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Working outside the station, Lena Adams, newly reinstated to the force, and Frank Wallace, Jeffrey's second in command, must try to piece together who the shooter is and how to rescue their friends before Jeffrey dies. For the sins of the past have caught up with Sara and Jeffrey -- with a vengeance ...Deftly interweaving present and past, Slaughter -- dubbed \"the new face of crime\" by Book magazine -- offers another brilliant knife-edge tale of suspense that cements her place among the most outstanding practitioners of crime fiction today.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2g609z571v6t4cqk7pzkrj.jpg?v=bbd1ceb0f6","LEOf2ODY^^xF0*$z~4tM_DSyr[n*",374,[606],{"id":607,"slug":608,"name":609},"01kjt6wq4p43273egdyje7wy1k","karin-slaughter-ixq5","Karin Slaughter",[611,612,613],{"id":35,"name":36,"slug":37,"is_fiction":20},{"id":189,"name":190,"slug":191,"is_fiction":20},{"id":483,"name":484,"slug":485,"is_fiction":20},[],{"pace":144,"complexity":7,"audience":147,"mood":616,"themes":617,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[149,150],[300],{"key":619,"params":620,"works":621},"genre_mood",{"genre":40,"mood":149},[622,637,658,680,691,712],{"id":202,"slug":203,"title":204,"description":205,"primary_cover_url":206,"cover_blurhash":207,"first_publish_year":208,"community_rating_avg":209,"community_rating_count":210,"page_count":211,"authors":623,"genres":625,"series":633,"enrichment":634},[624],{"id":214,"slug":215,"name":216},[626,627,628,629,630,631,632],{"id":219,"name":220,"slug":221,"is_fiction":20},{"id":39,"name":40,"slug":41,"is_fiction":20},{"id":189,"name":190,"slug":191,"is_fiction":20},{"id":31,"name":32,"slug":33,"is_fiction":20},{"id":185,"name":186,"slug":187,"is_fiction":20},{"id":227,"name":228,"slug":229,"is_fiction":19},{"id":231,"name":232,"slug":233,"is_fiction":20},[],{"pace":145,"complexity":7,"audience":147,"mood":635,"themes":636,"setting_period":7,"summary":239,"content_warnings":7},[149,237],[],{"id":638,"slug":639,"title":640,"description":641,"primary_cover_url":642,"cover_blurhash":643,"first_publish_year":644,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":17,"page_count":645,"authors":646,"genres":651,"series":654,"enrichment":655},"01kx2ag861969b8q9p5a4rqecb","fates-and-furies-8hjf","Fates and Furies","A woman's marriage and family life unravel under the pressure of a violent, controlling husband in this tense domestic drama set across several decades.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2ag876vab4ftq8xs95pcys.jpg?v=90f714eeba","L4FQ?=tm00XTAvT0NH.8~C.79a.8",2015,400,[647],{"id":648,"slug":649,"name":650},"01kk3enbjecbgeksxv4yrmbexs","lauren-groff-ccgc","Lauren Groff",[652,653],{"id":39,"name":40,"slug":41,"is_fiction":20},{"id":146,"name":288,"slug":289,"is_fiction":20},[],{"pace":144,"complexity":7,"audience":147,"mood":656,"themes":657,"setting_period":7,"summary":641,"content_warnings":7},[149,150],[],{"id":659,"slug":660,"title":661,"description":662,"primary_cover_url":663,"cover_blurhash":664,"first_publish_year":665,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":17,"page_count":666,"authors":667,"genres":672,"series":675,"enrichment":676},"01kx2m96xnxv06gat8fcca66fr","salvage-the-bones-arhe","Salvage the Bones","They heard it on the radio. A hurricane is coming, threatening the town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. Esch's hard-drinking father can feel it in his bones. Esch and her brothers are trying to help prepare, but there are other worries too. Skeetah is watching his prized pit bull, helpless as her new litter dies one by one. Randall, when not preoccupied with basketball, is busy looking after the youngest, Junior. And Esch, fifteen and motherless among men, has just realized that she's pregnant. The children of this family have always been short of nurture, but they are fiercely loyal to one another. 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Told through dense, stream-of-consciousness prose that mirrors the paranoia of wartime Belfast, the story builds toward a violent confrontation between the two men in her life.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2bqt5dfbkyncbysz8ppcrk.jpg?v=7f8160af5e","LAF#~+xC00EKD%?H%J%M~pD%%MD*",2018,394,[701],{"id":702,"slug":703,"name":704},"01kx2bqt57bhbjv30w9t08r26e","anna-burns-wjqd","Anna Burns",[706,707],{"id":39,"name":40,"slug":41,"is_fiction":20},{"id":231,"name":232,"slug":233,"is_fiction":20},[],{"pace":194,"complexity":7,"audience":147,"mood":710,"themes":711,"setting_period":7,"summary":695,"content_warnings":7},[149,150,678],[],{"id":713,"slug":714,"title":715,"description":716,"primary_cover_url":717,"cover_blurhash":718,"first_publish_year":719,"community_rating_avg":13,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":720,"authors":721,"genres":730,"series":736,"enrichment":737},"01kx2kxwvze2bpdtqcpkydg64b","myra-breckinridge-cplf","Myra Breckinridge","A trans woman and aspiring actress in 1960s Hollywood documents her meteoric rise through a series of diary entries, each one more outrageous than the last. 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