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Author
Series
Conway Sax novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Reluctantly agreeing to help an obnoxious member of his local AA group, recovering alcoholic and resourceful mechanic Conway Sax is wrongly accused of the man's subsequent murder and struggles to catch the real killer in order to clear his name.
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Series
Cody Hoyt novels volume 1
Description
Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who's fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank took pride in his hard-won sobriety and never hesitated to drop whatever he was doing to talk Cody off a ledge. When Cody takes...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
334 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Relying on his loyal valet, Jeeves, alcoholic writer Alan Blair wonders at the valet's likeness to the famous P.G. Wodehouse character, and travels to a New York artist colony, where a confrontation prompts Jeeves to show his true colors.
5) Factotum
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
205 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
An aspiring writer who has become an outcast, loner, and hopeless drunk drifts around America, moving from job-to-job to support his favorite pastimes--women, drinking, and gambling.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Estranged for decades after a turbulent 1969 summer spent with a free-spirited redhead, two brothers are forced by a shocking reminder to confront the past events that divided them.
7) Lotería
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
272 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
Using a deck of Lotería cards as her muse, eleven-year-old Luz Castillo, a ward of the state who has retreated into silence, finds each shuffle sparking a random memory that, pieced together, brings into focus the events that led to her present situation.
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Supervising an unrepentant alcoholic doctor who has been implicated in the death of a powerful Congressman, Dr. Lou Welcome uncovers a wealth of incriminating facts, including the doctor's alleged affair with the victim's wife, before stumbling on a high-level conspiracy that places Lou's life at risk.
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
319 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
After a childhood friend is shot down while attempting to atone for past sins, Scudder is drawn into a murder investigation that threatens to upset his path toward recovery--and get him killed in the process.
Author
Series
Tate McCoy volume 1
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Description
After her father is accused of murdering her mother, Tate McCoy is convinced he is innocent and tries to prove her life isn't ruined by spending time with her best friend and pursuing her summer crush, until she discovers the truth.
11) The demonologist
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
285 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
During a visit to Venice, Professor David Ullman--one of the world's leading authorities on demonic literature--witnesses a terror in a tiny attic room. Then his 12-year-old daughter Tess disappears before his eyes, and he must find her while confronting an unspeakable darkness along the way.
Author
Series
Conway Sax novels volume 4
Formats
Description
Conway Sax is a man on a mission-this time in Los Angeles, where he uses his race-driving experience in a desperate bid to rescue Kenny Spoon, a washed-up TV star who's been kidnapped. It's a favor for Kenny's mother, Eudora, Conway's dear friend and a fellow member of the Barnburners, his tight-knit maverick AA group.
Author
Series
Gregor Demarkian mysteries volume 22
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
When Henry Tyder, an alcoholic, sometimes homeless member of a socially prominent Philadelphia family, is arrested at the scene of a murder, his attorney asks Gregor Demarkian, former head of the FBI's Behavioral Sciences Unit, to look into the case.
14) Take me with you
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
c2014.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"August Shroeder, a burned-out teacher, has been sober since his nineteen-year-old son died. Every year he's spent the summer on the road, but making it to Yellowstone this year means everything. The plan had been to travel there with his son, but now August is making the trip with Philips ashes instead. An unexpected twist of fate lands August with two extra passengers for his journey, two half-orphans with nowhere else to go"--provided by publisher....
15) Minding Frankie
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Description
When Nöel learns that his former flame is terminally ill and pregnant with a child she claims is his, he agrees to take care of the baby girl once she's born. But as a recovering alcoholic whose demons are barely under control, he can't do it alone. Luckily, he has an amazing network of family and friends who are ready to help. A tale of joy, heartbreak and hope in a close-knit Dublin community.
16) The highway
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Description
When two girls disappear on a remote stretch of Montana road, former police investigator Cody Hoyt and his former rookie partner Cassie Dewell begin an investigation that will lead them into the hunting ground for a killer whose viciousness is outmatched only by his intelligence.
17) The favor
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Pub. Date
2022.
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Description
Staying is dangerous. Leaving could be worse. Leah and McKenna have never met, though they have parallel lives. They don't-ever-find themselves in the same train carriage or meet accidentally at the gym or the coffee shop. They don't-ever-discuss their problems and find common ground. They don't-ever-acknowledge toeach other that although their lives have all the trappings of success, wealth and happiness, they are, in fact, trapped. Because Leah...
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Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will--searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking. A new case brings her to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough reputation. She is searching...
19) Any day now
Author
Series
Sullivan's Crossing volume 2
Description
For Sierra Jones, Sullivan's Crossing is meant to be a brief stopover. She's put her troubled past behind her but the path forward isn't yet clear. A visit with her big brother Cal and his new bride, Maggie, seems to be the best option to help her get back on her feet. Not wanting to burden or depend on anyone, Sierra is surprised to find the Crossing offers so much more than a place to rest her head. Cal and Maggie welcome her into their busy lives...
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"TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm--except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...
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