by Lolli Powell

4.9 stars – 11 reviews

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Police detective Jen Dillon has a lot on her plate. Between finding a brutal serial killer who is preying on her city’s women and raising a son on her own, she doesn’t have time for a man. But when FBI Special Agent Will Anderson joins the hunt for the killer, she starts to reconsider.

Will’s focus is on the killer. He believes him to be the son of a serial killer he caught years before. But when he sets eyes on Jen for the first time, he still wants the killer, but he also wants Jen.

The killer has goals, too. He wants to trap the man responsible for putting his father in prison. Jen Dillon is the perfect bait.

by Suzanne Jenkins

4.2 stars – 195 reviews

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by Neil Broadfoot

4.3 stars – 71 reviews

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Some secrets will plunge you into the abyss
When a woman plummets to her death from the top of Edinburgh’s Scott Monument, crime reporter Doug McGregor is tasked with getting the story behind the headlines. But Doug is already working on a story of his own – tracking down a notorious rapist who has just been outed in Fife and thought to be heading for his parents’ home in East Lothian.
Tapping his contact and sometime drinking pal DS Susie Drummond, Doug discovers that the woman who fell from the Scott Monument was the daughter of a high-profile MSP. Digging deeper, he and Susie are dragged into a story darker than they could ever have imagined – one that certain people would go to any lengths to keep hidden.

by Steena Holmes

4.3 stars – 106 reviews

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She has a killer of a secret she’s just dying to tell…

This page-turning, psychological suspense is a “twisted, diabolical web of deceit, manipulation, and murder that grips from the very first line,” according to Samantha M. Bailey, #1 bestselling author of Woman on the Edge.

Everyone has secrets—some deadlier than others.

She was on cloud nine after accepting an offer of a lifetime. A simpler life than what she was accustomed to. What could go wrong?

Starla Bishop learned to survive in the foster-care-to-jail system in New York City. There she learned the tools and skills she put to work later to con jewel thieves, drug traffickers, and mobsters out their fortunes. Now fresh out of her latest stint in jail, she accepts a too-good-to-refuse offer—a perfect life on a silver platter.

Starla has everything she ever wished for: a simpler life, a normal life, a new start with new job, a straight job—as receptionist for Soil and Springs Landscaping run by a famous botanist. And it got even better—a whirlwind romance and engagement to her boss’s charming ex-husband.

But everything comes with a price. When bodies start turning up in the gardens of her employer, Soil and Springs Landscaping, Starla and her fiancé are hauled into jail for questioning. The revelation of Starla’s secret, previous life and her special skills make her a prime suspect.

How much does Starla want the perfect life, and did she use her special skills to keep it,  or is this just her biggest con yet? The shocking truth is closer than anyone thinks?

Everyone has secrets, some worth killing for.

Read the latest novel by the NYT and USA TODAY Bestselling Author who also wrote THE PATIENT and THE MEMORY CHILD.

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by Laura A. Ellison

5.0 stars – 1 reviews

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Short stories and poems inspired by The Loveless, a ‘cursed’ silent film from 1918 few people have ever seen and an obscure novel based on the film published in 1933. The film and novel are threads or main subjects in each story, the characters driven by their own fascination for the gothic world of The Loveless and pandemics past and present, with sometimes tragic and unexpected outcomes.