My Favorite Bedtime Reads
Discover my favorite bedtime reads—a curated list of captivating fiction, mysteries, and thrillers. From Donald J. Sobol's boy detective classics to Vince Flynn's Executive Power and Sandra Brown's Two Alone, unwind with page-turners by Lisa Scottoline, Eoin Colfer, and more. Perfect for cozy nights and book lovers seeking their next great escape.
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Dead Ringer
by Lisa Scottoline
Philadelphia lawyer Bennie Rosato has her eye focused firmly on the bottom line, especially since she has three dedicated young associates and a very pregnant secretary on her payroll, and she takes a professional risk, charging into a class action lawsuit that could make -- or break -- her career. Never mind that she's never handled anything like this before. Having won nearly every civil and criminal case she's ever tried, the brilliant and unconventional Bennie has the guts, and she'll do what it takes to succeed. Even if that means wearing pantyhose and putting herself on a curse diet. Then her wallet goes missing. And Bennie's life goes crazy. It's not just that one of her associates has dyed her hair pink. Or that another's old-world Italian mother gives Bennie the evil eye. But someone posing as the outspoken, blue-eyed, blond attorney is wreaking havoc around town, apparently determined to destroy everything Bennie loves. Only one person can pull off this double deception -- Bennie's identical twin sister, Alice Connelly. But as far as Bennie knows, Alice left Philly long ago and never looked back. When events escalate into murder, the maverick lawyer realizes that the stakes are far greater than she feared. But Bennie Rosato refuses to be anyone's victim. To find the killer, she'll plunge head-first into a life-and-death investigation that will bring her face-to-face with evil darker yet more familiar than anything before. A riveting legal thriller set against the backdrop of a richly emotional family story, Dead Ringer is this author's most intriguing novel yet. According to USA Today, "Scottoline's writing style is sharp, intelligent, funny, and hip. She gives fans of legal thrillers a good, twisty plot, lively characters, and an all-around fun read." With this book, Scottoline delivers a tour de force that is not to be missed.
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The Kalahari Typing School for Men
by Alexander McCall Smith
Now that the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is firmly established, founder Precious Ramotswe faces new challenges at home and at work--from problems with her adopted son to a sexist rival who is opening a detective agency across town.
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Executive Power
by Vince Flynn
CIA operative Mitch Rapp investigates an attack on a team of Navy SEALs in the Philippines, searches for a possible State Department traitor, and fights to stop a Middle Eastern assassin out it ignite World War III.
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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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A Body to Die for
by Kate White
Bailey Weggins is in desperate need of a little R and R after solving the murder of her boss' nanny.
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A New Attitude
by Charlotte Hughes
When Marilee Abernathy's pastor husband leaves her for the town floozy, it's the talk of the town. With her life in shambles, Marilee becomes desperate before she realizes, with the help of neighbor Sam Brewer, that the only thing that will revive her is a new attitude. Now she's taking chances and taking charge, and Sam hopes she will turn some of that new attitude his way.
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The Lover
by Robin Schone
Hiring Michel to teach her about passion, thirty-six-year-old wealthy spinster Anne is unaware that her lover-for-hire is driven by vengeance and tragedy to find a woman who he can use to work out his murderous rage. Original.
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Two Alone
by Sandra Brown
They didn't trust each other. But one thing was certain, after the plane crash that stranded Rusty and Cooper in the remote reaches of the north, they would have to depend on each other. Because there were predators in the dense woods--both animal and human--and the odds were against them. They could handle that. It was needing each other that was hard.
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House of Dreams
by Brenda Joyce
Cassandra de Warenne feels an overwhelming attraction for Antonio de la Barca, her jet-setting sister's boyfriend, unaware of a lingering connection between their families based on an ancient tragedy.
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Colorado Shadows
by Tess Pendergrass
Book 1 of Trilogy. March can tame the wildest horses but can he tame the broken heart of Maggie? They must deal with the need to satisfy revenge before mending broken hearts.
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The Spy who Kissed Me
by Pauline Baird Jones
An irreverent heroine graces the pages of The Spy Who Kissed Me, a Five Star Romance by Pauline Baird Jones. Isabel Stanley is the black sheep of her Baptist family, but even she is surprised when a handsome CIA agent comes sliding through the sunroof of her sister's Mercedes one night after choir practice. A series of wacky adventures follows this unlikely opening gambit.
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Artemis Fowl The Eternity Code
by Eoin Colfer
Book Three-Now available in trade paperback Artemis Fowl is going straight-as soon as he pulls off the most brilliant criminal feat of his career . . . but his plan goes awry, leaving his loyal bodyguard, Butler, mortally injured. Artemis's only hope of saving his friend is to employ fairy magic; so once again he must contact his old rival, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police. It is going to take a miracle to save Butler, and Artemis's luck may have just run out. . . . "Readers will burn the midnight oil to the finish." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Boy detective
by Donald J. Sobol
Fifth-grader "Encyclopedia" Leroy Brown solves ten mysteries and, by putting the solutions at the back of the book, challenges the reader to do the same.