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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A binge-drinking flight attendant wakes up in an unfamiliar hotel room beside a dead body and sneaks back to her work, telling a series of lies that complicate her ability to figure out what really happened. The events cause her to sober up, and her cover allows her to work for the CIA, but witnessing an international murder doesn't seem to get any easier even when you're being paid for it.
Language
English
Description
"Nancy Archer is a wealthy woman who is fresh from the loony bin and ticked off. Her husband has been putting the moves on Honey Parker and scheming about the day when Nancy's fortune will be theirs. That day will never come, especially not since Nancy has an alien encounter that zaps her metabolism into overdrive. Soon, Nancy's size matches her rage."
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison finds herself searching for Sallie Sturdy, a 14-year-old girl presumed murdered. Facing the hospitalization of her father, descending deeper into alcoholism, and resisting pressure to retire quietly, Tennison vows to bring Sallie's killer to justice before ending her career. She forges a surprising friendship with Penny Philips, Sallie's best friend.
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Tennison seizes the opportunity to head a murder investigation--something she should have done long ago, had she not been passed over by her male superiors time and again. With a suspect already identified and her own team openly hostile, she uncovers errors and conflicting facts that point to a coverup within the force."--Container.
8) Julia
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Julia is a 40-year-old alcoholic on the constant decline. She spends the nights partying, usually not knowing where she is, when she wakes up. Because of that, she loses her job. Her only friend, Mitch, a recovering alcoholic himself, makes her go to an AA meeting, where she meets her neighbor, Elena. Elena tells Julia that she wants to kidnap her son who is living with his very rich grandfather and go back to Mexico with him and she needs Julia to...
9) Applause
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Danish
Description
Critically acclaimed alcoholic actress Thea Barfoed has gone through turmoil, resulting in a divorce and the loss of custody of her two boys. Eager to break with the past, regain control over her life, and get her children back, she uses charm and manipulation to persuade her ex-husband, Christian, that she is able to take back the mantle of motherhood. But ironically, she has not completely convinced herself.
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Tennison relocates to the Greater Manchester Police for a stint as a community relations officer at local schools. Later she is assigned the shooting case of a young drug dealer, and she pegs a corrupt local drug lord as the killer. Somehow he stays one step ahead of her investigation. Is he getting inside information?
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Superintendent Tennison moves among stations to head high-profile cases for the Area Major Investigation Team. In The lost child a wrenching personal decision colors her search for an abducted toddler. In Inner circles, the manager of an exclusive country club is found dead in his home, and fingers point to the residents of a local housing project. The scent of darkness finds Tennison happy in her private life, but strained at work....
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison finds herself searching for Sallie Sturdy, a fourteen-year-old girl presumed murdered. Facing the hospitalization of her father, descending deeper into alcoholism, and resisting pressure to retire quietly, Tennison vows to bring Sallie's killer to justice before ending her career. She forges a surprising friendship with Penny Philips, Sallie's best friend.
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
New England realtor Hildy Good's wickedly funny tongue and seeming success mask her life's one dark truth: she enjoys her wine a bit too much. But Hildy's good at keeping it together - until, that is, a rekindled romance with high school flame Frank Getchell sets in motion a chain of events that forces a decades-in-the-making confrontation with Hildy's buried past.
16) The good house
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Hillary Good [is] a realtor in an idyllic New England town, whose wickedly funny tongue and seeming success mask her life's one dark truth: She enjoys her wine a bit too much. But Hildy's good a keeping it together--until, that is, a rekindled romance with high school flame Frank Getchell sets in motion a chain of events that forces a decades-in-the-making confrontation with Hildy's buried past....The Good House is a multifaceted portrait of a proud,...
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