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Black Out

Lisa Unger

Black Out is the exciting new thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of
Beautiful Lies and Sliver of Truth.

It is the story of a young woman who escapes her dangerous past by pronouncing herself dead, until the person she fears the most discovers she's alive and well and comes after her and her young daughter.

Annie Powers seems to live a happy, pampered life in a wealthy Florida suburb with a husband who loves her fiercely and a beautiful young daughter they named Victory.

But that happiness suddenly starts to fade when Annie feels the demons of her past creeping up on her.

It's a past that she can't even recall due to a highly dissociative state that allowed her to forget the tragic and violent episodes of her earlier life as Ophelia March and to start again as a completely new Annie Powers, under the loving and protective eye of her husband, Gray.

Recent disturbing events - the appearance of a familiar dark figure on the beach, the mysterious murder of her psychologist - trigger strange and confusing memories for Annie. She now realises she has to quickly piece them together before her past comes to claim her and Victory.

It's a tense, cleverly written book and if you haven't read Unger before, you're missing out on a powerhouse talent.

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Hold Tight

Harlen Coben

Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they'd become the type of overprotective parents who spy on their kids.

But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant lately and after the suicide of his classmate Spencer Hill - the latest in a string of issues at school - they can't help but worry.

They install a sophisticated spy program on Adam's computer and within days they are jolted by a sinister message from an unknown correspondent.

Meanwhile, browsing through an online memorial for Spencer put together by his classmates, Betsy Hill is struck by a photo that appears to have been taken on the night of her son's death and he wasn't alone.

She thinks it is Adam Baye standing just outside the camera's range, but when Adam goes missing, it soon becomes clear that something deep and sinister has infected their community.

Harlen Coben's fan base continues to grow and will only get stronger with this brilliant read.

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Books You'll Love

Various

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The Gathering

Anne Enright

The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the
wake of their wayward brother Liam.

It wasn’t the drink that killed him – although that certainly helped – it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother’s house, in the winter of 1968.

His sister Veronica was there then, as she is now: keeping the dead man company, just for another little while.

The Gathering is a family epic, condensed and clarified through the
remarkable lens of Anne Enright’s unblinking eye.

It is also a sexual history: tracing the line of hurt and redemption through three generations – starting with the grandmother, Ada Merriman – showing how memories warp and family secrets fester.

This is a novel about love and disappointment, about thwarted lust and limitless desire, and how our fate is written in the body, not in the stars.

Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works.
She has published one previous collection of stories, The Portable Virgin, which won the Rooney Prize, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and four novels, The Wig My Father Wore, What Are You Like? - shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award and winner of the Encore Award, The Pleasures of Eliza Lynch and The Gathering - winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize.

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Shatter

Michael Robotham

Joe O'Loughlin from Michael Robotham's bestselling debut The Suspect returns to face a terrifying opponent...

A naked woman in red high-heeled shoes is perched on the edge of Clifton Suspension Bridge with her back pressed to the safety fence, weeping into a mobile phone.

Clinical psychologist Joseph O'Loughlin is only feet away, desperately trying to talk her down. She whispers, 'you don't understand,' and jumps.

Later, Joe has a visitor - the woman's teenage daughter, a runaway from boarding school.

She refuses to believe that her mother would have jumped off the bridge - not only would she not commit suicide, she is terrified of heights.

Joe wants to believe her, but what would drive a woman to such a desperate act?

Whose voice?

What evil?

Before writing full-time, Michael Robotham was an investigative journalist in Britain, Australia and the US. He is the pseudonymous author of 10 best-selling non-fiction titles, involving prominent figures in the military, the arts, sport and science. He lives in Sydney.

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Ritual

Mo Hayder

Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand.

The fact that there's no body attached is disturbing enough. Yet more disturbing is the discovery, a day later, of the matching hand. Both have been recently amputated, and the indications are that the victim was still alive when they were removed.

DI Jack Caffery has been newly seconded to the Major Crime Investigation Unit in Bristol.

He and Flea soon establish that the hands belong to a boy who has recently disappeared.

Their search for him - and for his abductor - lead them into the darkest recesses of Bristol’s underworld, where drug addiction is rife, where street-kids sell themselves for a hit, and where an ancient evil lurks; an evil that feeds off the blood - and flesh - of others ...

After leaving school at fifteen, Mo Hayder worked as a barmaid, security guard,
film-maker, hostess in a Tokyo club, educational administrator and teacher of English as a foreign language in Asia. In recent years she has proven herself to be one of the most promising stars of the thriller genre and Ritual is a magnificent addition to her very impressive publication list.

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Penny Vincenzi

An Absolute Scandal

What do you do when you lose everything?

It was one of the biggest scandals of the 80s. Lloyds.

It started with just a few requests for money from various Names. And then the demands got bigger. And bigger.

Until thousands of people found their lives ruined, homes gone and relationships wrecked.

All because of money.

When you do have it, its value isn't that important.

When you don't - it's everything...

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