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Every morning the staff arrive to find the showroom vandalized overnight: shelves toppled, glassware smashed, a foul smell in the air the cleaning crew can't place. The security cameras record nothing. With sales sinking and corporate breathing down their necks, three employees agree to work a secret nine-hour shift through the night to catch whoever is responsible.\n\nAmy is a cynical twenty-something clock-watcher who just wants a transfer and a bigger paycheck. Her relentlessly upbeat manager Basil sees the overnight patrol as a chance to prove himself, and kindly veteran clerk Ruth Anne comes along for the company. But the store they think they know so well becomes a labyrinth after dark, and the thing haunting its identical model rooms has been waiting a long time for visitors.\n\nGrady Hendrix's Horrorstör is designed to look like a mail-order furniture catalog, complete with product illustrations that curdle from cheerful to horrifying as the night goes on. Equal parts genuine haunted-house novel and razor-sharp satire of consumer culture and soul-deadening retail work, it's a fast, funny, and surprisingly frightening read about the horrors of the modern workplace.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kkfjhaprw1negedw6gg2fxam.jpg","LqN0;rbcx^t7.AadadkCoeafV@ay","2.50",248,[804],{"id":805,"slug":806,"name":807},"01kkc5xe56n9daq302gyqzj10w","grady-hendrix-vwgm","Grady Hendrix",[809,810,811,812,816],{"id":98,"name":195,"slug":196,"is_fiction":19},{"id":277,"name":278,"slug":279,"is_fiction":19},{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":19},{"id":813,"name":814,"slug":815,"is_fiction":19},218,"Haunted House","haunted-house",{"id":817,"name":818,"slug":819,"is_fiction":19},118,"Satire","satire",[],{"pace":96,"complexity":7,"audience":99,"mood":822,"themes":823,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[752,101],[],{"id":825,"slug":826,"title":827,"description":828,"primary_cover_url":829,"cover_blurhash":830,"first_publish_year":831,"community_rating_avg":832,"community_rating_count":165,"page_count":833,"authors":834,"genres":839,"series":848,"enrichment":849},"01kkfjfq1bzmnfgw20s0a0s7ke","penpal-5qtg","Penpal","It begins innocently: a kindergarten class ties letters to balloons and sets them loose, hoping a stranger will write back. 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It doesn't take long to understand why.\n\nAs unsettling warnings pile up and the house's dark history stirs, Anna begins to suspect that the villa isn't merely the backdrop to her family's dysfunction — it may be feeding on it, or something far worse. Blending folk and gothic horror with the specific torment of being trapped with relatives who never listen, Diavola is atmospheric, mordantly witty, and steadily terrifying.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kkfh2pgpbmcpepnkwf92v848.jpg","L17K6u0100~C4R-p00yD*|M{?b-p",296,[894],{"id":895,"slug":896,"name":897},"01kkfh2pgf2mr6v24f9zs88999","jennifer-marie-thorne-x57a","Jennifer Marie Thorne",[899,900,901,902,903],{"id":49,"name":50,"slug":51,"is_fiction":19},{"id":98,"name":195,"slug":196,"is_fiction":19},{"id":277,"name":278,"slug":279,"is_fiction":19},{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":19},{"id":904,"name":905,"slug":906,"is_fiction":19},52,"Paranormal Horror","paranormal-horror",[],{"pace":141,"complexity":7,"audience":99,"mood":909,"themes":910,"setting_period":7,"summary":911,"content_warnings":7},[104,207,103,101,102],[257,624],"Anna Pace is the black sheep of a family whose name ironically means \"peace.\" Their annual vacation lands them at a remote villa in Monteperso — a house the locals fear and shun. 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Millie’s employer, Nina Winchester, is erratic and increasingly cruel, leaving impossible demands and cleaning up messes that make no sense, while Nina’s charming husband, Andrew, treats Millie with a warmth that feels like a lifeline. As Millie tries to keep her head down and her past hidden, she realizes the household’s polished surface conceals something far more dangerous, and that the question of who holds the power here is not as settled as it looks. The first book in the series that became McFadden’s global breakout, it delivers the mid-book reversal that made her a fixture of word-of-mouth thriller recommendations.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kt00pafvm3xp5a40d89aw7gk.jpg","LAAUROWW0DtS8yjYSzflDzfi}gaJ","3.47",16,336,[957],{"id":958,"slug":959,"name":960},"01kjq6vqz43b3s9yqphjeqza92","freida-mcfadden-1fv8","Freida McFadden",[962,963,964,965,966],{"id":277,"name":278,"slug":279,"is_fiction":19},{"id":161,"name":162,"slug":163,"is_fiction":19},{"id":41,"name":42,"slug":43,"is_fiction":19},{"id":45,"name":46,"slug":47,"is_fiction":19},{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":19},[968],{"id":969,"slug":970,"name":949,"position":585,"is_main_entry":19,"parent_id":7,"parent_slug":7,"parent_name":7},"01kjq6vr4sw1ngqsw85k06gqd3","the-housemaid-rcay",{"pace":96,"complexity":7,"audience":99,"mood":972,"themes":973,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[104,101,102],[106],{"id":975,"slug":976,"title":977,"description":978,"primary_cover_url":979,"cover_blurhash":980,"first_publish_year":981,"community_rating_avg":982,"community_rating_count":983,"page_count":984,"authors":985,"genres":990,"series":996,"enrichment":997},"01kjq77dx08ykthbbb7jc7p80m","the-silent-patient-cfa9","The Silent Patient","Alicia Berenson's life looks perfect. A celebrated painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable neighbourhoods. Then, one evening, her husband Gabriel returns home late and Alicia shoots him five times in the face — and from that moment never speaks another word.\n\nHer refusal to explain, or even to talk, turns a domestic tragedy into a public sensation and hardens into an unsolvable mystery. Alicia is confined to the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London, where she paints and stays silent. Theo Faber, a criminal psychotherapist who has been fascinated by her case for years, engineers a job at the unit and sets out to reach her, convinced that if he can only get Alicia to speak, he can uncover the truth of that night.\n\nTold through Theo's obsessive investigation and Alicia's own private diary, Alex Michaelides's debut is a tautly plotted psychological thriller that draws on Greek tragedy and builds to one of the genre's most talked-about twists.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01ksxn51w268j0at5kteg1gx1n.jpg","LXPPZCI:InRi_4xaV?V@S$ozahj[",2019,"4.08",13,338,[986],{"id":987,"slug":988,"name":989},"01kjq77dyksetajsedf6dp3qqw","alex-michaelides-vigb","Alex Michaelides",[991,992,993,994,995],{"id":161,"name":162,"slug":163,"is_fiction":19},{"id":200,"name":201,"slug":202,"is_fiction":19},{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":19},{"id":277,"name":278,"slug":279,"is_fiction":19},{"id":41,"name":42,"slug":43,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":96,"complexity":7,"audience":99,"mood":998,"themes":999,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[104,102,101],[106],{"id":1001,"slug":1002,"title":1003,"description":1004,"primary_cover_url":1005,"cover_blurhash":1006,"first_publish_year":431,"community_rating_avg":1007,"community_rating_count":37,"page_count":216,"authors":1008,"genres":1013,"series":1023,"enrichment":1024},"01kjq80kf9938jetgptddrgx9j","verity-oqqr","Verity","Struggling author Lowen Ashby accepts an assignment: travel to the home of bestselling thriller writer Verity Crawford, incapacitated after an accident, and ghostwrite the remaining books in Verity's series. While searching Verity's study for notes, Lowen discovers what appears to be an autobiography — a manuscript confessing to events so disturbing she cannot determine whether it is genuine, deliberate fiction, or something meant to be found. Verity's husband Jeremy is in the house, grieving his children. As Lowen and Jeremy grow closer, she must decide what to do with what she has read — and whether the woman in the wheelchair is as helpless as she appears. Originally self-published in 2018, Verity was picked up by Grand Central Publishing in 2021 and became a number-one New York Times bestseller. 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Police summon Langdon as an expert, but he quickly realizes he is himself a suspect. With the help of cryptologist Sophie Neveu—the dead man's estranged granddaughter—he flees into the Paris night, following a trail of clues hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci.\n\nWhat begins as a murder investigation opens onto a far older secret. The pair chase a chain of riddles that leads through art, history, and the coded traditions of a shadowy brotherhood, pursued both by the French police and by a devout, self-punishing assassin acting on orders he believes are holy. As the clues accumulate, Langdon and Sophie edge toward a revelation that a powerful institution has spent two thousand years trying to bury—one that could reshape how millions understand faith and history.\n\nA breathless overnight chase across Paris and London, The Da Vinci Code weaves cryptography, symbology, and religious history into a puzzle-driven thriller. 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