Author: Dawson, Janet
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Women Sleuths
TWO HUMAN SKULLS ON A PILE OF BONES. EMPTY EYE SOCKETS STARE UP AT JERI HOWARD. 💀🔍
Looking for a riveting private eye tale? This is the one. ✨
Oakland PI Jeri Howard finds a battered footlocker hidden in a dusty storeroom. When she pries open the lid, she’s shocked at what she finds. 🧳
Human bones. Whose bones? How did they get there—and why? ☠️
Jeri is a detective who grabs a case and doesn’t let go. Especially a case like this. It twists and turns as Jeri sorts out the truth from the lies that stretch back decades. She’s determined to find answers and put flesh on those bones. When she digs into the past, someone has a lot to lose—and will kill to keep those secrets. ⚠️💔
Janet Dawson is a writer who always delivers. This one will keep you guessing as you race through to the end. 📖🔥
Bottom line: Janet Dawson is a Shamus Award-winning author and one of the most respected voices in private investigator fiction, yet she remains criminally underread. This fourteenth (!) entry in her long-running Jeri Howard series proves she’s still at the top of her game. 🏆 Jeri Howard is cut from the same cloth as Sara Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski and Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone—tough, smart, tenacious female PIs who won’t let go until justice is served. The cold case element (bones hidden for decades) adds layers of mystery that unfold like a Russian nesting doll, while the Oakland setting provides authentic Northern California atmosphere. Dawson writes with the assured hand of a veteran, delivering tight plotting, authentic detective work, and a protagonist you’ll want to follow through all fourteen books. If you love classic American PI fiction with a strong female lead, Jeri Howard needs to be on your must-read list. This is detective fiction done right. 🕵️♀️✨
Author: Jameson, C.C.
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Contemporary Urban Fiction
A woman in a man’s world.
An enemy she never saw coming. 👮♀️⚡
Police officer Kate Murphy thought she’d left her tumultuous past behind when she married Matt, but nothing could be further from the truth. 💔
As problems and deceptions pile up both at home and at work, a disturbingly high number of animal deaths begin to spread in and around Boston. Kate will have to unravel a web of lies and connect the dots to solve the case and regain control over her life. 🐾🔍
If you like dramatic police procedurals with characters who grow and become stronger as the story progresses, then you’ll love this fast-paced yet emotional mystery. 💪✨
What pulled me in: C.C. Jameson delivers a police procedural that’s as much about personal transformation as it is about solving crime. Kate Murphy is fighting battles on multiple fronts—professional credibility in a male-dominated department, marital troubles that won’t stay buried, and a disturbing case involving animal deaths that hints at something far more sinister. 🚨 The Boston setting adds urban grit, while the dual focus on Kate’s internal struggles and external investigation creates compelling tension. Jameson understands that the best police procedurals show us detectives as whole people, not just crime-solving machines. The animal deaths angle is particularly chilling—often a precursor to human violence in serial killer profiles—suggesting this mystery has dark places to go. Perfect for readers who appreciate Mare Sheehan’s complexity in Mare of Easttown or Jane Rizzoli’s determination in Tess Gerritsen’s series, this offers character-driven crime fiction where solving the case means facing your own demons first. 📚🌆
Author: Stabley, M.K.
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Paranormal Suspense
In a small town in Ohio, hair salons are a plenty, and when you branch out on your own and create a very successful business, others may feel animosity. When other salons lose clients to that new venture, you may even gain enemies. 💇♀️⚡
One such client, a prominent lady in the community had left her old salon and stylist behind, to follow the new up and coming salon and spa, A Cut Above. She was a hard client to please and everyone thought she was a snobby uptight old lady, and no one wanted to deal with her. Chrissy Cramer, one of the owners of A Cut Above salon and spa, didn’t mind her too much, and she was a good paying client. ✂️💰
After the two had a major blow out in front of the whole salon, no one ever thought the outcome could result in death, but someone thought it deserved as much. Chrissy, now the prime suspect in her murder, knows she didn’t do anything, but everything points back to her. 🔪
Eva St.Claire, the salons Manager believes Chrissy, and she has an idea on just how to prove it. Her ideas may be a little unorthodox, and making the police believe her will be almost impossible, but with no other way to prove her boss’s innocence, she digs up her past and delves deep into exactly what she ran away from over twenty years ago. 🔮💫
Will she be able to prove Chrissy’s innocence and not go completely back to that dark place she tried to leave behind, or will it all come crashing down, when the real killer is on to her. Eva and Chrissy are both being left threatening messages, to stop probing into Trudy’s murder, but Eva has a few things up her sleeve that may help, but will it be too late, or will her past come back to bite her? ⚠️👻
Why you’ll love this: M.K. Stabley brings a refreshingly unique setting to paranormal mystery—a small-town Ohio hair salon where gossip flows as freely as the shampoo and murder disrupts the usual cut-and-color routine. 💈 The salon backdrop offers built-in drama (anyone who’s witnessed salon politics knows it can get vicious), while Eva’s paranormal abilities add supernatural intrigue to traditional cozy mystery elements. Eva ran from her psychic past two decades ago, but now she must embrace those very powers to save her boss from a murder charge. Stabley taps into the appeal of reluctant psychics forced back into using their gifts—think Charlaine Harris’s Harper Connelly series with a salon twist. The small-town Ohio setting provides authentic Midwest flavor, and the threatening messages ratchet up stakes beyond typical cozy territory. Perfect for readers who love their mysteries with a side of the supernatural, strong female friendships, and community-based sleuthing. This series launch promises paranormal fun with genuine suspense. 🌟📚
Thunder Horse Heritage
Author: James, Elle
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Western & Frontier Romance
A wife returns from the dead with danger one step behind her. From the New York Times–bestselling author of the Brotherhood Protectors Colorado series. 🐎⚡
She’d been his wife for barely a day and now FBI agent Tuck Thunder Horse was responsible for identifying her body. 💔
So he was more than shocked when Julia Anderson turned up very much alive—and on the run. Julia confessed to witnessing a murder and now needs Tuck to help her stay alive . . . and protect the baby he hadn’t known she’d had. 👶🔫
Julia and Tuck’s marriage might not have lasted, but there was no time for recriminations with a killer on their trail. As Tuck struggles to put their painful past behind them, he can’t help but find himself overwhelmed by his love for his little daughter . . . and his still-burning passion for Julia. 🔥
Unable to trust anyone but each other, they know working together is the only way to safeguard their child. Could their one-day marriage turn into a lifelong adventure? 💍✨
What makes this special: Elle James is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author with over 80 novels who’s built a reputation for high-octane romantic suspense with military and law enforcement heroes. 💪 Her Brotherhood Protectors series is beloved for alpha protectors who’d die for their women, and this Thunder Horse story delivers that same addictive formula. The “wife returns from the dead” trope is romance catnip, especially when there’s a secret baby involved (!), and James layers in FBI intrigue, witness protection stakes, and the rugged North Dakota badlands setting. 🏜️ Tuck Thunder Horse (yes, that’s his actual name and it’s glorious) is exactly the kind of intense, protective hero that James’s fans crave. This hits every romantic suspense button: forced proximity, second chance romance, protector hero, secret baby, and life-or-death stakes. Perfect for fans of Julie Ann Walker, Rebecca Zanetti, or anyone who loves their romance with bullets flying and emotions running high. Pure escapist fun. 🎯📚
Author: Greenwood, Elizabeth
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Popular Neuropsychology
A captivating and insightful deep dive into the world of human intuition, exploring the power of this elusive phenomenon and how it can be harnessed to better know and trust ourselves. 🧠✨
We rely on our intuition, even though we don’t fully understand what it is, how it works, or if we can even trust it. In this fresh, mind-opening book, Elizabeth Greenwood takes us on a sweeping investigation into the subject, exploring how, in our data-driven world, we can harness intuition in our day-to-day lives. 💫
Digging deep into her personal experience as well as insights from neuroscience, psychology, feminist texts, psychics, and everyday people with extraordinary intuitive ability, Greenwood explores what we know about intuition—how to distinguish it from instinct, wishful thinking, anxiety, and denial; how it serves and sometimes fails us; how it impacts our dreams and unconscious behavior; and how it manifests in everything from romantic attraction to premonitions. 💭🔮
Greenwood places a special emphasis on “women’s intuition,” and how it has been denigrated throughout history—but can offer us a more hopeful, grounded way of experiencing the world in a time of so much uncertainty. 💪🌍
Why I’m including this: Elizabeth Greenwood is a journalist and author (Playing Dead) who brings rigorous research and narrative flair to a subject that’s often dismissed as woo-woo nonsense or oversimplified as “gut feeling.” 📰 What makes this book special is its interdisciplinary approach—Greenwood talks to neuroscientists AND psychics, reads feminist theory AND psychology studies, creating a comprehensive exploration that respects both scientific skepticism and lived experience. The focus on “women’s intuition” is particularly valuable; for centuries, women’s intuitive knowledge has been pathologized or dismissed, yet research suggests women may have evolutionary and sociological reasons for heightened intuitive abilities. 🔬 This is Blink meets feminist consciousness-raising, perfect for readers who loved The Body Keeps the Score or Glennon Doyle’s Untamed. Greenwood gives us permission to trust ourselves while also teaching us how to distinguish true intuition from fear or wishful thinking. In an age of information overload, this guide to our inner compass feels essential. 🧭📖
Author: Jones, Jade
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Urban Fiction
In the urban labyrinth of love, THUG: A Ghetto Romance unravels a tale where Tenderness, Heartache, Understanding, and Growth redefine the acronym THUG. 💕🏙️
Livia Darling, a compassionate elementary school teacher, has her path intertwined with Mega—a mysterious man with a captivating but unconventional life that throws them both into a world of moral conflicts. 👩🏫💔
As their connection deepens, layers of Mega’s character emerge, prompting questions of trust. THUG invites readers to witness the transformative power of love, redemption, and the capacity for change. 💫
Will love conquer the barriers of circumstance in this gritty urban romance, or will the shadows of the past prove insurmountable? ⚡🖤
What caught my attention: Jade Jones reclaims and redefines the loaded term “THUG” as an acronym for Tenderness, Heartache, Understanding, and Growth—a clever subversion that challenges stereotypes from the very title. 💪 This is urban fiction that refuses to be one-dimensional; Livia is an elementary school teacher (representing stability, education, nurturing) while Mega embodies the streets, creating classic opposites-attract tension with real moral stakes. Jones explores the question that drives so much contemporary romance: Can love truly change someone, or do we fall for potential that may never materialize? 🤔 Urban fiction has a devoted readership hungry for authentic street stories with emotional depth, and Jones delivers both the grit and the heart. The “moral conflicts” hint at genuine complexity rather than glorification—this examines the real costs and complications of loving someone from a dangerous world. Perfect for readers who love Sister Souljah’s The Coldest Winter Ever, Wahida Clark, or anyone seeking urban romance that’s steamy, street-smart, and emotionally resonant. This is love story as redemption arc. 🌹📚