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Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Maren Winter is a world-renowned restaurateur who has built an empire. No one heeds the whispers of her retirement more closely than her three daughters, all in service to their mother's legacy. On the night of Maren's annual New Year's Eve party, a line is crossed, and word of a humiliating family meltdown spreads like a Northern California wildfire through the culinary elite. It's a golden opportunity for one of them to step into power-and a trigger...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Nayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around town. She's returned with her teenage son to live in the run-down house at the end of the lane, and--though she's strangely guarded--Nayan can't help but be drawn to her. He hasn't risked love since losing his young family in a terrible accident twenty years earlier. In the wake of the tragedy, Nayan's labor union, long a cornerstone of his community, became the center of his life: a way for him to channel...
Author
Publisher
Storm Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
One moment my beautiful daughter, her face flushed from the sun, her curls still wet from splashing in the ocean, was waiting in line for a strawberry ice cream, the next she was gone... As I sit in her dimly lit bedroom, surrounded by flickering candles, I feel the crushing weight of my daughter's absence. It's been two years since Layla was murdered. The police have searched tirelessly for her killer, but they've found nothing--it's like whoever...
Author
Publisher
One More Chapter
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
There's something in my neighbour's attic. Something steeped in shadows. A secret to everyone. Seen by no one, He stands sometimes at the window. Hidden in the corner of my eye. I know he's there. I know he's watching. Now my son is dead. My neighbour is not. And I'm going to find out why.
5) The limits
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
From Mo'orea, a tiny volcanic island off the coast of Tahiti, a French biologist obsessed with saving Polynesia's imperiled coral reefs sends her teenage daughter to live with her ex-husband in New York. By the time fifteen-year-old Pia arrives at her father Stephen's luxury apartment in Manhattan and meets his new, younger wife, Kate, she has been shuttled between her parents' disparate lives--her father's consuming work as a surgeon at an overwhelmed...
6) The trap
Author
Series
Publisher
Storm Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Detective Erica Sands is called out to an isolated cottage in Dorset, England. A local woman, Jane Smith, has been found murdered in her home. At first, it looks like a burglary gone wrong, until Erica's attention is grabbed by a seemingly minor detail. A framed photograph of Jane's two cats--one black and one white--triggers a strange disquiet in Erica, which turns to shock when she discovers a cryptic note written in blood tucked beneath the frame....
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Vivian Parry likes the dark. A former actress, she now works as the junior theater critic at a major Manhattan magazine. Her nights are spent beyond the lights, in a reserved seat, giving herself over to the shows she loves. By day, she savages them, with words sharper than a knife. Angling for a promotion, she reluctantly agrees to an interview,a conversation that reveals secrets she thought she had long since buried. Then her interviewer disappears...
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