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"Tess has worked hard to keep her past buried, where it belongs. Now sheas the wife to a respected professor at an elite boarding school, where she also teaches. Her seventeen-year-old son, Rudy, whose dark moods and complicated behavior sheas long worried about, seems to be thriving: he has a lead role in the school play and a smart and ambitious girlfriend. Tess tries not to think about the mistakes she made eighteen years ago, and mostly, she succeeds....
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Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Emily, a popular but bookish prep school senior, goes missing after a night out with friends. She was last seen leaving a party with Alex, a football player with a dubious reputation. But no one is talking. Now three mothers, Catherine, Leslie, and Morgan, friends turned frenemies, have their lives turned upside down as they are forced to look to their own children--and each other's--for answers to questions they don't want to ask"--
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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After her eighteen-year-old sister is found murdered at the bottom of the family pool, Aline unknowingly makes herself a target when she teams up with the prosecutor's office to uncover the truth.
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2014.
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English
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On a hot June day the body of a sixteen-year-old girl washes up on a river bank outside of Frankfurt. She has been brutally murdered, but no one comes forward with any information as to her identity. Even weeks later, the local police have not been able to find out who she is. Then a new case comes in: A popular TV reporter is attacked, raped, and locked in the trunk of her own car. She survives, barely, and is able to supply certain hints to the...
45) Promise me
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
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Entertainment agent Myron Bolitar, determined to keep his friends' children safe in their last pressure-cooker months of high school, makes two neighborhood girls promise that if they are ever in a bind and afraid to call their parents, they will call him. A few nights later, one of the girls does call, and he takes her to where she says her friend lives. When the girl is reported missing the next day, and her parents learn that Myron was the last...
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Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"True crime podcaster Trinity Scott is chasing breakout success, and her brand-new serial may get her there. Her subject is Clayton Jay Pelley. More than two decades ago, the respected family man and guidance counselor confessed to the brutal murder of teenage student Leena Rai. In a series of exclusive interviews from prison, Clayton discloses to Trinity the truth about what happened that night beneath Devil's Bridge. Clayton says he didn't do it....
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Every parent's nightmare becomes reality for Kara Marshall when her daughter vanishes from her bedroom.
When her teenage daughter vanishes shortly after Kara Marshall and her husband put their Long Island home on the market, Kara fears the worst despite the suspicions of police that the girl is a runaway.
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Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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The murder of an unidentified five-year-old girl in a shabby London street leads Superintendent Richard Jury to suspect well-known financier Viktor Baumann, owner of an iniquitous house on the same street that serves as the hub of a pedophilia ring. When a second unidentified murder victim--this time a woman is found in the gardens of Declan Scott's estate, Commander of the Devon and Cornwall Police, Brian Macalvie, thinks there is a connection. Three...
49) Random in death
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In death volume 58
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English
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"Jenna’s parents had finally given in, and there she was, at a New York club with her best friends, watching the legendary band Avenue A, carrying her demo in hopes of slipping it to the guitarist, Jake Kincade. Then, from the stage, Jake catches her eye, and smiles. It’s the best night of her life. It’s the last night of her life. Minutes later, Jake’s in the alley getting some fresh air, and the girl from the dance floor comes stumbling...
50) Tiempo de matar
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Español
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El primer thriller judicial escrito por el maestro del género, John Grisham. En Clanton, un pequeño pueblo de Mississippi, los delitos tienen distinto valor según la raza del culpable. Cuando Carl Lee Hailey mata a tiros a los rufianes que violaron a su hija de diez años, los habitantes de la zona -indignados al principio por la suerte de la pequeña, pero inmersos después en una espiral de violencia racista- pretenden llevarse por delante todo...
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HQ
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Grace, Meg and Daphne, all in their seventies, are minding their own business while enjoying a cup of tea in a café, when seventeen-year-old Nina stumbles in. She's clearly distraught and running from someone, so the three women think nothing of hiding her when a suspicious-looking man starts asking if they've seen her. Once alone, Nina tells the women a little of what she's running from. The need to protect her is immediate, and Grace, Meg and...
52) A time to kill
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Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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"Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a 10-year-old black girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her father acquires an assault rifle - and takes justice into his own outraged hands. For 10 days, with burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spreading through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake Brigance...
53) Penance
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Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"The tense, chilling story of four women haunted by a childhood trauma. When they were children, Sae, Maki, Akiko and Yuko were tricked into separating from their friend Emili by a mysterious stranger. Then the unthinkable occurs: Emili is found murdered hours later. Sae, Maki, Akiko and Yuko weren't able to accurately describe the stranger's appearance to the police after the Emili's body was discovered. Asako, Emili's mother, curses the surviving...
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Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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After being falsely fingered as a war criminal, Bernie Gunther - the tough, fast-talking detective and ex-Berlin policeman forced into the horrors of World War II - is en route to Buenos Aires. It's 1950, and like the Nazis whose company he has always despised, Bernie has been promised a new life and a clean passport by the Perón government. But Bernie is soon pressured by the local police into taking on two cases with possible ties to 1932 Berlin....
56) 10th anniversary
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Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2011
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"Detective Lindsay Boxer's long awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a teenage girl is badly injured left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals, but that the victim may be keeping secrets as well. At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her...
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"A page-turner about the murder of a teenage girl, from the author of Lacy Eye...On a cold December day in northern upstate New York, the body of high school senior Joy Enright is discovered in the woods at the edge of a pond. She had been presumed drowned, but an autopsy shows that she was, in fact, strangled. As the investigation unfolds, four characters tell the story from widely divergent perspectives: Susanne, Joy's mother and a professor at...
58) After Anna
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Nobody cuts deeper than family... Noah Alderman, a doctor and a widower, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie, and for the first time in a long time he and his son are happy. But their lives are turned upside down when Maggie's daughter Anna moves in with them. Anna is a gorgeous seventeen-year-old who balks at living under their rules though Maggie, ecstatic to have her daughter back, ignores the red flags that hint at the trouble that is brewing....
Author
Series
Elaine Hope novels volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Veteran Detective Inspector Elaine Hope knows she was born to be a detective. Now she's taken over a bungled case and released the only suspect. Her male superiors in the London Metropolitan Police doubt her, and London's tabloids scream for a scapegoat. None of them can stop her. Finding the truth is all that matters to Elaine. She forges ahead, standing up to her bosses, bad cops, and murderous crooks. Each has reason to fear her. Elaine's life...
60) Trail of echoes
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Series
Detective Elouise Norton novels volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"On a rainy spring day in Los Angeles, homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton is called away from a rare lunch date to Bonner Park, where the body of thirteen-year-old Chanita Lords has been discovered. When Lou and her partner, Colin Taggert, take on the sad task of informing Chanita's mother, Lou is surprised to find herself in the apartment building she grew up in. Chanita was interested in photography and, much like Lou, a black girl destined...
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