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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
389 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Driving home one night Peyton Shields is run off the road. She fears ahe is being stalked, but no one believes her, not even her husband who accuses her of having an affair with an ex-boyfriend. Peyton begins to wonder if her jealous husband might be the one who wants her dead..
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English
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"Be careful to whom you tell your darkest secrets. Selena Murphy is commuting home from her job in the city when the train stalls out on the tracks. She strikes up a conversation with a beautiful stranger in the next seat, and their connection is fast and easy. The woman introduces herself as Martha and confesses that she's been stuck in an affair with her boss. Selena, in turn, confesses that she suspects her husband is sleeping with the nanny. When...
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Language
English
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"In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle, and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes 'interesting'. The last thing she ever wanted to be. To be interesting is to be noticed and to be noticed is dangerous.
Milkman...
4) Sanctuary
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
438 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Successful photographer Jo Ellen Hathaway thought she had escaped the house long ago. It was where she spent her loneliest years, after her family was shattered by the sudden, unexplained disappearance of her mother. But now, the sprawling resort off the coast of Georgia haunts her dreams. Even more haunting are the pictures that someone is sending her - strange close-ups, candid shots, and finally, the most shocking and heartbreaking portrait of...
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 14
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
403 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"A long-buried family secret resurfaces when one of Aloysius Pendergast's most implacable enemies shows up on his doorstep as a murdered corpse. The mystery has all the hallmarks of the perfect murder, save for an enigmatic clue: a piece of turquoise lodged in the stomach of the deceased. The gem leads Pendergast to an abandoned mine on the shore of California's desolate Salton Sea, which in turn propels him on a journey of discovery deep into his...
7) The innocent
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Language
English
Description
Some mistakes can change your life forever. Like the one Matt Hunter made when he attempted to help a friend stop a fight that resulted in an accidental death. Matt was convicted of manslaughter and imprisoned. Now, nine years after his release, he's an ex-con taking nothing for granted. Married, and with a baby on the way, he feels like a lucky man. Then the phone call comes and in an instant the unraveling begins.
8) Boar Island
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Anna Pigeon, in her career as a National Park Service Ranger, has had to deal with all manner of crimes and misdemeanors, but cyber-bullying and stalking is a new one. The target is Elizabeth, the adopted teenage daughter of her friend Heath Jarrod. Elizabeth is driven to despair by the disgusting rumors spreading online and bullying texts. Until, one day, Heath finds her daughter Elizabeth in the midst of an unsuccessful suicide attempt. And then...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 76 min., 20 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A story of obsessive passion directed and filmed by Chris Petit. Based on an English academic's memoir on stalking and being stalked, Unrequited Love is a dazzling digital film essay on cinema and absence, on Hitchcock and Antonioni, on cinema and cities. It is a story of waiting, self-delusion, panic, fear of violence, and of modern technologies which define the urban stalker as they do the new terrorist. Their methods duplicate: both are irrational...
10) Her secret
Author
Series
Amish of Hart County volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
302 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A suspenseful tale of a young Amish woman who is forced to move to a new town to escape a threatening stalker"--
11) Dying to please
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
312 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A butler, a trained bodyguard, and an expert marksman -- that is Sarah Stevens; after she thwarts a burglary she unwittingly catches the attention of a stalker; when her employer is murdered she is caught in a trap from which she may never escape.
12) All in her head
Author
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Alison is more alone than she's ever been. She is convinced that her ex-husband Jack is following her. She is certain she recognises the strange woman who keeps approaching her in the canteen. She knows she has a good reason to be afraid. She just can't remember why. Then the mention of one name turns her life upside down. Alison feels like she's losing her mind ... but it could just lead her to the truth. We all go a little mad sometimes ..."--Provided...
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Language
English
Description
Desperate to reach her grieving mother, Mira joins a group of college students driving home after their flight is stranded, but the road conditions are not the only mortal danger they face.
Stuck at the Philadelphia airport by an incoming blizzard results, Mira hitches a ride to Pittsburgh with a group of college kids who were on her initial flight. As the trip begins she discovers that her fellow travelers aren't friends like she thought. They're...
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Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
304 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the end of a long high-profile trial, Atlanta prosecutor Mary Crow is going home to North Carolina, and taking her two closest friends with her. The autumn Appalachians are gorgeous, and the women are looking forward to a long weekend away from city life. But the mountains can be equally hazardous, with rugged climbs, impenetrable fogs and treacherous cliffs. Add to the hostile terrain two predators bent on Mary's destruction. Mitchell Whitman...
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Language
English
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Bedridden after a freak accident, a novelist begins to question his own sanity as he moves through dreamlike memories of his own fictional characters.
Injured in a freak accident, novelist Gerry Andersen lies in a hospital bed in his glamorous but sterile apartment, isolated from the busy world he can see through his windows. He is utterly dependent on two women he barely knows: his young assistant and a night nurse whose competency he questions....
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Language
English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Eight Perfect Murders comes the heart-pounding story of nine strangers who receive a cryptic list with their names on it-and then begin to die in highly unusual circumstances"--
Nine strangers receive a list with their names on it in the mail. Nothing else, just a list of names on a single sheet of paper. None of the nine people know or have ever met the others on the list. They dismiss it as junk mail,...
18) Fear no evil
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 29
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Alex Cross enters the final battle with the all-knowing genius who has stalked him and his family for years. Dr. Alex Cross and Detective John Sampson venture into the rugged Montana wilderness--where they will be the prey. They're not on the job, but on a personal mission. Until they're attacked by two rival teams of assassins, controlled by the same mastermind who has stalked Alex and his family for years. Darkness falls. The river churns into...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of vengeance on sexual predators in their community; a man returns from the dead to haunt his grieving wife; a young mother finds herself captivated by her own motherhood. In the collection's longest story, a much-praised writer cruelly experiments with "drafts" of his...
20) Dead man's grip
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
401 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Carly Chase is still traumatized ten days after being in a fatal traffic accident which kills a teenage student from Brighton University. Then she receives news that turns her entire world into a living nightmare. The drivers of the other two vehicles involved have been found tortured and murdered. Now Detective Superintendent Roy Grace of the Sussex Police force issues a stark and urgent warning to Carly: She could be next. The student had deadly...
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