Fiction You Might Enjoy
Discover a captivating list of must-read fiction books you might enjoy. Explore thrilling novels, timeless classics, and hidden gems for every book lover's taste.
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Palo Verde
by Martin Hollingshead
Author Martin Hollingshead's unique voice provides Palo Verde: The Wanted Poster with a fascinating narrative. While the perpetrators of the crimes are immediately apparent, revealing their motivation is similar to peeling the layers of an onion. Each new revelation provides an intriguing look into the black heart of a killer and his boss, even as their ineptitude makes for startling humor. Marshal Pappy is amazingly adept at avoiding bullets and pursuit. Indeed, his marvelous character will have readers eager for other books in this early 1900 series. Hollingshead's attention to detail, including the use of new scientific methods to convict criminals, is absolutely fascinating. With this skillful author's pen, the Old West comes to life with the voice and background to make it vividly real. Cindy Penn, Senior Editor, WordWeaving
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AzĂșcar!
by Alan Cambeira
AZUCAR! The Story of Sugar is a fictional novel that offers a gripping testimony to the unmasked brutality and decay of daily life on a contemporary Caribbean sugarcane plantation, Esperanza Dulce. Azucar, the intelligent and beautiful young girl, is the central character, but the omnipresent protagonist is her namesake, "azucar" -- sugar itself. Azucar?s story is a complex and hauntingly atmospheric tale of sustained intrigue, murder, revenge, forbidden love, and an unnerving journey into the mystical spirit world of Caribbean ritual. Even after Azucar?s fiercely determined grandmother arranges for her to emigrate to Canada -- with a most unlikely couple-- where she is dramatically transformed, she is still not completely free from the hypnotic pull of the distant Caribbean plantation. Azucar meets and falls in love with Lucien, whose own mysterious history shockingly brings them both back to Esperanza Dulce to confront the terrifying ghosts of an unknowingly shared past.
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Exposure Behind Closed Doors
by Victoria Taylor Murray
EXPOSURE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS is centered around one earth-shattering week in the life of New Orleans Police Lieutenant, Grieco Storm. A police detective whose passions and convictions run as deep and sizzling as the sultry city he is bound by duty and honor to protect. The discovery of arsenic found in the blood-systems of two International Super Models, Johna Bauer and Ursula Rhee; initially ruled accidental prescription drug overdoses by the city's shady coroner, is what initiated a secret branch of the Justice Department to get involved. Not only was the State of Louisiana suddenly faced with the very real possibility of a serial killer being on the loose in their Historical City, but it was suddenly faced with a potential scandal of such magnitude that it could rock New Orleans back several decades, politically, on its ear!
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Political Pressure
by Murphy & Sapir
One by one, America's most corrupt public servants are dying. It seems the Morals and Ethics Behavior Establishment is cleaning house so that their own candidate will win the Oval Office. Can Remo and Chiun stop the bad guys from getting whacked? Original.
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Deep Pockets
by Linda Barnes
Harvard professor Wilson Chaney's position in life is hanging by a thread; his marriage, his reputation, not to mention his tenure at Harvard are in the hands of a blackmailer, someone threatening to sell Chaney's secrets at very high prices. His enviable life could disappear into thin air should the blackmailer's evidence-proof of his affair with a young student-become public knowledge. So he hires Boston private investigator Carlotta Carlyle to track down the blackmailer and put a stop to the scheme. Can she do it? Of course, but should she? The professor doesn't inspire much loyalty-after all, he did commit adultery with one of his own students-but Carlotta agrees. Digging into the case, nosing around Harvard and the possible suspects from the rest of Dr. Chaney's life, she uncovers a suspicious death as part of the backstory to Dr. Chaney's situation. Suddenly Carlotta's sixth sense is telling her the case might be more complicated-and more dangerous-than it first seemed. Fresh from the success of The Big Dig, the masterful Linda Barnes delivers a bold and engaging novel infused with the deft touch and intricate suspense that have become her trademarks.
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Foul Matter
by Martha Grimes
Successful author Paul Giverney, harboring a secret ambition involving a reassignment of publishers and editors, sets in motion a hornets' nest of career moves that forces an upwardly mobile editor into a difficult position.
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Split Second
by David Baldacci
Eight years after leaving the Secret Service following the assassination of the presidential candidate he had been protecting, Sean King reluctantly joins with agent Michelle Maxwell to uncover the truth when another candidate is abducted.
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Blindside
by Catherine Coulter
In the wake of a series of kidnapping attempts, Savich, Sherlock, and FBI agent Miles Kettering--whose six-year-old son was one of the attempted victims--trace leads to a charismatic evangelist team.
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Murder List
by Julie Garwood
EVIL IS ON THE HUNT -- AND PROVES TO BE METHODICALLY ORGANIZED AND CHILLINGLY SUCCESSFUL IN THIS THRILLER FROM A MASTER OF THE GENRE.
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Top O' the Mournin'
by Maddy Hunter
An escort for an Iowa-based tour company, Emily Andrew leads a group of senior citizens on an odyssey through the beautiful countryside of Ireland, but their stay at the supposedly haunted Ballybantry Castle is soon turned upside down by all-too-real murder.
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The Forgotten Man
by Robert Crais
In this thrilling sequel to "The Last Detective," Crais returns with a stunning suspense novel that leads to the dark secrets of private investigator Elvis Cole's own life.
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Le Fin
by Victoria Taylor Murray
The Lambert Series (Thief Of Hearts, Forbidden and Friendly Enemies), is centered around one earth-shattering week in the life of Nouri St. Charles Sommers, a beautiful young woman that rushed into marriage with a mysterious billionaire...a man she knew nothing about. Two short years later, Nourias fairytale marriage suddenly turns into a nightmare changing her life forever a].Falling in love a] out of love a] in love againa]a fairytale marriage turned nightmarea]implicated and then cleared in two gruesome murdersa]surviving a death threat after being forced into hiding from a stalkera]Nourias one week from hell continues. Now six weeks later, Nourias life continues to spin out of control, drawing the reader deeper and deeper into the turmoil of The Lambert Series with the final book to the series, Le Fin. Nourias billionaire husband, Ethan Sommers, has been shot and killed. Her former lover, high-powered attorney Clint Chamberlain, is feared dead after his car plummets off a bridge in Paris during a rain storm, and if those things arenat bad enough for her to deal with, Nouri suddenly discovers that the man she has finally chosen over both Clint Chamberlain and Charles Mason, homicide detective Gabe Baldwin, has returned to Boston to wed his former fiancA(c)e after an argument Nouri and Gabe had while they were still in France.
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Trunk Music
by Michael Connelly
Fifth Harry Bosch novel. Movie producer Tony Aliso pops up dead in the trunk of his car.
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The Final Detail
by Harlan Coben
When Myron Bolitar's best friend and partner is arrested for the murder of a clienta fallen baseball star attempting a comebackMyron and his sidekick Win plunge into their most difficult and bizarre case yet. By the author of the Edgar and Shamus Awardwinning Fade Away. Reprint.
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Dealing in Murder
by Elaine Flinn
Elizabeth Porter was a top-of-the-lineManhattan antiques dealer until her ex-husband and his lover's flagrantly criminal scam left her reputation in tatters. Now, using a new name, Molly Doyle, she's starting over a continent away in a rundown antiques shop in cozy Carmel, California. Molly is determined to make the best of it. But the early antiques bird sometimes gets more than the worm, and one prompt arrival places her at a murder site with a corpse in her arms. After she turns up at a second seemingly unrelated death, the abrasive new police chief considers Molly the prime suspect. Now the only way to clear her name is for Molly to find her own path to a killer, which will leave her either exonerated ... or dead.
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Beautiful Ghosts
by Eliot Pattison
Having lived a year in exile since his release from a work camp, former Beijing inspector Shan Tao Yun is entreated by the officials who exiled him to help with a murder investigation involving missing art, his former gulag, and his son.
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A Pale Horse
by Charles Todd
Rutledge must investigate the puzzling murders of at least one man, and the cases seem to be connected with World War I.
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The Venetian Mask
by Rosalind Laker
Enduring friendships and long-held vendettas come alive against the splendor and decadence of eighteenth-century Venice. In 1775 Venice--known to outsiders as âthe brothel of Europeâ--the tradition of mask-wearing has allowed adultery and debauchery to flourish. But Marietta and Elena, two friends at the Ospedale della PietĂ , a world-famous orphanage and music school for girls, know little of that milieu--until they come of age. Elena is forced to wed the head of the Celano clan, a jealous, brutal man, while Marietta marries Domenico Torrisi, whose family vendetta with the Celanos is centuries old. Tradition dictates that the friends should never speak again, but their bond is too strong to break. As the French Revolution unsettles all of Europe, Elenaâs husband frames Domenico and he becomes a political prisoner. Marietta and Elena plot to save him, and the women discover that Venetian masks have noble purposes, too--but will their efforts put their own lives at risk? Embodying the glitter and the treachery of the city it portrays, The Venetian Mask will keep you turning pages long into the night.
