River Bones (Sara Mason Mysteries Book 1) by Mary Deal

A serial killer is on the loose in Sacramento River Delta.

When Sara Mason returns to her hometown to start a new life, she learns that a murderer is terrorizing its residents. Despite battling difficult childhood memories, Sara is determined to make peace with her past.

But she soon learns that the elusive psychopath is now stalking her. Sara’s attempt to rebuild her life is hindered even more by the discovery of skeletal remains on her property. As the investigation focuses on several suspects, Sara discovers critical clues and bravely volunteers to be a decoy for the sheriff’s department.

Sara’s destiny has brought her back home, but will her decision lead her down a path lined with danger… and straight into the arms of a madman?

Someone We Know: A Novel by Shari Lapena

Maybe you don’t know your neighbors as well as you thought you did . . .

“This is a very difficult letter to write. I hope you will not hate us too much. . . My son broke into your home recently while you were out.”

In a quiet, leafy suburb in upstate New York, a teenager has been sneaking into houses–and into the owners’ computers as well–learning their secrets, and maybe sharing some of them, too.

Who is he, and what might he have uncovered? After two anonymous letters are received, whispers start to circulate, and suspicion mounts. And when a woman down the street is found murdered, the tension reaches the breaking point. Who killed her? Who knows more than they’re telling? And how far will all these very nice people go to protect their own secrets?

In this neighborhood, it’s not just the husbands and wives who play games. Here, everyone in the family has something to hide . . .

You never really know what people are capable of.

Bad Boy Love Affairby Ali Parker

My new assistant is the type of girl to make the naughtiest parts of me wake up.

She’s supposed to be there to help me figure out this new casino I bought.

But instead, I’m ogling her every move and trying to figure out how to buy up all of her assets.

Success can take a back seat to the plans I have for this girl.

Lucky for me, my last name buys me a lot more than I deserve.

I’m a wheeler and dealer, so this casino gig is right up my alley.

It’s all fun and games until I owe a little bit more money than I have on hand.

And of course, my greedy-ass family refuses to help. Typical Bancroft.

The pretty girl I’ve fallen for isn’t willing to give up on me though.

I might be a bad boy, but I’m hers.

She’s quickly learning that to love me is to walk through fire.

Let’s just hope she doesn’t get burned.

Unmasking Sinby Mary Lancaster

A more intriguing option…

Rebecca, Lady Cornish, is lonely. She comes to Maida Pleasure Gardens, masked and alone, just to feel part of a world that still dances and laughs. But she repels all company – until the mysterious Ludovic Dunne refuses to be dismissed. Intrigued and unwillingly attracted, Rebecca begins to wonder if he might become a friend.

And she is badly in need of friends.

Twice widowed by the age of two-and-twenty, Rebecca is shunned by the ton and reviled as “The Black Widow”, convicted by rumor of murdering her husbands. She endures her isolation but refuses to give up her son to hostile family. Surely Ludovic, a solicitor who specializes in solving people’s knotty problems, is the man to help her fight?

Ludovic, however, is already on a mission to find evidence against her. Haunted by the past, he will never let his heart interfere with justice. By the time he proves the sin is not Rebecca’s, he has lost her trust. But that will not stop him from helping her, even if she never knows.

Mystery and danger culminate inevitably at Maida Gardens, but when Ludovic’s past catches up with him, will love be enough to save him and the woman he loves beyond reason?

Careless Love by Steve Zettler

The answer seemed simple for Grace Rolston when she dropped the .38 revolver into her travel bag and retreated to Hawaii. It was time to escape Californian demons, abandon her philandering husband, and say goodbye to the life of a canary trapped in a cage.

Demons have also invaded the life of Lee Corbet, and he too has retreated to Hawaii, hoping to jettison the past memories that eat away at his soul.

Grace and Lee collide, but love is careless; it will take these two innocents, toss them into a typhoon of passion and emotion, and then rip them apart, all for entertainment’s sake.

When a bird flies westward, Hawaii is the end of the line.

Wanna Get Lucky?by Deborah Coonts

It’s your lucky day because this book is “funny, fast-paced, exuberant, and brilliantly realized” (Susan Wiggs). Lucky O’Toole is determined to uncover the real story behind a woman’s death at a Las Vegas pirate show — but can anyone find justice in America’s most infamous city? A hilarious mystery that “hits the proverbial jackpot” (Booklist).