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Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Returning to the hometown of her youth after a failed marriage, Willa struggles to find her place in a community where she no longer feels like she belongs, uncovers a sixty-year family feud, and falls for a strangely secretive man.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a string of consequences that echo through the centuries. Meanwhile...
24) Taking Eve
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Hoping for a more peaceful time after learning the tragic truth about her child's disappearance years earlier, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is entreated by desperate father Jim Doane to learn the truth about his missing son.
25) Summer secrets
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"June, 1998: At twenty seven, Catherine Coombs, also known as Cat, is struggling. She lives in London, works as a journalist, and parties hard. Her lunchtimes consist of several glasses of wine at the bar downstairs in the office, her evenings much the same, swigging the free booze and eating the free food at a different launch or party every night. When she discovers the identity of the father she never knew she had, it sends her into a spiral. She...
26) Stone mothers
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. Edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Decades after fleeing her home, her boyfriend, and the body they buried, Marianne resolves to do anything to protect the life she has built against her ex-boyfriend's threats about coming forward.
27) Justice for Sara
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A decade after being acquitted for her beloved sister's murder, Katherine McCall receives chilling anonymous letters that compel her to return to her hostile hometown and team up with Detective Luke Tanner to learn the truth about what happened.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Arden Arrowood was four years old, her two-year-old twin sisters were stolen from the front yard of their hometown of Keokuk, Iowa, on the Mississippi River while Arden watched. Twenty years later, she returns home to confront the darkest part of her past. As the mystery unravels, the novel explores the reliability of memory, the stories we tell ourselves, and the power of love.
30) Hunting Eve
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
A second installment in a new Eve Duncan story arc trilogy finds the stakes raised higher as the forensic sculptor battles her captor and discovers brutally dangerous truths about why she has been targeted.
Author
Series
Cotton Malone volume 8
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When escalating political tensions between the United States and England put his son, Gary, in the hands of a man with a shadowy and intensely personal agenda, Cotton Malone finds himself confronting a baffling historical mystery that questions the legitimacy of Elizabeth I.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
When a custody battle divides her placid town, straitlaced family woman Elena Richardson finds herself pitted against her enigmatic tenant and becomes obsessed with exposing her past, only to trigger devastating consequences for both families.
33) The house guests
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When her step-daughter steals money belonging to Amber, a woman who has since been evicted along with her teenage son, Cassie invites them to move in with her and as they each form friendships, Cassie discovers that Amber is trying to outrun her dark past.
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Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder delivers his next breakneck stand-alone thriller, following 2014's bestseller Suspicion. When Rick Hoffman loses his job and apartment, his only option is to move back into--and renovate--the home of his miserable youth, now empty and in decay since his father's stroke. But when he starts to pull it apart, he makes an electrifying discovery that will put his life in peril--and change everything he...
35) The teacher
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Something isn't right at Caseham High School. Last year, the school was rocked by scandal: a teacher was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student. Now, Addie is a pariah and will do anything to get through the year. More than that, she's desperate to keep the truth from coming to light. Evie, a colleague of the disgraced teacher, is horrified to find Addie in her class. She knows the girl can't be trusted and soon realizes she's...
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
491 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Taking a job with the Federal Writer's Project after refusing to marry, Miss Layla Beck boards with an eccentric family in a backwater town before discovering long-kept secrets.
38) Fancy Dancer
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Finding himself in an awkward position when he is sentenced to community service--with his newly-found half-brother, Alex, as his parole officer--Jake St. Cloud decides to make the most of his work with Angelica Dancer and her daughter, Fancy, at their foundation for neglected children.
39) Notorious
Author
Series
Long tall Texans volume 53
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Gaby Dupont knows some men shouldn't be trusted. Ever. Especially not high-profile lawyer Nicholas Chandler. How can she trust the man who might be helping one of her horrible relatives weasel out of the consequences for their bad behavior? To get the inside scoop on Nicholas's dealings - and protect herself and her beloved grand-mère - Gaby must take a job with the devil himself. Of course, she can't tell him who she really is . . . Nicholas...
40) Wicked dreams
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
On the wild Oregon coast, tucked between the mountains and the sea, stands Siren Song, home to a group of women known as The Colony. Their aunt hoped the isolated lodge would be a sanctuary, a place where she could protect them and their special gifts. But nowhere is safe from the man who has marked them for death. The note pinned to the dead body found on the remote beach has no name, just Ravinia Rutledge's phone number and the words Next of Kin....