Lies, Loyalties, and Loved Ones: Where Family Meets Mystery
By Emily Hoang
How far would you go for your family? In these family drama mysteries and thrillers, the limits of family get tested with new twists and turns.
Secrets get unearthed and it becomes a race against the clock to survive. A Parent’s Weekend turns horrific when kids from different families disappear. In the beautiful backdrop of Tuscany, a woman starts questioning her reality as she uncovers strange connections between her and the past. The bonds between family members can be messy, but at the end of the day, their love will pull them together.
The Sawbrooks are a family of smugglers and bootleggers who have lived on the prime real estate on the lakes of Michigan before there was prime real estate. Every generation has been taught how to navigate the nooks and crannies of the rivers and highways that flow in and out of Canada. Today, the family’s deeply fractured and the money sustaining the family is running out. When the youngest daughter, Jewell, agrees to commit a crime for a major insurance payout, she realizes too late the boat she torched wasn’t empty. The Sawbrooks will need to face each other and their old familial ways to smuggle one more thing out of their land to safety.
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Hardcover
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Julia Pritzker believes she’s cursed. She lost her adoptive parents then her hisband is murdered. She spirals when she realizes her horoscope essentially foretold his death. Her luck seems to turn up when she gets a letter informing her she has inherited a Tuscan villa and vineyard. She heads to Tuscany for answers about who her benefactor, Emilia Rossi, is. She discovers Rossi was a paranoid recluse who believed she was a descendent of the Duchess Caterina Sforza. As Julia finds eerie parallels between the women, including an obsession with astrology, she struggles to search for her identity and save her sanity.
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Hardcover
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Roman Carruthers returns home after his father’s car accident and finds his brother, Dante, in debt to criminals and sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding everything together. Neveah and their father run the Carruthers Crematorium and see death on a daily basis. It becomes clear that the crash that landed their father in a coma was no accident. Roman offers himself and his own particular set of skills to help save his brother and Neveah tries to uncover the mystery of what happened to their mother, who disappeared when they were teenagers.
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Hardcover
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It’s the children’s first year of college at a private university in Northern California. Five families plan a dinner and cocktails to celebrate the opening festivities of Parent Weekend. When their kids don’t show up, their parents brush it off. But more time passes and it becomes clear their kids are nowhere to be found. Search parties are formed. Libby, Blane, Mark, Felix, and Stella—or The Five as what bloggers, podcasters, and TikTok sleuths call them—all come from different families. What could have led to their disappearance and how is it tied to their parents?
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Hardcover
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