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Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic urban background of 19th-century London, where fog on the river, seeping into the very bones of the characters, symbolizes the corruption of the legal system and the society which supports it.
Year: 1853
Genre: Family Secrets, Legal Thriller
The Hollow
by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie's classic, The Hollow, finds Poirot entangled in a nasty web of family secrets when he comes across a fresh murder at an English country manor.
Year: 1946
Genre: Family Secrets, Murder Mystery
Cancel All Our Vows
by John D. MacDonald
Fletcher thought he knew his wife Jane completely. No dark secrets. No hidden past. Then one hot summer week everything changed. And suddenly, brutally, Jane became a cold stranger.
Year: 1953
Genre: Domestic Suspense, Family Secrets
Contrary Pleasure
by John D. MacDonald
For years the Delevan family image reflected only the best of everything - wealth, position, influence, and the kind of expensive good looks that take generations to cultivate. No one dared suspect that their glittering façade, their cherished privacy masked hidden lusts, furtive pleasures and twisted dreams that would soon erupt into a pattern of strange violence that threatened to destroy them all.
Year: 1954
Genre: Family Secrets
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything
by John D. MacDonald
From John D. MacDonald, one of the enduring American novelists of the twentieth century, comes a science fiction classic with a timeless premise. An aimless young man discovers a way to stop the world in its tracks--and that's when his life truly begins
Year: 1962
Genre: Family Secrets, Fantasy
Sleeping Beauty
by Ross Macdonald
Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a wealthy, violent family with a load of trouble on their hands--including an oil spill, a missing girl, a lethal dose of Nembutal, a six-figure ransom, and a stranger afloat, face down, off a private beach. Here is Ross Macdonald's masterful tale of buried memories, the consequences of arrogance, and the anguished relations between parents and their children. Riveting, gritty, tautly written, Sleeping Beauty is crime fiction at its best.
Year: 1973
Genre: Crime Fiction, Family Secrets, Private Eye
Fletch Won
by Gregory Mcdonald
The attorney is shot dead in the newspaper's parking lot, no witnesses in sight. Determined to dig up the dirt on both stories, Fletch collects a cast of engaging characters and strings together the scandalous clues that lead to an eventful and unexpected conclusion.
Year: 1985
Genre: Comic Mystery, Family Secrets, Murder Mystery
Speaker for the Dead
by Orson Scott Card
In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.
Year: 1986
Genre: Alien Contact, Family Secrets, Science Fiction
Orrie's Story
by Thomas Berger
Thomas Berger puts his signature spin on the Greek myth ORESTEIA in this brilliant story set in small-town America.
Year: 1990
Genre: Family Secrets, Greek Tragedy
Son of Fletch
by Gregory Mcdonald
One stormy evening on his sizable but modest farm, a wet and dirty escaped convict named Jack arrives on his front doorstep, claiming to be his long-lost son. Baffled by the statement but intrigued by the young, intelligent man, Fletch decides to play along with the kid's game and help him and his cohorts abscond to Alabama.
Year: 1993
Genre: Family Secrets
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