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Wait Till Helen Comes
A Ghost Story
by Mary Downing Hahn
Beware of Helen... Heather is such a whiny little brat. Always getting Michael and me into trouble. But since our mother married her father, we're stuck with her...our "poor stepsister" who lost her real mother in a mysterious fire. But now something terrible has happened. Heather has found a new friend, out in the graveyard behind our home -- a girl named Helen who died with her family in a mysterious fire over... (more)
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Ghostgirl: Book 2
Homecoming
by Tonya Hurley
Heaven couldn't be a phone bank, could it? Charlotte Usher discovers that the afterlife isn't quite what she pictured when she's forced to intern at a hotline for troubled teens. Before she can officially cross over, she'll have to be a source of guidance for one such teen. The problem is she doesn't have much advice to offer since dying hasn't exactly boosted her confidence level. But when Hawthorne High's... (more)
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Gerald's Game
by Stephen King
Stephen King cranks up the suspense in a different kind of bedtime story. A game of seduction between a husband and wife goes horribly awry when the husband suddenly dies. But the wife's nightmare has just begun.
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Remembering Raquel
by Vivian Vande Velde
Fifteen-year-old Raquel Falcone is, as one of her classmates puts it, the kind of kid who has a tendency to be invisible. That is until the night she's hit by a car and killed while walking home from the movies. In brief, moving chapters, we hear about Raquel from her classmates, her best friend, her family--and the woman who was driving the car that struck her. The loss of this seemingly invisible... (more)
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Dead Rules
by Randy Russell
Jana Webster and Michael Haynes were in love. They were destined to be together forever.But Jana's destiny was fatally flawed. And now she's in Dead School, where Mars Dreamcote lurks in the back of the classroom, with his beguiling blue eyes, mysterious smile, and irresistably warm touch.Michael and Jana were incomplete without each other. There was no room for Mars in Jana's life--or death--story. ... (more)
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Half a Life
by Darin Strauss
Half my life ago, I killed a girl.” So begins Darin Strauss’ Half a Life , the true story of how one outing in his father’s Oldsmobile resulted in the death of a classmate and the beginning of a different, darker life for the author. We follow Strauss as he explores his startling pastcollision, funeral, the queasy drama of a high-stakes court caseand what starts as a personal tale of a tragic event opens into... (more)
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The Taken
by Sarah Pinborough
Pinborough delivers genuine chills in this effective tale of ghostly revenge. Thirty years ago, in the rural town of Watterrow, England, a beautiful, curly-haired 10-year-old named Melanie Parr suffered a fatal accident. Having used her angelic looks to hide a cruel, sociopathic personality, the girl delighted in tormenting her playmates, whose mothers decided to do something about it. Unfortunately for them, that... (more)
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Amsterdam Cops: Book 7
The Maine Massacre
by Janwillem Van De Wetering
The accidental death of his brother-in-law sends Grijpstra--with his companion de Gier in tow--to Jamestown, Maine, where they find a town full of suspects and a series of shady real-estate deals. Reprint.
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The Innocent
by Harlan Coben
One night, Matt Hunter innocently tried to break up a fight-and ended up a killer. Now, nine years later, he's an ex-con who takes nothing for granted. His wife, Olivia, is pregnant, and the two of them are closing on their dream house. But all it will take is one shocking, inexplicable call from Olivia's phone to shatter his life-a second time...
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The Possession of Mr. Cave
by Matt Haig
A novel of chilling suspense about a father who will do anything to protect his teenage daughter Following the tragic deaths of his wife and son, antiques dealer Terence Cave is left alone to raise his only daughter, fifteen-year-old Bryony. As the young girl struggles to come to terms with the loss of her twin brother, Reuben, Terence observes changes in her behavior—changes he believes are more dangerous than... (more)
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Along for the Ride
by Sarah Dessen
It’s been so long since Auden slept at night. Ever since her parents’ divorce—or since the fighting started. Now she has the chance to spend a carefree summer with her dad and his new family in the charming beach town where they live. A job in a clothes boutique introduces Auden to the world of girls: their talk, their friendship, their crushes. She missed out on all that, too busy being the perfect daughter to... (more)
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My Last Confession
by Helen FitzGerald
Krissie is happy and in love. But a month into her new job as parole officer she allows her naivety and blind compassion to plunge her into a shocking murder case that could jeopardise everything - her job, her relationship, and her life. The case is that of Jeremy, a Londoner on remand for the brutal murder of his mother-in-law.
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Personal Effects-1
by J Unutmaz
Personal Effects is a journey into the deaths of crime victims whose identities remain unknown. Personal Effects -1 explores the unidentified victims of Broward County Florida from 1967-2010. While this digital collection is an attempt to use current technology to provide information that may sufficiently inform families as to a loved one’s whereabouts, it does not provide graphic descriptions nor detailed... (more)
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Grace Under Pressure: Five Tension-Filled Tales
by Michael Angel, J. D. Cutler
Ernest Hemingway once called ‘guts’ as ‘grace under pressure’. So expect grace (for the most part) from unexpected quarters as Angel and Cutler present their first short story anthology. Meet a down-on-his luck supermarket worker who finds a plea for help scrawled on a shopping list: HELP US PLEZE WE R KIDNAPED. Follow an eco-tourist’s frantic efforts to escape an African quarantine zone ravaged by a... (more)
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Thereafter
by Anthony Schmitz
In Thereafter, Audrey Brimsley learns that putting the dead to rest can take up all your life.An old woman alone in a crumbling house, she is still trying to reconcile herself to the accidental death of an infant daughter, Clarissa, sixty years earlier. Her life becomes entangled with that of an artist, Mag, and her well-meaning husband, who sees in Audrey's neglected house a real estate opportunity.... (more)