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Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
298 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After getting an unnerving psychic reading from Diana Ravenscroft, the newest resident of Tinker's Cove, Lucy Stone stumbles upon the dead body of Malcolm Malebranche, a seemingly harmless magician who worked children's birthday parties--and who is linked to Diana.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A heart-wrenching first novel about the power of place and family ties, the weight of the stories we choose to tell, and the burden of those we hide. Frozen in grief after the loss of her son at sea, Edith Baines stares across the water at a schooner, under full sail yet motionless in the winter wind and surging tide of the Northern Reach. Edith seems to be hallucinating. Or is she? Edith's boat-watch opens The Northern Reach, set in the coastal...
Author
Series
Charlie Parker volume 5
Language
English
Description
Assisting a friend in a search for a kidnapped woman, detective Charlie Parker links the abduction to a church of bones in Eastern Europe, a 1944 slaughter at a French monastery, and the myth of an object known as the Black Angel.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four men who reunite every year during hunting season in the woods of Maine, encounter a disoriented, incoherent stranger who drags the men into a terrifying struggle with a creature from another world, and their only chance for survival lies in their shared past.
25) Dark harbor
Author
Series
Stone Barrington volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Investigating the unlikely murder-suicide case of his cousin, who secretly worked for the CIA, Stone Barrington is surprised to learn that his cousin had named him the executor of his estate just prior to his death.
Author
Series
A Lucy Stone mystery volume 28
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Known for its cheerful staff and elaborate annual Easter Bonnet Contest, the Heritage House senior center regularly attracts new residents and positive press. But once the town's retired librarian, Miss Julia Tilley, checks in to recover from an illness, Lucy sees a side of the facility that isn't quite so perfect and pristine. And the place may soon be making headlines for different reasons following an unexplained disappearance... Lucy can't fathom...
28) Seashell season
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every year on March 26th, Verity Peterson visits Ogunquit Beach, where she puts a handwritten message into a bottle and launches it into the waves. It's a ritual of remembrance for the daughter she hasn't seen in sixteen years -- not since her baby's father, Alan, took two-month-old Gemma and disappeared. Verity keeps searching and hoping, sustained by the thought that someday she might get to be a mother to her own child. And finally, one phone call...
29) The Midcoast
Author
Language
English
Description
t’s spring in the tiny town of Damariscotta, a tourist haven on the coast of Maine known for its oysters and antiques. Andrew, a high school English teacher recently returned to the area, has brought his family to Ed and Steph Thatch’s sprawling riverside estate to attend a reception for the Amherst women’s lacrosse team. Back when they were all teenagers, Andrew never could have predicted that Ed, descended from a long line of lobstermen, or...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When her fiance's private plane crashes in the Colorado Rockies, everyone assumes Allison Carpenter is dead. But Maggie, Allison's mother back home in Owl Creek, Maine, refuses to believe them. Maggie knows her daughter--or she used to, anyway. For the past two years, the two women have been estranged, and while Maggie doesn't know anything about Ally's life now--not even why she was on a private plane to begin with--she still believes in her girl's...
31) Cujo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Outside a peaceful town in central Maine, a monster is waiting. Cujo is a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had. One day, Cujo chases a rabbit into a cave inhabited by sick bats and emerges as something new altogether.
Meanwhile, Vic and Donna Trenton, and their young son Tad, move to Maine. They are seeking peace and quiet, but life in this small town is not what it seems. As Tad tries to fend off the terror...
Author
Series
Charlie Parker volume 13
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Still recovering from his life-threatening wounds, private detective Charlie Parker investigates a case that has its origins in a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War. Parker has retreated to the small Maine town of Boreas to regain his strength. There he befriends a widow named Ruth Winter and her young daughter, Amanda. But Ruth has her secrets. Old atrocities are about to be unearthed, and old sinners will kill to hide their sins....
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of Easter-themed mysteries set in coastal Maine features sleuths from three best-selling cozy mystery series: Lucy Stone, Hayley Powell and Julia Snowden, who investigate a deadly art theft and a body that mysteriously vanishes after being discovered.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Befriending a fearless newcomer who helps him work through the challenges of being frequently bullied, Robert works at his friend's side during a summer at his family's amusement park and uncovers harsh truths about personal secrets and revenge.
Author
Series
Lucy Stone volume 19
Language
English
Description
Chocolate covered murder: Despite the frigid winter temperatures, to boost the economy, Tinker's Cove is launching a travel promotion for Valentine's Day. Lucy is assigned a puff piece on upscale Chanticleer Chocolate--and its deliciously handsome owner. But there's another tantalizing tart behind the counter--sultry store manager Tamzin Graves. Leaving a throng of jealous women in her wake, it's almost no surprise when Tamzin turns up dead, her body...
39) Echo Mountain
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old Ellie and her family lose livelihood and move to a mountain cabin in 1934, she quickly learns to be an outdoors woman and, when needed, a healer.
Author
Series
Charlie Parker volume 10
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigating sinister threats against a man hiding a criminal past, detective Charlie Parker stumbles into a web of corruption and deceit involving the FBI, a doomed mobster, and a missing teenage girl.