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  The Quiet - In A Silenced World...

  Barnaby Martin

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  Read by Annabel Scholey, known for her roles in the BAFTA-winning The Sixth Commandment, The Split, and Rivals.This audiobook is accompanied in part by a spine-tingling yet euphoric soundscape, composed by the author, Barnaby Martin, and also includes a fascinating audio-exclusive Q&A between himself and Annabel.‘Riveting. Martin weaves an inspired premise into an engrossing and wholly original adventure.’ – Ernest Cline, author of Ready Player One'An intellectually compelling, emotional and timely read. Martin has taken a motif of dystopian writing and films – a single parent and child – and has reworked it within a fresh landscape. The Quiet is a feat of writing that foregrounds the value of kindness and communication in a world bent on segregation and misinformation.' – The Bookseller* * *A mother's love can be deafening . . .Isaac is Hannah’s entire world. She knows that her son is gifted, and that those gifts make him vulnerable. To keep him safe, she spends every waking moment by his side. If she lets her guard down, lets him out of her sight, lets him show what he’s capable of, he will be taken from her.When the Soundfield arrived twenty years ago, the world changed with it. Now, people are forced to live at night due to the deadly heat of the day, food and water are scarce, and everyday life is punctuated by the constant and disconcerting hum from the Field. A brilliant scientist, Hannah spent her early career working on the enigma of the Soundfield, looking for answers; now, resigned, she has focussed all her energies on keeping Isaac living, not just alive.To do so, she will have to lie to the people she knows and hope she can trust the ones she doesn't. Because the only thing more dangerous than her lies, is the truth of what she has done.* * *'As fascinating as it was terrifying.' – Holly Seddon, author of The Woman on the Bridge''The Quiet took my breath away. gripping, fiercely intelligent and quietly heartbreaking. I will think of Isaac for a long time to come' – Emma Kavanagh, author of To Catch A Killer 'A clever and unique dystopian premise, this was spare and tense, gripping and heartbreaking' – Louise Swanson, author of End of Story

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  Scars

  Dan Scottow

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  The wounds you can't see take the longest to heal in this modern gothic thriller from the bestselling author of Girl A and Damaged. 
   
   
    
  In an isolated cottage on the banks of a Scottish loch, a reclusive couple take on a new live-in carer. 
   
   
    
  As Lucy gets to know her employers, she realizes the house and the people in it aren't what they seem. Is the house haunted or is something far more sinister living within the walls? 
   
   
    
  As secrets and lies begin to unravel, Lucy starts to question what is real. But one thing seems certain, if scars cannot heal, people will never forgive . . .

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  Skin Deep

  Theo Baxter

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  Marcy Kendrick is a cop with a body count. A successful detective in LAPD Homicide, she is infamous for one thing: killing three serial killers before they could be brought to trial. 
   
   
   
  Marcy knows her actions were in self-defense, but her coworkers can't help wondering if she is on some kind of vendetta—because Marcy's own mother was brutally murdered by a serial killer. Is this her way of getting payback? 
   
   
   
  Adding to the pressure on Marcy, her ex-husband, Jordan Brasswell, has just been promoted over her, and seems determined to keep her under a microscope. 
   
   
   
  Then a series of murders rocks the city. And this killer has the same MO as the man who murdered Marcy's mother. 
   
   
   
  As the best detective in the department, Marcy is assigned to the case—and immediately starts receiving disturbing messages. The killer taunts Marcy, promising more deaths and telling her that the two of them are very much alike. They're both murderers. 
   
   
   
  As the copycat killer continues to play mind games with Marcy, she realizes that it has to be someone close to her. Can Marcy catch the killer before another victim meets a grisly end? 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  The Eye of Apollo - Father Brown

  G.K. Chesterton

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  The tenth story in The Innocence of Father Brown is entitled “The Eye of Apollo.” At the beginning of this short story, Flambeau has just opened his detective agency in a new building located near Westminster Abbey. The other tenants in the building are a religious charlatan named Kalon, who claims to be “the New Priest of Apollo,” and two sisters, who are typists. Flambeau and Father Brown instinctively distrust Kalon, who has installed a huge eye of Apollo outside his office.

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  These Starcrossed Lives of Ours

  Megan Linski

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  USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Megan Linski weaves a dark contemporary romantic thriller of deception, mystery, and love. 
  My name is Christine, and I'm on the run from a cult that wants me dead. 
  Annabelle Lane is the cult’s cunning and venomous leader, who forced me to commit crimes that are unforgivable. Annabelle's threats aren't to be taken lightly, and everybody knows that once you're in the cult, you're in it for life.  
  After fleeing the cult and being attacked in the darkness of night, I’m rescued by a kind stranger named Ian. He takes me in, sheltering me from the cult within the safety of a small farm town called Merryton. Despite Ian’s attempts to win me over, I resist the pull of his love, and my own strong feelings for him. But Ian is willing to sacrifice everything to keep me alive, and I’m worried it’s going to get him killed. 
  ​Is falling for him worth losing everything? There's a mystery brewing in this sleepy little town, and the cult is trailing my every move. I’m certain that nobody crosses Annabelle without paying the ultimate price… 
  These Starcrossed Lives of Ours is a new adult crime novel full of unexpected twists. Set in a cozy small town, this standalone story features mystery, romance, and a shocking ending.

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  The Sinister Touch

  Jayne Castle

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  Art, magic, and money draw Guinevere Jones and Zac Justis into a provocative adventure from New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz writing as Jayne Castle.Guinevere Jones has her head turned by the handsome young artist across the way. And when his apartment is broken into and a painting defaced, she offers her help. Now, she and Zac—and his jealous nature—must confront a dark evil that will stop at nothing to achieve its unholy goal.

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