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English
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone and The Family Upstairs comes another riveting work of "gloriously twisted" (Marie Claire) psychological suspense. On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend. One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate....
Author
Series
Wednesday novels volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Five young California homemakers forge a bond of friendship that sustains them through the turbulent 1960s and beyond. Meeting weekly, the Wednesday Sisters share a love of writing, literary classics, and the Miss America Pageant--in a moving testament to the mysterious link between friends.
Author
Publisher
Delphinium Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Melissa Fleischer, the twenty-five-year-old assistant to a famous New York editor--known to be a notorious philanderer--at a prestigious mainstream magazine begins to sell her short stories to the New Yorker, complicating her relationship with her boss and exerting pressure on her marriage.
85) The birdcatcher
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Set primarily on the island of Ibiza, the story is narrated by the writer Amanda Wordlaw, whose closest friend, a gifted sculptor named Catherine Shuger, is repeatedly institutionalized for trying to kill a husband who never leaves her. The three form a quirky triangle on the white-washed island"--
86) Mona
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A young Latin American author, newly successful, escapes her downward spiral of drugs and erotic detours in California only to find a fresh hell at an ultra-hip literary conference in Sweden"--
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Filmmaker June Masterson has high hopes for her first documentary, the true story of the disappearance of famed mystery author Greer Larkin ... Everyone has a theory. Greer's mother, Blanche, and her best friend, Rachel, believe that Greer's fiancé, Jonathan, is the culprit ... Jonathan claims it was either Greer's controlling mother or Rachel ... In desperation, Rachel gives June a suitcase full of Greer's most personal writings ...Then Rachel...
88) The rain sparrow
Author
Series
Honey Ridge novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A stranger's arrival in a small Southern town stirs up old secrets and new dreams"--
90) Older
Author
Series
Younger volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In the hotly anticipated sequel to the beloved Younger-now a hit TV series from the creator of Sex and the City starring Sutton Foster and Hilary Duff-Liza Miller is torn between two cities and two hearts when her bestselling novel is picked up by a major television network"--
Author
Series
Zuckerman novels volume 3
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
In 1973, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer who has lost the ability to create, attempts to console himself with women as he decides to abandon writing and become a doctor.
92) Ivory apples
Author
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
" Ivy--and her sisters, Beatriz, Semiramis, and Amaranth--have a secret. Their Great-aunt Maeve is actually Adela Madden, author of the fantasy classic, Ivory Apples. Generations of obsessive fans have searched for Adela, but the mysterious creator of Pommerie Town is now a recluse in rural Oregon. Shy and bookish, Ivy is the first in her family to discover the even deeper secret that her Great-Aunt protects. Magic is real--and despite what a charismatic...
Author
Series
Mystery bookshop volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"To the town of North Harbor, Michigan, MISU quarterback Dawson Alexander is a local hero. To Samantha Washington, owner of the Market Street Mysteries Bookstore, Dawson is more than a tenant--he's like an adopted son. But to the police, he is their prime suspect after his ex-girlfriend is found murdered. It's more than enough real-life drama for Sam to tackle, but her role as a mystery writer also calls"--Amazon.com.
94) Written off
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Rachel Goldman writes mysteries in which Duffy Madison, consultant to the county prosecutor's office, helps find missing persons. She's working on the next book when a man calls asking for help in a missing persons case. The caller's name? Duffy Madison. Is he a deranged fan? A figment of her imagination? Or is he the person who has been kidnapping and murdering mystery authors? If so, Rachel appears to be the next target ...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Veronica Blackstone is asked to write the copy for The Friends of Hyde Park's annual garden tour, she never expected to get involved in a violent death. But that's exactly what happens when author, Landon Donte, is found dead in a suspected suicide during a dinner to highlight the tour. But Veronica can sniff out murder and soon on the case!" --
96) The bridesmaid
Author
Series
Home to Hickory Hollow volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twenty-seven-year-old Joanna Kurtz has made several trips to the altar, but never as a bride. The single young Amish woman is a closet writer with a longing to be published something practically unheard of in her Lancaster County, Pennsylvania community. Yet Joanna's stories aren't her only secret. She also has a beau who is courting her from afar, unbeknownst even to her sister, Cora, who, though younger, seems to have suitors to spare. Eben Troyer...
Author
Publisher
Harperteen
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The students in Corbin College's elite academic society, Magni Viri, have it all -- free tuition, inspirational professors, and dream jobs once they graduate. When first-gen college student Tara is offered a chance to enroll, she doesn't hesitate, except once she's settled into the gorgeous Victorian dormitory, her life turns very strange. She's finally writing, but her stories are dark and twisted; her dreams feel as if they could bury her alive;...
98) Wicked
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Eve Carrington is chosen to participate in an exclusive writers workshop, she knows it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. For one month, she will live, write, and share her work with nine other aspiring authors. The top three will get a chance to be published. But when the building they're staying in isn't ready and Eve sees the old mansion they'll be moved into, she starts having second thoughts. Not only is the mansion isolated but the deadlines...
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When a severed hand washes ashore in the wealthy enclave of Palm Beach, Florida, the lives of two women--a lonely writer obsessed with the unsolved murder of her mother's best friend and a panicked wife whose husband has disappeared with their children--collide as the world shutters in the pandemic lockdown of 2020. A young woman's life seems perfect until her family goes missing. A writer lives alone with her dog and collects arcane murder statistics....
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-eight-year-old Georgia Stanton has to start over after she gave up almost everything in a brutal divorce - the New York house, the friends, and her pride. Now back home at her late great-grandmother's estate in Colorado, she finds herself face-to-face with Noah Harrison, the bestselling author of a million books where the cover is always people nearly kissing. He's just as arrogant in person as in interviews, and she'll be damned if the good-looking...
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