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No One Saw a Thing

Andrea Mara · 384 pages

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Little Secrets

Jennifer Hillier · 352 pages

National Bestseller!"Unflinching and unforgettable. Little Secrets has everything you want in a thriller" —Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of Lock Every DoorOverwhelmed by tragedy, a woman desperately tries to save her marriage in award-winning author Jennifer Hillier's Little Secrets, a riveting novel of psychological suspense. All it takes to unravel a life is one little secret...

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Here and Gone

Haylen Beck · 320 pages

"Here and Gone is a gripping, wonderfully tense suspense thriller about a mother's desperate fight to recover her stolen children from corrupt authorities. It begins with a woman fleeing through Arizona with her kids in tow, trying to escape an abusive marriage. When she's pulled over by an unsettling local sheriff, things soon go awry and she is taken into custody. Only when she gets to the stati

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The Tree of Hands

Ruth Rendell · 271 pages

Once, when Benet was 14, her mother had tried to stab her with a carving knife. It was some time since she had seen her mad mother, so when she arrived at the airport, Benet tried not to hate her. But then the tragic death of a child begins a chain of deception, kidnap and murder.

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Then She Was Gone

Lisa Jewell · 437 pages

"Ten years after her teenage daughter disappears, a woman crosses paths with a charming single father whose young child feels eerily familiar, in this evocative, suspenseful drama from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell--perfect for fans of Paula Hawkins and Liane Moriarty. Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was fifteen, the youngest of three. She was beloved by her parents, frien

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While My Eyes Were Closed

Linda Green · 416 pages

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What She Knew

Gilly Macmillan · 472 pages

Rachel Jenner is walking in a Bristol park with her eight-year-old son Ben when he asks if he can run ahead. It's an ordinary request on an ordinary Sunday afternoon, and Rachel has no reason to worry--until Ben vanishes. Police are called, search parties go out, and Rachel, already insecure after her recent divorce, feels herself coming undone. As hours and then days pass without a sign of Ben, e

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The Girl in the Red Coat

Kate Hamer · 378 pages

Eight-year-old Carmel has always been different - sensitive, distracted, with an heartstopping tendency to go missing. Her mother Beth, newly single, worries about her daughter's strangeness, especially as she is trying to rebuild a life for the two of them on her own. When she takes Carmel for an outing to a local festival, her worst fear is realised: Carmel disappears into the crowd. Unable to a

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Silent Child

Sarah A. Denzil · 416 pages

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The Couple Next Door

Shari Lapena · 336 pages

It all started at a dinner party... A domestic suspense debut about a young couple and their apparently friendly neighbors—a twisty, rollercoaster ride of lies, betrayal, and the secrets between husbands and wives... Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all—a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. But one night, when they are at a dinner party next door, a ter

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Land of the Living

Nicci French

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Wolfhunter River

Rachel Caine · 330 pages

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Gone

Stacy Claflin · 208 pages

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Ruin Falls

Jenny Milchman · 456 pages

Liz's husband, Paul, has decided that, despite a strained relationship with his mother and father, the family should visit the farm in western New York where he spent his childhood. When her children, Ally and Reed, disappear from the hotel they stop at, blind panic slides into ice-cold terror. Liz realizes that it was no stranger who slipped into the hotel room that night-- someone she trusted co

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Sleep Tight

Rachel Abbott · 284 pages

"When Olivia Brookes calls the police to report that her husband and children are missing, she believes she will never see them again. She has reason to fear the worst; this isn't the first tragedy that Olivia has experienced. Now, two years later, Detective Chief Inspector Tom Douglas is called in to investigate this family again, but this time it's Olivia who has disappeared. All the evidence su

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NOS4A2

Joe Hill · 706 pages

Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photography, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether it's across Massachusetts or across the country. Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for

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The Return of Ellie Black

Emiko Jean · 299 pages

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From the Cradle

Louise Voss, Mark Edwards · 383 pages

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Little Darlings

Melanie Golding · 312 pages

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Don't Look for Me

Wendy Walker · 342 pages

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Pretty Little Things

Jilliane Hoffman · 410 pages

Special Agent Bobby Dees knows what grief feels like. He understands the pain of losing a child. And he'll do whatever he can to prevent it from happening again.The phone call that comes on a Sunday morning will take him away from his insular world of grief and sleepless nights – and into a far darker place. A young girl, Elaine Emerson, has gone missing and only Dees has a chance of finding her.I

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Her Last Tomorrow

Adam Croft · 256 pages

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The Girl Who Was Taken

Charlie Donlea · 352 pages

**Two abducted girls—one who returns, one who doesn't.** The night they go missing, high school seniors Nicole Cutty and Megan McDonald are at a beach party in their small town of Emerson Bay, North Carolina. Police launch a massive search, but hope is almost lost--until Megan escapes from a bunker deep in the woods...A year later, the bestselling account of her ordeal has made Megan a celebrit

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