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When Quincy Carpenter survived a massacre while the rest of her friends were murdered, the press labeled her a "Final Girl"- part of a group that consisted of two other women who were the only ones to survive their own tragedies. Quincy has no desire to claim this label and wants to move on. But when one of the final girls dies, and the other confronts Quincy, claiming that a killer might be targeting them, Quincy?s new life unravels.
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A deadly fire exposes the dark side of Amish life in this harrowing new thriller in the New York Times bestselling series. When a historic barn burns to the ground in the middle of the night, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called in to investigate. At first, it looks like an accident, but when the body of eighteen-year-old Daniel Gingerich is found inside--burned alive--Kate suspects murder. Who would want a well-liked, hardworking young Amish...
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"A special investigator for a hotshot Miami law firm, Bailey Carpenter is fearless-- until she's attacked and nearly killed while on an assignment. Now nightmares merge into her waking hours and she's unable to venture beyond her front door without panicking. Soon Bailey finds a new use for her idle binoculars: casually observing from her window neighboring buildings and other people's lives. Bailey fixates on the handsome guy across the street--...
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Driving home one rainy night, Cassie Larkin sees a man and woman fighting on the side of the road. After calling 911, the veterinarian makes a split-second decision that will throw her sedate suburban life into chaos. Against all reason and advice, she gets out of her minivan and chases after the violent man, trying to help his victim. When Cassie physically tries to stop him, he suddenly turns on her and spits out an ominous threat: "Let her die,...
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Sloan will go through hell and back for those she loves. And she does so, every single day. Caught up with the alluring Asa Jackson, a notorious drug trafficker, Sloan has finally found a lifeline to cling to, even if it's meant compromising her morals. She was in dire straits trying to pay for her brother's care until she met Asa. But as Sloan became emotionally and economically reliant on him, he in turn developed a disturbing obsession with her...
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Someone is murdering beautiful young women in the New York area and displaying them in mausoleums and underground tombs. The FBI is handling the case, with Special Agent Craig Frasier as lead. Kieran Finnegan, forensic psychologist and part owner of Finnegan's, her family's pub, is consulting on the case. Craig and Kieran are a couple who've worked together on more than one occasion. On this occasion, though, Craig fears for the safety of the woman...
7) Radiant heat
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"When a catastrophic wildfire suddenly rips through a woman's hometown, she thinks she is lucky to have survived...until she finds a dead woman in her driveway, clutching a piece of paper with her name on it.... Alison is alive. She rode out the fire on the damp tiles of her bathroom, her entire body swaddled in a wet woolen blanket. The flames crackled around her, the bitter char of eucalyptus settling in the back of her throat. The wildfire devastated...
8) Simple
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Series
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Desperate to escape the ghosts of his failed marriage, Cole upends his life. He leaves London behind for a remote stretch of coast. Leonora has made the same move for similar reasons. She's living a short walk from Cole's seaside cottage, preparing for her latest art exhibition. Though Cole still can't figure out what went wrong with his marriage, and Leonora is having trouble acclimating to the hostile landscape, the pair forges a connection. Then,...
10) After the fall
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 24 cm
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English
11) Peach
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Publisher
Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
101 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Something has happened to Peach. Staggering around the town streets in the aftermath of an assault, Peach feels a trickle of blood down her legs, a lingering smell of her anonymous attacker on her skin. It hurts to walk, but she manages to make her way to her home, where she stumbles into another oddly nightmarish reality: Her parents can't seem to comprehend that anything has happened to their daughter.
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Series
Detective Inspector McLean novels volume 2
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Mariner Books edition.
Physical Desc
440 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Each year for ten years, a woman's body was found in Edinburgh at Christimastime--naked, throat slit, body washed clean. The final victim, Kirsty Summers, was Detective Constable Tony McLean's fiancee. But the Christmas Killer made a mistake, and McLean put an end to the brutal killing spree.
13) The break
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Publisher
Anansi
Pub. Date
2018.
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352 pages : genealogical table ; 21 cm
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English
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When Stella, a young Métis of mixed indigenous and European ancestry looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break--a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house--she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime.
14) Medical judgment
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
411 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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"Someone is after Dr. Sarah Gordon. They've stalked her and set a fire at her home. Trying to heal from the traumatic deaths of her husband and infant daughter is tough enough; now Sarah has no idea what will come next. Her late husband's best friend and a recovering alcoholic detective are trying to solve the mystery before it's too late, but they appear to be vying for her affection as well. Sarah finds herself in constant fear. As the threats on...
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Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"Dr. Lucas Madden is a neuroscientist-turned-FBI profiler who first gained global recognition for cloning the ripper gene and showing its dysfunction in the brains of psychopaths. Later, as an FBI profiler, Madden achieved further notoriety by sequencing the DNA of the world's most notorious serial killers and proposing a controversial "damnation algorithm" that could predict serial killer behavior using DNA alone. Now, a new murderer--the Snow White...
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Series
Valerie Hart novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
Description
For Nell Cooper life would never be the same again. The moment she found her mother on the kitchen floor and heard her whisper the words, "Run, they're still here, " the safe world as she knew it ceased to exist. For the two killers, Nell's house was just a random stop on the road to completing a bloody list of macabre tasks. Det. Valerie Hart is obsessed with putting an end to this rampage and will stop at nothing to do it. Unfortunately, she will...
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Mira Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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Sean Suh is done with killing. After serving three years in a psychiatric prison, he's determined to stay away from temptation. But he can't resist Annabelle -- beautiful, confident, incandescent Annabelle -- who, alone, can see past the monster to the man inside. The man he's desperately trying to be. Then Annabelle disappears. Sean witnessed her being kidnapped firsthand, but the police are convinced that Sean himself is at the center of this crime....
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
206 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In ?Lizards,? a man mutes his wife?s anxieties by giving her a LaCroix-like seltzer laced with sedatives. In the title story, a woman poses as her more successful sister during a botched Italian holiday, a choice that brings about strange and destructive consequences, while in ?Karolina,? a woman discovers her prickly ex-sister-in-law in the aftermath of an earthquake and is forced to face the truth about her violent brother. I Hold a Wolf by the...
19) Anything for you
Author
Series
Valerie Hart novels volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"On a hot summer night, a watchful neighbor locks eyes with an intruder and unwittingly alerts the police to a vicious crime scene next door: a lavish master bedroom where a man lies dead. Next to him, his wife is bleeding out onto the hardwood floor, clinging to life. The victim, Adam Grant, was a well-known San Francisco prosecutor--a man whose connection to Homicide detective Valerie Hart brings her face-to-face with a life she's long since left...
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Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1968: The body of a teenage girl is found just steps away from the Beatles' Abbey Road recording studio. The police are called to a residential street in St John's Wood where an unidentified young woman has been strangled. Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen believes she may be one of the many Beatles fans who regularly camp outside Abbey Road Studios. With his reputation tarnished by an inexplicable act of cowardice, this is Breen's last chance...
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