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Pub. Date
2021.
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In this satisfying page-turner from "the queen of beach reads" (New York Magazine), a Nantucket novelist has one final summer to protect her secrets while her loved ones on earth learn to live without their golden girl. On a perfect June day, Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket. She ascends to the Beyond where she's...
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Lucy Stone mysteries volume 11
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When her Houdini-esque canine instigates a feud with her neighbor Mrs. Pratt, Lucy Stone becomes the number one suspect when Mrs. Pratt is murdered.
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Pub. Date
[2006].
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Newly divorced Brandy Borne, who's on an antidepressant, returns home to Serenity, a little town on the Mississippi River, and to her slightly deranged mother, Vivian, who's also on meds. To Brandy's horror, Vivian has sold their antique furniture to an unscrupulous dealer, Clint Carson. Since the Bornes weren't the only ones this swindler has scammed, it's no surprise when Carson gets his comeuppance-run over on a road near his farmhouse.
6) The island
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Pub. Date
2022.
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"After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they're deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom. When they discover remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry, taking...
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Nancy Drew Files volume 5
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Nancy Drew's quest for the driver who mowed down Kim Baylor in broad daylight leads her into extreme danger and an encounter with a murderer.
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Pub. Date
[c2015].
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Out on a rural highway on a freezing night, Patrolman Ronny Forbert sits in his ten-year-old Crown Victoria cruiser trying to keep warm and make time pass until his shift ends. Then a familiar beater Jeep Cherokee comes speeding over a hill, forcing the rookie cop to chase after it. The driver is his old-friend-turned-nemesis, Matt Laferiere, the rogue son of a man as beaten down as the town itself. Within minutes, what begins as a clear-cut arrest...
9) River Road
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From the award-winning author of The Lake of Dead Languages comes a chilling new psychological thriller about a professor accused of killing her favorite student in a hit-and-run accident. Nan Lewis--a creative writing professor at a state university in upstate New York--is driving home from a faculty holiday party after finding out she's been denied tenure. On her way, she hits a deer, but when she gets out of her car to look for it, the deer is...
10) Bad guys
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Series
Pub. Date
2006
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Zack Walker stumbles upon a homicide that may be linked to a gang. As worlds collide and boundaries between family and foes blur, he must be vigilant to outwit the evil at large.
11) Gemini: a novel
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Dr. Charlotte Reese works in the intensive care unit of Seattles Beacon Hospital. Her job is to battle death-to monitor erratic heartbeats, worry over low oxygen levels, defend against infection and demise. One night a Jane Doe is transferred to her care from a rural hospital on the Olympic Peninsula. This unidentified patient remains unconscious, the victim of a hit and run. As Charlotte and her team struggle to stabilize her, the police search for...
12) Hit and run
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Series
Point volume 26
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Eddie, Scott, Winks and Cassie went out for a drive one night, just so Eddie would get practice to get his license. Eddie had a little accident. Now four best friends share a terrible secret, because Eddie hit someone and killed him. Didn't he?
13) Close to home
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Tracy Crosswhite novels volume 5
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"While investigating the hit-and-run death of a young boy, Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite is thrown headlong into the path of a killer conspiracy and the only people she can rely on to make it out alive might be those she can no longer trust"--
14) Fatality
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Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Something happened four years ago and Rose kept all the secrets in her diary, now the police have taken her diary.
15) Waking lions
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Dr Eitan Green is a good man. He saves lives. Then, speeding along a deserted moonlit road in his SUV after an exhausting hospital shift, he hits someone. Seeing that the man, an African migrant, is beyond help, he flees the scene. It is a decision that changes everything. Because the dead man's wife knows what happened. And her price is not money. It is something else entirely. A gripping, suspenseful and morally devastating drama of guilt and survival,...
16) Hit and run
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Pub. Date
c2007
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Events surrounding the hit and run accident of a popular high school student are told from the viewpoints of those involved, including the victim.
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Pub. Date
[1999]
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A surgeon in California is arrested for vehicular manslaughter in a hit-and-run accident which killed two people. As he did not do it, he hires PI Ryan Chandler who discovers the surgeon was framed by a woman he fired from a hospital job. But how to prove this? A first novel.
18) Payback
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Pub. Date
2008.
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This latest from genre veteran Clare Curzon makes a thrilling addition to this entertaining series.
Sandy Craddock witnesses his detested half-brother deliberately mown down by a hit-and-run driver outside his place of work, and he guiltily assumes that he himself was the intended victim. Convinced the killers will strike again once they discover they've targeted the wrong man, Sandy goes on the run, leaving his boss to wrongly identify the heavily...
19) Reservation Road
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Pub. Date
[1998]
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A psychological novel on a hit-and-run accident that killed a boy. The boy's father searches for the motorist to punish him, the police having given up. The motorist--who was driving with his son from a hockey game--stays low, half-hoping he will be caught.
20) Say no more
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Pub. Date
2016.
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Say No More: The Thrilling Next Installment in Hank Phillippi Ryan's Award-Winning Jane Ryland Series!When Boston reporter Jane Ryland reports a hit and run, she soon learns she saw more than a car crash-she witnessed the collapse of an alibi. Working on an expose of sexual assaults on college campuses for the station's new documentary unit, Jane's just convinced a date rape victim to reveal her heartbreaking experience on camera. However, a disturbing...