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1) Dark Lake
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Archaeologist Dr. Lou Fitzgerald is used to unexpected happenings, and they don't usually faze her. After surviving a childhood disability, and dealing with an unfair boss, Lou has learned the art of rolling with the punches. But when she arrives at Dark Lake, what was supposed to be a simple archaeological dig is beyond even her wildest imaginations. Land owner Evan Close has his own reasons for keeping the secrets of Dark Lake, and this attractive...
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Gemma Woodstock novels volume 1
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The lead homicide investigator in a rural town, Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock is deeply unnerved when a high school classmate is found strangled, her body floating in a lake. And not just any classmate, but Rosalind Ryan, whose beauty and inscrutability exerted a magnetic pull on Smithson High School, first during Rosalind's student years and then again when she returned to teach drama. As much as Rosalind's life was a mystery to Gemma when they...
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From the origin story of Baba Yaga, to a monster named, Jenny with iron teeth. A woman buried alive in the bog thousands of years ago, lives on, stealing the bones of anything she touches. A mysterious cave imparts on a group of twenty-somethings a curse that leaves the affected with an inescapable chill. A mysterious old woman rewards a kind sister and punishes a callous one, but over time, the gift provided to the kind sister becomes more and more...
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She will do anything to protect the people she loves. A threat to Marolaine's family sends her on a journey away from the Guardians' Peace and toward a dangerous unknown, where she will need all her training and skill if she is to solve a hundred-year-old puzzle and defeat a menacing darkness. With the help of old friends and questionable new allies, Marolaine faces the perils of an enspelled mansion and the uncertainties of her own choices. Return...
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Jay Chandler, an American archaeologist excavating an ancient Greek temple, is surprised to find himself invited to a weeklong party on an exotic island paradise owned by eccentric tycoon Alexander Krisos. The annual event-swarmed with European nobility, Texas oilmen, ballerinas and bullfighters, millionaire politicos in exile, Japanese potentates, artists, and gorgeous models-is the sort of orgiastic party many would kill to attend. But no one really...
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Murder, Mystery and IntrigueSpecial Agent Jamie Rogers believes the town of Dark Hollow Lake holds the key to a spate of unsolved murders across the country.With her boss unwilling to listen, she takes leave from her analytical desk job and ventures to the town under the guise of a vacation. She's assessed the data. She sees the pattern. Now she just needs the evidence to prove her theory right.But what happens when she catches the killer's eye?Will...
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From the author of the occult horror trilogy, Father of Lies.
Groom Lake, a novella, is an eerie psychological thriller with plenty of supernatural horror for those who enjoy this author's dark style of writing.
Lauren Stafford, a traumatized divorcee, decides to rent a cottage on the edge of a beautiful ancestral estate in the Welsh Marches. But from the very first day of arrival she instinctively knows there's something terribly wrong here-something...
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An unsettling study of two tragic events at an Indian residential school in British Columbia which serve as a microcosm of the profound impact the residential school system had on Aboriginal communities in Canada throughout this century. The book's focal points are the death of a runaway boy and the suicide of another while they were students at the Williams Lake Indian Residential School during the early part of this century. Embedded in these stories...
9) Killed
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Henning Juul series volume 5
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In Enger's searing fifth and final novel featuring Oslo investigative reporter Henning Juul , Henning sits in a boat on a dark lake. A man with a gun sits opposite him. At the man's feet is a body that will be soon be dumped into the water. Henning knows that the same fate awaits him. And he knows that it's his own fault. Who started the fire that killed Henning's young son? How is his sister, Trine, involved? Most importantly, who can be trusted?...
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Undertaker's daughter volume 1
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After her father's murder, Rowan Dupont returns to Winchester, Tennessee, to run her family's funeral home, where she tries to stop an obsessive serial killer and reconsiders her mother's and sister's earlier deaths.
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"Seeds and Other Stories is cross-genre collection including prose poems, literary fiction, science fiction, fantasy, magic realism, and slipstream, previously published in award-winning venues in Canada, the U.S., and the UK. Many of the stories have an element of fantasy: witches, and magical objects, at least as concepts, occur several times. Many of the stories provide a window into the lives of marginalized youth who are almost but not quite...
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This is a story about three little rabbits, Foot, Footfoot, and Footfootfoot, who were planning a long journey across The Big Field to the woods in search of The Dark Lake. Their mother had always told them never to go to the woods as it was too dangerous for little rabbits. They just couldn't understand why Mother Rabbit could not see that they were not little rabbits anymore-well, they thought they were not anyway. And that is where the adventure...
13) Body of Lies
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DS Gemma Woodstock returns to Smithson in a mysterious new thriller from the bestselling author of The Housemate.
'Sarah Bailey just gets better and better. Body of Lies is nuanced, compelling and so very entertaining.'
Chris Hammer, author of Scrublands and The Seven
'Bailey blasts through more twists in the first fifty pages of Body of Lies than some writers manage in a whole book.'
Jack Heath, author of Kill Your Brother
'With Body of Lies,...
14) Browns Mills
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Halfway between the bustling streets of Philadelphia and the serenity of the New Jersey Shore lies Browns Mills, New Jersey. Nestled within its rich pine trees and dark lakes is the legacy of those who sought nature's healing properties, social status, and a summer refuge for more than two generations. Their stories and faces make up the exciting collection in Browns Mills. Tales of those who came seeking natural spring waters to avoid le grippe became...
15) Devil's Lair
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For readers of The Dark Lake and The Dry, comes this taut psychological suspense set in a dramatic Tasmanian landscape from bestselling author Sarah Barrie.
A lonely widow, a sinister act, a remote mansion with a dark past...
After the violent death of her husband, Callie Jones retreats to a cottage in the grounds of an old mansion in Tasmania. The relative remoteness of the place and the wild beauty of the Tasmanian landscape are a balm to her shattered...
16) Deadman's Track
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Alone in the wilderness, they are picked off one by one ... Gripping, standalone romantic thriller from an author at the top of her game, for readers of The Dark Lake and The Dry.
A tragic accident, a terrible crime, an unknown threat ...
Scarred by a recent tragedy on Federation Peak, Tess Atherton is reluctant to guide a group of young hikers in the wild Tasmanian winter, but it seems safer than remaining amid the violence that threatens them...
17) The housemate
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Dubbed the Housemate Homicide, it's a mystery that has baffled Australians for almost a decade. Melbourne-based journalist Olive Groves worked on the story as a junior reporter and became obsessed by the case. Now, nine years later, the missing housemate turns up dead on a remote property. Olive is once again assigned to the story, this time reluctantly paired with precocious millennial podcaster Cooper Ng. As Oli and Cooper unearth new facts about...
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A horror novel like you've never imagined. Zombies like you've never seen.
William's bad luck is about to turn-for the worse. Trapped behind enemy lines on the eve of revolution, the British officer has evaded colonial militia so far. When he stumbles across a quiet village, his hopes of escaping to the relative safety of Boston suddenly look promising.
Until he runs into something worse than vengeful patriots prowling the darkness.
Caught between...
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The controversy over filmmaker Jonas Mekas's memories of his WWII Lithuanian youth are delicately and humanely approached in this book-length essay by a Mekas cinephile.
Stemming from a New York Review of Books article by a Jewish historian condemning the widely-beloved Jonas Mekas, known as the 'Godfather of American avant-garde cinema', this essayistic, self-reflective, and analytic book flowers into an inquiry about memory and forgetting; the...
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An inside account by the youngest member of Charles Manson's cult describes her indoctrination at age fourteen and the manipulation, psychological control, and physical abuse that she endured before she was rescued and adopted by the police officer who arrested her.