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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"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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Series
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
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,...
Author
Publisher
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...
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
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...
10) Wolf
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Jess Lambert thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
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...
13) Becky
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Spunky and rebellious, Becky is brought to a weekend getaway at a lake house by her father Jeff in an effort to try to reconnect. The trip immediately takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts on the run, led by the merciless Dominick, suddenly invade the lake house.
14) Breaking in
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Shaun Russel's life is thrown into turmoil after her father's unexpected death. She takes her two young children out to his mansion in Malibu in order to attempt to settle his estate. The mansion is designed with state-of-the-art security that ends up trapping her kids inside, along with four criminals who plan to capture her late father's wealth as well. Shaun must now attempt to save her children and defeat the villains.
15) A woman alone
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It's another bright, sunny day in Venture, Illinois, the sort of place where dreams come true and families can get a fresh start. Cecelia Holmes deserves it after the home invasion that shattered her previous life. Now everything seems perfect--her high-security SmartHome, her doting husband, her sweet daughter. Until she begins to feel spied on. Her husband doesn't believe her. Her neighbors ignore her. So when she discovers a shocking secret about...
16) Violent night
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A group of mercenaries attack the estate of a wealthy family on Christmas Eve, and Santa must save Christmas.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The organized criminal gangs of the former Soviet Union are bound by what they call the thieves' code. The first rule is this: A thief must forsake his mother, father, brothers, and sisters. He must have no family, no wife, and no children. We are his family. If any of the rules are broken, it is punishable by death. Frank Meyer had the American dream, until the day a professional crew invaded his home and murdered everyone inside.
Publisher
AMC Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Opal City: known for free mining, endless desert and, to a select few, vampires. This remote desert mining town is the last colonial stronghold for vampires and when the King Vampire arrives with plans to take over the land and kidnap locals for their blood, it's up to two Aboriginal renegades, Tyson and Shanika, to stop him and end the 230 year war. But how can a reckless 'semi alcoholic' and a teenaged orphan destroy an entire vampire...
Author
Series
Publisher
A.J. Rivers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"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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