Lori Roy
1) Bent Road
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Celia Scott and her family move back to her husband's hometown in Kansas, where his sister died under mysterious circumstances twenty years before, and where Celia and two of her children struggle to adjust--especially when a local girl disappears.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On a dark Kentucky night in 1952 exactly halfway between her fifteenth and sixteenth birthdays, Annie Holleran crosses into forbidden territory. Everyone knows Hollerans don't go near Baines, not since Joseph Carl was buried two decades before, but armed with a silver-handled flashlight, Annie runs through her family's lavender fields toward the well on the Baines' place. At the stroke of midnight, she gazes into the water in search of her future....
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After leaving her cheating husband in New York City and returning to her family's historic Florida plantation, Lane Fielding's oldest daughter disappears, reigniting her memories and fears of a serial killer who traumatized the area in the 1970s.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1958 Detroit, on Alder Avenue, neighbors struggle to care for neighbors amid a city ripe with conflicts that threaten their peaceful street. Grace, Alder's only expectant mother, eagerly awaits her first born. Best friend Julia prepares to welcome twin nieces. And Malina sets the tone with her stylish dresses, tasteful home, and iron fisted stewardship of St. Alban's bake sale. Life erupts when childlike Elizabeth disappears while in the care...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On the day a black truck rattles past her house and a Klan flyer lands in her front yard, ten-year-old Beth disappears from her Simmonsville, Georgia, home. Armed with skills honed while caring for an alcoholic mother, she must battle to survive the days and months ahead. Seven years later, Imogene Coulter is burying her father--a Klan leader she has spent her life distancing herself from--and trying to escape the memories his funeral evokes. But...
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
It's been said that all great literature boils down to one of two stories--a man takes a journey, or a stranger comes to town. While mystery writers have been successfully using both approaches for generations, there's something undeniably alluring in the nature of a stranger: the uninvited guest, the unacquainted neighbor, the fish out of water. No matter how or where they appear, strangers are walking mysteries, complete unknowns in once-familiar...
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
433 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's been said that all great literature boils down to one of two stories--a man takes a journey, or a stranger comes to town. While mystery writers have been successfully using both approaches for generations, there's something undeniably alluring in the nature of a stranger: the uninvited guest, the unacquainted neighbor, the fish out of water. No matter how or where they appear, strangers are walking mysteries, complete unknowns in once-familiar...