Sorell, Gina
Summary: "My father proposed to my mother at gunpoint when she was nineteen, and knowing that she was already pregnant with a dead man’s child, she accepted." Thus begins this riveting story of a woman's quest to understand her recently deceased mother, a glamorous, cruel narcissist who left her only child, Elsie, an inheritance of debts and mysteries. While coping with threats that she suspects are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prospect Park Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SORMina, Denise
Summary: An upper-class Edinburgh housewife who enjoys listening to the sordid details of true-crime podcasts has her world turned upside down when a new podcast turns out to have connections to her own dark past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Mina 2019Seskis, Tina
Summary: "Hope Close: a leafy, tranquil backwater in the heart of the English countryside. But when Andy Meyer moves in, it soon becomes clear that picture-perfect homes can hide less-than-perfect lives. Fresh from rehab and with no interest in meeting his neighbours, Andy erects forbidding gates to keep the ghosts of his past - and any prying eyes - at bay. Next door, in the grandest house, Layla is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SESPowell, Mark
Summary: "Tess Maynard's life is coming apart. At home with her three young children in her husband's small north Georgia hometown, she is steadily becoming obsessed with an American journalist captured in Syria and being held by ISIS, sensing an eerie resonance between his captivity and her own. Meanwhile, the life of her husband is also beginning to unravel. John Maynard is a psychologist working as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWOdell, Jonathan
Summary: Two young mothers have each lost a child, but they overcome their racial differences to bring about justice in a pre-Civil Rights Mississippi town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MacAdam/Cage 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ODEFrench, Tana.
Summary: After a 12-year-old Irish lad and his two pals fail to return from a day in the woods, searchers find only the terrified sixth grader--with blood-filled shoes and no memory of what happened. Now 32, the tragedy's sole survivor Rob Ryan is a detective on Dublin's Murder Squad. A current investigation takes Rob to the exact site of his childhood trauma. With the present case chillingly similar to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FREMengestu, Dinaw
Summary: Coming of age during an African revolution, a brilliant university student-turned-fighter eventually flees the escalating violence of his country to resettle in the United States, where he is haunted by his past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MENHunt, Angela Elwell
Summary: Orphaned and severely deformed, Sarah Sims, who has been kept hidden away in a secret CIA facility, gets a chance to make a new life for herself when a miraculous operation transforms her into an independent beauty and brings about an unexpected ally.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2008
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Summary: Coming of age during an African revolution, a brilliant university student-turned-fighter eventually flees the escalating violence of his country to resettle in the United States, where he is haunted by his past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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Summary: All but one member of the Spain family lies dead, and it's up to Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy to find out why. Mick must piece together why their house is full of cameras pointed at holes in the walls and how a nighttime intruder bypassed all the locks. Meanwhile, the town of Broken Harbor holds something else for Mick--disturbing memories of a childhood summer gone terribly wrong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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Summary: All but one member of the Spain family lies dead, and it's up to Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy to find out why. Mick must piece together why their house is full of cameras pointed at holes in the walls and how a nighttime intruder bypassed all the locks. Meanwhile, the town of Broken Harbor holds something else for Mick--disturbing memories of a childhood summer gone terribly wrong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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Summary: Detective Rob Ryan and his partner, Cassie Maddox, investigate the murder of a 12-year-old girl near a Dublin suburb. The case resonates with similarities to a murder committed twenty years before that involved two children and the young Ryan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2007
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Summary: "Celebrating her birthday at her local pub, podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with a woman called Josie Fair. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. Slowly Alix starts to realize that Josie has been hiding some dark secrets, and before...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2023
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Summary: "Henri Skinner is a hardened ex-war reporter on the run from his past. On his way to see his son, Sam, for the first time in years, Henri steps into the road without looking and collides with oncoming traffic. He is rushed to a nearby hospital where he floats, comatose, between dreams, reliving the fairy tales of his childhood and the secrets that made him run away in the first place. After the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "In the early hours of a summer morning, a young woman steps into the path of an oncoming bus. A tragic accident? Or suicide? At the center of this puzzle is Adrian Wolfe, a successful architect and grief-stricken widower, who, a year after his third wife's death, begins to investigate the cause. As Adrian looks back on their brief but seemingly happy marriage, disturbing secrets begin to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHPower, Rory
Summary: "Margot doesn't know anything about her family, beyond her quiet life with her mother. But she wants more and when she finds a clue that leads her to a town called Phalene, she leaves to investigate. Only Phalene and her family history are full of secrets, some that may prove more dangerous and deadly than Margot ever could have bargained for"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POWJewell, Lisa
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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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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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC JEWGeorge, Nina
Summary: ""There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even remedies--I mean books--that were written for one person only...A book is both medic and medicine at once. It makes a diagnosis as well as offering therapy. Putting the right novels to the appropriate ailments: that's how I sell books." Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2015
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Summary: Local police have announced that they're closing the investigation of the suspected drowning of 37-year-old painter Colleen Westcott. She disappeared on April 11, 2010, and her car was found parked near the waterfront in Cleveland two days later, but her body has never been found. The chief of police has stated that no concrete evidence of foul play has been discovered in the probe. I close the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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Summary: "On the night of her wedding to Rob, Ellie's perfect world suddenly collapses. Her suave, charming, sophisticated husband is not the man she believed him to be. Could he really be a killer? Ellie is rapidly swept into a lethal vortex of betrayal, lies, and uncertainty: Who is the man she married, really? And how far will she go to protect him? From Manhattan to the Caribbean, Rob and Ellie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Sadowsky 2016Jewell, Lisa
Summary: "Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu is called to [the banks of the Thames] after a tour guide makes a shocking discovery, one that will unearth a decades-old crime linked to the unsolved murder of three people in a grand Chelsea mansion thirty years before. In another part of the city, Rachel Rimmer receives shocking news as well. Her husband, away on business in the south of France, has been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022