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At seventeen, Lenora Hope / Hung her sister with a rope. Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope's End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred....
4) Forestfall
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World at the lake's edge duology volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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As Leta struggles with the consequences of her deal in the World Below, Rowan realizes the tethering spell still connects them and he desperately tries to bring her back.
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"April thought she had her happy ending. After all, she has her new house and new friends and new guardian. But she also has a very big new secret. The kids of Winterborne House are the only ones who know that Gabriel Winterborne--famous billionaire and terrible cook--is really a sword-wielding vigilante. What they don't know is that he's not the only one. When a masked figure breaks in, looking for something--or someone--it's clear that Gabriel has...
6) Alone
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Seda, sixteen, feels her invisible childhood nemesis, Sawyer, growing stronger just as a group of stranded teens takes shelter from a blizzard in the dilapidated mansion Seda's mother inherited.
Seda's mom inherited an old, crumbling mansion, and it was fun to explore the beautiful grounds for a summer. When her mom decided to renovate and live there, Seda isn't happy. And the coming of winter they'll be cut off from the outside world. When a group...
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Seven friends. One last weekend. A mansion half in ruins. No room for lies. Someone is going to confess. Because there should've been eight... They met when they were teenagers. Now they're adults, and time has been kind to some and unkind to others--and the cruelest of all to Bea, the one they lost nine long years ago. They've gathered to reminisce at Bea's family estate, a once-glorious mansion straight out of a gothic novel. Best friends, old flames,...
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 25
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
©1974, 1969, 1946
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English
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Frank and Joe Hardy deal with two mysteries at the same time: investigating a deserted mansion without visible doorknobs or locks, and helping their detective father nab a ring of television thieves.
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English
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Claire Powell's life is turned upside down when her beloved husband admits to a "near affair." But when Stephen accepts a partnership with an Atlanta law firm without consulting her and buys a historic Southern home sight-unseen--it pushes their already-fractured marriage to the breaking point. Claire's world spirals, and she soon finds herself in a marriage she no longer wants, in a house she never asked for. In 1863, Charlotte Thursmann, pregnant...
11) Colonial madness
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Tori Porter and her mother, fun-loving best friends, compete against other relatives in hopes of inheriting a fortune from eccentric Great Aunt Muriel by spending two weeks in a colonial mansion, with no modern conveniences, no outside help, and daily tests.
12) A willing murder
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Medlar mystery volume 1
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English
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Sara Medlar is a household name in romance, with millions of books sold. But lately, retirement has been boring her and she's found herself back in her hometown of Lachlan, Florida, remodeling the grand old mansion she'd admired as a child. It's much too big for her alone, but she'd die before letting anyone in town know that. Then Sara's niece Kate is offered a job in Lachlan - a start in what could be a very successful career in real estate. She...
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Diana Cook, born at the turn of the nineteenth century, the only daughter of Virginia gentry, agrees to marry a rich captain to save her family's land. Luckily for Diana, her union with the captain is brief and gives her a beautiful son. But after the son is grown is when the real tragedy begins.
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2021.
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"Clara Starling lives a life of dull rules, deadly routine, and flavorless meals under her cold uncle's strict regime--until the day Uncle disappears, leaving Clara alone in his old mansion. When streetwise orphan Peter and his rescue cat arrive unexpectedly, the children seize the chance to live by their own rules. But when the pair's wild romps through the halls of Braithwaite Manor reveal a single, worn ballet slipper, they are hurled into a mystery...
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When Izzy is dragged from New York City to a tiny town for her parents' new job, the only silver lining is the gorgeous old mansion they moved into. It is the former home of an artist's muse who died tragically in a fire. The house has its quirks: whole floors closed off, paintings covered up, and cell reception nonexistent. Izzy throws herself into starting an Instagram fashion account using the gowns and jewelry she finds in the house. The pictures...
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When six-year-old Beatrice Willoughby vanished at the Amadeuses' annual All Hallows Eve party, people in the tiny mountain town of Nevermore were quick to whisper: They were always odd. Their house is full of dark magic. And when Mort Amadeus was pegged for the crime, the Amadeuses, once the center of society, retreated. They closed their doors, disappeared from life. People almost forgot. Until thirteen years later, when six envelopes land at the...
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[Grace and Favor mystery] volume 2
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
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A weekend party designed to raise money for a floundering estate turns deadly when one of the guests is found dead and another disappears.
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[Grace and Favor mystery] volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
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After inheriting the Grace and Favor Cottage on the banks of the Hudson from their wealthy great-uncle, Lily Brewster and her brother Robert move in and begin to adapt to small-town life, but when the onslaught of the Depression leads to the discovery of a body, Lily and Robert try to solve a mystery.
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Grace and Favor mysteries volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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Sister and brother Lily and Robert Brewster, raised in the lap of luxury, may no longer have apenny to their names, but at least they have a roof over their heads--which is more than many can say inthis bleak November of 1932.
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