Falco, Michael
Summary: For young widow Bria Bartolucci, running a B&B in the sun-soaked village of Positano, Italy, was supposed to be like going on a permanent vacation. But it’s hardly la bella vita when her first guest is a dead body… On the surface, Bria’s Mediterranean life radiates beauty—the kind her late husband, Carlo, dreamed about when he concocted the romantic idea to start a bed and breakfast on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FALGiordano, Mario
Summary: "On her sixtieth birthday, Auntie Poldi retires to Sicily, intending to while away the rest of her days with good wine, a view of the sea, and few visitors. But Sicily isn't quite the tranquil island she thought it would be, and something always seems toget in the way of her relaxation. When her handsome young handyman goes missing--and is discovered murdered--she can't help but ask questions....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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Summary: "When prosecco-loving Auntie Poldi retired to Sicily from Germany, she never dreamt her tranquil days would be interrupted by murder. But Sicily had other plans, and Poldi found herself honor-bound to solve the disappearance of her beloved (and cute) handyman. Now, she's finally ready for some peace and quiet--interrupted by romantic encounters with handsome Chief Inspector Montana, of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Morgan, Sarah
Summary: "With its historic charm and picture-perfect library, the Maple Sugar Inn is considered the winter destination. As the holidays approach, the inn is fully booked with guests looking for their dream vacation. But widowed far too young, and exhausted from juggling the hotel with being a dedicated single mom, Hattie Coleman dreams only of making it through the festive season. But when Erica,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canary Street Press 2023
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Summary: A widowed antiques dealer travels with her young daughter to her late husband's boyhood home, a dwelling that still houses the evil from a crime perpetrated long ago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2013
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Summary: As an estate lawyer, an unfortunate part of Ana Kelly's day-to-day is phone calls from the next of kin informing her that one of her clients has died. Nothing could have prepared Ana for the call from Rebecca Taylor, explaining in a strangely calm tone that her husband Connor was killed in an accident. Ana had been having an affair with Connor for three years, keeping their love secret in hotel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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Summary: Set in Victorian London and an Essex village in the 1890's, and enlivened by the debates on scientific and medical discovery which defined the era, The Essex Serpent has at its heart the story of two extraordinary people who fall for each other, but not in the usual way. They are Cora Seaborne and Will Ransome. Cora is a well-to-do London widow who moves to the Essex parish of Aldwinter, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERWaters, Sarah
Summary: It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) 2014
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Summary: "Suley, Georgia, is home to Lost Lake Cottages and not much else. Which is why it's the perfect place for newly-widowed Kate and her eccentric eight-year-old daughter Devin to heal. Kate spent one memorable childhood summer at Lost Lake, had her first almost-kiss at Lost Lake, and met a boy named Wes at Lost Lake. It was a place for dreaming. But Kate doesn't believe in dreams anymore, and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLShaber, Sarah R.
Summary: In 1942 Washington, D.C., Louise Pearlie, chief file clerk at the OSS, befriends war refugee Alessa di Luca, who leads Louise down a deadly path lined with Nazi spies, Mafia bosses, and the Sicilian aristocracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHASt. Vincent, Sarah
Summary: Widowed at twenty-two, Kathleen prefers to be left alone. But when a stranger appears in the dead of winter, she finds herself in the grip of a manhunt and face-to-face with secrets of her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2018
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Summary: The first time Eby Pim saw Lost Lake, it was on a postcard, half a life ago. Now it's about to slip into Eby's past. Her husband George is long passed away and most of her demanding extended family are gone. All that's left is a once-charming collection of lakeside cabins succumbing to the Southern Georgia heat and an assortment of faithful misfits drawn back to Lost Lake year after year by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALLCrow, Sarah McCraw
Summary: An early-1970s widow becomes increasingly dependent on the feminist activists her professor husband and she once disdained, before a frat party and a Vietnam War protest gone wrong threaten her daughter's prospects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2020
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Summary: A young widow living in the Pennsylvania mountains and flipping burgers for hunters and hikers befriends a stranger visiting from Uzbekistan and becomes embroiled in a manhunt after he confesses to committing a terrible crime in his home country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2018