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1) The searcher
Author
Series
Cal Hooper volume 1
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat, and starts to realize that even small...
Author
Series
Lewis Trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Fin Macleod returns to the outer Hebridean island of his youth to make amends and restore his parents' cottage before investigating a death involving family secrets and a sinister adversary.
Author
Series
Chief of Police Kate Burkholder volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Language
English
Description
Chief of Police Kate Burkholder must confront a dark evil to solve the mysterious murders of an entire Amish family of seven. Formerly Amish herself, Kate is no stranger to the secrets the Amish keep from the English--and each other--but this crime is horribly out of the ordinary.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Required to complete a celebrity biography on her own after the suspicious death of her charismatic partner, agoraphobic ghost writer Em Moore struggles through the job's required interviews with alluring film director Garrett Malcolm, who alludes to dark family secrets and trouble with a fellow star.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1944, a wounded British bomber pilot parachuted into German-occupied Tuscany and found refuge in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. Nearly thirty years later his estranged daughter finds a letter addressed to Sofia and embarks on a journey to Tuscany to discover his secrets and a past some would prefer be left undisturbed"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let's get started"--...
Author
Series
Secrets of Wayfarers Inn volume 9
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The ladies of the Wayfarers Inn have planned a sweetheart banquet, but everything goes wrong. Meanwhile, Janice suspects her son Stuart has been keeping a very big secret from her.
Author
Series
Secrets of Wayfarers Inn volume 1
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
295 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three friends purchase a historic hotel in Marietta, Ohio, and learn it was a stop on the Underground Railroad. When strange things begin happening at the inn, an old journal written by former slave and Underground Railroad "conductor", Prudence Willard, may shed light on the present-day mysteries at the inn.
Author
Series
Secrets of Wayfarers Inn volume 13
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a tour group checks into the Wayfarers Inn, LuAnn feels she has met one of them before. He seems to recognize her too, but denies knowing her. Meanwhile, LuAnn has finally decided to go through her deceased mother's things and there she finds some surprising clues to who the mystery guest might be.
10) The kingdom
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
549 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A mechanic from a rural mountain village finds the limits of his family loyalties tested when his entrepreneur brother announces plans to revitalize the community through a hotel project that becomes increasingly overshadowed by greed and dangerous secrets.
11) Picture this
Author
Series
Secrets of Wayfarers Inn volume 10
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ellie has arrived with her cousin Marsha at the Wayfarer's Inn. During their stay, Thorn proposes to to his ex-wife, Beverly, prompting Ellie to offer to plan their wedding, though LuAnn ends up shouldering most of the burden. Ellie and Marsha bicker constantly, until Marsha vanishes, leaving the ladies of the inn to find her and the secret behind the cousins' bizarre behavior.
Author
Series
Secrets of Wayfarers Inn volume 14
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the Fourth of July, Tess and her friends find a myserious brooch at the Wayfarers Inn. When Tess takes it to a jeweler for appraisal, it is stolen before he can find a clue about its origins. As the Inn crowd digs into the mystery, they learn that among their current guests are the descendants of a man suspected, one hundred and fifty years ago, of stealing this same brooch.
Author
Series
Medlar mystery volume 4
Language
English
Description
Bestselling novelist Sara Medlar is skilled at sharing stories about other people, but she hoped the truth about her own family would never surface. Her home in Lachlan, Florida, is her refuge and she loves having her niece Kate and dear friend Jack Wyatt together under her roof. The Medlar Three, as they are known around town, have sworn off getting involved in any more murder investigations. When the sheriff unexpectedly leaves on vacation, Jack...
Author
Series
Secrets of Wayfarers Inn volume 6
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Moses Willard, the great-great grandson of original owners of the house now turned into Wayfarers Inn, has come with his family to visit the inn. However, Moses has been receiving anonymous notes suggesting that someone is holding the Willard family treasure for ransom. At the same time, inn co-owner Tess has had a failing out with her grown daughter Lizzie and it's up to her friends, LuAnn and Janice, to help patch things up between the two.
15) All that remains
Author
Series
Secrets of Wayfarers Inn volume 3
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Janice Eastman wakes from a nap to find her five-year-old grandson has gone missing, she must confront crippling fears as her search takes her into the darkest recesses of Wayfarers Inn. There, she makes a startling discovery: skeletal human remains lie alongside an antique photo of a woman holding a child. The discovery of the bones pulls her, Tess, and LuAnn into a mystery that they must quickly solve before archaeological and general curiosity...
Author
Series
Secrets of Wayfarers Inn volume 15
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
273 pages : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Wayfarers Inn employee Winnie wins a baking competition, the Inn Crowd capitalizes on it by offering a free loaf of her award-winning bread to the first twelve guests to book a room at the inn. But when strange messages begin showing up inside the loaves of bread, the friends must figure out who would want to harm them or Winnie. Meanwhile, a demanding guest named Reena Newberry begins to wear on the Inn Crowd. Finding out what she wants from...
17) Sticks and bones
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 354 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney and her friends are celebrating New Year's Eve at the party of the year, a smashing Winter White Garden party at the newly renovated King Cotton Boutique Hotel. It's a dazzling success...until Frangelica "Sister" McFee walks through the door. Sarah Booth knew Sister in college, before Sister became a bestselling author and moved to New York, and fame and fortune don't seem to have tempered her arrogance and...
18) Justice for Sara
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A decade after being acquitted for her beloved sister's murder, Katherine McCall receives chilling anonymous letters that compel her to return to her hostile hometown and team up with Detective Luke Tanner to learn the truth about what happened.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The #1 internationally bestselling author returns with a new novel in the vein of her New York Times bestsellers Pretty Girls and The Good Daughter--a story even more electrifying, provocative, and suspenseful than anything she's written before. What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all? Andrea knows everything about her mother, Laura. She knows she's spent her whole life in the small beachside town...
20) Hide
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a young red-haired woman is found brutally murdered in downtown Chicago, one detail stands out: the red lipstick encircling her wrists and ankles. Detective Harriet Foster is on the case, even though she's still grieving the sudden death of her partner. As a Black woman in a male-dominated department, Foster anticipates a rocky road ahead acclimating to a new team--and building trust with her new partner isn't coming easily. After another victim...