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The cradle will fall
By Mary Higgins Clark. 1980
While in Westlake Hospital, Katie DeMaio sees a woman's body being carried to a car in the middle of the…
night. The next day the woman is found dead and declared a suicide. 1980.Le meurtre de Roger Ackroyd
By Agatha Christie. 1927
Le médecin d'un petit village anglais nous raconte le drame qui s'y déroule. La mort de Monsieur Ferrars et le…
suicide de sa femme font déjà jaser quand meurt, assassiné, Roger Ackroyd. 1988, c1927. Titre uniforme: The murder of Roger Ackroyd.The second time around
By Mary Higgins Clark. 2003
Lynn Spencer asks financial reporter Carley DeCarlo, her stepsister, to investigate the case of Lynn's missing husband, Nick. Nick's medical…
research company, which may have been on the verge of discovering a cure for cancer, has been left nearly bankrupt by Nick's disappearance along with substantial corporate assets. 2003.I'll walk alone: A Novel
By Mary Higgins Clark. 2011
Zan Moreland's three-year-old son Matthew was kidnapped two years ago. Now pictures have emerged showing a Zan look-alike taking Matthew…
from his stroller as Matthew's babysitter sleeps in the park. Zan soon realizes that someone has stolen her identity as well as her son - but will anyone believe her? Bestseller. 2011.The shadow of your smile: a novel
By Mary Higgins Clark. 2010
On her deathbed, eighty-two-year-old Olivia Morrow considers disclosing a family secret involving her late cousin Catherine, a nun being considered…
for beatification. At seventeen Catherine gave up her illegitimate son for adoption. Now Catherine's granddaughter, the last of the family line, is targeted by an assassin. 2010 bestseller. c2010.Full speed (Full novels. #3.)
By Janet Evanovich, Charlotte Hughes. 2003
Jamie Swift, owner of a local South Carolina newspaper, and her enigmatic partner, millionaire playboy Max Holt, pose as husband…
and wife as they become involved with a corrupt minister, gangsters, a hound dog named Fleas, and a wise-cracking computer whiz. Sequel to "Full tilt". 2003.Full house (Billie Pearce novels ; #1)
By Janet Evanovich, Charlotte Hughes. 2002
Wealthy polo-playing Nicholas Kaharchek falls in love with single mother Billie Pearce. When a horse injures Billie's foot, Nick foists…
his eccentric cousins on her, ostensibly to help. Meanwhile, a burglar is targeting Billie's Virginia neighbourhood. Bestseller. 2002.Where are the children?
By Mary Higgins Clark. 1975
Seven years before, no one, not even her husband, had believed Nancy Harmon's pleas of innocence in the death of…
her two children. She changes her name and starts life over in New England. However, the nightmare returns when her two new children go missing.All around the town
By Mary Higgins Clark. 1992
Four-year-old Laurie Kenyon is kidnapped by Bic and Opal Hawkins, and she develops multiple personalities to cope with two years…
of molestation. Years later, Laurie's personalities resurface after her parents are killed. Because one personality develops an obsessive crush on Laurie's college professor, Laurie is charged with his murder. Meanwhile, Bic and Opal are still ominously lurking. Violence and some strong language. Bestseller. 1992.The seven dials mystery
By Agatha Christie. 1987
Gerry Wade is a champion sleeper, so the other house guests decide to play a practical joke on him. Eight…
loud alarm clocks are set to go off, one after the other, starting at 6.30am. But when morning arrives, one clock is missing and the prank backfires with tragic consequences.The murder of Roger Ackroyd
By Agatha Christie. 2002
Roger Ackroyd is murdered one night under particularly perplexing circumstances. Suspicion centres on his stepson Ralph Payton, who had good…
motives. Hercules Poirot handles the case with his usual skill. 2002, c1926.No man's land
By G. M. Ford. 2006
When convicted murderer Timothy Driver seizes control of a supposedly escape-proof prison, he demands that Seattle true-crime writer Frank Corso…
come to the prison to negotiate for the lives of 163 hostages. Corso, who's written a book about Driver, thinks that Driver just wants sympathetic media exposure, but his choice of escape partner suggests that he's planned a bloody, cross-country spree, with Corso along for the ride. Violence and strong languageThe darkest minds: A Flavia de Luce Mystery (Flavia de Luce #1)
By Alexandra Bracken, Alan Bradley. 2012
The Idiopathic Adolescent Acute Neurodegeneration virus killed most American children--and left others with dangerous powers. When the government quarantines survivors…
in rehabilitation camps, sixteen-year-old Ruby escapes. Some violence and some strong language. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2012The dead in their vaulted arches: a Flavia de Luce novel (Flavia de Luce #6)
By Alan Bradley. 2014
1951. After the corpse of Flavia's long-missing mother is discovered in a glacier, young Flavia, her family, and mourners--including Winston…
Churchill--await the coffin's arrival at the train station. A stranger makes a cryptic remark to Flavia--and then is pushed to his death. Flavia investigates. 2014Blood ties: a Father Dowling mystery (Father Dowling Mysteries #24)
By Ralph McInerny. 2005
Twenty-two-year-old Martha Lynch seeks to find the identity of her birth mother while her biological father, Nathaniel Fleck, simultaneously tries…
to learn the fate of his child. Both Father Dowling and attorney Amos Cadbury know the truth but have doubts about sharing it. Then someone murders Fleck. 2005An unthymely death and other garden mysteries (China Bayles Mystery #12)
By Susan Wittig Albert. 2003
China Bayles has settled into the quaint town of Pecan Springs, fallen in love with a former detective and opened…
an herb shop, all the while solving more than her share of mysteries. Interspersed in this collection of then puzzling cases are wonderful herbal tidbits