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Her breath catches in her mouth as she hears heavy footsteps. She says a silent prayer, but she knows he’s closing in on her. She knows it’s too late…  When a robbery at a local store ends with multiple deaths and the abduction of sixteen-year-old schoolgirl Cassidy Wilder, FBI agent Beth Katz and her partner Dax Styles are called in. Visiting Cassidy’s family home just a couple of blocks away from the quiet little store where she went missing, Beth’s heart breaks as she talks to her grieving parents and promises to find their daughter. Looking at CCTV footage, Beth is horrified to see how calm the killer is as he shoots everyone in the store before forcing the terrified Cassidy to follow him into his truck. Then Beth uncovers multiple robberies just like this one, where all witnesses are killed and a young girl is taken. All of the victims are taken at night and found dead the following morning, so Beth knows time is running out to save Cassidy. When Cassidy’s lifeless body is discovered dumped on a busy highway near a patch of forest, Beth is devastated. And as more girls go missing, she fears the murderer is escalating. A breakthrough finally comes when she finds a name written in blood next to one of the bodies. Beth knows she’s close to catching the killer and is determined to stop any more lives from being taken—even if it means serving her own form of justice. Will she be able to resist the urge to take a life herself? Or will she become the killer’s next victim?  Perfect for fans of Robert Dugoni, Lisa Regan and Melinda Leigh, this absolutely nail-biting new crime series from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, D.K. Hood, is sure to keep you up all night! What readers are saying about Dark Hearts:“A gripping thriller full of suspense and twists. It kept me turning the pages waiting to see how it would end, you won’t want to put this one down.” NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars “I absolutely cannot get over this series! I have devoured all three books… Gets you with every twist and turn.” Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars “Captivating, thrilling series, and this book was excellent! I really love this series… Keeps you turning the pages… Perfect thriller!!!” Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars “Wow! A rollercoaster ride for sure… Fast-paced action. Hang on till the very end!” Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars “Excellent books that turn into an outstanding series… Keeps you guessing until the end.” B for Bookreview, 5 stars “An amazing read!” @netgalleyreviewsbykate, 5 stars “This author’s books have the ability to simultaneously make you unable to stop reading while wishing you could bury the book somewhere deep underground where it can’t be found. Compelling and didn’t want it to end!” Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars “This book certainly hit the ground running… It immediately grabbed my attention and piqued my interest and lured me right into the story!” Goodreads reviewer “Dark and gripping, and full of action. I read it in one sitting.” Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars What readers are saying about D.K. 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A woman lies still on the freezing ground. The howling wind lifts the last of the snow clinging to her face, exposing her lovely features, frozen in forever sleep. Detective Josie Quinn is still recovering from the killing of a beloved member of her team when she and her husband Noah receive yet more devastating news. Close to her breaking point, Josie heads to a specialist trauma retreat, set in an isolated group of log cabins in the mountains of Pennsylvania. But fear is not far behind her. Josie’s five fellow patients all seem to be hiding secrets darker than just the problems that brought them there and a storm is gathering, with thick snow coming down fast, isolating the cabins from the world below.  Then one morning, Meg Cleary disappears. Having spent years living in terror of a stalker, Meg had come to the retreat to try to piece her life back together. But now, her cabin is empty, no logs are burning in her fireplace, no tracks in the snow lead to or from her door. Quickly organizing a search, Josie’s worst fear is realized when she finds Meg’s body lying in the snow, the marks around her neck revealing that her death was no accident.  And this is no normal case, as Josie is stranded without her team, a phone signal or any legal authority to investigate. When she discovers that someone has placed hidden cameras inside the retreat buildings, Josie’s terror grows with the knowledge that the murderer is among them. Then another patient goes missing. With their food supplies running low and no chance of escape, Josie knows that she is in the greatest danger of her life, and that she alone has a chance to identify the killer and save the rest of the group before it’s too late… A totally compelling and unputdownable crime thriller that will have you turning the pages late into the night, from an Amazon, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Robert Dugoni and Rachel Caine. What readers are saying about Face Her Fear: ‘Wow!... Blown away with this one!... An amazing storyteller with a gripping storyline. The adventures just keep you guessing and at the edge of your seat (I might have had two really late nights reading - I just couldn't put it down!)’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Wow, this one kept me on the edge of my seat from start to finish! All the stars!... I couldn't put this book down.’ @daniereads87, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘As always, 5 enthusiastic stars… Rushes along at break-neck speed and the setting alone is enough to give you chills… There is suspense galore and you can’t put this down till the last bitterly cold page!’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘May just be my favorite book this year. Lisa has outdone herself on this one… Ten stars. Absolutely loved it.’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘For me, the best in the Josie Quinn series! Wow!... I loved every minute!’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Lisa Regan does not disappoint, ever!... I read this one in less than 24 hours, it’s so good you’ll never want to put it down.’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Clear your schedule, grab some strong coffee, and prepare for an all-nighter!... 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Long dark hair hangs over her shoulders and heavy makeup adorns her pale face. Cherry red lips offer a hint of a smile, but she won’t ever smile again. Her body is already cold to the touch… When black crows are spotted circling over an abandoned cabin in the woods near Rattlesnake Creek, FBI agent Beth Katz and her maverick partner Dax Styles fear something is very wrong. Beth has been hunting serial killers for years, and as she races to the forest she vows to serve her own form of justice, whatever the cost… Cassie Durham’s friends reported her missing when she didn’t return home from a local bar a few days ago. Now, Cassie sits in darkness, her last breath taken days before. Beth notices the rouged cheeks and bright blue eyeshadow are nothing like the pictures she’s seen of Cassie alive. Did someone add the heavy makeup and pose her like this after death? When another woman vanishes from a night out, Beth is convinced a twisted killer is in town. A clue on the dark web leads her to a local late-night hangout. Going undercover, she learns that when both girls vanished they were being watched by someone at the back of the crowded room. Noticing a man following her every move, Beth knows she has one chance to capture him. With a knife in her pocket and hellbent on saving another innocent life, Beth is already sure she’s going to be the killer tonight. Otherwise she will become his next victim… Perfect for fans of Robert Dugoni, Lisa Regan and Melinda Leigh, this absolutely nail-biting new crime series from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, D.K. Hood, is sure to keep you up all night! What readers are saying about Shadow Angels: “I was hooked… Addictive… Bone-chilling and filled with suspense, kept me turning the pages long after bedtime.” Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars “Superb… 5 stars… Blindingly excellent… This book should come with a disclaimer that once you start reading you aren’t going to want to walk away.” Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars “This book had it all!!… Some crazy twists and turns… Had me glued to my Kindle!” Sassy Southern Books, 5 stars “Will grab your attention from the first page and hold you until the end… A must-read.” Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars “Amazing… Such a joy to devour.” B for Bookreview, 5 stars “Brilliant… Do yourself a favour and read this book… Just perfect!” Tove Reads, 5 stars “Thrilling… Beth Katz and Dax Styles are full of surprises and the plot is packed with suspense… An unforgettable reading experience.” @jonannlovesbooktalk, 5 stars “Excellent.” Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars “Fantastic.” Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kxprs8nehzs5tyqzk8892dpj.jpg?v=75e72defa7","LNAop3pvQ7kp7~XSlSg3$]i_sVkC",296,[396],{"id":310,"slug":311,"name":312},[398,399,400,401,402,403,404,405,406],{"id":47,"name":48,"slug":49,"is_fiction":21},{"id":31,"name":32,"slug":33,"is_fiction":21},{"id":35,"name":36,"slug":37,"is_fiction":21},{"id":51,"name":52,"slug":53,"is_fiction":21},{"id":291,"name":292,"slug":293,"is_fiction":21},{"id":55,"name":56,"slug":57,"is_fiction":21},{"id":39,"name":40,"slug":41,"is_fiction":21},{"id":102,"name":256,"slug":257,"is_fiction":21},{"id":369,"name":370,"slug":371,"is_fiction":21},[],{"pace":100,"complexity":7,"audience":103,"mood":409,"themes":410,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[106,105,107],[],[412,614,790,962],{"key":413,"params":414,"works":415},"theme",{"theme":109},[416,464,497,529,559,586],{"id":417,"slug":418,"title":419,"description":420,"primary_cover_url":421,"cover_blurhash":422,"first_publish_year":423,"community_rating_avg":424,"community_rating_count":425,"page_count":426,"authors":427,"genres":436,"series":454,"enrichment":455},"01kkfgykqxnjddrfebfhn97b4c","lile-aux-arbres-disparus-lkvy","L'île aux arbres disparus","Elif Shafak's 2021 novel moves between two islands of memory. In 2010s London, sixteen-year-old Ada Kazantzakis is grieving her mother and estranged from a Cypriot heritage she has never been allowed to know. In 1970s Cyprus, her parents-to-be, Kostas and Defne — he Greek Christian, she Turkish Muslim — fall in love in secret, meeting at a tavern called The Happy Fig as their island slides toward war and partition.\n\nWoven through both timelines is a third, unexpected narrator: a fig tree, carried as a cutting from Cyprus to a London garden, which watches over the family and remembers everything the humans cannot bear to say. Through its eyes, Shafak braids together buried history, ecological wonder, and the long aftershocks of a divided homeland.\n\nTender and elegiac, The Island of Missing Trees is a novel about inherited silence and inherited love — about how the traumas of one generation take root in the next, and about the fragile work of belonging to a place, a family, and a past. A Reese's Book Club pick and Costa Award finalist, it is among Shafak's most beloved books.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kkfgyktpap0q3r4jmhg8as6h.jpg","L2DIbP~901Rto$-P]wRh0IJE0hRn",2021,"4.33",3,407,[428,432],{"id":429,"slug":430,"name":431},"01kjwhxy0ck6r6rtepje2aps35","elif-safak-6ayf","Elif Şafak",{"id":433,"slug":434,"name":435},"01kkfgyktfs5qsanvmc5gdpmvd","dominique-goy-blanquet-vmoy","Dominique Goy-Blanquet",[437,441,442,446,450],{"id":438,"name":439,"slug":440,"is_fiction":21},2,"Fantasy","fantasy",{"id":102,"name":256,"slug":257,"is_fiction":21},{"id":443,"name":444,"slug":445,"is_fiction":21},9,"Literary Fiction","literary-fiction",{"id":447,"name":448,"slug":449,"is_fiction":21},8,"Historical Fiction","historical-fiction",{"id":451,"name":452,"slug":453,"is_fiction":21},22,"Magical Realism","magical-realism",[],{"pace":101,"complexity":7,"audience":103,"mood":456,"themes":462,"setting_period":7,"summary":420,"content_warnings":7},[457,458,459,460,461],"melancholic","emotional","reflective","atmospheric","romantic",[463,109,235],"forbidden-love",{"id":465,"slug":466,"title":467,"description":468,"primary_cover_url":469,"cover_blurhash":470,"first_publish_year":471,"community_rating_avg":472,"community_rating_count":31,"page_count":473,"authors":474,"genres":479,"series":489,"enrichment":490},"01kkfjcwd9pyqkj99a7ytvn00d","the-chalk-man-p6rr","The Chalk Man","In the quiet English village of Anderbury, twelve-year-old Eddie Adams and his tight-knit group of friends invent a private code: chalk stick figures, each child drawing in their own colour to leave secret messages for the others. It's a harmless game — until, one summer in 1986, a trail of chalk figures leads them into the woods and to a discovery that will haunt them for the rest of their lives.\n\nThirty years later, Eddie is a schoolteacher trying to keep the past buried, when an anonymous letter arrives bearing a single chalk figure. He's not the only one; the surviving members of the old group each receive the same message. As the two timelines close in on one another, Eddie is forced back into the events of that summer and the question of what really happened — and who among them has never stopped playing the game.\n\nC.J. Tudor's award-winning debut is a dark, tightly wound psychological thriller in the vein of Stephen King's small-town horror, braiding a coming-of-age story with a decades-spanning mystery and a narrator whose memory can't quite be trusted.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kkfjcwjwgrem944hzbc6byqk.jpg","L4L0mz2[0M#,KhOrFd;}3C|[0}E#",2018,"3.20",280,[475],{"id":476,"slug":477,"name":478},"01kkfjcwjmw8s58tekt9bktjqk","cj-tudor-kmut","C.J. 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This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.\nThe Girls on Chalk Hill is the first book in the Detective Lexi Bennett series. It’s also my first time reading the author’s work. Intrigued by the blurb, I quickly signed up for a review copy. Suspense and a well-executed mystery await readers of police procedurals. \n \n\n \n\nThe story focuses on Detective Inspector Lexie Bennett and her quest to stop a deranged killer. After her time working with the FBI, Lexie returns home to take up the post as head of Canterbury’s Major Investigation Team. Imagine taking an early morning run and stumbling on the bodies of two teenaged girls with their throats cut. That's Lexie's experience on the morning of her first day working with the task force. Further investigation revealed they were two sisters of a set of triplets and the third sister was missing.\nThis revelation stirred up painful memories for Lexie as she, too, was one part of a set of triplets. Seventeen years ago, she and her sisters were abducted, but only two survived the ordeal. That experience, along with not knowing what happened to her other sister, haunted her, and she blocked everything from that painful time. Now with her past crashing into her present she has no choice but to relive that terrible night if she hopes to find Paige, the missing sister, before it’s too late....and get justice not only for her sister, Rose but also for the girls found on Chalk Hill. \nI thought this was a great start to the series. From the first page, I was completely hooked. Now this investigation would take everything out of Lexie because of her personal connection to the case. So much so she made a few unwise decisions. Her determination combined with her desire for the truth made an excellent detective. However, there were moments when her actions rubbed me the wrong way.Many suspects came on the team’s radar, which made their job a challenge, especially giving the limited time frame they were working with. I loved the villain’s POV. With his POV, readers are aware of his motives and know his moves. Knowledge of his identity, however, remained a mystery to almost the end of the story. This is one of those mysteries where readers and the detective discover the truth at the same time. It would seem he was always one step ahead. He was definitely playing a game of cat and mouse with the police.The tension intensified with each page turn. It kept me on edge as I wondered and hope Lexie will Paige before it’s too late. This addictive and captivating story will have readers turning the pages to learn what happens.Overall, The Girls on Chalk Hill delivered an interesting story which fans of police procedurals will want to add to their reading list.\n\n \n\n \n\n \n This review was originally posted on Totally Addicted to Reading","none","rv-01kxps5e4skwedfgpvy7yqq1nx",[]]