The Quicksilver Pool

A tense and moving story of a young woman who uncovers a scandal in her husband's past with terrifying implications to herself. The author also wrote "Thunder Heights", "Skye Cameron", "The Red Carnelian", "The Singing Stones" and "Woman Without a Past".

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Whitney, Phyllis A.

Thrillers & Suspense

Harpercollins

The Trembling Hills (Hodder Great Reads)

From the New York Times–bestselling “master of suspense”: A woman’s mysterious past is unearthed during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake (Mary Higgins Clark).   Sara Bishop was raised in Chicago, but her heart belongs in San Francisco, where her childhood sweetheart, Ritchie Temple, has moved to pursue a career in architecture. Convinced he feels the same way for her, she hopes his fiancée, the manipulative Judith Renwick, is just a passing fancy. And now Sara has packed her bags to prove it. Sarah’s mother is not only concerned by her daughter’s pursuit of an elusive romance, she’s also scared of the city itself—and the secret she and Sara’s father buried there years ago.   Once Sara arrives on the far side of the Golden Gate, she finds herself in the midst of a tantalizing puzzle involving Ritchie, Judith, and Judith’s mysterious brother. She soon discovers a monstrously wicked matriarch nursing a strange and unfathomable vengeance in her Nob Hill mansion. And one fateful morning, when the earth moves and the city is set afire, the pieces of Sara’s past will emerge from the ashes—but will it be too late to save her?   A recipient of the Agatha Award for Lifetime Achievement, Phyllis A. Whitney is the acknowledged “Queen of the American gothics” (The New York Times).    

The Trembling Hills

Romance

Had her husband fallen under the spell of the Orient, or something much more powerful?when Marcia Talbot receives the letter from her husband Jerome telling her that he wants a divorce, she acts quickly. She boards a plane to Japan, where Jerome has been working, confident that she can change his mind and bring him back home with her.but when she arrives, Marcia is no linger sure...of anything. Jerome is a stranger to her-a man obsessed with Japan and the mysterious work going on in his laboratory. He tells her only that he will never return to the States, leading her confused and hurt. What, or who, is so important to him that he would give up all that they have together? And what frightening truth waits behind the locked door to which Jerome, and Jerome only, holds the key?

The Moonflower

<p>From AudioFile\nShelley Thompson is a narrator with both grace and style, and her voice, light and soft in tone, moves the story easily from its New England beginning to the New Orleans of the 1880's. The accident that paralyzes Skye's father, the move south, family intrigues and New Orleans itself are vividly portrayed. D.M.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine</p>

Skye Cameron

Blue Fire

Thunder Heights

<p>To Camilla King, her trip up the Hudson to the huge Gothic mansion named Thunder Heights was a return to the home that had never been hers. From there her grandfather, financier Orrin Judd, ran his vast empire. When Camilla had been a child her mother had returned for a visit and mysteriously died. From that point on, Camilla's father cut himself off from the Judd family. Camilla has been making her way as a governess since her father died, so the summons from her grandfather had come as a surprise, but Camilla obeyed it -- partly out of curiosity, and partly out of hope. What she found at Thundering Heights was a sick old man anxious to make his peace with her before he died. She also met imperious Aunt Hortense and fey, ghostlike Aunt Letty, haunted by some strange guilt or sorrow. Hortense's adopted son, Booth, was a sardonic young man who seemed content to idle his time away, and Ross Granger, who had been hired as an aide to her grandfather, treated Camilla with the most rigid for</p>

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Harper Paperbacks

Seven Tears for Apollo

Distraught over tragic recent events in her life, Dorcas Brandt travels to Greece in search of peace. But in Rhodes, Dorcas discovers a mysterious warning scrawled on her mirror--a warning that disappears before she can show it to anyone. Dorcas begins to wonder is she's losing her mind. Reissue.

Sea Jade

Left penniless and alone by her father's sudden death, Miranda Heath goes against her father's wishes and accepts temporary lodging at the home of Captain Obadiah Bascomb, where she is manipulated into entering a loveless marriage

Black Amber

Tracy Hubbard arrives in Istanbul hoping to uncover the events surrounding her sister's mysterious death

Window on the Square

Brandon Reid's nine-year-old nephew is impossible to handle since accidentally shooting his father two years before. Reid asks Megan Kincaid to move into the Reid house and work with the troubled boy to curb his violent temper. As Megan learns more about Jeremy and the fateful shooting, she realizes that the boy's father was murdered--by someone else. Last published in 1981.

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