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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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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.
23) Rose Madder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After surviving fourteen years of hell in a violently abusive marriage, Rosie Daniels has finally summoned the courage to flee for her life. But leaving her husband Norman for a new city and a new start is a very daunting prospect. It's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder, and with good reason--Norman's a police officer with the instincts of a predator, a force of relentless terror and savagery...a man almost mythic in his monstrosity....
24) 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...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Alicia Berensons life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of Londons most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicias refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into...
26) 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,...
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
PREMIO DE LOS LECTORES DE GOODREADS, ESTA NOVELA ESTÁ CONMOCIONANDO A LECTORES DE MÁS DE 40 PAÍSES Y SEDUJO A BRAD PITT, QUIEN LA LLEVARÁ AL CINE. «El thriller perfecto» (A. J. Finn, autor de La mujer en la ventana). SOLO ELLA SABE LO QUE SUCEDIÓ. SOLO YO PUEDO HACERLA HABLAR. Alicia Berenson, una pintora de éxito, dispara cinco tiros en la cabeza de su marido, y no vuelve a hablar nunca más. Su negativa a emitir palabra alguna convierte...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
DI Marnie Rome and her partner DS Noah Jake investigate a case in which a woman at a domestic violence shelter stabs her husband, but none of the witnesses is telling quite the same story about it.
"The debut of an exciting new series for fans of Sophie Hannah, Kate Atkinson, and Tana French. No two victims are alike. DI Marnie Rome knows this better than most. Five years ago, her family home was the scene of a shocking and bloody crime that left...
30) The exiled
Author
Series
Anna Fekete novels volume 3
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Anna Fekete returns to the Balkan village of her birth for a relaxing summer holiday. But when her purse is stolen and the thief is found dead on the banks of the river, Anna is pulled into a murder case. Her investigation leads straight to her own family, to closely guarded secrets concealing a horrendous travesty of justice that threatens them all. How long will it take before everything explodes?
31) 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
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"Two women wrenched apart by a family member’s disappearance must find a way back to each other in this haunting page-turner by the author of A Crooked Tree. Nessa Garvey’s sister Deena vanished without a trace in Philadelphia in 2004. In all that time, Nessa has never once doubted what her instincts told her: her sister’s ex-husband has gotten away with an unspeakable crime. Nessa’s niece, Ruby, is raised by her father, the man Nessa suspects,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In this unforgettable debut novel, twenty-seven-year-old Tessa, pregnant with her third child and living in a trailer on her mother-in-law's property, encounters the woman she used to love-leading Tessa to question the very foundations of the life she'sbuilt Abandoned by first her father and then her mother, as a girl Tessa is left to live with her abusive stepfather and stepbrother. She survives by finding reserves of strength in herself, and by...
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