Dark Romantic Suspense With a Side of Murder

Bestselling author Sandra Brown has written over 70 novels—when it comes to romantic suspense, she knows what she's doing. Best Kept Secrets, first published in 1989, is worth a read for longtime fans and newcomers alike. Alexandra Gaither is a successful attorney who's not afraid to go after exactly what she wants. And what she wants is justice for her mother, who died in the midst of a scandal 25 years earlier. Armed with the full power of the law and a no-nonsense attitude, Alexandra returns to the small Texas town where her mother was killed to investigate the three men who were with her on the night she died. Her probing stirs up controversy, intrigue, and old resentments, putting Alexandra's own life in danger. But she will stop at nothing to bring those responsible for her mother's death to justice. 

If classic Gothic fiction is more your style, look no further than the brilliant work of Daphne Du Maurier. In her 1936 novel Jamaica Inn, a young woman is caught up in the sinister plots unfolding in a crumbling inn on the remote Cornish coast. Though she's warned to stay away, Mary Yellan is determined to honor her dead mother's last request to travel to the isolated Jamaica Inn, where her aunt and uncle are residing. But nearly as soon as she arrives, she's caught up in the inn's treacherous web. There's something dark lurking within its walls, and worst of all, Mary finds herself falling for a mysterious stranger she knows she can't trust. Full of chilling suspense, romantic longing, and eerie, atmospheric details, it's easy to see why this Gothic novel remains a classic today.