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Author
Language
English
Description
"She tried to run, but she can't escape the other Mrs. Sadie and Will Foust have only just moved their family from bustling Chicago to small-town Maine when their neighbor Morgan Baines is found dead in her home. The murder rocks their tiny coastal island, but no one is more shaken than Sadie. But it's not just Morgan's death that has Sadie on edge. And as the eyes of suspicion turn toward the new family in town, Sadie is drawn deeper into the mystery...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Growing up as the only child of affluent and overprotective parents, Norma, troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination, searches for the truth, leading her to the blueberry fields of Maine, where a family secret is finally revealed.
4) If she wakes
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When Abby Kaplan investigates a suspicious accident that left a visiting professor dead and senior Tara Beckley a prisoner of locked-in-syndrome, she becomes a target of a mysterious hit man.
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
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...
Author
Series
Gwendy's button box trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
171 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson takes the stairs up the cliffside to Castle Rock, Maine, she encounters a mysterious stranger, who calls out to her wanting to talk.
8) Haunted
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Detective Michael Bennett is ready for a vacation after a series of crises push him, and his family, to the brink. He settles on an idyllic, small town in the beautiful Maine woods, a recommendation from a former colleague. But just when Bennett thinks he can relax, he gets pulled into a case that has shocked the tight-knit community. Kids are disappearing left and right with no explanation -- until several bodies turn up in the woods. As Bennett...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 50
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an invisible force field seals off Chester's Mill, Maine, from the rest of the world, it is up to Dale Barbara, an Iraq veteran, and a select group of citizens to save the town, if they can get past Big Jim Rennie, a murderous politician, and his son, who hides a horrible secret in his dark pantry.
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-013-1
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First Hard Case Crime edition.
Physical Desc
204 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A novice newspaperwoman gains insight into the nature of mystery itself when her journalism mentors tell her about a 25-year-old unsolved investigation involving a man found dead on an island off the coast of Maine.
12) Delirium
Author
Publisher
Harper
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until right before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.
13) Boxed in
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Think outside the box-that's what Annie Dawson must do when she discovers a mysterious birchbark box in the attic of Grey Gables, the home bequeathed to her by her grandmother"--From publisher's description.
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....
15) Without warning
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"It's been thirteen years since Kate Callahan's husband committed suicide after being arrested for murdering Police Chief Sean Blaylock's wife. It's a small town and memories are long, but they've all tried to put the tragedy behind them, especially Kate and Sean. But it's all brought up again when the town's quaint tradition of creating a time capsule every fifty years reveals a macabre set of predictions dating back to days before the murder/suicide....
16) Olive Kitteridge
Author
Series
Olive volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
The world of Olive Kitteridge, a retired school teacher in a small coastal town in Maine, is revealed in stories that explore her diverse roles in many lives, including a lounge singer haunted by a past love, her stoic husband, and her own resentful son.
17) Happy place
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college--they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now--for reasons they're still not discussing--they don't. They broke...
18) Requiem
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
391, 27 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"While Lena navigates the increasingly dangerous Wilds, her best friend, Hana, lives a safe, loveless life in Portland."--
19) The package
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Annie and her trusted handyman, Wally, stumble upon a mysterious package that had slipped behind an old dresser in the attic of Grey Gables, they are unwittingly swept into a mystery of intrigue, masked identities, and personal danger.