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(0)George Guidall
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Will the truth bring peace-or pain? A "once-in-a-lifetime masterpiece" by the Edgar Award–winning author (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Mystery writer Paul Graves, a man with a painful past, has come to an artists' retreat in New York's quiet, picturesque Hudson Valley. But his purpose for being there is not a pleasant escape. He's been tasked with something more unusual.
Long ago, when Riverwood was a private estate, a teenage girl was...
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English
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What drove a woman to murder in 1920s New England? "Few readers will be prepared for the surprise that awaits at novel's end" in this Edgar Award–winning novel (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
It was referred to as the Chatham School affair-a tragic event that destroyed five lives, shook a coastal Massachusetts community to its core, and traumatized a boy named Henry Griswald. Now Henry is an aged, unmarried lawyer, and as he writes his will,...
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2002
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English
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Everyone has a breaking point . . . "Probably no other suspense writer takes readers as deeply into the heart of darkness as Cook." -Chicago Tribune
There are no witnesses nor evidence to link him to the crime, but the police are sure that vagrant Albert Jay Smalls killed a child. Their interviews have led nowhere, but now-with a 6:00 a.m. deadline looming at which he must be released from custody-they will try one more interrogation. Detective...
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Pub. Date
2000
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English
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Thomas H. Cook's novels, including Instruments of Night and Breakheart Hill, pull readers deep into their webs of obsession, passion, and fear. A best-selling author, Cook won the Edgar Award for The Chatham School Affair. In 1937, a slender young woman arrived in a small Maine town. Dora March was lovely, quiet, and mysterious. Soon the tragedies began: a house fire, a murder, a suicide. Within a year, Dora vanished, leaving behind dark, unanswered...
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Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
1995
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English
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A small-town doctor is haunted by the decades-old murder of his first love in this "novel of stunning power" by an Edgar Award–winning author (Booklist).
Ben Wade is a middle-aged doctor in Choctaw County, Alabama, and back in 1962 he dreamed of spending the rest of his life with Kelli Troy. But he never had the chance to confess his love for Kelli before her body was found on Breakheart Hill. Decades later, the small town is still haunted by...