Hawkins, Rachel
Summary: "When Chess suggests a girls' trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance. Villa Aestas in Orvieto is a high-end holiday home now, but in 1974, it was known as Villa Rosato and rented by rock star Noel Gordon. In an attempt to reignite his creative spark, Noel invites up-and-coming musician, Pierce Sheldon to join him, as well as Pierce's girlfriend, Mari, and her stepsister, Lara. A chain of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal, an experience that shocks him to his core. Two centuries later a famous writer named...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2022
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Summary: Sara Medlar's found herself back in her hometown of Lachlan, Florida, remodeling a grand old mansion. Sara's niece Kate is offered a job in Lachlan, and accepts immediately. She'll have to approach her aunt for a place to stay while she gets herself settled. When she arrives, she finds that Jackson Wyatt already has his own room. When two skeletons are uncovered in town, this unlikely trio is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Llc 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DEVHoward, Catherine Ryan
Summary: I was the girl who survived the Nothing Man. Now I am the woman who is going to catch him ... At the age of twelve, Eve Black was the only member of her family to survive an encounter with serial attacker -- the Nothing Man. Now an adult, she is obsessed with identifying the man who destroyed her life. Supermarket security guard Jim Doyle has just started reading The Nothing Man--the true-crime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "Agnes Murphy Nash is the perfect Hollywood wife - she has the right friends, the right clothes, and even a side career of her own as a writer. Her husband Trevor is a bigshot producer, and from the outside it looks like they're living a picture-perfect celebrity life, complete with tennis tournaments and lavish parties. But the job description of a Hollywood wife doesn't cover divorce, which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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Summary: Bryn Harper, an accomplished self-help author, already has plenty to deal with. She's still recovering from a devastating car accident that has left her haunted by recurring, smoke-filled nightmares. Worse still, she can't shake the ominous feeling her dreams contain a warning. In the beginning, Bryn's husband Guy couldn't have been more supportive. But after moving into a new house together,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "The president of a reclusive writer's fan club is found dead after a book signing. Charlotte Reed, the owner of Chapters B&B and her neighbors Ellen and Ellen's trusty Yorkshire terrier, must page through the clues to catch a killer before the author meets the same fate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2021
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Summary: "Judy never intended to start wearing the dog. But when she stumbled across her son Teddy's old baby sling during a halfhearted basement cleaning, something in her snapped. So: the dog went into the sling, Judy felt connected to another living being, and she's repeated the process every day since. Life hasn't gone according to Judy's plan. Her career as a children's book author offered a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: Kaylee Sloan's home in Southern California is full of wonderful memories of the woman who raised her. But the memories are prolonging her grief over her mother's recent death. A successful author, Kaylee she has terrible writer's block and a looming deadline. Determined to escape distractions Kaylee borrows a cabin in Virgin River. She knows the isolation will help her writing, until she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing/Gale Cengage 2020
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Summary: Wylie Lark is snowed in at the farmhouse where she's retreated to write her new book. Decades ago, in this very house, two people were murdered and a girl disappeared. Now, Wylie discovers a small child outside.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2022
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Summary: Sara Medlar is a household name in romance, with millions of books sold. But lately, retirement has been boring her and she's found herself back in her hometown of Lachlan, Florida, remodeling the grand old mansion she'd admired as a child. It's much too big for her alone, but she'd die before letting anyone in town know that. Then Sara's niece Kate is offered a job in Lachlan - a start in what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY DEVHutton, Callie
Summary: "Bath, England, 1891. Mystery author Lady Amy Lovell is set to tie the knot with Lord William Wethington, but on the eve of the ceremony, the festive air in the drawing room is marred by Mrs. Alice Finch's argument with her husband, Albert. The next morning, Alice falls face-first into her breakfast--dead. The detectives charge Albert with the murder, but there are too many things that don't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HUTBaggott, Julianna
Summary: "A tale of star-crossed love and of the dark secrets in a fracturing family told in four distinct voices: the mysterious Harriet, who, until now, has never revealed the secrets of her past; her fiery, overprotective daughter, Eleanor; and her two grown granddaughters, Tilton and Ruth"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BAGMorton, Kate
Summary: "A suspenseful novel involving a mystery writer whose family was devastated when she was sixteen when her infant brother disappeared without a trace. Decades later a young detective from London stumbles upon the ruins of the family's lakeside estate in Cornwall and begins digging into the unsolved case"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FICTION MORClay, James
Summary: "Raffe Driscoll is a killer and thief who is falsely known as a saintly avenger who aids the poor. An unscrupulous newspaperman has bestowed the title of "Justice Rider" on the vicious hoodlum in a move to accrue power. Josephine Barrett, a British novelist who is touring America, has become fascinated by the stories of the Robin Hood of the Wild West. Barrett arranges for a personal interview...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CLABrookner, Anita.
Summary: Edith Hope, a successful mature novelist, has made a fool of herself over love and is sent by her friends to a Swiss hotel to come to her senses. Instead of writing a new romance novel, she finds herself preoccupied with her fellow guests.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROGraham, Heather.
Summary: In a Scottish cemetery, Jade MacGregor's carefree vacation abroad is marred by a seemingly random tragedy. A year later, back home on a shadowy French Quarter street, she glimpses an oddly familiar face. Surrounded by her friends and engrossed in her work, Jade should feel secure. But somebody is dogging her every move. Somebody who knows what she saw on that long ago afternoon. Somebody who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2013
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Summary: "Abandoned by her mother at age seven, Alexandra Winslow took solace in the mystery stories she read with her devoted father--and soon she was writing them herself, slowly graduating to dark, violent, complex crime stories that reflected skill and imagination far beyond her years. After her father's early death, at fourteen Alex is taken in by the nuns of a local convent, where she finds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Steel 2017Malle, Mirion
Summary: "In This is How I Disappear, Mirion Malle paints an empathetic portait of a young woman wrestling with psychological stress and the trauma following an experience of sexual assault. Malle displays frankness and a remarkable emotional intelligence as she explores depression, isolation, and self-harm in her expertly-drawn novel. Her heroine battles an onslaught of painful emotions and while Clara...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2021