Phyllis A Whitney
2) Flaming tree
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
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On the California coast, a physical therapist unlocks a young boy's terrible secrets, in this novel from " the Grand Master of her craft" (Barbara Michaels). In search of solitude in the wake of her son's tragic death, recently divorced physical therapist Kelsey Stewart accepts an invitation to stay at her aunt Elaine's seaside inn in Carmel, California. No sooner does Kelsey arrive than she becomes moved by another tragedy: On a bright sunny day,...
Author
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
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Description
A bookseller reunites with her estranged, enigmatic father in Key West in this suspenseful novel by a New York Times -bestselling author. Twenty-five years ago, Long Island bookstore owner Laurel York was abandoned by her father, author Clifton York. Ever since, she's followed his life and career with morbid resentment. When Clifton's collaborator shows up in her shop with the gift of an orchid, she reluctantly agrees to accompany him back to Key...
4) Silversword
Author
Pub. Date
[1987]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the Hawaiian Islands, a divorcée is threatened by a dangerous deception from her past, in this novel from "a superb and gifted storyteller"(Mary Higgins Clark). Hawaiian-born Caroline Kirby was only six years old when her parents died under mysterious circumstances, and she was shuttled off to live with her grandmother in San Francisco. Now, after years under the strict governance of the old woman, followed by an unhappy marriage, the young,...
Author
Pub. Date
[1962]
Edition
[First edition].
Language
English
Description
From a New York Times -bestselling author: In nineteenth-century Manhattan, a young woman is hired to care for a child haunted by murder. Having just lost her brother and mother in a tragic accident, dressmaker Megan Kincaid has never felt so vulnerable and alone. Then comes the startling request from the wealthy Brandon Reid of Washington Square to work as a private caretaker to his violently tempered nine-year-old stepson, Jeremy. Megan reluctantly...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
A retreat to Greece becomes a dangerous trap for a grieving and haunted widow in this novel from "a superb and gifted storyteller" (Mary Higgins Clark). Ever since Dorcas Brandt's husband, Gino Nikkaris, died in a plane crash, she's been beset by troubling suspicions that his shady intrigues in the art world may have been the cause of his death. Desperate for both a new future and answers to the questions about Gino's past, Dorcas whisks her daughter...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
From a New York Times bestselling author: After the Civil War, a young Confederate bride finds herself living in the shadow of her husband s first love. Having lost her fianc in battle, Lora Blair knew it was the heartache of war, not true love, that drew her to Union soldier Wade Taylor, a grieving widower who still mourned his late wife, Virginia. Married quickly in the ravished little Southern border town where Lora was born, they headed back...
8) Spindrift
Author
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestseller: A New Year s Eve suicide in a Newport mansion could be hiding a sinister family conspiracy. Was it fear of scandal, threat of disgrace, or loss of his job that drove Rhode Island newspaper magnate Adam Keene to take his own life? His daughter, Christy, refuses to accept her father s death as a suicide. When she returns to her mother-in-law Theodora s stately Newport mansion, Christy is determined to find out who killed her...
9) Snowfire
Author
Pub. Date
1973.
Edition
[First edition].
Language
English
Description
A chilling tale of murder and secrets set against the treacherous slopes of a ski lodge--from "the queen of the American gothics-(The New York Times). Linda Earle's stepbrother had a bright future. An aspiring athlete, he was being mentored by championship skier Julian McCabe, but then his career was cut short when he was accused of murdering Julian's wife, Margot. Convinced of his innocence and determined to clear his name, Linda takes a job as après-ski...
10) Sea jade
Author
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
Description
From a New York Times- bestselling author: In nineteenth-century New England, a desperate young woman's only refuge becomes an inescapable trap. It was fitting that Miranda Heath's first glimpse of the forbidding home at Bascomb's Point was in the fury of a thunderstorm. Despite her late father's caution to steer clear of his friend Obadiah Bascomb's New England mansion, Miranda, destitute as she was, had no choice but to accept the old captain's...
11) The stone bull
Author
Pub. Date
1977.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The mysterious death of a prima ballerina raises haunting and sinister questions for her twin sister in this novel from a master of suspense (Mary Higgins Clark). Schoolteacher Jenny McClain is looking forward to a bright future with her new husband, Brandon, in their glorious new home at the McClain family s Catskill estate in the Shawangunk Mountains. But Jenny can t forget her past ... It was the night her twin sister, Ariel, threatened suicide....
Author
Pub. Date
1969.
Edition
[First edition].
Language
English
Description
From a New York Times bestselling author: In a lakeside mansion, a beautiful young bride becomes the snowbound prisoner of a dark family secret. When Manhattan art curator Diana Blake married gallery owner Glen Chandler, she was certain she knew him well enough to devote the rest of her life to him. He was the son of a renowned artist; he sculpted things of beauty in alabaster; and he loved her. It was only when Glen took her home to his family s...
Author
Language
English
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Description
From the Edgar Award winning queen of the American gothics : A troubled girl in a remote mountain home grapples with a terrifying secret (The New York Times). New York clinical psychologist Lynn McLeod has never backed away from a child in need. But a plea for her services in Blue Ridge country tries Lynn s compassion. Ten-year-old Jilly is no random traumatized girl. She s the daughter of Lynn s unfaithful ex-husband, Stephen. Despite the turbulent...
14) Star flight
Author
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
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Description
A movie star's suicide draws a young woman into the deadly shadows of a Hollywood scandal in this novel from "a master of suspense-(Mary Higgins Clark). More than fifty years ago, Victoria Frazer and Roger Brandt were the most popular stars of the silver screen--until a notorious and tragic love affair on set in the Appalachians destroyed their lives. It was there, at the foot of Rumbling Bald Mountain in Lake Lure, North Carolina, where Victoria...
Author
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A psychic investigates a mysterious disappearance high in the Appalachian Mountains in this novel from a Grand Master of her craft (Barbara Michaels). It s a legacy Christy Loren never wanted. The unwitting inheritor of her mother s psychic gifts, the Long Island librarian assists in police investigations, but they ve become too hard for her to bear. Too many victims. Too many shallow graves. So she s fled to the peaceful foothills of the Blue Ridge...
16) Thunder Heights
Author
Language
English
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Description
From the "Queen of the American gothics": In turn-of-the-century New York, a strange inheritance lures a vulnerable governess into a trap (The New York Times). Camilla King knows little of her family history, having never met her estranged relatives. Her late father wanted it that way. But when she receives a startling invitation from her immeasurably wealthy and ailing grandfather, Orrin Judd, to return to Thunder Heights, the crumbling mansion on...
17) Rainsong
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Language
English
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Description
In a secluded home on Long Island, a musician's mysterious suicide haunts his terrified wife, in this novel by a New York Times -bestselling author. In the wake of the shocking suicide of popular singer Ricky Sands, his wife and professional partner, Hollis Temple, wants only to escape the notoriety-and the relentless questions she can't even begin to answer. Rescued from the press by family friend Alan Gordon, Hollis leaves Manhattan for Cold Spring...
18) The glass flame
Author
Pub. Date
1978.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A man's death in the Smoky Mountains raises the suspicions of his estranged wife in this suspenseful novel by a New York Times -bestselling author. Vietnam veteran David Hallam is in Tennessee working as an arson investigator for an insurance company when he sends his wife, Karen, an unnerving note: "If anything happens to me down here, don't let it pass as an accident..." Ten days later, he dies in a fire and the only thing Karen can feel is guilt-for...
19) Emerald
Author
Pub. Date
1983.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A woman heads to Palm Springs to stay with her great-aunt, a Hollywood star with a mysterious past, in this romantic suspense novel by an Edgar Award winner. Ever since New York journalist Carol Hamilton was a young girl, her great-aunt Monica Arlen has been for her the stuff of glittering, starry-eyed fantasy. Now, the reclusive movie star offers Carol an escape of another kind. In flight with her son from an abusive marriage, she's come to Monica's...
Author
Pub. Date
[1972]
Language
English
Description
A reclusive actress is brought back into the spotlight-by murder-in this novel by a New York Times -bestselling and Edgar award-winning author. Leigh Hollins had no choice but to honor her father's dying wish: that she find her estranged mother, now living in seclusion in Norway, and reconcile with her. Leigh's mother, Laura Worth, was once one of the most dynamic movie stars in the world, her films eclipsed only by her real life, which was filled...
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