Karissa Vacker
1) Check & mate
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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When eighteen-year-old Mallory begrudgingly agrees to return to chess in one last charity tournament, her surprise upset against Nolan Sawyer, the reigning world champ and bad boy of the chess world, sets her on an whirlwind adventure as she rediscovers her passion for the game.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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An astrophysicist and reluctant psychic Vivvy Bouchet, agreeing to help the police with a high-profile cold case of a kidnapped girl, becomes the target of a conspiracy theorist podcast and fights back with bother her scientific mind and her inexplicable gifts to find a child who haunts her.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Returning to the house where her parents were murdered, mother-to-be Emma Palmer who has never told anyone what she saw the night her parents died, even when she became the prime suspect, is reunited with her estranged sisters who will do anything to keep the past buried.
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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A sharp and twisty exploration of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things.
Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at a liberal arts college in South Carolina. Margot is the shy one, the careful one, always the sidekick and never the center
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When her husband Lewis, a few weeks after their wedding, receives a rare diagnosis—his physical body will gradually turn into a great white shark—Wren, struggling with his fate, finds his developing carnivorous nature activating long-repressed memories which forces her to make an impossible choice.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of vengeance on sexual predators in their community; a man returns from the dead to haunt his grieving wife; a young mother finds herself captivated by her own motherhood. In the collection's longest story, a much-praised writer cruelly experiments with "drafts" of his...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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A wealthy family's vacation at their lush winery estate becomes a weekend to kill for in this deliciously twisted novel of suspense
"Absolutely captivating! A riveting and immersive puzzle for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware." —Hank Phillippi Ryan
Every year, the illustrious Van Ness siblings, heirs to a copper fortune, gather at their secluded winery estate for a joint birthday celebration. It's...
"Absolutely captivating! A riveting and immersive puzzle for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware." —Hank Phillippi Ryan
Every year, the illustrious Van Ness siblings, heirs to a copper fortune, gather at their secluded winery estate for a joint birthday celebration. It's...