Lisa Jewell
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2021
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'Mum, there's some people here from college, they asked me back to theirs. Just for an hour or so. Is that OK?' Midsummer 2017: teenage mum Tallulah heads out on a date, leaving her baby son at home with her mother, Kim. At 11 p.m. she sends her mum a text message. At 4.30 a.m. Kim awakens to discover that Tallulah has not come home. Friends tell her that Tallulah was last seen heading to a pool party at a house in the woods nearby called Dark Place....
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A MISSING GIRL. A BURIED SECRET. She was fifteen, her mother's golden girl. She had her whole life ahead of her. And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie was gone. Ten years on, Laurel has never given up hope of finding Ellie. And then she meets a charming and charismatic stranger who sweeps her off her feet. But what really takes her breath away is when she meets his nine-year-old daughter. Because his daughter is the image of Ellie. Now all those...
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Meet the Bird family so far, all four children have had an idyllic childhood: a cottage in a country village with a warm cosy kitchen filled with love and laughter, and sun-drenched afternoons in its rambling garden. But a tragedy lies in store for the Birds: a tragedy that strikes one Easter weekend, and which is so devastating that, almost imperc
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London. June 2019, early morning: on the foreshore of the River Thames a bag of bones is discovered. Human bones. DCI Samuel Owusu quickly sends the bag for forensic examination. The bones are those of a young woman, killed by a blow to the head many years ago. Also inside the bag are the seeds of a rare tree which lead DCI Owusu to a mansion in Chelsea where, nearly 30 years previously, three people lay dead in a kitchen while a baby waited upstairs...
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2020
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London: it is nearly midnight and very cold. In a neglected area of urban wasteland, where cats hunt and foxes shriek, a girl is waiting ? When Saffyre Maddox was ten, something terrible happened and she?s carried the pain of it ever since. The man who she thought was going to heal her didn?t, and now she hides from him, invisible in the shadows, learning his secrets. Owen Pick is invisible too. He?s 33 years old and he?s never had a girlfriend. He?s...
10) The third wife
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London, 2011. In the early hours of a summer morning, a young woman is killed by a bus. A tragic accident? Or suicide? A year later, her devastated husband, Adrian Wolfe, is determined to find out. Adrian and Maya had only recently married, and he'd always believed they were happy together. His children from his two previous marriages loved her. An
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Cornerstone Digital
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2019
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Unabridged ed.
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FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THEN SHE WAS GONE In a large house in London?s fashionable Chelsea, a baby is awake in her cot. Well-fed and cared for, she is happily waiting for someone to pick her up. In the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses. Close to them is a hastily scrawled note. They?ve been dead for several days. Who has been looking after the baby? And where did they go? Two entangled families. A house with the darkest of secrets. A...