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On the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick's wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they aren't his. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nick's beautiful wife?
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Everyman's library volume 148
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This is the story of a common field laborer, Michael Henshard, who becomes a leader in a small market town and then through his own failure sinks back miserably to his humble beginnings.
3) Live wire
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When a pregnant tennis star reports that her rock-artist husband has gone missing amid scandalous rumors, Myron Bolitar is forced to confront deep secrets about his client's past while struggling with fatherhood roles in his personal life.
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Dutton
Pub. Date
c2004
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370 p. ; 24 cm.
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A seemingly innocuous twenty-year-old photograph turns Grace Lawson's peaceful life upside down when her husband, Jack, mysteriously vanishes with the photograph and unanswered questions threaten her marriage and everything she knows.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
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346 pages ; 24 cm
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"A husband searches for his missing wife--and the secrets of their marriage--and enters into a dangerous world of international espionage in this action-packed, debut thriller from the creator of the hit television series Without a Trace"--
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
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368 p. ; 25 cm.
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Vanessa is a whiz of a chef, so good she makes her grandstanding boss, Hawk--of Albuquerque's chic Nuevo American restaurant Hawk--look good. But Vanessa has a problem--she keeps falling for married men. Swearing off men altogether, she begins helping out at her parents' house until she meets Paul, her parents' neighbor. Just when Vanessa's guard goes down, the red flag goes up: Could Paul be yet another married man?
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2017.
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"Violet and Finn were "meant to be," said everyone, always. They ended up together by the hands of fate aligning things just so. Three years into their marriage, they have a wonderful little boy, and as the three of them embark on their first vacation as a family, Violet can't help thinking that she can't believe her luck. Life is good. So no one is more surprised than she when Finn leaves her at the beach -- just packs up the hotel room and disappears....
9) The runaway
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Peter Ash novels volume 7
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
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384 pages ; 24 cm.
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War veteran Peter Ash is driving through northern Nebraska when he encounters a young pregnant woman alone on a gravel road, her car dead. Peter offers her a lift, but what begins as an act of kindness soon turns into a deadly cat-and-mouse chase across the lonely highways with the woman’s vicious ex-cop husband hot on their trail. The pregnant woman has seen something she was never meant to see . . . but protecting her might prove to be more than...
10) Chinatown
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New Directions paperbook volume 1535
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2022]
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160 pages ; 21 cm.
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"An abandoned package is discovered in the Paris Metro: the subway workers suspect it's a terrorist bomb. A Vietnamese woman sitting nearby, her son asleep on her shoulder, waits and begins to reflect on her life, from her constrained childhood in communist Hanoi, to a long period of study in Leningrad during the Gorbachev period, and finally to the Parisian suburbs where she now teaches English. Through everything runs her passion for Thụy, the...
11) Possession
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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338 pages
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Ten years ago, Hannah's husband was brutally murdered in their home, and she (conveniently) doesn't remember a thing about that night. But the police charged someone else-a stranger-and put him away for life. And Hannah packed up her six-year-old daughter and left London behind. But now her hard-won countryside peace is threatened. Conviction, a viral true crime podcast known for getting cases reopened and old verdicts overturned, has turned its attention...
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"December 1926: England unleashes the largest manhunt in its history. The object of the search is not an escaped convict or a war criminal, but the missing wife of a WWI hero, up-and-coming mystery author Agatha Christie. When her car is found wrecked, empty, and abandoned near a natural spring, the country is in a frenzy. Eleven days later, Agatha reappears, claiming amnesia. She provides no answers for her disappearance. That is...until she writes...
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Publisher
Brilliance
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
22 CDs (25 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Just one look: A seemingly innocuous twenty-year-old photograph turns Grace Lawson's peaceful life upside down when her husband, Jack, mysteriously vanishes with the photograph and unanswered questions threaten her marriage and everything she knows.
The woods: Twenty years ago, four teenagers at summer camp walked into the woods at night. Two were found murdered, and the others were never seen again. Four families had their lives changed forever....
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"Experience the sultry Southern atmosphere of Atlanta and the magic of the Carolina Lowcountry in this funny and poignant tale of one audacious woman's quest to find the love she deserves, from New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank.Leslie Anne Greene Carter is The Last Original Wife among her husband Wesley's wildly successful Atlanta social set. His cronies have all traded in the mothers of their children they promised to love and...
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2021.
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The Delaney family love one another dearly-it's just that sometimes they want to murder each other . . . If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father? This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings. The Delaneys are fixtures in their community. The parents, Stan and Joy, are the envy of all of their friends. They're killers on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is palpable....
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Vingtage Espanol
Pub. Date
2023.
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395 pages ; 23 cm
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El dia del cumpleanos de su hija, Beatriz reune en el precioso jardin de su casa a sus amigos y familiares mas cercanos. Sin embargo, llega el momento de soplar las velas y todavia falta Marco, el marido de Beatriz y el padre de la nina. Poco despues lo encuentran muerto, con una pistola en la mano y un tiro en la cabeza… En esta trepidante historia varias familias intentan desesperadamente mantener una imagen de perfecta bondad. Pero cuando...
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