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On July 15, 1994, ten-year-old Ethan and his best friend Billy fell asleep together in their quiet New Jersey cul de sac. In the morning, Ethan woke up alone. The tent was sliced open, and Billy was gone, taken. He was never seen again. Thirty years later, Ethan has returned to Hemlock Circle, still desperate for answers. Who took Billy? Plagued by bad dreams and insomnia, he begins to notice strange things happening on the street under the cover of darkness. Someone is prowling the cul de sac when no one is awake to see them.

The Decoy (Sarah Roberts Book Thirty-Three) After a group of mercenaries call in bomb threats, they detonate several of them to prove they're serious. The emergency response is thinned and spread to multiple locations, allowing the mercs to rob a jewelry store with a secret stash. Authorities soon learn it was staged for a larger, more profitable job that Sarah Roberts had attempted to foil. To catch these criminals, the authorities plan an effective countermeasure and use Sarah as bait, but that goes wrong quickly, and now Sarah's gone off the radar. With blood on her hands from the first ...

Arthur Geary, a 45-year-old research scientist, quits his job and leaves his wife and children, taking up residence in a hotel near Paddington Station, where he passes all his time sitting on the platforms, watching the people and trains come and go. Overwhelmed by the stresses of modern life, including his difficult job and failing marriage, Geary finds the limitless sky of London unbearable and seeks refuge beneath the 'smaller sky' of the glass-roofed station.

The Victim (Sarah Roberts Book Five) Sarah Roberts is The Victim. The government men at the Sophia Project have faked her death to keep her to themselves. After her funeral, she shows up in the food court of a busy mall as part of a black operation. A violent exchange takes place. Things go wrong fast. Many of the people protecting Sarah die within seconds from a mysterious drug. She runs, escaping the clutches of the police, who want to figure out her connection to the murderers. A group of men called The Rapturites surface to take responsibility for the carnage. They want Sarah raptured ...

The Hostage (Sarah Roberts Book Four) Meet Elmore Ackerman. He idolizes Sarah Roberts from afar and has done so for more than five years. He has studied her pictures, memorized her news clippings, and now waits in the dark for the day when he can make Sarah his hostage. A steel cage waits for her. Elmore has practiced what he will do to her using other victims in the past. Those victims are now discarded, buried on his property. He keeps mementos from his victims to savor their time together. They always give in to him, his whims, his desires - all his victims do. Elmore has a plan for ...

The Warning (Sarah Roberts Book Two) Sarah Roberts has spent the last four years helping people stay alive and escape near-death experiences as messages from the dead come to her. She receives a daunting communication from the Other Side regarding her sister's murderer and where she can find him. The message isn't clear enough to confirm the man's identity, causing suspicion. When she receives The Warning, Sarah decides to disregard it. Then the tables turn, and now Sarah's being hunted instead of being the hunter. How many people have to die to catch one murderer? How far will Sarah go ...

Frederick Fife was born with an extra helping of kindness in his heart. If he borrowed your car he'd return it washed and polished, with a full tank of petrol. The problem is, he has no one left to borrow from. At 82 he's desperately lonely, broke and on the brink of homelessness. But Fred's luck changes when, in a bizarre case of mistaken identity, he takes the place of cranky Bernard Greer at Wattle River Nursing Home. Suddenly he has a roof over his head, warm meals in his belly and, most importantly, the chance to be part of a family again.

Герметичный роман-катастрофа о людях, запертых под землей. Несколько сотен человек внезапно оказываются запертыми под Москвой-рекой. Причина неизвестна, спасение не приходит. Мир за пределами тесных бетонных стен исчезает, оставляя лишь тьму: тоннеля и человеческого сердца. Это одна из самых ожидаемых книг не только года, но и последнего пятилетия. После того, как написанный в 2011 году роман Яны Вагнер "Вонгозеро" предсказал пандемию, новые книги писательницы ждут с трепетом, не только предвкушая удовольствие, но и тревожно заглядывая в будущее. Рискнете услышать новое пророчество от Яны Вагнер?

A missing actress. A bored writer. A matter of life and death when their stories collide…… Actress Wendy Knight thought her life was finally turning around. But when her ex came back into the picture, he wanted to take all of that away from her and more…and then she disappeared.

The Enigma (Sarah Roberts Book Six) Sarah Roberts is in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her dead sister has left her a message with two tasks to complete in Vegas. She's supposed to choose a random guy with a cell phone and send a message to a number her sister has supplied. Before she can complete this task, she notices a man following her. With tears in his eyes, this man begs her not to send the text. On the west side of Vegas, another man is being tortured. Sarah's second task is to arrive at a certain time to stop it. When she shows up late, people start to die. The man who had followed her also ...

Camryn Lane is living her dream: after years of struggle and rejection, her first novel has finally been published. She’s on top of the world–until she receives a disturbing email from an unknown sender. Rattled, Camryn swallows the sick feeling and resolves to put the missive out of her mind. But when she checks her ratings online, she finds an aggressive one-star review, and soon Camryn’s book is flooded with negative reviews and publicity. Could the reviewer be the same person who sent the ugly email? And why do they want to ruin her?

Family. It means everything to Sheridan. Her brother Lachy is finally home in Australia and she's excited about Easter with both of their families. But when a traumatic incident tears the families apart, she blames him. Lachy knows he's not coping right now but his sister doesn't have the full story. And nor does he. There are some gaps in his memory. How is he connected to a DNA request, a missing woman, and a hit and run? To untangle the truth, he must decide who he can trust. His friends? His family? Himself?

It only took a moment for everything to go wrong. In the blink of an eye, the birthday party became a nightmare when we heard the screams… How did this happen? And who is to blame? I’m so happy as I walk to pick up my son from the party. It’s his first since we moved here, and I know he’s found it hard settling in. Just as I’ve found it hard to make friends among the mothers at the school gates. But as I turn the corner, my heart stops. Instead of the picture-perfect birthday party I left earlier, there’s an ambulance.

‘My name is Darcy, I’m your nurse and I’m here to help you.’ I repeat the words I’ve said so many times. Except this time, I don’t mean it… If you saw me walking down the street, you’d think I was pretty ordinary–I wear the typical crisp, white nursing uniform, my hands are scrubbed clean and you’d have no reason to believe I was anything other than a good citizen. A good nurse. But looks can be deceiving. You shouldn’t trust me–because I don’t even know if I can trust myself.

We moved from Minnesota to a beautiful house in the English countryside. A year away was meant to be the perfect fresh start. As soon as we arrive, I get a bad vibe. Despite the charming period features, the house is dark and cold. When the taxi driver pulls away, he warns us: 'whatever you do, don't believe the rumours.' Our first morning there, Rob brings me croissants in bed and I think maybe this will work, maybe we can be happy here. Then it begins. Strange noises coming from the woods. In the garden, I feel like I'm being watched. Then I see him. The little boy.

Dr. Willa Watters is a prominent child psychologist at the height of her career. But when a viral video of a disastrous television interview puts her reputation on the line, Willa retreats to Broken Bayou, the town where she spent most of her childhood summers. There she visits her aunts’ old house and discovers some of her unstable mother’s belongings still languishing in the attic—dusty mementos harboring secrets of her harrowing past. Willa’s hopes for a respite are quickly crushed, not only by what she finds in that attic but also by what’s been found in the bayou.

Sixteen years ago, Becky told a lie. And someone died. Now she’s back on the tiny island off the windswept Dorset coast where she grew up. The place she swore she’d never return to. She is home for her mum’s funeral. The islanders make clear she isn’t wanted. They haven’t forgotten what she did. Some ignore her. Some won’t look her in the eye. Becky wants to get away. But she hears a story that she can’t ignore. About a teenage girl who went missing a year ago. Some say she left for the mainland with her boyfriend. But the girl’s sister thinks they’re lying.

1979. Leading businesswoman Rebecca is struggling to build healthy relationships. Her on off partner is a philandering police officer, part of the team chasing the Yorkshire Ripper who’s striking terror across the county. Then Rebecca meets Larry, the charming American, with a troubled past. And then of course there’s Mervyn, the creepy journalist who’s desperate for a girlfriend and willing to do anything to keep her in his life. With three very different men craving her attention, and a serial killer on the loose, Rebecca finds herself in a twisted game of cat and mouse.

Der nächste Teil der Audible Original Bestseller Serie nach einer Idee von Sebastian Fitzek! Im 5. Thriller der AURIS-Reihe macht ein psychopathischer Kollege mit dem absoluten Gehör Jagd auf den forensischen Phonetiker Matthias Hegel. Der Mann, der das Verbrechen hört, und die hartnäckige True-Crime-Podcasterin Jula Ansorge müssen ein weiteres Mal zusammenarbeiten und dabei all ihr Können aufbieten, um sich durch einen Parcours voller tödlicher Rätsel und Fallen zu kämpfen, während ihr schier übermächtiger Gegner einen akustischen Anschlag plant, mit dem er in die Geschichte eingehen will.

In June 1993, a group of young guerilla filmmakers spent four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror flick. The weird part? Only three of the film’s scenes were ever released to the public, but Horror Movie has nevertheless grown a rabid fanbase. Three decades later, Hollywood is pushing for a big budget reboot. The man who played 'The Thin Kid' is the only surviving cast member. He remembers all too well the secrets buried within the original screenplay, the bizarre events of the filming and the dangerous crossed lines on set that resulted in tragedy.