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From the author hailed as "an important talent, a storytelling writer of poetic narrative power" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) comes a dazzling novel of psychological suspense. "This is the darkest story I've ever heard." With these haunting words, Thomas H. Cook begins a tale of love and its aftermath, of a town sent reeling from a moment of passionate betrayal. At its center was Kelli Troy and the town of...
2) Wicked city
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From the New York Times bestselling author of the Quinn Colson series comes a “noir crime classic”(Mystery Ink) about one of the most notorious towns in American history.
When crime-fighting attorney Albert Patterson is gunned down in a Phenix City, Alabama, alley in the spring of 1954, the entire town seems to pause for just a moment—and when it starts up again, there is something different about...
When crime-fighting attorney Albert Patterson is gunned down in a Phenix City, Alabama, alley in the spring of 1954, the entire town seems to pause for just a moment—and when it starts up again, there is something different about...
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A 1980s small town Alabama shut-in fears for her life after a killer's release in this crime thriller by the author of Dream with Little Angels.
At twenty-two, Sylvie Carson has known a lifetime's worth of trouble. When she was a child, her baby brother was shot to death by a man named Preacher Eli. Orphaned by her teens, Sylvie is now raising her own baby with no partner in sight. For all these reasons, Leah Teal, Alvin, Alabama's
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2023.
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"When Camille Taylor's husband dies unexpectedly, the carefully constructed life she worked so hard to build in Washington, DC, shatters. After struggling for almost a year, she packs up her daughter, and heads for the Alabama coast where she grew up. The salt air and slow rhythm of the coast soothe Camille's spirit, but when she meets local fisherman Mack Phillips, she learns things have changed in her hometown. Runoff from an abandoned development...
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Birmingham real estate agent and former Miss Alabama Maggie Fortenberry learns valuable lessons about the nature of friendship, the challenges of modern life, and the dangers of impossible dreams as she struggles to keep Red Mountain Realty afloat and bury the heartbreaking secrets of her past.
7) Divining rod
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Plume
Pub. Date
[1998]
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English
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Knight's assured first novel paints a touching picture of a quiet Alabama suburban neighborhood disrupted by tragedy. In contrast to the short stories in Dogfight (reviewed below), in which Knight carefully builds to a climactic one-two punch, here he opens with the knockout: 63-year-old Sam Halladay walks over to the house next door and pulls the trigger of a .38 revolver, killing 28-year-old Simon Bell. The motive: Bell's affair with Halladay's...
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Kensington Books
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2011.
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English
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While in Smarr, Alabama, to visit her husband Mitch's family, Ellie Avery is immersed in a murder investigation when Mitch's Grandpa Franklin dies under mysterious circumstances in a place where genteel Southern tradition collides with greed and deadly passion.
11) Dead by midnight
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Center Point Pub
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2010.
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English
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Ten years after her Hollywood career imploded and Lorie Hammonds made a regretted choice to take a role in an adult film, she has built herself a good, quiet life in her Alabama hometown. When the first death threat arrives, she assumes it's a joke. Then she gets a second note.
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Detective Leah Teal is privy to most of the secrets in her hometown of Alvin, but there are always surprises to be had. Like the day she agrees to take her daughter, Caroline, to see a psychic for a reading. The psychic hones in on Leah instead, hinting at a string of gruesome killings and insisting that she intervene to prevent more deaths. When you go looking for trouble, you never know how much you'll find. Sure enough, the psychic's scant clues...
14) Gathering pecans
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Archway Pub
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2013.
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English
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It is 1945 when the once-dynamic Henry Bagby returns to his Deep South roots after two years of fighting in a horrific war. From the outside, he appears to be a lucky man, but on the inside, he is broken. But as he settles back into life on his family's Alabama cotton farm, he has no idea he is about to meet a girl with a secret who will change everything.
15) Dixie hearts
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Barbour Pub
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[2009?]
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English
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The road to love is rocky...
16) Take my hand
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"Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench. Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help...
17) On the run
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After eight years of raising her daughter Frankie on a horse farm in Tallanville, Alabama, single mother Grace Archer finds her life shattered by the dark secrets of the past, forcing her to resume an old identity to take on a deadly enemy.
18) Glory Road
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Thomas Nelson
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[2019]
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English
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"Glory Road tells the story of three generations of women navigating the uncertain pathways of their hearts during a summer that promises to bring change--whether they're ready for it or not"--
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"Originally written in the mid-1950s, 'Go set a watchman' was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before 'To kill a mockingbird.' Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014. 'Go set a watchman' features many of the characters from 'To kill a mockingbird' some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch--Scout--struggles with issues both personal and political,...
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