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61) The Nurse
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Nell Sweeney has led an ordinary life. Every day she walks to and from the hospital where she works as a nurse, believing that no harm can befall her. Until one day she is taken. Because someone out there has a secret. Someone out there has been watching Nell - and they've been watching others like her too. Nell is the unlucky one - she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. And if she isn't found soon, someone will make sure that she isn't the...
62) The Thicket
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Writing partners Jane and her cousin TJ have carved out lives for themselves amidst the skyscrapers of Chicago, a far cry from their isolated hometown of Ketchum. Neither has returned since the night TJ's first crush, Evie, disappeared into the woods in a flash of amber light. Along with Jane's childhood friend-turned-stalker, Lincoln, they were the last people to see her alive. When TJ's writer's block threatens both their careers, they agree to...
63) Scar Tissue
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Every battle leaves its mark...
Ex-Special Forces soldier Alex Abbott escaped the Middle East under a cloud and now lives hand-to-mouth in Singapore. Scraping a living as a gun for hire and estranged from his family, Abbott is haunted by ghosts of the past, drinking to dull the pain. Life's tough, but there is one upside - at least he's not in Baghdad.
That's about to change.
When a job goes badly wrong, Abbott's in hot water. Next he learns that...
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Ihr Schweigen könnte tödlich sein.
Nachdem Faith überfallen und entführt wurde, gelingt ihr die Flucht. Die Polizei in Oxford braucht dringend ihre Hilfe, um den Entführer zu fassen, zumal es scheint, als würde das Mädchen ihn kennen. Doch das Mädchen ist nicht bereit zu helfen und spielt das Ereignis herunter. DI Adam Fawleys Ermittlungen stecken in einer Sackgasse. Als ein weiteres Mädchen unter den gleichen Umständen verschwindet, erkennt...
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Winner of the Ladies of Horror Fiction Award for Best Novella of 2020
"Can you hear the bell chime?"
A girl suffering from paralyzing night terrors finds a missing poster hanging from the door of her apartment building. On that poster is a photograph of a frighteningly familiar face.
It's her.
Only, she's never seen this photo before and something about its grin scares her. How its eyes seem to follow her no matter where she finds herself in the...
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Emma's husband is in prison.Emma's husband claims he is innocent.Emma's husband is a liar. And he's not done with her yet… ' Loved it!' NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'This book is ! I . It is so well written – you can feel the tension, the anxiety, the need to walk on eggshells. ' NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Thrilling, tense and amazingly paced' NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A … had me and ' NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐...
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Richard Knox has done his time and seen the error of his ways. He wants to leave his dark past behind, so why shouldn't he be allowed to live wherever he wants? Detective Sergeant Logan McRae isn't thrilled about having to help a violent rapist settle into Aberdeen. Even worse, he's stuck with the man who put Knox behind bars, DSI Danby, supposedly to 'keep an eye on things'. Only things are about to go very, very wrong. Edinburgh gangster Malk the...
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Leigh Brody returns to her hometown when a body is found marked with her name. Will it give her the chance to solve a mystery that has shadowed her life for years?
It's been twenty years since Leigh found the murdered body of her twelve-year-old brother, Troy. Her father was arrested for the crime, but she never accepted that he did it. Her hunt for the real killer almost cost her everything…
Now working for the FBI, Leigh is called back to...
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'Oh My GOD. What is this book?? I could not put it down!… Kept me up until the wee hours! Read this!' LauraReviews88, ?????
She came back on the day of her father's funeral, ten years after she vanished. But she can't be who she says she is…
When Blake disappeared as a teenager, on a cold dark night, her father never reported her missing. She is presumed dead.
Now, ten years later, a young woman with white-blonde hair sits comfortably...
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Five years ago his daughter, Rebecca, went missing on the eve of her thirteenth birthday. A year later the first card arrived: home-made, with a Polaroid picture stuck to the front – Rebecca, strapped to a chair, gagged and terrified. Every year another card: each one worse than the last. The tabloids call him 'The Birthday Boy'. He's been snatching girls for twelve years, always just before their thirteenth birthday, killing them slowly, then torturing...
71) Laws of Wrath
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Chinatown, New York - The butchered body of a transvestite is found in a dumpster. Nothing out of the ordinary for NYPD, except the victim just so happens to be the brother of Detective Phee Freeman. At first the slaying looks like the random act of a vicious killer, but when it is discovered that there are similar ritualistic murders throughout the city, Phee and his partner Quincy Cavanaugh, along with FBI Agent Janet Maclin, have no choice but...
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Insel in blutroten Wellen
Blutspuren führen die Treppe zu Börje Bohmans Haus hinauf, dem einzig verbliebenen auf der neuen Radwegstrecke hinunter in den Ort. Doch der sturköpfige Besitzer, der dem Bauprojekt partout nicht weichen will, ist spurlos verschwunden. Aber was hat das Verschwinden eines alten Mannes mit dem Fund eines Babys in einem fremden Kinderwagen zu tun? Die hochschwangere Ermittlerin Anna Glad ahnt nicht, welch düstere Geheimnisse...
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Prominent Beverly Hills dermatologist Dr. Selene Marks makes people beautiful for a living-until the day she doesn't.
After a botched procedure leaves a young female patient permanently disfigured, Dr. Marks's pristine facade begins to crack. With a malpractice suit pending and her personal life in ruins, it makes sense that Selene is desperate for a reprieve. Only when she doesn't show for work one day-no call, no note-colleagues quickly realize...
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I just wanted a place where we could get away from it all. But coming here was one of the worst mistakes of my life . . .
After the year Aidan and I have had, we needed some respite. My husband is overworked, whilst I'm anxious about the past, so renting a night at this converted barn house in the countryside seems like the perfect place for the pair of us to relax and unwind. It might be situated at the bottom of a large garden, but it's private...
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Saffron vowed to love Miles no matter what life threw at them both. But when her mother-in-law moves into their happy family home, Saffron's shiny life begins to tarnish. Even as Caprice's barbed comments turn to something more sinister, Saffron hopes the new nanny's arrival will shield her from the worst of it. She's starting to feel paranoid in her own home. Little does she realize that Caprice longs for a new daughter-in-law, and she'll do anything...
76) Primary Storm
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In a world of political deception, one man must uncover the truth in order to expose an unfolding conspiracy... and save his own life.
When shots ring out at a political rally, retired Department of Defense analyst and local columnist Lewis Cole becomes the prime suspect in an assassination attempt, forcing him to race against time to clear his name and expose the real shooter. With the Secret Service on his tail and a relentless stalker lurking...
77) 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...
78) Talaya
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The next step...
For Talaya, the past ten months have been a roller coaster of emotions-fear, grief, joy, love. She's not sure which ones are simply frequent visitors or which are the reality she can hold onto. All she knows for certain is that she wants Ridge, for however long fate allows.
Keeping promises...
For Ridge, turmoil and influx aren't new. Waking up every morning to a gorgeous headstrong woman in his bed, though-well, that's something...
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When an anonymous tip-off leads detectives and to the sprawling Salinger estate, Nikki's senses are on high alert. The brutal murder of all four members of the Salinger family has shocked the sleepy Bradford village to the core. A mother, father, daughter, and son. . . all killed in exactly the same way – whilst sat around the coffee table, playing a game of Monopoly. But Nikki notices that there are five pieces on the board. One of the players...
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When DCI Lesley Clarke suffers an injury and is told to relocate from Birmingham to rural Dorset, she's expecting some peace and quiet. But before she even starts her new job, she witnesses a murder at the iconic Corfe Castle.
Lesley must get to know her new team, learn a new patch, and solve the mystery. What's more, team are mourning the loss of her predecessor, DCI Tim Mackie, who allegedly committed suicide. But was Mackie's death suspicious?...
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