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Esther Wane
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Claire McGowan
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"Delivers with both style and substance. . . Claire McGowan is one of my favourite authors and this is a truly first-class read."—Louise Candlish
She believed her serial-killer ex was innocent, but now history is repeating itself. What does she really remember?
Writer Karen Walker knows more than most about murderers. Her first love went on to become The Bagman, a notorious serial killer now locked away for life in a maximum-security prison.
Karen has spent her life running from the weight of having loved him, defended him and, ultimately, leading the police to his door. But now, ten years later, just as she’s about to publish her account of his crimes, a young woman is abducted in horribly familiar circumstances.
It can’t be The Bagman…can it? He’s safely behind bars, thanks to her. But she has to know for sure.
Returning to the hometown she thought she’d left for good, Karen is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse with the man she’s never escaped. If there’s any chance of saving the kidnapped girl, she’ll have to face up to what really happened back then, once and for all…
©2025 by Claire McGowan. (P)2024 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.Listeners also enjoyed...
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ME: Staring down at the sweet baby in my arms, I feel panic instead of love. Because this isn’t the child I gave birth to. My husband whispers to the midwife. They all think I’m going crazy. But the tiny boy in my arms is crying again. I’m certain: he knows I’m not his mummy. And I’ll do whatever it takes to get my son back.
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Not a Psy thriller
- By Anastassia Anderson on 03-09-25
By: Daniel Hurst
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Not Our Daughter
- A Thriller
- By: Chad Zunker
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
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Thirteen years ago, Cole and Lisa Shipley were fostering an infant with hopes of adopting her. Overnight everything was turned upside down, when the child’s mother bled to death on their front doorstep. Her last words: He’s coming here…for her! Save her. Afraid, bewildered, and with a baby in their arms, they fled. The longer they hid, the guiltier they looked. Now in a small Colorado town under assumed identities, they’ve been seemingly safe.
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3.8 ⭐️ Entertaining! This one reads like a novella: so much to cover and not a lot of pages to do it - so let's floor it! lol
- By Desert Doberman on 04-27-25
By: Chad Zunker
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The Push
- By: Claire McGowan
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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From the bestselling author of What You Did comes a stunning psychological thriller. One party. Thirteen people. By 3.02 p.m., one of them will be dead.
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Good performances, annoying story
- By VM SD on 12-23-20
By: Claire McGowan
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The Survivors
- By: Caroline Mitchell
- Narrated by: Caroline Morahan, Lucy Rayner, Alana Kerr-Collins
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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I’m so looking forward to meeting Aunt Maura, my mother’s twin sister who lives on the rugged west coast of Ireland. With my own mother dying so suddenly, and my sweet baby daughter arriving, I need family around me. But instead of arriving at Maura’s house safe and sound, I wake up in hospital, badly injured. Then I remember the crash. Where is my baby?
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Fins narrator was so bad it was all that stood out
- By kim mcleroth on 04-28-25
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Truth Truth Lie
- By: Claire McGowan
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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Amira’s less than thrilled to be spending the weekend with her husband’s university friends. Two of them are hosting a joint fortieth on a private Scottish island, with vintage champagne, expensive gifts, and soaks in the wood-fired hot tub. Despite the luxury, Amira knows she’s going to feel left out, not to mention freezing cold and cut off. When they decide to play ‘two truths and a lie’, anonymously posting three statements about themselves into a box, years of resentment start bubbling to the surface. And then an extra slip of paper emerges, scrawled with three chilling threats
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A weekend of secrets and suspense…
- By Karenique on 05-15-25
By: Claire McGowan
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Seems Perfect
- A Novel
- By: Rebecca Hanover
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya, Emily Lawrence
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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Emily Hawthorne lives in the well-heeled Noe Valley of San Francisco…but just barely. With less work than she would like at the yoga studio, a pile of debt, and a fraught past, she can no longer afford her tiny condo. When she meets the charming Penelope “Pip” Stone and her young daughter, also beset by financial woes, she agrees to take them in as roommates. But Emily’s stroke of luck turns out to be another twist of the knife: Pip is a professional squatter who has no intention of paying rent. And Pip doesn’t want to share the condo.
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Aggravating slow with Painful predictability
- By Cory edwards on 03-09-25
By: Rebecca Hanover
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When She's Gone
- A Thriller
- By: Rea Frey
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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Cora Valentine has her whole life—and a shot at the Olympics—ahead of her. But when she’s kidnapped on Halloween, her name is splashed across headlines not as an athlete but as a victim. Not even her safe return changes that, especially since no one is caught for the crime. Hounded by the public, Cora’s time as a missing girl and member of the Magnificent Eight has its consequences.
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wow
- By Kaci on 04-25-25
By: Rea Frey
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Let Me In
- By: Claire McGowan
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden, Will Watt, Pearl Hewitt, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
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For Helen and George, the remote fixer-upper in Cornwall was supposed to be a dream home, and a way to leave behind the problems they’re both running from. But something about the place feels wrong from day one. And why does Helen have a creeping feeling she’s seen this house before?
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ABSOLUTELY ABSURD
- By Ann on 07-26-23
By: Claire McGowan
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The Nanny Share
- By: Emily Shiner
- Narrated by: Ashley Rose Kaplan
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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Sweet little Emma and Nealie, both just four years old, live on the same block in the exclusive, gated Blackwood neighborhood—miles from my cramped studio apartment. I go between each family’s home to care for the girls. And I know all their secrets… Their mothers were best friends until three months ago, when everything fell apart. There’s a door that’s always locked at Nealie’s house. And Emma’s house is filled with whispered arguments. I’m sure her father is having an affair.
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Good book!
- By Amanda Corkum on 03-06-25
By: Emily Shiner
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Gravewater Lake
- A Thriller
- By: A.M. Strong, Sonya Sargent
- Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
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She wakes on the shore of a remote lake in the middle of the night, freezing and afraid. With no memory of who she is or how she got there, she stumbles frantically toward the lights of a house. The handsome stranger who lives there is shocked to see a woman on his doorstep and takes her in. Trapped by a winter storm and cut off from the outside world, she starts to suspect that all is not right with the house on Gravewater Lake—or the man, who says his name is Gregg.
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Very Gripping
- By Randi Picard on 05-16-25
By: A.M. Strong, and others
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The Quiet Wife
- By: Diane Saxon
- Narrated by: Vivienne Rochester, Rhys Tees
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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I’ve been keeping a secret. From my colleagues, my friends and most importantly, my husband - who knows nothing of my past life. Twenty years ago, at college, a boy became obsessed with me. Craig Lane believed he could make me love him back if he just tried harder. When I rejected him, he did something so horrifying, it’s the stuff of nightmares. All my nightmares. Now I’ve been informed by Victim Support Services, that boy - now a man - has been released from prison. The news terrifies me. Am I safe? Or does Craig still carry the same obsession he did when we were seventeen? I don’t know.
By: Diane Saxon
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Best House on the Block
- A Thriller
- By: T.R. Ragan
- Narrated by: Susan Dalian
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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Aspiring investigative journalist Shannon Gibbons and her family have moved into a beautiful house in the Fabulous Forties of East Sacramento, where Shannon finds a fast connection with a new neighbor. Renowned journalist Rosella Marlow appears to have a genuine interest in giving Shannon’s own career a boost—as personal assistant on Rosella’s new project. Appearances are deceiving.
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Not for me
- By Terri Hill on 02-28-25
By: T.R. Ragan
Not a bad story.
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