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"An unputdownable thriller with an "oh shit!" beginning for readers of Ruth Ware and Lucy Foley that finds Jamie and Victoria, a married couple expecting their first baby, locked inside the guesthouse they were visiting on vacation just as Victoria feels contractions starting"--
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"The House Guest is another diabolical cat-and-mouse thriller from USA Today bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan-but which character is the cat, and which character is the mouse? After every divorce, one spouse gets all the friends. What does the other one get? If they're smart, they get the benefits. Alyssa Macallan is terrified when she's dumped by her wealthy and powerful husband. With a devastating divorce looming, she begins to suspect her...
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2018.
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English
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"If Alison Kerby really wanted peace and quiet, she never should have opened the Haunted Guesthouse. The Jersey Shore lodge's latest polter-guest is Richard Harrison, the recently murdered brother of long-time resident ghost PI Paul Harrison. Alas, a beyond-the-grave brotherly reunion is nowhere in the foreseeable future - phantasmal Paul left the guesthouse months before for parts unknown, and for all her ghost-whispering prowess, Alison has no idea...
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Tyndale House Publishers
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"Recently widowed Serena MacDonald Stewart focuses on her children to the exclusion of her career, her art, and her sanity. When her brothers ask her to oversee the family guest house on the Isle of Skye, it's a chance to dust off her long-ignored business skills and make a new start. But her hopes for a smooth transition are dashed when the hotel manager, Malcolm Blake, turns out to be irritating, condescending . . . and incredibly attractive. Malcolm...
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Graywolf Press
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[2021]
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English
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"A heady, inventive, fantastical novel about the nature of memory and the difficulty of confronting trauma. An unnamed woman checks into a guesthouse in a mysterious district known only as the Subdivision. The guesthouse's owners, Clara and the Judge, are welcoming and helpful, if oddly preoccupied by the perpetually baffling jigsaw puzzle in the living room. With little more than a hand-drawn map and vague memories of her troubled past, the narrator...
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Severn House
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2022.
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English
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"In the quirky, picturesque lakeside community of Lily Dale, where the residents can talk to the dead, young widow Bella Jordan is the lone skeptic among believers. She doesn't believe in ghosts . . . but after a year in the village, she would admit that her new friends do sometimes seem to know impossible things. Still, when a Black stranger dressed in old-fashioned clothing arrives unexpectedly at Bella's guesthouse at midnight on Juneteenth, only...
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Queenstown ; 3
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Jean Grainger
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[2021]
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English
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"Queenstown, County Cork. 1920 For twenty-year-old Harp Devereaux, life should be idyllic. At university, she feels for the first time in her life that she belongs, her mother Rose is running the Cliff House as a successful business, and her childhood sweetheart JohnJoe is by her side, but the storm clouds of war grow ever darker. For eight hundred years Ireland has made numerous bids for her freedom but now, at last, liberation from British rule...
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Berkley Prime Crime
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2016.
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English
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When the cops show up at her doorstep, searching for her ex-husband who, owing some scary people a lot of money, has disappeared and left a body in his wake, Alison Kerby, with the help of ghosts Maxie and Paul, sets out to find her ex and clear him of the murder before the bad guys get to him first.
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Berkley Prime Crime
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2015.
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English
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When the ghost of a 1960s English rock star asks them to investigate the death of his daughter, Alison, who runs a haunted Jersey Shore guesthouse, and Paul, the ghost of a private detective, discover that the girl was murdered and must catch a killer before some else knocks on heaven's door.
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Berkley Prime Crime
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2010.
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English
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Newly divorced Alison Kerby wants a second chance for herself and her nine-year-old daughter. She's returned to her hometown on the Jersey Shore to transform a Victorian fixer-upper into a charming-and profitable-guest house. One small problem: the house is haunted, and the two ghosts insist Alison must find out who killed them.
13) River lodge
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Friendly Air Publishing
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[2017]
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English
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"When, like Ruth and Roger Mallard, you inherit a large house but no money to keep it up, one thing you can do is turn it into a guest-house. The first week's guests were specially chosen -- or self invited: a rich aunt; a theatrical producer and the lovely Felicity; Felicity's sister and her twins; a famous artist and the amiable "Goosey"; the fattest dog in fiction; and a not-so-rich but very comic uncle and aunt -- these make up the list of guests...
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2021.
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"An unforgettable story of resilience and resistance set during WWII and present-day France on a secluded island off the coast of Brittany, Natalie Morgen made a name for herself with a memoir about overcoming her harsh childhood after finding a new life in Paris. After falling in love with a classically trained chef, they moved together to his ancestral home, a tiny fishing village off the coast of Brittany. But then Francois-Xavier breaks things...
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