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1) Alone
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Alone . . . Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle. Just across the street, in wealthy Back Bay, Boston, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife and child. The man’s finger tightens on the trigger and Dodge has only a split second to react . . . and forever pay the consequences.
Alone . . . that’s where the nightmare began for cool, beautiful,...
Alone . . . that’s where the nightmare began for cool, beautiful,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Liz Kendall wouldn't hurt a fly. Even when times get tough, she's devoted to bringing up her two kids in a loving home. But there's another side to Liz---one that's dark and malicious. She will do anything to get her way, no matter how extreme. And when this other side of her takes control, the consequences are devastating.
4) Whispers
Author
Language
English
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Description
Robert and Lynn Ferguson are a picture-perfect couple with two beautiful daughters and a lovely home in an exclusive Connecticut community. Robert is on the fast track of a major corporation. Lynn is devoted to her family and good works. But in the Ferguson's closed doors hide a painful secret Lynn must keep from the world-and her children-at any cost... Not even the Fergusons's...
Author
Series
Anna Curtis novels volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Assistant U.S. Attorney Anna Curtis makes a series of choices that jeopardizes her career, her relationships, and her very life.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a novel about the power of family to harm--and to heal. Within the walls of a tasteful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, young Zane Bigelow feels like a prisoner of war. Strangers--and even Zane's own aunt across the lake--see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children's ballet recitals and baseball games. Zane and his...
13) The desert crop
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Direct
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Money was tight in the farming communities around Fellburn, England, in the 1880's, so when Hector Stewart announces to his children, Daniel and Pattie, that he is to marry Moira Conelly, a "wealthy" distant relative, it is easy to discern his motive.
Author
Series
Siri Bergman novels volume 2
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A follow-up to Some Kind of Peace finds psychologist Siri Bergman organizing a support group for victims of domestic abuse against a backdrop of a brutal beating murder for which the only witness is a traumatized 5-year-old girl.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"For fans of the Netflix hit series Dead to Me and bestselling domestic suspense fiction by Shari Lapena and Liane Moriarty, a novel set in suburban New Jersey about a dead husband with a serious alcohol problem, an angry, betrayed wife, and the family friends whose talent for keeping secrets might lead to everyone's undoing"--
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Caught in the hook of love, a young woman marries a dashing university professor. She moves to a rain-washed coastal town to be with him, but behind closed doors she discovers that her perfect husband is a perfect monster. As he sets about battering her into obedience and as her family pressures her to stay in the marriage, she swears to fight back--a resistance that will either kill her or set her free.
17) The keeper
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When Katie Straw's body is pulled from the waters of the local suicide spot, the police are ready to write it off as a standard-issue female suicide. But the residents of the domestic violence shelter where Katie worked disagree. These women have spent weeks or even years waiting for the men they're running from to catch up with them. They know immediately: This was murder. Still, Detective Dan Whitworth and his team expect an open-and-shut case--until...
18) Hush little baby
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pubublishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"If I stay, he will kill me. If I leave, he'll destroy Addie and Drew." Jillian Kane appears to have it all--a successful career, a gorgeous home, a loving husband, and two wonderful children. The reality behind closed doors is something else entirely. For nine years, she has hid the bruises and the truth of her abusive marriage in order to protect Addie and Drew, knowing, if she left, Gordon would destroy her--destroy them. When, in an act of desperation,...
19) 3 mujeres
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Ibérica, S.A
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
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Description
"¿Hasta dónde llegarías para descubrir lo que oculta tu marido?Imagina que tu marido tiene otras dos mujeres. Nunca te vas a encontrar con las otras esposas. Ninguna conoce a la otra y a causa de este acuerdo tan poco convencional solo puedes ver a tu marido una vez por semana. Pero le quieres tanto que no te importa. O al menos es lo que te dices a ti misma. Un día, haciendo la colada, encuentras un trozo de papel en su bolsillo, en él una cita...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Laura Pritchett is an award-winning author who has quickly become one of the west's defining literary voices. We first met hardscrabble ranchers Renny and Ben Cross in Laura's debut collection, and now in Stars Go Blue, they are estranged, elderly spouses living on opposite ends of their sprawling ranch, faced with the particular decline of a fading farm and Ben's struggle with Alzheimer's disease. He is just on the cusp of dementia, able to recognize...
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