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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Paul Dry Books edition.
Language
English
Description
"Duncan Wheeler is a successful architect who savors the quotidian pleasures in life until a car accident leaves him severely paralyzed and haunted by the death of his young assistant. Now, Duncan isn't sure what there is left to live for, when every day has become a broken series of unsuccessful gestures. Duncan and his wife, Laura, find themselves in conflict as Duncan's will to live falters. Laura grows desperate to help him. An art conservator...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An unhinged actress turns to podcasting when she becomes entangled in a dark conspiracy at the retreat she once sought spiritual refuge at in this absorbing mystery about fame, violence, and our morbid fascination with murder--from the acclaimed author of Dead Letters. Olivia Reed needed a break. She doesn't want to think about her name plastered on tabloids or be reminded of her recent meltdown on a Manhattan street. Her micromanaging publicist...
143) Under the magnolias
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This night not only marked the end to the drought, but also the end to the long-held secret we'd kept hidden under the magnolias. Magnolia, South Carolina, 1980 Austin Foster is barely a teenager when her mama dies giving birth to twins, leaving her to pick up the pieces while holding her six siblings together and doing her best to stop her daddy from retreating into his personal darkness. Scratching out a living on the family's tobacco farm is as...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Cynical. Obese. Misanthropic. A Saint? Angus Truax - Mr. Misery to his colleagues - profiles victims of misfortune. His articles touch hearts and inspire charity. Unfortunately for Angus, he loathes his job, his subjects and his life so much that he decides to end it. More fool than Hamlet, this unlikely hero jokes his way to the grave, soothing his own despair with rude, audacious honesty. But even a suicidal hermit can't shut out life completely....
145) The pictures
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Hollywood 1939. The year that The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind were made. Detective Craine has spent his life working as a studio fixer, whitewashing the misdemeanours and crimes committed by the studio players and stars. But now he's trying to turn his back on that life, following the recent death of his wife, as he's determined to be a better parent to his young son. But then Craine's services are called upon one last time. MGM need him to...
146) The Long Count
Author
Series
John Q mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In The Long Count, the first book of JM Gulvin's masterful new crime series, we meet Ranger John Quarrie as he is called to the scene of an apparent suicide by a fellow war veteran. Although the local police want the case shut down, John Q is convinced that events aren't quite so straightforward. When his hunch is backed up by the man's son, Isaac - just back from Vietnam, and convinced his father was murdered - they start to look into a series of...
147) Speech team: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A lively and warmhearted novel starring four precocious Gen X teens-turned-twenty-first-century middle-agers who are seeking . . . well, if not exactly justice from a long-ago hurtful teacher, then at least some kind of long-desired reckoning and closure. Late one morning, parked in a desk chair at his humdrum job, Tip Murray finds himself reading the suicide note of his long-lost high school friend Pete Stroman. Mentioned in the note as a root cause...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"Just as a degree of calm returns to Spike Sanguinetti's life in Gibraltar, he receives the shocking news that his Maltese uncle and aunt are dead after a domestic dispute escalated into a blood-soaked murder-suicide. Accompanied by his aging father, Spike crosses the Mediterranean to Malta for the funerals. It falls to Spike, a lawyer, to act as executor of the wills. The more he looks into his relatives' deaths, however, the more he is faced by...
149) La voz del ángel
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Una anciana serena y positiva con un duro pasado a sus espaldas. Un joven desesperado que se asoma al abismo del futuro. Una amistad capaz de iluminar los días más sombríos y disipar los miedos del presente. Dos personajes inolvidables descubren que en el lugar más inesperado puede aparecer nuestro ángel. Sus vidas se cruzan en una aséptica habitación de hospital. Él es Hugo, un joven desesperado que ha intentado suicidarse, y ella Blanche,...
150) One another: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When a writer Googles the name of her first love and discovers he committed suicide years ago, she is deeply shaken. Memories of Petrus begin to flood into her mind, followed by the memories of other loves, one after another. What exactly is love? How does it come and go? She begins to search her personal history for answers. Twelve men. Twelve chapters in a novel. Melancholy Petrus, handsome actor Jakob, Simon with his pet rat, gay Nathanael, a student,...
151) Girl gone mad
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Part of a group of six girls called the Harpies bullied a girl to her breaking point years ago. Now therapist Emily Bennett finds the past catching up to her as members of the Harpies start dying one by one, causing her to question her sanity and reality.
Author
Series
Rocky Mountain courage volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Crime psychologist turned podcaster Erin Larson agrees to assist a county detective-- who also happens to be her ex-- in finding the answers to a cold case that has suddenly warmed up. The deeper they dig the more dangerous the situation gets. The stunning truth, once revealed, will change their lives forever"--
153) Foreign deceit
Author
Series
David Wolf novel volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Sergeant David Wolf is a good cop in the small ski resort town of Rocky Points, Colorado. A good cop who's seen bad days before. But none like this. As if a harrowing attempt on his life, his ex-addict wife coming back into the picture, and a looming career change weren't enough, his world is turned when he receives word his brother has committed suicide in the Alps of Italy. Devastation and resentment over his only sibling's selfish act quickly...
154) Fin de guardia
Author
Series
Bill Hodges trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
Al detective retirado Hodges, que dirige una agencia de investigación privada con Holly, le diagnostican un cáncer de páncreas: le quedan meses de vida. En ese momento Hodges investiga una serie de suicidios recientes con un punto en común: todos los fallecidos tuvieron relación con Brady Hartsfield, el tristemente famoso Mercedes, que hace años planeó volar una sala de conciertos de rock llena de adolescentes. Hodges y Holly dejaron...
155) Jek/Hyde
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Lulu and Jek are science nerds in London, Illinois, and have been best friends since they were young...or at least they used to be. Lately Jek has been pulling away from Lulu, just as she's coming to terms with how she really feels about him. Just as she's ready to see if there could be something more between them. But Lulu's thoughts are derailed by a mysterious new guy who's showing up at local parties. Hyde is the definition of a bad boy, and everybody...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When she hears about the suicide of a Buenos Aires train driver who has left a note confessing to four mortal 'accidents' on the train tracks, journalist Veronica Rosenthal decides to investigate. For the police the case is closed (suicide is suicide), for Veronica it is the beginning of a journey that takes her into an unfamiliar world of grinding poverty, crime-infested neighborhoods, and train drivers on commuter lines haunted by the memory of...
157) She lover of death
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"When Masha Mironova alights in Moscow at the turn of the century, with a modest inheritance and a determination to shed her provincial Siberian upbringing, she becomes Columbine: reckless and daring-and with the dramatic outfits to prove it. In her quest for danger and passion, Columbine soon discovers the Lovers of Death-a small gathering of poets who conduct séances to determine death's next chosen lover. Once named at a séance, the chosen...
158) El estudiante
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Primera edición en B de Bolsillo: noviembre de 2020.
Language
Español
Description
El autor de El Psicoanalista vuelve a deslumbrarnos con otra historia de suspense dotada de una trama impecable y un ritmo frenético, cuyos personajes caminan sobre el filo de la navaja de comienzo a fin. El fruto de la venganza es más venganza. Mientras intenta mantenerse alejado del alcohol, Timothy Moth Warner alterna sus clases de posgrado en la Universidad de Miami con las reuniones de un grupo de autoayuda para adictos. Su tío Ed, médico...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"'Entre la vida y la muerte hay una biblioteca. Y los estantes de esa biblioteca son infinitos. Cada libro da la oportunidad de probar otra vida que podrías haber vivido y de comprobar cómo habrían cambiado las cosas si hubieras tomado otras decisiones... ¿Habrías hecho algo de manera diferente si hubieras tenido la oportunidad?' Nora Seed aparece, sin saber cómo, en la Biblioteca de la Medianoche, donde se le ofrece una nueva oportunidad...
160) Black paradox
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Four people intent on killing themselves meet through the suicide website Black Paradox: Maruso, a nurse who despairs about the future; Taburo, a man who is tortured by his doppelganger; Pii-tan, an engineer with his own robot clone; and Baracchi, a woman who agonizes about the birthmark on her face. They wander together in search of the perfect death, fatefully opening a door that leads them to a rather bizarre destiny..."--
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