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Alexi Venice

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Alexi Venice writes award-winning medical, legal, and crime thrillers with smart and gritty female leads. Her stories blend high-stakes investigations, courtroom shenanigans, emotional depth, and character-driven romance in the relentless pursuit of justice.

Both The San Francisco Mystery Series and The Monica Spade Trilogy are Lesfic Bard Award winners. Standby Counsel was named Best Legal Thriller of 2021 by BestThrillers.com, and Baking Ice Cubes was a BestThrillers.com Legal Thriller finalist in 2025.

With thirty-four years of legal practice informing her storylines, Venice brings authenticity to the page. Her heart and imagination fuel the slow-burn, and sometimes forbidden, romance.

When Venice isn’t writing, she’s wrangling grandsons a
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NEW BOOK RELEASE

Dear Readers,

I’m thrilled to announce the release of Wedding Balloon, the eighth book in the award-winning San Francisco Mystery Series!

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The eagerly anticipated day has arrived for Dr. Jen Dawson and Agent Amanda Hathorne to exchange wedding vows at a breathtaking destination on the California coast. Best friends and soulmates, Jen and Amanda have triumphed over a

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Lady Hawthorne by Alexi Venice
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The advice that authors give - and get - is to "write what you know". This might have been good advice at one time, and if it's still true, Alexi Venice knows a lot about a lot of things.

There are terrorists poisoning the water supplies in selected c" Read more of this review »
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"What a wonderful story! This book was like slipping into a comfortable robe and slippers with Jen, Amanda and Tommy fighting crime. Even though this book can be read as a standalone, I recommend reading the whole series for the full flavor of the ser" Read more of this review »
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"WTH with Roxy !! one has a love/hate about her!"
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“If he learned about it after, maybe he could’ve enjoyed both women in his bed.” Rodriguez said, expressing the eternal optimism of male fantasies.”
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“Like she could control what fell out of her mouth when she was this close to Shelby anyway. At the moment, she was struggling to remember how to breathe.”
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