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Sara Medlar is a household name in romance, with millions of books sold. But lately, retirement has been boring her and she's found herself back in her hometown of Lachlan, Florida, remodeling the grand old mansion she'd admired as a child. It's much too big for her alone, but she'd die before letting anyone in town know that. Then Sara's niece Kate is offered a job in Lachlan - a start in what could be a very successful career in real estate. She...
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"Seven friends. One last weekend. A mansion half in ruins. No room for lies. Someone is going to confess. Because there should've been eight... They met when they were teenagers. Now they're adults, and time has been kind to some and unkind to others -- and the cruelest of all to Bea, the one they lost nine long years ago. They've gathered to reminisce at Bea's family estate, a once-glorious mansion straight out of a gothic novel. Best friends,...
3) Night music
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"In this contemporary novel, widowed orchestral violinist Isabel Delancey finally finds true serenity and love only when she loses what she thought she needed most"--
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At seventeen, Lenora Hope / Hung her sister with a rope. Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope's End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred....
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A Boston lawye, Eli has weathered an intense year of public and police scrutiny after being accused of murdering his soon-to-be ex-wife. And though there was never enough evidence to have him arrested, his reputation is in tatters as well as his soul. He needs sanctuary. He needs Bluff House.
8) Country plot
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Severn House
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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Jenna's life is perfect . . . perfect chaos! One lousy Monday, Jenna loses her gorgeous job, her even more gorgeous boyfriend, and her home. In an attempt to put aside her personal woes, Jenna goes to catalogue books for an elderly cousin, Kitty ...
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Vera Stanhope novels volume 9
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"On the first snowy night of winter, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope sets off for her home in the hills. Though the road is familiar, she misses a turning and soon becomes lost and disorientated. A car has skidded off the narrow road in front of her, its door left open, and she stops to help. There is no driver to be seen, so Vera assumes that the owner has gone to find help. But a cry calls her back: a toddler is strapped in the back seat. Vera...
12) Colonial madness
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Tori Porter and her mother, fun-loving best friends, compete against other relatives in hopes of inheriting a fortune from eccentric Great Aunt Muriel by spending two weeks in a colonial mansion, with no modern conveniences, no outside help, and daily tests.
13) Haunted homicide
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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When she stumbles upon the dead body of Muriel Sadler, the president of the Portage Path Women's Club, in the basement of the mansion she is restoring, Avery Morgan, with a little otherworldly assistance, sets out to solve this case before everything comes crashing down.
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2011
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IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Creepella von Cacklefur visits Squeakspeare Mansion with her niece, Shivereen, and meet Bobby Squeakspeare, a descendent of the famous William Squeakspeare, but the mansion is filled with spooky ghosts.
15) Mrs. God
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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When Professor William Standish receives the rare honor of an Esswood Fellowship, and the chance to study private manuscripts at close hand, he is thrilled beyond his wildest ambitions. But upon arriving, something seems slightly strange at Esswood House. He hears faint laughter in the halls, the pitter-pattering of small feet in the night; strange faces appear in the windows of the library, and of course, there are those giant dollhouses in the basement......
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2018]
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English
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Diana Cook, born at the turn of the nineteenth century, the only daughter of Virginia gentry, agrees to marry a rich captain to save her family's land. Luckily for Diana, her union with the captain is brief and gives her a beautiful son. But after the son is grown is when the real tragedy begins.
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Titan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Ford and Neuland are paranormal mercenaries--one living, one undead; one of them kills the undead, the other kills the living. When a job goes bad in New York, they head west to wait for the heat to cool down. There, a young woman named Tilda Rosenbloom hires them on behalf of wealthy landowner, Shepherd Mansfield, to track and kill a demon haunting a mansion in remote northern California. As Ford and Neuland investigate the creature they uncover...
19) Craven manor
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Daniel is desperate for a fresh start at life, so when someone slides a note under his door offering him the groundskeeper's position at an old estate, it seems too good to be true. Alarm bells start ringing when he arrives at Craven Manor. The mansion's front door hangs open, and leaves and cobwebs coat the marble foyer. It's clear no one has lived there in a long time...but he has nowhere else to go. Against his better judgment, he moves into the...
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Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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When Izzy is dragged from New York City to a tiny town for her parents' new job, the only silver lining is the gorgeous old mansion they moved into. It is the former home of an artist's muse who died tragically in a fire. The house has its quirks: whole floors closed off, paintings covered up, and cell reception nonexistent. Izzy throws herself into starting an Instagram fashion account using the gowns and jewelry she finds in the house. The pictures...
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