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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
When a believed-perfect couple is found dead of an apparent double suicide, former FBI forensic psychologist Christopher Lash is hired by the matchmaking company that introduced the pair to each other to perform a discreet investigation.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Celebrity chef Deacon Rowe is struggling with addiction, depression and not one, but two scandals. As summer nears, he travels to the idyllic Eastern bluff of Nantucket, where he takes his own life. In the shocking wake of Deacon's suicide, his first wife and childhood sweetheart, Laurel Rowe, sets out to gather Deacon's far-flung family--including Deacon and Laurel's son, and Deacon's other ex-wives and children--on the island. Secrets are revealed,...
4) End of watch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The spectacular finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Mr. Mercedes (winner of the Edgar Award) and Finders Keepers--In End of Watch, the diabolical "Mercedes Killer" drives his enemies to suicide, and if Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney don't figure out a way to stop him, they'll be victims themselves. In Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, something has awakened. Something evil. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Daniel Russell was only thirteen years old when his father tried to kill them both by driving their car into Moon Lake. Miraculously surviving the crash and growing into adulthood, Daniel returns to the site of this traumatic incident in the hopes of recovering his father's car and bones. As he attempts to finally put to rest the memories that have plagued him for years, he discovers something even more shocking among the wreckage that has ties to...
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Paradise is rocked by the mayor's untimely death in the latest novel starring police chief Jesse Stone"--
The town of Paradise receives a tragic shock when the mayor is discovered dead, his body lying in a shallow grave on a property on the lake. It's ostensibly suicide, but Jesse's has his doubts... especially because the piece of land where the man was found is the subject of a contentious and dodgy land deal. Two powerful moguls are fighting...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The wheels are coming off in America. Opioid addictions accelerate unstoppably. Environmental collapse can be read in every weather report. Vigilante bands take over streets at night, wearing clown face makeup. The very idea of government, of citizenship, is challenged daily. And something is happening to teenagers across the country, spreading through memes only they understand. At the Float Anxiety Abatement Center, in a suburb of Chicago, Simon...
Author
Series
Inspector Joona Linna volume 2
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
500 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this sequel to THE HYPNOTIST, Detective Joona Linna returns to investigate a series of interlinking murders surrounding a suspicious Swedish arms deal"--
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A chance discovery of a ten-year-old old video shares disturbing insights into the suicide of her best friend, who may have been murdered on a hazy drunken night, a revelation that compels Lindsay to determine her own role.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (6 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A modern-day Crime and Punishment, this American debut is a glittering noir gem that will appeal to readers of Irvine Welsh, Chuck Palahniuk, Thomas Harris and Dennis Lehane How far would you go for your best friend? If she begged you to, would you kill her? Nathan Lucius, 31, is an ad salesman at a local Cape Town newspaper. Disaffected, hard-drinking and plagued by nightmares, Nathan lives alone with only one true friend, a woman named Madge. But...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 431 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of How to Sell--and based on his viral Huffington Post article--comes a deeply intimate, insightful, and at times even funny portrait of the suicidal mind, combining the author's personal experience with a philosophical, literary, and journalistic inquiry into the subject "If you're going to write a book about suicide, you have to be willing to say the true things, the scary things, the humiliating things. Because everybody...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A major new work of dark literary, psychological suspense--brilliantly paced with a twisting narrative and chilling antagonists--from #1 bestselling author Dean Koontz. "I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling words left behind by a man who had everything to live for--but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief, fear, confusion,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
15) I liked my life
Author
Publisher
St Martin'S Press
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
16) Choose Me
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taryn Moore is young, beautiful, and brilliant&;so why would she kill herself? When Detective Frankie Loomis arrives on the scene to investigate the girl&;s fatal plunge from her apartment balcony, she knows in her gut there&;s more to the story. Her instincts are confirmed when surprise information is revealed that could have been reason enough for Taryn&;s suicide&;or a motive for her murder.
To English professor Jack Dorian, Taryn was the ultimate...
17) Exit
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Belinda Bauer is 'Britain's most original crime writer,' one of the few authors in the genre to be longlisted for the Booker Prize. Now she returns with a heart-pounding, heart-breaking, and often hilarious new crime novel in which it's never too late for life to go fatally wrong. Felix Pink is retired. Widowed for more than a dozen years and a painfully literal thinker, he has led a life of routine and is, not unhappily, waiting to die a hopefully...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"PI Sunny Randall has often relied on the help of her best friend Spike in times of need. When Spike's restaurant is taken over under a predatory loan agreement, Sunny has a chance to return the favor. She begins digging into the life of the hedge fund manager who screwed Spike over - surely a guy that smarmy has a skeleton or two in his closet - and soon finds this new enemy may have the backing of even badder criminals. At the same time, Sunny's...
19) Recursion
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Investigating a suicide, New York City police officer Barry Sutton finds a connection to the outbreak of a memory-altering disease and a controversial neuroscientist working to preserve precious memories.
20) Find me
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Haunted by sightings of his girlfriend who has committed suicide, Jarlath Costello is drawn into a dark underworld when her aunt gives him a hard drive containing a diary that reveals information about her suspicious death.