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81) Thale's Folly
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Pub. Group
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Failed novelist Andrew Thale is sent by his father to check out an empty farmhouse, inherited from an aunt in Massachusetts. On arrival, Thale discovers the house has been occupied by squatters, characters straight out of a novel. Thale moves in with them, perhaps to gain inspiration for a bestseller.
82) Loot
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Stumbling across a rare painting from the fabled Nazi truck that disappeared while transporting looted treasure in 1945, ex-curator Ben Revere must journey to Europe and discover the truth about the Nazi truck before a half-century of hatred, revenge, and betrayal destroys him.
83) The river house
Author
Series
Swift River Valley novels volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Felicity MacGregor loves organizing social events for others, but her own personal life is a different story. After a brief but failed attempt at a career as a financial analyst, she returned to Knights Bridge, where she enjoys running a thriving party-planning business. Then Felicity's life gets a shake-up when her childhood friend Gabriel Flanagan returns unexpectedly to their tiny hometown. Now a high-flying businessman, Gabe always vowed to get...
84) Locust lane
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Can anyone be trusted? On the surface, Emerson, Massachusetts, is just like any other affluent New England suburb. But when a young woman is found dead in the nicest part of town, the powerful neighbors close ranks to keep their families safe. In this searing novel, Eden Perry's death kicks off an investigation into the three teenagers who were partying with her that night, each a suspect. Hannah, a sweet girl with an unstable history. Jack, the...
85) Just like this
Author
Series
Albin Academy volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rian Falwell has a problem. And his name is Damon Louis. Rian's life as the art teacher to a gaggle of displaced boys at Albin Academy should be smooth sailing - until the stubborn, grouchy football coach comes into his world like a lightning strike and ignites a heated conflict that would leave them sworn enemies if not for a common goal. A student in peril. A troubling secret. And two men who are polar opposites but must work together to protect...
Author
Series
Detective Jo Fournier novels volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When Jennine Hammond is found dead in a hotel in the picture-perfect town Oakhurst, newly-promoted Detective Jo Fournier is thrown into a disturbing case. Who would murder this shy, loving wife and leave her body posed like a ballerina? Jo wants to know why Jeanine's husband is so controlling about money, and where Jeanine"s wedding ring is, but before she and her team can get close to the truth, another woman is found strangled in a hotel, arms...
89) Vineyard prey
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Spending the winter at Martha's Vineyard with his family, retired cop J.W. Jackson is asked to help an old friend sneak back into his Vineyard home and discovers that the friend has been targeted for a past involvement in a dangerous mission.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Henry David Thoreau leaves the seclusion of Walden Pond to help investigate a series of murders in the first in B. B. Oak's fascinating new historical mystery series, set against the bucolic backdrop of 19th century New England."--Cover p.[4]
Author
Series
Swift River Valley novels volume 6
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Kylie Shaw finds herself attracted to Russ Colton, a private investigator in Knights Bridge to keep his client a Hollywood costume designer out of trouble.
93) Who to believe
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When popular restaurateur Laurel Thibodeau is found brutally murdered in her own home, and her husband is the prime suspect, six friends gather together, sharing theories about Laurel's death, soon realizing they each have something to hide as jealousy, revenge, adultery and greed converge"--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A budding teen journalist and her enigmatic science teacher separately work to locate and infiltrate a secret society that threatens their elite prep school with a shady tragedy from the past, an event that challenges the student's allegiances.
Author
Series
Publisher
: Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Nantucket homeowner Preston Lomax is killed in his McMansion, everyone on the island could be a suspect. Lomax lived large, owed money, and the word was spreading he was planning to stiff them all and disappear. Chief of Police Henry Kennis, a newcomer from California, finds himself investigating with help from the State Police. Together they solve the case - or so it appears. But Kennis can't shake the feeling that they've missed something.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Spending the summer marooned with her mother and stepfather in a snooty Massachusetts shore town bores Cassandra until she meets a dreamy stranger who claims the year is 1925, sweeping Cassandra into a mystery a hundred years in the making.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-like virus that is spread by saliva. But unlike rabies, the disease has a terrifyingly short incubation period of an hour or less. Those infected quickly lose their minds and are driven to bite and infect as many others as they can before they inevitably succumb. Hospitals are inundated with the sick and dying, and hysteria has taken hold. To try to limit its spread, the...
99) Still as death
Author
Series
Sweeney St. George mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The opening of a funerary art exhibit at Boston's Hapner Museum of Art goes swimmingly, until the museum's housekeeper is found murdered̮it seems sheinterrupted an attempted heist. The circumstances of her death recall a still unsolved theft that took the same museum by surprise more than two decades earlier. Sweeney and her detective friend, Tim Quinn, wonder if the two events are connected.
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Henry Kennis, Nantucket island's poetry-writing police chief works a second challenging case. At the height of the summer tourist season, a threat to bomb the annual Boston Pops Concert could destroy the island's economy, along with its cachet as a safe, if mostly summer-time, haven for America's ruling class. The threat of terrorism brings The Department of Homeland Security to the island, along with prospects for a rekindled love affair - Henry's...
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