I walked to the library every Saturday to find a new mystery. I think I read everyone and read some more than once. As I matured, I discovered the mixture of romance and suspense I was hooked. I literally read every book in the genre’ at my local library.
A romantic suspense with an unlikely hero with a dark, murderous past and a female FBI agent with a history that haunts her.
It is packed with action and an ending that will shock you. It’s a story of redemption, self-forgiveness, and righting wrongs. A real page-turner.
Alex Parker has become one of my all-time favorite characters. A former CIA agent and now a computer wizard is forced to kill those that escape justice to settle a debt.
She's an FBI agent hunting her twin sister's killer. He's an assassin who'll die to keep her safe. His secret will destroy them both.
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FBI agent Mallory Rooney spent the last eighteen years searching for her identical twin sister’s abductor. With a serial killer carving her sister’s initials into the bodies of his victims, Mallory thinks she may finally have found him.
Former soldier Alex Parker is a highly decorated but damaged war hero with a secret—he’s a covert government assassin who…
Intricate suspense with
interesting characters and two of the best MCs I’ve read. Action, humor, and a
mystery.
Callie kicked her sexy husband, Jake, to the curb over a year before.
An archeologist, she is now working on a rare discovery when Jake is brought in to
work with her.
The sparks fly, but Jake is back not only to work on the ancient
Neolithic village but to win back the woman he never stopped loving. While the
wooing Callie, a snag is thrown into Jack’s plans when it's discovered that
Callie was kidnapped as a baby.
When her birth parents show up, the mystery
begins. Who stole her and why? She must deal with the parents who raised, whom
she loves dearly, the feeling of her birth parents, and her determination to rout
out the ring of child snatching and illegal
adoptions.
When five-thousand-year-old human bones are found at a construction site in the small town of Woodsboro, the news draws archaeologist Callie Dunbrook out of her sabbatical and into a whirlwind of adventure, danger and romance.
To begin with she must try to make sense of the cloud of death and misfortune that hangs over the dig - fuelling rumours that the site is cursed. She must also cope with the presence of her irritating - but still irresistible - ex-husband, Hake. But when a stranger appears, claiming to know a secret about her childhood, Callie is forced to also question…
This is an older dark
romantic suspense but well worth the read, especially if you like conflict.
A
serial killer and two wounded souls. The conflict and suspense are off the
pages. It is an older book, but I re-read at least once a year. Superb writing.
Superb storyline. Jack and Laurel are broken in different ways.
Jack is the bad
boy you want to cheer for and Laurel the wounded former prosecutor who sees the
good that Jack believes doesn’t exist. All this whle a serial killer plays cat
and mouse with Laurel.
Bad Jack wants no one to care for but can’t help being drawn
to Laurel.
In the rural parishes of Louisiana's French Triangle, young women are disappearing one by one, only to turn up on the banks of the bayou, strangled and cast aside where they are sure to be found. But there is one trophy the killer prizes above all others, one woman who must be silenced forever....
Attorney Laurel Chandler did not come back to Bayou Breaux to seek justice. That once-burning obsession had destroyed her credibility, her career, her marriage—and nearly her sanity. But when a ruthless predator strikes too close to home,…
Intricately woven romantic suspense set in New Orleans.
I
love a book where the ending is a surprise, and the characters are entertaining
and intelligent. You will fall in love with the secondary characters. Gabe is a
chef who father is dead, but the authorities call it a suicide. He doesn’t
believe it and hires a private investigator, Molly.
There are good cops and
some really bad cops. Fantastic ride. Finished it in one sitting.
The truth of what happened that night lies with a secret witness.
Quarter to Midnight is the first thrilling novel in a brand new series by Sunday Times bestselling author Karen Rose, set in New Orleans.
Rocky Hebert walks into his death at quarter to midnight one New Orleans night.
His son Gabe cannot accept the official verdict of suicide and enlists the help of the Burke Broussard Private Investigation Agency to discover the real cause of death.
PI Molly Sutton knows what it's like to lose a father in tragic circumstances and will go to any lengths to crack…
The damaged heroine and the cocky MC. The dialogue and writing are fun and the ‘who-dun-it’ kept me guessing. The beauty of the Grand Tetons is so well described you feel like you there and in awe of the backdrop.
The sole survivor of a brutal crime, Reece Gilmore is on the run, desperately fighting the panic attacks and the nightmares that haunt her. She doesn't intend to stay in the sleepy town of Angel's Fist one second longer than she needs to, despite its friendly - if curious - inhabitants, and the irresistible attraction of local writer Brody.
However, on a hike into the mountains she witnesses a couple having a vicious argument that culminates in murder. Faced with a lack of evidence, the authorities in Angel's Fist find it hard to believe Reece's story. But when a series…
Struggling with decisions she forced to make regarding her future, Catherine Storm returns to Sanibel Island, seeking tranquility and solitude while she wrestles with her options. The last thing Cat expects is to find herself in the arms of a troubled, former Special Forces commander—while dodging an assassin’s bullets.
After a decade in the Army, Colton James put down his sniper’s rifle and picked up his camera. His acclaimed nature photography helps to block out the haunting images of his last mission. His days of protecting the innocent are behind him—or so he thinks until he runs into the short-tempered, pixie who has unwittingly become the target of a killer.
Growing up in New England, my mother had a set of books that she kept in the living room, more for display than anything else. It was The Works of Edgar Allen Poe. I read them and instantly became hooked on horror. In the seventh grade, I entertained my friends at a sleepover by telling them the mysterious clanking noise (created by the baseboard heater) was the ghost of a woman who had once lived in the farmhouse, forced to cannibalize her ten children during a particularly bad winter. And I’ve been enjoying scaring people ever since.
In 1939, on a remote Pacific island, botanical researcher Irene Greer plunged off a waterfall to her death, leaving behind a legacy shrouded in secrets. Her great-niece Julia, a struggling journalist recovering from a divorce, seeks answers decades later.
Tasked with retrieving Dr. Greer’s discovery–a flower that could have world-changing properties–Julia unearths a story rife with hidden agendas and a missionary community unwilling to share the truth. As she confronts the eerie legends and a fellow traveler with his own motives, Julia finds that the longer she stays, the thinner the line between reality and the fantastical becomes until she…
From the award-winning author of Dead Souls and Poe comes an all-new bone-chilling novel where a mysterious island holds the terrifying answers to a woman's past and future.
In 1939, on a remote Pacific island, botanical researcher Irene Greer plunges off a waterfall to her death, convinced the spirits of her dead husband and daughter had joined the nightmarchers-ghosts of ancient warriors that rise from their burial sites on moonless nights. But was it suicide, or did a strange young missionary girl, Agnes, play a role in Irene's deteriorating state of mind?
