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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father - Pikeville's notorious defense attorney - devastated. And it left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night. Twenty-eight years later, and Charlie has followed in her father's footsteps to become a lawyer herself - the...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
It's midnight, and a mother has just gotten her frightened 5-year-old son back to sleep when she hears an unexpected "wheeze of weight" on the stairs. She sees a tall stranger slink onto the landing. He's wearing plastic gloves and his grinning face is uncovered, indicating he doesn't intend to leave evidence or witnesses, and his sneakers are dry despite the storm, suggesting he's planned ahead and expects to stay a while. He misses her watching...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Jade and Cam Lasky are by all accounts a happily married couple with two adorable kids, a spacious home and a rapidly growing restaurant business. But their world is tipped upside down when Jade is confronted by a masked home invader. As Cam scrambles to gather the ransom money, Jade starts to wonder if they're as financially secure as their lifestyle suggests, and what other secrets her husband is keeping from her. Cam may be a good father, a celebrity...
Author
Language
English
Description
From LA Times Book Prize finalist and author of The Beautiful Bureaucrat comes a subversive speculative thriller about a mother of two young children who, by confronting a masked intruder in her home, slips into an existential rabbit hole where she grapples with the dualities of motherhood--joy and dread, longing and suffocation--in blazing, arresting prose.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Julie Jones has left her suffocating marriage. With her teenage daughter, Jess, she's starting over. Their new house in Oceanside is the first step toward a new life. Even if it does come with the unexpected. The previous owners, a pastor and his wife, have left something - or rather someone - behind... Tom Dean has a bitter hatred for the father who considers him a lost cause, and for the woman who's moved into their family's house. The only home...
9) Cold in July
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
After killing a home invader in self defense, an East Texas man finds his family's life in danger when the dead man's father, a ruthless ex-con, rolls into town seeking revenge.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts gives a new twist to the home invasion horror story in a heart-palpitating novel of psychological suspense that recalls Stephen King's Misery, Ruth Ware's In a Dark, Dark Wood, and Jack Ketchum's cult hit The Girl Next Door"--
12) Better watch out
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When a babysitter takes on a job during the holiday season, she must protect the kids from a home invasion.
14) Home invasion
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When a wealthy woman and her stepson are targeted by a trio of expert thieves in their remote mansion, her only form of help comes from a call with a security systems specialist. But as the intruders become increasingly hostile and the connection wavers, will she trust him to be her eyes and navigate her to safety.
15) Crime story
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
When ex-mob boss Ben Myers is targeted in a home robbery, he goes on a deadly rampage of vengeance. But with his family caught in the crosshairs, Myers must finally face the consequences of his dark past in this action-packed crime thriller.
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Two years after she escaped a violent attack on her family, Becky attempts to rebuild her life in the care of an older woman--a kindred spirit named Elena. But when a group known as the "Noble Men"' break into their home, attack them, and take her beloved dog, Diego, Becky must return to her old ways to protect herself and her loved ones.
17) Straw dogs
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
David and Amy Sumner, a Hollywood screenwriter and his actress wife, return to her small hometown in the deep South to prepare the family home for sale after her father's death. Once there, tensions build in their marriage and old conflicts re-emerge with the locals, including Amy's ex-boyfriend Charlie, which leads to a violent confrontation.
18) Becky
Language
English
Description
Spunky and rebellious, Becky is brought to a weekend getaway at a lake house by her father Jeff in an effort to try to reconnect. The trip immediately takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts on the run, led by the merciless Dominick, suddenly invade the lake house.
19) Breaking in
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Shaun Russel's life is thrown into turmoil after her father's unexpected death. She takes her two young children out to his mansion in Malibu in order to attempt to settle his estate. The mansion is designed with state-of-the-art security that ends up trapping her kids inside, along with four criminals who plan to capture her late father's wealth as well. Shaun must now attempt to save her children and defeat the villains.
20) The gardener
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The quiet of the English countryside is shattered one brutal night in this intense home-invasion thriller. a troubled wealthy family gathers in a quaint manor home for the holidays, never suspecting that bloodthirsty, sadistic Volker and his crew linger at the gates, ready to attack, rob and maim them at nightfall. But they didn't count on the estate's quiet gardener Johasz, who must return to the savage ways he learned as a soldier to the savage...
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