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FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths Fugitives from justice Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Problem families Fiction Sailing Fiction Secrecy Fiction United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation Officials and employees Fiction Widows Widows FictionKubica, Mary
Summary: Clara Solberg's world shatters when her husband and their four-year-old daughter are in a car crash, killing Nick while Maisie is remarkably unharmed. The crash is ruled an accident, until the coming days, when Maisie starts having night terrors that make Clara question what really happened on that fateful afternoon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KUBNeville, Stuart
Summary: "An early morning call brings Belfast detective Serena Flanagan to the scene of a sudden death. Henry Garrick, the owner of a successful local car dealership, who had been horrifically maimed in a car accident five months ago, appears to have taken his own life. A simple case, it should be wrapped up in a few days, but something doesn't feel right to Flanagan, despite the fact that there is no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEVConnolly, John
Summary: "Still recovering from his life-threatening wounds, private detective Charlie Parker investigates a case that has its origins in a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War. Parker has retreated to the small Maine town of Boreas to regain his strength. There he befriends a widow named Ruth Winter and her young daughter, Amanda. But Ruth has her secrets. Old atrocities are about to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria/Emily Bestler Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Connolly 2015Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CONBarton, Fiona
Summary: "Following the twists and turns of an unimaginable crime, The Widow is an electrifying debut thriller that will take you into the dark spaces that exist between a husband and a wife. When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enabled her and her husband to carry on when more bad things began to happen. . . But that woman's husband died last...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Barton 2016McKenzie, Catherine
Summary: When an explosion rips apart a Chicago building, the lives of three women are forever altered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCKRyan, Hank Phillippi
Summary: "We all have our reasons for being who we are-but what if being someone else could get you what you want? After a devastating betrayal, a young woman sets off on an obsessive path to justice, no matter what dark family secrets are revealed. What she doesn't know-she isn't the only one plotting her revenge. An affluent daughter of privilege. A glamorous manipulative wannabe. A determined...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RYACoben, Harlan
Summary: "Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya's husband, Joe--who had been brutally murdered two weeks earlier. The provocative question at the heart of the mystery: Can you believe everything you see with your own eyes, even when you desperately want to? To find the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Coben 2016Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS COBSager, Riley
Summary: Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family's lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple living in the house across the lake. They make for good viewing--a tech innovator, Tom is powerful;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAGPerry, Thomas
Summary: When Phil Kramer is shot dead on a deserted suburban street in the middle of the night, his wife, Emily, is left with an emptied bank account and a lot of questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERRichmond, Michelle
Summary: FBI Agent Lina Connerly hopes to start life anew in California. But as students at her son's high school go missing, she summons her investigative instincts and pushes her own ethical boundaries to solve the crimes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RICLeonard, Peter (Peter A.)
Summary: When her teenage son, Luke, kills her husband in a tragic bow-hunting accident, Kate McCall suddenly becomes caught up in a dangerous confrontation with a gang of killers that includes Kate's old flame, an ex-con desperately trying to convince his formercolleagues that he lost the heist money.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEOPatterson, James
Summary: Widow Anne Dunne takes her three children on sailing vacation in an effort to save her family, but when they finally start feeling like a family again something catastrophic happens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Aucio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATAtkins, Charles.
Summary: When antiques dealers start being killed in their quiet, charming neighborhood, Lil Campbell and Ada Strauss try to discover the truth and track down the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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Summary: An unlikely alliance between an accused killer who swears she is innocent and a grieving journalist trying to rebuild her shattered life leads to a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RYAPatterson, James
Summary: Since the death of her husband, Anne Dunne and her three children have struggled in every way. In a last ditch effort to save the family, Anne plans an elaborate sailing vacation to bring everyone together once again. They're only an hour out of port and everything is going wrong. Her daughter plans to drown herself, Mark is high on drugs, and Ernie is nearly catatonic. As she manages to pull...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATWhite, Christian
Summary: "The second standalone thriller from the award-winning author of The Nowhere Child, Christian White. Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter, The Wife and The Widow is an unsettling thriller told from two perspectives: Kate, a widow whose grief is compounded by what she learns about her dead husband's secret life; and Abby, an island local whose world is turned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WHIO'Sullivan, Colin
Summary: In near-future Japan, Susie Sakamoto mourns her family's death by drinking and abusing her husband's home robot. But when she tries to reprogram it for ill intent, she lands in a corporate war of sentient machines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC O'SUCooley, Martha.
Summary: "In M.P. Cooley's thrilling debut suspense novel, widowed FBI agent June Lyons returns to her hometown in the rust belt of upstate New York to take a job with the local police department; when she discovers a body in the frozen river, the investigation unmasks a sordid maze of politics, drugs, and an outlaw motorcycle gang, and June finds that still waters run deep in this small town"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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Summary: A young widow living in the Pennsylvania mountains and flipping burgers for hunters and hikers befriends a stranger visiting from Uzbekistan and becomes embroiled in a manhunt after he confesses to committing a terrible crime in his home country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STVNaslund, Sena Jeter.
Summary: Entrusted with her late husband's discovery of extraterrestrial life and enlisted by her dead husband's friend, anthropologist Pierre Saad, to help him smuggle a newly discovered artifact out of Egypt -- an ancient codex concerning the human authorship of the Book of Genesis -- Lucy Bergmann crash lands her plane on a slip of land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Middle East....
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NASWright, Jaime Jo
Summary: "Kaine purchases an old house sight unseen in her grandfather's Wisconsin hometown. But one look at the eerie, abandoned house immediately leaves her questioning her rash decision. And when the house's dark history comes back with a vengeance, Kaine is forced to face the terrifying realization she has nowhere left to hide. A century earlier, the house on Foster Hill holds nothing but painful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2017
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Summary: "Jane Hawk--fiction's most relentless, resourceful, stunning new heroine--continues her battle against a murderous conspiracy in the riveting sequel to The Silent Corner. "No time to delay. Do what you were born to do. Fame will be yours when you do this." These are the words that ring in the mind of mild-mannered, beloved schoolteacher Cora Gundersun--just before she takes her own life, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Koontz 2017Michaels, Fern
Summary: Anna Campbell is ready to take her first tentative steps back into the world after widowhood. On a singles cruise, she meets divorced professor Ryan Robertson, and the sparks between them are undeniable. Back home in West Texas, Anna and Ryan continue their romance, and Anna decides it's time for their families to meet. Anna is delighted when her daughter, Christina, hits it off with Ryan's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Michaels 2020Milchman, Jenny.
Summary: "On a wintry morning, in the remote Adirondack village of Wedeskyull, New York, Nora Hamilton wakes to find her life utterly changed: her rock-solid policeman husband has committed suicide. The life that Nora has grown to know and love in her husband's peaceful hometown is gone. And almost immediately, the pieces don't add up: solid as an oak Brendan was prescribed sedatives a week earlier, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2013