Romantic Suspense Author Spotlight

Romance and Suspense --- what could be better? Combining passion and peril, our featured Romantic Suspense authors create captivating characters and weave tantalizing tales that will tempt you, thrill you and keep you up, turning pages, long into the night.

Beverly Barton, author of Cold Hearted

A Black Widow is killing the men in her life and walking away with the cash. As an investigator closes in on her, they find themselves in a cat and mouse game where anyone may be the next victim --- even him.

Julia Spencer-Fleming, author of I Shall Not Want

People die. Marriages fail. In the small Adirondack town of Millers Kill, New York, however, life doesn’t stop for heartbreak.

Mariah Stewart, author of Mercy Street

On a balmy spring evening, four high school seniors --- three boys and a girl --- enter a park in the small Pennsylvania city of Conroy. The next morning, two of the boys are found shot to death, and the girl and the third boy are gone.

Karen Robards, author of Guilty

In the newest novel from New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards, a feisty female attorney's past comes back to haunt her.

Heather Graham, author of The Death Dealer

Genevieve O'Brien knows all about nightmares. She survived for two months as the prisoner of a deranged killer. Now a new menace is stalking the streets of New York.

Joan Johnston, author of A Stranger’s Game

From New York Times bestselling author Joan Johnston comes a new Bitter Creek novel that mixes Texas high society intrigue and Texas Ranger honor with a serial killer, wrongful imprisonment, and a woman who counts no cost too high to see a killer brought to justice.

Beverly Barton, author of The Murder Game

New Game
The game is simple—he is the Hunter. They are the Prey. He gives them a chance to escape. To run. To hide. To outsmart him. But eventually, he catches them. And that’s when the game gets really terrifying…

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September's Books on Screen roundup includes the season premieres of Apple TV+'s "The Morning Show" and "Slow Horses," along with AMC's "The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon"; the season finales of "Dexter: Resurrection" on Paramount+ with Showtime and "The Terminal List: Dark Wolf" on Prime Video; the conclusion of Prime Video's "The Summer I Turned Pretty"; the series premieres of "The Dead Girls" on Netflix and "The Girlfriend" on Prime Video; the continuation of STARZ's "Outlander: Blood of My Blood" and USA Network's "The Rainmaker"; the films The Long Walk, The Man in My Basement and One Battle After Another; and the DVD/Blu-ray releases of Superman, The Life of Chuck and Clown in a Cornfield.

Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo

Everyone Is Lying to You by Jo Piazza

A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children by Haley Cohen Gilliland

Full Bloom by Francesca Serritella

The Harvey Girls by Juliette Fay

The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce

In Berlin by Eric Silberstein

Kiss Her Goodbye by Lisa Gardner

The Librarians of Lisbon: A WWII Story of Love and Espionage by Suzanne Nelson

The Lost Baker of Vienna by Sharon Kurtzman

My Other Heart by Emma Nanami Strenner

People Like Us by Jason Mott

The Satisfaction Café by Kathy Wang

That Last Carolina Summer by Karen White

Typewriter Beach by Meg Waite Clayton

Wayward Girls by Susan Wiggs

You Belong Here by Megan Miranda

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