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  • Clue Krewe by Jana Deleon

    Clue Krewe by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Beckett Rousseau is the firstborn son of one of New Orleans’ most prominent families. He’s the quintessential golden boy—great looks, money, and a political career in his future—until his wife murders him. Or at least that’s what everyone thinks.Athena Durand is still reeling from her murder conviction but now that it’s overturned, she’s at a loss on how to proceed with her life...
  • Swamp Spook by Jana Deleon

    Swamp Spook by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    When black cats roam, and spooks are seen, Come celebrate, it’s Halloween. Sinful, Louisiana, really knows how to throw a party, and it goes all out for Halloween. The weeklong celebration kicks off with a maze of horror in the park built of hay bales. And Fortune has the perfect assignment—the executioner...
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  • Flame and Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Flame and Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    No smoke without a fire. It’s New Year’s in Sinful, and the competition for the New Year’s Queen is heating up as the warring churches go head-to-head. Fortune Redding is not the sequined dress kind of woman, but reluctantly agrees to partake in the debacle so that Ida Belle and Gertie can best their nemesis, Celia, who’s put up former Sinful mean girl RJ Rogers...
  • Fortune Funhouse by Jana Deleon

    Fortune Funhouse by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The traveling carnival has made its stop in Sinful and everyone is ready for thrilling rides, challenging games, and most importantly, funnel cake. But when a man is murdered in the funhouse and Emmaline LeBlanc is knocked unconscious so the killer can escape, the good times are over...
  • Swamp Sweets by Jana Deleon

    Swamp Sweets by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    It’s November in Sinful and everyone is gearing up for Thanksgiving. But when Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie bag a body on their turkey hunting trip, the quiet enjoyment of fall is over. No one really knew Miles Broussard well, and as he’d recently sold the building his business was in to retire in another state, no one could explain how he’d ended up murdered and dumped in the bayou...
  • Bullets and Beads by Jana Deleon

    Bullets and Beads by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Let the good times roll? It’s Mardi Gras time and Fortune is looking forward to seeing the spectacle firsthand, but when a visitor to Sinful is murdered during the celebration there, Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie can’t help but wonder what happened...
  • Fortune Hunter by Jana Deleon

    Fortune Hunter by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 29 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon, the eighth book in the Miss Fortune mystery series. Someone has created a fake social media identity and is online romancing the lonely women of Sinful in order to scam them out of money...
  • A Christmas Wedding at the Castle by Eliza J. Scott

    A Christmas Wedding at the Castle by Eliza J. Scott

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Do you believe in fate? Livvie Weatherill does…This time last year, if anyone had told Livvie Weatherill she’d have fallen in love and would be making plans for her Christmas wedding to Zander Gillespie, she would have laughed in their face...
  • Fortune Furlough by Jana Deleon

    Fortune Furlough by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    It’s not a vacation until there’s a murder. Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie are finally off to Florida on the vacation they’ve always talked about. Days filled with white sand, turquoise water, and fruity drinks are the only thing on the agenda...
  • Frightfully Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Frightfully Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Rest when you’re dead?It’s time for the annual Halloween festival in Sinful, and Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie can’t wait to suit up and enjoy the food and activities. But when a dead man gallops through the park on a black stallion and slides to a decapitated stop right in front of Swamp Team 3, they know another festival is about to be turned on its head…so to speak...
  • Forever Covert by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Covert by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.77 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Kale Mueez just wants to work on his computer programs and, okay, some not-so-legal hacking. Even though he sold one of his computer software companies for more money than he’d ever need, he wasn’t one to sit back and do nothing. That is especially true since his father is a super soldier known around the world...
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    mystery  contemporary  suspense  humor  length-medium  m-f
  • Misquoted & Demoted by Amanda M. Lee

    Misquoted & Demoted by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Avery Shaw’s life is a mess – and that’s putting it mildly. County Commissioner Tad Ludington is on the warpath, and his complaints haven’t fallen on deaf ears. The new publisher is watching the staff – and Avery is of particular interest. As punishment, he’s decided to bust her down to sports – and no one is happy about it...
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    mystery  humor  length-medium
  • Forever Connected by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Connected by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Years ago, on the darkest night of Poppy and Zinnia’s lives, they got a letter. It was from three elderly sisters in the small town of Keeneston, inviting them to visit and if interested, take a job. The Rose Sisters had wanted to retire, but they’d wanted family to take over their small café...
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    mystery  contemporary  suspense  humor  length-medium  m-f
  • Plum Boxed Set 2 by Janet Evanovich

    Plum Boxed Set 2 by Janet Evanovich

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The adventures continue for Stephanie Plum, Trenton's best-known bounty hunter, in these three Complete Plum Novels from #1 Bestselling Author Janet Evanovich!Four to Score: Stephanie Plum is forced to enlist the help of Grandma Mazur, ex-hooker and wannabe bounty hunter Lula, and transvestite rock musician Sally Sweet in an attempt to capture revenge-seeking waitress Maxine Nowicki...
  • Saltwater Cowboy by Christy Barritt

    Saltwater Cowboy by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    When a mysterious woman washes up in Cape Corral, a wild horse sanctuary off North Carolina's coast, law enforcement officer Levi Sutherland is determined to figure out if she's connected with the crimes recently plaguing the island. The problem is, she can't remember anything . .
  • The Hitman's Guide to Codenames and Ill-Gotten Gains by Alice Winters

    The Hitman's Guide to Codenames and Ill-Gotten Gains by Alice Winters

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 17 ratings
    LelandStopping a robbery was only the beginning—to fun, action-filled mayhem. Jackson’s afraid that I’m running headfirst into trouble (again), but I’m not… I’m running gun-first into it. When one of the robbers who’s really just a kid comes begging for my help, I definitely have no choice but to help him...
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    mystery  found-family  m-m  contemporary  humor  suspense  mafia  queer
  • Bonfires & Hot Chocolate at The Little Duck Pond Cafe by Rosie Green

    Bonfires & Hot Chocolate at The Little Duck Pond Cafe by Rosie Green

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    If you love all the colours of autumn, you're sure to warm to this uplifting story of love, loss and starting over. Primrose Wilkins arrived in Sunnybrook with a burning desire to find the family she's never known. But after a heart-breaking false start, she's beginning to have second thoughts...
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    mystery  contemporary  humor  length-short
  • Overedited & Underpaid by Amanda M. Lee

    Overedited & Underpaid by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.76 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Avery Shaw thought she’d seen it all. Then she gets the sort of call she never expected.Buried in a part of the city she never visits, across the road from the Dairy Queen of all places, is Antique Dolls. It’s a niche strip club featuring dancers over the age of 40… and a very unique clientele.When a masked intruder comes barreling into the club firing a gun and hits the owner, Avery is intrigued...
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    mystery  humor  suspense  length-medium
  • The Preditorial Page by Amanda M. Lee

    The Preditorial Page by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Is speed-dating okay when you're in a relationship? It is when you're looking for a killer, especially in Avery Shaw's world. A naked body has been discovered in the nearby Clinton River, and while Sheriff Jake Farrell is keeping his cards close to his vest, Avery has another avenue of Eliot...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  humor  heroine sleuth  length-medium
  • Plum Boxed Set 2 by Janet Evanovich

    Plum Boxed Set 2 by Janet Evanovich

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    This boxed set contains three hilarious Stephanie Plum novels from Janet Evanovich: Four to Score, High Five and Hot Six.Four to Score: Stephanie Plum, Trenton, New Jersey's favorite pistol-packing, condom-carrying bounty hunter, is back--and on the trail of a revenge-seeking waitress who's skipped bail...
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    mystery  heroine sleuth  humor
  • The Memory Library by Kate Storey

    The Memory Library by Kate Storey

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    For forty-two years, Sally Harrison has been building a library. Each year, on her daughter’s birthday, she adds a new book to her shelves – with a note in the front dedicated to her own greatest work. But Ella – Sally’s only child – fled to Australia twenty-two years ago after a heated exchange, and never looked back...
  • Shot Off the Presses by Amanda M. Lee

    Shot Off the Presses by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Life should be good for Avery Shaw. She's got a hunky new boyfriend in local pawnshop owner (and sometime private detective) Elliot Kane, her cousin Lexie swears she'll be moving out of her house one day "real soon" and her family has been relatively quiet for a whole week. That's practically perfection in Avery's world...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  humor  heroine sleuth  length-medium
  • Movie Club Mysteries: Books 1-3: Dial P for Poison / The Postman Always Dies Twice / How to Murder a Millionaire by Zara Keane

    Movie Club Mysteries: Books 1-3: Dial P for Poison / The Postman Always Dies Twice / How to Murder a Millionaire by Zara Keane

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Alternate cover edition of ASIN B098CFSCQV“Five weeks ago, I’d given my cheating ex and crumbling career in the San Francisco PD the proverbial middle finger, and moved to the Wild West…of Ireland...
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    mystery  contemporary  humor  length-long
  • Coffee at The Beach House Hotel by Judith Keim

    Coffee at The Beach House Hotel by Judith Keim

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Ann and Rhonda continue to deal with guests at The Beach House Hotel on the Gulf Coast of Florida, including Bobby “Bugs” Bailey, a star player in the NFL. At the Vice-President’s suggestion, Bobby’s coach has sent him there to work to help adjust his behavior after Bobby’s life of fame gets out of control...
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    mystery  humor  contemporary  length-medium
  • Buried Leads by Amanda M. Lee

    Buried Leads by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Journalists are supposed to report the news, not be it. For Avery Shaw, though, that's easier said than done.Avery has spent the last month on her boss' list -- you know the one -- and she can't figure out a way to get off it...
  • Dime a Dozen by Gina LaManna

    Dime a Dozen by Gina LaManna

    Rated: 4.73 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Detective Kate Rosetti is at the top of her career. She’s catching bad guys, thwarting crooks, and putting murderers behind bars. Not to mention, she’s finally in a committed relationship with her billionaire boyfriend...
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    mystery  heroine sleuth  suspense  humor  m-f
  • Right Ho, Jeeves: Jeeves & Wooster Series by P.G. Wodehouse

    Right Ho, Jeeves: Jeeves & Wooster Series by P.G. Wodehouse

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Bertie returns to London from several weeks in Cannes spent in the company of his Aunt Dahlia Travers and her daughter Angela...
  • How to Hack a Hacker by A.J. Sherwood

    How to Hack a Hacker by A.J. Sherwood

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 21 ratings
    Kyou has a routine. A system. He guards Brannigan Genovese, hacks for his family of choice, and drinks far too much caffeine for any living being...
  • Three Plums In One by Janet Evanovich

    Three Plums In One by Janet Evanovich

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Three Plums In One: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly (Stephanie Plum...
  • New Media & Old Grudges by Amanda M. Lee

    New Media & Old Grudges by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Avery Shaw likes to win. Unfortunately, her single-minded focus on being declared victor tends to get her into trouble. That’s never more true than when she decides to take on her archnemesis Tad Ludington. With an election coming up, Avery is ready to let her freak flag fly in an attempt to get Tad to show his true colors on television … thus sabotaging his chance at getting into office...
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    mystery  suspense  humor  length-medium
  • Mayhem & Mistletoe by Amanda M. Lee

    Mayhem & Mistletoe by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Avery Shaw has the world at her fingertips … and a pile of dead Santas near the railroad tracks. Interestingly, she’s more focused on the Santas than her personal life, but only because she’s been warned that a proposal is imminent from her live-in love Eliot Kane and she needs to look somewhere else – anywhere else will do – rather than accept what he’s trying to offer...
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    mystery  humor  suspense  length-medium  christmas
  • Mischief and Mutiny by Hope Callaghan

    Mischief and Mutiny by Hope Callaghan

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    As the Siren of the Seas nears its next port of call, a group of disgruntled crewmembers circulate a petition to have the ship’s purser fired.Millie is shocked to learn that not only is her close friend’s name at the top of the list, but other loyal crewmembers’ names are listed as well...
  • Fields' Guide to Smuggling by Julie Mulhern

    Fields' Guide to Smuggling by Julie Mulhern

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Hollywood influencer and super-secret spy Poppy Fields is finally taking a well-deserved vacation with her partner Thor.A woman. A man. A private Greek island. What could go wrong?When a storm washes six teenage girls onto the island, trouble comes knocking. The men who trafficked the girls will do anything to get them them back, including killing Poppy and Thor...
  • Plum Boxed Set 3 by Janet Evanovich

    Plum Boxed Set 3 by Janet Evanovich

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    This boxed set contains three hilarious Stephanie Plum novels from Janet Evanovich: Seven Up, Hard Eight and To the Nines. Seven Up All New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has to do is bring in semi-retired bail jumper Eddie DeChooch. For an old man he's still got a knack for slipping out of sight--and raising hell...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  heroine sleuth  humor
  • Rendezvous and Revenge: A Cruise Ship Cozy Mystery Novel by Hope Callaghan

    Rendezvous and Revenge: A Cruise Ship Cozy Mystery Novel by Hope Callaghan

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When the star of Siren of the Seas new hit show is murdered backstage, Felix lands the lead role and also the top spot on the list of suspects...
  • Forever Hidden by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Hidden by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Some things weren't meant to stay hidden... Sydney Davies is used to being in the spotlight. But the former model turned fashion designer isn’t used to family secrets. Sydney is sent to dig up the past. What she finds instead is Deacon and a case of a missing girl with a link back to her life in the fashion industry...
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    mystery  humor  suspense  contemporary  length-medium  m-f
  • Aurora by D.G. Rampton

    Aurora by D.G. Rampton

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    70,000+ readers have already discovered the Regency Goddesses Series. The books, which can be read in any order, are regularly in the U.S. top 20 for Historical Romance and Humor & Satire...
  • Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin

    Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues—gravediggers, groundskeepers, and a priest—visit her to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix with the coffee she offers them. Her life is lived to the rhythms of their funny, moving confidences...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  contemporary  humor  length-long
  • Watching the Detectives by Julie Mulhern

    Watching the Detectives by Julie Mulhern

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Ellison Russell wanted a decorator, not a corpse. Too bad she finds Mrs. White in the study killed with a revolver. Things go from bad to worse when she finds Mr. White in the dining room killed with a candlestick...
  • Dragon Security: The Complete Series by Glenna Sinclair

    Dragon Security: The Complete Series by Glenna Sinclair

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    I went to his sister because that’s what he told me to do. But when his brother, Cole, accused me of being a gold digger, I knew I couldn’t trust them. I didn’t realize she would send Cole to watch over me. Or that he would carry me out of my trailer when he saw how bad it really was...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  humor  military  new adult
  • Hard Hitting & Misleading by Amanda M. Lee

    Hard Hitting & Misleading by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Avery Shaw is back from her honeymoon and on the prowl for a story. She wants to prove that marriage has softened her – nothing ever could – and the way she’s going to do that is by rocking the news world with something monumental.Then a body drops in her neighborhood, only blocks away from her house, and the hunt is on...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  humor  suspense  length-medium
  • Riddle Me This by Gina LaManna

    Riddle Me This by Gina LaManna

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Detective Kate Rosetti is not a big fan of February 14th. Even worse than gigantic bouquets of roses and buckets of chocolate, however, are the love notes she’s been receiving from the murderer who very nearly stole her life.Unfortunately, a peaceful Valentine’s Day isn’t in the cards for Kate Rosetti...
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    mystery  humor  suspense  length-short  m-f
  • Weddings & Whodunits by Amanda M. Lee

    Weddings & Whodunits by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.77 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Avery Shaw never saw marriage on the menu – and when she did, she avoided it like liver and onions – but it appears her life is about to change. She simply can’t decide if it’s for better or worse.With matrimony barreling down on her, she needs a distraction, and she gets it in the form of a warning...
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    mystery  humor  suspense  length-medium
  • A Light in the Window by Jan Karon

    A Light in the Window by Jan Karon

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    The second book in Jan Karon’s bestselling Mitford series confirms that a trip to Mitford is good for the soul His attractive neighbor is tugging at his heartstrings. A wealthy widow is pursuing him with hot casseroles. And his red-haired Cousin Meg has moved into the rectory, uninvited. As you can see, Mitford's rector and lifelong bachelor, Father Tim, is in need of divine intervention...
  • Thresholds by Kate Canterbary

    Thresholds by Kate Canterbary

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 22 ratings
    Twas the weekend before Christmas, when all through the North End Not a Walsh had his life together, not even his friends; The parties were planned by the foodies with care, In hopes that Wes and Erin would soon find their way there; The men were stressing over last minute shopping lists and plans, While the ladies were busy with work and nesting and finding the right paella pans;...
  • Oracles & Obituaries by Amanda M. Lee

    Oracles & Obituaries by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.76 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Halloween is Avery Shaw’s favorite time of year. What’s not to love? Slasher movies, hot chocolate and corn mazes. She’s addicted to them all. During a visit to one of those mazes, she runs across several men trying to kidnap a teenage girl. In true Avery fashion, she intervenes … resulting in a severe injury...
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    mystery  suspense  humor  length-medium
  • No Escape by Julie Moffett

    No Escape by Julie Moffett

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Geek girl Lexi Carmichael thought meeting the in-laws would be easy as long as they met on neutral ground and she was fully prepared with a spreadsheet full of etiquette dos and don’ts. But unfortunately for Lexi, things don’t always turn out as she planned.Meeting the in-laws is a daunting task even for those who are outgoing and socially capable...
  • Janet Evanovich Boxed Set #3 by Janet Evanovich

    Janet Evanovich Boxed Set #3 by Janet Evanovich

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
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    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  heroine sleuth  humor
  • Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by Liliana Hart

    Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by Liliana Hart

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    What do an art forger, a missing clown and a dead cop have in common? Nothing except for Addison Holmes.Addison is back and better than ever. Err...or at least better than she was. She has the P.I. license to prove it and a stack full of cases to solve. But the biggest mystery is Nick. She knows he's keeping something important from her regarding one of her cases...
  • A Summer of Surprises by Rosie Green

    A Summer of Surprises by Rosie Green

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    When Ruby Watkiss lands a job at the True Loaf Bakery, she feels as if the sun has finally come out. Having been through a traumatic time, it’s a joy to be working for Ellie, and now all Ruby wants is to lead a quiet life and support her mum in getting the help she needs.But life, it seems, has other plans for Ruby...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  contemporary  humor  length-short
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