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Barrett Raines is a black detective on an isolated police force in Deacon Beach, a sweltering enclave on the Gulf Coast of northwestern Florida. Barrett's worked all his career to live up to the faith Romana Walker, Deacon Beach's eternal Homecoming Queen, showed in him when she pushed Barrett onto the all-white force in the face of local and bigoted opposition. Seven years later, Raines has made a place for himself and his schoolteacher wife in the...
42) The Donkey-Vous
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Pru Marlowe isn't your ordinary animal psychic. A tough girl on the run from her own gift, Pru left the big city to return to her picturesque Berkshires hometown looking for a little peace. Too bad that her training as an animal behaviorist got her mixed up with Lily, a rescue dog, and Charles, her person. Now Charles is dead, and Lily looks good for it. After all, Lily is a pitbull, a fighting-ring dropout, and way too traumatized to give Pru a clear...
43) Dark Matter
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Eli Ross, a veteran NYPD homicide detective, Shelley, a former sex worker, and Ollie, the twelve-year-old autistic son of Eli's late sister, share an apartment. As Eli and his team hunt not one but two serial killers, Ollie is revealed as a savant with extraordinary capabilities only matched by his lack of emotional intelligence. As the pressure at work ramps up, FBI agent Sally Cope joins the hunt, and when she discovers Ollie's amazing abilities,...
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Abigail Bukula was fifteen years old when her parents were killed in a massacre of antiapartheid activists by white apartheid security forces. Because a young soldier spoke up in her defense, she was spared. Now she's a lawyer with a promising career in the new government, and while she has done her best to put the tragedy behind her, she's never forgotten Leon Lourens, the soldier who saved her life. So when he walks into her office almost twenty...
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Detective Jack "Mac" McCrae has lost his hero. Without children or any family, the retired detective takes the death of his mentor hard. When the man's son reaches out to Mac with a mysterious letter containing a startling confession, asking for his help, Mac finds he can't say no.He interprets the cryptic letter and begins to search for answers. Who did his hero wrong? And why?Mac's investigation reveals a decades-old case in which a bad man was...
46) Deliverance
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"This book is steamy, intense and suspenseful. This second chance romance will have you swooning & falling in love, especially with little Anna May, and gives you such a roller coaster of emotions that is delivered exceptionally well." One word.FEAR.FEAR I wonʼt make it home.FEAR I'll never be man enough in anyone's eyes.Including my own.And worst of all, FEAR that Iʼll never feel againthe way Jolene Stewart makes me crave her next touch. I've...
47) The Protectors
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In the mountainous north of Spain, on a quiet Sunday morning, a Basque terrorist group kidnaps the country's wealthiest woman after a violent ambush along a winding country road. At the same time, in New York City, a murderous shootout alongside Central Park leaves two dead and Spain's ambassador to the United Nations held hostage. NYPD Detective First Grade Brian McKenna and his partner Cisco Sanchez (the self-described world's greatest detective)...
48) Tuck
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Tuck left home more than twenty years ago to be his own man. Now he's called back with the news that both his parents are dead and he needs to be there.He doesn't want to go. He's built a life with the Demented Souls. They've been his family for the last ten years. But something tells him that may be changing.London is stuck in a life she hates. Wishing she'd gotten out when she had the chance. She's sick of her dead end job tending bar in Deadwood....
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It's just another typical day for Fort Worth Police Officer Megan Luz and her K-9 partner Brigit-until three unknown men set out on a city-wide crime spree. After setting a fire to distract law enforcement, the armed criminals hold up a bank and steal a city bus. And, that's just for starters. Megan and Brigit put their noses to the ground and the chase is on. But, hard as the K-9 team tries to put the clues together and track the men, the offenders...
50) Trusting Drew
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A death-bed promise turns lethal.Lily Smith is kidnapped and held captive to prevent her from participating in a beauty pageant her best friend begged her to enter. But she is no passive little miss to let someone else determine her future. Unfortunately, during her flight to freedom, she hits her head on a rock and can't remember her own name, let alone why she is running through the Colorado mountains barefoot with no coat.Drew Kipling rides to...
51) Untouchable
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From USA Today Bestselling Author KL Donn comes an emotional protector to lovers romance that will leave you breathless for more. Vulnerable. Irresistible. Untouchable.Jossilyn Marlowe spends her nights writing about romance but never living it.Having penned several bestsellers, she's familiar with the mechanics of a long, loving, lasting relationship but feels she missed her opportunity when Braxton Hughes left.Pining for a love she once thought...
52) Help Me Please
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An hour and a half after three-year-old Danielle Gaston is kidnapped from the Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago, a new web site pops up on the World Wide Web, featuring Danielle Gaston. She's isolated in a room with no food and only water to drink. This live-action web page is available to all net users around the world and is soon rebroadcast on CNN and other networks. Since Danielle is the only child of a popular country & western singer and a senator,...
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At the end of the Cold War, a brutal murder in a Moscow alley forces two rival agents together in a mission to catch a serial killer-before it's too late Moscow is a bad place for an American to walk alone, particularly a woman as beautiful as Ann Harris. An economist in the American embassy, she thinks she knows the town. She thinks she is safe. She's wrong. Colonel Dimitri Danilov is irritated that Harris had to die on his watch. The peculiarities...
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He swore he'd never cross the line with someone he was protecting... especially not for a woman who happens to be a rockstar hiding in plain sight.Rory Maverick lives by a code-Honor, Loyalty, and Truth.So, when his best friend calls asking him for a favor, he doesn't hesitate. Plus, the timing couldn't be better. Going to podunk Alabama to watch over his best friend's little sister sounds like a cakewalk job compared to the high-maintenance celebrities...
55) The Instinct
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Alp's closest friends betray him and choose him as a victim for a crime he did not commit.After a while, his friends call him and just ask him for help, but they don't tell him why.Alp becomes suspicious and starts calling his friends to help.When he finds them, the chain begins to open, he leaves the grave of death and emerges into the light, and the dark traces of the past begin to follow him even in the light... - I read it in the published book...
56) White Rage
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Glasgow is burning after a series of racially motivated murders, and it's up to Detective-Sergeant Lou Perlman to put out the fire in international bestselling author Campbell Armstrong's riveting thriller First an Asian business owner falls to his death from his sixth-story apartment. Next an Indian woman, a kindergarten teacher, is shot dead. Meanwhile, Detective Perlman grieves quietly for his brother, killed in a hail of gunfire, and wrestles...
57) Hold Me Close
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The life he has always known is about to changeFindlay Hudson, landed in Ryker Falls, Colorado, leaving a dysfunctional family and his bad attitude behind. He has friends he now thinks of as family, and considers himself happy. All that changes when Maggie Winter, a sexy, alluring red-head, returns to Ryker Falls. She's had her big London adventure, but Maggie's clearly hurting and vulnerable now.They'd always struck sparks off each other, but never...
58) A Hero's Heart
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Lies. Betrayal. A million-dollar bounty.After an undercover mission goes awry, DEA agent Jarrett Brandt hides out in the last place he wants to be-his hometown. Now he's stuck with his judgmental parents and the memory of his perfect brother hanging over his head. His one bright light? Marissa Reinn Brandt-his high school sweetheart and former sister-in-law.Marissa lost Jarrett once before. No way will she let him back in; then her son offers him...
59) Father and Son
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Someone wants you dead. You don't know who. Or why.John Ray is called to the scene of a violent murder. The victim is an old associate of his father, local crime boss Tony Ray. There's no obvious motive for the crime, but everybody agrees on one thing: don't tell the police.John, the charismatic, Cambridge-educated white sheep of the Ray family, has always refused to be part of his father's business. But he's also a bit of a maverick, with a foot...
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Enemy forces will stop at nothing to retrieve an incriminating package in this gripping international thriller from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries Double agent Cornelius Roos is about to become dispensable to the Germans-until he reveals the existence of a recording that will guarantee the death of a high-ranking Nazi official if it finds its way into the hands of Hermann Goering. So Roos strikes a bargain: If he walks out of Gestapo headquarters...
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