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1) The island
Author
Language
English
Description
After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they're deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom. When they discover remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry, taking...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, An imprint of Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2015
Language
English
Description
"Like No Country for Old Men and Snow Falling on Cedars, an atmospheric psychological thriller in which a young cop involved in a hit-and-run death becomes the focal point for a community's grief and determination to place blame"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A New York Times Notable Book: A lethal accident turns life into a waking nightmare for a mother and her son in this gripping novel of secrecy and dread Abandoned by her husband, Joanie Mucherino and her eleven-year-old son, Todd, struggle to cope while dealing with their comically tactless and intrusive Italian family. Further complicating things, Joanie now seems available to Bruno Minea, an old family friend whose two-decade passion for her has...
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"For two months, small-town lawyer Bethany Barclay has been mourning the hit-and-run death of her enigmatic best friend, Annabelle Seaver. Then the son of her wealthiest client is found murdered in her kitchen. When Bethany herself becomes the leading suspect, she must flee both the authorities and a mysterious killer. But there is more at stake than she knows: Bethany is caught in the web of a shadowy organization determined to destroy Christianity"--Dust...
Author
Language
English
Description
Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket. In the Beyond, she's assigned to a Person named Martha, who allows Vivi to watch what happens below for one last summer. Vivi also is granted three 'nudges' to change the outcome of events on earth. Daughter Willa is on her third miscarriage; son Carson partys until all hours, and...
7) Waking lions
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After neurosurgeon Eitan Green hits and kills an African migrant while driving on a deserted road late at night, the victim's wife tracks him down and confronts him the next day, and her price for silence shatters his safe existence.
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Three widely separated households -- one in Scotland, one in the north of England and one in the south -- have known the pain of losing a loved one; losses which, over the years, have shaped the characters of those left behind. Gradually, however, they each come to realize that those deaths might not have been as they seemed, adding doubt and uncertainty to their grief. It take the death of a stranger in suspicious circumstances to untangle threads...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Her son accidentally killed a man. They cover it up. Then, everything goes wrong. When eighteen-year-old Joshua Mayo takes a man's life in a horrible accident, he leaves the scene and the body without reporting the crime to the police. He hopes to put the awful night behind him, and move on with his life. But, of course, he ends up telling his mother Karen what happened. Karen has raised Joshua on her own in Cedar Rapids, Iowa--and she thought they'd...
Publisher
Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
Long live Walter Jameson: A two hundred year old immortal works as a history professor; Dead man's shoes: A vagrant steps into the shoes of a murdered gangster and is taken over by the dead man's ghost; You drive: A man flees the scene after hitting a boy on a bicycle but his car is determined to make him face justice; The long morrow: An astronaut falls in love shortly before being launched on a 40 year mission during which he will be in suspended...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
I Know What You Did Last Summer tells the story of four high schoolers who are involved in a hit and run accident after a party. The accident results in a young boy's death, but the teens, unable to deal with the consequences, leave the body behind and make an anonymous phone call to the police, tipping them off ...
14) Summer shadows
Author
Series
Seaside seasons volume 2
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After fleeing to Melbourne in the wake of a breakup, all Ana has to show for herself is an unfulfilling job at an overly enthusiastic tech start-up and one particularly questionable dating app experience. Then she meets Evan. Charming, kind, and financially responsible, Evan is a complete aberration from her usual type; Ana feels like she has finally awoken from a long dating nightmare. As much as she tries to let their burgeoning relationship unfold...
16) In Plain Sight
Author
Series
Kate Burkholder novel volume 10.5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From Linda Castillo, the New York Times bestselling author of A Gathering of Secrets, comes a new Kate Burkholder short mystery, In Plain Sight: a story of star-crossed love and murder in Amish country. Seventeen year old Amish boy, Noah Kline, is struck by a car as he walks alongside a dark country road late one night in Painters Mill. Seriously injured, he lapses into a coma. Initially, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder believes it's a straightforward...
Author
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
""One of the most beautiful novels that I've written." - Willem Frederik Hermans Alberegt, a public prosecutor and self-proclaimed "man of minor failings," speeds through Hook of Holland in his black Renault on May 9, 1940. His every move is guided by the cool and patient hand of a guardian angel. Flitting about from the hood of Alberegt's car to the rim of his windswept hat, the angel attempts to quell their unhappy ward's fears and secrets. (On...
18) River Road
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
From the award-winning author of The Lake of Dead Languages comes a chilling new psychological thriller about a professor accused of killing her favorite student in a hit-and-run accident.
19) Payback
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
This latest from genre veteran Clare Curzon makes a thrilling addition to this entertaining series.
Sandy Craddock witnesses his detested half-brother deliberately mown down by a hit-and-run driver outside his place of work, and he guiltily assumes that he himself was the intended victim. Convinced the killers will strike again once they discover they've targeted the wrong man, Sandy goes on the run, leaving his boss to wrongly identify the heavily...
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