February 1, 2021
With everyone social distancing again this Valentine’s Day, we have another opportunity to curl up with a new romance novel instead of going out. Amazon listed the popular
Romance Novels that readers turned to in 2020, giving us a list of the
Top 20 choices to pass the long winter nights.
Amazon Charts curated the list from data pulled for ebooks and print books from January 1, 2020, to December 31, 2020. You’ll notice that on the list, Netflix’s hit adaptation of “Bridgerton” catapulted the first book in the series to #5 for all of 2020 in the romance category, once again showcasing the power of Netflix. If you loved the show, you have nine books to read in Julia Quinn’s franchise, which should help you get through the winter months and into the spring. The Netflix series, from Shondaland and Creator Chris Van Dusen, was quickly renewed for a second season in January, and follows Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor), the eldest daughter of the powerf
In Roslund’s heart-pounding fourth Grens and Hoffman novel (after 2019’s
Three Hours with the late Börge Hellström), a break-in at the Stockholm apartment where every member of the Lilaj family, except five-year-old Zana, was killed 17 years earlier prompts Det. Supt. Ewert Grens to reexamine the case. Grens discovers that Zana’s witness protection file has disappeared from a secure police archive just as several criminals are murdered in the same manner as her family. Meanwhile, Piet Hoffman is contacted anonymously by a person who knows all about Hoffman’s time infiltrating Stockholm’s criminal underworld for the police. If Hoffman doesn’t start a gang war and thereby kick start demand for this new player in the weapons smuggling business, he and his family will be killed. Grens and Hoffman combine forces, as Grens senses they’re working two ends of the same problem. While the peril that Hoffman faces is palpable, Grens’s impending retirement and loss of purpose
Release date: Jan 19, 2021
Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills delivers a smart and sexy romance about a professional football hottie and the girl heâs swor Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills delivers a smart and sexy romance about a professional football hottie and the girl heâs sworn to never touch.
Homeless and heartbreakingly innocent, Giselle Riley walks into my penthouse and chaos follows.
I shouldnât have invited the girl genius to live with me, but itâs clear she needs my helpânot only for a place to lay her pretty blonde head but in finding real love, which sheâs not going to get with the crazy men she picks up online.