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Author
Series
Interpersonal violence volume 20
Publisher
Sage Publications
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Reluctantly, Luke joins Lola Faye for a drink. As one drink turns into several, these two battered souls relive, from their different perspectives, the most searing experience of their lives. Slowly but surely, the hotel bar dissolves around them and they are transported back to the tiny southern town where this defining moment- a violent crime of passion- is turned in the light once more to reveal flaws in the old answers. As it turns out, there...
Author
Series
Last Stand volume 6
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In trying to unravel the truth behind the murder of his ex-wife and son, Sebastian Costas has followed a ghost of a lead all the way to Sacramento. The evidence suggests a murder-suicide, but something he heard a week before the killing won't allow him to accept that. He believes her second husband - a cop - killed them and then faked his own death. But proving it isn't easy. Then he gets a call from Jane Burke, an investigator with The Last Stand....
24) The Family trade
Author
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When she stumbles on a money-laundering scheme, reporter Miriam Beckstein is shocked when she is threatened with death, a situation that turns bizarre when she is transported to a parallel Earth where her family rules a powerful kingdom.
25) Regina's song
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
“A story of murder and revenge . . . Outstandingly well paced and tightly plotted, the novel also stands out in its handling of various psychological themes.”—Booklist
Eerily attuned to one another, twins Regina and Renata are so identical that even their mother can’t tell them apart. Then tragedy strikes: a vicious attack leaves one twin dead and the other so traumatized that she turns totally inward,...
Eerily attuned to one another, twins Regina and Renata are so identical that even their mother can’t tell them apart. Then tragedy strikes: a vicious attack leaves one twin dead and the other so traumatized that she turns totally inward,...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Seven years after the end of an affair with a married man culminated in the unsolved murder of his wife, Marcella Atkinson struggles with the decimation of her own family life before a chance discovery leads her into a relationship with her former lover's son.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"On a cold day in 1997, student Sara Morgan was killed in the woods surrounding her liberal arts college in upstate New York. Her boyfriend, Blake Campbell, confessed, his plea of temporary insanity raising more questions than it answered. In the aftermath of his acquittal, the case comes to haunt a strange and surprising network of community members, from the young woman who discovers Sara's body to the junior reporter who senses its connection to...
29) Blood hunt
Author
Language
English
Description
Determined to exact revenge in the aftermath of his brother's unlikely suicide, professional assassin Gordon Reeve becomes increasingly enraged by a local cop who thwarts his attempts to talk with a friend who last saw Reeve's brother alive.
30) Rise the dark
Author
Series
Markus Novak volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Language
English
Description
Rise the dark. These were the last words written in Lauren Novak's notebook before she was murdered in a strange Florida village. They've never meant anything to the police or to her husband, investigator Markus Novak. Now the man he believes killed her, Garland Webb, is out of prison and draws Markus to the scene he's avoided for so long: the lonely road where his wife was shot to death beneath the cypress trees and Spanish moss in a place called...
31) Levity
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Manuel Jordan has done time in prison for accidentally killing a kid during an attempted robbery. After being released, he returns to the town where he committed the crime in hopes of seeking salvation. He ends up in a community center where he meets a pastor, who helps him out. Trying to find redemption for his sins, he befriends Adele, who just happens to be the sister of the boy he shot in the robbery. He also meets teenaged Sofia, a rich girl...
32) The lies we told
Author
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Maya and Rebecca Ward are both accomplished physicians, but that's where the sisters' similarities end. As teenagers, they witnessed their parents' murder, but it was Rebecca who saved Maya from becoming another of the gunman's victims. The tragedy left Maya cautious and timid, settling for a sedate medical practice with her husband, Adam, while Rebecca became the risk taker.
34) The king of lies
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When Work Pickens finds his father murdered, the investigation pushes a repressed family history to the surface and he sees his own carefully constructed facade begin to crack. Work's troubled sister, her combative girlfriend, his gold digging socialite wife, and an unrequited lifelong love join a cast of small town characters that create no shortage of drama in this extraordinary, fast-paced suspense novel.
Author
Publisher
Greyson Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Ten years ago, four people were brutally murdered. One girl lived. No one believes her story. The police think she's crazy. Her therapist thinks she's suicidal. Everyone else thinks she's a dangerous drunk. They're all right--but did she see the killer? As the anniversary of the murders approaches, Faith Winters is released from the psychiatric hospital and yanked back to the last spot on earth she wants to be--her hometown where the slayings took...
37) The tea rose
Author
Language
English
Description
Her family and dreams shattered by her father's untimely death at the hands of a ruthless tea baron, Fiona Finnegan flees East London and eventually establishes herself at the head of the tea trade in New York.
38) With song
Author
Series
Dolan Brothers volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
In 1930s Kansas, Molly McKenzie agrees to serve as the bait in a government trap for the gunmen who murdered her parents.--
39) Nurse Betty
Language
English
Description
Betty never misses an episode of her favorite soap opera, "A reason to love." After a mind-altering run-in with two hit-men while watching an episode, Betty transforms into "Nurse Betty" and embarks on a mission to find her one true love, Dr. David Ravell.
