Recommendations

These are the latest Hooked By That Book recommendations. Let me know your own recommendations, and feel free to ask for more.

This is mostly my favourite series and/or authors and I’m trying to keep each list to a maximum of 8.

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**This list was updated on July 10, 2024.

ROMANTIC SUSPENSE

The Deep Ops series features an odd collection of crafty, talented men and women, and the people who fall in love with them.

Allison Brennan is one of my favorite romantic suspense authors.

FBI Trilogy
Lucy Kincaid Series
Moreno & Hart Mysteries
No Evil Trilogy
Predator Trilogy
Prison Break Trilogy
Quinn & Costa Series
Angelheart Investigations

The Romantic Suspense Series is a collection of various series that overlap at times in terms of characters and locations. They're best read in order. Each book features a different romance with nail-biting suspense and action.

The Tracers series by Laura Griffin consist of 13 novels that can be read on their own, with plenty of action and steamy romance.

Entrusted with the very toughest murder files, the investigators in The Texas Murder Files chase down every lead and develop every clue in their relentless pursuit of justice.

Karin Slaughter writes excellent romantic suspense, with a little more emphasis on the suspense. She has standalone novels as well as series.

Will Trent Series
Grant County Series

Follow Laurel Snow as she sets up a new FBI office in the Genesis Valley, solves murders, and tries to stay out of her psychotic sister's way.

Mind Games is an electric thriller underpinned by the power of family and an exquisitely sweet romance.

A thrilling crime series featuring Casey Duncan, a homicide detective who now lives off the grid in the wilds of Canada.

Rockton/Casey Duncan Series
And it's spinoff, Haven's Rock

These books are more thrilling suspense than romance.

CONTEMPORARY

True North is a series by Sarina Bowen that takes place in Vermont. Packed with emotion, passion, and humour in all the right places.

The Giltmaker series is related.

Each book stands well on its own.

Nora finds herself in Sunshine Falls, supporting a very pregnant Libby with a sort of bucket list. She bumps into Charlie, the editor who she had a run-in with a couple of years before. Can the small town work it's magic on these two city lovers?

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Connor convinces Fizzy to be the star of his new dating show. They fall in love off screen while Fizzy is supposed to fall in love on screen.

Read My Review

Wyn and Harriet pretend to still be engaged during a week-long vacation with their best friends.

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The Bromance Book Club is a series of funny, steamy, heart-warming romances that focuses around a group of men who formed a book club and uses the romances to help them out with their real-life relationships.

In The Proposal rugby's bad boy Renn marries his best friend's sister in Vegas. He proposes they stay married for 90 days and Blakely agrees. An amazing, steamy romance with engaging characters.

Check & Mate is a clever and swoonworthy YA debut, in which life's moving pieces bring rival chess players together in a match for the heart.

Justin and Emma planned to have a quick fling, just for the summer. But when real life intrudes, they're suddenly navigating a lot more than they expected, including catching real feelings for each other. Goodreads

HISTORICAL

Interesting characters, fun, pretty warm on the sensuality scale.

The Wild Wynchesters Series
12 Dukes of Christmas Series

My Erica Ridley Reviews

Lots of suspense, pretty warm on the sensuality scale.

Goode Girls Series
Victorian Rebels Series
Devil You Know Series
The Fiona Mahoney Mysteries Series

My Kerrigan Byrne Reviews

Lots of suspense, pretty warm on the sensuality scale.

Ruthless Rivals Series
Bow Street Bachelors Series
Secrets and Spies Series

My Kate Bateman Reviews

Kat is a cook in a well-off household in Mayfair. She constantly finds herself trying to solve a murder with the help of Daniel, and the two become closer as a result. Very subtle on the sensuality scale. Lots of suspense.

Kat Holloway Mysteries
My Reviews

The British Secret Service sends spies to France against Napoleon. Men and women find passionate partners in tumultuous times.

Great writing, plenty of suspense, pretty warm on the sensuality scale.

Spymasters Series

Great characters, interesting adventures, pretty warm on the sensuality scale.

The Rules of Scoundrels
Scandal & Scoundrel
The Bareknuckle Bastards
Hell's Belles

Shunned by her family and society, Charlotte Holmes solves crimes by pretending to be Sherlock Holmes.

Lady Sherlock Series

Shana Galen writes swoony steamy historical romances with plenty of action.

The Lord and Lady Spy Series
The Royal Saboteurs Series
The Misfortunes Favorites Series

PARANORMAL

Verity solves mysteries with her ghost sidekick, Frankie. Not a lot of romance, but enough. Lots of suspense.

Southern Ghost Hunter Mysteries Series
My Reviews

Donna Grant's Dark World is made up of these separate, but connected, series of warriors, dragon shifters, druids, fae, and elves.

Dark Sword Series
Dark Warriors Series
Dark Kings Series
Reaper Series
Dragon King Series
Skye Druids Series
Elven Kingdoms

My Reviews

Kate Daniels, a tough no-nonsense mercenary, takes care of magical problems, while trying to stay unnoticed. Her plans go awry when she attracts the attention of the Pack's alpha.

The World of Kate Daniels

Mercy has the ability to take the form of a coyote at will. She's surrounded by far more powerful supernatural beings, including werewolves, vampires and an assortment of fae.

Mercy Thompson Series

Alex discovers she is part fae and becomes embroiled in the world of conflict between the fae, vampires, werewolves, humans, and other paranormal creatures.

The Magicsmith Series
My Reviews

In the Psy-Changeling series humans, changelings, and the emotionless Psy are slowly finding ways to work together and break the Psy's Silence.

A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into.

Ali Hazelwood's debut paranormal Bride is well worth reading.

A nice, normal life. Is that too much to ask? For Riley Thorn it is. Divorced. Broke. Living with a pack of elderly roommates. And those hallucinations she's diligently ignoring? Her tarot card-dealing mom is convinced they're clairvoyant visions. This is a hilarious, super fun, steamy series.

FANTASY/SCI-FI

In this urban fantasy series, the world is ruled by powerful Houses, with immense magic at their disposal. The Baylor family and their investigative agency is pulled into this world and has to find a way to stay on top of it.

Hidden Legacy Series

Griffin plans to save the world and reunite the kingdoms. It will take a lot of convincing to get Cat on his side.
Exciting action, interesting characters, plenty of steam.

Kingmaker Chronicles

Everleigh takes the crown of Bellona after the royal family is brutally murdered. Now she has to solidify her rule.
Crown of Shards Trilogy

The saga continues 16 years later with the story of Princess Gemma, who had survived the massacre when she was a child.
Gargoyle Queen Trilogy

Charlotte Locke, an analyst for a secret government organization, comes into the crosshairs of Desmond Percy, a very lethal cleaner.

Section 47 Series

Angels rule over humans and vampires, but the most powerful of them all are the archangels. This is the story of archangel Raphael and Elena, a guild hunter, and includes stories of the other archangels and vampires in their sphere.

Guild Hunter Series

Galactic Bonds sees Vesper Quill and Kyrion Caldaren forced to work together due to an arcane, unwanted quirk of psionic magic.

WOMEN’S fiction

Finley is raising her niece, but feels threatened when her sister Sloane returns to mend her relationship with her daughter.

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