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Turner, J. B.

Summary: NYPD Detective Jack McNeal is overcome by disbelief and despair upon the discovery of his wife's murder. To avenge her death, he embarks on a journey into the darkest recesses of power.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TUR

Winslow, Don

Summary: Danny Ryan, a young widower and mob underboss, has left the East Coast and settled in California with his young son in tow. The move has been good for Danny; in his new base of operations, his power, influence, and wealth have grown. Now he's heading up to Hollywood to rein in two of his crew, who are shaking down a film being made about their involvement in the New England crime war. At the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WIN

Swanson, Peter

Summary: "Years ago, bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a list of the genre's most unsolvable murders, those that are almost impossible to crack--which he titled "Eight Perfect Murders"--chosen from among the best of the best including Agatha Christie's A. B. C. Murders, Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, Ira Levin's Death Trap, A. A. Milne's Red House Mystery, Anthony...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWA

Swanson, Peter

Summary: "The story of a bookseller who finds himself at the center of an FBI investigation because a very clever killer has started using his list of fiction's most ingenious murders" --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SWA

Hawkins, Rachel

Summary: Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates, a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. The kind of place where no one will notice if Jane lifts the discarded tchotchkes and jewelry off the side tables of her well-heeled clients. Where no one will think to ask if Jane is her real name. But her luck changes when...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAW

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAW

Beinhart, Larry

Summary: Ex-private eye Tony Casella lives in the Catskill mountains, a lonely old tough guy whose body can no longer do what it once did. His wife and son are dead; his daughter barely talks to him; his bank is threatening to repossess his house. But a chance encounter with a rich young woman on a train changes everything. He is hired to kill her superrich, Jeffrey Epstein-ish husband. That job leads...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEI

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BEI

Hawkins, Rachel

Summary: Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates, a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. The kind of place where no one will notice if Jane lifts the discarded tchotchkes and jewelry off the side tables of her well-heeled clients. Where no one will think to ask if Jane is her real name. But her luck changes when...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021

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King, Stephen

Summary: In "A Face in the Crowd," widower Dean Evers sees faces from his past while watching baseball; and in "The Longest December," the Howard family struggles to see their kind and gentle neighbor James Wilkinson as the violent criminal the police are investigating.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cemetery Dance Publications 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIN

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIN

Perry, Thomas

Summary: To all appearances, Dan Chase is a harmless retiree in Vermont with two big mutts and a grown daughter he keeps in touch with by phone. But most sixty-year-old widowers don't have multiple driver's licenses, savings stockpiled in banks across the country, and a bugout kit with two Beretta Nanos stashed in the spare bedroom closet. Most have not spent decades on the run. Thirty-five years ago,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PER

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PER

Gabriele, Lisa

Summary: "A spellbindingly suspenseful new novel set in the moneyed world of the Hamptons, about secrets that refuse to remain buried and consequences that can't be escaped. After a whirlwind romance, a young woman returns to the opulent, secluded Long Island mansion of her new fiancé Max Winter--a wealthy politician and recent widower--and a life of luxury she's never known. But all is not as it...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAB

Bradby, Tom

Summary: London, 1953. Harry Tower is a recently widowed and world-weary British spy, out of favor and down on his luck. After a night spent drinking away his sorrows, he is awakened by a phone call with chilling news. His estranged son Sean has gone missing in Tehran after writing a damning article about the involvement of government officials in the opium trade. Harry springs to action, eager to...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRA

Coben, Harlan

Summary: Marc Seidman awakens to find himself in an ICU, hooked up to an IV, his head swathed in bandages. Twelve days earlier, he had an enviable life as a successful surgeon, living in a peaceful suburban neighborhood with his beautiful wife and a baby he adored. Now he lies in a hospital bed, shot by an unseen assailant. His wife has been killed, and his six-month-old daughter, Tara, has vanished....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2016

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COB

Freeman, Brian

Summary: One rainy night, the unthinkable happens: Dylan Moran's car plunges off the road into a raging river, his beautiful wife drowning as he struggles to shore. In the aftermath, through his grief, Dylan experiences sudden, strange visions: wherever he goes, he's haunted by glimpses of himself. Dylan initially chalks it up to trauma, but that changes when he runs into a psychiatrist who claims he's...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRE

Kane, Darby

Summary: Elisa Wright is a mom and wife, living a nice, quiet life in a nice, quiet town. She's also convinced her brother-in-law is a murderer. Josh has one dead wife and one missing fiancée, and though he grieved for them he starts dating someone new. Elisa fears for that woman's safety, and she desperately wants to know what happened to her friend, Josh's missing fiancée. Searching for clues means...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC KAN

Kerik, Bernard B.

Summary: When a New York City police commissioner confronts a killer, he discovers a terrorist plot that threatens to bring the worst destruction to the city since the September 11th attacks.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Humanix Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KER

Rayburn, James

Summary: "Agents of the state murdered his wife and took his son. Now they're coming for Danny Ash. Framed as a terrorist, the mild-mannered stay-at-home dad, desperate to find his child, has to evade both law enforcement and killers in the pay of shadowy vulture capitalist Victor Fabian, whose influence reaches deep into the White House. Fabian, battling political enemies and the creeping dementia that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAY

Belle, Kimberly

Summary: "When Charlotte married older and wealthy widower Paul, it caused a ripple of gossip in their small lakeside town. They have a charmed life together, despite the cruel whispers about her trailer-park past and his first marriage. But everything starts to unravel when she discovers a young woman's body floating in the exact same spot where Paul's first wife tragically drowned."--Publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEL

King, Stephen

16 holds on 14 copies

Summary: "You like it darker? Fine, so do I," writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life--both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIN

Williams, Shanora

Summary: "Samira Wilder has never had it easy ... Until she unexpectedly meets a man who will change her life forever. Renowned pro golfer Roland Graham is wealthy, handsome, and caring, and ... though their relationship moves a bit fast, when Roland proposes, Samira accepts. She even agrees to relocate to his secluded Colorado mansion ... Samira settles into the mansion, blissfully happy--until she...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina 2022

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Belle, Kimberly

Summary: When Charlotte married older and wealthy widower Paul, it caused a ripple of gossip in their small lakeside town. They have a charmed life together, despite the cruel whispers about her trailer-park past and his first marriage. But everything starts to unravel when she discovers a young woman's body floating in the exact same spot where Paul's first wife tragically drowned.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BEL

Kane, Darby

Summary: "Can one man be that unlucky? Elisa Wright is a mom and wife, living a nice, quiet life in a nice, quiet town. She's also convinced her brother-in-law is a murderer. Josh has one dead wife and one missing fiancée, and though he grieved for them he starts dating someone new. Elisa fears for that woman's safety, and she desperately wants to know what happened to her friend, Josh's missing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAN

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAN

Mitchard, Jacquelyn

Summary: "Just hours after his wife and her entire family perish in the Christmas Eve tsunami in Brisbane, American expat and former police officer Frank Mercy goes out to join his volunteer rescue unit and pulls a little boy from a submerged car, saving the child's life with only seconds to spare. In that moment, Frank's own life is transformed. Not quite knowing why, Frank sidesteps the law, when,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIT

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FICTION MIT

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mitchard 2016

Hawkins, Rachel

3 holds on 6 copies

Summary: "A delicious twist on a Gothic classic, Rachel Hawkins's The Wife Upstairs pairs Southern charm with atmospheric domestic suspense, perfect for fans of B.A. Paris and Megan Miranda. Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates--a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. The kind of place where no one will notice...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAW

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAW

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAW

Haas, Derek

Summary: Anti-hero Columbus endures self-imposed exile in the aftermath of losing his family, before elements from his past arrive to kill him in one of several possible, endlessly brutal ways.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAA

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