Nina Alvamar
1) Tightrope
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Series
Language
English
Description
Former trapeze artist Amalie Vaughn moved to Burning Cove to reinvent herself, but after spending her inheritance on a mansion with the intention of turning it into a bed-and-breakfast, she learns that the villa is said to be cursed. When the first guest, Dr. Norman Pickwell, is murdered by his robot invention during a sold-out demonstration, rumors circulate that the curse is real. In the chaotic aftermath, Amalie watches Matthias Jones disappear...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Knew Too Much sweeps readers back to 1930s California--where the most dazzling of illusions can't hide the darkest secrets... After escaping from a private sanitarium, Adelaide Blake arrives in Burning Cove, California, desperate to start over. Working at an herbal tea shop puts her on the radar of those who frequent the seaside resort town: Hollywood movers and shakers always in need of hangover...
3) Wonderland
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When her mother uproots them again to another home and takes a job as housekeeper, ten-year-old Mavis is determined to find a best friend in Landry, Alabama, where the summer also holds the promise of friendship and change for a sad man, a stray dog, and a timid girl.
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the acclaimed author of Twenty Years Later comes a twisting, impossible-to-put-down novel of suspense in which a filmmaker helps clear a woman convicted of murder—only to find she may be a puppet in a sinister game. Fans of Freida McFadden and Alice Feeney will be left breathless by this unforgettable thriller that builds to a shocking conclusion...
The Girl of Sugar Beach is the most watched documentary in television...
The Girl of Sugar Beach is the most watched documentary in television...
5) Deep Harbor
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"In this stirring new novel, acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels delves into the remarkable ways in which moments of crises can lead to our greatest acts of courage . . . When Carol Ann "CJ" Jansen lost her beloved older brother, Kick, in a boating accident, she came adrift. Kick had taken on the role of caring for his little sister after their parents were killed in a car crash. Inheriting half his fortune has left CJ financially...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tessa Jamison couldn't have imagined anything worse than losing her beloved twin girls and husband--until she was convicted of their murder. For ten years, she has counted off the days in Florida's Correctional Center for Women, fully expecting to die behind bars. Fighting to prove her innocence holds little appeal now that her family's gone. But one extraordinary day, her lawyers announce that Tessa's conviction has been overturned on a technicality,...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Charlotte Smith's wealthy parents commit her beloved sister Phoebe to the infamous Goldengrove Asylum, Charlotte knows there's more to the story than madness. She risks everything and follows her sister inside, surrendering her real identity as a privileged young lady of San Francisco society to become a nameless inmate, Woman 99. The longer she stays, the more she realizes that many of the women of Goldengrove aren't insane, merely inconvenient...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Cleaning out her late father's law office a week after his burial, forensic reconstructionist Rory Moore discovers a cryptic file related to a forty-year-old case involving the disappearance of several women and a convicted murderer who is about to be paroled.
10) The killing tide
Author
Series
Coastal guardians volume 1
Language
English
Description
"When one Coast Guard officer is found dead and another goes missing, CGIS special agent Finn Walker faces his most dangerous and volatile crime yet. His only clues are what little evidence remains aboard the dead officer's adrift cutter, and the direction the clues point will test him and the guard to their limits. Complicating matters further is the arrival of investigative reporter Harper Grace. An unrelenting journalist who was nearly killed as...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Nicole Cutty and Megan McDonald are both high school seniors in the small town of Emerson Bay, North Carolina. When they disappear from a beach party one warm summer night, police launch a massive search. No clues are found, and hope is almost lost until Megan miraculously surfaces after escaping from a bunker deep in the woods. Years later, Megan is a celebrity; Nicole is still missing. Nicole's sister Livia, a forensic pathologist, begins to find...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Four Women. Four Confessions. One Murder.
Something has gone terribly wrong at the Banks wedding. A man is dead. Four different women rush to offer confessions, each insisting that they committed the crime - alone.
Ginger is holding her family together by a thread, and this wedding weekend is not the fabulous getaway she anticipated.
Kate has enough money to buy her way out of anything. Well, almost anything.
Emily can't shake her reputation or...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First hardcover Kensington edition.
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After returning, divorced and pregnant, to her rural hometown after living in the city, Ellie Marsden starts to become reacquainted with her high school sweetheart, cattle rancher and single father Jubal McFarland.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Joining a reading group in the wake of a failed marriage, Ava rediscovers a book from her childhood that helped her through past difficulties, while her daughter, Maggie, descends into a destructive relationship with a man in Paris.
15) Dark hearts
Author
Series
Secrets and lies volume 3
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
329 p.
Language
English
Description
Become absorbed in the riveting conclusion New York Times bestselling author Sharon Sala's Secrets and Lies trilogy as twisted lies refuse to stay buried.
Betsy Jakes was having nightmares, nightmares that could solve a decades-old mystery. And for someone in her small town, that meant she had to die.
When Sam Jakes returns home to help his brother solve their mother's murder, two things shake him to the core. This crime is clearly the work of...
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Language
English
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Description
"Jessica Chamberlain, newly separated and living with her two sons in a small Iowa town, can't believe that a tragedy in another state could have anything to do with her. But as she tries to make sense of it, Jess realizes the tragic death is just the beginning. Caught in a web of lies and half-truths, she's horrified to learn that everything leads back to her seven-year-old adopted son, Gabriel. Gabe's birth mother had requested a closed adoption,...
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 318 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a high-profile billionaire makes a history-changing claim on live television, genealogist Lucy Lancaster of Austin, Texas begins an investigation dating back to the mid-nineteenth century before she is confronted by a modern descendant desperate to protect family secrets.
18) Cold hearts
Author
Series
Secrets and lies volume 2
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
There's only one way to keep secrets buried. If only it had been something else that brought Lissa Sherman and Mack Jackson back in touch after so many years. Something-anything-other than the murder of Mack's father. Even worse, Lissa's car had been used as the murder weapon. Thirty-five years ago, four friends went out joyriding and ended up in a terrible accident that left one dead and the others with no memory of that awful night. Now two more...
19) Time bomb
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Six students are trapped in their school after a bomb goes off, and must fight to survive while discovering who among them is the bomber"--
20) Wild hearts
Author
Series
Secrets and lies volume 1
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Past Sins Cast a Long Shadow Dallas Phillips refuses to believe her father committed suicide, even though things were tough on his farm and he was deeply in debt. When she hears he'd told a neighbor about an upcoming windfall, she grows suspicious, and her suspicion only deepens when she realizes someone is lurking in the nearby mountains after dark. For help, she turns to Trey Jakes, local police chief-and her former lover. As they begin to investigate,...