:
    mlm  crime  dark  lgbtq  romance  biker  found-family  mystery
  • Follows with Intent by Gregory Ashe

    Follows with Intent by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Keeping your eye on the prize isn’t always a good thing.Nico knows he’s difficult; he has the string of exes to prove it. But staying sharp was the only way to stay safe in the cutthroat world of modeling, and it turns out, graduate school isn’t any gentler. Career first. Boys…later.Jadon knows he’s burning out; his partner at the Metropolitan Police is more than happy to remind him of that fact...
  • With This Bling by L.B. Gregg

    With This Bling by L.B. Gregg

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Caesar Romano’s catering career is doing better than he’d ever dreamed. And so is his love life—even if his boyfriend’s house in Staten Island is way too far from civilization for his liking...
  • If You're Going Through Hell Keep Going by Tinnean

    If You're Going Through Hell Keep Going by Tinnean

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Mark Vincent and Quinton Mann have finally kind of, sort of, exchanged promises. Mark has returned from an assignment on the West Coast, and he’s looking forward to spending some quality time with his lover. After all, it’s the St. Patrick’s Day weekend...
  • Manipulation by Eden Winters

    Manipulation by Eden Winters

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lucky Lucklighter has a new life. His old life wants him back.He traded trafficking for taking down criminals with the Southeastern Narcotics Bureau, and a drug-lord lover for a man on the right side of the law. Bo Schollenberger found the way past the thorny defenses of Lucky’s heart, and made Mr...
  • Two Nick Nowak Novellas by Marshall Thornton

    Two Nick Nowak Novellas by Marshall Thornton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the two novellas that make up the third book in the popular Boystown Mysteries private Investigator Nick Nowak works two challenging cases and grapples with an even more challenging personal life. In Little Boy Boom, Nick’s car explodes when a thief attempts to steal it...
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