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Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all - a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby. But one night when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. Suspicion immediately focuses on the parents. But the truth is a much more complicated story. Inside the curtained house, an unsettling account of what actually happened unfolds.
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What should have been a fun-filled day takes a tragic turn for one mother when her best friend's child goes missing in this "seriously page-turning" (Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author), suspenseful, and darkly twisted psychological thriller.
Charlotte was supposed to be looking after the children, and she swears she was. But while her three kids are all safe and sound at the school fair, Alice, her best friend Harriet's...
Charlotte was supposed to be looking after the children, and she swears she was. But while her three kids are all safe and sound at the school fair, Alice, her best friend Harriet's...
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A young boy fond of telling outlandish tales disappears and the search for him sets off a series of events leading to a murder, a crime, a betrayal, and the involvement of a poet. Meanwhile, Chief Inspector Gamache is worried that his disbelief of the boy has played a part in what happens.
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Janie Johnson volume 1
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A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.
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Wayward children volume 1
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Sent away to a home for children who have tumbled into fantastical other worlds and are looking for ways to return, Nancy trigers dark changes among her fellow schoolmates and resolves to expose the truth when a child dies under suspicious magical circumstances.
11) Stone bridges
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Swift River Valley novels volume 9
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Adrienne moves to Knights Bridge to take a job as an innkeeper. When three boys go missing in the wilderness Adam Sloan leads the search to find them. As Adrienne and Adam spend time together over the summer they develop a strong attraction to one another.
12) Together forever
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Orphan train novels (Jody Hedlund) volume 2
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Marianne Neumann became a placing agent with the Children's Aid Society with one goal: to find her lost sister. Her fellow agent, Andrew Brady, is a former schoolteacher with a way with children and a hidden past. As they team up placing orphans in homes in Illinois, they grow ever closer . . . until a shocking tragedy changes one of their lives forever.
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When a six-year-old girl disappears and calling the police isn't an option, her desperate mother, Pernilla, turns to an unlikely source for help. She finds a cryptic ad online for a private investigator: "Need help, but can't contact the police?" That's where Kouplan comes in. He's an Iranian refugee living in hiding. He was forced to leave Iran after news of his and his brother's involvement with a radical newspaper hated by the regime was discovered....
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Everyone in Ashford, Cornwall, knows Meg Nichols and her daughter, Grace. Meg has been selflessly caring for Grace for years, and Grace, smiling and optimistic in spite of her many illnesses, adores her mother. So when Meg is found brutally bludgeoned in her bed and her daughter missing, the community is rocked.
17) The leaving
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"Six kindergarteners were taken. Eleven years later, five come back--with no idea of where they've been. No one remembers the sixth victim, Max. Avery, Max's sister, needs to find her brother--dead or alive--and isn't buying this whole memory-loss story"--Provided by publisher.
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Tikka Molloy was eleven and one-sixth years old during the long hot summer of 1992, the summer the Van Apfel sisters - Hannah, beautiful Cordelia and Ruth - vanished during the school's Showstopper concert, mysteriously disappearing from the amphitheatre by the river into the surrounding bushland. Now, years later, Tikka has returned home to try and make sense of the summer that shaped her, and the girls that she never forgot.
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