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1) Wicked ways
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Language
English
Description
Suburban wife and mother Elizabeth Gaines Ellis worries that she is somehow the cause of a series of brutal deaths, but no one will take her fears seriously except the private investigator digging into her past.
2) Hot Blooded
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English
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First One Dead Body. . .
A prostitute lies strangled in a seedy French Quarter hotel room. Miles away, in a rambling plantation house on the sultry shores of Lake Ponchartrain, popular late-night radio host Dr. Samantha Leeds receives a threatening crank call. All in a day's...
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
424 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her troubled sister Shaylee is sent to an elite boarding school called the Academy, a place where several girls have disappeared, Jules gets a teaching position there to keep an eye on Shay and discovers that something evil lurks in the halls.
5) Wicked lies
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
459 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When reporter Harrison Frost begins interrogating Laura Adderley about her involvment in the Colony's sordid past, she vows to protect her unborn child at all costs from both him and an escaped psychopath bent on killing her.
6) You will pay
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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It starts as a prank -- a way to blow off steam after a long summer at Camp Horseshoe. Among the teen counselors, tensions and hormones are running high. No wonder the others agree when Jo-Beth Chancellor suggests they scare Monica O'Neal a little--or a lot. Monica has it coming, and no one will really get hurt. What could go wrong? Twenty years later, Lucas Dalton, a senior detective with the sheriff's department, is investigating the discovery of...
7) Liar, liar
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English
Description
In death, Didi Storm is finally getting the kind of publicity that eluded her in life. Twenty years ago, the ex-beauty queen worked the Vegas strip as a celebrity impersonator, too busy trying to make it big to spare much time for her daughter, Remmi. Shortly before she leaped from a San Francisco building, Didi's profile was rising again, thanks to a tell-all book. To Detective Dani Settler, it looks like a straightforward suicide, or perhaps a promotional...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
On the wild Oregon coast, tucked between the mountains and the sea, stands Siren Song, home to a group of women known as The Colony. Their aunt hoped the isolated lodge would be a sanctuary, a place where she could protect them and their special gifts. But nowhere is safe from the man who has marked them for death. The note pinned to the dead body found on the remote beach has no name, just Ravinia Rutledge's phone number and the words Next of Kin....
10) One last breath
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Language
English
Description
Rory Abernathy's wedding to Liam Bastian turned into a bloodbath. She fled after stabbing a masked intruder, just before a gunman opened fire on the wedding party. Five years on, Rory still has no idea who was behind the attacks. Fearful she and her daughter remain targets, she's made a new life far from Liam and the wealthy, powerful Bastians. But even in remote Point Roberts, Washington, she can't hide from the past. Liam tracks Rory down, stunned...
11) Wicked game
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Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
506 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after the disappearance of Jessie Brentwood, Detective "Mac" McNally reopens the case when bones are unearthed at Jessie's old school, and soon after Jessie's friends begin to die under suspicious circumstances.
12) Tell me
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English
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Just as a woman who was convicted of killing her daughter, Amity, twenty years prior is about to be set free after her son recants his testimony, reporter Nikki Gillette, a childhood friend of Amity, seeks the real truth.
13) Ominous
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English
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Three teenage girls splash in the lake on a sweltering summer evening. Shiloh, Kat, and Ruth are unaware of the man who spies on them from the woods. They have no idea how their lives will be changed by the brutal violence that follows--and the vow of secrecy they take. Fifteen years later, Ruth and Shiloh have both returned to Prairie Creek, Wyoming, where Kat is deputy sheriff. Though they've tried to leave their shared past behind, each has the...
14) The last sinner
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a victim surfaces bearing the signature of serial killer Father John, a fake priest who used the sharpened beads of a rosary to strangle prostitutes, Detectives Bentz and Montoya are convinced the monster is back and he will not be stopped until the last sinner has paid the ultimate price.
15) Close to home
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"Vowing to make a fresh start, Sarah McAdams has come home to renovate the old Victorian mansion where she grew up. Her daughters, Jade and Gracie, aren't impressed by the rundown property on the shores of Oregon's wild Columbia River. As soon as they pull up the isolated drive, Sarah too is beset by uneasy memories--of her cold, distant mother, of the half-sister who vanished without a trace, and of a long-ago night when Sarah was found on the widow's...
16) Almost dead
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Series
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious killer bent on revenge begins targeting members of her family, Cissy Cahill must unravel a deadly mystery linked to her family's secret past before she becomes the next victim.
17) Deep freeze
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Series
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensignton Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
512 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jenna Hughes had received twisted fan mail before--it was one of the reasons she'd moved herself and her two daughters from Hollywood to rural Oregon. But the letters arriving at her isolated farm are different, disturbingly personal--and coming from somewhere far too close for comfort. And when a dead woman is found in the woods nearby, Jenna fears that bringing her family here was a terrible mistake. Because each snowfall brings another missing...
18) If she only knew
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Series
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
447 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
With the publication of If She Only Knew, New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson introduced the Cahills, a wealthy San Francisco family-rich in money, twisted secrets, and hidden agendas. Now at the center of their tangled world is Marla Cahill-a woman with no memory of who she is, what she's done, or why she could be the next to die ...
It begins on a dark stretch of highway in northern California. Caught in a blinding glare of headlights,...
19) Born to Die
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Series
Language
English
Description
After the mysterious deaths of two women who bear an uncanny resemblance to Dr. Kacey Lambert, Detective Selena Alvarez suspects murder, and Kacey fears she may be the next victim when she starts to notice connections between herself and the dead women.
20) Devious
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English
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When her sister, a novice nun named Sister Camille, is found brutally murdered at St. Marguerite's Cathedral in New Orleans, Valerie Houston, convinced that the police aren't doing enough, investigates and discovers that a depraved killer is determined to purge St. Marguerite's of all its sins.