Melinda Leigh
1) Amazon Heat
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
2 years ago...
Driven by grief to find a cure for cancer, Elizabeth DeMarco left Logan Spencer to accept a position on a research expedition to the Amazon rainforest. Kidnapped by guerrillas, she was saved by a secret all-female civilization, the last of the ancient Amazons. But Elizabeth discovers she's traded one form of captivity for another.
Today...
Logan never stopped searching for
...Author
Series
Bree Taggert volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twenty-seven years ago, Sheriff Bree Taggert's father killed her mother, then himself. Now Bree and her younger brother, Adam, find human bones on the grounds of their abandoned family farm. The remains are those of a man and a woman, both murdered in the same horrible way. When the investigation determines the murders occurred thirty years ago, Bree's dead father becomes a suspect, forcing Bree to revisit the brutal night she's spent most of her...
Author
Series
Bree Taggert volume 3
Language
English
Description
"When Sheriff Bree Taggert discovers the body of a young woman floating near the bank of the Scarlet River, a note in her abandoned car suggests suicide. The autopsy reveals a different story. Holly Thorpe was dead long before she dropped off the bridge and hit the water. As Bree and her investigator Matt Flynn delve into the case, secrets in Holly's personal life complicate their efforts to solve the murder. Holly left behind a volatile marriage,...
4) See her die
Author
Series
Bree Taggert volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New sheriff Bree Taggert is called to a shooting in a campground shuttered for the winter. But she arrives to find a perplexing crime. There is no shooter, no victim, and no blood. No one but Bree believes the sole witness, Alyssa, a homeless teenager who insists she saw her friend shot. Bree calls in former deputy Matt Flynn and his K-9 to track the killer and search for Alyssa's friend. They discover the battered corpse of a missing university...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"After the devastating loss of her husband in Iraq, Morgan Dane returns to Scarlet Falls, seeking the comfort of her hometown. Now, surrounded by family, she's finally found peace and a promising career opportunity--until her babysitter is killed and her neighbor asks her to defend his son, Nick, who stands accused of the murder. Tessa was the ultimate girl next door, and the community is outraged by her death. But Morgan has known Nick for years...
Author
Series
Bree Taggert volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
For more than 25 years, Philadelphia homicide detective Bree Taggert has tucked away the nightmarish childhood memories of her parents' murder-suicide . . . Until her younger sister, Erin, is killed in a crime that echoes that tragic night: innocent witnesses and a stormy marriage that ended in gunfire. There's just one chilling difference. Erin's husband, Justin, has vanished. Bree knows how explosive the line between love and hate can be, yet the...
Author
Series
Morgan Dane novels volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Private investigator Lance Kruger was just a boy when his father vanished twenty-three years ago. Since then he's lived under the weight of that disappearance-- until his father's car is finally dredged up from the bottom of Grey Lake. It should be a time for closure, except for the skeleton found in the trunk. A missing person case gone cold has become one of murder, and Lance and attorney Morgan Dane must face the deadly past that's risen to the...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Young mother Chelsea Clark leaves the house for a girls' night out ... and vanishes. Her family knows she would never voluntarily leave her two small children. Her desperate husband-- the prime suspect-- hires Morgan Dane to find his wife and prove his innocence. As a single mother, Morgan sympathizes with Chelsea's family. She wants to track down the criminal-- unaware she's his next target.
9) Lie to her
Author
Series
Bree Taggert volume 6
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a digital marketer is found murdered in his backyard, hands bound and face smothered by plastic wrap, Sheriff Bree Taggert and criminal investigator Matt Flynn respond to the call. Their investigation focuses on the man's dating-app profile and the word liar carved into his forehead. One day later, the killer strikes again. Both victims are players in the internet dating scene. In their wake, they leave a trail of hurt, and angry, women. But...
10) Catch her death
Author
Series
Bree Taggert volume 7
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After Sheriff Bree Taggert's takedown of cold-blooded murderer Travis Ekin, his family vows revenge. Travis's mother and brothers are every bit as violent, and Bree is in their crosshairs. To complicate matters, Bree's best friend, Dana Romano, walks into her date's home and finds him shot in the chest. Dana tangles with an unidentified intruder, but he escapes through the back door. The crime scene is in another police department's jurisdiction,...
11) Save your breath
Author
Series
Morgan Dane novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When true-crime writer Olivia Cruz disappears with no signs of foul play, her new boyfriend, Lincoln Sharp, suspects the worst. He knows she didn't leave willingly and turns to attorney Morgan Dane and PI Lance Kruger to find her before it's too late. As they dig through Olivia's life, they are shocked to discover a connection between her current book research on two cold murder cases and the suicide of one of Morgan's prospective clients"--Publisher...
Author
Series
Midnight novels (Melinda Leigh) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
13) Dead against her
Author
Series
Bree Taggert volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume.
Language
English
Description
Sheriff Bree Taggert uncovers the brutal double homicide of an elderly widow and a bitter, corrupt former deputy she forced out of the department and becomes the main suspect.
Author
Series
Morgan Dane novels volume 5
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a retired sheriff's deputy is shot to death in his home, his troubled teenage stepson, Evan, becomes the prime suspect. Even more incriminating, the boy disappeared from the scene of the crime. Desperate to find her son, Evan's mother begs PI Lance Kruger for help. She knows her son is innocent. Kruger and defense attorney Morgan Dane want to believe that too, but the evidence against the boy is damning. Just as the trail goes cold, another deputy...
15) She can run
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
iii, 313 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ten months ago, Elizabeth Baker uncovered a dangerous secret about her politician husband--a secret that nearly got her killed. Now she and her children are running for their lives. When Beth is hired as the caretaker of a remote Pennsylvania estate, she dares to hope she has found a corner of the world where Congressman Richard Baker can't find them. But when her new boss dies suddenly and his nephew inherits the estate, Beth is faced with outwitting...
16) She can tell
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After she returns to Pennsylvania to rebuild her family horse farm, Rachel Parker discovers someone vandalizing the property, leaving ominous warnings she can't ignore.
17) What I've done
Author
Series
Morgan Dane novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Haley Powell wakes up covered in blood, with no memory of the night before. When she sees a man lying in the backyard, stabbed to death, she has only one terrified thought: What have I done? Agreeing to take the case as a favor to her PI friend Lincoln Sharp, Morgan must scale a mountain of damning circumstantial and forensic evidence to prove her client innocent. Haley's fingerprints are on the murder weapon, and she has no alibi. But Morgan can't...
18) She can kill
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Reformed assassin Cristan Rojas just wants to raise his daughter in peace. But after twelve years on the run, he learns that even the quiet little town of Westbury, Pennsylvania, has many hidden dangers. Although he can't shake the feeling he's under surveillance, Cristan's attraction to Sarah Mitchell continues to grow, as do his concerns that his secret past could jeopardize anyone who gets too close to him. Sarah is ready to start her life over...
Author
Series
Midnight novels (Melinda Leigh) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Curator Dr. Louisa Hancock left behind Maine and her troubled past for a job at a prominent museum. Just when it seems that Louisa's new life is safe from her dark secrets, the body of a museum intern is found...And when another intern goes missing, the abduction is linked to the only man who has ever tempted Louisa's heart...."--Cover p. 4.