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Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) Fiction FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense Forensic sciences Study and teaching Fiction Large type books Missouri Fiction Murder Fiction Serial murder investigation Fiction Serial murders Fiction Women Crimes against Fiction Women forensic scientists FictionJacobs, Liska
Summary: A trip to Italy reignites a woman's desires to disastrous effect in this dark ode to womanhood, death, and sex.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACJacobs, Liska
Summary: "A novel about a young woman who loses her job and her boyfriend and spirals down a dark path of self-destruction that threatens to harm anyone close to her."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/FSG Originals 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACSavage, Lila
Summary: A beautiful, bracingly honest debut novel about the triangle formed between a young woman and the couple whose life she enters one transformative year: a story about love and compassion, the fluidity of desire, and the myriad ways of devotion. Ella is nearing thirty, and not yet living the life she imagined. Her artistic ambitions as a student in Minnesota have given way to an unintended career...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAVAlbert, Elisa
Summary: On the eve of her fourth album, singer-songwriter Aviva Rosner is plagued by infertility. The twist: as much as Aviva wants a child, she is wary of technological conception, and has poured her ambivalence into her music. As the album makes its way in the world, the shock of the response from fans and critics is at first exciting--and then invasive and strange. Aviva never wanted to be famous,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBWard, Liza.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M WARBlock, Francesca Lia.
Summary: Forty-year-old Weetzie Bat decides to pack her bag, leave her secret-agent boyfriend, Max, and head out for Los Angeles to find herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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Summary: "A twisty, domestic suspense debut about a clique of mothers that shatters when one of their own is murdered, bringing chaos to their curated idyll. She was the perfect wife, with the perfect life. You would kill to have it... Ciara Murphy has it all - a loving husband, well-behaved children, and a beautiful home. Her circle of friends in their small Irish village go to her for tips about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOSNutting, Alissa.
Summary: Becoming a teacher to fulfill her passion for fourteen-year-old boys, Celeste Price, an eighth grade teacher in suburban Tampa, sets her sights on Jack Patrick, who willingly accepts her terms for a secret relationship while she destroys his life for herown pleasure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NUTNutting, Alissa
Summary: Moving to a senior citizen trailer park with her father, Hazel, the estranged wife of a corporate CEO who demanded she install a brain chip so that they could be constantly connected, tries to carve out a new life while her ex uses sophisticated technology to stalk her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NUTGardner, Lisa.
Summary: Nicole Frank, after surviving a car accident, enlists the help of Boston police officer Sergeant Wyatt Foster to find a missing girl. Who is Nicky Frank, and what happened the night her car sailed off the road? Was it a random accident or something more sinister given the woman's lack of family and no close friends? The deeper Wyatt digs, the more concerned he becomes. Because it turns out, in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GARHalliday, Lisa
Summary: "Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice. The first section, "Folly," tells the story of Alice, a young American editor, and her relationship with the famous and much older writer Ezra Blazer. A tender and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALHarding, Lisa
Summary: "Sonya used to perform on stage. She used to attend glamorous parties, date handsome men, ride in fast cars. But somewhere along the way, the stage lights Sonya lived for dimmed for good. And then, in their absence, came darkness--blackouts, empty cupboards, hazy nights she can't remember. Haunted by her failed career and unresolved childhood trauma, Sonya has fallen deep into an alcoholic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she's been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am. She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London's fashionable Chelsea...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JEWJewell, Lisa
Summary: "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone and The Family Upstairs comes another riveting work of "gloriously twisted" (Marie Claire) psychological suspense. On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend. One year later, a writer moves into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEWJewell, Lisa
Summary: "Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SAMScottoline, Lisa
Summary: TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their eponymous law firm, except him. He works at the firm as its investigator, after rehab for alcoholism and a stint in prison. One night, TJ's older brother John tells him that he killed his client, an accountant, in self-defense, during a fight that ensued after John had confronted the accountant with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Joan has spent a lifetime enduring the cruelties of men. But when one of them commits a shocking act of violence in front of her, she flees New York City in search of Alice, the only person alive who can help her make sense of her past. In the sweltering hills above Los Angeles, Joan unravels the horrific event she witnessed as a child--that has haunted her every waking moment--while forging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TADCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TADTucker, Lisa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Downtown Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TUCUnger, Lisa
Summary: A master manipulator and compulsive liar, Lana Granger, with her trust fund almost depleted, takes a job babysitting a troubled boy named Luke, who, accustomed to controlling the people in his life, threatens to reveal the truth about her involvement in the disappearance of her closest friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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Summary: "It's been a year since Poppy's husband, Jack, was brutally murdered during his morning run through Manhattan's Riverside Park. In the immediate aftermath, Poppy spiraled into an oblivion of grief, disappearing for several days only to turn up ragged and confused wearing a tight red dress she didn't recognize. What happened to Poppy during those lost days? And more importantly, what happened to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION UNGWingate, Lisa.
Summary: After Karen Sommerfield is suddenly forced to deal with the threat of cancer at the same time her company downsizes her, she returns to the rural Missouri Ozarks and her grandmother's old farm on an odyssey to find herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NAL Accent 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINWingate, Lisa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2005
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Summary: The Locard Institute is a state-of-the-art forensic research center where experts from around the world come together to confront and solve the world's most challenging and perplexing crimes. When Dr. Ellie Carr arrives for her first day as an instructor at the prestigious facility, the buildings glimmer amid the brilliant fall foliage on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. But within hours a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023