A Dangerous Fiction: A Mystery

10 best books like A Dangerous Fiction: A Mystery (Barbara Rogan): Where They Bury You, The Rich and the Dead, The Fame Thief, Deadly Diamonds, Letters From a Murderer, Seduction of the Innocent, Weapon of Choice, The Trouble With Charlie, In the Moors, Attorney-Client Privilege

AuthorSteven W. Kohlhagen
In August 1863, during Kit Carson’s roundup of the Navajo, Santa Fe’s Marshal is found dead in an arroyo near what is now the Hubbel Trading Post. The murder, and the roughly million of today’s dollars in cash and belongings in his saddlebags, is historically factual. Carson’s actual explanation...
AuthorLiv Spector
ISBN0062258397
In exclusive Star Island, Miami, money and power can't protect you... In collaboration with branding powerhouse Alloy Entertainment comes a thrilling new series featuring a former Miami PD detective on the hunt for a mass murderer, who must face the past she thought she left behind.

On New...
AuthorTimothy Hallinan
ISBN1616952806
THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED, LAUGH-OUT-LOUD THRID INSTALLMENT
OF THE FAN-FAVORITE JUNIOR BENDER MYSTERIES

There are not many people brave enough to say no to Irwin Dressler, Hollywood’s scariest mob boss-turned-movie king. Even though Dressler is ninety-three years old, LA burglar...
AuthorJohn F. Dobbyn
ISBN1608090922
What do Boston, Dublin, and Sierra Leone have in common? The movement of blood diamonds at enormous profit but grave human expense: mafia killings in Boston and Ireland and child enslavement and murder in Sierra Leone. And who is ensnared in the middle of all of this Michael Knight and Lex Devlin. Can...
Letters From a Murderer
AuthorJohn Matthews
ISBN1909223379
New York, 1891: a rapidly changing city, torn between lamplight and electric light, where the burgeoning steel and railway industries attract a flood of humanity from every corner of the globe, fuelling cut-throat gangs, corruption and vice.

A prostitute is found brutally murdered. Immediately...
AuthorMax Allan Collins
ISBN0857687484
It's 1954, and a rabble-rousing social critic has declared war on comic books - especially the scary, gory, bloody sort published by the bad boys of the industry, EF Comics. But on the way to a Senate hearing on whether these depraved publications should be banned, the would-be censor meets a violent...
AuthorPatricia Gussin
ISBN1608090515
Life is good for Dr. Laura Nelson.? Her kids have their ups and downs, but seem well adjusted to high school and college; her research project at the university is going well; and she is highly regarded as the chief of surgery at Tampa City Hospital.? This sense of tranquility is disrupted when she is drawn...
The Trouble With Charlie
AuthorMerry Jones
ISBN1608090744
Elle finds the body of her soon-to-be-ex husband, Charlie on her sofa, stabbed to death with her kitchen knife. Elle's close friends stand by her through the difficult funeral, but Elle alone must face the loss of the man she'd loved. Except that the loss is not total--Charlie is still around. Elle feels...
AuthorNina Milton
ISBN0738738360
Murder in the English countryside

The rain-drenched moors near shamanistic counselor Sabbie Dare's home have become the scene of a chilling crime. When Detective Sergeant Reynard Buckley shows up suggesting her new client, Cliff Houghton—a wounded, broken man—has something to do...
AuthorPamela Samuels Young
ISBN0981562795
I swear whenever I feel a slump coming on, I just open up a Vernetta Henderson book and dive right on in!!

Being the fourth in a series, this books was really twisted, in that it had a lot of different small things going on, but it all lead back to one huge case. It starts off with a murder and a rape case...
Grains of Truth
AuthorLydia Crichton
ISBN0988203499
When rigid pacifist Julia Grant is manipulated by U.S. Intelligence to take part in a covert mission in Egypt to help foil a major terrorist plot, she is torn between saving lives and becoming a pawn in her government's political agenda. But her troubles don't end there. As her mission unfolds, Julia...
AuthorSusan Klaus
ISBN1608090949
Christian Roberts, lanky, blond, and twenty-five-years-old, rents out small sailboats on Sarasota Bay. His peaceful life is shattered when he accepts a thoroughbred colt from his estranged, dying father, an Ocala horse trainer.
When Christian promises his father that he'll race the colt,...
AuthorMatt Coyle
ISBN1608090760
Rick Cahill was never convicted of his wife's murder, but he was never exonerated either. Not by the police. Not by the media. Not even by himself. Eight years later, police suspicion and his own guilt remain over his responsibility in his wife's death. When he meets Melody Malana, a beautiful yet secretive...
The Magician's Daughter
AuthorJudith Janeway
ISBN1464203385
Magician Valentine Hill always introduces her act by announcing Reality is an illusion. Illusion is reality, and nothing is what it seems. When Valentine is reunited with her grifter mother, nothing is what it seems becomes true in real life. A wealthy socialite turns out to be a ruthless criminal,...
The Fall of Saints
AuthorWanjiku wa Ngũgĩ
ISBN1476714916
In this stunning debut novel, a Kenyan expat is living the American Dream until she uncovers her husband’s secrets and opens a Pandora’s box of good versus evil.

In this stunning debut novel, a Kenyan expat living the American dream with her husband and adopted son soon finds it marred by...
AuthorLeonard Rosen
ISBN1579623190
(Although published later, this is actually a prequel to "All Cry Chaos.")
On the night of October 9, 1799, the frigate HMS Lutine breaks apart on the shoals of the Frisian Islands off the dutch coast. When the insurer Lloyds of London pays on the wreck, it takes ownership and plans expeditions to...
The Circle of Thirteen
AuthorWilliam Petrocelli
ISBN1620454149
In 2082, a catastrophic explosion rocks the dedication ceremony of the new United Nations in New York City. Security Director Julia Moro is on the job, chasing after the misogynistic leader of Patria, a long-disbanded international terrorist organization now being whispered about again on the streets....
AuthorJudy Finnigan
ISBN1847445519
She was a daughter, a wife, a mother. She was my friend. But what secrets did Eloise take to her grave?

After her best friend Eloise dies from breast cancer, Cathy is devastated. But then Cathy begins to have disturbing dreams that imply Eloise's death was not all it seems.

With a history...
The Loved and the Lost
AuthorLory S. Kaufman
They are three time travelers desperate to return to 14th-century Verona to reclaim their medieval family s shattered lives. It is a mission fraught with danger and the risk of unexpected consequences for themselves and for their worlds. For all three, it is a matter of the heart. For one, though, it...
What Matters Most
AuthorBette Lee Crosby
Librarian Note: Alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B00C512W0I.

Louise Palmer is a settled-down person. A woman who wants nothing more than to remain in the same house until the day she dies. When her husband, Clay, announces an intention to quit his job and move to Florida, her life is thrown...
Grounded
AuthorAngela Correll
ISBN1938467566
New York City flight attendant Annie Taylor is grounded, putting a halt to weekends in Rome and her jet-setting lifestyle. Soon her noncommittal boyfriend’s true nature is revealed, and to top it all off, she loses her apartment.

With nowhere else to go, Annie leaves the city for the family...
AuthorEllen Cooney
One family. One table. One meal. 350 years.

This dramatic, highly inventive novel presents the story of one family through many generations, as Thanksgiving dinner is prepared.

The narrative moves swiftly and richly through time and changes as we experience the lives of the Morleys...
AuthorFrankie Y. Bailey
ISBN0312641753
Frankie Bailey introduces readers to a fabulous new protagonist and an Alice in Wonderland-infused crime in this stunning mystery, which kicks off an exciting new series set in the near future.

The year is 2019, and a drug used to treat soldiers for post-traumatic stress disorder, nicknamed...
AuthorOvidia Yu
ISBN0062227157
This delectable and witty mystery introduces Rosie "Aunty" Lee, feisty widow, amateur sleuth and proprietor of Singapore's best-loved home cooking restaurant

After losing her husband, Rosie Lee could easily have become one of Singapore's "tai tai," an idle rich lady devoted to mah-jongg...
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