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'A darkly compelling thriller that's almost impossible to put down after reading the first page' The entire nation is of bigamist Kylie Gillingham's disappearance. Being married to two different men was a huge risk. But did she run away or was she taken? And is she dead or alive? insist she was their everything, until she vanished.But DC Clements knows love is a shiver away from hate and either can make people do the cruellest things. Only one person...
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On the death of her aunt, returns once more to Gwyn's home on the remote island of Anglesey, Wales, with young daughter in tow. Lowri hadn't seen her aunt in years, but this beautiful island offers a fresh start. Yet right away, strange things begin to happen. Ruby insists an old woman is visiting her when no one else is watching, and a tattered old doll keeps being left for Ruby to find. Then Ruby goes missing. Desperately seeking answers no one...
3) The Twenty
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'Some authors spook you. Some authors unnerve me. Very few authors frighten you - but very few authors are Sam Holland. is smart and brooding, icepick-sharp and shadow-dark; best of all, though, it's scary as hell. Think you're tough? Pick up this novel and prove it'AJ Finn, author of 'Bodies (lots of them), grisly crime-scenes pored over by complex characters with even more complex relationships. What's not to love? With Sam Holland establishes herself...
4) In the Dark
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'Wow! A stunning, nerve-wracking read. So well plotted with so many twists and turns…it kept me guessing until the very last page!' – Bestselling author My name is Nora Logue. You've probably heard of me – most people have. I am the mother of Daisy Logue. Seven years ago, I took her for a walk in the woods. Only I came out. I have no memory of what happened that day. I have tried to rebuild my life. Met a man, had another child – Luca. But...
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Das Geheimnis kann dich zerstören - und alles, was du liebst.
Nachdem Becca von ihrem Mann verlassen wurde, nimmt sie einen weiteren Job in einem Restaurant an, um über die Runden zu kommen. Während sie nachts arbeitet, sind ihre Kinder Rosie und Alex alleine zu Hause. Dann trifft Becca auf Maddy, der es noch viel schlechter geht. Maddy hat alles verloren und etwas so traumatisches erlebt, dass sie nicht darüber sprechen kann. Und Becca beschließt,...
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SI ENTRAS EN ESTE LABERINTO LITERARIO, NO PODRÁS SALIR HASTA LEER LA ÚLTIMA PÁGINA.
«Hay verdades que nunca deberían salir a la luz».
Emily Hayes despierta aturdida junto a su hijo de cuatro años en el sofá de un amplio y confortable sótano.
Recuerda haberse desvelado en plena noche y luego sentir un pinchazo en el cuello; después, abrir los ojos
en aquella extraña vivienda.
Las ventanas están tapiadas.
La puerta de salida, al final...
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I am waiting for someone to kill me. Tonight would be a good night for it.
Agent Seventeen, the most infamous hit man in the world, has quit. But whoever wants to become Assassin Eighteen must track him down and kill him first. So, when a bullet hits the glass inches from his face, he knows who fired it—doesn't he?
It turns out that the sniper isn't the hardened killer he was expecting. It's Mireille—a mysterious silent child abandoned in the...
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When local college student, Jaden Pierce, disappears one night playing "Manhunt in the Woods" with his fraternity brothers, Nicole, an empathetic stay-at-home mom living a blissful life, joins the search party.
Combing through the wooded area, Nicole unearths her son Kyle's license and withholds this potential piece of evidence. She trusts him, but a sliver of doubt festers below the surface, thanks to one unresolved incident from middle school and...
9) Twisted
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A family under constant scrutiny from both the police and the press as a fifteen year old goes missing after a sleepover with a friend; a marriage at breaking point; a father who has seemingly lied about his alibi; and a detective feeling the pressure to deliver an arrest, are thrust together to make for yet another incredibly intricate and dark thriller from Lynda La Plante.
Note: this novel contains themes of sexual abuse and self harm.
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An introverted English professor's quiet life gets turned upside down when he falls for a dangerous, enigmatic sophomore.
Mark Lausson has everything he thought he wanted: a coveted job at elite Sawyer College in Ohio. But at the start of his second year, stuck in a small town with deadlines piling up and paychecks falling short, Mark can already feel the fantasy crumbling. And then, a few weeks in, sophomore Tyler Cunningham shows up in class. In...
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Stranded in the Welsh mountains, seven reality show contestants have no idea what they've signed up for. Each of these strangers has a secret. If another player can guess the truth, they won't just be eliminated - they'll be exposed live on air. The disappearance of a contestant wasn't supposed to be part of the drama. Detective Ffion Morgan has to put aside what she's watched on screen, and find out who these people really are - knowing she can't...
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Are all lives worth saving?
Ronin Alexander's heart stops beating, but paramedics bring him back to life.
A life as a ski patroller.
An opportunity to pay it forward.
A chance to meet Evelyn Taylor at a cafe in Vancouver.
He falls hard and fast for the bath shop owner. Evelyn brings him into her world-a world where her two best friends are getting married.
A world of wealth and politics.
A world of sex and lies where the lines between friendship...
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"At once a hugely atmospheric and suspenseful mystery and a compelling exploration of motherhood and belonging that packs a profound emotional punch. I couldn't stop thinking about this book." - Lucy Foley, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Apartment
An evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two very different women-from the New York Times bestselling author of Searching for...
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'An plot, a cast of character, and twists and turns that to the last page, loved it!' Amanda Reynolds One spring morning, a bus full of children and their teachers from a Cotswolds primary school head off on a much-anticipated day trip. But as night falls and the well-heeled parents – one or two of them famous, as well as wealthy – wait at the school to collect their weary offspring, it soon becomes clear that something has gone very wrong. The...
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Sex. Lies. Revenge.
On the heels of a devastating loss, Evelyn fights to put her life back together.
Only...part of her husband belongs to another woman, and the devil owns her soul.
"If you tell her the lie, I will tell her the truth."
When her best friend goes to great lengths to protect Evelyn from destruction and devastation, mistakes are made, lines are crossed, and all trust is shattered.
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She walked through the cabin, across the gleaming hardwood floor, past the beautiful fireplace and luxury kitchen. The view overlooking the lake was breathtaking until she stepped outside and saw the lifeless body in the chair—a silk scarf wrapped tightly around his throat, his gray eyes wide open.
FBI Agent Susan Parker's fun afternoon go-karting with her daughter is interrupted when she's called to the crime scene of a wealthy local man murdered...
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It's been over forty years since they were released from the "Hanoi Hilton"-a prisoner of war camp in Vietnam-and three American soldiers and ex-prisoners finally return to Vietnam. As part of an effort by the US government to settle a major trade agreement, these three men have agreed to make peace with one of their most brutal former captors-a guard they dubbed "Mr. Wonderful." But when Mr. Wonderful is murdered, the three former POWs are the primary...
18) Hot Start
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The next fast-paced installment in the Cordell Logan series, “Hot Start” is an adrenaline-fueled, action-packed thrill ride.
One sweltering summer night, a notorious, international big-game hunter and his beautiful wife are shot dead-at long range-while swimming naked at their seaside estate in Rancho Bonita, California. The police are convinced the perpetrator is an outspoken animal-rights activist-who happens to have both military experience...
19) The Kill Circle
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Overflowing with action and humor, The Kill Circle is the next must-read page turning thriller in the critically acclaimed Cordell Logan mystery series.
When one retired CIA analyst plunges off a cliff in his vintage Porsche, it's an unfortunate accident. When a second and then a third turn up dead under unusual circumstances, the CIA's suspicions are confirmed: these men were murdered. All three analysts were once assigned to the same top-secret...
20) Voodoo Ridge
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Back in 1956, a cargo plane left a small airport outside Los Angeles and flew straight into a raging storm, never to be seen again. Sixty some years later, retired military assassin and would-be Buddhist Cordell Logan catches sight of something as he and his fiancé Savannah are flying over the Sierra Nevada Mountains. That tiny plane and its mysterious cargo have finally been found.
The planned trip to Lake Tahoe is thrown off when Logan is asked...
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