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41) The heavens rise
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
It's been a decade since the Delongpre family vanished near Bayou Rabineaux, and still no one can explain the events of that dark and sweltering night. No one except Niquette Delongpre, the survivor who ran away from the mangled stretch of guardrail on Highway 22 where the impossible occurred ... and kept on running. Who left behind her best friends, Ben and Anthem, to save them from her newfound capacity for destruction ... and who alone knows the...
42) Time is a killer
Author
Series
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 2016, Clotilde is spending her vacation in Corsica with her husband Franck and her teenage daughter Valentine. It is the first time she has been back to the island since the car accident in which her parents and her brother were killed decades earlier. She was in the car too, but miraculously escaped with her life ... When a mysterious letter signed "Palma"--Clotilde's mother--arrives, the truth about her family, her parents' death,...
Author
Publisher
Two Dollar Radio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Pilgrim Jones' husband has just left her for another woman, stranding her in a small Swiss town where she is one day involved in a tragic accident. Overcome with guilt, she alights for Africa, befriending a series of locals, each with their own tragic past and each isolated in their own way. Mysteriously, one day a witch doctor's curse is carried into town, setting everyone in the remote Tanzanian outpost on edge. Pilgrim can't shake the feeling she's...
44) Saturday
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
From the pen of a master-the #1 bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Atonement-comes an astonishing novel that captures the fine balance of happiness and the unforeseen threats that can destroy it. A brilliant, thrilling page-turner that will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Saturday is a masterful novel set within a single day in February 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man-a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper...
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Of all the emotions single mother Kate Jones feels as she walks into her brand new house on Parkview Road, hope is the most unexpected. She has changed her name and her daughter's, and moved across the country to escape the single mistake that destroyed their lives. Kate isn't the only woman on the street starting afresh. Warm, whirlwind Gisela with her busy life and confident children, and sharp, composed Sally, with her spontaneous marriage and...
Author
Series
Paul Madriani novels volume 13
Language
English
Description
Madriani investigates a friend's wrongful manslaughter charge in the aftermath of a highly influential attorney's sudden death.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Death Investigator Angela Richman suspects foul play when a disgraced resident of Chouteau Forest survives one car crash only to then be involved in another.Until his Porsche careened off the road killing him instantly and not leaving much of him behind, Sterling Chaney was an influential member of Chouteau Forest - home of the one percenters. As the eulogies at his funeral commence, an unexpected guest interrupts . . . Sterling.The story attracts...
48) In this moment
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Karma Brown is back with a morally infused and emotionally riveting exploration of one womans guilt over an unexpectedyet avoidabletragedy Meg Pepper has a fulfilling career and a happy family. Most days shes able to keep it all together and glide through life. But then, in one unalterable moment, everything changes. After school pickup one day, she stops her car to wave a teenage boy across the streetjust as another car comes hurtling...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1959 Montana, when a fatal car accident shatters his world, 10-year-old Lucas finds himself confronting crime and vengeance, humor and heroism, all against the backdrop of growing up during the Space Race, the brutal racism of segregation and the hopeof a new generation to move us forward.
"Set in 1959, the "year the music died," The Smoke in Our Eyes is a cinematic, clock-ticking saga set in a small Montana town. When a fatal car accident shatters...
50) Piece by piece
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Danielle Parker is a gold-medal mom--the kind who volunteers in her children's classrooms, shuttles them between activities, throws legendary birthday parties, and has a remedy on hand for any emergency. Whatever her husband, Jeff, and their children need, Dani is there, always. Except for one day. On that day--the day that Dani reluctantly takes some 'me time' while her mom and Jeff drive the children to the park--the unthinkable happens. The car...
51) Crash
Author
Publisher
Rare Bird Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Featuring an introduction by Zadie Smith; "Jim's Desk" and introductory notes by Chris Beckett The short stories "Crash," "Tolerances of the Human Face," and "Mae West's Reduction Mammoplasty" by J. G. Ballard Treatments and letters about the BBC2 Review short film about J. G. Ballard titled "Crash!" that aired in February 1971 Introduction to the French edition of Crash An excerpt of an interview with Will Self and J. G. Ballard from 1994 When J....
Author
Series
Hope's Crossing volume 1
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Claire Bradford needed a wake up call. What she didn't need was a tragic car accident. As a single mom and the owner of a successful bead shop,, Claire leads a predictable life in Hopes' Crossing, Colorado. So what if she has no time for romance? At least, that's what she tells herself, especially when her best friend's sexy younger brother comes back to town as the new chief of police. But when the accident forces Claire to slow down and lean on...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A gripping debut domestic suspense novel, Nora Murphy's thrilling The Favor explores with compassion and depth what can happen when women pushed to the limit take matters into their own hands. "A thrilling debut—I couldn’t put it down!"—Shari Lapena, #1 internationally bestselling author of Not a Happy Family and The Couple Next Door Leaving would be dangerous. Staying could be worse. Leah and McKenna have never met, though they have parallel...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
"Una cautivadora novela para romanticos que evoca una decada llena de encanto y elegancia, por la autora de Yo antes de ti. En 1960, Jennifer se despierta en un hospital de Londres. No recuerda nada. Ni el accidente de coche que la ha llevado allu, ni a su marido, ni su propio nombre. Hasta que regresa a casa y por azar encuentra una carta escondida. Asu comienza a recordar al amante por el que estaba dispuesta a arriesgarlo todo. En 2003, Ellie busca...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author's latest stand-alone thriller, with a cameo by her fan-favorite character, Boston Detective D.D. Warren. My name is Nicky Frank. Except, most likely, it isn't. Nicole Frank shouldn't have been able to survive the car accident, much less crawl up the steep ravine. Not in the dark, not in the rain, not with her injuries. But one thought allows her to defy the odds and flag down help: Vero. I'm looking for...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Bookseller Delaney Nichols meets a woman who believes she is Mary, Queen of Scots, reborn. When the Cracked Spine is royally threatened, she must do all she can to save the shop. Heading back to work the day after she returns from her European honeymoon, Delaney Nichols is excited to get back to the Cracked Spine. But as she disembarks the bus and hurries toward the shop she and another woman collide, sending a stack of books the woman is carrying...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A propulsive, kaleidoscopic novel about a fractured family and the persistence of hope It all begins with a crash. One night, seventeen-year-old Wolf steals his mother’s car and drives six hundred kilometers in search of his sister, who left home ten years ago. Unlicensed and on edge, he veers onto the wrong side of the road and causes an accident. He is arrested and incarcerated, forcing his mother and sister to reconnect and pick up the...
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books, Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Responding to a call she hoped she would never get, a woman wakes up in a bad part of town with no memory of what happened at the same time the police and her husband accuse her of misconduct.
In this neighborhood, danger lies close to home. A domestic thriller packed full of secrets, and a twisty story that never stops--from the bestselling author of The Couple Next DoorHe looks at her, concerned. "How do you feel?"She wants to say, Terrified. Instead,...
Author
Publisher
Thomas and Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Therapist turned stay-at-home mom Jules Hart's idyllic suburban life shatters when she crashes her car into an icy lake. Her son and another teenage boy plunge into the water with her, but Jules can only manage to save one--the wrong one. Reeling from the death of her son, Jules spirals into a violent and unstable mental state. Ten months after the accident, she's still trying to reckon with the fact that she rescued Isaac Greer, another woman's...
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Peyton Sanders hopes it's not too late to say it back. Done with dead-end relationships and swiping right, she knows who her heart belongs to. But as she races to tell him how she feels, she's hit by a car and wakes up with amnesia. It gets worse. Peytonhas no clue who the three men who show up at her hospital bed are except they each claim to be her boyfriend. They're certainly worth remembering. A rustic-looking contractor-heaven in flannel. A...
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