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1) Dark harbor
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Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 12
Language
English
Description
Stone Barrington has inherited a house on the island of Dark Harbor, Maine, from a cousin after the death of him and his family which the local police believe to be a murder/suicide. Stone along with Lt. Dino Bacchetti, CIA agent Lance Cabot and Holly Barker go to Maine to look into the deaths.
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On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley's life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father, the legendary, reclusive cult-horror-film director Stanislas Cordova-- a man who hasn't been seen...
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Series
Jane Hawk novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Her husband dead and he son in hiding, rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk finds a connection between a schoolteacher's murderous, and ultimately suicidal, rampage; teacher's secret journal; and a cabal of power players bent on controlling America. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Silent Corner.
4) End of watch
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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"The spectacular finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Mr. Mercedes (winner of the Edgar Award) and Finders Keepers--In End of Watch, the diabolical "Mercedes Killer" drives his enemies to suicide, and if Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney don't figure out a way to stop him, they'll be victims themselves. In Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, something has awakened. Something evil. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator...
5) Here's to us
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Celebrity chef Deacon Rowe is struggling with addiction, depression and not one, but two scandals. As summer nears, he travels to the idyllic Eastern bluff of Nantucket, where he takes his own life. In the shocking wake of Deacon's suicide, his first wife and childhood sweetheart, Laurel Rowe, sets out to gather Deacon's far-flung family, including Deacon and Laurel's son, and Deacon's other ex-wives and children, on the island.
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English
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"Cybersecurity expert Roger McGeary finally has his life back on track after years of struggling with depression. But when he falls from the balcony of his suite on an all-expenses-paid cruise, the police quickly dismiss it as "death by misadventure," a vague phrase leaving much to interpretation. Unsatisfied, Roger's tough-as-nails aunt, Julia Miller, is determined to find answers and closure. By contacting Roger's childhood friend Stuart Ramey...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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Still grieving three years after his fiancée's mysterious suicide, Jace Montgomery discovers a clue about her death that leads him to purchase an English fortress, where he encounters a headstrong ghost who died under similar circumstances.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After a suspicious suicide, the members of a high school cheerleading squad, along with their new, perfectly cool coach, Colette French, are drawn into the investigation.
10) Choose me
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Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Taryn Moore is young, beautiful, and brilliant, so why would she kill herself? When Detective Frankie Loomis arrives on the scene...ske knows in her gut there's more to the story...To English professor Jack Dorian, Taryn was the ultimate fantasy: intelligent, adoring, and completely off limits. But there was also a dark side to Taryn, a dangerous streak that threatened those she turned her affections to, including Jack. And now that she's dead, his...
11) A million drops
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Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Gonzalo Gil is a lawyer stuck in a disaffected life, in a failed career, trying to dodge the constant manipulation of his powerful father. This monotonous existence is shaken up when he learns, after years without news of his estranged sister, Laura, that she has committed suicide in dramatic circumstances. Her death pushes the fragile balance of Gonzalo's life as both a father and husband to the limit"--
12) The patient one
Author
Series
Walnut Creek volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Seven former best friends reunite and struggle to heal after the tragic death of one of their own in this evocative and heartrending novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Gift and Her Secret."--
Seven childhood best friends--some Amish, some Mennonite, and some English--reunite in the wake of their friend Andy's suicide.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf Canada
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A gripping tale of adventure, sacrifice and survival in the unforgiving wilderness of a legendary mountain. On his 18th birthday, Wolf Truly takes the cable car to the top of the mountain that looms over Palm Springs, intending to jump to his death. Instead he encounters three women who will change the course of his life. Through a series of missteps he and the women wind up stranded. They endure five days in freezing temperatures without food or...
14) Hail to the chef
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
White House executive chef Ollie Paras has to put her own interests on the back burner when a kindly electrician is electrocuted to death, and the First Ladys nephew dies in an apparent suicide less than 24 hours after cleaning shrimp with Ollie. Ollie suspects something fishy is going on. Shell have to watch her backand find a killer unlikely to be pardoned.
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Soho Press, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"University sophomore Miwako Sumida has hanged herself, leaving those closest to her reeling. In the months before her suicide, she was hiding away in a remote mountainside village, but what, or whom, was she running from? To Ryusei, a fellow student at Waseda; Chie, Miwako's best friend; and Fumi, Ryusei's older sister, Miwako was more than the blunt, no-nonsense person she projected to the world. Heartbroken, Ryusei begs Chie to take him to the...
16) A likeable woman
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Language
English
Description
"She's back in her affluent hometown for the first time in years and determined to unravel the secrets of her mother's death hidden in the unpublished memoir she left behind...even if it kills her... After her troublemaker mother's mysterious death, Kirafled her wealthy Texas town and never looked back. Now, decades later, Kira is invited to an old frenemy's vow renewal party. Though she is reluctant to go, there are things calling her back . . ....
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Tragedy strikes a quiet Dorset town when the bodies of Sarah and Charles Drummond are discovered in their home one morning while their two young children, Abby and Mia, sleep upstairs. The police seem certain that Charles killed his wife before taking his own life, and the girls' grandmother, Cicely Fairfax, makes sure that they are shielded from the horrific truth. Until now. Sixteen years later, an accident at work leads Mia to have disturbing...
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of her financier husband’s suicide, Emma Shay Compton’s dream life is shattered. Richard Compton stole his clients’ life savings to fund a lavish life in New York City and, although she was never involved in the business, Emma bears the burden of her husband’s crimes. She is left with nothing. Only one friend stands by her, a friend she’s known since high school, who encourages her to come home to Sonoma County. But starting...
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Florence Norris mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"March 1933, Dovecote Hatch, England. Florence Norris knows she has found a good man in George 'Birdie' Bird, the landlord of the local pub, The Dog & Whistle. They are set to marry in a low-key service at the parish church in their beloved village Dovecote Hatch. But when a mysterious stranger seeks out George, sharing family secrets and talks of an illegal burial years ago, an ominous dread falls over the happy couple. Soon they are pulled reluctantly...
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English
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"An unhinged actress turns to podcasting when she becomes entangled in a dark conspiracy at the retreat she once sought spiritual refuge at in this absorbing mystery about fame, violence, and our morbid fascination with murder-from the acclaimed author of Dead Letters. Olivia Reed needed a break. She doesn't want to think about her name plastered on tabloids or be reminded of her recent meltdown on a Manhattan street. Her micromanaging publicist has...
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