Lisa Jewell
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her...
Author
Series
Family upstairs volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery. When Owusu sends the evidence for examination, he learns the bones are connected to a cold case that left three people dead on the kitchen floor in a Chelsea mansion thirty years ago. Rachel Rimmer has also received a shock—news that her husband, Michael, has been found dead in the cellar of his house in France. All signs point to an intruder,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Ten years after her teenage daughter disappears, a woman crosses paths with a charming single father whose young child feels eerily familiar, in this evocative, suspenseful drama from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell--perfect for fans of Paula Hawkins and Liane Moriarty. Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was fifteen, the youngest of three. She was beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers. She and her boyfriend made a teenaged...
Author
Series
Family upstairs volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she's been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am. She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London's fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby's life...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Melville Heights is one of the nicest neighborhoods in Bristol, England. It's the sort of place where doctors and lawyers and old-money academics live. It's not the sort of place where people get stabbed in the back thirty times with a kitchen knife in their own homes. Someone must have seen something. Newlywed Joey Mullen, for example, recently returned from four years working in Ibiza. She and her husband Alfie are eager to find a place of their...
Author
Language
English
Description
"On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young womanand her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend. One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate. Known locally as the Dark Place, the dense forest is thewriter's favorite area for long walks and it's on one such walk that she stumbles upon a mysterious note that simply reads, "DIG...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The author of the "rich, dark, and intricately twisted" (Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author) The Family Upstairs returns with another taut and white-knuckled thriller following a group of people whose lives shockingly intersect when a young woman disappears. Owen Pick's life is falling apart. In his thirties, a virgin, and living in his aunt's spare bedroom, he has just been suspended from his job as a geography teacher after accusations...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A lonely single mom who offers shelter to an amnesiac man and a young bride who is told that her missing husband never existed struggle to make sense of their transforming worlds and their connection to two teenagers whose lives were shattered by secrets two decades earlier.
Author
Publisher
Duomo Ediciones
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edici.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Ellie Mack is fifteen years old, she is the perfect daughter, the youngest of the family, her classmates adore her, her teachers admire her. But one day, during a summer vacation... she disappears. Her mother, Laurel Mack, refuses to believe the version that her daughter has left of her own free will and sets out to find her. Misfortune crumbles her world, her marriage ends and the clues to find her daughter are increasingly scarce. Ten years later,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Meet the picture-perfect Bird family: pragmatic Meg, dreamy Beth, and towheaded twins Rory and Rhys, one an adventurous troublemaker, the other his slighter, more sensitive counterpart. Their father is a sweet, gangly man, but it’s their beautiful, free-spirited mother Lorelei who spins at the center. In those early years, Lorelei tries to freeze time by filling their simple brick house with precious mementos. Easter egg foils are her favorite....
12) Vince and Joy
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
From adolescent snogging to apartment shares, relationships, career crises and children, Vince and Joy is the unforgettable story of two lives lived separately but forever entwined. Back in the 80s, teenagers Vince and Joy met, fell desperately in love, parted, and never quite said goodbye. Now, nearly twenty years later, they've both begun to ask themselves if that long-ago romance was the enduring love they've been searching for...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Successful architect and grief-stricken widower Adrian Wolfe begins to investigate his third wife's death, trying to determine whether it was suicide or just a tragic accident.
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Atria Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
435 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In Jazz Age London, a tale of a passionate and forbidden interracial romance, and the unbreakable bond between a bright young woman and her eccentric grandmother, unfolds.
17) Dentro de casa
Author
Publisher
Crossbooks
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"En una majestuosa casa del elegante barrio de Chelsea, la policía encuentra a una bebé en su cuna, bien alimentada, cuidada y feliz, que espera a que la tomen en brazos. En la cocina de esa misma casa hay tres cadáveres en estado de descomposición. Junto a ellos, una nota escrita a toda prisa. Veinticinco años después, Libby, esa bebé a quien encontraron con vida, regresa al lugar que esconde su origen familiar y el más oscuro de los secretos."--Cubierta...