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Stay with Me

S.E. Harmon · 290 pages

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Model Citizen

Lissa Kasey · 258 pages

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Private Eye

S.E. Culpepper · 288 pages

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Bloodline

Jordan L. Hawk

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An Unsuitable Heir

K.J. Charles · 211 pages

**A private detective finds passion, danger, and the love of a lifetime when he hunts down a lost earl in Victorian London.** On the trail of an aristocrat’s secret son, enquiry agent Mark Braglewicz finds his quarry in a music hall, performing as a trapeze artist with his twin sister. Graceful, beautiful, elusive, and strong, Pen Starling is like nobody Mark’s ever met—and everything he’s ever

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Bloodlines

Andrea Speed · 222 pages

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Pale as a Ghost

Stephen Osborne · 190 pages

Private detective Duncan Andrews' best friend Gina is a witch, his dog is a zombie, and his dead boyfriend Robbie is a ghost. His connection to the supernatural helps him solve cases: Janice Sanderson, richest woman in Indianapolis, wants him to find her stripper daughter, Brenda; another client is having some trouble with a specter haunting her family home. And Duncan has decided to add dating i

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On the Other Hand, Death

Richard Stevenson · 216 pages

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Witch Wolf

Winter Pennington · 235 pages

Preternatural Private Investigator and Paranormal Huntress Kassandra Lyall is used to working alone. Whenever there's a murder or a mystery to solve that involves the preternatural; she's the witch they call. When she's called in to help the local cops work on a mysterious murder case, she finds herself needing all the help she can get. A bloodthirsty werewolf is loose in the city and on a killing

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Private Dicks

Katie Allen · 202 pages

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Deaths of Jocasta

J.M. Redmann · 338 pages

New Orleans private detective Micky Knight has been hired to provide security for an exclusive party on the bucolic side of Lake Ponchartrain--the ideal job. But murder crashes this perfect party when the body of a young woman is found in the surrounding woods. Back in the city, Micky's former lover, Dr. Cordelia James discovers another body at her clinic.

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A Kiss of Shadows

Laurell K. Hamilton · 468 pages

"All it would take was my true name being mentioned after dark, and it would float back to my aunt. She was the Queen of Air and Darkness, and that meant that anything said in the dark was hers to hear, eventually. The fact that spotting the missing Elven American Princess had become more popular than spotting Elvis helped. Her magic was always chasing blind leads. Princess Meredith skiing in Utah

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Amuse Bouche

Anthony Bidulka · 270 pages

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First Grave on the Right

Darynda Jones · 328 pages

Meet Charley Davidson -- PI and grim reaper extraordinaire... Charley sees dead people. That's right, she sees dead people. And it's her job to convince them to 'go into the light.' But when these very dead people have died under less than ideal circumstances (i.e. murder), sometimes they want Charley to bring the bad guys to justice. Complicating matters are the intensely hot dreams she's been

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Wood

Jordan Castillo Price

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The Last Place You Look

Kristen Lepionka · 336 pages

"Nobody knows what happened to Sarah Cook. The beautiful blonde teenager disappeared fifteen years ago, the same night her parents were brutally murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend Brad Stockton--black and from the wrong side of the tracks--was convicted of the murders and is now on death row. Though he's maintained his innocence all along, the clock is running out. His execution i

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Everything You Have Is Mine

Sandra Scoppettone · 307 pages

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Death by Silver

Melissa Scott, Amy Griswold · 272 pages

Calling on his old school friend Julian Lynes--private detective and another victim of the younger Nevett--Ned races to solve the murder, clear the stain on his professional reputation, and lay to rest the ghosts of his past. Assisted by Ned's able secretary Miss Frost, who has unexpected metaphysical skills of her own, Ned and Julian explore London's criminal underworld and sodomitical demimonde,

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Fadeout

Joseph Hansen · 187 pages

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L.A. Heat

P.A. Brown · 307 pages

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Part & Parcel

Abigail Roux · 268 pages

Nick O’Flaherty and Kelly Abbott had their happy ending in sight when a friend’s call for help almost ended with them losing it to the blade of a knife. Now, in the aftermath of near-disaster, both men are trying to heal and move on. Moving on together, though, is harder than either of them realized it would be. Kelly struggles with simply being a lover instead of the Doc, while Nick is mired in

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The Mystery Woman

Amanda Quick, Jayne Ann Krentz · 387 pages

Beatrice Lockwood, one of the intrepid ladies of Lantern Street, is in the middle of a case when her past comes back to haunt her. A former spy for the Crown has come out of retirement - after a disastrous case that left him scarred and needing a cane - to hunt down his sister's blackmailer. Beatrice is his chief suspect. But when he realizes that she is not the villain he seeks, they set out to f

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Close Enough To Kill

Beverly Barton · 447 pages

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Breaking Cover

Kaje Harper · 310 pages

"For homicide detective Mac, it's been a good year. Having Tony to go home to makes him a better cop and a better person. For Tony, it's been hard being in love with a man he can't touch in public. Evasions and outright lying to friends and family take a little of the shine off his relationship with Mac, but Tony is determined to make it work.As the Minneapolis Police Department moves into a hot,

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