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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"What if everything you know about the worst night of your life turns out not to be true? Nine years ago, with the world's eyes on her, Charlie Colbert fled. The press and the police called Charlie a "witness" to the nightmarish events at her elite graduate school on Christmas Eve--events known to the public as "Scarlet Christmas"--though Charlie knows she was much more than that. Now, Charlie has meticulously rebuilt her life: She's the editor-in-chief...
Author
Series
Maggie MacGowen mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Perseverance Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When cleaning out her late father's desk in Berkeley, filmmaker Maggie MacGowen discovers evidence in a murder case from thirty years ago and finds herself in danger when she begins to question family and old friends about the circumstances of the case.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. She won't swear. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. But before she can put her modest plan into action-life happens. Today, it turns out, is the day Timby has decided to fake sick to weasel his way into his mother's company. It's also the day Joe has chosen...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
©2002.
Language
English
Description
Stunning her free-spirited mother by settling down in a quiet New England community, Sabine, a possessor of psychic abilities, helps unravel a local mystery with the help of Dan Smith, who has returned to his childhood home to claim the family business.
5) Get Shorty
Author
Series
Chili Palmer volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
©1990.
Language
English
Description
Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark, pursues a mark, who's behind in payments, to Las Vegas and then to Hollywood where Harry Zimm has gambled away the $200,000 earmarked for his next production.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A debut romantic comedy set in Los Angeles where two people are brought together by a very decent proposal cooked up by a very secretive benefactor in which the strangers go on one year of dates, one date a week, for half a million dollars each if they can stand each other for the whole time"--
Author
Series
Berger and Mitry mysteries volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Desiree Mitry is furious to discover that a major drug cartel has been operating in Dorset, Connecticut, right under her nose. Matters escalate when a troubled Sour Cherry Lane resident turns up dead. Desiree pursues the case in her own way. The problem is that her way gets her in way too deep. And there's only person who can possibly get her out--New York film critic Mitch Berger.
Author
Series
Night soldiers volume 4
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
©2002.
Language
English
Description
In 1940 occupied Paris, French film producer and bon vivant Jean Casson undertakes a dangerous mission against Germany in the world of espionage, an assignment that could cost him everything--even his life.
Author
Series
Emily Daggett Weiss mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
During the very early days of silent movies, a murder during filming threatens the lives of two independent film producers in this thrilling historical mystery. One day in 1909, Emily Weiss's handsome and successful new husband, Adam, returns to their well-appointed Philadelphia home to tell her he's sold everything they own, and they are going to New York to become independent movie producers. As he's already signed a contract that will ruin them...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Determined to defeat her social anxiety, [powerhouse movie critic] Violet visits the Algonquin Hotel to pull strength from the hallowed dining room, where Dorothy Parker and so many other famous writers of the 1920s traded barbs. But she gets more than she bargained for when Dorothy Parker's feisty spirit rematerializes from an ancient guestbook and hitches a ride onto her life"--Dust jacket flap.
11) Be cool
Author
Series
Chili Palmer volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
"Chili Palmer's follow-up to his smash hit film 'Get Leo' bombed, and in Hollywood, you're considered only as hot as your last project. Once again outside the system, Chili is exploring an idea for his third film by lunching with a former 'associate' from his Brooklyn days who's now a record label executive. When lunch begins with iced tea and ends in a mob hit, Chili soon finds himself in an unlikely alliance with one of the LAPD's finest, Detective...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"On a train bound for the seaside town of Jarmuli, three women in their sixties witness an assault on a young documentary filmmaker named Nomi. The women are disturbed, but shrug off the encounter. Among Jarmuli's pilgrims, priests, and temples, the three women live out their long-planned holiday together, while Nomi searches for clues to her past in a local ashram. As their lives overlap and collide, the town's serene surface is punctured by violence...
Author
Series
Maggie MacGowen mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Perseverance Press/John Daniel & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Imagine your every move is being tracked by someone whose clear intention is to do you harm. Filmmaker Maggie MacGowen arrives at the Paris apartment she inherited from the mother she never knew, ready to begin a settled life with her fiancé, Jean-Paul Bernard. But a cryptic phone call from Jean-Paul, summoning her, begins a nightmare winter odyssey across Europe as they try to stay a step ahead of a predator who uses every electronic medium to stalk...
14) Radiance
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Severin Unck's father is a famous director of Gothic romances in an alternate 1986 in which talking movies are still a daring innovation due to the patent-hoarding Edison family. Rebelling against her father's films of passion, intrigue, and spirits from beyond, Severin starts making documentaries, traveling through space and investigating the levitator cults of Neptune and the lawless saloons of Mars. For this is not our solar system, but one drawn...
16) Spirit week
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Two people, aspiring filmmaker Elijah and thirteen-year-old tutor Suzy, are invited to a largely deserted hotel in Estes Park Colorado to make a film about reclusive horror author Jack Axford, and tutor his son, Danny; but the situation is not as expected: Jack is suffering from early onset dementia, and convinced that his books have released evil, is trying to buy up and destroy them as well as the hotel he lives in--but nobody is quite what they...
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When recently divorced Katie Ellis and her rescue dog Bark move back in with Katie's grandmother in Florida, she becomes swept up in a reunion of her grandmother's troupe of underwater performers--finding hope and renewal in unexpected places, in this sweet novel perfect for fans of Kristan Higgins and Claire Cook. Aspiring costume designer Katie gave up everything in her divorce to gain custody of her fearful, faithful rescue dog, Barkimedes. While...
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