Books by Melinda Leigh and Complete Book Reviews

Melinda Leigh. Montlake, $13.95 trade paper (326p) ISBN 978-1-6121-8151-6
In her debut romantic suspense, Leigh carefully weaves the subplot of a serial killer with the main plot of an abused wife on the run and successfully ties the threads in a thrilling conclusion. Beth Markham discovers her politician husband’s secret
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Melinda Leigh. Amazon/Montlake Romance, $12.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-61218-565-1
Relentless tension builds to a riveting crescendo in Leigh’s romantic thriller even as sparks ignite between Westbury, Pa., police chief Mike O’Connell and plucky farmer Rachel Parker. Rachel receives an urgent phone call from her sister, Sarah, and
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Melinda Leigh. Amazon/Montlake Romance, $12.95 trade paper (378p) ISBN 978-1-4778-0741-5
Leigh hammers home the danger of daily routines posted on social media in this well-crafted romantic thriller. A sadistic serial killer stalks Madison Thorpe, whose social media updates tell him just where she’ll be when. As he’s throttling her, she
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Melinda Leigh. Amazon/Montlake Romance, $12.95 trade paper (365p) ISBN 978-1-4778-2707-9
In this auspicious start to Leigh's latest romantic suspense series, sleepy Scarlet Falls, N.Y., is rocked by a shocking double homicide. Local lawyer Lee Barrett and his wife, figure skating coach Kate, are gunned down, orphaning their two young...
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Melinda Leigh. Montlake Romance, $12.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-5039-3925-7
Leigh’s fourth Midnight contemporary romantic thriller (after Midnight Betrayal) will excite readers with its puzzling mysteries and toe-curling romance. In Philadelphia, museum curator Louisa Hancock and sports bar owner Conor Sullivan hope that...
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Melinda Leigh. Montlake Romance, $12.95 trade paper (335p) ISBN 978-1-5039-4870-9
Bestseller Leigh (Midnight Obsession) begins a series set in Scarlet Falls, N.Y., with this solid contemporary romantic thriller. Recently widowed attorney Morgan Dane hopes a new job as a prosecutor will help her move on with her life. Then Morgan’s
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Melinda Leigh. Montlake Romance, $12.95 trade paper (364p) ISBN 978-1-54204-018-1
Bestseller Leigh’s intense fifth addition to the ongoing saga of the Dane family (after What I’ve Done) piles on the drama. When teenager Evan Meade is accused of murdering his retired cop stepfather in Grey’s Hollow, N.Y., attorney Morgan Dane and...
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Melinda Leigh. Montlake Romance, $24.95 (372p) ISBN 978-1-5420-0694-1
Leigh (Whisper of Bones) launches a promising series featuring Philadelphia detective Bree Taggert with this tense mystery, inexplicably being marketed as a romance, centered on the ubiquity of domestic and workplace violence against women. Bree...
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Melinda Leigh. Montlake, $24.95 (316p) ISBN 978-1-5420-0702-3
At the start of Leigh’s nail-biting third Sheriff Bree Taggert mystery (after 2020’s See Her Die), Bree is called to the scene of an abandoned car parked on a bridge along a back road somewhere in Upstate New York. A license plate check identifies...
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Melinda Leigh. Montlake, $24.95 (332p) ISBN 978-1-5420-0706-1
Leigh’s gripping fourth Bree Taggart mystery (after Drown Her Sorrows) brings Bree back to where all her troubles began. For the first time in 27 years, Bree visits her childhood home, the farm in Upstate New York where her father shot and killed...
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Melinda Leigh. Montlake, $24.95 (326p) ISBN 978-1-5420-3066-3
Early in Leigh’s well-paced sixth Bree Taggert mystery (after 2022’s Dead Against Her), former Philadelphia police detective Bree, now the sheriff of New York’s Randolph County, is called to a crime scene. Spencer LaForge lies dead on his patio, zip
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