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Murdered, My Sweet

author: Nixon, Joan Lowery
Jenny and her mother hunt a killer while fearing for their own safety, after the reading of their millionaire cousin's will leads to the murder of another cousin.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: murder, mothers and daughters, mystery and detective stories, homicide [X], mother-daughter relationship [X]

Out Of The Easy

author: Sepetys, Ruta
Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 49
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590
subjects: conduct of life, prostitution, murder, mothers and daughters, new orleans (la.), mother-daughter relationship [X], homicide [X]

Close To A Killer

author: Qualey, Marsha
Seventeen-year-old Barrie finds herself involved in a string of murders that are somehow connected to her mother's hair salon.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600
subjects: murder, mothers and daughters, mystery and detective stories, homicide [X], mother-daughter relationship [X]

Switched

author: Stine, R. L, Wollman, Jessica
Laura and Willa, born the same night seventeen years ago on opposite sides of Darien, Connecticut, are both unhappy with their lives and when they discover they look remarkably alike, they decide to try out one another's lives for four months.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
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The Probable Future

author: Hoffman, Alice
Stella Sparrow, the latest in a long history of Sparrow women to have special gifts, discovers on her thirteenth birthday that she can see the future, an ability that has both positive and negative effects on her life and her family members.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
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Yesterday's Child

author: Levitin, Sonia
After her mother's sudden death, high school student Laura starts hunting for information about her mother's mysterious past, and in searching, uncovers some terrible secrets.
FIC
year: 1998
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: mothers and daughters, murder, schools, mother-daughter relationship [X], homicide [X], friendship, high schools

The Circle Of Blood

author: Ferguson, Alane
As she uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to investigate the death of a young runaway, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney, an assistant to her coroner father, worries that her secretive mother may be involved.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720

The Crocodile Bird

author: Rendell, Ruth
Story of an obsessive love between a mother and daughter and its connection to a series of deaths near a remote English manor.
FIC
year: 1994
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: mothers and daughters, homicide [X], england, mother-daughter relationship [X], psychological fiction

Mildred Pierce

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Divorced single mom Mildred Pierce decides to open a restaurant business, which tears at the already-strained relationship with her ambitious elder daughter, Veda.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: women, homicide [X], mother-daughter relationship [X]

The Tulip Eaters

author: Van Heugten, Antoinette
After her mother is murdered and her baby girl goes missing, Nora de Jong must delve into her family's dark past to find a killer who may not be a stranger.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: secrecy, criminal investigation, homicide [X], missing children, mother-daughter relationship [X]

Drowning Is Inevitable

author: Stanley, Shalanda
After seventeen-year-old Olivia and her friend Jamie accidentally kill Jamie's abusive father, two other friends, Max and Maggie, join them in running away from St.
FIC
year:
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690

The Oxford Inheritance

author: Mcdonald, Ann A
"When a mysterious package is sent to her, Cassandra Blackwell arrives in Oxford with one mission: to uncover the truth about her mother's dark past.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: colleges and universities, secret societies, secrecy, homicide [X], mother-daughter relationship [X], oxford (england)

The Possible

author: Altebrando, Tara
A podcaster stirs up seventeen-year-old Kaylee's memories of her birth mother, who is infamous for alleged telekinetic ability and for murdering her own son.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650

White Oleander

author: Lohman, Alison
Astrid, the only child of a single mother, struggles to find a place for herself in a world full of foster homes and impossible circumstances, after her mother is jailed for murder.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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The Corpse Queen

author: Herrman, Heather M.
Orphaned seventeen-year-old Molly Green is eager to start a new life in her aunt's lucrative business selling corpses to medical students, but she quickly becomes entangled in a murderer's plans.
FIC
year:
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile:

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