Clean Mystery Suspense

Tragedy strikes on the opening night of the Fall Crafters Fair when a woman is killed in the parking lot of Daisy's Quilt Shop and the only material witness is one of Melinda Byer's boys. The investigation takes a more bizarre turn when detective Shane Black becomes convinced the killer was actually after Callie. This time it's a madman loose in the largest crowd of the year, and he's looking for something or someone. If they can't figure out what - or who - one of Deborah and Callie's close circle of friends may be next.

The tables have turned. Rather than Lainie Marks accepting a job to hunt down a crimina,l she finds herself being the one protected from a past evil that now wants her dead. New police officer Seth Wyatt finds the frightened woman running for her life after a traffic accident and teams up with her to stop a madman. Only, Seth isn't sure Lainie can hold it together when she comes face-to-face with the man who terrorized her in the past. Neither wants romance. Both want to focus on their careers. Can these two learn the valuable lesson that life isn't meant to be lived alone even with the ...

Family meant everything to Ayden Stratton. It always had even when he didn’t always allow it to show. Because of that, he understood the fury in Tobias Blaise’s eyes when they learned that his sister had been dragged out the backdoor of her restaurant despite every effort to stop her from being kidnapped. Fury didn’t begin to describe what he saw in his brother’s face. Cassidy Blaise might be Tobias’s sister, but she was Benjamin’s entire world. Tobias Blaise never expected to find any woman he wanted to spend his life with, let alone one who looked at him the way Ellis did, ...

Dr. Claire Thomson has one thing on her mind—motherhood. Well, that, and taking care of patients, planning an international gala, and managing all things royal as the newly minted queen of Amorley. She should be joyful. After all, she’s conquered grief, an evil stepmother, and self-doubt along her journey to the love of her life, Ethan. Although, not a royal event goes by without something going awry. Soon, they will welcome the blessing of a new baby into their lives. Everything in Claire’s life is perfect. That is, until danger from surprising sources threatens all that she holds ...

What if someone else’s past is coming back to haunt you? Things at the Silver Beach Cottage are not going exactly as Tessa had planned. Inheriting didn’t just mean an unexpected and sorely needed windfall; it also meant inheriting a complicated mystery surrounding the old cottage and David’s death. At first, it seemed as though the handsome construction worker and best friend to the deceased, Chris, was trying to distance himself as far away from the drama of the accident as possible. But is Chris more involved in David’s double life than he let on? Tessa feels an undeniable ...

One Wedding. Two Families. Unlimited Chaos. Is Las Vegas family friendly or Sin City? Regan Harris is about to find out. Regan wants life to return to normal after her experiences in Chicago. Unfortunately, Vegas has other ideas. Surrounded by her family and friends, and with Gray by her side, Regan manages to squeeze in wedding plans, salon mishaps, bombs, and one missing person case. Here and Gone is the second book in Kelly Wood’s Regan Harris Romantic Mystery Series. If you like Janet Evanovich, Fern Michaels, and Nora Roberts, then you’ll love a series that combines all of their ...

FBI Agent Laurel Evertson's investigation into a scam targeting the elderly takes an unexpected twist when key evidence leads her to Morton Wilmington, a felon she arrested five years ago on her first undercover assignment. That case has haunted her since, and though she's vowed to forget Wilmington - and what she sacrificed to put him away - he is now her best lead.

Her best friend missing, every cell in Dani Foster's body screams something is wrong. Crime scene cleaning is the perfect job for witness-relocated Dani Foster. But her orders to maintain a low profile and stay out of trouble mean little when her friend goes missing. Suspicions point to the handsome crime scene specialist, Jay Hunter, but he's also the only person willing to help Dani. Dare she trust him even when lies seem to surround him? Dani amuses Jay. But her latest moves have thrust her into serious danger. As he learns more about her circumstances, the stakes rise until her very ...

DCI Alison McCoist is back: newly promoted and even less popular. Chuck Gardner is the proud owner of both a confidential paper-shredding business and a serious betting habit. When Chuck finds some scandalous paperwork and McCoist investigates a rat-nibbled corpse under a flyover, they are both sucked into a deadly stramash of gangland wars and police corruption.

Susanna is keeping a secret. Can she risk telling the truth? Benedict, the Earl of Knightsbridge is something of a recluse. His mother is insistent that he find a wife, but marriage is the last thing on his mind. Threatening notes arrive at his home every few days, which is why he continues to avoid society. However, when his mother insists that they throw a house party to find him a bride, Benedict has no other choice but to do so. He soon discovers that all is not as terrible as he feared, especially when he finds himself quite taken with one particular young lady. Miss Susanna Millerton ...

Darby and Morgan haven’t spoken for two years, and their friend group has splintered. But when the body of their former science teacher is found in the marsh where they attended camp that summer, they realize they have more questions than answers...and even fewer memories. The group of reunited friends begins to suspect that a murderer is stalking the coastal highway 30A, and they must try to recover their memories as quickly as possible...before the history they can’t remember repeats itself.

Family meant everything to Ayden Stratton. It always had even when he didn’t always allow it to show. Because of that, he understood the fury in Tobias Blaise’s eyes when they learned that his sister had been dragged out the backdoor of her restaurant despite every effort to stop her from being kidnapped. Fury didn’t begin to describe what he saw in his brother’s face. Cassidy Blaise might be Tobias’s sister, but she was Benjamin’s entire world. Tobias Blaise never expected to find any woman he wanted to spend his life with, let alone one who looked at him the way Ellis did, ...

Anna Yang needs a change. After losing her best friend in Vegas, Anna needs to find a place to heal. So, she takes a new job on Resort Island. Resort Island, a small island off of sunny Singapore, recently converted into a luxurious resort island, is supposed to have everything Anna needs. Fun. Happy faces. Uplifting environment. Safe. But just as she is about to cross the lobby, something drops right in front of her. Something large. Something … It can’t be a body … can it? Perhaps Vegas isn’t the problem. Perhaps Anna is …

In this first book of a three-book series, author Vannetta Chapman brings a fresh twist to the popular Amish fiction genre. She blends the familiar components consumers love in Amish books - faith, community, simplicity, family - with an innovative who-done-it plot that keeps readers guessing right up to the last stitch in the quilt. When two women - one Amish, one English - each with different motives, join forces to organize a successful on-line quilt auction, neither expects nor wants a friendship.

Single mother Penny Potter has spent months in hiding to keep her toddler from his father, a rogue FBI agent turned fugitive. But he's determined to flee the country with the child, and she can't dodge him forever. When he corners Penny in the Montana wilderness and gets away with their son, she's forced to trust his brother, handsome FBI K-9 Agent Zeke Morrow. And Zeke must decide where his loyalty lies: with his sibling or the woman he wasn't supposed to fall for. As the bullets fly and family ties are tested, Penny and Zeke will fight to save the boy who brought them together.

Small-town romance with faith, humor, and more than a dash of danger! A quirky woman with secrets, a military hero helping her search for her birth parents, and a case of mistaken identity… Escape to Cowboy Crossing, where people care about each other, romances are sweet, and six cowboy brothers with Irish blood fall in love when they least expect it. Computer programmer Paisley didn’t mean to send the wrong photo to her pen pal in the military. But when he mistakes her gorgeous friend in the photo for her, Paisley doesn’t correct him. After being bullied, not taken seriously, and ...

Ethan All Ethan wanted to do was guard the treasure. He forgot to ask how far he should go to discourage unwanted visitors to their salvage operation. And he certainly didn’t know he’d fall in love in the middle of it. Robert U.S. Marshal Robert Bellamy and his friends—a fish and game warden and a weather service cartographer—found evidence of a sunken galleon off the gulf coast. Now that a long-term assignment for Robert has come to an end, he can start searching the coastline for the ship. Tessa After Tessa Mackey Debenheim’s fall from grace as CEO of the Williams Agency in ...

Layla Belanger enjoys her moderately successful career writing whimsical books for children, but she's eager to expand to more meaty, adult fare. Still, when approached by a strange, older man about writing his dark story of family turmoil, her intuition whispers "no." She seeks advice from her exciting new man, the charming father of a precocious little girl, as well as from her prosperous but emotionally distant parents. In so doing, she starts in motion the crumbling of a wall of secrets she never knew existed. When the truth is unearthed, Layla must decide: how much is she willing to ...

Where Is Justice? Who will listen to the innocent pleas of a high school teacher accused of an unspeakable crime? When a pillar of the community turns vigilante and begins killing drug dealers in his beloved hometown, who will defend him? Can a tech giant take the home of a defenseless widow just because they have the money to make it happen? Adam Dupree, the former corporate lawyer, becomes the only lawyer in the small town of White Owl, Washington who can defend the vulnerable. But public opinion is fickle and one wrong choice can easily turn a hero into an enemy. If you like JOHN GRISHAM...

She’ll stop at nothing to find her partner’s killer. . . After a terrorist attack claims the life of her best friend and partner, CIA Agent Erin Sandoval finds herself caught in a nightmare that won’t end. When the terrorist’s trail suddenly turns ice-cold, Erin’s team is deployed to Afghanistan to find the elusive threat the CIA believes is responsible for taking Blake’s life. From the start, the mission proves to be a setup. As the only survivors of a bomb attack, Erin and Agent Jax Murphy must keep one step ahead of the unknown threat stalking them if they stand a chance at ...