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1) Red leaves
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Eric Moore has reason to be happy. He has a prosperous business, a comfortable home, a stable family life in a quiet town. Then, on an ordinary night, his teenage son Keith is asked to babysit Amy Giordano, the eight-year-old daughter of a neighboring family. The next morning Amy is missing. Suddenly Eric is one of the stricken parents he has seen on television, professing faith in his child's innocence. As the police investigation increasingly focuses...
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A withdrawn architect revisits the darkest moment of his childhood Steve Farris was nine years old in 1959, the youngest child in a family that was about to be snuffed out. Around four o'clock on an ordinary November afternoon, Steve's father loaded his shotgun. With calm precision he killed his teenaged son and daughter, and then turned the weapon on his wife. For two hours he waited for his youngest son to come home from school. When Steve did not...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
George Gates used to be a travel writer who specialized in places where people disappeared-Judge Crater, the Lost Colony. Then his eight-year-old son was murdered, the killer never found, and Gates gave up disappearance. Now he writes stories of redemptive triviality about flower festivals and local celebrities for the town paper, and spends his evenings haunted by the image of his son's last day. Enter Arlo MacBride, a retired missing-persons detective...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1954 Mississippi, Jack Branch returns to his father's Delta estate, Great Oaks, to perform an act of noblesse oblige: teaching at the local high school. Conducting a class on historical evil, Jack is shocked to discover that his unassuming student Eddie is the son of the Coed Killer, a notorious local murderer. Jack feels compelled to mentor the boy, encouraging Eddie to examine his father's crime and using his own good name to open the doors that...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Historian Lucas Page visits St. Louis to give a reading. Among the attendees is someone he does not expect: Lola Faye Gilroy, the "other woman" he has long blamed for his father's murder decades earlier. Now he must discover why Lola Faye has come and what she is after--before it is too late.
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Thomas H. Cook continues to mesmerize readers with novels that combine tales of passion and intrigue with the best in page-turning suspense. Listeners find his pensive, lyrical style irresistible. As lawyer Henry Griswald draws up an aging client's will, he reflects on a series of events in 1926-1927 that shattered the peace of his boyhood community. Griswald, then a student at the school where his father was headmaster, witnessed a passion that would...
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Thomas H. Cook's novels, including Instruments of Night and Breakheart Hill, pull readers deep into their webs of obsession, passion, and fear. A best-selling author, Cook won the Edgar Award for The Chatham School Affair. In 1937, a slender young woman arrived in a small Maine town. Dora March was lovely, quiet, and mysterious. Soon the tragedies began: a house fire, a murder, a suicide. Within a year, Dora vanished, leaving behind dark, unanswered...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (approximately 450 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the body of famed true-crime writer Julian Wells is found in a boat drifting on a Montauk pond, the question isn't how he died, but why. The death looks like an obvious suicide, but why would Wells take his own life? And was this his only crime? Wells' best friend, Philip Anders, wants to know more. His first clue is an Argentinean crime, which may have been Wells' last book idea. As Anders gathers the missing parts of Wells' life, the man he...
11) Manhattan mayhem
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xiii, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From Wall Street and Greenwich Village to Chinatown, Harlem, and beyond, the streets and skyscrapers of Manhattan are brimming with crimes and misdemeanors. Now, best-selling suspense author Mary Higgins Clark invites you on a tour of these iconic neighborhoods in Manhattan Mayhem, an anthology of all-new stories from Mystery Writers of America, produced to commemorate its 70th anniversary." -- From dust jacket.
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Book club edition.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Mystery anthologist Otto Penzler stocks his Mysterious Bookshop with a celebrated series of "bibliomysteries," individually published short stories and novelettes about deadly doings in the world of ink, paper, and movable type. These tales have been collected and compiled into this volume.