Simone St. James
1) Murder road
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Language
English
Description
"July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They're looking for the small resort town where they plan to spend their honeymoon. When they spot what appears to be a lone hitchhiker along the deserted road, they stop to help. But not long after the hitchhiker gets into their car, they see the blood seeping from her jacket and a truck barreling down Atticus Line after them. When the hitchhiker dies at the local hospital, April and Eddie find...
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Language
English
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Description
"In 1977, Claire Lake, Oregon, was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes left behind. Beth Greer was the perfect suspect--a rich, eccentric twenty-three-year-old woman, seen fleeing one of the crimes. But she was acquitted, and she retreated to the isolation of her mansion. Oregon, 2017. Shea Collins is a receptionist, but by night, she runs a true crime website, the Book...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Upstate NY, 1982. Every small town like Fell, New York, has a place like the Sun Down Motel. Some customers are from out of town, passing through on their way to someplace better. Some are locals, trying to hide their secrets. Viv Delaney works as the night clerk to pay for her move to New York City. But something isn't right at the Sun Down, and before long she's determined to uncover all of the secrets hidden there. Upstate NY, 2017. Carly Kirk...
Author
Publisher
NAL Trade
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
""Portis House emerged from the fog as we approached, showing itself slowly as a long, low shadow...." In 1919, Kitty Weekes, pretty, resourceful, and on the run, falsifies her background to obtain a nursing position at Portis House, a remote hospital for soldiers left shell-shocked by the horrors of the Great War. Hiding the shame of their mental instability in what was once a magnificent private estate, the patients suffer from nervous attacks and...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1920's England, a young woman searches for the truth behind her uncle's mysterious death in a town haunted by a restless ghost. Oxford student Jillian Leigh works day and night to keep up with her studies--so to leave at the beginning of the term is next to impossible. But after her uncle Toby, a renowned ghost hunter, is killed in a fall off a cliff, she must drive to the seaside village of Rothewell to pack up his belongings. Almost immediately,...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1920s England, a young woman of limited means and even less experience confronts the ghost of a mysterious serving maid.... Sarah Piper's lonely threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist a ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis--rich, handsome, scarred by World War I, and obsessed by ghosts--has been summoned to investigate the spirit of the nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who is said to haunt the barn where she committed...
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Publisher
Kennebec Large Print, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print ; Unabridged edition.
Physical Desc
523 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"England, 1921. Three years after her husband Alex was shot down over Germany, Jo Manders still mourns his loss. As a paid companion to Alex's wealthy, condescending aunt, Dottie Forsyth, Jo travels to Wych Elm House, the family estate in Sussex. But there's much she didn't know about her husband's origins. Dottie's husband is distant, and her son was grievously injured in the war. Footsteps follow Jo down empty halls, and items in her room are eerily...
Author
Publisher
Kennebec Large Print, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Large print edition ; Unabridged.
Physical Desc
491 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
London, 1925. Glamorous medium Gloria Sutter made her fortune helping the bereaved contact loved ones killed during the Great War. Now she's been murdered at one of her own seances, after leaving a final message requesting the help of her former friend and sole rival, Ellie Winter. Ellie can't refuse the final request of the only other true psychic she has known. With the help of James Hawley, a handsome war veteran who has dedicated himself to debunking...