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  • Running to You by Robin Patchen

    Running to You by Robin Patchen

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Sam never understood why Eliza left him five years ago, ghosting him without explanation. He’s avoided romance ever since, focusing on building his business. Money might not keep him warm at night, but it can sure buy a lot of blankets. Then Eliza shows up on his doorstep and throws herself into his arms...
  • Fatal Threat by Marie Force

    Fatal Threat by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    With a killer on the loose, it's the worst time to be on lockdown… It's just another day at the office for Washington Metro Police lieutenant Sam Holland when a body surfaces off the shores of the Anacostia River. But before Sam can sink her teeth into the new case, Secret Service agents seize her from the crime scene...
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  • Reckoning by Catherine Coulter

    Reckoning by Catherine Coulter

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Agents Savich and Sherlock are back in the latest installment in Catherine Coulter's #1 New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series, and this time both are enlisted to help women with traumatic pasts who are in mortal danger.When she was twelve years old, Kirra Mandarian's parents were murdered and she barely escaped with her life...
  • Fatal Invasion by Marie Force

    Fatal Invasion by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    First the fire, then the heat…A brutal home invasion. Two small traumatized survivors who may have witnessed the horror. Lieutenant Sam Holland has never worked a case quite like this one, in which her eyewitnesses are five-year-old twins. But when Sam steps up in a big way for them, she risks her heart as much as her career...
  • Fatal Chaos by Marie Force

    Fatal Chaos by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Look for Fatal Chaos, the exciting new novel from Marie Force, available from Harlequin MIRA Feb 27, 2018. Pre-order your copy today! First the calm. Then the storm… Escaping DC during the dog days of summer is one of the smartest moves Washington metro police lieutenant Samantha Holland ever made...
  • Most Likely to Die by Christy Barritt

    Most Likely to Die by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.76 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The team finally discovered the truth about Victor . . . but the truth leaves them in absolutely peril...
  • Missing Angel by Roger Stelljes

    Missing Angel by Roger Stelljes

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Isabella pedals her bright red bike on the familiar route home, admiring her charm bracelet catching the light. But half an hour later, she is nowhere to be seen. All her frantic parents find is an angel-shaped charm discarded on the sidewalk…When twelve-year-old Isabella Farner disappears, Agent Tori Hunter races to the scene...
  • Dawn's Light by Terri Blackstock

    Dawn's Light by Terri Blackstock

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to the age before electricity, the Brannings face a choice...
  • Jannat Kay Pattay / جنت کے پتے by Nemrah Ahmed

    Jannat Kay Pattay / جنت کے پتے by Nemrah Ahmed

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    The life of LLB (Hons) student Haya Suleman took an interesting turn when she received scholarship to study a five-month semester at a university in Turkey, but the circumstances became grave when someone leaked a private video of her made at a party on the internet...
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    mystery  suspense  length-long  contemporary
  • Fatal Accusation by Marie Force

    Fatal Accusation by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A deadly serious affair… The story breaks as Metro PD lieutenant Sam Holland attends a dinner party with her husband, Vice President Nick Cappuano: President Nelson is accused of having an affair. More shocking still, campaign staffer Tara Weber claims the president fathered her newborn son—while the First Lady was undergoing secret cancer treatment...
  • You Can't Hide by Karen Rose

    You Can't Hide by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 41 ratings
    Terror has forever changed the life of psychiatrist Tess Ciccotelli. Someone is tormenting her patients, pushing them to commit suicide, and setting her up to take the blame. But Tess can't break her oath to protect her patients' privacy at all costs. Even when detective Aidan Reagan demands a list of everyone she's treating. Even when the mounting danger threatens Tess herself...
  • Line of Duty by Terri Blackstock

    Line of Duty by Terri Blackstock

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    At the request of her many fans Terri Blackstock revisits the heroic cast of characters in this fifth book in her best-selling Newpointe 911 series In Line of Duty, a bomb explodes at the Icon International building in New Orleans while lawyer Jill Clark Nichols is in the top floor boardroom. The thirty-story building goes up in flames and fire departments from all around the area are called in...
  • Bad Seed by Sharon Sala

    Bad Seed by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Can she have the man of her dreams and the life she's always wanted?It's love at first sight when head pastry chef Brendan Pope meets private investigator Harley Banks at Serenity Inn for her latest investigation. But unknown to them both, Harley has a hitman after her, courtesy of the wrong-doer she put behind bars on her last case...
  • Face Off by Brenda Novak

    Face Off by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Tortured and left for dead at sixteen, Evelyn Talbot turned her personal nightmare into her life’s work—studying the disturbing psychopathy of some of the world’s most vicious serial killers...
  • Fatal Consequences: Fatal Destiny: The Wedding Novella by Marie Force

    Fatal Consequences: Fatal Destiny: The Wedding Novella by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Politics can be murder…   Lieutenant Sam Holland has no sooner accepted Senator Nick Cappuano's proposal than she's back on the job. A woman has been found brutally murdered and evidence points to Henry Lightfeather, a senator and close friend of Nick's. While Sam investigates, Nick stands by his friend—complicating his own bid for reelection and causing tension between the couple...
  • Indelible by Karin Slaughter

    Indelible by Karin Slaughter

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 52 ratings
    The international bestselling author of Kisscut and Blindsighted shows off her superb talent with this brilliantly conceived, skillfully executed tale of a suspenseful hostage situation. Crime fiction at its finest.--Michael Connelly...
  • Never Happen to You: A Chilling Cold Case Suspense and Mystery by Christy Barritt

    Never Happen to You: A Chilling Cold Case Suspense and Mystery by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Crime is something that happens to strangers. Until it’s not.As women continue to vanish in Alaska’s Far North, the Arctic Circle Murder Club meets again to combine their skills and search for the truth. Only the evidence isn’t adding up. The case of The Missing Women of Dalton Highway has gone cold, and every new possibility leaves them with frostbite...
  • No Good Deed by Allison Brennan

    No Good Deed by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Lucy Kincaid understands the dangers of corruption. As an FBI agent, she has witnessed some very bad deeds committed by seemingly good people. That's why she's glad to see corrupt DEA Agent Nicole Rollins behind bars for murder, conspiracy, and gunrunning...
  • Peculiar Poison by Hope Callaghan

    Peculiar Poison by Hope Callaghan

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Discover why so many fans love the "Original" Cruise Ship Cozy Mystery series by Hope Callaghan!When a crew member is mysteriously poisoned onboard the “Siren of the Seas,” Millie fights to clear her name after becoming a suspect...
  • Broken by Karin Slaughter

    Broken by Karin Slaughter

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    Karin Slaughter's internationally bestselling novels are as notable for their vivid portraits of lives shadowed by loss and heartbreak as they are for their dramatic criminal investigations. Her latest offering features the return of her most compelling characters and introduces memorable new ones in a tale of corruption, murder, and confrontation that will leave more than one life . .
  • Cold as Ice by Allison Brennan

    Cold as Ice by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In New York Times bestseller Allison Brennan’s Cold as Ice, FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid must get into the head of a psychopath to save her family, and herselfTwo years ago, FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid put psychopath Elise Hansen Hunt in juvenile detention for her role in an organized crime syndicate...
  • Enigma by Catherine Coulter

    Enigma by Catherine Coulter

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The highly anticipated twenty-first FBI thriller by New York Times #1 bestselling author Catherine Coulter presents Agents Savich and Sherlock with two baffling mysteries. Working with Agent Cam Wittier ( Insidious ) and New York-based former Special Forces agent Jack Cabot, they must race against the clock to catch an international criminal and solve the enigma of the man called John Doe...
  • Fallen by Karin Slaughter

    Fallen by Karin Slaughter

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    There’s no police training stronger than a cop’s instinct. Faith Mitchell’s mother isn’t answering her phone. Her front door is open. There’s a bloodstain above the knob. Her infant daughter is hidden in a shed behind the house. All that the Georgia Bureau of Investigations taught Faith Mitchell goes out the window when she charges into her mother’s house, gun drawn...
  • Deceived by Irene Hannon

    Deceived by Irene Hannon

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    For three years, Kate Marshall has been grieving the loss of her husband and their four-year-old son in a boating accident. But when she spots a familiar-looking child on an escalator in the mall, she is convinced it is the son she thought was dead. With police skeptical of her story, she turns to private investigator Connor Sullivan...
  • Fatal Destiny by Marie Force

    Fatal Destiny by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    With the week of their wedding finally upon them, Washington, D.C., Police Lieutenant Sam Holland and her fiance, Senator Nick Cappuano, are at odds. In the aftermath of a tragic loss, they struggle to reconnect as the big day draws near, but their work keeps pulling them apart...
  • The Guest List by Fern Michaels

    The Guest List by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Beloved storyteller Fern Michaels, #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Sisterhood, Godmothers, and Men of the Sisterhood Series, masterfully blends adventure, redemption, and rich emotion in her unforgettable novel of healing and hope.Against all odds, Abby Mitchell has turned her life around...
  • Make Them Pay by Allison Brennan

    Make Them Pay by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Lucy Kincaid and Sean Rogan are finally tying the knot.Two weeks before their wedding, a surprise visitor shows up at their door: Eden, Sean's estranged sister from Europe. She claims she's in town for the wedding and wants to mend fences. Lucy invites Eden to stay with them after all, family is family but her boss, SSA Noah Armstrong, knows far more about Eden's sketchy past than he's let on...
  • Vengeance in the Mist by Robin Patchen

    Vengeance in the Mist by Robin Patchen

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Assistant District Attorney Misty Lake wants nothing more than to ensure Boston lawbreakers face justice, but how can she while dealing with an increasing workload and pressure to offer plea deals? When a criminal she prosecuted is released on a technicality, she doesn’t have time to worry about the threats he once breathed against her...
  • Vengeance in the Mist by Robin Patchen

    Vengeance in the Mist by Robin Patchen

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A routine assault conviction gone wrong. A menacing intruder. And a case that’s more twisted—and dangerous—than anyone suspected...
  • Without Warning by Lynette Eason

    Without Warning by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Taut Writing and Breakneck Pacing That Will Keep Readers Up All Night Katie Singleton, a partner with the Elite Guardians Protection Agency, stumbles upon her next assignment quite by accident. Spotting blue lights at a familiar restaurant, she stops to investigate, only to discover that owner Daniel Matthews has become the target of someone who will go to any lengths to put him out of business...
  • Cold Blooded Liar by Karen Rose

    Cold Blooded Liar by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Brace yourself for a scorching new series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose, where San Diego means sun, surf, sand…and serial killers. Sam Reeves is a kindhearted psychologist who treats court-ordered clients...
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    mystery  suspense  length-long  contemporary
  • Too Far Gone by Allison Brennan

    Too Far Gone by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Too Far Gone by Allison Brennan is a thrilling addition to the Lucy Kincaid series that will leave readers breathless. When a man who appears mentally unstable holds a group of people hostage and dies in a shootout with the FBI, Special Agent Lucy Kincaid is assigned to investigate what happened...
  • Coming of Winter by Tom Threadgill

    Coming of Winter by Tom Threadgill

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Catherine Mae Blackston is missing. She is not the first.While investigating Blackston’s recent activities, FBI Agent Jeremy Winter stumbles upon a string of missing persons within state parks. Unable to convince his boss that Blackston’s disappearance is anything other than a lost hiker, Winter joins forces with a local police officer to continue the search...
  • So Close the Hand of Death by J.T. Ellison

    So Close the Hand of Death by J.T. Ellison

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Talent borrows. Genius steals. Evil delegates. It's a hideous echo of a violent past. Across America, murders are being committed with all the twisted hallmarks of the Boston Strangler, the Zodiac Killer and Son of Sam. The media frenzy explodes and Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson knows instantly that The Pretender is back…and he's got helpers...
  • Tell Me Your Secret by Dorothy Koomson

    Tell Me Your Secret by Dorothy Koomson

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The gripping new emotional thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Ice Cream Girls, My Best Friend's Girl and The Brighton Mermaid. Pieta has a secretTen years ago, Pieta survived a weekend with a sadistic serial killer. She never told anyone what happened and instead moved on with her life...
  • Love You More by Lisa Gardner

    Love You More by Lisa Gardner

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 51 ratings
    WHO DO YOU LOVE? One question, a split-second decision, and Brian Darby lies dead on the kitchen floor. His wife, state police trooper Tessa Leoni, claims to have shot him in self-defense, and bears the bruises to back up her tale. For veteran detective D. D. Warren it should be an open-and-shut case. But where is their six-year-old daughter? AND HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO . .
  • Blow Out by Catherine Coulter

    Blow Out by Catherine Coulter

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Hardback large print book...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  length-long  contemporary
  • Second Chance by Christy Reece

    Second Chance by Christy Reece

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    His only hope is in her arms. Someone To Watch Over Me Working for Last Chance Rescue, Cole Mathison has been to hell and back. But being responsible for the death of an innocent man is a hell like no other. Longing for redemption, Cole finds himself embroiled in the mysterious disappearance of Keeley Fairchild's young children...
  • Live to Tell by Lisa Gardner

    Live to Tell by Lisa Gardner

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 43 ratings
    A savage crime has rocked a working-class neighbourhood of Boston; four members of a family have been brutally murdered. The father is lying in an intensive care unit, his survival in doubt. He is the principal suspect. Female police detective D.D. Warren, however, is not one to take things at face value...
  • Breaking the Silence by Diane Chamberlain

    Breaking the Silence by Diane Chamberlain

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Laura Brandon had promised her dying father she would visit Sarah Tolley, but her own agony is drowning out the old woman's ramblings. Her husband killed himself, and the only witness--her daughter, Emma--now refuses to speak. Desperate, Laura turns to a man she met once five years ago: Emma's real father...
  • Trapped by Irene Hannon

    Trapped by Irene Hannon

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When librarian Laura Griffin's sixteen-year-old sister disappears on a frigid February day, leaving only a brief note behind, Laura resolves to do whatever it takes to track down the runaway teen. That includes recruiting ATF agent turned PI James "Dev" Devlin to help. But the deeper he digs, the more he begins to suspect that something sinister is at work in the girl's disappearance...
  • Undone by Karin Slaughter

    Undone by Karin Slaughter

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    In this suspense masterpiece, Karin Slaughter weaves together the powerful human stories of three unforgettable characters from her New York Times bestselling novels Faithless and Fractured, who collide here for the first time in an electrifying race against unspeakable human evil.When a tortured young woman enters the trauma center of an Atlanta hospital, Dr...
  • Brock by Kris Michaels

    Brock by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One City... Countless Stories.It had taken five years for Detective Kallie Redman to become emotionally and psychologically available after her cop-husband devastated their marriage and her career. The Hope City Police Department offered her a new beginning and over a thousand miles between her old life and her new. Being partnered with Brock King didn’t hurt either...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  length-long  contemporary
  • Fatal Witness by Patricia Bradley

    Fatal Witness by Patricia Bradley

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As a child, artist and potter Dani Bennett witnessed the brutal murder of her parents. With no memory of the incident or her true identity, she was forced to take on a new name and a new life, hidden away in Montana for the past 25 years.Mae Richmond has spent the same stretch of time searching for her granddaughter, who went missing the night her daughter and son-in-law were murdered...
  • Shadow Collateral by Christy Barritt

    Shadow Collateral by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Danger is closer than they think. After Tori Bristow’s special ops brother dies a sudden, suspicious death, she’s wrenched out of her normal everyday life as a traveling nurse and thrust into danger. Convinced there’s more to Nathan’s demise than what she’s been told, Tori follows the clues her brother left behind straight to former military operative Kai Kaleo...
  • Tall, Dark and Daring by Suzanne Brockmann

    Tall, Dark and Daring by Suzanne Brockmann

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Experience two classic tales of heroes facing danger and falling in love from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann’s Tall, Dark and Daring series — collected here in one volume! The Admiral’s Bride When six canisters of a lethal nerve agent are stolen from a military testing lab, Admiral Jake Robinson must recover the chemicals—by any means necessary...
  • Gone by Lisa Gardner

    Gone by Lisa Gardner

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    From New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner, author of Alone and The Killing Hour , comes a thriller that goes from heartbreaking to heartstopping in the blink of an eye...
  • Enemies of Doves by Shanessa Gluhm

    Enemies of Doves by Shanessa Gluhm

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    On a summer night in 1932, twelve-year-old Joel Fitchett wanders into an East Texas diner badly beaten and carrying his unconscious brother, Clancy. Though both boys claim they have no memory of what happened, the horrific details are etched into their minds as deep as the scar left across Joel's face...
  • See No Evil by Allison Brennan

    See No Evil by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    A cunning killer hides in plain sight.A troubled teenage girl has been charged with the grisly murder of her stepfather. The evidence is damning: Emily was found alone at the scene with blood on her hands, and an incriminating e-mail she wrote outlines a murder plot identical to the method of the brutal slaying...
  • Triptych by Karin Slaughter

    Triptych by Karin Slaughter

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 57 ratings
    BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Karin Slaughter's Fallen In the city of Atlanta, women are dying—at the hands of a killer who signs his work with a single, chilling act of mutilation. Leaving behind enough evidence to fuel a frenzied police hunt, this cunning madman is bringing together dozens of lives, crossing the boundaries of wealth and race...
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