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Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York City when they receive life-changing news: Chad's late uncle has left them his luxury apartment at the historic Windermere in glamorous Murray Hill. With its prewar elegance and impeccably uniformed doorman, the building is the epitome of old New York charm. One would almost never suspect the dark history lurking behind its perfectly maintained facade. At first, the building and its eclectic...
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"Iris Walsh saw her twin sister, Piper, get kidnapped--so why does no one believe her? Iris narrowly escaped her pretty, popular twin sister's fate as a teen: kidnapped, trafficked and long gone before the cops agreed to investigate. With no evidence to go on but a few scattered memories, the case quickly goes cold. Now an adult, Iris wants one thing--proof. And if the police still won't help, she'll just have to find it her own way; by interning...
3) The hunter
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"It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places....
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Single mother and full-time nurse Meghan Michaels, when it is revealed her patient with a traumatic brain injury didn't jump from a bridge but was pushed, mistakenly lets herself get too close to the case, realizing she and her daughter could be the next victims.
5) The Delusion
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Don't believe everything you read on the internet. It'll drive you crazy. Literally.Hotel ballroom lights flicker as the University of Baltimore announces the winner of this year's Tiberian Research Award in Psychology. Years of toil and sacrifice weigh on Emma's shoulders. Years of enduring her professor's unearthly demands. Years of researching mass persuasion on the internet late into the night, living in a single-bedroom apartment on campus while...
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Conn Whitman's long-distance swims keep him centered and sane-until a terrifying underwater encounter in a woodland lake plunges him into the middle of a murder investigation.
Once a superstar investigative reporter, disgraced by misconduct, Conn returned to his Vermont hometown to put his life back together. Now, after ten years covering local news, he knows his community like nobody else. When he kicks a submerged object while swimming-something...
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Trust no-one - not even yourself...
'I think I might have done something bad. Last Friday.'
When a bomb explodes outside the Royal Academy of Ballet in the heart of London, the police initially suspect a terrorist group. But the pieces don't fit and DCI Silver is struggling to find any suspects.
Still recovering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after a terrible tragedy, Claudie fears that her recent black-outs are a sign that her symptoms are...
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"Look to Washington. Look to Moscow. Zebra One. Zebra Two." These cryptic words, whispered on a dark Moscow street, lead one-time CIA "golden boy" David McAllister on a desperate quest for the truth. Hunted by KGB and CIA alike, McAllister must decipher the riddle in order to unravel an espionage plot so vast that the Free World's fate hangs in the balance-and to prove his own innocence. And he's running out of time . . .
At the Publisher's request,...
9) Dystopia
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Dystopia' is a high-octane political thriller set during the UK's Brexit referendum, with an intriguing love story that enthrals up to its climactic ending. Ellis has the right degree, family, connections - and a great pad in Brighton. But he's in with the wrong crowd - a notorious DJ and the beautiful yet enigmatic Madeleine who has a hold over him from the moment they meet. When Ellis becomes prime suspect in the murder of a model, he escapes by...
10) East End Honour
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Jason Frasier grew up in the East End of London and was always told to look out for his younger brother. He did this willingly and could never see in Vincent what others could see, that he was a thoroughly nasty piece of work. The brothers were as different as chalk and cheese. Vincent had a nasty jealous streak and what he wanted he usually got, even if it was at the expense of his beloved brother. Vincent had a knack of dragging Jason into his dodgy...
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"As much a mind game as it is thriller, a scientific puzzle buried in a murder mystery, all set against the surreal world of Hollywood filmmaking. . . . I can't wait for the next book!"-James Rollins
Acclaimed mystery writer Neil McMahon, coauthor of the James Patterson thriller Toys, delivers a fast-paced psychological thriller from the heart of a city gone insane: America's myth-making capital, Los Angeles, has become a bedlam of murder, drugs,...
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The groundbreaking thriller trilogy taking the world by storm: a deadly game that blurs the line between reality and fiction. Join Henrik "HP" Petterson in the thrilling world of the Game! This special bundle includes all three books in Anders de la Motte's Game Trilogy: Game, Buzz, and Bubble. In Game, Henrik "HP" Petterson, a slacker with a big ego and no impulse control, finds a cellphone that invites him to play a mysterious, high-stakes game....
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Former CIA undercover operative Chase Brandon takes us deep into the mystery of Cryptos, a work of art containing a seemingly uncrackable code, in The Cryptos Conundrum.
A fifteen-foot-tall steel sculpture stands in the courtyard of the Central Intelligence Agency, emblazoned with a message that no one can decipher. The three-inch-high letters on the sculpture form a coded message that is central to the survival of mankind--a message hidden in plain...
14) Alligator Allan
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an abused man who turns into a badass on the run from the law in Louisiana. Based on the song Amos Moses.
15) Maelstrom
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In the tense atmosphere of the Cold War, John Fisher, a laid-back Australian, lands a job with a shipping line in Rotterdam, blissfully unaware of the concealed financial and political schemes harboured by some of his new friends and colleagues. He soon finds himself entangled in an international scandal involving influential entities, facing relentless pressure from various quarters.
Navigating the challenges of dealing with intoxicated ship captains,...
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Silver Medal Winner for best terrorist thriller in the 2013 Readers' Favorite Annual International Award Contest.Imagine a couple young hacktivists, both former members of the internet freedom fighters group Anonymous, and one of them an ex-black ops officer, breaking away and creating a militant group of anarchists committed to social change. But social change precipitated by acts of violence against CEOs of major corporations responsible for crimes...
17) Looking Back
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Fear is only the beginning.Rena's mother left her a roadmap to freedom. This is the beginning of a story of disappearance, built on bravery and hard choices.Book One in a three part series, formerly published in part as Borderlines.
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Atemberaubender und spannender Psychothriller:
Helen Toussaint scheint als Ehefrau eines erfolgreichen Rechtsanwaltes das perfekte Leben zu führen. Sie ist jung, attraktiv und wohnt mit ihrem Mann Nick und den zwei kleinen Kindern in einem schönen Haus. Doch als Nick Toussaint den zwielichtigen arabischen Geschäftsmann und vermeintlichen Geldgeber eines Terrornetzwerkes, Ahmed Al Shain, erfolgreich vertritt, ändert sich ihr Leben schlagartig.
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19) Never Forever
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As it becomes more apparent that Conner represents only the tip of the iceberg, Dana comes under increasing pressue to solve the mysetery of Conner's past. Drawing upon the assistance from her partner, Tobias, Conner's psychiatrist, Dr Coemen, and her motley collection of neighbours and friends, Dana realises that she may be the key to preventing a murderous spree of supernatural origins.Combining elements of drama, crime and the supernatural, Never...
20) Escape
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When Michael Rorke, a talented yet self-absorbed author, meets his untimely end in an accident, he awakens as a wanderer – a spirit caught between worlds, unsure of what afterlife, be it blissful or grim, lies ahead. In this liminal state, he is unable to return to the living and faces an uncertain path forward.
This twilight world is fraught with dangers, teeming with predators that prey on spirits like him. Michael's urgent quest for resolution...
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