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Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2016
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Hitman Anders, recently out of prison, is doing small jobs for the big gangsters. Then his life takes an unexpected turn when he meets a female Protestant vicar (who also happens to be an atheist), and a homeless receptionist at a former brothel which is now a 1-star hotel. The three join forces and concoct an unusual business plan based on Hitman Anders? skills and his fearsome reputation. The vicar and receptionist will organise jobs for a group...
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No Exit Press
Pub. Date
2017
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From the LA Times Book Prize-winning author comes a suspenseful and mind-bending novel about Eldon Chance, a forensic neuropsychiatrist at the end of his rope - now a Hulu TV series starring Hugh Laurie and Diane Farr Chance is a dark story about psychiatric mystery, sexual obsession, fractured identities, and terrifyingly realistic violence; a tale told amid the back streets of California's Bay Area, far from the cleansing breezes of the ocean. The...
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Titan Books
Pub. Date
2016
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What no one knows is that five years ago, Zoe's life was in danger. Back then, Zoe wasn't Zoe at all. Now her secrets are coming back to haunt her. As the past and present collide, Zoe must decide who she can trust before she-whoever�she�is-vanishes completely.
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Dr Alex Hoffmann is a physicist who uses a revolutionary & highly secret system of computer algorithms to trade on the world's financial markets. Hoffmann's hedge fund - built around the standard measure of market volatility - generates amazing returns for his investors. Late one night, an intruder disturbs Hoffmann & his wife. Originally published
9) Tideline
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One winter's afternoon, voice coach Sonia opens the door of her beautiful riverside home to 15-year-old Jex, the nephew of a family friend. He's come to borrow some music. Sonia invites him in and soon decides that she isn't going to let him leave.
13) The confession
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When Travis Boyette, a convicted felon, walks into a church in Missouri, he carries with him a terrible secret. Nearly a decade earlier Nicole Yarber, a high school senior with her whole life ahead of her, vanished. Her body was never found. Now, Donte Drumm, the young black athlete arrested for her murder, sits on death row.
14) The poison tree
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2011
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It is the sweltering summer of 1997, & Karen is a strait-laced, straight-A university student. When she meets the impossibly glamorous Biba, a bohemian orphan who lives in a crumbling old mansion in Highgate with her enigmatic brother Rex, she is soon drawn into their world - but something terrible is about to happen. Originally published: 2009
15) The hidden child
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2011
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Crime writer Erica Falck is shocked to discover a Nazi medal among her late mother's possessions. Haunted by a childhood of neglect, she resolves to dig deep into her family's past and finally uncover the reasons why.
16) The waiting room
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2011
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The waiting room stands on a crumbling railway platform at the edge of a retired rock star's vast estate. Isolated by a moat of thorny wilderness, it used to be a playground for his children. Until strange music and the terrifying spectre of a leering soldier frightened them away. Originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2010
19) Gamble
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Nick 'Foxy' Foxton's career as a world class jockey is on a perfect track until a near fatal accident cuts his dream brutally short. But when he returns to Aintree years later, nothing can prepare him for what unfolds. Originally published: 2011
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