suspense fiction

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In a dark, dark wood

When reclusive crime writer, Leonora Shaw, is invited to spend a weekend with old friends in a remote cabin known as the Glass House, secrets from her past are slowly unveiled. Leonora finds herself confronted with a truth she would much rather leave forgotten.
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Close your eyes

When a former student bungles the investigation of a mother-daughter double murder, clinical psychologist Joseph O'Loughlin discovers a link between the case and a series of escalating attacks.
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One of us is lying

"Pay close attention and you might solve this. On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention. Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule. Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess. Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing. Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher. And Simon, the outcast, is the creator of Bayview High's notorious gossip app. Only, Simon never makes it out of that classroom. Before the end of detention Simon's dead. And according to investigators, his death wasn't an accident. On Monday, he died. But on Tuesday, he'd planned to post juicy reveals about all four of his high-profile classmates, which makes all four of them suspects in his murder. Or are they the perfect patsies for a killer who's still on the loose? Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you would go to protect them.".

Disappeared

2017
Four months ago Sara Zapata's best friend, Linda, disappeared from the streets of Juarez, Mexico. Ever since Sara has been using her job as a reporter to draw attention to the girls who have been kidnapped by the criminals who control the city. But now she and her family are being threatened. Meanwhile her younger brother, Emiliano, is being lured into the drug business by the promise of big money. Soon, the only way for both of them to escape is to risk the dangerous trek across the desert to the United States border.

Give me your hand

It's been more than ten years since Kit Owens and Diane Fleming where friends in high school and a horrible secret tore their friendship apart. Now, as they're both vying for the same position working in research alongside their idol, the past comes roaring back and threatens to ruin them both.
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The girlfriend

Laura, a rich woman with a successful career and a long marriage to a rich husband, has a son, Daniel. Daniel, twenty-three, is handsome, talented, and genuine--then he meets Cherry, a beautiful and smart girl, who becomes his girlfriend, but who has not had the same life as Laura has had. Cherry wants Laura's life, and one little, unforgivable lie is all it takes--and it will have far-reaching consequences for everyone involved.
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The hush

a novel
Ten years after the events that changed his life and made him famous, Johnny Merrimon lives alone on 6,000 acres, attempting to maintain his privacy and sanity. His only link to his old life is Jack, his childhood friend. However, when Jack visits Johnny's secluded home, he senses danger in the wild places, a darkness and hunger, and evil intent. Johnny won't listen to Jack, but Jack is a true and persistent friend.
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Grist Mill Road

a novel
In 1982, in a paradise-like hamlet ninety miles from New York City, three teenage friends--Patrick, Matthew, and Hannah--find themselves bound together by a horrid crime. Almost thirty years later, the three meet up again, living lives their younger selves never could have dreamed, with even worse results.
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Heather, the totality

High-class Manhattan husband and wife Mark and Karen Breakstone arrange their lives around their beautiful, compassionate, and entrancing daughter, Heather, and the world seems to follow her, too--and all its dark interests begin to gravitate towards her as well.
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Elmet

In a little copse near the east coast main line of Yorkshire, in a house that Daddy built himself, live siblings Daniel and Cathy. They roam their wood, completely free of modern living conventions. They know Daddy sometimes has to go off and do hard work to get money, but what exactly he does never enters their minds. Then one day a local landowner shows up on their doorstep, and the modern world seems like crashing in on their happy existence.
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