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  The Collector

  Anne Mette Hancock

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  When ten-year-old Lukas disappears from his Copenhagen school, police investigators discover that the boy had a peculiar obsession with pareidolia: a phenomenon that makes him see faces in random things. A photo on his phone, posted just hours before his disappearance, shows an old barn door that resembles a face. Journalist Heloise Kaldan thinks she recognizes the barn—but from where? When Lukas’s blood-flecked jacket is found in the moat at Copenhagen’s Citadel, DNA evidence points to Thomas Strand, a former soldier suffering from severe PTSD. But then Strand turns up dead in his apartment, shot in the head execution style. What did the last person to see Lukas really witness that morning in the school yard? Was it really Lukas, or was it an optical illusion? Can you ever truly trust your eyes?

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  Don't Go Home - Chief Inspector...

  Jay Gill

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  LOCAL POLICE SAY SHE’S A RUNAWAY. 
   
  BUT YOU KNOW YOUR DAUGHTER, SHE WOULDN’T DO THAT. 
   
  SHE MUST BE IN TROUBLE. 
   
  DESPERATE. You frantically search for her. Asking strangers around town if they’ve seen her… your precious daughter. All you need is a glimmer of hope that she’s safe. 
   
  When teenager Leanne Churcher stormed out from the family home after another clash with her mother, she went to stay with a friend. She’d left the family home under a cloud before; after a day or two she always came home. Always. She usually just needed some time to cool off. After all, teenagers can be like that. Right? 
   
  When after a few days she didn’t return, and no trace of her can be found, the family begin to panic. The police assume she’s an angry teenager whose run away. Why wouldn’t they? There's no evidence to suggest foul play of any kind. 
   
  Adam Churcher knows his daughter wouldn’t run away. He investigates her disappearance himself. After all, who can you turn to when the police won’t help? 
   
  But when Adam starts to uncover the truth nobody believes him, not even his wife. Suddenly the focus is on him and he feels helpless and ill-equipped to handle the pressure. 
   
  He needs a helping hand from retired Chief Inspector Hardy. Will Hardy take seriously what Adam has learned of Leanne's disappearance? 
   
  DON’T GO HOME: a twisty and engrossing Chief Inspector Hardy story. Follow how one father’s self-belief and determination uncovered the truth surrounding his daughter’s disappearance.

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  A Quiet Man with a Gun - A...

  Bright Mills

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  Esther was born in the shadows of Rio de Janeiro's underbelly a place where innocence dies young and survival is the only virtue. Trapped in a life of prostitution to feed her sick parents and herself, she learned early how to wear a smile that hid hunger, and how to lie without blinking. Then came the American quiet, rich, powerful. A man with secrets of his own and a strange kindness she didn't expect. He took her away, out of the streets and into a mansion half a world away. She became his wife. A fairy tale? Maybe. But Esther never forgot where she came from or how fast everything could be taken away. Wealth changed her, but not enough. It wasn't love that kept her in that house it was the money. And one day, she decided she wanted it all. With cold precision, she executed a plan: one bullet, no witnesses, no mistakes. But the man she killed had a mother a quiet woman with steel in her spine and grief sharper than a blade. For three years, she moved in silence, gathering evidence, watching, waiting. No badge. No backup. Just vengeance. When the truth cracked open, it wasn't the police who found Esther it was the mother. And in the end, justice came not with a gun, but with a sentence: life behind bars. No mansion. No freedom. Just the weight of her choices. A Quiet Man with a Gun is a gritty, slow-burning noir thriller about lust, betrayal, and the long reach of justice. It's a story of a woman who thought she could outsmart fate and a mother who proved otherwise.

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  Plot Counterplot

  William Bernhardt

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  He writes gunfights and ticking time bombs. But when he’s kidnapped and forced to plan a real-world crime, every plot twist will be explosive… 
  Dylan Taggart channels his demons through the keyboard. Knocked around by a father who believed weakness was failure, the bestselling suspense author grabs a measure of peace in his gorgeous girlfriend’s arms. But he sees fiction come horrifyingly to life when masked fanatics break in demanding he put his brilliant mind to work and help them steal a secret military super-weapon. 
  Dylan tries to refuse, but his resolve shatters when they leave his lover for dead and punish him mercilessly. Torn between terror and grief, he starts writing the heist scheme as ordered…while feverishly building a cunningly disguised sabotage. 
  Can this tortured artist use his own ingenious plotting skills to prevent the death of millions? 
  Plot/Counterplot is a fast-paced standalone thriller. If you like resourceful characters, intense drama, and endless surprises, then you’ll adore William Bernhardt’s clever caper. 
  “A man on the run... a woman on the run... in a thriller that hits the ground running... then running faster... then absolutely flying. And you're flying, too, flying through the pages with one of the masters of the modern thriller at the controls. William Bernhardt knows when to soar and when to dive, when to make you sweat and when to let you breathe, when to throw this flying machine into a barrel roll that will absolutely shock you and when to bring you home safe and satisfied. A terrific entertainment.” -- William Martin, New York Times-Bestselling Author of The Lincoln Letter and December '41  

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  Two Sisters

  Lorna Henderson

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  Sisters are meant to look after each other. But Josie and I have secrets. Just like our mother did. 
   
   
   
  My husband and I have moved back into my childhood home: a pretty stone cottage by the sea. Our two kids love the huge garden and the views are breathtaking. The renovations will probably cost twice what they said, but I know it'll be amazing in the end. 
   
   
   
  I'm baking a cake when the builder calls me over. 'We've found something.' 
   
   
   
  'What do you mean?' 
   
   
   
  'Bones,' he says. 'You've got bones buried at the bottom of your garden.' 
   
   
   
  The first person I call is my sister Josie. She'll know what to do. We've been there for each other ever since our mother walked out more than twenty years ago. We were just children. The only contact we had was a card on our birthdays—but they suddenly stopped when we reached the age of twenty-one. 
   
   
   
  We ask our father about the bones. What he tells us will shatter everything I thought I knew about my family.

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  Syndrome

  Thomas Hoover

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  When the promise of eternal youth collides with untested science, how far would you go to live forever? 
  At a secretive medical institute, cutting-edge stem cell therapies offer hope of reversing aging itself. But as powerful elites line up for a chance at immortality, the experimental treatments reveal chilling side effects. 
  Alexa Hampton only wanted to extend her life. Now she’s fighting to hold on to her memories, her identity, and her very humanity. Across the country, journalist Stone Aimes races to expose the truth behind the institute’s astonishing breakthroughs before it’s too late. 
  What does it mean to be human when science can rebuild you from the inside out? 
  Perfect for fans of Michael Crichton and Robin Cook, Syndrome is a gripping medical thriller that blends real science with heart-pounding suspense.

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