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4802) Darkwater secrets
Author
Series
Darkwater Inn volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"The Darkwater Inn stands tall and proud in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Bourbon Street is bustling, and general manager Adelaide Fountaine has her hands full with a hotel at capacity. But she is shocked when a hotel guest is murdered and the murder investigation uncovers sordid secrets and haunting mistakes"--
4803) Private : the royals
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Private is the most elite detective agency in the world. But when kidnappers threaten to execute a Royal Family member in front of the Queen, Jack Morgan and his team have just 24 hours to stop them. Or heads will roll, literally.
4804) The lullaby girl
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Detective Angie Pallorino took down a serial killer permanently and, according to her superiors, with excessive force. Benched on a desk assignment for twelve months, Angie struggles to maintain her sense of identity--if she's not a detective, who is she? Then a decades-old cold case washes ashore, pulling her into an investigation she recognizes as deeply personal. Angie's lover and partner, James Maddocks, sees it, too. But spearheading an ongoing...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
THRILLER / SUSPENSE. TOP SECRET: In the first weeks after World War II, a squeaky-clean new second lieutenant named James D. Cronley, Jr. is recruited for a new covert enterprise that will eventually be transformed into something called the CIA. One war may have ended, but another one has already begun, against an enemy that is bigger, smarter, and more vicious: the Soviet Union. The Soviets have hit the ground running, and Cronley's job is to help...
4807) Book of the dead
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Massive sinkholes are opening across the country--each larger and deeper than the previous one. First the family pets go missing, and anyone living near one of the pits is reporting strange phenomena--the vibrations, sulphurous odours and strange sounds rising up from the stygian depths. Then come the reports of horrifying things' rising from the darkness. When the people start disappearing the government is forced to act. A team is sent in to explore...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
No matter how or where they appear, strangers are walking mysteries, complete unknowns in once-familiar territories who disrupt our lives with unease and wonder. In this newest collection of short stories, each author weaves a fresh tale surrounding the eerie feeling that comes when a stranger enters our midst.
Author
Series
(Dean Ray),Odd Thomas novel) volume 5-6
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Odd Apocalypse: Once presided over by a flamboyant Hollywood mogul during the Roaring '20s, the magnificent West Coast property known as Roseland is now home to a reclusive billionaire financier and his faithful servants. And, for the moment, it's also a port in the storm for Odd Thomas and his traveling companion, the inscrutably charming Annamaria. In the wake of Odd's most recent clash with lethal adversaries, the opulent manor's comforts should...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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"In 1850 in Massachusetts, Whittaker House stood as a stop on the Underground Railroad. It’s where two freedom seekers, Little Annie and Clementine, hid and perished. Whittaker House still stands, and Little Annie and Clementine still linger, their dreams of freedom unfulfilled. Now a fashionably distressed vacation rental in the Berkshires, Whittaker House draws seekers of another kind: Black women who only appear to be free. Among them are Dominique,...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
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Description
"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue-in Marilyn's case that her daughter become...
4812) Exiles: a novel
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Jane Harper is back with a new mystery featuring Aaron Falk, the detective from the bestseller and major motion picture The Dry. At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her stroller, her mother vanishing into the crowds. A year on, Kim Gillespie's absence casts a long shadow as her friends and loved ones gather deep in the heart of South Australian wine country to welcome a new addition...
4813) An unwanted guest
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A domestic suspense debut about a young couple and their apparently friendly neighbors--a twisty, rollercoaster ride of lies, betrayal, and the secrets between husbands and wives.How well do you know the couple next door? Or your husband? Or even--yourself?People are capable of almost anything ...Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all--a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. But one night when they are at a dinner...
4814) Try not to breathe
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"A traumatic experience in the line of duty forces thirty-year-old Avery Rogers to abandon both her relationship and her position as a Kentucky State Police officer. She retreats to a college town where she works an unfulfilling job as a security guard, breaking up fights between drunken frat boys. But a frantic phone call turns Avery's life upside down. Her father -- a retired cop who never fails to convey his disappointment in Avery -- says her...
4815) Darkwater lies
Author
Series
Darkwater Inn volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Adelaide Fountaine, general manager of the Darkwater Inn, has just returned to New Orleans from a six-month sabbatical in Europe. She's rested and ready to take on the inn's busiest season: Mardi Gras. But Adelaide hardly has time to unpack before a jewel heist interrupts a visit from foreign royalty. A priceless tiara goes missing from the hotel's safe, and three people are left dead. Detective Beau Savoie discovers the robbery was an inside job,...
4816) Black Cat
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006-2009.
Description
Durham Glaster vows to claim the title of the "ultimate gunman" from the Black Cat and beats where to find Train out of Train's friends. When the two finally meet, how far will Train go for revenge?
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Description
"Un corazón puro puede iluminar aun la noche más oscura. Y en el más terrible de los momentos de la historia. Jocelyn es la guardiana de la Biblioteca de Saint-Malo, una mujer huérfana que se aferra a la literatura y a su marido Antoine. Pero ambos corren peligro: la llegada de las tropas alemanas a la ciudad, en especial aquella del comandante Adolf Bauman, empeñado en robar algunos de los incunables que tan celosamente guarda la bibliotecaria,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Molly Gray is not like anyone else. With her flair for cleaning and proper etiquette, she has risen through the ranks of the glorious five-star Regency Grand Hotel to become the esteemed Head Maid. But just as her life reaches a pinnacle state of perfection, her world is turned upside down when J.D. Grimthorpe, the world-renowned mystery author, drops dead, very dead, on the hotel's tea room floor. When Detective Stark, Molly's old foe, investigates...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
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Description
"Once known as the best getaway driver east of the Mississippi, Beauregard "Bug" Montage has never stopped looking over his shoulder. He knows that no matter how long he has been out of the Life, no one ever gets out completely. Now Bug is an honest mechanic, a loving husband, and a hardworking dad. But when his carefully built life begins to crumble, and a former associate comes calling with a can't-miss jewelry store heist, Bug feels he has no...
4820) Keep you close
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A collection of two fan-favorite stories about a dangerous attraction and suspense filled nights. In Night Shift, Detective Fletcher must protect a late-night radio announcer from a sinister caller. In Night Moves, Maggie finds herself growing closer to her landscaper, who could be a killer.