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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A woman hires a housekeeper to care for her aging parents-only to watch as she takes over their lives in this riveting novel of suspense from the New York Times bestselling author called "an ingenious master of domestic suspense" (Samantha M. Bailey). In the end, I have only myself to blame. I'm the one who let her in. Jodi Bishop knows success. She's the breadwinner, a top-notch real estate agent. Her husband, Harrison . . . not so much. Once, he...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Superbly tense and oozing with atmosphere, Anna Downes' debut The Safe Place is the perfect summer suspense; a deft examination of the lengths we'll go to protect the facade of a perfect life. Emily Proudman's life is in chaos. She's just lost her acting agent and her job in one miserable day. Scott Denny has a problem. Even though he's a successful CEO, neither his business acumen nor vast wealth can come close to fixing it. He's at a breaking point....
Author
Series
Florence Norris mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In its 300-year history, there has never once been a scandal at Mullings, ancestral home of the decent but dull Stodmarsh family. Until, that is, Edward Stodmarsh makes an ill-advised second marriage to the scheming Regina Stapleton, who insists on bringing her family's 'ornamental hermit' to live on the estate. Suddenly everyone wants to visit Mullings to glimpse this mysterious figure. Strange but harmless, thinks Florence Norris, the family's longstanding...
Author
Series
Morrie Morgan novels (Ivan Doig) volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
When friends from Dallas arrive in Edinburgh and introduce Isabel to Tom Bruce, a bigwig at home in Texas, several confounding situations unfurl at once. Tom's young fiancée's roving eye leads Isabel to believe that money may be the root of her love for Tom. But what, Isabel wonders, is the root of the interest Tom begins to show for Isabel herself? And she can't forget about her niece, Cat, who's busy falling for a man whom Isabel suspects of being...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
An impoverished Irish immigrant in the industrial 1860s takes a job as a lady's maid in the home of prominent businessman Andrew Carnegie, with whom she falls in love before going missing, triggering Carnegie's search for answers and the establishment of his enduring legacy.
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Taking on the running of her niece's deli while Cat is attending a wedding in Italy, Isabel Dalhousie encounters a recent heart transplant patient who is troubled by memories of events that never happened to him.
10) The fraud
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper--and cousin by marriage--of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully...
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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