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21) The nightmare
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
500 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Detective Joona Linna returns to investigate a series of interlinking murders surrounding a suspicious Swedish arms deal"--Provided by pub lisher.
Author
Publisher
Merit Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In the Cape Cod village of Provincetown, Massachusetts, seventeen-year-old Lorna is swept out to sea, leaving her three best friends to struggle to come to terms with their missing leader and with the secrets each endeavors to hide.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Just as Ivy's brother Billy is about to get engaged to his beloved, a tragedy interrupts the happy moment. The body of longtime Santa Sofia resident Marisol Ruiz washes up on the beach--and it's even more heartbreaking since Marisol's father also recently died. But Marisol was a strong competitive swimmer. It seems unlikely there's even a grain of truth to the theory that she accidentally drowned. As Ivy gets to work helping her mentor, Olaya Solis,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's been raining cats and dogs in Mayville Heights. The small town's been deluged, and now the local artists' co-op is on the verge of flooding. Kathleen has been up all night helping her friends move their creations to the safety of the upstairs studio. The artwork survives, but when controversial mask maker Jaeger Merrill is found drowned in the co-op basement, Kathleen questions whether the death was accidental. After she discovers the artist...
25) Alice at heart
Author
Series
Waterlilies volume 1
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
320 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shy, charming, peculiar, and web-toed, Alice Riley has suffered for years at the hands of her dead mother's self-righteous family, while she hides a bevy of secret abilities. When Alice rescues a drowning child, her amazing talents are exposed. Alice can remain underwater for extraordinary periods of time, and she can locate submerged objects through some type of natural sonar ability. Her new fame/notoriety puts Alice in the national news, amidst...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Around midnight, three friends take their partying from bar to boat on a misty fall evening. Just as the weather deteriorates, one of them suddenly and confusingly goes overboard. Is it an accident? The result of an unwanted advance? His body disappears quickly, silently, into the dark water. The circumstances are murky, but what is clear is that the other two need to notify the authorities. Minutes become hours become days as they hesitate, caught...
27) The devil's claw
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Following a traumatic incident in London, journalist Jennifer Dorey has returned home to Guernsey, taking a job as a local newspaper reporter. When she finds a drowned woman on a beach, Jennifer uncovers something much bigger and more sinister than she first thought. Jennifer enlists the help of DCI Michael Gilbert, an officer on the verge of retirement, to investigate a pattern of similar deaths over the last fifty years. They follow a dark trail...
Author
Series
Publisher
Conquill Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A chilling tale of murder unfolds during a fierce September hurricane on the Maine coast in this haunting story of two deaths mysteriously bound together by the long reach of time. As Hurricane Ivan bears down on the coast, the crew of the Maine Wind retrieves the body of a young woman from the sea. Who is she and how did she die? The search for the woman's identity thrusts Homicide Detective Brie Beaumont into an investigation on Apparition Island...
30) The undrowned
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Samantha and Rachel used to be friends. But then Rachel betrayed Samantha ... and Samantha decided to make her life a living nightmare. Then one day, Sam and Rachel found themselves in a fight by a lake. Samantha pushed Rachel ... and watched as Rachel fell back. And back. Into the water. And gone. No way to save her. No way she could be alive. The next day, Rachel shows up to school as if nothing happened. And now she's the one who wants to make...
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
'I will never forget the night I drowned...' Seventeen-year-old Eleanor Parker wakes up cold and alone in the river that twists through her quiet village. She remembers a hand on her chest, another on her head, water in her throat, those final gasps for air... Her brother's girlfriend was drowned in the same river the summer before, held under the water by an unknown killer. Determined to unlock the mystery of what really happened that night, Eleanor...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
382 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Amateur detectives in Georgian England, Harriet Westerman and Gabriel Crowther investigate the drowning of a man in the Thames and discover that he may have been part of a plot to betray England's secrets to France.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Emily Ryan is found drowned in the family pool, pumped full of barbiturates and alcohol, a series of events with cataclysmic consequences ensues. Emily's lover ... finds himself responsible for her twin daughters, whose piercing stares fill him with the guilt and anguish he so desperately tries to hide from his wife. A low-level criminal named The Gonk takes over the cottage of a reclusive elderly artist, complete with graveyard and moonshine...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Walking on the cliffs in Cornwall, Daphne du Maurier stumbles upon the drowned body of a beautiful woman, dressed only in a nightgown, her hair strewn along the rocks, her eyes gazing up to the heavens. Daphne soon learns that the mysterious woman was engaged to marry Lord Hartley of Padthaway, an Elizabethan mansion full of intriguing secrets. As the daughter of the famous Sir Gerald du Maurier, Daphne is welcomed into the Hartley home, but when...
36) Undertow
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
484 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Single mom Rayna Martin celebrates her teenage daughter's birthday by taking her and three friends on a boating trip to Cape Ann, Massachusetts. It is a gorgeous day and eveyone us gavubg a great time until an unexpected turn of events claims the life of one of the girls--Christina Haynes--the daughter of U.S. Senator Rudolph Haynes. Suddenly Rayna, a respected attorney, finds herself facing criminal charges and the wrath of a powerful politician...