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Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father--Pikeville's notorious defense attorney--devastated. And it left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night. Charlie has followed in her father's footsteps to become a lawyer herself--the ideal good daughter. But when violence...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Jade and Cam Lasky are by all accounts a happily married couple with two adorable kids, a spacious home and a rapidly growing restaurant business. But their world is tipped upside down when Jade is confronted by a masked home invader. As Cam scrambles to gather the ransom money, Jade starts to wonder if they're as financially secure as their lifestyle suggests, and what other secrets her husband is keeping from her. Cam may be a good father, a celebrity...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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From LA Times Book Prize finalist and author of The Beautiful Bureaucrat comes a subversive speculative thriller about a mother of two young children who, by confronting a masked intruder in her home, slips into an existential rabbit hole where she grapples with the dualities of motherhood--joy and dread, longing and suffocation--in blazing, arresting prose.
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Jess Lambert thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Moving to Black Lake, her childhood summer home, after a violent home invasion, Neve Maguire, when a body is found behind her house, realizes she's made a horrible mistake and must help Detective Jess Lambert catch a killer in a place where deadly secrets are only just beginning to surface.
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Series
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A.J. Rivers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"After a home invasion landed Emma in a comatose state. Sam faces another shocking event as he finds himself fighting off an assassin in Emma's hospital room. Someone obviously wanted to keep Emma quiet forever. But the question is, why?"--Back cover.
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Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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A home-security camera captures fourteen-year-old Carly Liddell fending off a vicious attack just inside her own front door. The video of her heroic escape appears online and goes viral. As the view count climbs, the lives of four desperate people will be forever changed by what's just barely visible in the corner of the shot: a stolen painting, hanging in Carly's stepfather's foyer. As secrets come to light, Carly's stepfather, the original art dealer,...
8) Wolf
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Series
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"When a vagrant--the Walking Man--finds a dog wandering alone with a scrap of paper with the words "HELP US" attached to its collar, he's sure it's a desperate plea from someone in trouble and calls on Detective Inspector Jack Caffery to investigate. Caffery is reluctant to get involved--until the Walking Man promises new information regarding the childhood abduction of Caffery's brother in exchange for the detective's help tracking down the dog's...
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Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Julie Jones has left her suffocating marriage. With her teenage daughter, Jess, she's starting over. Their new house in Oceanside is the first step toward a new life. Even if it does come with the unexpected. The previous owners, a pastor and his wife, have left something - or rather someone - behind... Tom Dean has a bitter hatred for the father who considers him a lost cause, and for the woman who's moved into their family's house. The only home...
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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Joe Gunther and his team at the Vermont Bureau of Investigation are alerted to a string of unrelated burglaries across the state. In addition to the usual items targeted in such crimes -- flat screens, computers, and stereos -- someone has also been stealing unique and hard-to-fence objects such as antiques and jewelry. Meanwhile, in Boston, an elderly woman is viciously murdered in her Beacon Hill home during a burglary. The Boston police find that...
11) The East End
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English
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Corey Halpern, a local high schooler from a troubled home, is desperate to leave the Hamptons. His last summer before college, he settles for the escapism he finds in breaking into the neighboring mansions. But one night he breaks into the wrong home at the wrong time: the Sheffield estate, where he and his mother work, and sees billionaire Leo Sheffield arrive unexpectedly with his lover. After a shocking poolside accident, everything depends on...
12) Triple six
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Series
Light keepers volume 2
Publisher
Doubleshot Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A string of brutal home invasions are rocking New Orleans, and the families targeted seemingly have nothing in common. Why were these victims chosen? And why do the victim's children have such startlingly different accounts of the invasions? The deeper Micki and Zach go into the case, the more they realize these are no ordinary crimes and there's something terrifyingly familiar at work. Their worst fear has been realized, the dark force they'd fought...
13) Her three lives
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Greg Hamlin's kids think he's having a mid-life crisis. With his youngest off to college, the wealthy architect has divorced his wife and begun designing a new life with Anya, a struggling lifestyle blogger whose Bronx-upbringing and Caribbean roots seem an odd match for a suburban-Connecticut dad. But before Greg's second act can truly start, a savage home invasion leaves him housebound with a traumatic brain injury and glued to the live feeds from...
14) Callous
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Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Integrated Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Kate Mitchell's in the process of kicking her heroin addiction--with the help of alcohol--when a letter arrives informing her that her aunt in Ireland has passed away and bequeathed her a home near the ocean. This could be the start of a new and better life for Kate, far away from Brooklyn, where she and her surviving brothers are each struggling with their own dark pasts. But Aunt Mary didn't die peacefully--quite the opposite. The pair of thugs...
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Series
Ben Packard mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A small town's dark secrets turn deadly... When an early morning call brings Deputy Ben Packard to the scene of a home invasion, he finds Bill Sandersen shot in his bed. Bill was a well-liked local who chased easy money his whole life, leaving bad debts and broken hearts in his wake. Everyone Packard talks to has a story about Bill, but no one has a clear motive for wanting him dead. The business partner. The ex-wife. The current wife. The high-stakes...
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Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
Description
"Sydney's spent years burying her past and building a better life for herself and her eleven-year old son. A respectable marketing job, a house with reclaimed and sustainable furniture, and a boyfriend who loves her son and accepts her, flaws and all. But when she opens her front door and a masked intruder knocks her briefly unconscious, everything begins to unravel. She wakes in the hospital and tells a harrowing story of escape. Of dashing out a...
17) Closing costs
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"A home invasion thriller for fans of The Girl Before and The Red Hunter, a perfect couple is threatened by a seemingly random attacker as well as the dangerous secret they've been hiding." --
"Happy house hunting. Nelle and Evan Pereira were thrilled to close on their "forever home" -- a spacious paradise nestled against a state forest in Massachusetts. Three months later, on a brisk Saturday morning, their peace is destroyed when an intruder captures...
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2024.
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English
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"One dark evening on New York City's Upper West Side, two strangers meet by chance. Over drinks, Amanda and Wendy realize they have much in common, especially loneliness and an intense desire for revenge against the men who destroyed their families. As they talk into the night, they come up with the perfect plan: if you kill for me, I'll kill for you. In another part of the city, Ruth is home alone when the beautiful brownstone she shares with her...
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