Mary Monroe
1) Mrs. Wiggins
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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A tale set in Depression-era Alabama follows the experiences of a woman from an at-risk family who marries the son of a respected preacher to establish a safer life before discovering her husband's desperate secret.
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Series
Neighbors (Mary Monroe) volume 1
Language
English
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Longing to live a little on the wild side, Joyce and Odell Watson engage in a friendship with their new neighbors Yvonne and Milton Hamilton.
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Series
Neighbors (Mary Monroe) volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Tensions between the bootlegging Hamiltons and the respectable Watson families in Depression-era Alabama reach a boiling point that leads to lies, deceit and violence.
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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"Monroe keeps the suspense high, and readers will draw a bated breath with the turn of each page."
—Booklist
Dolores Reese spent her childhood in foster care, like Floyd Watson, a local boy who intrigues her from the moment they meet. When one bad decision sends an innocent Floyd to prison for life, Dolores promises to stick by him. But while Floyd's world stands still, Dolores meets a new man who promises her...
—Booklist
Dolores Reese spent her childhood in foster care, like Floyd Watson, a local boy who intrigues her from the moment they meet. When one bad decision sends an innocent Floyd to prison for life, Dolores promises to stick by him. But while Floyd's world stands still, Dolores meets a new man who promises her...
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Series
Mama Ruby novels volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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The "magnificent, funny, and terrifying" debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of God Don't Like Ugly (The San Francisco Chronicle).
Mama Ruby's known for taking things that aren't rightfully hers, like her best friend's stillborn infant, who she brought back to life and christened Maureen. She's also rumored to have done away with her husband. Some fear her, others try their best to avoid...
Mama Ruby's known for taking things that aren't rightfully hers, like her best friend's stillborn infant, who she brought back to life and christened Maureen. She's also rumored to have done away with her husband. Some fear her, others try their best to avoid...
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Series
Neighbors (Mary Monroe) volume 2
Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Depression-era Alabama bootleggers Milton and Yvonne Hamilton discover their neighbors are involved in dubious businesses themselves and threaten to blackmail them in order to hide their own dirty secrets.
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Series
Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
With their sham of a marriage in danger, Jessie and Hubert Wiggins, desperately trying to maintain their devout and respectable standing, must decide whether or not to reveal the person who might be behind the serial murders plaguing their town, which would risk their own web of lies being exposed.
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Publisher
Dafina Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
When she accidentally receives another woman’s passport during the holiday season, Judith Guthrie, whose brother is on the waiting list for a life-giving transplant, decides to deliver the passport in person and finds her small gesture resulting in a series of big choices and big miracles.
12) Lost daughters
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Series
Mama Ruby novels volume 3
Publisher
Dafina Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
When her new husband Mel and her daughter Lorretta, an aspiring model, run off together, claiming they are in love, Maureen Montgomery must confront her tragic past to find the strength to overcome this devastating betrayal and make a new life for herself that is all her own.
13) Double lives
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Series
Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Depression-era, Southern identical twin sisters decide to switch places when one is being stifled in a passionless marriage and the other is heartbroken over losing her true love.
14) Empty vows
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Series
Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Popular, generous, forty-something widow Jessie Tucker decides to make herself indispensable to recently widowed Hubert Wiggins but is disappointed when he is not everything she dreamed he would be and instead turns her attentions to a much younger man.
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Series
Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Taking incrementally greater risks to pursue the love and excitement they have always craved, best friends Lola Poole and Joan Proctor-Riley are drawn in by the fantasy life of seemingly kind and responsible trucker Calvin, whose talented sexual healing leads to the revelation of a deadly secret.
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Publisher
Dafina Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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A middle-aged couple who has never been able to have children and an elderly widow who maintains a grueling schedule to support her grandkids come up with a solution to help both families during the holiday season, with unexpected results.
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Series
Lowcountry summer novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
Young Miller McClellan struggles with his older brother's return from the war with PTSD and his family's financial difficulties, a situation that escalates over the holiday season when Miller becomes lost in the woods at the side of his brother's service dog.
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Series
Lowcountry summer novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Muir sisters are planning their summer weddings, but when a stranger arrives, he reveals a long-held secret that threatens to hurt family ties and derail the weddings.