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241) Sparring partners
Author
Series
Jake Brigance volume 4
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Homecoming" takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's not in the courtroom. He's called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again--until...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Philomena McCarthy is a young, ambitious police office with the elite Metropolitan Police in London. When she responds to a domestic violence call, she finds the victim, Tempe Brown, trying to protect her abuser, a married man named Darren Goodall, a decorated Scotland Yard detective afraid of no one. As Philomena pursues the case against him, she not only encounters resistance from her police force colleagues but also becomes dangerously entangled...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Have you ever wondered what your mother was like before she became your mother, and what she gave up in order to have you? As Perfect Tunes opens we meet Laura, a songwriter with a one-of-a-kind talent. Newly arrived in New York City in the early days of the new millennium, she's left behind her safe life in Ohio for the East Village, where she hopes to record her first album. But just as she begins to book gigs, she falls hard for a rock star on...
Author
Language
English
Description
Something happened to her mother that night. Something no one wants to talk about. But she’s determined to uncover her family’s dark secrets, even if they bury her. Five-year-old Sloane McBride couldn’t sleep that night. Her parents were arguing again, their harsh words heating the cool autumn air. And then there was that other sound—the ominous thump before all went quiet. In the morning, her mother was gone. The official story was that she...
245) The half sister
Author
Publisher
Canongate Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When Diana's mother dies, she impulsively invites estranged half-sister Valerie and her nine-year-old son to stay at her grand country home. Ont he night of the funeral, fuelled by wine and years of resentment, the sisters argue and a terrible accident occurs. The foundations of a well-ordered life begin to surface, one dangerous secret after another.
246) The dead daughter
Author
Series
Publisher
[Independently published]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Kyla Gardener’s dead body is found on her bed one early morning. She had been stabbed multiple times. Her father, Paul, has blood stains on his shirt and his fingerprints are all over the murder weapon. Paul has no memory of what happened. Private Investigator Lee Callaway was also at the Gardener residence on the night of the murder. He had been following Kyla’s mother, Sharon, who was having an affair with her yoga instructor. When all evidence...
Author
Publisher
A Plume Book
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
The thirteenth child conceived of miserable Irish exiles, Katie O'Toole dreams of a different life. Little does she know that someone far away is dreaming of her. When savages raid her family home, seventeen-year-old Katie is taken captive by two strange Indians who claim they have been searching for her. Syawa, a gifted Holyman, and his bodyguard, Hector, believe Katie is the subject of Syawa's Vision: the Creature of Fire and Ice destined to bring...
248) The Jessabelle House
Author
Publisher
Tantor
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Samantha Coleman's father, Roland, is obsessed with image and money, so much so that Sam's career as a social worker who specializes in addiction recovery is a "stain" on the Coleman reputation. Now, Samantha is forty-five years old and newly divorced. She understands she married a manipulative and cruel individual, not unlike her father. When her Great-Aunt Jessabelle passes away and leaves her home to Samantha, Sam and her daughters, Darcy and Rachelle,...