Susan McBride

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Ohio

A dark, moody, boarding-school murder mystery teens won't be able to put down.
 
Katie never thought she'd be the girl with the popular boyfriend. She also never thought he would cheat on her--but the proof is in the photo that people at their boarding school can't stop talking about. Mark swears he doesn't remember anything. But Rose, the girl in the photo, is missing, and Mark is in big trouble. Because it looks like Rose isn't just gone . . . she's dead.

Maybe Mark was stupid, but that doesn't mean he's a killer.

Katie needs to find out what really happened, and her digging turns up more than she bargained for, not just about Mark but about someone she loves like a sister: Tessa, her best friend. At Whitney Prep, it's easy to keep secrets . . . especially the cold-blooded kind.

"I'll read anything by Susan McBride." --#1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris


People are saying GOOD THINGS about VERY BAD THINGS . . .
 
 "A compelling mystery that will suck readers in and keep them turning the pages to reach the exciting conclusion." --Joelle Charbonneau, New York Times bestselling author of The Testing 

"Fans of the Pretty Little Liars series will appreciate the high drama and plot twists."--School Library Journal

"Fast-paced, well-crafted  . . . this will be a popular book."--VOYA

 "A white-knuckled climax."--Booklist
 
"An eerie psychodrama."--The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
 
"The venerable yet sinister school, complete with a web of subterranean steam tunnels, is as absorbing as the tightly wound mystery."--Publishers Weekly  


Very Bad Things

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Illinois

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Louisiana

A Novel





The Truth About Love and Lighting is a deliciously emotional story of family, forgiveness, love, and magic from Susan McBride.

A lie that Gretchen Brink told 40 years ago comes back to haunt her when a tornado brings together Sam, a mysterious man who can't remember anything, and Abby, her newly pregnant daughter who is convinced Sam is her long-lost father. Though decades old, when Gretchen's secrets are revealed, the ramifications will affect them all in ways they never could have imagined.

A mesmerizing study of family and love, The Truth About Love and Lightning is touching and observant, reminding us that we never know when our lives are on the precipice of change.

The Truth about Love and Lightning

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Arkansas

"I'll read anything by Susan McBride."

--Charlaine Harris, New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels

"I'm madly in love with this full-of-surprises story about secrets, family ties--and one magical little black dress. One of my favorite novels of the year."

--Melissa Senate, author of The Secret of Joy

"An enchanting escape into a magical world."

--M.J. Rose, internationally bestselling author

Can there be magic in a Little Black Dress? Susan McBride, author of The Cougar Club and the Debutante Dropout mystery series, answers with a resounding, unequivocal, "Yes!" McBride's mesmerizing tale of two sisters whose intertwined lives are torn apart by a remarkable dress that opens up doors to an inescapable future is an ingenious work of the imagination that recalls the novels of Claire Cook and Jill Kargman. A sometimes heartwarming, sometimes heartbreaking look into two generations of women, this Little Black Dress is something every fan of quality contemporary women's fiction will want to own.



Little Black Dress

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Michigan

A Debutante Dropout Mystery

To the dismay of her high society mother Cissy, Dallas heiress Andy Kendricks wants no part of the Junior League life -- opting instead for a job as a website designer and a passel of unpedigreed pals. Now her good friend Molly O'Brien is in bad trouble, accused of killing her boss at the local restaurant "Jugs." Though no proper deb would ever set foot in such a sleazy dive, Andy's soon slipping into skintight hot pants and a stuffed triple-D bra to gain employment there and somehow help clear Molly's name. But Andy's undercover lark is soon bringing her into too-close contact with all manner of dangerous adversaries -- including a shady TV preacher, a fanatical Mothers Against Porn activist ... and a killer who is none too keen on meddling rich girls.

Blue Blood

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Some pages are bent on the corners. Shows wear on the cover.  

Oklahoma

They call them "pretty parties," and they're the latest rage among Dallas debutantes—get-togethers with light refreshments, heavy gossip, and Dr. Sonja Madhavi and her magic Botox needles. Former socialite Andy Kendricks normally wouldn't be caught dead at such an event, but she's attending as a favor to her friend Janet, a society reporter in search of a juicy story. And boy does she find one when aging beauty queen Miranda DuBois bursts into the room—drunk, disorderly, and packing a pistol. Miranda's wrinkles have seen better days, and she blames it all on Dr. Madhavi. Luckily, Andy calms her down and gets her home to bed . . . where she's found dead the next morning. The police suspect suicide, but Andy knows that no former pageant girl would give up that easily. She's determined to find Miranda's killer herself, but she'll have to be careful. After all, Botox can make you look younger, but it can't bring you back from the grave.

Too Pretty to Die

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Pennsylvania

LAURA DELACROIX BELL—this dazzling trust fund girl’s size 14 figure doesn’t stop her from attracting the sexiest scoundrel in town, or the admiring eye of the Glass Slipper Club. However, a salacious secret could take her out of the running.

Michelle “Mac” Mackenzie—brainy, cynical, and maybe a tad judgmental, Mac would rather bury her nose in a good book than embrace her deb destiny. But being a debutante was her late mother’s dream.

Ginger Fore—this adorable tree-hugger wants to wear her grandmother’s vintage ball gown instead of splurging on an expensive dress. Yet when she gets tangled up with an older guy, Ginger will have plenty more to think about.

Jo-Lynn Bidwill—a former child beauty queen, Jo-Lynn is a bitchy vamp who makes it her mission in life to take out the debu-trash. And Jo-Lynn’s sights are set on Laura Bell.

The Debs

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Wisconsin





Meet three women who aren't about to run and hide, just because the world says they should be on the shelf and out of circulation:

Kat Maguire: her life seems perfect until she loses her high-powered advertising job and catches her live-in lover in a compromising position--with his computer!

Carla Moss: this sexy TV news anchor is in danger of being replaced by a twenty-something blond bimbo. Wasn't it just yesterday that she was the up and coming star

Elise Randolph: a married dermatologist, Elise thinks her plastic surgeon husband is playing doctor with someone else.

Kat firmly believes that aging gracefully isn't about giving up; it's about living life with your engine on overdrive. So this unofficial "Cougar Club" quickly learns three things about survival of the fittest in today's youth-obsessed society: true friendship never dies, the only way to live is real, and you're never too old to follow your heart.

The Cougar Club

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Iowa

Night of the Living Deb 

Some aging but still in great reading condition!

Missouri

The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club

#paperback #inthepink #susanmcbride #autographed #massmarketpaperback

South Dakota

How I Met the Perfect (Younger) Man, Survived Breast Cancer, and Found True Happiness After 40

Susan McBride, author of The Cougar Club and Little Black Dress, opens her heart in this irresistible memoir about how she got married, got pregnant, and beat breast cancer--all after her 40th birthday. By turns deliciously funny and utterly poignant, In the Pink is definitely Susan's story . . . but her experiences are parts of every woman's journey.

In the Pink

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Someone old, someone cruel

Debutante dropout Andrea Kendricks is beyond done with big hair, big gowns, and big egos--so being dragged to a high-society Texas wedding by her socialite mama, Cissy, gives her a bad case of déjà vu. As does running into her old prep-school bully, Olivia La Belle, the wedding planner, who's graduated to berating people for a living on her reality TV show. But for all the times Andy wished her dead, nobody deserves Olivia's fate: lying in a pool of blood, a cake knife in her throat--but did the angry baker do it?

Millicent Draper, the grandmotherly owner of Millie's Cakes, swears she's innocent, and Andy believes her. Unfortunately, the cops don't. Though Andy's fiancé, lawyer Brian Malone, is handling Millie's case, she's determined to spring Millie herself. But where to start? "La Belle from Hell" had enemies galore. Good thing Andy has a BFF who's a reporter-- and a blue-blood mother who likes to pull strings.

Say Yes to the Death

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New Jersey

A Novel (Ex-library)

#paperback #romance #contemporaryromance #fiction #domesticfiction #bestsellingauthor #mcbride #susanmcbride #novel 

California

Detective Jo Larsen must face her haunted memories of childhood as she investigates the apparent suicide of a high school sophmore. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Maryland

Walk a Crooked Line

New York

It Happened One Christmas by Susan Wiggs\Nancy Warren\Jule McBride released on Oct 24, 2003 is available now for purchase.

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