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  • The Lantern's Dance by Laurie R. King

    The Lantern's Dance by Laurie R. King

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are caught up in a case that turns intensely personal, shining light on a past that even Holmes himself did not suspectAfter their recent adventures in Transylvania, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes look forward to spending some time getting to know Holmes' son, the artist Damian Adler, and his family...
  • Paternal Instincts by Nicky James

    Paternal Instincts by Nicky James

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    At the heart of a missing child case, Quaid and Aslan learn the true nature of fatherhood.With their baby due any day, Quaid ends up tangled in a case on the last day of work before his parental leave begins. Between eerie ransom notes and family secrets, unanswered questions pile up, twisting the case into something Quaid has never seen.Someone is lying. Someone knows more than they’re saying...
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  • Buried Promises by Eliza Lentzski

    Buried Promises by Eliza Lentzski

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 8 ratings
    Cold Case detective Cassidy Miller is no stranger to buried things—bodies, secrets, and memories she’d rather forget. Life with her fiancée, the brilliant but guarded defense attorney Julia Desjardin, is the closest thing she’s felt to peace. But as Julia begins the emotional process of fertility treatments, Cassidy finds herself caught between wanting a future and fearing she doesn’t deserve one...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  suspense  f-f  length-medium
  • Lone Wolf by Persephone Black

    Lone Wolf by Persephone Black

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 8 ratings
    I'm the perfect solider. Feared. Respected.And utterly alone.I don't need friends. I certainly don't need a partner. But the Styx Syndicate has paired me up with Sunny Santiago.She's everything I'm not—reckless, warm, alive. She laughs during missions, flirts during combat, and treats danger like a dance floor.I hate her relentless optimism almost as much as I hate how perfectly we work together...
  • Run and Hide by Alan McDermott

    Run and Hide by Alan McDermott

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    This book was previously published by Thomas & Mercer, an Amazon Publishing imprint. Please check your downloaded Kindle books before purchasing.There’s only so long you can run for your life.Eva Driscoll is used to chasing down bad guys, but now the bad guys are chasing her. She knows they won’t stop until she’s dead...
  • Dirty Heart by Rhys Ford

    Dirty Heart by Rhys Ford

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A Cole McGinnis Mystery Former LAPD detective Cole McGinnis’s life nearly ended the day his police partner and best friend Ben Pirelli emptied his service weapon into Cole and his then-lover, Rick. Since Ben turned his gun on himself, Cole thought he’d never find out why Ben tried to destroy him. Years later, Cole has stitched himself back together...
  • Daddy Detectives Episode 2: A Tyler and Ian Jamison Story by April Wilson

    Daddy Detectives Episode 2: A Tyler and Ian Jamison Story by April Wilson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In book 2 of Tyler and Ian Jamison's Daddy Detectives series, Ian is getting the hang of being a stay-at-home dad to their infant twins. Tyler is investigating the source of the blackmail threat made against Ian...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  queer  m-m
  • His Wicked Wants by Leighton Greene

    His Wicked Wants by Leighton Greene

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For a man who takes what he wants, desiring the one thing he can't have is torture.Nero Andretti is used to getting his way. Cold, calculating, and criminally seductive, he clawed his way up from the back streets of Rome to the edge of the Castellani crime family's inner circle. No one can resist him.No one except Gabriel Carstairs...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  queer  mafia  found-family  m-m  length-long
  • A Gentleman in Search of a Wife by Grace Burrowes

    A Gentleman in Search of a Wife by Grace Burrowes

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Lord Julian Caldicott accepts a request to search for the missing wife of Mr. John Tait. Evelyn Tait disappeared five years ago, and as Julian attempts to follow a cold trail, he meets with resistance, lies, and suspicion from those who should seek most eagerly to aid him...
  • GRAY WOLF SECURITY, Texas: The Complete 6-Books Series by Glenna Sinclair

    GRAY WOLF SECURITY, Texas: The Complete 6-Books Series by Glenna Sinclair

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Free with Kindle Unlimited... Enjoy the complete Volume 2 of the Gray Wolf Security series. Romance, Suspense, Mystery and a touch of Comedy. 6 Books. No Cliffhangers. More than 1,000 pages :) Book 1: Defending Tierney I never wanted to be anything other than a defense attorney...
  • Only the Lonely by L.M. Krier

    Only the Lonely by L.M. Krier

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    'Blind dates end in bleeding hearts'Ted Darling is back and his boss has news for him. He'll be taking on more responsibility over an expanded area, with a bigger team. Before he even has chance to take stock, he's facing his first body in what could be the most cynical murder he's ever encountered...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  queer  m-m  length-medium
  • Wolves at the Gate by Persephone Black

    Wolves at the Gate by Persephone Black

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 11 ratings
    Lyssa has a secret—one that could cost her everything. And as Chicago braces for a high-profile Syndicate wedding, the stakes are only getting higher.But there are still secrets to be uncovered...Wolves at the Gate is part two of the Red Rivals Duet, a twisty, steamy contemporary Sapphic mafia romance based (very) loosely on the Little Red Riding Hood fairytale...
  • The Devil Unleashed by Ali Vali

    The Devil Unleashed by Ali Vali

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    As the heat of violence rises, so does passion. A gunshot meant to end the legacy of the Casey Clan has left a weakened Cain fighting to regain control of her business while trying to protect her heart from the woman who left her. Threatened from every side, Cain must unleash that devil to protect all she holds dear...
  • Her Fearless Warrior by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Her Fearless Warrior by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Finding Them? Simple.Getting Them Out Alive? Now That Will Take a Minute.Lincoln Hart’s Navy SEAL team is sent to Syria to rescue a team of Americans who have been captured. When he realizes their interpreter, Leila Cloud is one of the people who has been kidnapped, all bets are off. He’s been dreaming about her for months...
  • Her Fearless Warrior by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Her Fearless Warrior by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Finding Them? Simple.Getting Them Out Alive? Now That Will Take a Minute.Lincoln Hart’s Navy SEAL team is sent to Syria to rescue a team of Americans who have been captured. When he realizes their interpreter, Leila Cloud is one of the people who has been kidnapped, all bets are off. He’s been dreaming about her for months...
  • The Spoil of Beasts by Gregory Ashe

    The Spoil of Beasts by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A jailhouse slaughter. A relentless killer. And way too much jackassing around. When word comes that two key witnesses in an investigation are dead, North and Shaw are surprised—and pleased—to learn that their friend, John-Henry Somerset, is interested in hiring them as freelance contractors for the Wahredua police department...
  • Secrets and Satin by Liliana Hart

    Secrets and Satin by Liliana Hart

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    No one knows heartbreak like Jade Jax. After losing her husband to a tragic death, she doesn’t believe love can happen twice. But after years of living a half-life without her husband, her body starts to waken again, and needs she’d forgotten come to the surface...
  • Power of the Mind by Nicky James

    Power of the Mind by Nicky James

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 ratings
    It’s not a real case, he’s not my boyfriend, and we aren’t partners. Three lies I told myself for survival. After ten months of shamefully stalking and showing up randomly on Tallus’s doorstep at midnight (for reasons), the sinfully hot records clerk decided he’d had enough of my games...
  • Shut Up and Drive by L.M. Krier

    Shut Up and Drive by L.M. Krier

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A serial sex attacker is spreading fear in Stockport and DI Ted Darling and his team are on the case.The man randomly targets young women and abducts them from busy supermarket car parks. He's armed with a knife and is clearly highly trained in how to handle it.Ever-dwindling police resources make the manhunt harder, even though the attacker clearly doesn't care whether or not he's caught...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  suspense  m-m  contemporary
  • Trial by Richard North Patterson

    Trial by Richard North Patterson

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Trial confirms Richard North Patterson’s place as “our most important author of popular fiction.”In a propulsive narrative that culminates in a nationally televised murder case, Trial explores America’s most incendiary flashpoints of race.A Black eighteen-year-old voting rights worker, Malcolm Hill, is stopped by a white sheriff’s deputy on a dark country road in rural Georgia...
  • Edge of Danger: A Thrilling Romantic Mystery by Janie Crouch

    Edge of Danger: A Thrilling Romantic Mystery by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A thrilling romantic mystery about a child protector hero from the USA Today bestselling author, Janie Crouch. Previously published as Texas Bodyguard: Brax.A baby in his care… A target on their backsA skilled security expert and bodyguard, Brax Patterson is ready for anything… except unexpected custody of his reckless half brother’s baby boy...
  • Thrown to the Wolves by Persephone Black

    Thrown to the Wolves by Persephone Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 11 ratings
    Lyssa can't resist a damsel in distress…but she'll wish she resisted this one. The ferocious Styx Syndicate enforcer and trainer known as "the Wolf" has always been the hunter, never the hunted. So when Lyssa sees the gorgeous Scarlett getting harassed by thugs in a dive bar she's visiting for intel, she jumps straight into protective mode...
  • Rialto by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Rialto by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    Someone has it out for Rialto.  Ian Banner is loving his hectic life. He’s newly married, ready to start a family, and opening a new restaurant. All his dreams are coming true. The last thing he needs is a problem with his restaurant.  But when one attack after another comes, he grows convinced he has another enemy...
  • Mine to Keep by Davidson King

    Mine to Keep by Davidson King

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Matt lives a pretty simple life. A physical therapist, he helps people to heal and become their best selves once again. When he’s offered a live-in position at the Saint residence, he accepts easily and for a while, things go smoothly. But then there’s a drunken night…and a possible stalker. Matt is really starting to miss that simple life...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  queer  m-m  abuse  length-short  audiobook
  • Suspicious Behavior by L.A. Witt, Cari Z.

    Suspicious Behavior by L.A. Witt, Cari Z.

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Detective Darren Corliss is hanging by a thread. In between recovering from a near-fatal wound and returning to work at a hostile precinct, he’s struggling to help care for his ailing brother. His partner and boyfriend, Detective Andreas Ruffner, wants to help, but doesn’t know how. And with his own family crises brewing, Andreas is spread almost as thin as Darren...
  • Forever by Tinnean

    Forever by Tinnean

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Lately, life is both sweet and sour for intelligence operatives Mark Vincent and Quinton Mann. The sweet is they’re settling into a relationship; Mark has found a condo in Alexandria with the help of Quinn’s mother, Portia; and Mark and Quinn are looking forward to spending the holidays in the Caribbean. As for the sour, something shadier than usual is going on at Langley...
  • Rainey with a Chance of Hale by R.E. Bradshaw

    Rainey with a Chance of Hale by R.E. Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Rainey Bell, a former FBI Behavioral Analyst, has had a couple of quiet years since her last brush with death. Her old teammate with the BAU and her children's Godfather, Danny McNally, pays a visit to North Carolina from Quantico to escort Rainey into the Butner Federal Correctional Complex. Rainy made a promise almost twenty years ago to a distraught mother of a missing child...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  queer  f-f  length-short
  • Guarding her Gangster Queen by Persephone Black

    Guarding her Gangster Queen by Persephone Black

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 7 ratings
    I fled the Colombo Family as a widow. But I’m coming back as their Queen.I’m done running.And I’m done having Nik Kusek sacrifice everything for my sake. She’s protected me, killed for me, even turned against her own people…Now it’s my turn to step up. I’m ready to claim what belongs to the casino, the Family, and the truth about who really killed the old Don.The problem? Everyone wants me dead...
  • Betrayed by Sharon C. Cooper

    Betrayed by Sharon C. Cooper

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When secrets turn into lies… Former DEA agent Angelo González’s final undercover operation exploded in a betrayal he’ll never forget or forgive. He’s moved on. As one of Atlanta’s Finest, providing personal security for the rich and famous, Angelo is living his best life—until he has to play fake boyfriend to one of their clients. Not just any client...
  • Reno Gabrini: For His Lover by Mallory Monroe

    Reno Gabrini: For His Lover by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Reno Gabrini, the longtime owner of the PaLargio Hotel and Casino on the Vegas Strip, faces his toughest foes yet when he has to face the ghosts of his past. Just when he thought life was sailing right along, and his family were all making their own dreams come true, the sins of his past come back with a vengeance and seek to dismantle all that he holds dear...
  • Mick Sinatra: Love and Shadows by Mallory Monroe

    Mick Sinatra: Love and Shadows by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Gorgeous bad boy Mick Sinatra is in a good place in his life. His beautiful, African-American wife has been offered a starring role at a theater on London’s famed West End. His son, Teddy, has taken over the day-to-day running of his ruthless crime family. His daughter, Gloria, has learned the error of her ways...
  • Reno and Trina: In the Shadows of Love by Mallory Monroe

    Reno and Trina: In the Shadows of Love by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Reno Gabrini and his beautiful African-American wife Trina wheel and deal in Vegas as he runs the mighty PaLargio Hotel and Casino and she runs a high-end clothing store. But everything changes for them when lies are spread about romantic entanglements and their son is victimized...
  • Castiel by Annabella Stone

    Castiel by Annabella Stone

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What once was strong is broken.Can what was broken be repaired?Former SEAL and Operative for the US Government’s elite Red Squadron, Castiel Cunningham Clark has defied the odds more times than he can count. He learned the hard way how fickle fate can be and he’s made it his business to live his life at one speed and one speed only… full steam ahead. Except when it comes to one person...
  • The Kidnapped by Nicole Pyland

    The Kidnapped by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When she sees a picture of a little girl who looks just like her younger self in a book about lost children, Heidi realizes she was born Hollis Richardson and that she’d been stolen from her mother...
  • Again with Feeling by Gregory Ashe

    Again with Feeling by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    We might not be doomed to repeat the past. But it’s pretty likely.When Dashiell Dawson Dane receives a phone call from his nemesis Vivienne Carver (okay, one of his nemeses), he’s caught off guard—to say the least—by her help solve the murder of her brother, who disappeared almost thirty years ago. His gut tells him to say no...
    Categorized as:
    queer  mystery  suspense  m-m  audiobook
  • Two Steps Ahead: A Thrilling Romantic Mystery by Janie Crouch

    Two Steps Ahead: A Thrilling Romantic Mystery by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A determined bodyguard. A fierce heiress.And death is just a shot away…Silent, stealthy and professional, Weston Patterson is always two steps ahead of trouble—until he’s hired to bodyguard a woman he never expected to see again. Someone won’t stop until Kayleigh Delacruz is dead. But the feisty heiress is challenging Weston to keep her close as well as safe...
  • Year of the Rat by Marshall Thornton

    Year of the Rat by Marshall Thornton

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Long Beach, California 1996. Despite having little obvious experience, bartender Dom Reilly is hired as an investigator for the Freedom Agenda, a not-for-profit justice project. His first case involves a twelve-year-old homicide, in which a teenage girl was viciously murdered...
  • The Rainey Season by R.E. Bradshaw

    The Rainey Season by R.E. Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    This is the third in the award winning Rainey Bell Thriller series, following Lambda Literary Award Finalist Rainey Nights. Each book is stand-alone. It does help to read them in order, but it is not necessary. In The Rainey Season, former FBI behavioral analyst Rainey Bell has settled into her life as a wife and mother with Katie Myers and the triplets...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  queer  f-f  length-medium
  • SEAL INVESTIGATIONS: A 5-Books SEAL Romance Series by Lola Silverman

    SEAL INVESTIGATIONS: A 5-Books SEAL Romance Series by Lola Silverman

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    THE COMPLETE SERIES, now FREE with Kindle Unlimited. 5 books and NO cliffies! Book 1: JASE I did not work my ass off to become a Navy SEAL because I had a desire to add the title of “nursemaid” to my resume. So when my commanding officer requested that I go check up on his baby sister, I was understandably less than thrilled...
  • KING SECURITY: A 5-Books Romantic Suspense Series by Kenna Coulby

    KING SECURITY: A 5-Books Romantic Suspense Series by Kenna Coulby

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A new military romance series! 5 Books, No Cliffhangers, and Free with Kindle Unlimited. CHRIS Dancing is my life, always has been. Even when a stalker started sending threatening letters, I didn’t think twice—until the threats intensified. I don’t have a choice but to partner with the hunky Chris, ex-Marine and private security agent...
  • Shield of Justice by Radclyffe

    Shield of Justice by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Special Crimes Unit Investigator Rebecca Frye attempts to solve a series of sexual assaults amid dead ends, battered witnesses, and a growing attraction to the physician who saved one of the victims...
  • When I'm Old and Grey by L.M. Krier

    When I'm Old and Grey by L.M. Krier

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    DI Ted Darling doesn't like coincidences. There are too many for comfort surrounding his latest case. They're spilling over into his private life, too, when some toxic family secrets are uncovered. A serial killer appears to be targeting vulnerable elderly people in care homes and despatching them in the most cynical way. Ted and his team are struggling to get a lead on who the killer really is...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  suspense  m-m  contemporary  length-medium
  • Down to a Sunlit Sea by John Wiltshire, Gary Furlong

    Down to a Sunlit Sea by John Wiltshire, Gary Furlong

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 7 ratings
    When you stop fighting windmills, imaginary or otherwise, you tend to end up with a lot of time on your hands. Of course, Aleksey Rider-Mikkelsen, Lord of Light Island, isn’t going to get bored. And if he did, he obviously wouldn’t join a preposterous hunt for sunken treasure with Ben and his annoying friends to keep himself entertained...
  • In Dog We Trust by Neil S. Plakcy

    In Dog We Trust by Neil S. Plakcy

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    an alternate cover edition can be found hereAfter a bad divorce and a brief prison term for computer hacking, 42-year-old Steve Levitan has returned to his home town of Stewart’s Crossing and taken a part-time job as an adjunct professor of English at his alma mater, Eastern College...
  • Edison's Professor by Jocelynn Drake

    Edison's Professor by Jocelynn Drake

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The stranger chose him.Edison Walker had never seen the man with the wide green eyes before. He only knew that he was in trouble.And that he took one look at Ed and decided he was his haven. His protector.Ed would not let him down...
  • Jack of Hearts: A Heart-Pounding Mystery Filled with Action, Humor and a Dash of Romance by Christopher Greyson

    Jack of Hearts: A Heart-Pounding Mystery Filled with Action, Humor and a Dash of Romance by Christopher Greyson

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This top-rated mystery-thriller series is on sale for a limited time to introduce you to the wildly popular Detective Jack Stratton Series from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Christopher Greyson. We hope you enjoy! Jack Stratton is heading south for some fun in the sun...
  • Hide & Seek (Brantley Walker: Off the Books Book 3) by Nicole Edwards

    Hide & Seek (Brantley Walker: Off the Books Book 3) by Nicole Edwards

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    With the holidays nearing, Brantley Walker and Reese Tavoularis are getting settled, both personally and professionally. For Reese, dealing with Brantley’s about-face regarding the size of the task force is easy. It’s meeting the parents that he’s worried about...
  • Two Little Boys by L.M. Krier

    Two Little Boys by L.M. Krier

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    In his darkest and most complex case to date, DI Ted Darling has to confront demons from his own past when investigating the brutal murder of a young boy. As more deaths follow, he realises he is up against powerful people who believe themselves to be above the law, and starts to feel out of his depth...
  • Fractal Recursion by Cole McCade

    Fractal Recursion by Cole McCade

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    It's first blood drawn as the white rabbit dangles the lives of innocents in the balance, forcing Malcolm to choose between his parents and a missing FBI agent. Yet Malcolm's attempts to stall for time and find a better solution open a doorway into the Golden Ratio Killer's thoughts, his secrets...and the truth of the past that made him who he is today...
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