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1) Superstition
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A story on a series of fifteen-year-old unsolved crimes and a television show featuring a renowned psychic draw reporter Nicole Sullivan and police chief Joe Franconi into a perilous search for a murderer when the killer returns.
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 10
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Avon Twilight
Pub. Date
1998
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273 p. ; 22 cm.
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"Every August, four women would gather together to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year. The ritual began when they were in their twenties and their husbands were in medical school, and became a mainstay of every summer thereafter. Their only criteria was oceanfront and isolation, their only desire to strengthen their far-flung friendships. They called themselves the Girls of August. But when one of the Girls dies tragically, the...
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 20
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
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282 p. ; 24 cm.
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Three deaths are linked to Broward's Rock Island's youth recreation center, and its director. When she asks Max to help clear her name, Annie is right there with her husband to help.
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
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viii, 244 p. ; 22 cm.
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The discovery of a real skeleton inside a carnival fright-house mannequin and the seemingly accidental death of a local faculty wife during a picnic send attorney Avery Andrews on a quest to unravel a very cold homicide case and a recent murder.
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Seventh Street Books
Pub. Date
2013
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157 p. ; 21 cm.
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Leah Devereaux returns to her family plantation to uncover the untold story of her parents' deaths, but many locals want to keep the past in the past and soon a ghost known as the Whispering Lady--an omen of death--reappears.
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On the anniversary of her daughter Emily's death, Sarabess, the matriarch of the Windsor family, enlists the help of lawyer Jake Forrest to find Trinity, the daughter she had given up for adoption, a desperate search that exposes dark secrets and has unexpected consequences.
11) Crown jewel
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When he inherits the estate of his estranged brother, Ricky Lam decides to develop the resort his brother had planned to build on an island off the coast of South Carolina, where Ricky finds new love with his former sister-in-law.
12) Secret keepers
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
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293 p. ; 22 cm.
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At age seventy-two, Emma Hanley plans to escape small-town Palmetto, South Carolina, and travel the globe. But when her fickle husband dies in undignified circumstances, Emma finds herself juggling the needs of her adult children. Her once free-spirited daughter Dora turns to compulsive shopping and a controlling husband to forget her wayward past. Her son Bobby still lives with her, afflicted with an illness that robbed him of his childhood promise.
When...
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 16
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2005
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293 p. ; 24 cm.
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When her husband's latest case takes them to a remote private island, Annie's initial delight turns to horror when she realizes that they have been marooned along with numerous suspects from the case her husband is investigating.
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Returning home when Gran, the treasured matriarch, falls in a coma after a car accident caused by her mother, Maggie finds Sullivan's Island is holding even more secrets as she feels herself changing like the Atlantic tides, rediscovering the roots she left behind and finding love.
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When Lisa's favorite patient Kathy loses her battle with cancer, she finds herself drawing closer to Carrie and Suzanne, Kathy's devoted friends. As their lives connect and they powerwalk the beaches of the Isle of Palms, they uncover the truth of Kathy's life-- and discover their own futures in the process.
In this charming, evocative, soul-touching novel, Dorothea Benton Frank once again takes us deep into the heart of the magical Lowcountry where...
17) One summer
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2011
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Jack, terminally ill and preparing to say goodbye to his family, has a miraculous recovery after his wife is killed in a car accident and struggles to reunite his family at her childhood home on the South Carolina oceanfront.
18) The Whispers
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
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229 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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"Eleven-year-old Riley's mom has disappeared and Riley knows that if he leaves tributes for the Whispers, magical fairies that grant wishes, his mom will come back to him"--
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Inside a Benedictine monastery on Egret Island, off the South Carolina coast, is a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. It is to Egret Island that Jessie Sullivan, a woman whose life has been constrained by circumstances, to care for her mother, who hasn't yet recovered from Jessie's father's death 33 years before. As Jessie contemplates the separation...
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Hetty "Handful" Grimké, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimké household. The Grimké's daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. On Sarah's eleventh birthday, she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. Over...
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