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241) The lying room
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"In this thrilling standalone from the internationally bestselling author of the Frieda Klein series, a married woman's affair with her boss spirals into a dangerous game of chess with the police when she discovers he's been murdered and she clears the crime scene of all evidence. One little secret between a married woman, her lover, and a killer. It should have been just a mid-life fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could have weathered....
242) Adulterio
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Language
Español
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Quiero cambiar. Necesito cambiar. Yo no soy así, pero poco a poco estoy perdiendo el contacto conmigo misma. Adulterio, la provocativa nueva novela de Paulo Coelho, explora el verdadero significado de cómo llevar una vida plena y feliz. ¿Cómo podemos equilibrar lo cotidiano con el deseo de algo nuevo? Para todos los que la conocen, Linda lleva una vida sacada de un cuento de hadas: un marido que la ama, unos hijos adorables, una exitosa carrera...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Her husband informs her that after fifteen years of marriage he has decided to leave her for another woman and dies a few hours later in a car accident. She faces a complicated grief: abandonment, resentment, sadness, betrayal. Another woman appears at the hospital after his death -- someone who can attest to his other life.
Paula Cid es una neonatóloga de cuarenta y dos años con una vida ordenada. Apasionada por su trabajo e inmersa en la rutina...
Author
Publisher
Alcove Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Agatha Arch's life shatters when she discovers her husband in their backyard shed in flagrante delicto, giving the local dog walker some heavy petting. Suddenly, Agatha finds herself face-to-face with everything that frightens her... and that's a loooooong list. Agatha keeps those she loves close. Everyone else, she keeps as far away as possible. So she's a mystery to nearly everyone in her New England town. To her husband, she's a saucy, no-BS writer....
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Series
Publisher
Solaris, an imprint of Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Agatha Raisin meets Sookie Stackhouse, with love, heartbreak and zombies. More murder. More mayhem. More champagne. Toni Windsor is failing at 'happily ever after, ' but it really isn't her fault. All she wants is true love and the perfect wardrobe, but it doesn't look like they are coming her way any time soon. Instead, there are murders to solve and zombies to raise, and she's broken her phone again. Worst of all, her shiny new boyfriend turns...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth, an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Randon House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
""There were so many of us, children of these double families who dreamed of the other side. That night, I fantasized about the separate spheres of our lives colliding ..." Introspective and headstrong, and fueled by an intensity she can't name, Margot Louve has lived as her parents' secret. For seventeen years, her father - an influential French politician with presidential ambitions - has led a double life, his only contact with Margot and her mother...
247) Straying: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From "an extravagantly gifted writer who deserves to be widely read" (Rachel Cusk, The Telegraph), this intimate, quietly stunning novel tells the story of a young American expat who settles in Ireland in the late 1980s, marries, and lives through the consequences of an affair. Alice, a young American, arrives in the West of Ireland with no plans and no strong attachments--except to her beloved mother, who raised her on her own. Alice falls in love...
248) More better deals
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Dispatched to repossess a Cadillac from a deadbeat pet-cemetery owner and his beautiful wife, an unscrupulous used-car salesman embarks on an affair that tests the limits of his character.
From the Edgar Award-winning author of the Hap and Leonard series, a hard-boiled novel set in 1960s Texas in which a no-nonsense car salesman faces a tempting decision, a dangerous deal, and an alluring affair. Ed Edwards is in the used car business, a business...
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English
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"Washington, DC, 2019: Laura Preston is a reclusive artist at odds with her older sister Bea as their elegant, formidable mother slowly slides into dementia. When a stranger contacts Laura claiming to be her brother who disappeared forty years earlier when the family lived in Bangkok, Laura ignores Bea's warnings of a scam and flies to Thailand to see if it can be true. But meeting him in person leads to more questions than answers. Bangkok, 1972:...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"He was a hero of the Revolution, a brilliant politician, lawyer, and very nearly president; a skillful survivor in a raw new country filled with constantly shifting loyalties. Today Aaron Burr is remembered more for the fatal duel that killed rival Alexander Hamilton. But long before that single shot destroyed Burr's political career, there were other dark whispers about him- that he was untrustworthy, a libertine, a man unafraid of claiming whatever...
251) Blood orange
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A young lawyer's idyllic family life and blossoming career are upended by a murder case involving a questionable confession and the lawyer's toxic affair with a manipulative senior partner.
A young lawyer's outwardly perfect life spirals out of control as she takes on her first murder case in this dark and twisty debut thriller for readers of Paula Hawkins, A.J. Finn, or Shari Lapena. I did it. I killed him. I should be locked up. Alison, a young...
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English
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"Enjoy three heart-racing thrillers from the New York Times bestselling master of suspense. 23 1/2 LIES: Lindsay Boxer's estranged father is gunned down execution-style, and her investigation uncovers life-altering truths. --
FALLEN RANGER: To Rory Yates, being a Texas Ranger means absolute loyalty to the badge. But he's put through the ultimate test when an armored car robbery suspect might be an ex-Ranger gone rogue. --
WATCH YOUR BACK: When a...
253) El palacio de papel
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Una historia de verano, secretos, amor y mentiras: en el transcurso de un singular día en Cape Cod, una mujer debe tomar una decisión que cambiará su vida y que se ha estado gestando durante décadas. Situado en los bosques y playas de verano de Cape Cod, The Paper Palace se desarrolla durante 24 horas y 50 años, mientras décadas de legado familiar, amor, mentiras, secretos y una tragedia infantil indescriptible llevan a la esposa y madre Elle...
254) The other widow
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A woman whose lover died moments after ending their affair, the man's grief-stricken wife, and a suspicious insurance investigator collide in the face of deceptions that threaten all of their lives.
255) Wifey
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A thirty-two-year-old New Jersey housewife whose life on the surface bears all the hallmarks of success becomes aware of her dying marriage and stale suburban life-style and sets out in quest of her emotional and sexual identity.
256) Green dot: a novel
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A darkly hilarious and deeply felt debut novel about a young Australian woman's unruly and indignant love affair with her older coworker"--
At 24, Hera is a clump of unmet potential. To her, the future is nothing but an exhausting thought exercise, one depressing hypothetical after another. She's sharp in more ways than one, adrift in her own smug malaise, until her new job moderating the comments section of an online news outlet--a role even more...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When journalist Ellie looks through her newspaper's archives for a story, she doesn't think she'll find anything of interest. Instead she discovers a letter from 1960, written by a man asking his lover to leave her husband - and Ellie is caught up in the intrigue of a past love affair. Despite, or perhaps because of her own romantic entanglements with a married man. In 1960, Jennifer wakes up in hospital after a car accident. She can't remember anything...
259) The assistant
Author
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Oslo, 1938. War is in the air and Europe is in turmoil. Hitler's Germany has occupied Austria and is threatening Czechoslovakia; there's a civil war in Spain and Mussolini reigns in Italy. When a woman turns up at the office of police-turned-private investigator Ludvig Paaske, he and his assistant - his one-time nemesis and former drug-smuggler Jack Rivers - begin a seemingly straightforward investigation into marital infidelity. But all is not what...
Author
Series
Love and revenge novels (Cydney Rax) volume 1
Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"Something's wrong with her perfect marriage, but Kiara Eason isn't sure what. Her ambitious husband Rashad is the last person who'd ever cheat--and she never imagined she'd stray. Still, why is she confiding so much in her handsome coworker Eddison? And why is she wondering what would happen if she put her marriage to the ultimate test--secretly setting Rashad up with a younger woman to see if he's tempted?"--Page 4 of cover.
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