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Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) Fiction Family secrets Fiction FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense FICTION / Women Forensic sciences Study and teaching Fiction Missing persons Fiction Murder Fiction Serial murder investigation Fiction Serial murders Fiction Women Crimes against FictionJacobs, Liska
Summary: A trip to Italy reignites a woman's desires to disastrous effect in this dark ode to womanhood, death, and sex.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACParis, B. A.
Summary: It's Livia's 40th birthday, and her husband Adam is throwing her the party of a lifetime to make up for the wedding they never had. Everyone she loves will be there, except her daughter Marnie, who's studying abroad. But although Livia loves Marnie, she's secretly glad she won't be there. Livia has recently uncovered a secret about their daughter which, if revealed, will shake the foundation of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2020
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Summary: "A novel about a young woman who loses her job and her boyfriend and spirals down a dark path of self-destruction that threatens to harm anyone close to her."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/FSG Originals 2017
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Summary: A beautiful, bracingly honest debut novel about the triangle formed between a young woman and the couple whose life she enters one transformative year: a story about love and compassion, the fluidity of desire, and the myriad ways of devotion. Ella is nearing thirty, and not yet living the life she imagined. Her artistic ambitions as a student in Minnesota have given way to an unintended career...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAVAlbert, Elisa
Summary: On the eve of her fourth album, singer-songwriter Aviva Rosner is plagued by infertility. The twist: as much as Aviva wants a child, she is wary of technological conception, and has poured her ambivalence into her music. As the album makes its way in the world, the shock of the response from fans and critics is at first exciting--and then invasive and strange. Aviva never wanted to be famous,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc 2022
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Summary: For the first eighteen years of her life, Rose Gold Watts believed she was seriously ill. She was allergic to everything, used a wheelchair and practically lived at the hospital. Neighbors did all they could, holding fundraisers and offering shoulders to cry on, but no matter how many doctors, tests, or surgeries, no one could figure out what was wrong with Rose Gold. Turns out her mom, Patty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Wrobel 2020Block, Francesca Lia.
Summary: Forty-year-old Weetzie Bat decides to pack her bag, leave her secret-agent boyfriend, Max, and head out for Los Angeles to find herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLOWard, Liza.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M WARBose, Disha
Summary: "A twisty, domestic suspense debut about a clique of mothers that shatters when one of their own is murdered, bringing chaos to their curated idyll. She was the perfect wife, with the perfect life. You would kill to have it... Ciara Murphy has it all - a loving husband, well-behaved children, and a beautiful home. Her circle of friends in their small Irish village go to her for tips about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOSNutting, Alissa.
Summary: Becoming a teacher to fulfill her passion for fourteen-year-old boys, Celeste Price, an eighth grade teacher in suburban Tampa, sets her sights on Jack Patrick, who willingly accepts her terms for a secret relationship while she destroys his life for herown pleasure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NUTNutting, Alissa
Summary: Moving to a senior citizen trailer park with her father, Hazel, the estranged wife of a corporate CEO who demanded she install a brain chip so that they could be constantly connected, tries to carve out a new life while her ex uses sophisticated technology to stalk her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NUTBlack, Lisa
Summary: When Dr. Ellie Carr arrives for her first day as an instructor at the prestigious Locard Institute, the buildings glimmer amid the brilliant fall foliage on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. But within hours a colleague, Dr. Barbara Wright, is found dead on the floor of a supply closet. Her death appears to be an accident, but Ellie and her new supervisor, Dr. Rachael Davies, suspect a more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BLABlack, Lisa
Summary: The Locard Institute is a state-of-the-art forensic research center where experts from around the world come together to confront and solve the world's most challenging and perplexing crimes. When Dr. Ellie Carr arrives for her first day as an instructor at the prestigious facility, the buildings glimmer amid the brilliant fall foliage on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. But within hours a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAJackson, Lisa.
Summary: Ava has spent most of the past two years in and out of Seattle mental institutions, shattered by grief and unable to recall the details of Noah's disappearance. Now she's back at the family estate she once intended to restore to its former grandeur. But as Ava's mind comes back into focus, her suspicions grow. Ava can't shake the feeling that her family and her psychologist know more than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JACJewell, Lisa
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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEWScottoline, Lisa
Summary: "Jason Bennett is a suburban dad who owns a court-reporting business, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving his family home after his daughter's field hockey game when a pickup truck begins tailgating them, on a dark stretch of road. Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. A horrific flash of violence changes his life forever." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ScottolineTucker, Lisa.
Summary: Having been raised in utopian isolation by her once-famous Hollywood father, twenty-three-year-old Dorothea leaves their New Mexico sanctuary in search of her missing brother, befriends a homeless jazz singer and a doctor-turned cabdriver, and discovers terrifying truths about her family's past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TUCUnger, Lisa
Summary: She met him through a dating app; what she thought might be just a quick hookup quickly became much more. She fell for him, hard. Then, just as things were getting real, he stood her up. Then he disappeared: profiles deleted, phone disconnected. She was ghosted. Soon she learns there were others. Girls who thought they were in love... girls who later went missing. She had been looking for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2021
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC UNGUnger, Lisa
Summary: "Twelve-year-old Rain Winter narrowly escaped an abduction while walking to a friend's house. Her two best friends, Tess and Hank, were not as lucky. Tess never came home, and Hank was held in captivity before managing to escape. Their abductor was sent to prison but years later was released. Then someone delivered real justice and killed him in cold blood. Now Rain is living the perfect...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M UNGGardner, Lisa.
Summary: Nicole Frank, after surviving a car accident, enlists the help of Boston police officer Sergeant Wyatt Foster to find a missing girl. Who is Nicky Frank, and what happened the night her car sailed off the road? Was it a random accident or something more sinister given the woman's lack of family and no close friends? The deeper Wyatt digs, the more concerned he becomes. Because it turns out, in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GARHalliday, Lisa
Summary: "Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice. The first section, "Folly," tells the story of Alice, a young American editor, and her relationship with the famous and much older writer Ezra Blazer. A tender and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALHarding, Lisa
Summary: "Sonya used to perform on stage. She used to attend glamorous parties, date handsome men, ride in fast cars. But somewhere along the way, the stage lights Sonya lived for dimmed for good. And then, in their absence, came darkness--blackouts, empty cupboards, hazy nights she can't remember. Haunted by her failed career and unresolved childhood trauma, Sonya has fallen deep into an alcoholic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARJewell, 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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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JEWJewell, Lisa
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