Summary: A down on his luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later the night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele, who has a history of violent behavior, becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: Summer, 1962. A scorching heat wave is suffocating L.A. PI John Keegan is offered a small fortune to find a beautiful woman from a set of photographs. He refuses: the job seems suspicious. But the next day the same woman, Eve, turns up, unbidden, on his doorstep. Eve fears for her safety. She is being watched. Before Keegan knows it, someone has been killed with Keegan's own gun, and he gets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Legend Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCOwens, Delia
Summary: "Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC OWEJacobs, Jonnie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACSummary: Edward is the only witness to his father's suicide and is a member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion. These are the qualities that help him become recruited for a career in the newly founded Office of Strategic Services (CIA). While working there, his ideals gradually turn to suspicion influenced by the Cold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2007
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Summary: "A seasoned cop's interest in a mysterious one-eyed girl takes her back to the worst night of her life in this fast-paced thriller from the internationally bestselling author of Black-Eyed Susans. They call her Angel. Found on the side of a remote highway, half-dead and blowing wishes in a field of dandelions, the young girl refuses to speak. No one knows who she is or where she came from--only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The peaceful life of two aging sisters is shattered when they take in a young Polish violinist who they find injured after having been washed ashore near their coastal English home. Their town is suspicious of any visitors and things get worse when he befriends a Russian woman who is visiting the town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005
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Summary: "One seemingly perfect American family finds themselves targeted for destruction after the shocking murder of a family friend in the park behind their backyard. Early one morning, Danielle Roberts, who lives next door to the Pollitts and has for a decade been like family to them, is found dead just beyond their property line, throwing the exclusive Winding Creek neighborhood of a wealthy Austin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABBAbbott, Rachel
Summary: "The first time Jemma and Matt were invited to Polskirrin -- the palatial ocean-view home belonging to Matt's old friend Lucas Jarrett -- it was for an intimate wedding that ended in tragedy. Jemma will never forget the sight of the girl's pale, doll-like body bobbing listlessly toward the rocky shore. Now, exactly one year later, Jemma and her husband have reluctantly returned at Lucas's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABBCannon, Joanna
Summary: "A NICE, NORMAL HOUSE ... Linda has lived in a quiet neighborhood ever since fleeing the dark events of her childhood in Wales. Now she sits in her kitchen, wondering if this is all there is--pushing the vacuum around and cooking fish sticks for supper is a far cry from the glamorous lifestyle she sees in the glossy catalogues coming through the mail slot addressed to the previous occupant,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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Summary: Visiting a friend in 1926 Derbyshire, Daisy learns that her friend has been ghost-writing a popular novelist's most recent, and more successful, works while the novelist succumbs to a suspicious illness, compelling Daisy to investigate other members of his household.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNRosenfield, Kat
Summary: "A spooky and witty Knives Out-style whodunnit featuring a long-ago love affair, icy death, and a rich family gone bad, from Kat Rosenfield, the acclaimed author of the Edgar nominated No One Will Miss Her"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2023
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Summary: Miss Julia takes a trip to the beach, only to confront a hurricane roiling off the coast--and all the trouble it washes ashore.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROSWalker, Caroline Louise
Summary: Dr. Robert Hart, Sag Harbor's just-named Man of the Year, is the envy of his friends and neighbors. His medical practice is thriving. He has a beautiful old house and a beautiful new wife and a beautiful boat docked in the village marina. Even his wayward son, Jonah, is back on track, doing well at school, finally worthy of his father's attentions. So when Jonah's troubled college roommate,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WALSummary: Jamal Malik is an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" When the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating. Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SLUSummary: Steve Kurtz's nightmare began on May 11, 2004, when he awoke to find his wife dead of heart failure. Police responding to his distressed 911 call became suspicious of biological equipment in his house and contacted the FBI. Only hours after his wife's tragic death, he found himself detained as a suspected "bioterrorist," as dozens of federal agents in Hazmat suites scoured his home, seizing his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Video Group 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STRBarron, Stephanie.
Summary: "The twelfth installment in Stephanie Barron's fan-favorite Being a Jane Austen Mystery series. Christmas Eve, 1814: Jane Austen has been invited to spend the holiday with family and friends at The Vyne, the gorgeous ancestral home of the wealthy and politically prominent Chute family. As the year fades and friends begin to gather beneath the mistletoe for the twelve days of Christmas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARLowell, Elizabeth
Summary: Nobody believes that Kayla Shaw is innocent, and not a money launderer hiding millions. She has nowhere to turn except Rand McCreem, who will offer her safety--for a price. The man who is now after Kayla murdered Rand's brother, and she's the ticket to sweet revenge.
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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 LOWSierra, Tracy
Summary: "A razor-sharp thriller about a mother forced to the breaking point when her life and the lives of her children are threatened by a stranger"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books / Viking 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEChristie, Agatha
Summary: Thirteen guests gather for drinks at actor Charles Cartwright?s seaside escape. Benign Reverend Babbington, who rarely imbibes, takes one sip of his beverage and keels over dead. Soon after Sir Bartholomew Strange convenes the same party and meets his own end after swallowing port. One death could be natural, but two mean murder. Hercule Poirot, who was present at both affairs, stages a third...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In Season 3, Ryan starts to doubt his own sanity, but that doesn't stop Wilfred from playing mind games that drive his best friend, well, crazy. Love is in the air as Wilfred falls for a bitch in heat and the sexual tension between Ryan and Jenna builds to a climax. It all ends with a mind-bending season finale that may unravel the mystery of Wilfred's existence ... or not."--Container insert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WILSummary: A true crime satire that explores the aftermath of a costly high school prank that left twenty-seven faculty cars vandalized with phallic images. Over the course of the eight-episode season, an aspiring sophomore documentarian Peter Maldanaldo investigates the controversial and potentially unjust expulsion of Dylan Maxwell, the troubled senior accused of the phallic vandalization. A parody done...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMER.E.M. (Musical group)
Contents: Airportman -- Lotus -- Suspicion -- Hope -- At my most beautiful -- The apologist -- Sad professor -- You're in the air -- Walk unafraid -- Why not smile -- Daysleeper -- Diminished -- Parakeet -- Falls to climb.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK REMLP
Contents: Muddy waters -- No witness -- Lost on you -- When we're high -- Switchblade -- Up against me -- Suspicion -- Other people -- Tightrope -- Strange -- Death Valley -- You want it all -- Long way to go to die.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vagrant Records. 2017