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61) Summer breeze
Author
Series
Historical Coulter family novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Author
Series
Publisher
37 Ink/Atria
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"American expat Paul Leibovitz was once an ambitious advisor, dedicated father, and loving husband. But after living for nearly thirty years in Hong Kong, personal tragedy strikes and Paul's marriage unravels in the fallout. Now Paul is living as a recluse on an outlying island of Hong Kong. When he makes a fleeting connection with Elizabeth, a distressed American woman on the verge of collapse, his life is thrown into turmoil. Less than twenty-four...
65) Eyrie
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"An exhilarating new book from Australia's most acclaimed writer Tim Winton is Australia's most decorated and beloved literary novelist. Short-listed twice for the Booker Prize and the winner of a record four Miles Franklin Awards for Best Australian Novel, he has a gift for language virtually unrivaled among English-language novelists. His work is both tough and tender, primordial and new--always revealing the raw, instinctual drives that lure us...
Author
Series
The Oldminster Mysteries volume Book 3
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
CAN YOU UNLOCK THE SECRET OF BAGNETT HALL?
Janet Baxter is a con woman on the run from her obsessive ex. One dark and stormy night, she stumbles across rambling old Bagnett Hall. She's struck gold.
Bridget Messite, the lady of the house, invites her in. She offers Janet a job and a place to stay. No questions asked.
The arrangement suits Janet just fine. Until Bridget drops dead, leaving Janet with quite the dilemma.
The mistress of Bagnett Hall...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Once presided over by a Roaring '20s Hollywood mogul, the magnificent West Coast estate known as Roseland now harbors a reclusive billionaire financier and his faithful servants -- and their guests: Odd Thomas, the young fry cook who sees the dead and tries to help them, and Annamaria, his inscrutably charming traveling companion. Fresh from a harrowing clash with lethal adversaries, they welcome their host's hospitality. But Odd's extraordinary eye...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Lisa Power is a tortured ghost of her former self. The author of a bestselling thriller called Thief River Falls, named after her rural Minnesota hometown, Lisa is secluded in her remote house as she struggles with the loss of her entire family: a series of tragedies she calls the "Dark Star." Then a nameless runaway boy shows up at her door with a terrifying story - he's just escaped death after witnessing a brutal murder - a crime the police want...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Come hell or high water, Emmy Jo Massey will have a wedding. After three generations of Massey women with children out of wedlock, she wants the whole town of Hickory, Texas, to witness the legitimacy of her union with Logan Grady. But dream weddings aren't cheap. So she accepts a highly lucrative stint as a home health assistant to retired realtor, and town recluse, Seth Thomas-- a decision her great-grandmother Tandy is dead-set against. Seth isn't...
71) The shut-in
Author
Series
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
I know you're watching me.
Confined to a studio apartment, Tricia Celano watches the outside world through a flying drone. But when her high-tech toy records a vicious murder, she's determined to track down the killer--a killer who knows she's being watched.
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72) The skeleton key
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Summer, 2021. Nell has come home at her family's insistence to celebrate an anniversary. Fifty years ago, her father wrote The Golden Bones. Part picture book, part treasure hunt, Sir Frank Churcher created a fairy story about Elinore, a murdered woman whose skeleton was scattered all over England. Clues and puzzles in the pages of The Golden Bones led readers to seven sites where jewels were buried - gold and precious stones, each a different part...
74) The twisted dead
Author
Series
Gravekeeper novels volume 3
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"USA Today bestseller and rising queen of atmospheric horror Darcy Coates returns with a ghost story that will haunt you long after the final page. Keira is ready for a normal life. Hunted and haunted, all she wants is to put her mysterious past behind her and move forward with her new friends as Blighty Graveyard's groundskeeper. But then she receives an invitation to dinner at the local recluse's crumbling ancestral estate. The mansion is steeped...
Author
Publisher
Anansi International
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Galo has not left his home on Amsterdam Street, not since the day in 1938 when a shocking act of violence split his family apart. His hermitage is made easier by the peculiar design of the street. It is shaped like an ellipse -- if you walk it, you will find yourself returning to the same place again and again. Playing host to Jewish refugees, Spanish exiles, and Latin American revolutionaries, his home becomes the school at which Galo learns about...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years after losing most of his family to a devastating, pudding-related tragedy, Simon Debovar has settled into a life of self-imposed exile from the stinking, selfish morass of humanity. Content that his daily highlights will include hazelnut coffee, a long bath, and the occasional jar of olives, his life is completely upturned by the discovery that his ornate living room carpet is the deciding factor in a bet between God and Satan. When...
Author
Series
Shell House detectives mystery volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Late one night, a distraught young man knocks on the door of retired and recently widowed Ally Bright's remote home on the Cornish coast. But before she can make sense of his confused words, he's gone--not to be seen again until he's found the next morning at the foot of the nearby cliffs. In an instant, the peace of Ally's beachcombing life is shattered. Feeling responsible for the young man's fate, she wants to help find answers--as does ex-cop...
80) Make it sweet
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Life for Emma isn't good. The world knows her as Princess Anya on Dark Castle, but then her character gets the ax, literally. The cherry on top is finding her boyfriend in bed with another woman. She needs a break, and sanctuary comes in the form of Rosemont, a gorgeous estate in California promising rest and relaxation. Then she meets the owner's equally gorgeous grandson, ex-hockey player, and current recluse Lucian Osmond, and she sees her own...
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