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1) Skinny dip
Author
Series
Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 5
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Ex-police officer Mick Stranahan rescues a woman from the ocean. Joey Perrone's husband tried to kill her by pushing her overboard from a cruise liner because he suspected that she had figured out his scam of doctoring water samples so that a ruthless agribusiness tycoon can illegally dump fertilizer into the endangered Everglades. Mick helps Joey haunt and taunt her homicidal husband.
2) Blood orange
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Alison has it all. A doting husband, adorable daughter, and a career on the rise--she's just been given her first murder case to defend. But all is never as it seems... Just one more night. Then I'll end it. Alison drinks too much. She's neglecting her family. And she's having an affair with a colleague whose taste for pushing boundaries may be more than she can handle. I did it. I killed him. I should be locked up. Alison's client doesn't deny that...
3) The guest
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Some secrets never leave. Iris and Gabriel have just arrived home from a make-or-break holiday. But a shock awaits them. One of their closest friends, Laure, is in their house. The atmosphere quickly becomes tense as she oversteps again and again: sleeping in their bed, wearing Iris' clothes, even rearranging the furniture. Laure has walked out on her husband-and their good friend-Pierre, over his confession of an affair and a secret child. Iris...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Lucy and her husband Adam have been best friends with another couple, Cora and Scott, for years. The four are practically family at this point, ... so Lucy is devastated when, while looking at a colleague's photos of a trip to the Maldives, she spots a picture of Scott, apparently on a luxurious holiday with another woman. Lucy is determined to protect her best friend from her husband's seeming infidelity, but when she learns that the woman in the...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Merit loves her husband and sons, but after twelve years of marriage she desperately needs something more than sippy cups and monthly sex. She returns to her career at Jager + Brandt, where a Danish architect named Jane decides to overlook the "break" in Merit's resume and give her a shot. Jane is witty and dazzling and unapologetically herself, and as the two work closely together their relationship becomes a true friendship. As their relationship...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story In Melissa Broder's astounding new novel, a woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California desert to escape a cloud of sorrow-both for her father in the ICU and a disabled husband whose illness is worsening. What the motel provides,...
Author
Series
Haven's Rock volume 2
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In The Boy Who Cried Bear, New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong keeps readers on the edge of their seats while detective Casey Duncan tries to locate the threat before it's too late...Haven's Rock is a well-hidden town surrounded by forest. And it's supposed to be, being that it's a refuge for those who need to disappear. Detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton already feel at home in their new town, which reminds...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
One Day meets Groundhog Day, in this heartwarming and emotionally poignant novel about a stressed woman who must relive the same day over and over, keeping her family and work life from imploding as she attempts to spare her husband from an unfortunate fate"-- Harried London literary agent Emma is flying out of the door as usual. Preoccupied with work and her ever growing to-do list, she fails to notice her husband Dan seems bereft, her son can barely...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"As the summer of 1993 begins, Sam and Swami Brecht roll into town with a twenty-six-foot Winnebago camper van, their three young kids, and the deed to Woodchuck Rafting Company. Sam and Swami met as young, adventurous river guides but, a decade later, find themselves weighed down by money worries and the demands of adulthood. The town of Thunderwater, in Wisconsin's Northwoods, could be the fresh start their marriage needs. But Woodchuck, once the...
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