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The Rescue

Nicholas Sparks · 446 pages

One of America's bestselling authors returns with a tale about the greatest commitment of all: loving someone forever. When a near-fatal car crash brings Taylor McAden together with Denise Holden, a new resident of Edenton, North Carolina, he must look into his past to see if it's not too late to take a chance on the future.

Single FatherWidowed ProtagonistLaw EnforcementMultiple POV
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Jack & Jill

James Patterson · 452 pages

In the middle of the night, a controversial U.S. senator is found murdered in bed in his Georgetown pied-a-terre. The police turn up only one clue: a mysterious rhyme signed "Jack and Jill" promising that this is just the beginning. Jack and Jill are out to get the rich and famous, and they will stop at nothing until their fiendish plan is carried out.Meanwhile, Washington, D. C., homicide detecti

Single FatherWidowed ProtagonistLaw EnforcementTense and Suspenseful
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The Quiet Game

Greg Iles · 564 pages

Widower Penn Cage returns to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, where, finding that his father is being blackmailed, he reopens a notorious murder case that involves powerfully dangerous town forces, the FBI, and his own past.

Single FatherWidowed ProtagonistCourtroom DramaTense and Suspenseful
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Company Man

Joseph Finder · 578 pages

Despised after a massive layoff at his company, corporate CEO Nick Conover protects his two children from local hostilities but finds things spinning out of control when a stalker threatens his family and Nick is blamed for a murder.

Single FatherWidowed ProtagonistLaw EnforcementTense and Suspenseful
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To Sir Phillip, With Love

Julia Quinn · 416 pages

My dear Miss Bridgerton, We have been corresponding now for quite some time, and although we have never formally met, I feel as if I know you. Forgive me if I am too bold, but I am writing to invite you to visit me. It is my hope that we might decide that we will suit, and you will consent to be my wife. -- Sir Phillip Crane Sir Phillip knew that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinster, and s

Single FatherWidowed ProtagonistMultiple POVGrief Over a Spouse
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Run for Your Life

James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge · 400 pages

A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is taking on New York City , killing the powerful and the arrogant. His message is clear: remember your manners or suffer the consequences! For some, it seems that the rich are finally getting what they deserve. For New York 's elite, it is a call to terror. Only one man can tackle such a high-profile case: Detective Mike Bennett. The pressure i

Single FatherWidowed ProtagonistLaw EnforcementTense and Suspenseful
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No Second Chance

Harlan Coben · 400 pages

When the first bullet hit my chest, I thought of my daughter.' Dr Marc Seidman is living in a classic American suburb in New Jersey with his new wife, Monica, and their baby daughter, Tara, when the shocking attack occurs. Marc is left barely clinging to life. When he wakes up at the hospital, he learns that Monica is dead - and that their daughter Tara is missing from her crib. For two weeks ther

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Coming Home

Mariah Stewart · 376 pages

After years of seclusion, widower and former FBI agent Grady Shields returns to his hometown for his sister's wedding and gets a second chance at love when he meets Vanessa Keaton, a boutique owner who is on the run from her past.

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The Accident

Linwood Barclay · 469 pages

It is the new normal at the Garber household in Connecticut. Glen, a contractor, has seen his business shaken by the housing crisis, and now his wife, Sheila, is taking a business course at night to increase her chances of landing a good-paying job. But she should have been home by now. Waiting for Sheila's return, with their eight-year-old daughter sleeping soundly, Glen soon finds his worst fear

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Love & Loyalty

Tere Michaels · 201 pages

Detective James “Jim” Shea is a Seattle homicide detective who has never taken his work home with him – until now. A case has gotten under his skin and though it’s “over," it isn’t for Jim. The emotional toll has left him vulnerable and tied to the victim’s dying father. Meanwhile, Hollywood comes calling for a hot story, and screenwriter Griffin Drake sees the tragic case as his ticket to more

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The Silent Corner

Dean Koontz · 576 pages

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happ

Widowed ProtagonistLaw EnforcementTense and SuspensefulGrief Over a Spouse
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The Perk

Mark Gimenez · 448 pages

City lawyer Beck Hardin hasn't been back to the small town in Texas where he grew up for more than twenty years. He has history there. Bad memories. But when his wife dies, Beck decides to return to Fredericksburg with his two young children. Beck learns of a unsolved case that has haunted Fredericksburg for the past five years and although Beck vowed to leave the law behind him, he can't resist t

Widowed ProtagonistSingle FatherTense and SuspensefulThriller
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Sleepwalker

Karen Robards · 384 pages

While house-sitting for her Uncle Nicco, policewoman Micayla Lange catches Jason Davis in the act of stealing money from her uncle's locked safe. When they find incriminating photos that implicate Nicco in the murder of a city councilman, Mick and Jason hurtle into a race for their lives.

Law EnforcementTense and SuspensefulThrillerMultiple POV
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The Good Widow

Liz Fenton, Lisa Steinke · 290 pages

Elementary school teacher Jacqueline Jacks Morales's marriage was far from perfect, but even in its ups and downs it was predictable. Familiar. Or at least she thought it was, until two police officers showed up at her door with devastating news. Her husband of eight years, the one who should have been on a business trip to Kansas, had suffered a fatal car accident in Hawaii. And he wasn't alone.

Widowed ProtagonistTense and SuspensefulMultiple POVThriller
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Minutes to Kill

Melinda Leigh · 324 pages

Law EnforcementTense and SuspensefulThrillerMultiple POV
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Targeted

Kendra Elliot · 350 pages

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A Time to Kill

John Grisham · 515 pages

Before The Firm and The Pelican Brief made him a superstar, John Grisham wrote this riveting story of retribution and justice. In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the savage depths of racial violence as he delivers a compelling tale of uncertain justice in the small southern town of Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by tw

Single FatherLaw EnforcementCourtroom DramaTense and Suspenseful
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Deefur Dog

R.J. Scott · 114 pages

Single dad, Cameron, has tried to juggle his business with childcare for his two-year-old daughter, since losing his husband in an accident. Nannies last a day. Some don’t even make it through the front door, particularly when they meet Deefur, the Great Dane who guards Cam’s home with his huge paws and a bark deeper than thunder. Deefur is looking after his tiny pack, and he takes his job very

Single FatherWidowed ProtagonistGrief Over a SpouseRomance
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The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin · 279 pages

A.J. Fikry's life is not what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his bookstore is failing, and his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. He is isolating himself from all the people of Alice Island and from Amelia, the Knightley Press sales rep who refuses to be deterred by A.J.'s bad attitude. And then a mysterious package appears at the bookstore that gives A.J

Single FatherWidowed ProtagonistGrief Over a SpouseMale Lead
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Public Displays of Affection

Susan Donovan · 340 pages

Widowed ProtagonistLaw EnforcementTense and SuspensefulRomance
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The Widow

Fiona Barton · 401 pages

"Following the twists and turns of an unimaginable crime, The Widow is an electrifying debut thriller that will take you into the dark spaces that exist between a husband and a wife. When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enabled her and her husband to carry on when more bad things began to happen. . . But that woman's husband died last week. A

Widowed ProtagonistTense and SuspensefulLaw EnforcementMultiple POV
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Scream for Me

Karen Rose · 448 pages

For her exciting debut in hardcover, New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose delivers a heart-stopping suspense novel that picks up where DIE FOR ME left off, with a detective determined to track down a brutal murderer.Special Agent Daniel Vartanian has sworn to find the perpetrator of multiple killings that mimic a 13-year-old murder linked to a collection of photographs that belonged to his

Law EnforcementTense and SuspensefulMultiple POVThriller
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The Whisper Man

Alex North · 384 pages

Single FatherTense and SuspensefulMultiple POVThriller
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Stieg Larsson · 602 pages

> Lisbeth Salander—the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels—lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she’ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have t

Law EnforcementCourtroom DramaTense and SuspensefulMultiple POV

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