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The Guest – B A Paris
Characters you won’t like, doing things you can’t fathom, for reasons you wouldn’t contemplate. It’s genius. Iris and Gabriel have just got home from a make-or-break holiday. But a shock awaits them. One of their dearest friends, Laure, is in their house – sleeping in their bed, wearing Iris’ clothes, even rearranging the furniture. She Read more
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Twenty-Seven Minutes – Ashley Tate
A claustrophobic small town, the indelible impression of tragedy and the legacy of unanswered questions, you’ll be consumed with finding out what happened. The question For the last ten years, the small, claustrophobic town of West Wilmer has been struggling to understand one thing: Why did it take young Grant Dean twenty-seven minutes to call Read more
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The Girl On The News – Elisabeth Carpenter
This one genuinely caught me unaware with its reveal. My heart pounds as I take in the headline: ‘Missing girl believed kidnapped’. Underneath is a photo of my beautiful daughter Mia, her gap-toothed grin unmistakable. But Mia is safe beside me, snuggled up on the sofa. Why would someone pretend my child has been taken? Read more
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Helle and Death – Oskar Jensen
Not one wasted opportunity to de-rail the reader and a denouement to die for! Puzzling escapism at its best A snowstorm. A country house. Old friends reunited. It’s going to be murder… Torben Helle – art historian, Danish ex-pat and owner of several excellent Scandinavian jumpers – finds himself dragged to a remote snowbound Northumbrian Read more
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