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1681) Shadow Woman: A Novel
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Lizette Henry, possessing unusual detection skills but struggling with a memory disorder, accepts help from the mysterious and seductive Xavier--a stranger who triggers disturbing images of an unspeakable crime of which Lizette may or may not be the perpetrator.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Taking refuge on a remote island, a grieving woman develops unlikely connections with the community and the wild in this haunting novel of hope and perseverance from debut author Jessica Bryant Klagmann. After the mysterious disappearance of her fiancé, Alma Hughes moves to a remote island in the North Atlantic, where she hopes to weather her grief and nurture her ailing dog. But the strange town of Violette has mysteries as well. Townsfolk say...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"We never remember the dead girls. We never forget the killers. Twelve years ago, 18-year-old University of Iowa freshman Abby Hartmann disappeared. Now, Jon Allan Blue, the serial killer suspected of her murder, is about to be executed. Abby's best friends, Bree and Chelsea, watch as Abby's memory is unearthed and overshadowed by Blue and his flashier crimes. The friends, estranged in the wake of Abby's disappearance, and suffering from years of...
1684) Someone saw something
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When six-year-old Gabriel vanishes from Central Park, his mother, news anchor Corina Corado, is desperate for answers. Who would take her son--and why? Detectives suspect there's a connection to the barrage of hate mail Corina's received over the years. In her line of work, it's not unusual for agitated conspiracy theorists to send messages that threaten violence...or worse. But as the investigation deepens, the secrets that Corina, her husband,...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When a friend from his time in Africa is found murdered in a New York alley, Ray Campbell returns to the African homeland of the only woman he ever loved in pursuit of answers--still haunted by her murder twenty years ago and believing there is a connection between the two murders"--
1686) The housemaid's secret
Author
Series
Housemaid novels volume 2
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"It's hard to find an employer who doesn't ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, stay quiet until I get what I want. It's almost perfect. But I still haven't met Mrs Garrick, or seen inside the guest bedroom. I'm sure I hear her crying. I...
1687) Every single secret
Author
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A woman lives alone in an isolated lighthouse on the coast of California ... until a man appears on her doorstep who knows every single secret she's kept since one fateful night.
In an isolated lighthouse on the California coast, Rowan Winterbourne lives a solitary life with only her secrets for company. For she has a mission that drives her--to avenge herself against Gregory Torval, the powerful drug and arms dealer who murdered her mother and vowed...
1688) The chandelier
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Fresh from the enormous success of her debut novel Near to the Wild Heart, Hurricane Clarice let loose something stormier in 1946 with her second novel, The Chandelier. In a body of work renowned for its potent idiosyncratic genius, The Chandelier in many ways has pride of place. "It stands out," her biographer Benjamin Moser noted, "in a strange and difficult body of work, as perhaps her strangest and most difficult book." Of glacial intensity,...
1690) Staked
Author
Series
Angel of death volume 1
Publisher
Forster Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Gregorie Babin has existed in a gently lulling darkness for so long he's not even sure he's human anymore. Surrounded by four walls, without light or space in which to move, he has become what he envisions as a mollusk inside a shell. Is he alive or dead, or perhaps in some kind of purgatory or Hell? The answer lies in a past he no longer remembers. It is only when random forces break him out of this perpetual darkness that he can begin to know the...
1691) Final cut: a novel
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Blackwood Bay. An ordinary place, home to ordinary people. It used to be a buzzing seaside destination. But now, ravaged by the effects of dwindling tourism and economic downturn, it's a ghost town--and the perfect place for film-maker Alex to shoot her new documentary. But the community is deeply suspicious of her intentions. After all, nothing exciting ever happens in Blackwood Bay--or does it?"--
1692) The night child
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Nora Brown teaches high school English and lives a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. But one November day, moments after dismissing her class, a girl's face appears above the students' desks and terror rushes through Nora's body. Twenty-four hours later, while on Thanksgiving vacation, the face appears again. Shaken and unsteady, Nora meets with neurologists and eventually, a psychiatrist. As the story progresses, a...
1693) Her pretty face
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The author of the bestselling novel The Party--lauded as "tense and riveting" by New York Times bestselling author Megan Miranda--returns with a chilling new domestic drama about two women whose deep friendship is threatened by dark, long-buried secrets. Frances Metcalfe is struggling to stay afloat. A stay-at-home mom whose troubled son is her full-time job, she thought that the day he got accepted into the elite Forrester Academy would be the day...
1694) The nothing man
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"At the age of twelve, Eve Black was the only member of her family to survive an encounter with serial attacker the Nothing Man. Now an adult, she is obsessed with identifying the man who destroyed her life. Supermarket security guard Jim Doyle has just started reading The Nothing Man--the true-crime memoir Eve has written about her efforts to track down her family's killer. As he turns each page, his rage grows. Because Jim's not just interested...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here, comes an exquisitely moving portrait of an elderly man's struggle to hold on to his most precious memories, and his family's efforts to care for him even as they must find a way to let go. "Isn't that the best of all life's ages, an old man thinks as he looks at his grandchild, when a boy is just big enough to...
1696) Struck dead
Author
Series
Forensic Instincts volume 10
Publisher
Bonnie Meadow Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When a tragic hit-and-run takes the life of a hardworking family man, multi-millionaire Christopher Hillington becomes the prime suspect, and the whole city of New York alights with speculation as to what happened. But before the NYPD can establish Hillington's guilt, he himself is brutally murdered in his own home."--
1697) Telephone: a novel
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Zach Wells, a laconic geologist-slash-paleobiologist, has the trappings of a comfortable life, yet is not contented. He's expert in the geological history of a cave in the Grand Canyon, but less so where his wife and daughter are concerned. And when his daughter develops unusual vision problems and has a seizure, the world of this family of three crumbles. Powerless in the face of his daughter's slow deterioration, Wells finds a note asking for help...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Enid: a lesbian who's a serial dater and deaf in one ear. She works at The Space Agency as an information architect, and when she's not obsessing over true crime podcasts, she's managing her crippling phobia of bald people. While she tries not think about her teenage years, she can't seem to stop obsessively watching her childhood YouTube channel. But as Enid fumbles her way through her first serious relationship and navigates a new family life...
1699) All fours: a novel
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Twenty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey"--
1700) The perfect affair
Author
Publisher
Storm Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When Paige Nichols meets her husband's glamorous new colleague at a faculty mixer, she instantly knows they're having an affair. It's the way he looks at her, like she's the only woman in the world. Aaron used to look at her like that, too. And with her beautiful, knowing smile, Cara Morton seems to enjoy flaunting their romance right under her nose. Paige believes Aaron when he says he'll break things off. What else can she do when she's determined...
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