Category: Suspense

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Brotherly Love (Stonewall Inn Mysteries) by Randye Lordon

Brotherly Love (Stonewall Inn Mysteries) | Randye Lordon | Private investigator Sydney Sloane spots a photo of an escaped murderer and recognizes her brother, who supposedly died in an explosion fifteen years

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End of the Empire (Stonewall Inn Editions) by Denise Ohio

End of the Empire (Stonewall Inn Editions) | Denise Ohio | Dante rides her Harley into Cascade, Oregon and meets Donnie, an aspiring artist, and Virgil, a theater owner, both in love with Jewel, a former strip

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Shattered Rhythms by Phyllis Knight

Shattered Rhythms | Phyllis Knight | Portland, Maine, private detective Lil Ritchie, a frustrated guitarist, loves the idea of guarding Andre Ledoux, a great jazzman, when his life is thr

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Sister’s Keeper by Randye Lordon

Sister’s Keeper | Randye Lordon | Looking into the death of Zoe Freeman, private investigator Sydney Sloane discovers that her old friend was leading a double life and was probably mur

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Wicked Games (Jane Lawless Mysteries) by Ellen Hart

Wicked Games (Jane Lawless Mysteries) | Ellen Hart | Minneapolis restaurant owner and lesbian amateur sleuth Jane Lawless becomes embroiled in a murder investigation, when her newest tenant, self-proclai

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Charlotte’s Friends by Sarah Kennedy

Charlotte’s Friends | Sarah Kennedy | From AudioFile Growing up in a seriously dysfunctional family has a devastating effect on Charlotte Pierce and the two friends she regards as her

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Charlotte’s Friends by Sarah Kennedy

Charlotte’s Friends | Sarah Kennedy | Charlotte has two close friends from her school days—Barty and Therese. Although the two girls don’t know it, they are the most important people in Ch

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Wicked Games by Ellen Hart

Wicked Games | Ellen Hart | Jane Lawless has worked hard to make her Minneapolis restaurant a success, and she’s finally reaping the financial rewards. Yet even the demands and e

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Union Street & Blow Your House Down by Pat Barker

Union Street & Blow Your House Down | Pat Barker | Union Street, Pat Barker’s first novel, concerns seven neighboring women near a factory in northeast England. Life for these women is trying: some of

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Blow Your House Down by Pat Barker

Blow Your House Down | Pat Barker | ‘Blow Your House Down is swift, spare and utterly absorbing – you’ll probably read it, as I did, in one tense sitting’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘A courageous an