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Author
Series
Hollywood heat volume 1
Publisher
Forever, an imprint of Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Growing up as a foster kid, Jessica Jensen found her escape in movies--especially those starring teen heartthrob Reece Winchester. When she meets him as an adult, he's just as charming, fascinating, and devastatingly handsome as she'd imagined. Before she knows it, Jessica is falling hard. But her real-life Cinderella story is about to take a deadly turn... Jessica has completely upended everything about Reece's carefully ordered life. There's a...
82) Legacy
Author
Language
English
Description
"Adrian Rizzo was seven when she met her father for the first time. That was the day he nearly killed her-before her mother, Lina, stepped in. Soon after, Adrian was dropped off at her grandparents' house in Maryland, where she spent a long summer drinking lemonade, playing with dogs, making a new best friend-and developing the stirrings of a crush on her friend's ten-year-old brother. Lina, meanwhile, traveled the country promoting her fitness brand...
83) Twisted lies
Author
Series
Twisted (Ana Huang) volume 4
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Charming, deadly, and smart enough to hide it, Christian Harper is a monster dressed in the perfectly tailored suits of a gentleman. He has little use for morals and even less use for love, but he can't deny the strange pull he feels toward the woman living just one floor below him. She's the object of his darkest desires, the only puzzle he can't solve. And when the opportunity to get closer to her arises, he breaks his own rules to offer her a deal...
84) Blindsided
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane Productions
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A decade after Cadence Lawrence accused the perpetrator in the brutal murder of her high school friend, she's finally put the nightmare to rest. But the ghosts of her past won't rest, and an unexpected encounter with the killer reawakens demons she thought were long dead. Gripped by paranoia, Cadence fears she's being stalked, and suspects that the murderer has invaded the sanctity of her home. Could her chance encounter have rekindled the savage...
85) Read me
Author
Publisher
Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Try it yourself. Go out, pick somebody and watch them. Take your phone and a notebook. Persist. What begins as a confluence of yours and another person's journeys, on the train maybe or leaving a cinema, gets into an entanglement. You follow, feeling that it's not really following because you're going the same way, then when they at last reach their office you feel the clutch of a goodbye. It's normal. But how many times do you think the person being...
86) Legado
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Pasado, presente y peligro se entrelazan en la nueva novela de suspense romántico de la superventas Nora Roberts. Adrian Rizzo es una mujer hecha a sí misma: es dueña de su propia marca de fitness, disfruta de una vida acomodada en la ciudad de Nueva York. Cuando comienza a recibir amenazantes poemas anónimos, lo achaca a la envidia que despierta su éxito en algunas personas. Adrian se traslada a la pequeña localidad de Traveller's Creek para...
87) Dead wind
Author
Series
Shana Merchant volume 3
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Senior Investigator Shana Merchant must dredge up dark secrets and old grudges if she's to solve the murder of a prominent local citizen in the Thousand Islands community she now calls home. The body is discovered on Wolfe Island, under the shadow of an enormous wind turbine. Senior Investigator Shana Merchant, arriving on the scene with fellow investigator Tim Wellington, can't shake the feeling that she knows the victim - and the subsequent identification...
88) Then came you
Author
Series
Publisher
Sunrise Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Detective Daniel "Boone" Buckam is more than burned out. Forced into a mandatory vacation in Deep Haven, he has to de-stress if he hopes to land the job as Police Chief back in Kellogg, MN... Vivien Calhoun isn't really a drama queen...she's an actress. Or was. After fleeing Broadway, now she's passionate about directing her local summer theater production. But when she ropes uptight Boone into her cast, she can't help but wonder if he might be the...
89) The cottage
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A widowed mother is terrorized by a stalker with unfathomable intent in a novel of cold-blooded suspense by the Shamus Award-winning author of The Temporary Agent. When Kate Burke is awakened one night by a sound outside her window, her PTSD is triggered. Was it simply a deer crossing her secluded backyard? Or was it intruders? Because Kate still lives with the dreadful memories of her husband's murder during a seemingly random home invasion two years...
90) Tough customer
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Late one night Atlanta PI Dodge Hanley receives a phone call from his lost love, Houston realtor Caroline King, who asks him to come to Texas to help catch Oren Starks, a creepy over-the-top stalker who's out to kill Dodge and Caroline's 30-year-old daughter, Berry Malone. Dodge hasn't seen Berry since the day she was born. When Starks takes a shot at Berry in Caroline's house, hitting a work associate of Berry's instead, Dodge rushes to the rescue....
91) Autumn's deceit
Author
Series
Publisher
Vellum Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
To Special Agent Autumn Trent, it feels like déjà vu when a four-year-old boy appears on the front steps of FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit with a package taped to his chest and a note for "Agent Parrish and his superhero team." After all, it seems like just yesterday her best friend Special Agent Winter Black was strapped in an explosive vest among a crowd of unsuspecting civilians. But instead of a bomb, the package holds a hand-drawn map and the...
92) Dream spinner
Author
Series
Dream team (Kristen Ashley) volume 3
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In this steamy and emotional contemporary romance from a New York Times bestselling author, two damaged souls must overcome the pain of their pasts to have the love they've always dreamed of. Hattie Yates has finally met the man of her dreams. Yet years of abuse from her demanding father have left her petrified of disappointment. She's already failed to reach her goal of becoming a professional ballerina ... she can't handle the terrible consequences...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Pru Dunning has everything she ever wanted: a successful boyfriend, a thriving nursing career, and a truly comfortable life. But then the strange voicemails start. Scarletta, the woman calls herself. She seems to know Pru, although Pru certainly doesn't know that name, nor does she recognize the glamorous voice leaving her poisonous messages. Is this the work of jealous revenge from someone at work? An old enemy she has forgotten about? Pru begins...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A recent transplant from sunny California, life in the London suburbs is not what Taylor Watson expected. Far from the West End shops and city lights she imagined, she finds herself pregnant and lonely, with a husband frequently away on business and only social media to keep her company. It's only after Taylor joins a book club and a walking group, that she finally starts to make some real-life friends. Before long, Taylor's hanging out with Anna,...
95) Under wrapped
Author
Publisher
Strebor Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A savvy entrepreneur and happily married woman, Tai's life couldn't be more complete. But just when she's getting comfortable in her new lifestyle, she starts to suspect that someone is stalking her, attempting to make her world miserable. Or is her mind playing tricks on her? When things go awry, Tai's intuitive sidekick, Nevada, a successful Washington, D.C.-based detective who took down a pair of bank robbers, offers to assist. But even the seasoned...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred K. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Swedish National Crime Unit receives a video of a young woman in her home, clearly unaware that she's being watched. Soon after the tape is recieved, the woman's body is found horrifically mutilated. With the arrival of the next, similar video, the police understand that the killer is toying with them, warning of a new victim, knowing there's nothing they can do. Detective Margot Silverman is put in charge of the investigation, and soon asks...
97) The night swim
Author
Series
Rachel Krall investigations volume 1
Language
English
Description
"In The Night Swim, a new thriller from Megan Goldin, author of the "gripping and unforgettable" (Harlen Coben) The Escape Room, a true crime podcast host covering a controversial trial finds herself drawn deep into a small town's dark past and a brutal crime that took place there years before. After the first season of her true crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall is now a household name-and the last...
98) 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...
99) Milkman: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
Set in an un-named city but with an astonishing, breath-shorteningly palpable sense of time and place Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. The story of inaction with enormous consequences and decisions that are never made, but for which people are judged and punished. Middle sister is our protagonist. She is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her nearly-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark...
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
All of Us is a riveting thriller with six compelling protagonists--who all share one body. Though legally she is Carolyn Grand, in practice she is Martha, a homemaker who cooks and cleans for her "family," Victoria, a put-together people person, Serena, a free spirit, Kirk, a heterosexual man, Eleni, a promiscuous risk-taker, and Tina, a manifestation of what is left of Carolyn after years of childhood sexual abuse. As they jockey for control of their...
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