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Books in Thorndike Press Large Print Mystery Series series

  • Glory Over Everything: Beyond the Kitchen House

    Kathleen Grissom

    Hardcover (Thorndike Press Large Print, April 6, 2016)
    Continues the experiences of Jamie, who in 1830 after escaping slavery passes himself off as a wealthy white silversmith, only to risk everything to save a beloved servant who has been captured and sold in the South.
  • When the Wind Blows

    James Patterson

    Paperback (G K Hall & Co, Jan. 1, 2000)
    Frannie O'Neil, a dedicated young veterinarian, makes an astonishing discovery in the woods after her husband's murder, a discovery that she will go to incredible lengths to protect
  • Alice's Tulips

    Sandra Dallas

    Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, June 1, 2001)
    An evocation of the day-to-day life of women in the Civil War era follows Alice, whose husband has left their Iowa farm for the war, as she copes with the farm and lives normally, until suddenly being accused of murder.
  • Miracle Creek

    Angie Kim

    Library Binding (Thorndike Press Large Print, Aug. 28, 2019)
    An Indie Next and LibraryReads SelectionYoung and Pak Yoo run the Miracle Submarine ? an experimental oxygen chamber for curing issues like autism or infertility. But when it explodes, killing two people, a murder trial upends their lives.
  • In the Name of Honor

    Richard North Patterson

    Hardcover (Thorndike Press, July 7, 2010)
    Two prestigious military families are shattered when general's son Brian, a traumatized Iraq veteran, shoots and kills his former commanding officer under circumstances he claims were in self-defense, a case that also calls the victim's wife into question. By the best-selling author of The Spire. (Suspense).
  • Behind Her Eyes

    Sarah Pinborough

    Hardcover (Thorndike Press Large Print, May 3, 2017)
    The secretary of a successful psychiatrist is drawn into the seemingly picture-perfect life of her boss and his wife before discovering a complex web of controlling behaviors and secrets that gradually reveal profound and dangerous flaws in the couple's relationship.
  • Dance Hall of the Dead

    Tony Hillerman

    Paperback (G K Hall & Co, April 1, 1994)
    When a youth from the Zuni reservation is murdered, his missing Navajo friend becomes the prime suspect
  • The Notebook

    Nicholas Sparks

    Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, Nov. 1, 1996)
    In a testimony to the lasting power of love, a man tells an elderly woman a story from a faded old notebook, his voice relating the heartbreaking tale of two lovers and their fifty-year journey to happiness
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  • The Ninth Hour

    Alice McDermott

    Hardcover (Thorndike Press Large Print, Sept. 19, 2017)
    A portrait of the Irish-American experience is presented through the story of an Irish immigrant's suicide and how it reverberates through innumerable lives in early twentieth-century Catholic Brooklyn.
  • The Light Between Oceans

    M. L. Stedman

    Paperback (Large Print Press, April 9, 2013)
    AFTER FOUR HARROWING YEARS ON THE WESTERN Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day's journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby's cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby. Tom, who keeps meticulous records and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel insists the baby is a "gift from God," and against Tom's judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them.
  • Gone to Dust

    Matthew Goldman

    Hardcover (Thorndike Press Large Print, Sept. 9, 2017)
    The debut private eye murder mystery from Emmy Award-winning Seinfeld writer Matt Goldman. SML Private detective Nils Shapiro is focused on forgetting his ex-wife and keeping warm during another Minneapolis winter when a former colleague calls with the impossible: a woman was found murdered in her bedroom, with dust from hundreds of vacuum cleaner bags emptied on her body. How do you solve a murder with no useable evidence?
  • The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels -- A Love Story

    Ree Drummond

    Hardcover (Thorndike Press, June 1, 2011)
    The popular blogger and author of "The Pioneer Woman Cooks" traces the story of her marriage to a quintessential cowboy while sharing moments about her transition from a giddy twenty-something to a ranch wife and mother.