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Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 5
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English
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Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and attractive houses are tucked far away from the noise and grime of city life, allowing the residents to enjoy beautiful gardens, pleasant birdsong, and tranquility from behind the security of a locked gate. It is the perfect idyll, until the Kentworthy family arrives, with their four giant, gas-guzzling cars, gaggle of shrieking children, and plans for a garish swimming pool in the...
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Publisher
Ember
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Sarah wakes up dead at the Mall of America only to find she was murdered, and she must work with a group of dead teenagers to finish up the unresolved business of their former lives while preventing her murderer from killing again.
4) GET EVEN
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Publisher
HEADLINE BOOK PUBLISHING
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Sharon Conway and Lenny Scott are childhood sweethearts. Everyone says they are too young, but nothing can keep them apart. Sharon doesn't question Lenny's business dealings and it isn't long before his reputation as a hard man destined for the top means they are living the good life with their sons. But one night Lenny doesn't come home. It isn't the first time he has gone AWOL - but it is his last. He is found murdered; beaten to death in an act...
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Winding Road Stories
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Becca Flynn, an artist-turned private investigator, never dreamed underwear could cause an uproar. But that’s what happens when her best friend, Pix, opens a lingerie boutique in quaint Bayleys Landing. The too-hot-for Main Street undies infuriate the staid residents, and making matters worse, a tabloid TV show invades the town to cover the controversy. Shockwaves rumble along the quiet lanes when one of the Hollywood team is murdered. But when...
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Lancashire detective volume 1
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"1893. Wigan is in the grip of a devastating national miners' strike and a harsh winter. Arthur Morris, a wealthy colliery owner whose intransigence on miners' pay is the main cause of the strike, is found brutally murdered in Scholes, a rough working-class district where he is universally hated and blamed for the grinding hardship the strike is causing. Detective Sergeant Slevin is tasked with finding the murderer and when a mysterious stranger is...
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Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Plants, borders, and various horticultural paraphernalia make surprisingly frequent appearances in mystery plots. In this wide-ranging survey of classic and contemporary murder fiction, Marta looks at the detectives, motives, methods, opportunities, and writers that have used the garden as their point of departure. The result is a diverting and eye-opening study that deepens our appreciation of the great crime fiction writers while illuminating the...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Jesse Stone, still reeling from the murder of his fiancě by crazed assassin Mr. Peepers, must keep his emotions in check long enough to get through the wedding day of his loyal protǧ,̌ Suitcase Simpson. The morning of the wedding, Jesse learns that a gala 75th birthday party is to be held for folk singer Terry Jester. Jester, once the equal of Bob Dylan, has spent the last forty years in seclusion after the mysterious disappearance of the master...
10) After Alice fell
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Until she discovers the truth of her sister's death, no one will rest in peace. New Hampshire, 1865. Marion Abbott is summoned to Brawders House asylum to collect the body of her sister, Alice. She'd been found dead after falling four stories from a steep-pitched roof. Officially, an accident. Confidentially, suicide. But Marion believes a third option - murder. Returning to her family home to stay with her brother and his second wife, the recently...
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