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Nightfall

Stephen Leather

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The Lunatic Cafe

Laurell K. Hamilton · 362 pages

You don't fall in love with a werewolf. It interferes with your work. Especially when you're a preternatural expert, like me. My name is Anita Blake. My business brings me up close and personal with all shapes and sizes of monsters. And not all of them want to kill me.

Bargains and DealsPrivate InvestigatorThrillerFemale Lead
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If It Bleeds

Stephen King · 448 pages

A collection of four uniquely wonderful long stories, including a stand-alone sequel to the No. 1 bestseller THE OUTSIDER. News people have a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads'. And a bomb at Albert Macready Middle School is guaranteed to lead any bulletin. Holly Gibney of the Finders Keepers detective agency is working on the case of a missing dog - and on her own need to be more assertive -

Bargains and DealsPrivate InvestigatorFemale LeadParanormal
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For a Few Demons More

Kim Harrison · 464 pages

Rachel Morgan is a witch/bounty hunter based in the Hollows, the section of Cincinnati where supernatural beings live. She here must protect an artifact from all sorts of creatures while proving a werewolf friend innocent of serial murders.

Bargains and DealsPrivate InvestigatorFemale LeadMystery
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Cold Days

Jim Butcher · 577 pages

Following his death by a mystery assailant, Harry Dresden, Winter Knight to Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness, must gather his friends and allies, prevent the annihilation of countless innocents, and find a way out of his eternal subservience before his newfound powers claim the only thing he has left to call his own ... his soul.

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Dark Room

Andrea Kane · 368 pages

Seventeen years ago, Morgan Winter was traumatized by the discovery of her parents' brutally murdered bodies in a Brooklyn basement on Christmas Eve. Now shocking new evidence overturns the killer's conviction and Morgan is confronted with the horrifying realization that the real killer is still out there.Trapped in an emotional hell, she hires Pete "Monty" Montgomery, the former NYPD detective wh

Private InvestigatorThrillerWrongful ConvictionFemale Lead
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The Baby Bargain

Jennifer Apodaca · 200 pages

Bargains and DealsThrillerFemale LeadSeries
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Heller

J.D. Nixon

Private InvestigatorThrillerFemale LeadMystery
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Phantasma

Kaylie Smith · 400 pages

**Welcome to Phantasma. There are only two rules to the game: Stay alive. And don’t fall in love.** When Ophelia’s sister disappears, there is only one way to save her. Ophelia must enter Phantasma, a deadly contest inside a haunted mansion, and claim its prize—a single wish. Phantasma is a maze of twisting corridors and lavish ballrooms, of demons and temptations. Ophelia will face nine cha

Bargains and DealsThrillerFemale Lead
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Weirdo

Cathi Unsworth · 288 pages

An atmospheric thriller about a teenage girl convicted of murder in a 1980s seaside town and the private investigator who reopens the case to discover that she may not have acted alone.

Private InvestigatorThrillerWrongful ConvictionFemale Lead
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Kingdom of the Wicked

Kerri Maniscalco · 448 pages

Bargains and DealsFemale LeadMysteryParanormal
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The Goddess Test

Aimee Carter · 298 pages

Eden, Michigan, high school student Kate Winters strikes a bargain with Henry, Greek god of the underworld, if he'll cure her dying mother of cancer. The bargain she strikes with him is a grim one, but the full enormity of what she has undertaken--"live forever or die trying"--is not revealed until it's too late to recant.

Bargains and DealsFemale LeadParanormalMystery
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And She Was

Alison Gaylin · 384 pages

From an Edgar Award nominee ("Hide Your Eyes") comes the haunting story of a female missing persons investigator whose hunt for a local woman, whereabouts unknown, connects her to a long-lost child and her own dark past.

Private InvestigatorThrillerFemale LeadSeries Starter
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Scent of Darkness

Christina Dodd · 396 pages

Scent of Darkness (Darkness Chosen #1) A thousand years ago, a brutal warrior roamed the Russian steppes and struck a sinister bargain. In return for the ability to change at will info a coldhearted predator, Konstantine promised his soul—and the soul of his descendents—to the devil. Then one day a dangerous prophecy reveals the truth: One family has been chosen to battle the darkness—or fa

Bargains and DealsFemale LeadSeries StarterParanormal
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Truth or Dare

Jayne Ann Krentz · 368 pages

Interior designer Zoe Luce has found peace and contentment in Whispering Springs, Arizona. She's settling into newlywed life with private investigator Ethan Truax. Few know of her ability to sense the dark secrets hidden within the walls of a house, and she wants to keep it that way--even from Ethan. And the threat that brought Zoe and Ethan together is finally over, or so Zoe believes. Because so

Private InvestigatorThrillerFemale LeadMystery
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Malevolent

Jana Deleon · 356 pages

Emma Frederick bolts upright in bed, pulse racing. It must be a bad dream. Except it’s not. Crrrrrreeeeeeeeaaaaaaakkkkkkk. The sound of the loose step sends her body into overdrive, and she rushes for the secret room behind the wall. The screech of old hinges echoes through the house as he enters her bedroom. He starts whistling. Three blind mice. Three blind mice. She slaps a ha

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The Rose Bargain

Sasha Peyton Smith · 400 pages

Vying for the hand of one brother. Falling in love with the other. A new Victorian-inspired romantasy, perfect for fans of Bridgerton, The Selection, and The Cruel Prince. London, 1848—For four hundred years, England has been under the control of an immortal fae queen who tricked her way onto the throne. To maintain an illusion of benevolence, Queen Mor grants each of her subjects one oppor

Bargains and DealsFemale LeadSeries StarterSeries
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Her Last Day

T.R. Ragan · 305 pages

Ten years ago, PI Jessie Cole and reporter Ben Morrison each suffered a tragedy that changed their lives--and now these two strangers are about to share a nightmare. For Jessie, who makes her living finding missing persons, no case has consumed her more than the disappearance of her younger sister, Sophie. But left alone to raise Sophie's daughter, she realizes that solving the case has become an

Private InvestigatorThrillerFemale LeadMystery
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All Eyes on Me

Linsey Lanier · 196 pages

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No One Left to Tell

Karen Rose · 548 pages

"A car crashes in front of rookie PI Paige Holden's home. And suddenly, she finds one of her pro bono clients dying in her arms-from a gunshot wound. With her last breath, the woman whispers cryptic words into her ear and hands her a blood-smeared flash drive. Five years ago, State's Attorney Grayson Smith put a murderer behind bars. But when Paige Holden shares the flash drive with him, its conte

Private InvestigatorThrillerWrongful ConvictionFemale Lead
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The Lincoln Lawyer

Michael Connelly · 464 pages

Private InvestigatorThrillerWrongful ConvictionMystery
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Whiplash

Catherine Coulter

When Yale professor Dr. Edward Kender's father undergoes chemotherapy for colon cancer and the supply of the critical drug Culovort suddenly runs short, Kender hires P.I. Erin Pulaski to prove that something more sinister is going on at Schiffer Hartwin Pharmaceutical. On the same night Erin finds proof of malfeasance, the pharmaceutical company's "Mr. Fix-It" is murdered behind the drug company's

Private InvestigatorThrillerFemale LeadMystery
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Smoke

Lisa Miscione, Lisa Unger · 374 pages

When her former writing student, reporter Lily Samuels, vanishes while looking into her brother's supposed suicide, crime writer Lydia Strong and her husband, private detective Jeff Mark, launch an investigation into Lily's disappearance.

Private InvestigatorThrillerFemale LeadMystery
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Mercy Street

Mariah Stewart · 339 pages

Private InvestigatorThrillerFemale LeadSeries Starter

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