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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Invited to join her wealthy friend for an all-expenses-paid vacation to South Carolinas Fripp Island resort, a working-class woman turns suspicious in the face of an unscrupulous handyman, her hosts infidelities and the ambitions of the children in both families.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Thomas Carrick leaves his business behind to look into some trouble on his family's estate, an investigation that forces him to work with Lucilla Cynster, who believes that they are destined to marry, despite Thomas's objections.
63) Ilium
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A young woman unwittingly finds herself plunged into the world of international espionage when she becomes a perfect asset in the long overdue finale of a covert special operation coordinated by the CIA and Mossad.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the town pariah Lizzie Oullette is found dead, with her husband missing, Detective Ian Bird discovers a link to a social media influencer and wife of a disgraced billionaire who had a relationship with Lizzie that cut across class boundaries-and ultimately became deadly.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two brothers in a family of professional killers, Otto and Cecil find it hard to continue the family legacy due to a series of escaped convicts showing up at their door, a lecherous new tutor with disturbing hobbies, their mother’s burgeoning opioid addiction and the disappearance of their father.
67) The finalists
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Competing for a prestigious scholarship, six college students, locked in an aging Victorian structure, must spend eight hours with a college administrator who will do anything to keep the school afloat, but when one of them is murdered, the survivors viciously turn on one another.
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When their parents are brutally murdered the night after Easter dinner, three siblings, who stand to inherit millions, are devastated but also wonder if one of them is capable of murder or if a stranger was responsible for tearing this not-so-happy family apart.
69) Trust
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Told from the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction, this unrivaled novel about money, power, intimacy and perception is centered around the mystery of how the Rask family acquired their immense fortune in 1920s-1930’s New York City.
70) Next of kin
Author
Series
Detective Buddy Lock novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Ben Brook is the lone survivor of the brutal murder of his wealthy family at their upstate New York compound. From the moment he evades death, Ben's life is in constant danger. NYPD detective Buddy Lock must keep the boy safe from a killer intent on wiping out the entire Brook clan.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
While at coal baron Edward Berwind’s fete, Emma and Derrick discover murder is in attendance when a chambermaid is found dead in the coal tunnel, and, asked to assist in this investigation involving a stolen diamond necklace, discover dark deeds that must be brought into the light.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
During an exclusive meeting of the New York Yacht Club at Beacon Rock, which she is attending with her fiance, reporter Emma Cross discovers a woman's body floating in the water, and she, when all signs point to murder, must sort through a who's who of Newport's elite.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
High society member Felix Decker, who belongs to one of New York's oldest families, resigns himself to partnering up with Irish Catholic police detective Frank Malloy when a member of his private club is murdered in nineteenth-century Manhattan.
Author
Series
Color of heaven volume 3
Publisher
Julianne MacLean
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Diana Moore has led a charmed life. But everything is turned upside down when she learns of a mysterious woman who works nearby -- a woman who is her identical mirror image. Diana is compelled to discover the truth about this woman's identity, but the truth leads her down a path of secrets, betrayals, and shocking discoveries about her past. Then she meets Dr. Jacob Peterson and with his help, Diana embarks upon a journey to restore her belief in...
Author
Language
English
Description
Follows three women in an old Brooklyn Heights clan: one who was born with money, one who married into it, and one, the millennial conscience of the family, who wants to give it all away. Darley, the eldest daughter in the Stockton family, has never worried about money. Sasha, Darley's new sister-in-law, has come from more humble origins, and her hesitancy about signing a pre-nup has everyone worried about her intentions. Georgiana, newly graduated...
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Born in Philadelphia in the late 1800s, Hannah Elias has done things she's not proud of to survive. Shedding her past, Hannah slips on a new identity before relocating to New York City to become as rich as a robber baron. A murder and a case of mistaken identity brings the police to Hannah Elias' glitzy mansion. The unsolved murder turns Hannah's world upside-down and threatens to destroy everything she's built. When the truth of her identity is uncovered,...
78) Carnosaur
Author
Publisher
Valencourt Books, by arrangment with Tor Books/Macmillan Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Nothing much ever happens in the sleepy English town of Warchester. So when a farmer is found savagely killed in some sort of animal attack, it's a big story for local reporter David Pascal. The rich and eccentric Sir Darren Penward tells the police an escaped Siberian tiger from his private zoo is to blame, but Pascal isn't so sure. Especially when one witness describes something impossible: an enormous and deadly creature that has been extinct for...
79) Steal
Author
Series
Instinct (James Patterson) volume 3
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Imagine everyone's surprise when Carter von Oehson, a sophomore in Dr. Dylan Reinhart's Abnormal Psychology class, posts on Instagram that he plans to kill himself. Twenty-four hours later and still no one has seen him. The one person convinced he's still alive is his father, Mathias von Oehson. But what Mathias knows and how he knows it would ultimately reveal a secret so damaging that it would be as if he were committing suicide himself. Dylan now...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Devastatingly handsome and insanely rich, Farrell Covington is capable of anything and impossible to resist. As the son of one of the country's most powerful and deeply conservative families, the world could be his. But when he falls for Nate Reminger, an aspiring writer from a nice Jewish family in Piscataway, New Jersey, the results are passionate and catastrophic. Together, the two embark on a uniquely managed romance that spans half a century....
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