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61) Nest: a thriller
Author
Series
Jack Raines volume 1
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Physical Desc
428 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When a murder investigation reveals family secrets and exposes her to a shadowy network of evil, Kate accepts a mysterious author's offer to find answers, but time is running short as a force of super-predator killers is hot on their trail.
62) The dry
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Receiving a sinister anonymous note after his best friend's suspicious death, federal agent Aaron Falk is forced to confront the fallout of a twenty-year-old false alibi against a backdrop of the worst drought Melbourne has seen in a century.
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
A Sunset Cove novel volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Audra suspects that her father's death wasn't an accident, she returns to Mermaid Beach to take over his mail boat duties and find out more with the help of her childhood sweetheart, local game warden Kevin OConnor.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discovering in childhood a supernatural ability to taste the emotions of others in their cooking, Rose Edelstein grows up to regard food as a curse when it reveals everyone's secret realities.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Grand Central trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When her husband is in a tragic accident that leaves him fighting for his life, a woman, with her family in crisis and her marriage at a breaking point, soon discovers just how deadly secrets can be.
67) Girl one
Author
Publisher
MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A dark ode to power and femininity, about a young woman whose search for her missing mother reveals the secrets of her past--including her time spent on the Homestead as one of nine babies born via parthenogenesis"--
68) Perla
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
235 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A tale set in post-dictatorship Buenos Aires finds privileged Correa safeguarding the interests of her family by hiding her father's military past from others until an uninvited visitor forces her to confront the unease she has suppressed her entire life.
69) Heart echoes
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
ix, 351 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Teal Morgan-Adams must face her past when her daughter searches for her biological father in spite of a loving stepfather and she is forced to return to her parents' home in Cedar Pointe, Oregon.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
319 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Convinced of his father's innocence in the killing of Jody Linder's father, Collin Crosby returns to Kansas with his ex-con father and provokes Jody to face the stunning mystery behind her tragic past.
Author
Series
Port Aster secrets volume 2
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When amateur sleuth Kate Adams investigates a small-time counterfeit operation, she discovers a sinister corporate conspiracy and uncovers shocking family secrets.
72) Blue Labyrinth
Author
Series
Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast volume 14
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A long-buried family secret resurfaces when one of Aloysius Pendergast's most implacable enemies shows up on his doorstep as a murdered corpse. The mystery has all the hallmarks of the perfect murder, save for an enigmatic clue: a piece of turquoise lodged in the stomach of the deceased. The gem leads Pendergast to an abandoned mine on the shore of California's desolate Salton Sea, which in turn propels him on a journey of discovery deep into his...
Author
Series
A Sunset Cove novel volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
Claire Dellamore's stay at the Grand Inn at Ocean's Edge begins with a menacing start as she suffers a panic attack set off by the vibes from the place, and when she sees what she believes to be a murder while out for a stroll, only Luke Elwell believes her.
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, a child goes missin--a case linked to the murder of three children five years earlier--and close friends Cheyenne and Natalie, determined to find the truth, uncover their town's dangerous secrets, rooted in its terrifying past.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
312 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When fabricated aspects of their picture-perfect world are embarrassingly exposed by a car accident, Sunny Mann, a woman longing for an ideal life, and Maxon, her savant astronaut husband, struggle through blame and fear before confronting realities about their deep bond.
Author
Series
A Chapel Springs Romance volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Determined to honor her late brother's legacy, Madison strives to win the annual River Sail Regatta despite her fear of water, and receives help and encouragement from Beckett O'Reilly, her swimming instructor.
Author
Series
A Chapel Springs romance volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pregnant, alone, and broke, Jade McKinley returns home to Chapel Springs after years of protecting her fragile heart, only to give it up to Daniel Dawson, a family friend who has always loved Jade more than as a big brother.
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Returning home after being away for seventeen years, Laura reunites with her former best friend Casey, but while participating in a scavenger hunt, they discover the secrets of the past threatening to tear them apart again.