by J.A. Konrath

4.3 stars – 1,144 reviews

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Start with a tough but vulnerable Chicago cop. Add a hyperactive cat, an ailing mother, a jealous boyfriend, a high-maintenance ex-husband, and a partner in the throes of a mid-life crisis.

Stir in a psychopath littering the city with body parts. Mix with equal parts humor and suspense, and enjoy Bloody Mary–the second novel in the funny, frightening world of Lieutenant Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels.

Join Jack as she struggles to repair her train wreck of a personal life while tracking down and convicting one of the scariest serial killers in recent memory–a killer for whom getting caught is only the beginning…

by Emma Calin

4.5 stars – 80 reviews

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A sexy aristocrat. A wild-child inner city cop. A crime wave of passion. Feisty London street cop Shannon Aguerri walks a dangerous line between her methods and justice. After one-too-many maverick missions the bosses lose their nerve. When she’s moved out from the city she rapidly discovers there’s way more going on in the sleepy country village than meets the eye. The son of a local aristocrat arouses suspicion of drug crime activity… but his widower father arouses more animal instincts! As a loner Shannon has attracted men but nothing has stuck. When she meets Spencer, the hunky Earl of Bloxington, there is an immediate rapport between them. Already in the mix however, is an upper class rival who has long plotted her way into the Earl’s bed. The jealousy is an evil shade of green and the anger is a violent scarlet. Will she stoop to blackmail to thwart Shannon and Spencer’s romance?

by Beatrice Sand

4.5 stars – 54 reviews

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When 17-year-old Laurel Harper decides to go live with her estranged father and stepfamily, she’s unaware of the fact that her fate was already sealed the day she was born. She is now exactly where some higher power wants her to be. But it’s not until she meets the proud and mysterious Sam Laurens that she feels something strange is going on. Why does he keep interfering in her life? Then Laurel finds out about Sam’s ominous ancestry and a whole different fear arises. Fear of who Sam really is. Fear of her own feelings. And when she learns the dark truth about her own future, a sinister secret that will change everything as soon as she turns nineteen, she wants to run and hide, but soon realizes that there is no hiding from fate. Sam may be the only one who can help her escape her destiny, but then she has to start trusting him again, and time is of the essence because he has his own fate to deal with. Still, Sam is determined to stop Laurel from meeting her doom, even if that means he has to make a drastic move that will separate them for good.

by Marcus Lambert

3.4 stars – 15 reviews

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Christians, you have a new savior. Don’t worry. This one’s Jewish too.And his name is Ralph Pincus.Ralph joins forces with an evangelical sorcerer and a noble vampire in order to save the world. The reluctant trio must learn the truth before time runs out: Why does destiny’s invitation sound like the garbled death rattle of a child murderer? What is the secret shame of all good vampires? How can a viable online revenue stream for zombies be exploited? Why are all the sorrows of the world contained in the single tear of a gay unicorn?All those questions and more will be answered as a Jewish guy saves Christmas. Warning: This book contains sexually explicit content and graphic language. It is not intended to be read by anyone under the age of 18.

by Nadav Kremer

5.0 stars – 5 reviews

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‘It’s beyond me’ is the personal story of each and every one of us who has experienced a severe personal crisis in the middle of his life, and whose life immediately changes thereafter. The protagonist of this tale, a successful man in his mid-forties, has already gotten married, and built a home for his wife and their three children, founded and sold a high-tech company for over a million dollars, and then experienced a total breakdown within a short period of less than a year. Both of his parents die. His wife asks for a divorce and he must leave his home and look for another place to live. Furthermore, much of his money, that was invested in the Madoff funds on the assumption that they were rock solid, evaporate into thin air. Another high-tech company which he established with partners and in which he invested a significant portion of his capital, collapsed during the global financial crisis of 2009. As usually happens after a significant life crisis, our hero seeks to rebuild his life, through sincere and honest dealing with the questions of our existence. During his journey, he meets a wise old man, who approaches him as an emissary of the supernal spiritual levels of existence. For the first time in his life, our hero is exposed to an ancient truth that comes from the world of the Jewish Kabballah and esoteric knowledge millennia in the past- the book of Zohar. There, he receives clear answers.

by Michael Welch

4.6 stars – 48 reviews

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Next Christmas in Girouette is the first in a series of novels set in a ghost town on the eastern porch of the Montana Rocky Mountains. This book will appeal to people of all ages—nine to ninety-nine—who want to share a classic, heart-warming literary adventure at Christmastime.

Next Christmas in Girouette is the story of a brother and sister—Autry and Oxana Quinn—who find themselves stranded in a Girouette, a virtual ghost town, from Thanksgiving through Christmas when their father is taken seriously ill. Their grandfather, a Marine Captain long retired, plus an eccentric old café proprietress, a Blackfeet Indian horse trader who once served as the town’s mayor, a couple who published the local newspaper and an ancient deaf-mute trapper are the only remaining inhabitants of Girouette. These self-styled, “diehards” all seem to have one thing in common. Thanks to a mysterious event 60 years earlier, they still believe in Santa Claus.

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Sourdough Wars (The Rebecca Schwartz Series, Book 2)

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