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"It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. Delighted by a surprise invitation, Miriam Macy sails off to a luxurious private island off the coast of Mexico, with six strangers--an ex-cop, a chef, a financial advisor, a nurse, a lawyer, a young widow. Surrounded by miles of open water in the gloriously green Sea of Cortez, Miriam is shocked to discover that she and the rest of her companions have been brought to the remote island under false pretenses--and...
62) Killing Adonis
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Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
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English
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Freya Miller, funny and tenacious with a taste for vodka, escapes a recent tragedy by answering an advertisement for a nursing job that promises LIGHT DUTIES. LARGE PAY. NO QUESTIONS ASKED OR ANSWERED. Her new employer is the infamous, eccentric, and stupendously rich Vincetti family, heads of the Halcyon Corporation. Her task will be to care for their adored heir, Elijah, who is currently lying in a coma amidst an armada of premium machinery. The...
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2019.
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English
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"The Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff overlooking icy seas at the remote northern tip of Japan. A curious place for the millionaire Kozaburo Hamamoto to build a house, but even more curious is the house itself - a disorienting maze of sloping floors and strangely situated staircases, full of bloodcurdling masks and uncanny lifesize dolls. When a man is found dead in one of the mansion's rooms, murdered in seemingly impossible circumstances,...
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[2021]
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English
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"Archivist Merle's dream job in an abandoned mansion on New Zealand's Waiheke Island gives her the isolation she craves and the freedom to delight in its extravagance. Then infamous owner Ash arrives without warning. Used to women falling at his feet, Ash is ever so intrigued when he interrupts virginal siren Merle in his bath--and she tries to conceal her shock...then her red-hot reaction! He's back for one week only to lay his tarnished past to...
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Austen volume 4
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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Northpointe Chalet: A Contemporary Retelling of Northanger Abbey. When a lively group of customers visit Kathy Moore's cafŽ, new friendships--and romance--ensue. When she learns of a mystery in their past, Kathy takes on the role of amateur detective, but will her digging do more damage than good?
67) A will to kill
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For fans of Knives Out, a book that embodies all the things we love about Agatha Christie -- a haunted manor house, estranged relatives a will, and a murder -- set in modern-day India, and the first in a series from author RV Raman. Aging and wheelchair-bound patriarch Bhaskar Fernandez has finally reclaimed his family property after a bitter legal battle, and now wants to reunite his aggrieved relatives. So, he invites them to remote Greybrooke Manor...
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Ten Beach Road novels volume 3
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English
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Maddie, Avery, and Nikki first got to know one another while desperately restoring a beachfront mansion to its former grandeur. Now they're putting that experience to professional use. But their latest project has presented some challenges they couldn't have dreamed up in their wildest fantasies--although the house does belong to a man who actually was Maddie's wildest fantasy once. Rock-and-roll legend 'William the Wild' Hightower guards his privacy...
70) The Marvelous
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2021.
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English
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From the author of "Let's Talk About Love" and "If It Makes You Happy," this pacey YA novel follows three teens locked together in a mansion, competing for a big cash prize in a competition run by a mysterious heiress.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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"Blackwood mansion looms, surrounded by nightmare pines, atop the hill over the small town of Crooked Tree. Ben Bookman, bestselling novelist and heir to the Blackwood estate, spent a weekend at the ancestral home to finish writing his latest horror novel, The Scarecrow. Now, on the eve of the book's release, the terrible story within begins to unfold in real life"--
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2012.
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English
Description
Sally Hurst is going to Rhode Island to live with her father Alex and his new girlfriend Kim in the nineteenth-century mansion they are restoring. While exploring the estate, Sally finds a hidden basement and accidentally lets loose a race of ancient, dark-dwelling creatures who conspire to drag her down into the mysterious house's bottomless depths. Before the evil lurking in the dark consumes them all, Sally must convince Alex and Kim that it's...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Revised edition.
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English
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"The great houses of London represent one of the marvels of English architecture and yet they are almost entirely unknown. They are for the most part disguised behind sober facades but their riches within are astonishing. There are many architectural wonders, among them Robert Adam's 20 St James's Square and William Burges's Tower House. Several--including Bridgewater House with its Raphaels and Titians--have held great art collections. These are...
75) The East End
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
Description
"A Hamptons' poolside accident that ends the life of a billionaire CEO's illicit lover is complicated by a lavish weekend vacation and a thrill-seeking hired boy who breaks in and witnesses everything in secret."--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Sam and Asha. Asha and Sam. Their friendship is so long established, they take it for granted. Just as Asha takes for granted that Donnybrooke, the mansion that sits on the highest hill in Coreville, is the best house in town. But when Sam is accepted into snobbish Castleton Academy as an autistic 'Miracle Boy,' he leaves Asha, who is also autistic, to navigate middle school alone. He also leaves her wondering if she can take anything for granted...
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Series
Hidden Springs mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Hidden Springs Deputy Sheriff Michael Keen is called in to investigate a suspicious string of deaths at an empty old Victorian mansion, before more bodies can turn up.
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