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"What came first, the home or the desire to invade? A seasoned invader with multiple home invasions under their belt recounts their dark victories while offering tutelage to a new generation of ambitious home invaders eager to make their mark on the annals of criminal history. From initial canvasing to home entry, the reader is complicit in every strangling and shattered window. The fear is inescapable. Examining the sanctuary of the home and one...

The seclusion of the Inn at Gloucester suits former Boston police detective, Bill Robinson. Robinson runs the Inn and doesn't ask any questions, until Mitchell Cline arrives bringing drugs and violence to the peaceful inn.

Contains scenes of miscarriage and childbirth, as well as cancer survival and implied animal endangerment. "The Push meets The Silent Patient in a gripping thriller that follows a woman convinced a sinister figure is going to great lengths to make sure her pregnancy never happens--while the men in her life refuse to believe a word she says. Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family. But as she tries to balance her increasingly public life as an indie...

In 2009, Edie had New York's social world in her thrall, the shining star of a group of recent graduates living in a Brooklyn loft. When Edie's body was found near a suicide note at the end of a long, drunken night, no one could believe it. Grief, shock, and resentment scattered the friends and brought the era to an abrupt end. A decade later, her best friend Lindsay has come a long way from the drug-addled world of Calhoun Lofts. She has devoted...

Presents the final three appearances of the author's antihero, Tom Ripley, as he becomes involved with another man, is followed around by an unusual teenager, and must deal with people who seem to know his secrets and plan to use them against him.

Clara Solberg's world shatters when her husband and their four-year-old daughter are in a car crash, killing Nick while Maisie is remarkably unharmed. The crash is ruled an accident - until the coming days, when Maisie starts having night terrors that make Clara question what really happened on that fateful afternoon. Tormented by grief and her obsession that Nick's death was far more than just an accident, Clara is plunged into a desperate hunt for...

"Kellen Adams suffers from a yearlong gap in her memory. A bullet to the brain will cause that. But she's discovering the truth, and what she learns changes her life, her confidence, her very self. She finds herself in the wilderness, on the run, unprepared, her enemies unknown--and she is carrying a priceless burden she must protect at all costs. The consequences of failure would break her. And Kellen Adams does not break."--Amazon.

"En una majestuosa casa del elegante barrio de Chelsea, la polica̕ encuentra a una beb ěn su cuna. Bien alimentada, cuidada y feliz, espera a que la cojan en brazos. En la cocina de esa misma casa hay tres cadv̀eres en estado de descomposicin̤. Junto a ellos, una nota escrita con urgencia. Veinticinco aǫs despuš Libby, esa beb ǎ quien encontraron con vida, regresa a una casa que esconde su origen familiar y el ms̀ oscuro de los secretos."--...

"There is a stranger outside Caroline's house. Her spectacular new beach house, built for hosting expensive parties and vacationing with the family she thought she'd have. But her husband is lying to her and everything in her life is upside down, so when the stranger, Aidan, shows up as a bartender at the same party where Caroline and her husband have a very public fight, it doesn't seem like anything out of the ordinary. As her marriage collapses...

As a child Penny was found abandoned. Grace Francome felt like fate brought Penny to her and her husband Arthur. But as she grew, Penny's actions grew more disturbing, and different "personalities" emerged. Now Penny is in the locked ward of a decaying state psychiatric hospital, charged with the murder of a stranger. Police had her fingerprints on the murder weapon and the victim's blood on her body and clothes. Dr. McHugh helped discover a new personality...