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If Only She Knew: A twisty humorous mystery series (If Only She Knew Mystery Series #1)
By Pamela Crane. 2023
WITH OVER 100,000 COPIES SOLD, THIS HUMOROUS MYSTERY SERIES IS GUARANTEED TO KEEP YOU ON YOUR TOES!For over a century,…
death visits Bloodson Bay on the same day every year, and no one knows why…When a girl goes missing, Peace Bloodson's family is blamed as the "curse" strikes again—a deadly phenomenon that happens every year in her small town. Dark tales are retold in fearful whispers around campfires about an ancient murder. Wide-eyed children search the shadows for ghosts said to haunt the townsfolk. And the abandoned manor at the edge of Peace's farm, called the Slaughter Shed for good reason, holds unexplainable mysteries.As the rumors and body count grow, so does Peace's determination to crack the case. A hidden journal reveals a sinister family history along with a chilling link to the missing girl. To restore Peace's reputation and lay the spirits to rest, she must expose this terrible secret.While Peace is dangerously close to causing a public scandal and tearing her life apart, she faces a much more sinister threat. Someone will kill to keep the truth hidden as she faces the same deadly fate.Throw on your favorite flannel and combat boots, then dive into this 1990s throwback thriller that smells like teen spirit as a group of friends risk their so-called lives to stop a century-old murder spree...Fans of Nita Prose's The Maid, Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum Series, and Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club are raving about this witty new twisty mystery series!Buy If Only She Knew to start this addicting series today!The Harlot's Tale: A Midwife Mystery (The Midwife's Tale #2)
By Sam Thomas. 2013
Sam Thomas's The Harlot's Tale takes readers back to Civil War England in this riveting sequel to The Midwife's Tale,…
hailed as an "ingenious, fast-paced mystery" by Kirkus ReviewsIt is August, 1645, one year since York fell into Puritan hands. As the city suffers through a brutal summer heat, Bridget Hodgson and Martha Hawkins are drawn into a murder investigation more frightening than their last. In order to appease God's wrath—and end the heat-wave—the city's overlords have launched a brutal campaign to whip the city's sinners into godliness. But for someone in York, this is not enough. First a prostitute and her client are found stabbed to death, then a pair of adulterers are beaten and strangled. York's sinners have been targeted for execution.Bridget and Martha—assisted once again by Will, Bridget's good-hearted nephew—race to find the killer even as he adds more bodies to his tally. The list of suspects is long: Hezekiah Ward, a fire and brimstone preacher new to York; Ward's son, Praise-God, whose intensity mirrors his father's; John Stubb, one of Ward's fanatic followers, whose taste for blood may not have been sated by his time in Parliament's armies. Or could the killer be closer to home? Will's brother Joseph is no stranger to death, and he shares the Wards' dreams of driving sin from the city.To find the killer, Bridget, Martha, and Will must uncover the city's most secret sins, and hope against hope that the killer does not turn his attention in their direction.A Time of Change: A Trading Post Novel (The Trading Post Novels #1)
By Aimée Thurlo, David Thurlo. 2015
A Time of Change is a perfect example of the Thurlos's ability to combine passion with tension as they introduce…
readers to Josephine Buck and other employees at a New Mexico trading post. When The Outpost's owner dies, Josephine, a young Navajo woman, is shocked to discover that Tom Stuart, whom she thought of as a surrogate father, has left her the business.Ben Stuart and his dad had had problems, but military service changed Ben for the better and put the two men back in each other's lives. His father's sudden death ends any possibility of a true reconciliation and leaves Ben fuming at being disinherited.Suspecting that Jo had an affair with his father, Ben is determined to get control of the trading post. Jo's hataalii training shows her that Ben is wounded in both body and soul, and she becomes determined to help him.As Jo and Ben move toward a deeper understanding of each other, they learn that Tom Stuart was murdered and that the trading post at the center of their lives holds many secrets.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.Finding You
By Carla Neggers. 1995
The New York Times bestselling author of Harbor Island delivers nonstop suspense and pulse-pounding romance in this thrilling mystery that…
&“proves once and for all that opposites not only attract, they sizzle&” (Jayne Ann Krentz, New York Times bestselling author).Vermont newspaper editor Cozie Hawthorne is astounded by the money she makes when her essay collection becomes a bestseller. But she has no plans to let the success go to her head. She&’s more than content to keep her rusted Jeep and live in an old house that seems to attract more bats than men. Daniel Foxworth, renegade son of the Texas oil Foxworths, specializes in putting out chemical fires. At least he did until someone sabotaged his helicopter and almost killed him. The prime suspect is Cozie&’s brother and evidence is piling up as fast as the attraction is growing between Daniel and Cozie. When she finds out that the sexy Texan is out to prove her brother&’s guilt, Cozie is determined to find out who&’s really after Daniel. But as danger mounts, Daniel faces an even greater challenge: winning Cozie&’s trust...before someone ends up dead.The Gentleman's Daughter (The Gentleman Spy Mysteries #2)
By Bianca M. Schwarz. 2021
This is the second book in the popular Gentleman Spy Mysteries — read this as a standalone or look for…
the first book, The Innkeeper's Daughter! Sir Henry, secret agent to the crown, must marry a lady above reproach to afford his illegitimate daughter entrance into society. After narrowly escaping marriage to a highborn bigot, he takes an assignment in Brighton, leading him to an abandoned abbey full of dark whispers, and a sinister secret society, the very one Henry has been investigating for three years. Isabella is as beautiful as she is talented, but falling in love isn't part of her plans. She only wants to paint, forget her painful past, and keep her overbearing mother at bay. But gaining one's independence isn't easy for a woman in 1823, so Isabella embarks on a fake courtship with Sir Henry. Soon, love and a painting career no longer seem so utterly incompatible. But when the man Isabella fears most kidnaps her, all appears lost. Realizing the kidnapper is part of the same organization he is investigating, Henry chases after them. Entrapped in a web of secrets, both Henry and Isabella must face old enemies, and fight for their happily ever after. The third book in the The Gentleman Spy Mysteries, The Memory of Her, is coming in April 2022.The Innkeeper's Daughter (The Gentleman Spy Mysteries #1)
By Bianca M. Schwarz. 2021
"A gritty, steamy series opener full of dark twists and hot trysts." – Grace Burrowes, New York Times bestselling author"An…
immersive and suspenseful Regency romance" – Publishers Weekly*One of the most requested romance books on NetGalley* In the twilight of a November evening, Sir Henry March, a man of wealth and charm — and a secret agent for the Crown — comes across a badly beaten Eliza Broad, desperate to escape her cruel stepfather. Knowing she has nowhere to go, Sir Henry takes her to his home to recover, and introduces her to a world of culture, art, and literature she never knew existed. But Eliza's brutal world follows her to London, where elite aristocratic salons coexist with the back alleys of the criminal underworld. As romance blossoms between them, Eliza unearths an old secret that leads them into the dark, sadistic world of sex trafficking, and allows Henry to finally identify a traitor responsible for selling military secrets and causing the death of thousands. A natural at the spy game, Eliza proves herself a worthy partner in the fight for truth and justice. But with time running out, and the fate of one girl hanging in the balance, Henry and Eliza must find a way to outwit a nasty pimp and eliminate a dangerous enemy agent. Look for the second book in the The Gentleman Spy Mysteries series, The Gentleman's Daughter.The Memory of Her (The Gentleman Spy Mysteries #3)
By Bianca M. Schwarz. 2022
The third book in the darkly romantic Gentleman Spy Mysteries.Eliza Broad has overcome trauma and loss to become the confident…
woman and spy she is today. Allen Strathem, fellow spy and good friend, has loved Eliza since the moment he first set eyes on her. But he left England without telling her so, bound for a mission on the Crimea with his secret buried deep.When he returns, Eliza is tasked with helping Allen recover from the horrors he has experienced, and she dedicates herself to banishing the specters of his Russian captivity and restoring the sparkle in his eyes. As Allen recuperates, they realize danger has followed him back to England. Together, they set a trap for the man who tortured him, only to discover something far more menacing afoot. With danger and intrigue around every corner, Eliza and Allen rely on and trust each other, and soon their once-buried love becomes a driving force. The perilous adventure they share and thrive on binds them together, but will that be enough to protect them from those who wish to see them dead?The Spy's Daughter (The Gentleman Spy Mysteries #4)
By Bianca M. Schwarz. 2023
Riding the wave of the very popular Regency genre, The Gentleman Spy Mysteries series mixes mystery with happily ever after romances…
to capture the hearts of readers.The fourth and final book in the darkly romantic Gentleman Spy Mysteries. Emily March, the illegitimate daughter of Sir Henry March, has all she needs: bountiful wealth, ample beauty, and abundant talent. But will this be enough to secure the one thing she truly wants: a loving marriage and her own family? However, it&’s not her illegitimacy that stands in her way, but a mystery her father—an agent of the crown—has never been able to solve. Max Warthon has twice rescued Emily from the machinations of his sinister grandfather, the Earl of Warthon, enemy of Sir Henry. Max knows that getting too close to his daughter will lead to certain peril, but he cannot resist her. Played out in front of London&’s high society, their whirlwind romance attracts everyone's attention — and raises the ire of the Earl. With old secrets standing in their way, will Emily and Max be able to unravel the mystery of an ancient hatred and unmask the true enemy? Their happiness and their lives depend on it.The Devil in Her Way: A Novel (Maureen Coughlin Series #2)
By Bill Loehfelm. 2013
When Maureen Coughlin first appeared in The Devil She Knows (2011), the New Orleans Times-Picayune called her "unforgettable" and "the…
character of the year." Booklist named The Devil She Knows one of 2011's ten best thrillers and declared Maureen "as compelling a character as this reviewer expects to see this year."Now she's back in Bill Loehfelm's new thriller, The Devil in Her Way, and her life has changed in more ways than one: She's starting over in New Orleans as a newly minted member of the police force.Kicking off her final week of field training, Maureen takes a punch from a panicked suspect bursting out of an apartment. Her training officer laughs it off, and the incident even yields a small victory: the cops recover a stash of pot and guns. But out on the street, on the fringes of the action, Maureen sees something sinister transpire between two neighborhood boys that leaves her shaken, and she knows there's more to the story than she's seen. As we follow Maureen's dangerous hunt for answers, Loehfelm leads us around New Orleans's most hidden corners and into its darkest outposts.Bill Loehfelm is the real deal—a lauded thriller writer in the modern tradition of Dennis Lehane, Richard Price, and Michael Connelly. He knows the voices of his city. Like Lehane's Boston, Price's New York City, or Connelly's Los Angeles, Loehfelm's New Orleans leaps off the page, as vibrant, flawed, and unruly as his reborn, fire-hearted protagonist. In The Devil in Her Way, Loehfelm's talents flourish, and the result is a ruthless and propulsive thriller.Timber Creek: A Luke Mccan Novel (Luke McCan Novels)
By Cameron Judd. 1989
Compared to such Western giants as Max Brand, Luke Short, and Louis L'Amour, he has been called the New Voice…
of the Old West. With over one million of his books in print, Cameron Judd powerfully brings to life, as no one else can, the struggles of a generation of Americans on a harsh and beautiful frontier.Young Luke McCan came to the gold-rich Black Hills of Dakota seeking his fortune. What he found was Deadwood, a whiskey-soaked, blood-drenched town where trouble was never further away from the next poker game-the kind of trouble that might well have killed him if a stranger hadn't put a bullet in a man gunning for Luke. But older now, and far from Deadwood, fate and his own sense of honor have led McCan down a hard and lonely trail. He's riding into the treacherous Missouri Breaks, vowing to hunt down a notorious, cold-blooded outlaw named Evan Bridger-the very same man who once saved his life...The Peaceful Valley Crime Wave: A Western Mystery
By Bill Pronzini. 2019
Bill Pronzini’s riveting western mystery, The Peaceful Valley Crime Wave, takes on the modern world with old-fashioned violence--and his Peaceful…
Valley is anything but… Nothing much happens in Peaceful Valley, Montana. And that’s just how Sheriff Lucas Monk likes it.Aside from the occasional drunken brawl or minor disturbance out on the reservation, he hasn’t had to resort to his fists or sidearm in years.That is, until mid-October, 1914, when the theft of a wooden cigar store Indian sets off a crime wave like nothing Lucas has ever seen. Teenager Charity Axthelm goes missing, Reba Purvis’s housekeeper is poisoned with cyanide Reba is sure was meant for her, and Lucas’s gut tells him that this is only the beginning.It’s not long before the first corpse shows up, bringing the peace in the valley to a thundering end.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.The Glory River: A Bushrod Underhill Novel (Underhill Series #1)
By Cameron Judd. 1998
In the tradition of Louis L'Amour's Sackett series, the Underhill novels chronicle the dramatic saga of one man's life--a life…
that follows the days of the early American frontier, of the men and women who came together as friends, family, and enemies, and of the pioneers who pushed westward into the raging violence of the Indian wars.His name was Bushrod Underhill, a son of the Cumberland mountains, inheritor of a pioneer spirit and a restless soul. Raised by a French-born Indian trader among the Cherokees and Creeks, Bushrod left the dark mountains of the American Southesast for the promise of an open frontier. But in the era of the Natchez Trace and Louisiana Purchase, a storm of violence was waiting for Bushrod across the mighty Mississippi. Now, what separated Bushrod from those around him was a strange gift given by an old slave, a young man's daring to take on any fight, and the skill to walk away alive...Down the Aisle with Murder: An Otter Lake Mystery (The Otter Lake Mysteries #5)
By Auralee Wallace. 2018
First comes love. Then comes. . .murder?Some wedding stories are so bizarre that you can't even make them up. Take…
Erica Bloom's latest case of an Otter Lake bride whose BFF is MIA at the time she's supposed to perform her duties as maid of honor. ..only to be found DOA. Erica and her security team—minus her beloved Grady, who's on vacation, trying to stay out of town business and has a no-nonsense sheriff covering for him—have followed every possible lead to find out what really happened to the young woman. Is her death the result of a bachelorette party gone wildly wrong? Or did someone with cold feet snap—and turn into a cold-blooded killer? These are the questions that must be answered for the nuptials, which at the eleventh hour receive a dramatic makeover, to go off without a hitch…before 'til death do us part.Down the Aisle with Murder is part of the Otter Lake mystery series by Auralee Wallace.Irish Eyes: A Nuala Anne Mcgrail Novel (Nuala Anne McGrail Novels #5)
By Andrew M. Greeley. 2000
New York Times bestselling author Andrew M. Greeley's beloved psychic detective finds herself drawn to a century-old unsolved mystery in…
Irish Eyes.Nuala Anne McGrail, that beautiful Irish spitfire, now lives in Chicago with her husband, Dermot, and their new baby, Nellliecoyne. As Nuala fans may suspect, Nelliecoyne is no ordinary baby: she is fey like her mother, and can see into the past as well as the future. Both Nuala and her daughter have had strange vibrations from a place on the lake where a shipload of Irish-Americans lost their lives a hundred years ago. In the course of their investigation, Nuala and Dermot make some dangerous enemies, and eventually have to solve a murder and find a buried treasure. Will Nuala survive the attacks of a sleazy DJ, and a dangerous run-in with the Balkan Mafia? And how does the diary of a young Irish woman at the turn of the century play into these events?At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.The Quest of Jubal Kane
By Doug Bowman. 1999
Jubal Kane was twenty-two years old. For the past year, he'd been in the saddle every day, riding from town…
to town on a seemingly endless search for three cold-blooded killers. They were the men who'd shot his parents in cold blood while Jubal watched, hidden inside a pile of hay.Mitchell was one of these men. And with his death, Kane found some relief from the memories that had been haunting him. But two murderers lived on. Jubal knew that until he found them, he would have no peace. So he set out again, into the wide-open country, on a quest for revenge, and most of all, the truth. It was a voyage that would lead him into the face of danger--but also into the arms of Jenny, the beautiful innocent who believed in Jubal with all her heart. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.Pecos Crossing: Two Complete Novels Of The American West
By Elmer Kelton. 1963
Johnny Fristo and Speck Quitman, young, hard-working cowboys from Fort Concho, Texas, have worked six months--at $20 a month--on the…
Devil's River. Their boss, a hawk-faced cow trader named Larramore, reneges on the money he owes the boys and sneaks out of the cow camp and heads for San Angelo.Fristo is tall and thin, his mind a hundred miles away; Quitman is short, bandy-legged, and "bedazzled by the flash of cards and the slosh of whiskey." The two are as different as sun and moon but are inseparable—and now they have a mission: find Larramore and extract the money he owes them.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.No Job for a Lady
By Carol McCleary. 2014
History, mystery, and murder are the traveling companions of Nellie Bly, the world's first female investigative reporter. In Carol McCleary's…
No Job for a Lady, Nellie defies the wrath of her editor and vengeful ancient gods while setting out to prove a woman has what it takes to be a foreign correspondent in dangerous Victorian times.Pyramids, dark magic, and dead bodies are what the intrepid Nellie encounters when she takes off for Mexico after her editor refuses to let her work as a foreign correspondent because "it's no job for a lady." It's 1886 and Mexico has not cast off all its bloodthirsty Aztec past. Among the towering pyramids in the ghost city of Teotihuacán, Nellie is stalked by ruthless killers seeking Montezuma's legendary treasure and an ancient cult that resorts to the murderous Way of the Aztec to protect it.Nellie travels with Gertrude Bell, who will go on to be called Queen of the Desert for her later exploits in Egypt, as well as the most glamorous and beautiful woman of the era, Lily Langtry, consort to the Prince of Wales. Along for the ride is a young gunfighter called the Sundance Kid. And there's the mysterious Roger Watkins, who romantically and physically challenges Nellie's determination to be an independent woman in a man's world. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.Joe Pepper: Two Complete Novels Of The American West (Tales of Texas)
By Elmer Kelton. 1975
Joe Pepper is a Texas badman with quite a past. In fact, there isn't much that Joe hasn't done in…
his forty years of living on both sides of the Texas law-except face the hangman. Now, convicted of murder, Joe is about to get that privilege. But before he goes, Joe has a few things he wants to say-and a few stories that he wants to set straight.With Joe Pepper, legendary Western writer Elmer Kelton tells a fine and moving tale of the history of his home state of Texas. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.The Highbinders: An Ash Tallman Western (The Ash Tallman Series #1)
By Matt Braun. 1984
In California, The Southern Pacific Railway was prying the West wide open, and the land was worth its weight in…
gold. While some men got in on the action, and some got out of the way, one group of settlers was making a stand-and holding up the railway. Turning to Alan Pinkerton's Chicago detective agency, the railroad robber barons hired the perfect agent to penetrate the settler's organization, a man who had learned a spy's trade in the Civil War. Tall, debonair, and pleasure-loving Ash Tallman can fight when he has to, lie when he needs to, and make love when he wants the right kind of woman on his side. But as Tallman enters the lush San Joaquin Valley in the company of a risk-taking beauty, he finds a fight with no clear battle lines, no sure enemies, and only one way out-by hunting the killers who are hunting him...Dakota
By Matt Braun. 2005
HE CAME WEST HAUNTED BY DEATH AND GRIEF...In 1884, a Harvard-educated legislator from New York set off for Dakota Territory.…
Staggered by the deaths of his mother and wife on the same tragic night, Teddy Roosevelt was returning to a place he had visited the year before, a place that had struck him with its fierce beauty and its bounty of big game and big opportunity. By the Little Missouri River, Teddy Roosevelt established a ranching empire, and soon stood at the center of a storm...AND IN A VIOLENT LAND, HE WAS REBORN...Less than a decade after an Indian rebellion and the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Dakota was being settled by the brave, the ambitious, and the restless. While some men were grabbing power, some were getting away with murder. For Roosevelt, using local cowboys and transplanted Easterners as his ranch hands, this was a place to make his mark, to make a stand and to look a killer in the eye. And this was a time to bring wild Dakota into the heart of America...