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  • Ponniyin Selvan- Whirlwinds : Part 2 by Kalki

    Ponniyin Selvan- Whirlwinds : Part 2 by Kalki

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Whirlwinds, the exciting second part of Kalki R Krishnamurthy's historic magnum opus Ponniyin Selvan, our hero Vallavarayan Vandhiyathevan's adventures continue as he rides into marshy quagmires, befriends a mysterious girl, becomes the object of intense suspicion by the wily Pazhuvettarayars - and meets the hero of his dreams...
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    mystery  suspense  historical  fantasy  war  length-long
  • The Light Through the Leaves by Glendy Vanderah

    The Light Through the Leaves by Glendy Vanderah

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    One unbearable mistake at the edge of the forest.In a moment of crisis, Ellis Abbey leaves her daughter, Viola, unattended—for just a few minutes. But when she returns, Viola is gone. A breaking point in an already fractured marriage, Viola’s abduction causes Ellis to disappear as well—into grief, guilt, and addiction...
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  • The Art of a Lie by Laura Shepherd-Robinson

    The Art of a Lie by Laura Shepherd-Robinson

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In 18th-century England, a widowed confectioner is drawn into a web of love, betrayal, and intrigue and a battle of wits in this masterful historical novel from the author of the “delicious puzzle-box of a novel” (The New York Times) and USA TODAY bestseller The Square of Sevens...
  • Waking Rose by Regina Doman

    Waking Rose by Regina Doman

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A novel for teens and adults based on a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm "I love him more than poetry... I love him more than song." Ever since he rescued her from Certain Death, Rose Brier has had a crush on Ben Denniston, otherwise known as Fish. But Fish, struggling with problems of his own, thinks that Rose should go looking elsewhere for a knight in shining armor...
  • Dovetail by Karen McQuestion

    Dovetail by Karen McQuestion

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Hello Love comes a spellbinding new novel of enduring love, family secrets, and mysterious death.Joe Arneson’s ordinary life is upended by troubling dreams of himself as a different man in another place and time. It isn’t until he visits his estranged grandmother, Pearl, in her Wisconsin hometown that a startling connection emerges...
  • Cat Pay the Devil: A Joe Grey Mystery by Shirley Rousseau Murphy

    Cat Pay the Devil: A Joe Grey Mystery by Shirley Rousseau Murphy

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Molena Point, California, should be a tranquil place. Nestled quietly on the Pacific coast miles below San Francisco, it's not the kind of town escaped convicts seek out...
  • His Garden of Bones by Vickie McKeehan

    His Garden of Bones by Vickie McKeehan

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Not all flowers are grown with love. Years earlier, teenage girls began to vanish off the streets of Seattle. Now, they're turning up dead, their mutilated bodies left in prominent locations around the city. Skye Cree suspects there are more...
  • Vengeance by Rebecca Gannon

    Vengeance by Rebecca Gannon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Angela I've been a captive my entire life behind the walls of my family’s making.And while the walls have kept me in, they didn’t keep the monsters out.Under a constant watchful eye, I have no choice in anything, my path already carved out for me the moment I entered this world...
  • What if I Stop Running? by Wynta Tyme

    What if I Stop Running? by Wynta Tyme

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After losing her first love at such an early age, Red thought she’d seen all that life had to offer her. Running away from her hometown and to a big city, to fulfill her duties as a vet, she never thought she’d have to return to the one place that hurt her the most. With an ill grandmother, she’s left with no choice but to aid her...
  • Corrupted Deception by Kiana Hettinger

    Corrupted Deception by Kiana Hettinger

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    I’m hunting down the man who has taken my father.We’re finally in the same room and this time,He won’t get away.Nothing will stop me from finding the truthNothing…Until I lock eyes with a ghost from my past.Cielo Luciano.As gorgeous as he is lethal.The way he stares at me throughthose piercing blue eyesmakes my body shiver,and it’s not out of fear.Now we're forced togetherin this dangerous world...
  • A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett

    A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom...
  • Yakuza Lover, Vol. 6 by Nozomi Mino

    Yakuza Lover, Vol. 6 by Nozomi Mino

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When feisty college student Yuri is attacked at a party, she’s saved by Toshiomi Oya, the underboss of a yakuza syndicate. Despite her obvious attraction to him, she convinces herself that she’s not in the market for a bad boy type. But when they meet again, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to him—kicking off a steamy and dangerous love affair that threatens to consume her, body and soul...
  • What Dreams May Come by Christina Dodd

    What Dreams May Come by Christina Dodd

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With a boldly refreshing premise and a daring heroine to match, this delightful mystery series features the eldest daughter of the not-so-ill-fated Romeo and Juliet—20-year-old Rosie Montague, a young woman possessed of an irreverent wit, an independent spirit—and a penchant for sleuthing . .
  • Protection for Hire by Camy Tang

    Protection for Hire by Camy Tang

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Tessa Lancaster's skills first earned her a position as an enforcer in her Uncle Teruo's Japanese Mafia gang. Then they landed her in prison for a crime she didn't commit. Now, three months after her release, Tessa's abilities have gained her a job as bodyguard for wealthy socialite Elizabeth St. Amant and her three-year-old son. But there's a problem or two ... or three ...
  • Dreaming Death by J. Kathleen Cheney

    Dreaming Death by J. Kathleen Cheney

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    In the Novels of the Golden City, J. Kathleen Cheney created a “mesmerizing” (Publishers Weekly) realm where magic, history, and intrigue combine. Now, she presents a new world ruled by psychic talents and fatal magic... Shironne Anjir's status as a sensitive is both a gift and a curse...
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    suspense  mystery  fantasy  historical  magic  length-long
  • The Smoke Hunter by Jacquelyn Benson

    The Smoke Hunter by Jacquelyn Benson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "Indiana Jones meets Lara Croft in Benson's engrossing action thriller."-RT Book Reviews, Top Pick THE DEBUT OF A CAPTIVATING VOICE AND RIVETING STORYTELLER!Frustrated suffragette and would-be archaeologist Ellie Mallory stumbles across a map to a city that shouldn't exist, a jungle metropolis alive and flourishing centuries after the Mayan civilization mysteriously collapsed...
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    suspense  mystery  historical  fantasy  length-long
  • Genius (CENTURIES) by TheBibicalSinner

    Genius (CENTURIES) by TheBibicalSinner

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "You want me to be a genius or do you want me to fuck you?"• • •The Alexandrettia is the finest school in the state, known for producing the smartest, and most talented kids in America. 21 year old keen painter Mia Hanson managed to get a spot. She worked her whole life to get inside, to see the hallowed halls her biggest idols once walked through...
  • Going for Kona by Pamela Fagan Hutchins

    Going for Kona by Pamela Fagan Hutchins

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The newest romantic mystery from the bestselling author of the Katie & Annalise series! Going for Kona has it all: unforgettable characters, an epic love story, and a page-turning mystery that will keep you guessing until the last page...
  • The Nurse by J.A. Corrigan

    The Nurse by J.A. Corrigan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When you hear her story, will you believe her?Rose Marlowe is a hard-working nurse, a loving wife, and a merciless killer. Or so she says. Despite her confession, it is hard to believe that this beautiful, kind woman could have killed her vulnerable patient in cold blood...
  • The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse

    The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Carcassonne 1562: Nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father’s bookshop. Sealed with a distinctive family crest, it contains just five words: SHE KNOWS THAT YOU LIVE. But before Minou can decipher the mysterious message, a chance encounter with a young Huguenot convert, Piet Reydon, changes her destiny forever...
  • Heaven to Betsy by Pamela Fagan Hutchins

    Heaven to Betsy by Pamela Fagan Hutchins

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    99 cent pre-order/new release price until April 8th, for the next novel from this bestselling and award-winning author, in a new Katie & Annalise spin-off series! Heaven to Betsy features Emily, Katie's stateside best friend, in her own hilarious adventures...
  • Still Dead by J.A. Jance

    Still Dead by J.A. Jance

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Unabridged, 1 audiobook file (2 parts), 1 hours 37 minutes 36 seconds_______________Since the disbanding of the Special Homicide Investigation Team, J. P. Beaumont’s biggest concern is pondering whether he and his wife Mel should finally get a dog. But one voicemail from his old friend Ralph Ames is about to change that...
  • The Dollmaker by Morgan Shamy

    The Dollmaker by Morgan Shamy

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “A tour de force that has it all.” —Annelise Ryan, USA Today bestselling author of A Death in Door County “You will devour this book.” —Barbara Conrey, USA Today bestselling author of Nowhere Near Goodbye and international bestselling author of My Secret to KeepNo one is safe. Not when the Dollmaker lurks in the shadows...
  • Alice in the Country of Clover: Twin Lovers by QuinRose

    Alice in the Country of Clover: Twin Lovers by QuinRose

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An all-new adventure in the New York Times Manga best-selling series featuring the "Bloody Twins" Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum!Alice in the Country of Clover: Twin Lovers chronicles the further adventures of Alice as she goes deeper down the rabbit hole...
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    mystery  mafia  fantasy  humor  length-short
  • Limelight by Emily Organ

    Limelight by Emily Organ

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    “Miss Green, the actress Lizzie Dixie has been murdered.” I stared at the young inspector. “But it’s impossible. She drowned. Years ago.”London, 1883. Fleet Street’s pioneering lady reporter Penny Green is stunned when a long-dead actress is found murdered in Highgate Cemetery...
  • Scared to Live by Stephen Booth

    Scared to Live by Stephen Booth

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Detective Constable Ben Cooper and Detective Sergeant Diane Fry must uncover the secrets of two grim murder scenes in England's Peak District--one inexplicable...and the other unspeakable...
  • The Fourth Of July by Cami Checketts

    The Fourth Of July by Cami Checketts

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When eight parade floats explode during the annual Fourth of July celebrations, Agent Chris Harmer must find who planted the bombs before the terrorists strike again. His troubles aren't isolated to terrorism. Chris falls in love with the FBI's feisty psychiatrist, Alexis Osborne. She won't commit to someone who doesn't share her religious values, and Chris has no desire to convert...
  • Christie, Agatha - Three Act Tragedy by Christie Agatha

    Christie, Agatha - Three Act Tragedy by Christie Agatha

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    At an apparently respectable dinner party, a vicar is the first to die...Thirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actor's house. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, went into convulsions and died...
  • The Secrets We Bury by Elle Gray

    The Secrets We Bury by Elle Gray

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Judgement is inescapable.Only a fool would try to evade it.Chesapeake Valley is a charming town hiding many secrets.Sheriff Eve Wicker has spent years trying to unearth one of its dark mysteries.The truth behind her mother’s death.After moving back to her hometown, she found herself ensnared in a web of conspiracies,from serial killers to child trafficking networks...
  • The Legend of the Falls by Elle Gray

    The Legend of the Falls by Elle Gray

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    They say there’s no rest for the wicked.What about those whose profession is taking them down?Former FBI agent Spenser Song has had to rise from the ashes of tragedy.Attempting to overcome the guilt of her husband’s death,she left the bureau and accepted a position as Sheriff in Sweetwater...
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