Catalog Search Results
1) Blind date
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elisabeth Kennedy's life is falling apart. She has lost her job as a detective, she is disfigured from a brutal acid attack, and she remains haunted by the murder of her sister years ago. She takes up residence in a belfry apartment, high atop a crumbling London church tower, cloistered from the evils of the world. But as more and more people around her die, Elisabeth realizes her sister's killer is still out there, and to find him, she will have...
Author
Language
English
Description
An unforgettable psychological thriller reminiscent of Emma Donoghue's Room and V. C. Andrews' Flowers in the Attic. Katherine and David have the perfect life: they are beautiful, rich, debonair, and gifted. But cracks begin to form beneath the smooth exterior when David suspects that one of their two children is not his. There is no other reason why chubby, petulant Jeanetta does not conform to David's standards of perfection and order. Soon, David's...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Someone has stolen the only person John Smith ever loved-his twin brother, Cannon. Johnny will stop at nothing to get him back, but Cannon doesn't feel the same way anymore. He's married now, and he loves his wife. In a desperate effort to avoid Johnny's destructive brotherly affections, Cannon enlists the aid of Sarah Fortune, a lawyer who has turned helping the needy and eccentric into something of an art form. Sarah hides Cannon's wife for him,...
4) Gold Digger
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A relentlessly twisty thriller of greed, mystery, and betrayal, in which a young widow must outwit her husband's dangerous family, from bestselling British novelist Frances Fyfield.
In a rambling old mansion by the sea, Thomas Porteous lies dying. His much younger wife Di, soon to be his sole heir, knows that her in-laws will soon descend on their home to lay claim to an inheritance.
Members of the Porteous family, including a pair of poisonous...
Author
Language
English
Description
When Isabel Burley returns home to care for her mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, she finds a bemused, angry old woman, prey to the dangers of failing memory, the inability to run her household-and the local villains who are eyeing her isolated home. But as the locals close in, Isabel finds herself struggling with her own emotions. She thinks she has come home to do some good, but is she really looking for the affection she lacked as a child?...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Family fights, suicides, sirens, death, and even a ghost. Everything happens here …Attorney Sarah Fortune is dispatched to a small coastal town to straighten out the financial affairs of the eccentric Pardoe family. The three siblings and their mother, who is suffering from dementia, own most of Merton on Sea. The business of the estate should be simple enough, and Sarah sees the job as an opportunity for a mini-vacation-a chance to get out of the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A tense, twisting thriller perfect for fans of Linda Fairstein.
Prosecutor Helen West's relationship with police officer Geoffrey Bailey is becoming more serious, but the couple is at odds because Bailey's protégé, Sergeant Ryan, is suspected of rape. As the evidence slowly mounts against Ryan, West and Bailey examine the seemingly open-and-shut case; a terrible crime warrants justice regardless of their feelings toward Ryan. But as they dig...
Author
Language
English
Description
What kind of life would drive you to fake your own death? Beautiful blonde Amy Petty is involved in a horrific train crash. The authorities assume she perished in the resulting fire, but there is no body. If she's not dead, why has she disappeared? Is it because of her husband-rich, charismatic, evil-tempered, and currently embroiled in a libel lawsuit? Or is she running from a past that she cannot escape? This gripping psychological thriller is perfect...
9) Looking Down
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Richard Beaumont hoped to see the elusive crow on the Dover cliffs. Instead he sees a young woman falling to her death. No one recognizes her, and no one has reported her missing. Richard returns, shaken, to his wife, but instead of seeking comfort in Lilian's presence, he locks himself away and obsessively paints the scene of the woman's broken body on the rocks. Unable to forget what he has witnessed, Richard finds solace in Sarah Fortune's seductive...
10) Shadow Play
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This sophisticated, psychologically gripping tale about crimes of the most twisted passion is perfect for fans of Linda Fairstein and Patricia Highsmith. The odd, vaguely menacing little man called Mr. Logo is a familiar figure in the old court building in London. Although frequently brought before the judge for indecent assault, he is invariably acquitted due to lack of evidence. He is especially familiar to Helen West, the take-no-prisoners lawyer...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A tense, twisting thriller perfect for fans of Linda Fairstein. Crown Prosecutor Helen West spends her days fighting for justice in domestic violence cases, so it's no wonder she can't find the energy to clean her own apartment. Helen is thrilled to have found the lovely and sad-eyed Cath, whom she pays to clean for her. But when she notices bruises on Cath's arm, Helen can't stop thinking about what the girl must go home to at night. And when Cath's...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This searing thriller is perfect for fans of Carol O'Connell and Louise Penny. Sarah Fortune is bored to death-but few know, and fewer would guess, how the beautiful and successful lawyer escapes the stultifying tedium of her career. Since the death of her unfaithful husband, she has been moonlighting as a generous mistress, offering intimate company to lonely men. Sarah is satisfied with her routine. But then she meets Charles Tysall, an important...
Author
Language
English
Description
Elisabeth is a picture restorer. This gives her the solitude and independence she needs-living and working alone in her flat. Despite her skills and reliability, Elisabeth undercharges for her work-valuing the worth of the paintings rather more than she values herself. Her ambitions are modest: beauty to look upon, unintrusive friendships, and complete privacy. But when a mysterious and obviously wealthy man commissions her to restore his fabulous...
14) Trial by Fire
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A woman's abandoned corpse is found in a shallow grave in a posh suburb. The death hits close to home for prosecutor Helen West as she and detective Geoffrey Bailey have just moved into a new house within the gated neighborhood where the body was dumped. But tensions continue to rise when the victim is identified as the wife of the developer who built the estates, and all of the neighbors begin to accuse one another. As Helen and Geoffrey dig deeper...
Author
Language
English
Description
Betrayal is in their blood . . . When Anna and Therese's father walked out on their mother, the Calvert family was shattered. Now that he's deceased, his carefully crafted plans are set to unravel their lives all over again. After their mother died, the two sisters were sent to live at the Blessed Sacrament Convent. Anna rebelled and escaped to the real world, while Therese remained devoted to a life of duty and worship. Until, one day, the mysterious...
16) Blood from Stone
Author
Language
English
Description
A twisting tale of suspense-perfect for fans of Linda Fairstein. When the body of a successful criminal lawyer is found outside a chic London hotel, it looks like a suicide. For those who knew her, the woman's death is a shock-Marianne Shearer was at the pinnacle of her career, wealthy and stylish-but for the police, the case is open-and-shut. There's something strange about the circumstances, though, something that prompts her colleague Peter Friel...
Author
Language
English
Description
A loner. A liar. A secret. Let the games begin. Accountant Rachel Doe leads a sheltered, beige-colored life… Until she meets Ivy, who is everything Rachel isn't. Ivy is a wild child. She is charismatic and seductive, a charmer with tragedy in her past. The two women begin an intense and unexpected friendship. But, as the intimacy between them escalates, Rachel is drawn deeper into the darkness that surrounds Ivy-and the secrets that hide there....
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This gripping psychological maze is perfect for fans of Ruth Rendell and P. D. James. Pip Carlton is a devoted husband and a highly respected pharmacist, cherished by his loyal customers. When his wife dies in her sleep, with no apparent cause, he is distraught. Comforted by his caring assistant, Pip ignores the rumors about Margaret's death, relieved that the police seem to have moved on. But prosecutor Helen West refuses to believe that Margaret...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
There's no place like home. When Sarah Fortune inherits an apartment from one of her many lovers, she moves in and begins to receive letters from someone claiming the apartment belongs to him instead. At first she believes the letters to be harmless, but as they grow more threatening, she can no longer ignore the fact that she is being hounded by a psychopath. Then Sarah meets Henry, a timid, lonely man whose racketeering landlord is trying to force...
Author
Language
English
Description
Fans of Laura Lippman and A. S. A. Harrison will love this haunting psychological thriller. For twenty years, Henry Evans has been haunted by the memory of Francesca, the one that got away. When he travels to England to reconnect with his long-lost love, what he finds is a horrific shock: Francesca has been imprisoned for murdering her five-year-old son. But Henry refuses to believe Francesca is guilty, even if she did confess-in chilling detail-to...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request