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63) Rag and bone
Author
Series
Jay Porter ; 5
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Language
English
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Description
"Having spent ten months on the run after he was framed for the murder of an estate-clearing associate, handyman Jay Porter returns to his hometown of Ashton, New Hampshire. During his time as a fugitive, he searched for a hard drive--evidence that would put his longtime nemeses Adam and Michael Lombardi behind bars. But he came up empty handed. He has nothing. No hard drive, no hope. He hasn't spoken to his ex-wife and son in almost a year and he's...
64) Tide turning
Author
Publisher
Mainly Murder Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
Langley Calhoun isn't out to save the world. He just wants to help his town. With simple courage and conviction, he'll take on issues no one else wants to touch. At the beginning of this affecting new novel, Calhoun receives a phone call from a long-ago acquaintance who says she is dying because the river that feeds the town's water supply is still toxic. The people of the town don't believe it. The politicians don't want to hear it. The real estate...
Author
Language
English
Description
"People are drawn to libraries for all kinds of reasons. Most come for the books themselves, of course; some come to borrow companionship. For head librarian Kit, the public library in Riverton, New Hampshire, offers what she craves most: peace. Here, no one expects Kit to talk about the calamitous events that catapulted her out of what she thought was a settled, suburban life. She can simply submerge herself in her beloved books and try to forget...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In late 1970, Oliver Desmarais drops dead in his front yard while hanging Christmas lights. In the year that follows, his widow, Virginia, struggles to find her place on the campus of the elite New Hampshire men's college where Oliver was a professor. While Virginia had always shared her husband's prejudices against the four outspoken, never-married women on the faculty - dubbed the Gang of Four by their male counterparts - she now finds herself...
Author
Publisher
Mainly Murder Press, LLC
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
One little bird. That's all it took to put an entire town on edge. When Langley Calhoun, the Chief of Police of Fenton, New Hampshire, decides that it's more important to find out who committed a senseless crime than it is to protect the rich and powerful - and even members of his own family - then things get tense in peaceful little Fenton. The mystery that unfolds also forces the Chief to face the deep hostility that has been simmering between him...
68) Glow of death
Author
Language
English
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Description
As a warm ocean breeze ruffles the tall grass along Rocky Point's sandy dunes, Josie Prescott visits the house of a wealthy local couple, Edwin and Ava Belcher. She's been called in to appraise their Tiffany lamp, which everyone is delighted to find is genuine. Josie's good friend, Police Chief Ellis Hunter, is helping prepare for her annual Fourth of July barbeque when he gets a call that Ava has been murdered. Unable to reach Edwin, Ellis asks Josie...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An urgent message from her long-estranged best friend Daniela brings Cadie back to her childhood home. There, they are forced to face a dark secret that ended both their idyllic childhood bond and the magical summer that takes up more space in Cadie's memory than all her other years combined."--Publisher's description.
71) Buried dreams
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Retired Department of Defense research analyst Lewis Cole loves his small New Hampshire town of Tyler Beach, and he shares this affection with his friend Jon Ericson, an eccentric retiree who.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's 1998 and Isabel Rosen, the only daughter of a Lower East Side appetizing store owner, has one semester left at Wilder College, a prestigious school in New Hampshire. Desperate to shed her working-class roots and still mourning the death of her mother four years earlier, Isabel has always felt like an outsider at Wilder but now, in her final semester, she believes she has found her place-until a nonconsensual sexual encounter with one of the...
Author
Language
English
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Description
A classic novel from New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky, The Carpenter's Lady is the poignant and romantic story of two people seeking to rebuild their lives. After a painful divorce, a successful writer leaves New York for New Hampshire, where she hopes to mend her broken heart. But when she meets a compellingly enigmatic carpenter, a new love begins . . .
Author
Language
English
Description
"A journey of two best friends that is part love story, part detective story, and part supernatural thriller, from the acclaimed author of YOU, whose work Stephen King describes as "hypnotic and totally original." Growing up as best friends in small-town New Hampshire, Jon and Chloe are the only ones who truly understand each other and their intense connection. But just when Jon is ready to confess the depth of his feelings, he's kidnapped by his...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Lewis Cole's latest case is about to go up in flames...
When a mysterious arsonist strikes the sleepy town of Tyler Beach, leaving a trail of burned-down hotels in their wake, the police are left baffled and scrambling for a suspect. Retired Department of Defense analyst and local columnist Lewis Cole once again finds himself called in to solve a critical case.
But the fugitive pyromaniac is just the beginning. When a monstrous act of violence shocks...
Author
Series
Publisher
Otto Penzler Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
A toxic oil spill. Mysterious remains. And one man on a mission to reveal the truth at all costs...
When a noxious oil spill pollutes the picturesque beaches of Tyler, New Hampshire, local reporter Lewis Cole is determined to get to the bottom of it. But his investigation takes a sinister turn when a decapitated body washes up on shore.
Then a slew of Winslow Homer paintings go missing and Lewis can't help but sense a connection within the recent...
78) Harmony: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dogs of Babel, a taut, emotionally wrenching story of how a seemingly "normal" family could become desperate enough to leave everything behind and move to a "family camp" in New Hampshire-- a life-changing experience that alters them forever. How far will a mother go to save her family? The Hammonds are living in suburban DC, where everything seems to be going just fine, until it becomes clear that...
80) Whipple's castle
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1969]
Language
English
Description
Set in Williams' fictional city of Leah, New Hampshire, Whipple's Castle is a mansion within the town where the Whipple family resides--husband, wife, three sons and a daughter, each with their own worries and dilemmas. Williams takes a close look at the darker side of small-town life through this family and their lives in this novel set in the 40's.
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