Books like Forbidden Fruit by Erica Spindler

After her mother’s death, Karen Whitlaw receives a mysterious notebook from her Vietnam‑war veteran father, only to discover he was murdered in New Orleans. With help from homicide detective Marc Chastain, she unravels a deadly plot tied to the notebook’s deadly contents.

Giles Kent seeks the love of Leonie, a woman bound by grief and desire, while struggling with the shadows of a tragic past. In a tale of romance and yearning, money and power ripple beneath doomed affection.

When rival reporters Laurellie Armand and Matthew Bates are forced to pair up to investigate a mysterious death, their professional rivalry turns dangerous—and unexpectedly romantic—in a gripping contemporary mystery set in New Orleans.

Roxy Nouvelle, a fiery daughter of a famed magician, inherits both a gift for illusion and a talent for jewel theft. Together with Luke Callahan, they become partners in magic and crime, until a dark secret from Luke's past forces him to vanish.

After being jilted at the altar, Nina Cormier discovers a wedding church bombed in her presence and must race to identify a killer who will stop at nothing for her.

After her mother’s death and her twin’s impending wedding, Josie Dupre channels her solitude into a booming New Orleans catering business, until a dog‑capturing Boxer thrusts her into a romance with the enigmatic Paul Brouillette, where love and mysterious signs guide her to listen to her heart.

Chaperoning Lady Georgina Philipps on her dates was a big comedown for ad exec Mike Napoli, but that was the price he had to pay for accepting her grandmother's lucrative account. Even worse, "her ladyship" treated him like the lowest form of life on earth! To add insult to injury, Georgina was tantalizingly beautiful--but definitely off limits. So why was her grandmother throwing them together? Mike felt like the fox guarding the hen house! And everyone knew that forbidden fruit was by far the most tempting..

When investigative journalist Victor Holland uncovers a chilling conspiracy linked to Washington, he’s hunted by powerful enemies. His battered survival reignites a dangerous partnership with his camerawoman, Catherine Weaver, as they battle for truth and safety.

Dean Koontz reimagines Mary Shelley’s classic, following Victor Helios and his creations as New Orleans teeters on the brink of disaster and a new, formidable monster threatens the future of humanity.

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A spellbinding novel of contemporary romantic suspense--the unforgettable story of a woman caught between love and vengeance... Manhattan attorney Claire Green is haunted by the brutal murder of her twin sister Zoe in a dangerous revenge scheme that soon implicates Claire. Claire's only hope of clearing her name is to bring her sister's murderer to justice on her own...before a second killer strikes. But someone else is dogging Claire's trail: relentless F.B.I. agent Liam Jameson, who has tracked her to New Orleans. With her own life threatened, Claire reluctantly joins forces with the enigmatic Jameson. Distrust quickly flames into desire. As Mardi Gras builds to fever pitch, they are inexorably drawn into a shadowy world where impeccable tradition cloaks deadly secrets and where no one--not Claire nor even Jameson--is safe from the shocking truth...

When the burned-out offices of New Orleans professor Henry Youngblood reveal a charred body, CIA agent Jax Alexander must team up with remote viewer October "Tobie" Guinness to uncover a covert CIA project and prevent a national catastrophe.

Maggie Montgomery, boutique owner in contemporary New Orleans, discovers her past when a dead street person’s blood trail leads to her shop. Policing officer Sean Canady arrives to investigate, and they become entangled in a century‑old vampire romance that began under a blood‑red moon.

An FBI agent must use a beautiful advertising executive as bait to catch a serial killer, but the attraction between them threatens to get caught in the trap.

In New Orleans, a fortune-teller’s ominous warning spirals into a deadly hunt for vampires as lovers clash, danger lurks, and the city’s uneasy truce with the undead hangs in the balance.

A sensuous May‑December romance where a thirty‑something woman discovers a newfound craving for desire with a younger man who initially stalks her at work.

Two works of English Victorian/Edwardian Erotica