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English
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"Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father's crimes and made him infamous. No matter how close she gets to happiness, she can't outrun the sins of Thomas David Bowes. Now a successful photographer living under the name Naomi Carson, she has found a place that calls to her, a rambling old house in need of repair, thousands...
2) 29 seconds
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Sarah is a young professor struggling to prove herself in a workplace controlled by the charming and manipulative Alan Hawthorne. A renowned scholar and television host, Hawthorne rakes in million-dollar grants for the university where Sarah works--so his inappropriate treatment of female colleagues behind closed doors has gone unchallenged for years. And Sarah is his newest target. When Hawthorne's advances become threatening, Sarah is left with...
Author
Series
Cainsville novel volume 3
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
453 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Olivia Taylor-Jones's life has exploded. She's discovered she is not only adopted, but her real parents are convicted serial killers. Fleeing the media frenzy, she took refuge in the oddly secluded town of Cainsville. She has since solved the town's mysteries and finds herself the target of its secretive elders and her stalker ex-fiancé, James. Visions continue to haunt her, particularly a little blond girl in a green sundress who insists she has...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Gina Royal is the definition of average--a shy Midwestern housewife with a happy marriage and two adorable children. But when a car accident reveals her husband's secret life as a serial killer, she must remake herself as Gwen Proctor--the ultimate warrior mom. With her ex now in prison, Gwen has finally found refuge in a new home on remote Stillhouse Lake. Though still the target of stalkers and Internet trolls who think she had something to do with...
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Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Young dandy Fletcher Ralston's privileged life of education and ease in the East comes to an abrupt end when he's summoned to the dried-up Wyoming town of Promise to inherit a run-down bordello and a lifetime of debts. The old woman he's known only via correspondence as his 'aunt' is in truth the madam of the brothel. After their meeting, she is found with her throat slit, and Fletcher is suspect number one. But the old lady's paramour, crusty Gunnar...
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Everyone in the quiet Jersey Shore town of Silver Bay knows the story: On a Sunday evening in September 1991, Ramsey Miller threw a blowout block party, then brutally murdered his beautiful wife and three-year-old daughter. But everyone is wrong. The daughter got away. Now she is almost an adult and has become tired of living in secrecy. Under the name Melanie Denison, she has spent the last fifteen years in small-town West Virginia as part of the...
7) Betrayals
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Series
Publisher
Random House Canada
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
416 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After Olivia found out she was adopted--not the child of a privileged Chicago family as she'd always thought, but of a notorious pair of serial killers--her life exploded. She fled her home, not knowing where to turn, and eventually found refuge in the secluded but oddly welcoming town of Cainsville, Illinois. Working with Gabriel Walsh, a fiendishly successful criminal lawyer with links to the town, she discovered the truth about her parents' crimes...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen years ago, Lilith Wade was arrested for the brutal murder of six women. After a death row conviction, media frenzy, and the release of an unauthorized biography, her thirty-year-old daughter Edie Beckett is just trying to survive out of the spotlight. She's a recovering alcoholic with a dead-end city job and an unhealthy codependent relationship with her brother. Edie also has a disturbing secret: a growing obsession with the families of...
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English
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Ella Fleming is on the run from her past and the secrets that could tear her family apart. As a member of the Brookstone Wild West Extravaganza, a wild west show comprised of all-female performers, her uncanny talent for trick riding impresses the viewers. Only while performing can she forget the truth about who she really is--the daughter of a murderer. Phillip DeShazer blames himself for his father's death and has done his best to bury his guilt...
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English
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Robin Windsor has spent much of her life under an assumed name to avoid association with her infamous parents. She thought she'd finally found sanctuary running her used bookstore in quiet River City, Michigan. But when she receives an eerily familiar book in the mail on the morning of her father's scheduled execution, Robin is thrown back to the summer she met Peter Flynt, the perfect boy who ruined everything. Why would Peter be making contact now?...
11) Blood highway
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When seventeen-year-old Rainy comes home late one evening and finds her mother dead of a suicide, she has no reason to suspect that her death is directly tied to the fact that her father, the notorious Sam Cain, has escaped from prison and is coming for her because he is convinced that both Rainy and her mother know where the stolen money is hidden" --
12) Mind Games
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Language
English
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Description
"Kaely Quinn's talents as an FBI behavior analyst are impossible to ignore, no matter how unorthodox her methods. But when a reporter outs her as the daughter of an infamous serial killer, she's demoted to field agent and transferred to St. Louis. When the same reporter who ruined her career claims to have received an anonymous poem predicting a string of murders, ending with Kaely's, the reporter's ulterior motives bring his claim into question....
13) Dead end
Author
Series
Kaely Quinn profiler volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When multiple corpses are found, their remains point to a serial killer with a familiar MO but who's been in prison for over twenty years--Special Agent Kaely Quinn's father. In order to prevent more deaths, she must come face-to-face with the man she's hated for years" -- Provided by publisher.
14) Collision point
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A crime lord's daughter finds safety from her father's enemies in the arms of the bodyguard who broke her heart.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
x, 398 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Katie Watts was almost thirteen when she was kidnapped at an amusement park. Held captive for days, she's finally rescued by her captor's teenage son, Will, who's been subjected to his father's mental and physical abuse for years. In the aftermath, Katie was sent into seclusion with her family, and Will was shipped off to one foster home after another, completely disappearing from her life. Fast forward to present day and Katherine is ready to tell...
Author
Publisher
Studio Fun
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
880L
Physical Desc
88 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This Secrets of Auradon Prep handbook uncovers little-known fact about the elite school attended by heirs of some of the world's most well-known heroes. But when the sons and daughters of some of the world's most well-known villains are invited to go there, havoc breaks loose. Write-ins and secret notes reveal what Mal and her friends--as well as the Auradon kids--are really thinking about each other. Take a peek inside to see who says what next!"--Back...
17) Buried
Author
Series
DC Jack Warr volume 1
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jack Warr is a young DC with the Metropolitan Police. Charming but aimless, Jack can't seem to find his place in the world--until he's drawn into an investigation that turns his life upside down. In the aftermath of a fire at a derelict cottage, a badly charred body is discovered, along with the burnt remnants of millions of stolen, untraceable bank notes--the hidden legacy of Dolly Rawlins and her gang of Widows. Jack's assignment to the case coincides...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
267 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Adopted when she was only days old, Ivy Hon knows little about her lineage. But when she's stricken with a mystery illness, the results of a genetic test to identify the cause attract the FBI. According to Ivy's DNA, she's related to the Full Moon Killer, who has terrorized the Pacific Northwest for decades. Ivy is the FBI's hope to stop the enigmatic predator from killing again. When an online search connects Ivy with her younger cousin, she heads...
19) My favorite scar
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
300 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Ámbar has never known any parent other than her father, Víctor Mondragón, nor any life other than his--the life of a criminal. On any given Friday night, Ámbar longs to be at the arcade or a rock concert, but she's more likely to be patching up Víctor's latest bullet hole in a dingy motel or creating a new set of fake identities for the both of them. Although she has come to terms with the realities of her life and enjoys aspects...
20) Justice
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016].
Lexile measure
880L
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"M Freeman thought she had finally found a place where she belonged: the Lawless School, where the children of master criminals trained to become master criminals themselves. But now that life is behind her. Faced with the existence of a weapon that threatens all life on earth. Now M and her crew are determined to stop them--but they can't do it alone. And that means joining the Fulbright Academy. In their ancient cops-and-robbers conflict against...