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Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor. But she’s even better at getting away with murder. Every year, she searches for the worst man at Gorman University and plots his well-deserved demise. Thanks to her meticulous planning, she’s avoided drawing attention to herself—but as she’s preparing for her biggest kill yet, the school starts probing into the growing body count on campus. Determined to keep her enemies close, Scarlett insinuates herself into the investigation and charms the woman in charge, Dr. Mina Pierce. Everything’s going according to her master plan…until she loses control with her latest victim, putting her secret life at risk of exposure. Meanwhile, Gorman student Carly Schiller is just trying to survive her freshman year. Finally free of her emotionally abusive father, all Carly wants is to focus on her studies and fade into the background. Her new roommate has other ideas. Allison Hadley is cool and confident—everything Carly wishes she could be—and the two girls quickly form an intense friendship. So when Allison is sexually assaulted at a party, Carly becomes obsessed with making the attacker pay...and turning her fantasies about revenge into a reality. 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Convinced she holds a piece of the puzzle, Rachel inserts herself into the investigation and into the lives of the people involved, even as her blackouts leave her unable to trust her own memory of that night.\n\nTold in the alternating, unreliable voices of three women, Paula Hawkins's debut is a taut psychological thriller about addiction, obsession, and the gap between the lives we imagine and the ones people actually live behind closed doors.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01ksy95yjcetbm092fdnmkbvhb.jpg","L49i;PC1HwkS~L-QNeWEE6^1pEn+",2016,336,[273],{"id":274,"slug":275,"name":276},"01kjvxsspkhv8rs9t8jfpxvqry","paula-hawkins-8xsb","Paula Hawkins",[278,282,286,287,288,289,290],{"id":279,"name":280,"slug":281,"is_fiction":19},9,"Literary Fiction","literary-fiction",{"id":283,"name":284,"slug":285,"is_fiction":18},85,"Travel","travel",{"id":37,"name":38,"slug":39,"is_fiction":19},{"id":145,"name":146,"slug":147,"is_fiction":19},{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":19},{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},{"id":137,"name":138,"slug":139,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":77,"complexity":7,"audience":80,"mood":293,"themes":294,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[82,83,84],[154,90],{"id":296,"slug":297,"title":298,"description":299,"primary_cover_url":300,"cover_blurhash":301,"first_publish_year":302,"community_rating_avg":303,"community_rating_count":137,"page_count":304,"authors":305,"genres":310,"series":317,"enrichment":318},"01kjq7te00e1c1w3h3vj67a7hn","gone-girl-a6u8","Gone Girl","On the morning of their fifth wedding anniversary, Amy Dunne disappears from the Missouri house she shares with her husband, Nick. 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Sharp, cynical, and ruthlessly plotted around a pair of unreliable narrators, it became one of the defining psychological thrillers of its era.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01ktkx3dk6k3s6syphedc5mc2x.jpg?v=2f60cfe167","L35;,O~p%#-:MxIUM{Rj029GMxIV",2012,"3.75",486,[306],{"id":307,"slug":308,"name":309},"01kjq7te064746m1ayvtbsbyh4","gillian-flynn-liux","Gillian Flynn",[311,312,313,314,315,316],{"id":37,"name":38,"slug":39,"is_fiction":19},{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},{"id":137,"name":138,"slug":139,"is_fiction":19},{"id":145,"name":146,"slug":147,"is_fiction":19},{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":19},{"id":175,"name":176,"slug":177,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":77,"complexity":7,"audience":80,"mood":319,"themes":320,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[82,83],[154,153],{"id":322,"slug":323,"title":324,"description":325,"primary_cover_url":326,"cover_blurhash":327,"first_publish_year":328,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":329,"authors":330,"genres":332,"series":338,"enrichment":339},"01kkc81pejq7aswh8mwa4vp6tb","dark-places-gdax","Dark Places","When she was seven years old, Libby Day survived the night her mother and two sisters were slaughtered in their Kansas farmhouse. Her testimony helped send her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, to prison for the murders — and for twenty-four years, Libby has lived off the dwindling sympathy of strangers: numb, broke, and doing everything she can not to think about any of it.\n\nThen the money runs out, and a secretive group of true-crime obsessives who call themselves the Kill Club comes looking for her. They are convinced Ben is innocent, that Libby's childhood account was coerced, and they will pay her to dig back into the case. Desperate for cash, Libby starts tracking down the people from that winter — and the more she learns, the less certain she becomes about what she really saw that night.\n\nTold across the single, terrible day in 1985 and Libby's grim present-day investigation, Gillian Flynn's Dark Places is a pitch-black thriller about family, poverty, and the lies we tell to survive the truth.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kkc81pj48zhpxn5b8avhtzfy.jpg","L57Bl*9Z8x-ptRofRjRQ00%M_ME1",2009,375,[331],{"id":307,"slug":308,"name":309},[333,334,335,336,337],{"id":137,"name":138,"slug":139,"is_fiction":19},{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},{"id":37,"name":38,"slug":39,"is_fiction":19},{"id":145,"name":146,"slug":147,"is_fiction":19},{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":77,"complexity":7,"audience":80,"mood":340,"themes":341,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[82,83],[153],{"id":343,"slug":344,"title":345,"description":346,"primary_cover_url":347,"cover_blurhash":348,"first_publish_year":349,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":350,"authors":351,"genres":353,"series":360,"enrichment":366},"01kjxg6bd1384ykd8hsjmsx8qp","sharp-objects-rktf","Sharp Objects","Camille Preaker, a reporter for a second-rate Chicago paper, is sent back to her small Missouri hometown of Wind Gap to cover the murder of one preteen girl and the disappearance of another. 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