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"A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years. July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl’s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down. Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the...
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Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Three-year-old Millie Everleigh disappears on a crisp winter's day, and nothing is as it seems...It's the phone call every mother dreads. I'm climbing into the car after a trip to the grocery store. As the engine starts, my phone rings. It's my stepdaughter, Shelby, who is babysitting my three-year-old little girl Millie. 'I only went upstairs for a second,' she says through her sobs. 'She's gone.' I race home to find my blue-eyed baby girl missing,...
4) Possess me
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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"Kaden should leave the Manor alone. Everyone else knows to avoid the old, burned down mansion left abandoned in the woods. But Kaden is curious. Too curious. Or maybe Kaden is drawn there by something sinister. Because once the house has a hold, Kaden can't remember hours out of each day. Almost as if Kaden's life has been... taken over. And at the same time, other kids in town have started to go missing..."--cover.
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Kendall Beck thriller volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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The past is never far behind, as a string of murders threatens to unleash long-buried secrets in this pulse-pounding thriller for fans of Melinda Leigh and T. R. Ragan. The only survivor of Denver’s notorious “Reaper” serial murders, FBI Special Agent Kendall Beck grapples with the ghosts of her past by seeking justice for victims of abuse. She’s neck deep in a particularly ugly case involving the disappearance of five-year-old Emily Williams—but...
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Detective Kay Sharp volume 5
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Detective Kay Sharp investigates when ex-husband Brian is accused of murdering her former best friend, Rachel, and discovers the woman's eight-year-old daughter is missing" --
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Summer 1980: Despite the local superstition that the Bendy Man haunts the woods, three girls go into a Minnesota forest. Only one comes out, dead silent, her memory gone. The mystery of the Taken Ones captures the nation. Summer 2022: Cold case detective Van Reed and forensic scientist Harry Steinbeck are assigned a disturbing homicide—a woman buried alive, clutching a heart charm necklace belonging to one of the vanished girls. Van follows...
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"Welcome to Stanhope. A safe neighborhood. A place for families. On the surface, William Wooler is a family man. But he's been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper. Hours later, Avery's family declares her missing. Suddenly Stanhope doesn't...
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Detective Kay Sharp volume 3
Publisher
Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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In a sleepy mountain town a widowed mother is brutally killed in front of her three daughters, and the oldest, a 16-year-old, is missing. Three suitcases found in the hallway make it clear that the family was about to run away. Who were they trying to escape? Turning the town upside down, Detective Kay Sharp discovers that it is home to a serial killer who preys on helpless girls.
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Peachtree Teen
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Part dark gothic fantasy, part journey into the bizarre, this delicious blending of tall tales and Latin American surrealism will haunt you as you devour it! "Highly imaginative and powerfully affecting."—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review 1836, Wisconsin. Catalina lives with her pa and brother in a ramshackle cabin on the edge of the wilderness. Harsh winters have brought the family to the brink of starvation, and Catalina has replaced her poet's soul...
11) Good bad girl
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things. Our Queen of Twists, bestselling author of Daisy Darker and Rock Paper Scissors Alice Feeney, returns with another thrilling mystery filled with drama and her trademark surprises. Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering the truth. Edith...
12) Last night
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"A fierce blizzard is burying the eastern seaboard, but on the icy Rhode Island shore renowned artist Maddie Morrison finds warm sanctuary from a contentious divorce at the legendary Ocean House. Hours later, her body is found buried under a blanket of snow and her little daughter, CeCe, has disappeared without a trace. For Detective Conor Reid; his brother, Tom, a coast guard commander; and Maddie's grieving sister, Hadley, the posh hotel becomes...
13) The lost child
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Publisher
Headline Review
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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A tragic death. A missing baby. A long-kept secret... 1960. Thirteen-year-old Rebecca lives in fear of her father's temper. As a storm batters Seaview Cottage one night, she hears a visitor at the door and a violent argument ensues. By the time the police arrive, Rebecca's parents are dead and the visitor has fled. No one believes Rebecca heard a stranger downstairs... 2014. Iris, a journalist, is sent to cover the story of a new mother on the run...
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"In rural Caball Hollow, surrounded by the vast National Forest, the James women serve up more than fried green tomatoes at the Harvest Moon diner, where the family recipes are not the only secrets. Like her sisters, Linden was born with an unusual ability. She can taste what others are feeling, but this so-called gift soured her relationship with the vexingly attractive Cole Spencer one fateful night a year ago . . . A night when Linden vanished...
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"A gripping historical novel about two mothers who must make unthinkable choices in the face of the Nazi occupation"--
Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war creeping across Europe, neither woman suspects that their lives are about to irrevocably change.
When Elise becomes a target of the German occupation, she entrusts Juliette with the...