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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the winter of 1919, a young mother named Mathilda Neumann drowns beneath the ice of a rural Wisconsin lake. The shock of her death dramatically changes the lives of her daughter, troubled sister, and husband. Told in the voices of several of the main characters and skipping back and forth in time, the narrative gradually and tantalizingly reveals the dark family secrets and the unsettling discoveries that lead to the truth of what actually happened...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Jack Mullen is in law school in New York City when the shocking news comes that his brother Peter has drowned in the ocean off East Hampton. Jack knows his brother and knows this couldn't be an accident. Someone must have wanted his brother dead.
But the powers that be say otherwise. As Jack tries to uncover details of his brother's last night, he confronts a barricade of lawyers, police, and paid protectors who separate the multibillionaire summer...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A young woman descended from a long line of mind readers and fortune tellers has returned to her hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, for rest and relaxation. Any tranquility in her life is short-lived, however, when her aunt drowns under mysterious circumstances.
4) Badwater
Author
Series
Antonio Burns novels volume 5
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Antonio Burns finds one crucial piece of evidence linked to a drowning incident and finds himself drawn to the case despite the costs to his career, his life, or the townspeople who consider him one of their own.
5) Undertow
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An exhilarating debut novel that follows one woman's hunt for the truth when she realizes she might have married a killer. They said her death was a tragic accident. And I believed them...until now. Carmen is happily married to Tom, although she knows she'll always live in the shadow of another woman-the mistress who ended his first marriage: Zena. Mercurial, mesmerizing, manipulative Zena-a woman who, Carmen begins to discover, had the potential...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
An unidentified man is fished out of the sea with an anchor strapped to his waist. And for D. I. Hal Challis, this sparks the beginning of a chilling series of shotgun killings. As Challis investigates, a farmer on the peninsula erupts into violence and is the target of a massive manhunt. And then Challis finds some aerial photographs in the possession of his friend Kitty that link her to the murders…
Author
Series
Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James mysteries volume 14
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When an Olympic rowing hopeful and detective with the Met is found dead in the Thames, Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid is submerged in a complex case involving ethical issues that put both his career and reputation on the line.
Author
Series
Emma Graham mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Emma Green finds herself at a resort hotel that is the scene of a series of unsolved murders that may be tied to the forty-year-old "accidental" drowning of a teenage girl.
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author and "Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark. After a party when her parents are away, eighteen-year-old Kerry Dowling is found fully dressed at the bottom of the family pool. The immediate suspect is her boyfriend who had a bitter argument with her at the party. Then there is a twenty-year-old neighbor who was angry because she didn't invite him to the party. Or is there someone else who...
13) Black water
Author
Language
English
Description
Flattered by the attentions of a senator she has met at a Fourth of July beach party on Grayling Island, Kelly Kelleher accepts a ride from him, taking a first step toward her final confrontation with death.
Author
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
[2018].
Language
English
Description
"Around midnight, three friends take their partying from bar to boat on a misty fall evening. Just as the weather deteriorates, one of them suddenly and confusingly goes overboard. Is it an accident? The result of an unwanted advance? His body disappears quickly, silently, into the dark water. The circumstances are murky, but what is clear is that the other two need to notify the authorities. Minutes become hours become days as they hesitate, caught...
Author
Series
Poppy Rice mysteries volume 3
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The discovery of an unidentified pregnant woman whose body washes ashore on a rocky Boston beach sends FBI agent Poppy Rice on a quest to uncover the truth about the crime, which is linked by DNA to a similar drowning thirty years earlier
16) O' artful death
Author
Publisher
St. Martins Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Sweeney St. George looks nothing like a university Professor with her unruly red curls and preference for vintage clothing. Single and wary of relationships, she pours her energy into her college teaching and a passionate interest in cemetery art. And now Sweeney is intrigued with a macabre graveyard statue of a beautiful woman.
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow and Co
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Boston, the family of a tycoon sit down to a reading of the will when there appears Julia, claiming to be a half-sister and demanding her share. In fact, Julia is a phony, invented by a son seeking control of his father's empire after murdering him.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Amateur detectives in Georgian England, Harriet Westerman and Gabriel Crowther investigate the drowning of a man in the Thames and discover that he may have been part of a plot to betray England's secrets to France.
Author
Series
Daphne Du Maurier mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Walking on the cliffs in Cornwall, Daphne du Maurier stumbles upon the drowned body of a beautiful woman, dressed only in a nightgown, her hair strewn along the rocks, her eyes gazing up to the heavens. Daphne soon learns that the mysterious woman was engaged to marry Lord Hartley of Padthaway, an Elizabethan mansion full of intriguing secrets. As the daughter of the famous Sir Gerald du Maurier, Daphne is welcomed into the Hartley home, but when...