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Love Is in the Air
by Anji NolanWhen Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant Jim Cromwell and airline pilot Captain Sophie Berg are shot in a drive by shooting, their bond is instant and palpable. Jim is investigating a drug running operation in Maine known as The Albatross Alliance, so he assumes he was the target. Until he learns Sophie works for Granola Aviation, a charter airline carrying celebs and alleged drug kingpins about the world, and her latest contract is for Albatross Marine.The pair meet for dinner and though Jim is attracted to Sophie, he is suspicious. After she reveals her own concerns about Granola Aviation, its passengers, and cargo, Jim suspects she is being used. As their friendship morphs into romance, she provides the information to connect the pieces of the drug running puzzle together.But it's only when she is kidnapped by one of the drug smugglers that Jim realizes how important she has become in his life.Sensuality Level: Sensual
Love Is in the Air
by Anji NolanWhen Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant Jim Cromwell and airline pilot Captain Sophie Berg are shot in a drive by shooting, their bond is instant and palpable. Jim is investigating a drug running operation in Maine known as The Albatross Alliance, so he assumes he was the target. Until he learns Sophie works for Granola Aviation, a charter airline carrying celebs and alleged drug kingpins about the world, and her latest contract is for Albatross Marine.The pair meet for dinner and though Jim is attracted to Sophie, he is suspicious. After she reveals her own concerns about Granola Aviation, its passengers, and cargo, Jim suspects she is being used. As their friendship morphs into romance, she provides the information to connect the pieces of the drug running puzzle together.But it’s only when she is kidnapped by one of the drug smugglers that Jim realizes how important she has become in his life.Sensuality Level: Sensual
Love Is in the Air
by Anji NolanWhen Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant Jim Cromwell and airline pilot Captain Sophie Berg are shot in a drive by shooting, their bond is instant and palpable. Jim is investigating a drug running operation in Maine known as The Albatross Alliance, so he assumes he was the target. Until he learns Sophie works for Granola Aviation, a charter airline carrying celebs and alleged drug kingpins about the world, and her latest contract is for Albatross Marine.The pair meet for dinner and though Jim is attracted to Sophie, he is suspicious. After she reveals her own concerns about Granola Aviation, its passengers, and cargo, Jim suspects she is being used. As their friendship morphs into romance, she provides the information to connect the pieces of the drug running puzzle together.But it’s only when she is kidnapped by one of the drug smugglers that Jim realizes how important she has become in his life.Sensuality Level: Sensual
Love Is Murder (Bride Series)
by Sandra BrownPrepare for heart-racing suspense in this original collection by thirty of the hottest bestselling authors and new voices writing romance suspense today. Bodyguards, vigilantes, stalkers, serial killers, women (and men!) in jeopardy, cops, thieves, P.I.s, killers-these all-new stories will keep you thrilled and chilled late into the night.
Love is Murder
by Linda PalmerSoap opera writer Morgan Tyler's life begins to look like one of her scripts when her boss is found dead--and Morgan is left his fortune. Now a real-life killer is after her. And her time is running out--like sands through the hourglass.
Love Is Murder (Lucy Kincaid #2.5 Novella)
by Allison BrennanI NOW PRONOUNCE YOU ... DEAD. After a tough breakup with her boyfriend, Lucy Kincaid needs a different kind of break. So she heads west to join her brother, an ex-cop, for a long weekend of skiing in the mountains. At a picturesque lodge tucked high in the Sierra Nevada, Lucy finds just what she's looking for: a peaceful retreat undisturbed by Internet, television, and cell phone distractions. She also finds an unexpected group of newlyweds seeking their own idyllic getaway. But finding one of her fellow guests dead wasn't in the brochure. And neither was the overnight snowstorm that leaves the lodge cut off from the outside world. When Lucy's brother suspects the honeymooner's death was foul play, he's mysteriously stricken ill. Now, to keep him and herself alive, it's up to aspiring FBI agent Lucy Kincaid to figure out which of the lovebirds trapped in the lodge is really a bird of prey.BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Allison Brennan's upcoming novel Kiss Me, Kill Me as well as an exclusive excerpt from an FBI interview with Lucy Kincaid!
Love Is the Law
by Nick MamatasIn 1989, punk-rock girl "Golden" Dawn has crafted an outsider's life combining the philosophies of Communism and Aleister Crowley's black magic. One fateful day she finds the dead body of her mentor in both politics and magick shot in the head, seemingly a suicide. But Dawn knows there's more going on than the cops could ever hope to find. In setting out to find the murderer herself, she will encounter dark and twisted truths for which nothing could have prepared her.
Love Kills
by Edna Buchanan"Where the hell is Britt Montero?" So says Sgt. Craig Burch of Miami's Cold Case Squad at the end of the first chapter of Edna Buchanan's new novel, Love Kills. So have readers been wondering since reporter Britt Montero vanished after her lover, homicide cop Kendall McDonald, was killed three books ago in Buchanan's The Ice Maiden. When a bulldozer in the Everglades unearths the skull of an infamous kidnapper, the Cold Case Squad is brought in to investigate. Britt was the last person to see him alive, and the detectives have questions only she can answer. On a remote desert island where she has sought solace, Montero finds a camera on an isolated beach. The film inside yields photos of a happy young couple on their honeymoon. Soon after, Britt is shocked to learn the newlyweds were lost at sea. When only the groom is rescued, the connection between the reporter and the new widower astonishes her -- and Britt is even more astonished when she finds out the truth. Ultimately, her search for the bridegroom's secrets and the Cold Case Squad's search for the kidnapper's killer collide. Britt finds herself desperate and in danger, and only one person can help -- Cold Case Squad Lt. K. C. Riley, McDonald's childhood sweetheart. The two women must confront their differences in order to survive and to protect the life of someone they both care about deeply.
Love Kills
by Edna Buchanan"Where the hell is Britt Montero?" So says Sgt. Craig Burch of Miami's Cold Case Squad at the end of the first chapter of Edna Buchanan's new novel, Love Kills. So have readers been wondering since reporter Britt Montero vanished after her lover, homicide cop Kendall McDonald, was killed three books ago in Buchanan's The Ice Maiden. When a bulldozer in the Everglades unearths the skull of an infamous kidnapper, the Cold Case Squad is brought in to investigate. Britt was the last person to see him alive, and the detectives have questions only she can answer. On a remote desert island where she has sought solace, Montero finds a camera on an isolated beach. The film inside yields photos of a happy young couple on their honeymoon. Soon after, Britt is shocked to learn the newlyweds were lost at sea. When only the groom is rescued, the connection between the reporter and the new widower astonishes her -- and Britt is even more astonished when she finds out the truth. Ultimately, her search for the bridegroom's secrets and the Cold Case Squad's search for the kidnapper's killer collide. Britt finds herself desperate and in danger, and only one person can help -- Cold Case Squad Lt. K. C. Riley, McDonald's childhood sweetheart. The two women must confront their differences in order to survive and to protect the life of someone they both care about deeply.
Love Kills: A Novel
by Dianne EmleyHomicide police detective, single mother of a teenage daughter, and lover to her partner Jim Kissick, Nan Vining wishes that life was a little more serene, more like it is at Georgia Berryhill's Malibu Canyon compound--or like it's supposed to be there, anyway. But three bizarre deaths have brought Vining and Kissick through the exclusive gates of this healing ground for the well-heeled. First there's the double homicide of a celebrity private eye and his nude, drugged-out lover. Then there's the inexplicable drowning of a Pasadena socialite. Georgia Berryhill--charismatic self-help guru to the stars--is one link to both investigations. A second link is Vining's own mother, who was a friend to one of the victims and was being wooed by another. Now A-listers, wannabes, lost souls, and keepers of long-hidden secrets all converge at the Berryhill compound. Some search for love and happiness, while others come for murder. From the Paperback edition.
The Love Knot: The tale of one of history’s greatest love affairs
by Paul DohertyA powerful and passionate story of forbidden love set in Medieval England...Immersed in the colours and drama of medieval life, Paul Doherty's richly evocative novel, The Love Knot, combines fact and fiction to tell one of history's greatest but most secret love affairs. Perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory and Jean Plaidy. Spring, 1297. Recently widowed Joanna of Acre, loving daughter of Edward I, is pleased at her father's unexpected visit. But Edward has heard a rumour of an inappropriate friendship between Joanna, still officially in widow's weeds, and penniless commoner Ralph Monthermer. Edward, believing he has proof of a clandestine affair, immures Joanna in a nunnery and imprisons Ralph within Bristol Castle. Henry Trokelowe, Edward's clerk, stops him killing Ralph, who is allowed to live while the cold, almost passionless Henry investigates. Ralph and Joanna's only chance of survival now lies in Henry's hands, but how can a confirmed bachelor even begin to understand the all-consuming passion binding them?What readers are saying about Paul Doherty:'The sounds and smells of the period seem to waft from the pages of [Paul Doherty's] books''Fascinating''Five stars'
Love Lessons (Risky Lovers #2)
by Mallory RushA Misdiagnosis Leads to Love Lessons and Discovery of True LoveMobile, Alabama and various Caribbean islandsTwenty-seven-year-old children's librarian, Whitney Smith, has six-months to live—or so she thinks. Shunning treatment, she chooses to live out her bucket-list in the time she has left. Topping her list is losing her embarrassing virginity to a fabulous lover with whom she can have a mad, passionate (albeit temporary) affair on an exotic Caribbean island.Dr. Eric Townsend, a renowned and brilliant volcanologist with a taste for danger, is entranced with the self-assured and sensual Whitney, so much so that he's fallen deeply in love and wants a permanent relationship.Whitney returns to Mobile, feeling ill and preparing to die only to discover her disease is treatable, and her most recent illness is a temporary condition called pregnancy. Broke, jobless and having presented herself as a fraud to the man who loves her, Whitney reaches out to Eric to see if he can love the “real” her in the hope of a genuine and lasting happy-ever-after. But love has many lessons.Publisher's Note: This story is a re-write of a story titled Love Play, set in the 1990s. Refreshingly free of modern technology, the story concludes in the present with some delightful surprises and a connection to Love Trade, book one in this series.Risky Lovers SeriesLove TradeLove LessonsLove Game
Love Letters from Las Vegas (Drama Diaries: Standalone Grumpy Sunshine Romance #1)
by Kailin GowBooks, Hot Cover Models, and Murder? Romance author Lana Lin leaves all the steamy scenes in between her books' covers. In her real life, she's single and not anywhere near getting anything like her heroines in her steamy novels. When she attends the romance convention Love Letters from Las Vegas where other authors, readers, and male cover models convene once a year as one of the top romance authors, she didn't think she would end up in bed with one of the well-packaged male models, naked. And Dead. Not her. But him. And she had no recollection of anything that happened. Worse still is that the annoyingly cocky but sexy male model Devon Donovan, that she had hired to be at her booth, thinks she did it. Without any memory of the night before, Lana has to trace back the events that brought her to where she is, but she couldn't do it without Devon's help. But asking for Devon's help comes with some expectations of his own... **Love Letters from Las Vegas is an Adult Romance Comedy and Mystery with some steamy scenes suitable for age 18 and up! **
Love Letters of An Actress
by Elsie JanisThe fanciful, witty and amusing love scenes of and idealized actress of stage and screen at the turn of the twentieth century.“This little book is not in the least statistical, it is merely the legitimate off-spring of imagination and observation. Personally, the only man that ever told me he could not live without me was divorced by the lady he married two months afterwards, on the ground of cruelty. However, this is my idea of how a popular actress should be loved.”Elsie Janis (1889-1956), born Elsie Jane Bierbower to Jennie and John Bierbower in Columbus, Ohio, first entertained at the age of 2 ½ in various church activities at Dr. Washington Gladden’s First Congregational Church at the northwest corner of Broad and Third. Janis’s career in the performing arts was long and varied – from her childhood when she began doing imitations of celebrities in vaudeville, to her starring roles on the stages of New York, London, and Paris, to the battlefield where she entertained troops in France and England during World War I, to Hollywood where she acted, wrote for film, and supervised productions. From her teen years on, Janis wrote songs for herself and for others as well as a number of books, magazine articles, and poems. Janis’s mother Jennie was, until her death in 1930, Elsie’s constant companion and manager, and was known as one of show business’s most infamous stage mothers.
Love Letters to a Serial Killer: The highly original, hilarious and hotly anticipated debut of 2024
by Tasha Coryell'Fun, sassy, confident' Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'OK I AM OBSESSED WITH THIS!!' Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Completely original' Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Utter brilliance' Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Wickedly funny' Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Have not read anything like it' Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Phenomenal' Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Irresistible' Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Hannah's love life? Dying. Career? Dead. New pen pal? Deadly.Hannah Wilson can't text her ex again - it's too sad. She can't snap back at the new boss who took her promotion either - she'll be fired. But what she can do is write a series of furious letters to William Thompson, arrested for the murders of multiple women he got close to.You're a monster, I hope you know that.I want you to listen when I tell you that I'll never be able to go on a date again without thinking of you. Every moment I will wonder whether he wants to love me or murder me.Hannah's shocked when William writes back, each response more surprising than the last. And as communication tips from curiosity to obsession, Hannah has to wonder if William might be innocent, and whether she even wants him to be...Love Letters to a Serial Killer is a surprising, original and deeply entertaining debut about our fascination with monsters. Perfect for fans of You, Green Dot and How to Kill Your Family.Read what everyone is saying about Love Letters to a Serial Killer:'What a ride. Arch, dark, original and so witty, Love Letters to a serial killer is a remarkable and gripping debut' SARAH PINBOROUGH'You won't stop laughing at Hannah's observations on adulthood, true crime, and modern dating (and also will probably feel just a tiny bit dragged).'GLAMOUR'A fascinating tale of fixation, littered with savage one-liners. Superb debut!'MANDASUE HELLER'May be this summer's most relatable and entertaining read... Darkly comic, fast-paced, and thrilling, this is one book you'll be hard-pressed not to read in one sitting' BUSTLE'Utterly brilliant. I was glued to the very end!' JESSE Q. SUTANO'Un-putdownable' PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY'Compulsive, twisted and darkly funny' SALLY HEPWORTH'Witty, shocking, and wild, this is a must-have mystery.' LIBRARY JOURNAL
Love Letters to a Serial Killer
by Tasha CoryellAn aimless young woman starts writing to an accused serial killer while he awaits trial and then, once he&’s acquitted, decides to move in with him and take the investigation into her own hands in this dark and irresistibly compelling debut thriller.Recently ghosted and sick of watching her friends fade into the suburbs, thirty-something Hannah finds community in a true-crime forum that&’s on a mission to solve the murders of four women in Atlanta. After William, a handsome lawyer, is arrested for the killings, Hannah begins writing him letters. It&’s the perfect outlet for her pent-up frustration and rage. The exercise empowers her, and even feels healthy at first.Until William writes back.Hannah&’s interest in the case goes from curiosity to obsession, leaving space for nothing else as her life implodes around her. After she loses her job, she heads to Georgia to attend the trial and befriends other true-crime junkies like herself. When a fifth woman is discovered murdered, the jury has no choice but to find William not guilty, and Hannah is the first person he calls upon his release. The two of them quickly fall into a routine of domestic bliss.Well, as blissful as one can feel while secretly investigating their partner for serial murder…
Love, Lies, and Liquor (Agatha Raisin Mystery #17)
by M. C. BeatonAgatha's plans for a romantic holiday of reconciliation begin to go wrong when her ex-husband surprises her with a trip to a town that ends up being dreadful. When she finds herself charged with the murder of a rude hotel guest, she finds herself required to stay in that town till she can find out who committed the crime and why. Faced with a crime, bad food, and a hotel full of odd guests, she has her work cut out for her.
Love Lies Bleeding
by Susan Wittig AlbertThe newest in the nationally bestselling series--a "fast-paced and absorbing" tale (Midwest Book Review). Ex-lawyer and herb-shop proprietor China Bayles is investigating the mystery of retired Texas Ranger shot dead with his wife's gun...and at the same time trying to sort out some mysteries about her own relationship after she overhears a suspicious phone conversation...
Love Lies Bleeding (The Gervase Fen Mysteries)
by Edmund CrispinFrom a British mystery author known as &“the master of the whodunnit,&” an amateur detective delights in solving murders at an English boys&’ school. Prof. Gervase Fen of Oxford University is honored to award the prizes at the Speech Day ceremonies at Castrevenford High School. As it turns out, the headmaster&’s selection of the part-time sleuth as a presenter is most fortuitous indeed. For the night before the big event, two of the school&’s staff members are murdered . . . Of course, Fen is happy to do some investigating, if only to get more fodder for the crime novel he&’s writing. Between the kidnapping, the student romances, and the accidental discovery of a long-lost Shakespearian manuscript, the eccentric Oxford don certainly gets some food for thought. But that&’s all in a day&’s work for an amateur detective with a penchant for literary allusions and an uncanny knack for solving the unsolvable. Praise for the mysteries of Edmund Crispin &“A marvellous comic sense.&” —P. D. James, New York Times–bestselling author of the Inspector Adam Dalgliesh series &“Master of fast-paced, tongue-in-cheek mystery novels, a blend of John Dickson Carr, Michael Innes, M.R. James, and the Marx Brothers.&” —Anthony Boucher, author of the Fergus O&’Breen series &“An absolute must for devotees of cultivated crime fiction.&” —Kirkus Reviews &“One of the most literate mystery writers of the twentieth century.&” —The Boston Globe &“Beneath a formidable exterior he had unsuspected depths of frivolity.&” —Philip Larkin, poet and author of A Girl in Winter &“One of the last exponents of the classical English detective story.&” —The Times (London)
Love Lies Bleeding: A Novel
by Jess McConkeyIn the vein of Jennifer McMahon’s Promise Not to Tell and TheLovely Bones by Alice Sebold comes Love Lies Bleeding, a haunting story about the lengths to which people will go to keep their pasts buried. Jess McConkey (aka award-winning author Shirley Damsgaard) enthralls with her ingenious blending of family drama and gripping mystery. Suspenseful and absolutely chilling, Love Lies Bleeding grabs hold of the reader from page one, as a young woman whose golden life is shattered by unexpected violence is sent to a small, secluded lake town in Northern Minnesota to recover—and soon suspects the town’s eccentric residents are hiding more than one truly frightening secret.
Love Like Blood (Di Tom Thorne Ser. #14)
by Mark Billingham'Groundbreaking and gripping' Sunday TimesA BLOODY MESSAGEAs DI Nicola Tanner investigates what appears to be a series of organised killings, her partner Susan is brutally murdered, leaving the detective bereft, and vengeful.A POWERFUL ALLYTaken off the case, Tanner enlists the help of DI Tom Thorne to pursue a pair of ruthless killers and the broker handing out the deadly contracts.A CONSPIRACY OF SILENCEAs the killers target their latest victim, Thorne takes the biggest risk of his career and is drawn into a horrifying and disturbing world in which families will do anything to protect their honour.From number one bestseller Mark Billingham comes a masterful, intense crime novel that pits DI Tom Thorne against an evil beyond comprehension, yet shockingly real.________________'One of the great series of British crime fiction' The Times'Billingham is a world-class writer' Karin Slaughter
Love Like Blood (Tom Thorne Novels #14)
by Mark Billingham'Groundbreaking and gripping' Sunday TimesA BLOODY MESSAGEAs DI Nicola Tanner investigates what appears to be a series of organised killings, her partner Susan is brutally murdered, leaving the detective bereft, and vengeful.A POWERFUL ALLYTaken off the case, Tanner enlists the help of DI Tom Thorne to pursue a pair of ruthless killers and the broker handing out the deadly contracts.A CONSPIRACY OF SILENCEAs the killers target their latest victim, Thorne takes the biggest risk of his career and is drawn into a horrifying and disturbing world in which families will do anything to protect their honour.From number one bestseller Mark Billingham comes a masterful, intense crime novel that pits DI Tom Thorne against an evil beyond comprehension, yet shockingly real.________________'One of the great series of British crime fiction' The Times'Billingham is a world-class writer' Karin Slaughter
Love Like Blood (Tom Thorne Novels #14)
by Mark Billingham'Groundbreaking and gripping' Sunday TimesA BLOODY MESSAGEAs DI Nicola Tanner investigates what appears to be a series of organised killings, her partner Susan is brutally murdered, leaving the detective bereft, and vengeful.A POWERFUL ALLYTaken off the case, Tanner enlists the help of DI Tom Thorne to pursue a pair of ruthless killers and the broker handing out the deadly contracts.A CONSPIRACY OF SILENCEAs the killers target their latest victim, Thorne takes the biggest risk of his career and is drawn into a horrifying and disturbing world in which families will do anything to protect their honour.From number one bestseller Mark Billingham comes a masterful, intense crime novel that pits DI Tom Thorne against an evil beyond comprehension, yet shockingly real.'One of the great series of British crime fiction' The Times'Billingham is a world-class writer' Karin Slaughter________________The outstanding new Tom Thorne thriller, THEIR LITTLE SECRET, is available to pre-order now
Love Like Blood (The Tom Thorne Novels #14)
by Mark BillinghamIn this “chilling and moving” international bestseller, two of London’s toughest detectives investigate the savage world of honor killings (The Times, London). In Love Like Blood, DI Tom Thorne, “the next superstar detective,” teams up with perfectionist DI Nicola Tanner, the protagonist of Billingham’s acclaimed stand-alone thriller Die of Shame (Lee Child). When her domestic partner Susan is brutally murdered, Nicola Tanner is convinced that she was the intended target. The murderer’s motive is likely connected to her recent work on a string of cold case honor killings. Despite being placed on leave, Tanner insists on pursuing justice for Susan—and she turns to fellow DI Tom Thorne for help. Agreeing to take the case, Thorne quickly finds that working in such controversial territory among London’s Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh communities can be dangerous in more ways than one. But when a young Bangladeshi couple goes missing, Tanner and Thorne must put everything on the line to investigate a case that is anything but cold. “Brilliant.” —The Independent “Groundbreaking . . . a gripping, unsensational take on a type of crime that is happening more frequently than many of us realize.” —The Sunday Times
A Love Like Blood: A Novel
by Marcus SedgwickThe first novel for adults by hugely acclaimed YA writer Marcus Sedgwick: a gripping saga of love, revenge, and obsession--and vampires. In 1944, just days after the liberation of Paris, Charles Jackson sees something horrific: a man in a dark tunnel, apparently drinking the blood of a murdered woman. Terrified, he does nothing, telling himself afterward that worse tragedies happen during war. Seven years later he returns to the city--and sees the same man dining in the company of a fascinating, beautiful young woman. When they leave the restaurant, Charles decides to follow . . . A Love Like Blood is a dark, compelling thriller about how a man's life can change in a moment and about where the desire for truth--and revenge--can lead.