The third victim
Kisses only. Any sex is implied and fully off page.
Closed door. No anatomical or crude language.
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The past isn't over.... An unspeakable act has ripped apart the idyllic town of Bakersville, Oregon, and its once-peaceful residents are demanding quick justice. But though a boy has confessed to the horrific crime, evidence shows he may not be guilty. Officer Rainie Conner, leading her first homicide investigation, stands at the center of the controversy. It's hitting too close to home, bringing back her worst nightmares, threatening to expose her secret sins. But with the boy's life at stake, she won't let anything stop her from finding the real killer. With the help of FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, Rainie comes closer to a deadly truth than she can imagine. Because out there in the shadows a man watches her and plots his next move. He knows her secrets. He kills for sport. He's already brought death to Bakersville and forever shattered the community. But what he has really come for is Rainie -- and he won't leave until he has destroyed her....
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Gone
Same Rainie and Quincy, further along: the personal stakes hinted at here become the whole plot, bleaker and with no romance thread.
Right behind you
Continues Quincy and Rainie as a family unit, with the same small-town Oregon manhunt structure but a child's POV and less procedural romance.
Attachments
Same low-heat workplace slow burn and unspoken longing, minus the murders \u2014 a much lighter, warmer read with a guaranteed happy ending.
Witness Seduction
Also a cop-and-civilian investigation with slow-burn workplace tension, but the romance takes center stage and gets explicitly spicy with a guaranteed HEA.
Abaixo de zero
Keeps the workplace rivalry and slow burn, but swaps a killer stalking the heroine for icy Arctic banter and much more heat.
Two Can Play
Keeps the workplace slow-burn pull you liked, but drops all violence for a light, banter-driven office romance; note the German text.