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21) Whiskey Beach
Author
Language
English
Description
Suffering an intense year of public and police scrutiny after being wrongly implicated in his fiance's murder, Boston lawyer Eli Landon takes sanctuary in a centuries-old family home and falls in love with resident housekeeper Abra Walsh, with whom he is entangled in an old, life-threatening mystery.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"April thought she had her happy ending. After all, she has her new house and new friends and new guardian. But she also has a very big new secret. The kids of Winterborne House are the only ones who know that Gabriel Winterborne--famous billionaire and terrible cook--is really a sword-wielding vigilante. What they don't know is that he's not the only one. When a masked figure breaks in, looking for something--or someone--it's clear that Gabriel has...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men. Cari Mora, caretaker of the house, has escaped from the violence in her native country. She stays in Miami on a wobbly Temporary Protected Status, subject to...
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Flora has settled into her haunted mansion with the increasingly bizarre and mischievous Creepy Cat! It's a nice life, if she can keep it, but what will Flora do when sneaky assassins come for her? Will she end up as one more ghost in her own house, or will Creepy Cat out-prowl and out-swat those bad boys? The scary-cute adventure continues!"--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Four generations of estranged Whitaker women find themselves at the family’s Connecticut mansion to restore the building, catalogue their enormous art collection and inadvertently begin healing their relationships.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In this homage to Agatha Christie, set in England, an amateur detective finds herself caught up in a real-life whodunit! Miranda Green is summoned to the remote mansion of billionaire Lewis Findley along with five mysterious strangers. What do they all have in common? What's become of their absent host? And who just murdered one of the guests in cold blood? Now Miranda must hunt for hidden clues, interview witnesses, and find the killer before she...
28) Amityville cult
Publisher
ITN Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After unexpectedly, and mysteriously, inheriting his estranged grandmother's mansion, Stanley DeFeo finds himself in the small town of Amityville surrounded by buried family secrets and a sinister plot against him.
Author
Series
Magnolia brides volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
Jenni Beth Beaumont has a dream. She leaves her career as a wedding planner in Savannah for the small Southern hometown whose glory days are long past. She is determined to breathe new life not only into her family's once beautiful antebellum mansion, but also into the town itself. And so she sets out to create a premier wedding destination the likes of which this small down can't even begin to envision, and few want. But Cole Bryson can...and it's...
31) Alone
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Seda, sixteen, feels her invisible childhood nemesis, Sawyer, growing stronger just as a group of stranded teens takes shelter from a blizzard in the dilapidated mansion Seda's mother inherited.
Author
Series
Kate Shackleton mystery volume 13
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
1930, Yorkshire. Intrigued by a mysterious letter from a stranger offering important information, Private Investigator Kate Shackleton arrives in the mill village of Saltaire. At nearby Milner Field mansion, overshadowed by its reputation for misfortune and untimely deaths, she expects to meet the letter writer, Ronnie Creswell. Kate soon hears the shocking news that Ronnie has been killed. At first his death appears to be a tragic accident at the...
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Flora moves into a mysterious mansion and finds it inhabited by a strange creature--Creepy Cat! Thus begins her strange and sometimes dangerous life with a feline roommate. This Gothic comedy brings the chuckles...and the chills!"--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Worldwide
Pub. Date
2009 [2004]
Language
English
Description
When two skeletons turn up in one of Wilmington's antebellum mansions, historic preservationist Ashley Wilkes suspects there is more to the discovery than meets the eye. Her subsequent investigations uncover clues that tell her a killer is poised to strike.
35) Studio 666
Publisher
Open Road
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Members of the rock band Foo Fighters move into an Encino mansion steeped in grisly rock n' roll history to record their much-anticipated tenth album.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Seven friends. One last weekend. A mansion half in ruins. No room for lies. Someone is going to confess. Because there should've been eight... They met when they were teenagers. Now they're adults, and time has been kind to some and unkind to others--and the cruelest of all to Bea, the one they lost nine long years ago. They've gathered to reminisce at Bea's family estate, a once-glorious mansion straight out of a gothic novel. Best friends, old...
37) Country plot
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Jenna's life is perfect . . . perfect chaos! One lousy Monday, Jenna loses her gorgeous job, her even more gorgeous boyfriend, and her home. In an attempt to put aside her personal woes, Jenna goes to catalogue books for an elderly cousin, Kitty ...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Sally Hurst is going to Rhode Island to live with her father Alex and his new girlfriend Kim in the nineteenth-century mansion they are restoring. While exploring the estate, Sally finds a hidden basement and accidentally lets loose a race of ancient, dark-dwelling creatures who conspire to drag her down into the mysterious house's bottomless depths. Before the evil lurking in the dark consumes them all, Sally must convince Alex and Kim that it's...
40) Mousehunt
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Down-on-their luck brothers Lars and Ernie Smuntz don't think much of the crumbling old mansion they inherit until they discover that their dilapidated estate is actually worth millions. But before they can cash in, they've got to rid the house of its single, stubborn occupant: a tiny and tenacious mouse. What might seem like child's play becomes an epic battle of hysterical proportions.