crime novels

Browse serialized novels tagged “crime”. The first half of each series is free to read online.

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• My Mafia Husband Faked Amnesia, So I Took His Empire
  

  For six years Mara cleaned the money that made her husband the king of New York. On their anniversary he woke up claiming he forgot her, and that night she watched him laugh about it with his new art curator.

  amnesia · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Left Me to Die, So I Became Undefeated in the Cage
  

  Five years after her family locked her in a freezer and drove away, seventeen-year-old Dalia is an undefeated masked fighter in a basement cage, and her brothers have come to drag her home.

  contemporary · female lead · inheritance war

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Tideflats King Claimed the Surveyor Who Trusts No One, and My Signature Was His Brother's Alibi
  

  A marine-loss surveyor who trusts nobody is claimed by the harbor king whose brother burned for a fire she signed off as clean; the man she fears is the only one hunting the truth, and the man she trusts is the arsonist.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• My Brother Left Me With the Man He Told Me to Stay Away From, and Then Didn't Come Back
  

  Thalia Kallias's brother leaves for three months and asks his best friend, the man who runs the Tarpon Springs sponge docks, to keep her safe. He promises to keep his hands off her, and then the laptop in her bag shows who she is really being kept from.

  contemporary · female lead · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

• My Fiancé Wants Me Back Too Bad The Only Thing Coming Back Is Your Regret
  

  My undercover fiancé vanished for four years. I found him pouring drinks in Maine under a dead man's name, and I tore his life down in front of the whole bar. The woman who loved him paid for it in an alley. He has been making me pay ever since.

  contemporary · female lead · undercover

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Death Row
  

  Eleven days before her execution for murdering her husband, Leah Marwick sees him alive at the prison sign-in counter, and the only friend she has on the row is married to the same man.

  contemporary · thriller · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Stepfather Sold Me at the Card Table, and the Man Who Won Me Never Looked My Way
  

  At a Butte card table at 1:40 a.m., Maeve Tierney's stepfather bonds her to the Hill Crew boss for a year and a day; she writes her own line on the form and walks out, and the cold man who signed it will not look at her.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• Monsters Got Blamed for Murder, So I Relived the Victim's Last Hour
  

  Eight years after monsters began pouring through hairline Cracks in Chicago's sidewalks, a Cook County deputy medical examiner whose skill lets her relive a dead person's final hour sees a human hand behind a 'monster attack', and writes HOMICIDE over the federal order that every Crack death be cremated unexamined.

  medical · contemporary · thriller

  32 chapters published

• He Defended My Mother's Killer, Now He Pays with His Life
  

  Victoria flew fifteen hours to surprise her boyfriend with a birthday cake and heard him in bed with her best friend. Then she heard what else he had done: he got the man who killed her mother acquitted.

  dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love

  24 chapters published

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• They Gave My Heart to My Sister and Forgot My Last Birthday
  

  Deirdre Kilbride was dying of heart failure on her twenty-sixth birthday when her father told the whole hospital floor that the only matching heart was going to her adopted sister. She walked out in the rain and into the car of the one man her family calls a rat.

  terminal-illness · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Hotel Noir: Kiss Me to Survive
  

  Fenella sees a crime boss's son shoot a man, runs into the Hotel Noir and kisses the night manager so the old Truce will protect her. Every midnight she must kiss him again to stay alive, and she learns he came to that lobby to kill.

  dramatic · survival · female lead

  24 chapters published

• The Poker King Returns
  

  A world champion hiding as a waiter in a small Reno casino drops the tray when the man he once reported for money laundering comes back to take the casino and the woman who took him in.

  dramatic · contemporary · redemption arc

  24 chapters published

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• Return of the Reaper
  

  A retired assassin who promised his dying wife he would never kill again takes the vow apart with his bare hands when a crime family steals his six-year-old daughter.

  dramatic · contemporary · thriller

  24 chapters published

• Undercover Prison King
  

  An ex-soldier inherits the prison that is killing its inmates and walks in as a convict to find who runs it. The only person inside who sees through him is the doctor.

  medical · inheritance war · male lead

  24 chapters published

• Boss, Your Wife's a Whole Detective
  

  The staff call the CEO's new contract wife the furniture, until a body turns up at the company gala and she names the killer before the police finish taking statements. Oona is a former homicide detective who married Rowan Garvey to get inside his company, because her partner's death leads to someone on his board, and maybe to Rowan himself.

  contemporary · female lead · contract marriage

  24 chapters published

• I Indicted the Yakuza Heir, Then Married Him
  

  A junior prosecutor's star witness vanishes, and the price of getting him back is a contract marriage to the yakuza heir she once indicted. He is polite, devoted and terrifying, and he wants a real wedding night.

  contemporary · female lead · contract marriage

  24 chapters published

• Ms. CEO's Baby Daddy Is the Merchant of Death
  

  Six years ago I spent one night with a stranger and woke up to a note. Today the truck driver who pulled my son out from under a reversing truck had my son's eyes, and tonight the news put his face over the words "the Merchant of Death."

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  24 chapters published

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• The Night Before We Got Married
  

  The night before our wedding, the ring he gave me showed his heart racing in another woman's arms. She's the one who burned me. So I took the System's offer to die in thirty days, and I'm spending every one of them proving it.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  24 chapters published

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• Never Cross the Mafia Don's Hidden Lover
  

  On my wedding night a bleeding stranger came through my balcony door, and while I hid him in the bathroom I heard my new husband on the phone: "Find him before the uniforms do. She's my alibi." So I took the bullet out myself, and the whole city decided I'd run off with the Don.

  contemporary · thriller · female lead

  32 chapters published

• He Defended Her, He Said I Deserved It
  

  My husband has never lost a case. He stayed up all night clearing the protégée who sent a man after me, then told me I shouldn't have run out without a bra. So I slapped him, and I went to get the one thing he didn't know existed.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  32 chapters published

• Watching My Fake Sister Dig Her Own Grave
  

  The people who stole me broke my legs at four and took my eye at seven. On my first night home, the girl who'd been living my life pushed me down the stairs, and I let her, because I know she's been paying them to keep me lost.

  contemporary · female lead · kidnapping

  32 chapters published

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• The Night He Left the Syndicate, I Took His Chair
  

  On the night Orson Garside decided to leave the syndicate, he took me hard all night, then told me he was marrying a girl too innocent for his world. "But you can sink into it, Ris." He'd already traded me to the old men in his place, so I took his chair.

  contemporary · forbidden love · female lead

  32 chapters published

• His Love Was My Poison
  

  I gave up everything to follow my general to the edge of the world, then found another woman's name carved on his parents' grave as his wife. Seven years later he says he's still lighting a candle for me every night, and I'm the only one who knows it's killing him.

  military-base · dramatic · contemporary

  48 chapters published

• Married to My Ex-Father-in-Law
  

  Dani Lentini serves her husband divorce papers on his father's Sunday table, in front of the whole family. In the Kansas City Scarpa family, a wife who leaves doesn't get divorced. She gets buried. At midnight the Don sits down in her dental chair with a ring: marry him, or let them bury her.

  dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love

  32 chapters published

• They Framed Arthur He Returned as Lucas
  

  After his lover and her powerful hospital allies frame him for a fatal surgery, surgeon Arthur Red takes a new face and the identity of Lucas to gather proof inside the life of James Thompson, while his childhood friend Martin risks everything to help him reclaim his name.

  medical · wrongful imprisonment · undercover

  8 chapters published

• I Died In His Sick Game
  

  My husband marooned me and our little girl on his private island for a year because I slapped his mistress. After ten months I put my starving daughter on a raft, pushed her past the sharks, and sank. He thought I was hiding. Then they drained the lake.

  contemporary · survival · single parent

  24 chapters published

• My Ex-Fiancé's Memory Game
  

  Two days before our wedding my fiancé was kidnapped, and he came home with no memory of me. I'm the memory specialist who believed him, until I heard him laughing that he faked it to sleep with ten more women.

  amnesia · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

• I Woke Up at the Altar and Said No to the Mob Heir Who Let Me Die, but He Remembers Too
  

  In my first life, the heir of a Boston crime family married me, ignored me for five years, and told my kidnappers to keep me. I woke up twenty minutes before that wedding and said no at the altar. Then he caught me on the church steps and proved he remembers it too.

  contemporary · female lead · redemption arc

  40 chapters published

• Dead to Him
  

  My body was found between the wine crates in my husband's warehouse. He looked at what was left of my face, fixed his cufflinks, and told his men to find out who I was.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  16 chapters published