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In this beguiling midcentury historical fiction novel set in 1960s Italy, an ambitious American actress and single mother snags the starring role in a mysterious horror movie shooting on location in a crumbling medieval castle outside Rome…
Readers who enjoy the moody gothic allure of Kate Morton and Silvia Moreno-Garcia or the immersive settings of Lucinda Riley and Fiona Davis will be enthralled by Kelsey James' spellbinding web of intriguing...
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When Manhattanite Sarah Rock meets a mysterious and handsome stranger in the park, she is drawn to him. Sarah wants to get away from her daily routine, her cheating husband and his crazy mistress, her frequent sessions with her heartless therapist, and her moody children. But nothing is as it seems. Her life begins to unravel when a woman from the park goes missing and Sarah becomes the prime suspect in the woman's disappearance. Her lover is nowhere...
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Prepare to be hooked by the gripping new psychological thriller by bestselling author J.A.Baker!
I am safe here, in my cottage in the woods where no one knows me or my real name. All is peaceful and calm and the real world can't hurt me – because I know how cruel it can be.
But then I see her again. I see her pale, white face. Watching me. Taunting me. And then the notes begin to appear.
I know who you really are… I know what you did…
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From the bestselling author of House of Shadows and The Phantom Tree comes a spellbinding tale of jealousy, greed, plotting and revenge-part history, part mystery-for fans of Kate Morton, Susanna Kearsley and Barbara Erskine
London, 1765
Lady Isabella Gerard, a respectable member of Georgian society, orders her maid to take her new golden gown and destroy it, its shimmering beauty tainted by the actions of her brutal husband the night before....
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A cursed opal, a gnarled family tree, and a sinister woman in a green dress emerge in the aftermath of World War I.
After a whirlwind romance, London teashop waitress, Fleur Richards can't wait for her new husband, Hugh, to return from the Great War. But, when word of his death arrives on Armistice Day, Fleur learns he has left her a sizable family fortune. Refusing to accept the inheritance, she heads to his beloved home country of Australia in search...
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Early on a May morning in the depth of South Africa's winter, a woman's naked body, washed in bleach, is discovered on a stone wall beside a highway some thirty-five miles from Cape Town. The local investigation stalls, so the case is referred to Captains Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido of the Hawks-the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations.
The woman is an American named Alicia Lewis, an expert in old Dutch Masters paintings specializing...
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Set within the expanses of the American frontier, this story follows Slainie, an inquisitive pioneer girl, whose life is forever transformed when a mysterious seer shows up at her door. Amidst the backdrop of the Civil War, family tragedy, and the nation's most destructive wildfire, Slainie must navigate her rugged pioneer life as she encounters love and loss and comes face to face with the story of America's first approved Marian apparition.
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When Allie moves to a quaint old cottage with her husband, it's their dream home. Nestled in the village of Pluckley, it seems a perfect haven in which to raise their two children. But, Pluckley has a reputation. It's known as England's most haunted village. And, not long after the birth of their new son, Allie begins to notice strange things...
What's the flash of white she sees moving quickly through the woods to the back of their house? And, what's...
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Who's the Fairest of Them All? Thanks to the Witness Protection Program, for five years Jenna Kendrick, a.k.a. Kendra Jenner, faced a stranger in the mirror. Now, with the man she helped imprison about to be paroled, she was facing danger. Jenna had no choice: To save her life, she had to leave behind the man she loved--long, lean cowboy Adam Case--and become someone else again. But no hair dye or fake ID could prevent Adam from tracking her down--or...
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"She's beautiful," I told him. "Hair like skeins of silk; deep, brown eyes that sparkle in the light like jewels; beautiful lips, deep pink, and as juicy as ripe fruit."
Ideas rippled in the pools of his eyes. "I must paint her," he said.
1508. In Rome artists are everywhere, and feted as gods. But the most celebrated amongst them, a man who can paint beauty itself, is Raphael. When he touches brush to canvas, his subjects burst to life; he takes...
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#1 internationally bestselling writer Sara Blaedel--whose books have sold over three million copies worldwide--presents a page-turning new short story in which a journalist discovers that all is not as it appears in a seemingly idyllic tourist town.
Journalist Camilla Lind gets a frantic phone call: her father has been assaulted. He's the editor of a local newspaper in Skagen, and the brutal attack also left the paper's newsroom in flames. Could...
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Cathy looked out upon the scene that surrounded her — nothing but forest. That last weak winter storm had left little behind to even state there had been a storm. In her mind it signaled an end to winter. It's time to be on the road. She missed her fiancé desperately, and with impatience began that familiar route to his home. College finals were winding down and she was eager to be with Keith.
She'd been warned that there could be other storms,...
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On the coast of rural Newfoundland, Hannah Fitzgerald's mother has lived her life in near total isolation. When Hannah returns to the lonely saltbox house to prepare her mother for the transition into assisted living, her childhood home is anything but welcoming. Dilapidated from years of hoarding and neglect, the walls are crumbling, leaving Hannah's wellness crumbling along with them.
While packing her mother's things, Hannah discovers a trap door...
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And hide is what Anna does throughout the course of this amazing book. She retreats into the fabric of a big old house, building a series of passageways and secondary walls that allow her to share the life of the house unseen by her mother and sisters. As Anna says, her family is not observant. But Anna herself is a quirky and perceptive witness to the life she has chosen to escape. Then a mysterious message is thrusted through a crack in the wall,...
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Richard Wanley (Edward G. Robinson) is no criminal...at least, he wasn't until he met "the woman in the window." With his wife and kids out of town, the chaste professor engages in an innocent flirtation with a chance acquaintance (Joan Bennett) and inadvertently commits a shocking crime. But as the cunning D.A. (Raymond Massey) gets closer and closer to identifying the killer, Wanley finds he's more and more willing to resort to desperate measures...
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The Woman In The Fifth follows American novelist Tom Ricks as he arrives in Paris determined to renew a relationship with his estranged wife and daughter. When the longed-for meeting goes poorly, he ends up in a seedy hostel on the outskirts of the city. Unable to pay for his room and board, he agrees to work as a night guard at a warehouse for the proprietor and spends the hours writing elaborate, imaginative letters to his daughter.
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Set in the Deep South in 1954, this is a gripping literary tour de force, in the tradition of Montana 1948 and Peter Dexter's Paris Trout about a series of murders in a small town that reveals the tidal wave of social change sweeping over America at the time of integration
"He stopped at the first good place he found. After all, he had just killed someone. He was scared. He wanted to get rid of the evidence. He parked the truck with its back to the...
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Samantha Goodall has gone missing in Cowra, New South Wales. A group of locals, who are friends are perplexed when they stumble on a sleuth site sleuthersontheinternet, with posts about Samantha's disappearance. The fictitious character making the posts seems to be Bruce Antonio. They have already been reporting him to the police about disturbing information on his own blogsites. They are certain that Antonio has to be connected to a number of missing...
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Sophie Mill has a natural ability to be profoundly insightful with her thoughts, ideas and creative story telling. This emotive piece of writing starts with early love stories, and then it un-ravels to reveal something quite extraordinary. The Woman in the Distance is a classical true story that every woman will fi nd inspiring. Not everyone has experienced happiness, but every woman has experienced heartache. This creative international contemporary...
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Cynthia Winkler, a crime and mystery author who writes from a Christian worldview, has produced her fourth novel, You Did Not Weep: The Woman in the Grave.
The novel unfolds as Scott Conway tries to make sense of a murder in his family that occurred before he was born. Harrison O'Kelly, a grizzled veteran detective, and Savannah Bibb, an ambitious ATF agent, join forces in an attempt to unearth mysteries long buried in Benton County.
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