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"Heads always turned when Rose McCarthy walked into a room. Nearly six foot tall, she was ramrod straight, and impeccably put together with faultless style, long graceful legs, her snow-white hair cut in a chin-length rounded cap. Her piercing blue eyes missed nothing. She could terrify anyone with a few, well chosen, soft-spoken, eloquent words, or comfort and delight a young employee with generous praise. For twenty-five years, she had been the...
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It should have been just a mid-life fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could have weathered. An escape from twenty years of routine marriage to her overworked husband, and from her increasingly distant children. But when Neve pays a morning-after visit to her lover, Saul, and finds him brutally murdered, their pied-a-terre still heady with her perfume, all the lies she has so painstakingly stitched together threaten to unravel.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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The divorce has just become final, and Richard is already engaged to someone. One woman is determined to change that situation--no matter what it takes. Soon a tangle of lies binds her life with those of Richard and his new fiancee. A tangle of lies, that hide some dangerous truths.
4) Mercy
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Pocket Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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Two cousins are driven to extremes by the power of love, as one helps his terminally ill wife commit suicide and the other becomes involved in a passionate affair with his wife's new assistant.
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English
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Anna McNichol knows how to take charge. Raised by a single mother, she's worked to ensure her three children have every advantage she didn't. And while her marriage has its problems, she values commitment and believes in 'till death do us part.' Now an empty nester, she's at the peak of her career and ready to seize the opportunity to focus on her future. But life can change in an instant, and when her husband dies suddenly, Anna's carefully constructed...
7) The harpy
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Lucy and Jake live in a house by a field where the sun burns like a ball of fire. Lucy has set her career aside in order to devote her life to the children and to the house itself, which comforts her like an old, sly friend. But then a man calls one afternoon with a shattering message: his wife has been having an affair with Lucy's husband, Jake. The revelation marks a turning point: Lucy and Jake decide to stay together, but make an arrangement...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Nina de Gramont's The Christie Affair is a beguiling novel of star-crossed lovers, heartbreak, revenge, and murder-and a brilliant re-imagination of one of the most talked-about unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century. Every story has its secrets. Every mystery has its motives. "A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman. It's a particular feeling, the urge to murder. It takes over your body so completely, it's like a divine...
9) Dead tease
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Tyrus Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
206 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
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Loon Lake Police Chief Lewellyn "Lew" Ferris and recently deputized dentist Dr. Paul "Doc" Osborne investigate the murder of a twenty-six-year-old woman who was having an affair with Midwest Clinic CEO John McNeil.
12) The professional
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Hired to counter a blackmailer who has had affairs with several wealthy women, Boston private eye Spenser finds the case turning violent when the women are systematically murdered.
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Follows the efforts of Civil War veteran Major Gryffth Hockaday to discern the truth about his teen bride, who during the two years he was at war was convicted and imprisoned for allegedly having a baby in his absence and killing it.
14) The arrangement
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English
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A story inspired by the real-world love triangle between M.F.K. Fisher, her husband, and her lover depicts food writer Mary Frances in 1934 Los Angeles, whose articles become metaphorical for her hunger for passionate fulfillment in a marriage that is no longer intimate or creative.