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The girl who knew too much
Par Amanda Quick. 2017
When Hollywood moguls and stars want privacy, they head to the exclusive Burning Cove Hotel. It's where reporter Irene Glasson…
finds herself staring down at a beautiful actress at the bottom of a pool. The dead woman had a red-hot secret about up-and-coming leading man Nick Tremayne, a scoop that Irene couldn't resist. But now Irene's investigation into the drowning threatens to tear down the wall of illusion that is so deftly built around the famous actor, and there are powerful men willing to do anything to protect their investment. Seeking the truth, Irene finds herself drawn to Oliver Ward, once a world-famous magician, now the owner of the hotel. With Oliver's help, Irene soon learns that the glamorous paradise of Burning Cove hides dark and dangerous secrets. And that the past--always just out of sight--could drag them both under. 2017.The glass menagerie
Par Tennessee Williams. 1972
Drama written in 1945 about a southern family with pretensions to gentility. Centres around the crippled daughter, Laura, who lives…
in a dream world so full of illusions that she becomes like the pieces in her own glass collection - too fragile to move from the shelf. 1972, c1945.One cold and rainy morning, the body of a gypsy girl is found floating in a canal. Brunetti suspects she…
fell off a nearby roof while fleeing an apartment she had robbed--but something about the case continues to haunt him. Sequel to "Suffer the little children", followed by "About face". 2008.The Garden of Eden and other criminal delights
Par Faye Kellerman. 2006
Seventeen short stories include mysteries and family tales. In the previously unpublished title piece, Rina Decker discovers the body of…
her elderly gardening buddy. In "The Stalker", Dana's boyfriend changes after they marry. Strong language, some explicit descriptions of sex, and some violence. 2006.The fortune teller
Par Gwendolyn Womack. 2017
Semele Cavnow discovers a manuscript written in the time of Cleopatra, she knows it will be the find of her…
career. Its author tells the story of a priceless tarot deck, now lost to history, but as Semele delves further she realises the manuscript is more than it seems. 2017.The fruit of the tree (Virago Modern Classics)
Par Edith Wharton. 1984
John Amherst, clever, idealistic and poor, is assistant manager of a cotton mill and has the makings of a working-class…
leader. He meets a young nurse, Justine, a woman who shares his aims and dreams. But Amherst is fatally distracted when he encounters a widow of great wealth: Bessy is charming and beautiful - and the new owner of the mill. 1984.The first quarter of the moon
Par Michel Tremblay. 1994
Marcel and his cousin experience the mystical arrival of summer on the final day of exams at Ecole Saint-Stanislas. While…
Marcel is in the class for "slow learners," his cousin is part of the "gifted" program. It is only towards the end of exams that Marcel's cousin recognizes Marcel's own special type of genius. Sequel to "The fat woman next door is pregnant." 1994. Uniform title: Premier quartier de la lune.The fire engine that disappeared (Martin Beck. #5.)
Par Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö. 1972
In this final volume of The Forsyte Saga Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins…
of the Forsytes. For centuries, the Cherrell sons have left their home of Condaford Grange to serve the state as soldiers, clergymen and administrators, but the 1930s bring uncertainty in a world of rapidly altering morals and unemployment. 2001.The Forsyte saga: Volume 2 : The white monkey; The silver spoon; Swan song (Forsyte chronicles #2)
Par John Galsworthy. 2001
In the second part of the trilogy of love, power, money and family feuding, a new generation has arrived to…
divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions. Set in the years following the First World War, the story moves to Soames Forsyte's daughter Fleur. She is now married to Michael Mont, but when her old love Jon returns after seven years, desire is rekindled and loyalties begin to divide. Still insulated from reality by their wealth and class, the Forsytes try to resist but cannot ignore the threat of change and 'the stealthy march of passion'. 2001.The Forsyte saga: Volume 1 : The man of property ; In Chancery ; To let (Forsyte chronicles #1)
Par John Galsworthy. 2001
The Forsyte Saga traces the changing fortunes of the wealthy Forsyte dynasty through fifty years of material triumph and emotional…
disaster. This first volume begins as the nineteenth century is drawing to a close, and the upper middle classes, with their property and propriety, are becoming a dying section of society. The Forsytes are blind to this fact, clinging to their conventions and 'brilliant respectability'. As dignified Soames Forsyte struggles to uphold the old moral code in the face of the social revolution resulting from the Great War, his wife Irene's extraordinary beauty causes even more disruption. The bitter feud between them will come to split the Forsyte family for two generations. 2001, c1921.The fifth victim (Cherokee Pointe trilogy. #1.)
Par Beverly Barton. 2018
Cherokee Pointe, Tennessee. Deep in the Smoky Mountains, the victim lies, sacrificed on a makeshift altar-the gruesome work of a…
killer who has evaded the authorities in state after state. FBI agent Dallas Sloan knows the scene all too well-just as he knows the killings won't stop until there are four more bodies. 2018.The fifth woman
Par Henning Mankell. 2000
Philosophical detective Kurt Wallander and his team make connections between two deaths -- one of a reclusive birdwatcher and the…
other of an orchid florist. Set in Skane on the southern tip of Sweden. 2000.The fat woman next door is pregnant: a novel
Par Michel Tremblay. 1981
It is May 2, 1942 in Montreal. All the women on Rue Fabre are pregnant; the fat woman next door…
is pregnant with the author himself. Tremblay has created the period in which many of the well-known characters in his plays were born. Prequel to "The first quarter of the moon" (DC15399). Canada Reads 2009. 1981. Uniform title: La grosse femme d'à côté est enceinte.The cost of betrayal: three romantic suspense novellas
Par Dee Henderson, Lynette Eason, Dani Pettrey. 2018
In Dee Henderson's novella "Betrayal," Janelle Roberts is freed--thanks to people she doesn't know--after serving six years of a twenty-year…
sentence for a murder she did not commit. But a murderer is still at large, and Janelle needs to be somewhere safe with someone she can trust. She may not survive another betrayal. In Dani Pettrey's "Deadly Isle," Tennyson Kent is trapped on the isolated island of her childhood by a storm surge, and she is shocked when the typically idyllic community turns into the hunting grounds of a murderer. Cut off from any help from the mainland, will she and first love Callen Frost be able to identify and stop a killer bent on betrayal before they become the next victims? In Lynette Eason's "Code of Ethics," trauma surgeon Ruthie St. John saves the life of Detective Isaac Martinez. After a betrayal leads to him getting shot and then attacked while in recovery, Isaac is now a key witness determined to testify. But someone is intent on silencing him--and those around him--forever. Together, Ruthie and Isaac go on the run, desperate to escape the killers hunting him. 2018.The dogs of Riga (Kurt Wallander ; #2)
Par Laurie Thompson, Henning Mankell. 2001
Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team at the Ystad police station in Skåne, southern Sweden, receive an anonymous tip-off that…
comes to pass a few days later: a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive suits, shot dead. The dead men were Eastern European criminals, victims of what seems to have been a gangland hit. But as the case soon takes on a sinister turn, Wallander finds himself in Riga, Latvia. There he is plunged into a frozen, alien world of police surveillance, scarcely veiled threats and lies. Some strong language. 2001. (Kurt Wallander ; 2) Uniform title: Hundarna i Riga.The concrete blonde (Harry Bosch series. #3.)
Par Michael Connelly. 1994
Harry Bosch, maverick homicide detective, is hauled into court, the chief defendant in a civil suit against the LAPD. The…
plaintiffs are the family of "The Dollmaker", a notorious serial killer whom Bosch shot during an arrest three years before. Their allegation? That Bosch killed the wrong man - an accusation which becomes horribly plausible when a new body is found to carry all the hallmarks of a Dollmaker slaying. To clear his name, Bosch must prove that a copycat killer is at work. But can he? Sequel to "The black ice", followed by "The last coyote". 1994.The evidence exposed
Par Elizabeth George. 2000
A collection of three short stories. In 'The evidence exposed', the two week course on 'Great Houses of Britain' brings…
together a varied group of enthusiasts. When one turns up dead, Inspector Thomas Lynley makes a cameo appearance. In 'I, Richard', Malcolm Cousins has spent years in the single-minded pursuit of a priceless letter, probably written by Richard III on the eve of the Battle of Bosworth, but does he want it enough to kill for it? Some strong language. 2000.The face of deception (The Eve Duncan series. book I)
Par Iris Johansen. 1998
When the man who murdered Eve Duncan's daughter was executed, Eve lost the chance to find her daughter's body. Now,…
as a forensic sculptor, she reconstructs faces to identify juvenile skulls. When a billionaire wants to hire her to work on a mysterious adult skull, she reluctantly agrees. Strong language and descriptions of violence. Bestseller. 1998. (The Eve Duncan series ; 1)The face of trespass
Par Ruth Rendell. 1974