Author: Emily Henry
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593336127
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION! "Original, sparkling bright, and layered with feeling."--Sally Thorne, author of The Hating Game A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They're polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block. Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She'll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he'll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.
Author: Eva Gates
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
ISBN: 1643859110
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Librarian Lucy’s new historic house comes with a lot of baggage and family secrets. Can she put them to rest or will a killer bring Lucy’s family to their downfall, in the 9th Lighthouse Library mystery. It’s spring in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and Lucy and Connor have moved into their new home at last, a historic cottage on the Nags Head Beach. The house needs a lot of renovations, but they worked hard over the winter to get it ready. Lucy is now happily immersed in her work at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, planning her wedding, and decorating the house. That is, until a dead body disrupts their peaceful new abode. The first night Lucy’s alone in the house, with the company of Charles the library cat, she hears sounds. Investigating they see footsteps in the dust of the unfinished living room, and the door to the outside is open. Lucy's reminded that the house is said to be haunted: forty years ago the teenage daughter of the owners fled in the night, and never again stepped foot inside her family home. But the sounds have an all-too-human origin and one evening Lucy and Connor find the dead body of a man they don’t even recognize in their kitchen. They soon realize he has a long-time connection to their house. Lucy's forced to find out what happened all those years ago and why it’s threatening her happiness today. Meanwhile, the Classic Novel Reading Club is reading The House of the Seven Gables by Nathanial Hawthorne, a book about another old house full of secrets. Can Lucy find parallels to her own situation in Hawthorne’s fiction before the killer strikes again?
Author: Molly Dox
Publisher: Molly Dox Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Love a good cozy mystery? Jump into Death at the Beach House and enjoy a great weekend read. Daisy's tangled in a deadly investigation. After a friend dies and she's found at the scene, things aren't looking very good. Sure, Vera Madison could be a little salty, but did she deserve to die? Crabby, yes? Insulting? Oh, yeah. But when Daisy lost her parents in a deadly accident, it was Vera who was there for her. How could she forget? No way! She's determined to clear her name while finding justice for a dearly departed friend. Trapped in a beach house with other potential suspects, she needs to move quickly before she gets in any deeper! This family-friendly cozy mystery offers a fun cast of characters and a puzzle to solve. (cozy mystery, cozy, cozy mysteries, beach mystery, beach read, NJ, New Jersey, cozy mystery series)
Author: Caleb Wygal
Publisher: Franklin/Kerr Press
ISBN: 9781735437323
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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The Myrtle Beach Boardwalk is normally an idyllic place. Until death arrives on recently widowed bookstore owner Clark Thomas' doorstep. When the body of a local businesswoman and environmentalist gets dumped by the back door of his shop, Clark finds himself in a unique position to investigate the crime. But should he? When it comes to murder, something else drives him he doesn't want to admit. As he launches his own search for the killer, Clark comes across a variety of colorful Boardwalk inhabitants who might have had reason to kill an otherwise beloved person. Can he do it and start putting his wife's death behind him in the process, or will it open up a fresh wound?
Author: Eva Gates
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
ISBN: 1643855891
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Librarian Lucy's wedding is at stake when a murder interrupts her engagement celebrations. To make it down the aisle, she'll have to find the killer to save the date in the 8th book in the Lighthouse Library mysteries. They're getting married! Lucy Richardson and Connor McNeil have announced their engagement. Their friends throw a party for the couple at Coquina Beach, close to Lucy's beloved Bodie Island Lighthouse Library. As they're packing up the presents and the (few) leftovers from Josie's Cozy Bakery, who should arrive, but Richard Eric Lewiston III, Lucy's former almost-fiancé and his overbearing mother Evangeline. Push comes to love when Evangeline makes no secret of why she's here: to get Lucy and Ricky back together. Lucy isn't temped in the least, and Ricky is nothing but embarrassed at his mother's desperate ploy. Before returning to Boston Evangeline throws a dinner party at Jake's Seafood Bar for a reluctant Lucy and her family. Lucy hopes to get the dinner over with and see Evangeline and Ricky returning to Boson. But when a body is found at the restaurant's kitchen door, Lucy is again forced to unwillingly put on her detective's hat and do what she can to save her family and her engagement. Meanwhile, the classic novel reading club is reading The Hound of the Baskervilles, and open war breaks out in the Lighthouse Library when Lucy agrees to temporarily take care of a dog named Fluffy, but Charles the library cat has other ideas.
Author: Molly Dox
Publisher: Molly Dox Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
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Love a good beach read? A Deadly Beach Read is a fun, cozy mystery set on the New Jersey shoreline. Finding a dead body was the last thing Daisy expected. When the victim’s wife sees Daisy standing beside her husband’s lifeless body, chaos ensues and accusations fly. Her life is turned upside down, and now even the neighbors are getting in on the action. Forced to search for answers that nobody is willing to give, Daisy does her best to avoid going to jail for a crime she didn’t commit. With a bulls-eye on her back, and an over anxious cop hoping to solve his homicide investigation, she must match wits and outmaneuver both other suspects and an officer ready to arrest her. “A Deadly Beach Read” is a family-friendly story with no foul language, no sex, and no gore. (cozy mystery, cozy mysteries, cozy, cozies, cozy mystery series, mystery series, beach mystery, NJ mystery, mystery in New Jersey, mysteries)
Author: Jennifer Weiner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476700044
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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The Atria Summer Beach-Read Bag: a free collection of 11 excerpts from novels by some of our favorite writers. There’s nothing that goes better with beach season than a delicious novel. With that in mind, we present The Atria Summer Beach-Read Bag: a free collection of 11 excerpts from novels by some of our favorite writers. Selections include: Swim by Jennifer Weiner Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner The Map of Time by Félix J. Palma Between You and Me by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus The Winters in Bloom by Lisa Tucker The Island House by Posie Graeme-Evans Triangles by Ellen Hopkins The Time in Between by María Dueñas The Lost Angel by Javier Sierra Devil’s Wake by Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes Ten Girls to Watch by Charity Shumway No matter whether you’re on a plane traveling to your getaway destination or on your couch planted firmly in front of the air conditioner, we’ve got a great story guaranteed to whisk you away on a reading vacation.
Author: B. Forshaw
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230363504
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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Barry Forshaw, the UK's principal crime fiction expert, presents a celebration and analysis of the Scandinavian crime genre, from Sjöwall and Wahlöö's Martin Beck series through Henning Mankell's Wallander to Stieg Larsson's demolition of the Swedish Social Democratic ideal in the publishing phenomenon The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo .
Author: Nora Charles
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425216279
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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When her granddaughter Katharine drops out of college and arrives in Florida, taking up with a gang of surfers, Kate Kennedy must come to her rescue when her surfer crush is killed in a shark attack and the police suspect foul play, pointing their fingers at Katherine. Original.
Author: Deb Pines
Publisher: Author Deb Pines
ISBN: 1490357610
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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In the Shadow of Death is where it all began — the first book in Deb Pines' traditional whodunit Chautauqua Mysteries featuring the wise and witty reporter sleuth Mimi Goldman. "An Agatha Christie for the text-message age," IndieReader calls the series. In 1997, Brad Hansen, Mimi's landlord, drops dead at a community race Mimi is covering for her new job at the small-town Chautauquan Daily. Natural causes, say the locals. But Mimi, a former New York City tabloid copy editor and pessimistic granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, is suspicious. With help from a hunky ex-boyfriend detective as well as from Mimi's teenage son Jake and Daily colleague Doc Segovian, Mimi starts poking around the peaceful, historic, lakeside summer arts community of Chautauqua. There is no shortage of murder suspects including Hansen's young widow, oddball brother, bitter son and daughter and various grudge-holding tenants. As Mimi starts investigating, someone else turns up dead. So Mimi finds herself in a race of her own to catch the killer . . . before the killer gets her. Fans of Agatha Christie and Louise Penny and "Only Murders in the Building" will enjoy this twist-filled debut about which the Jamestown Post Journal wrote: "If you enjoy an old-fashioned whodunit, it's perfect."
