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Helen Phillips
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A. J. Wills
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Is her child really missing? Or did he never really exist?
After a difficult few months, Karina's looking forward to a short break in Turkey with her husband and four-year-old son, Jacob.
The marriage has been showing signs of strain lately, so it'll be a chance to relax, enjoy some good food, and more importantly, reconnect with the people she loves the most.
But on their first morning, Karina is startled to discover she's slept in late.
Where's Jacob?
He's usually an early riser who likes to tumble into their bed first thing, pestering them to make him breakfast.
A needle of fear spikes through Karina's veins.
She rushes to his room, but his bed is empty and he's nowhere to be found in the villa. Frantic with worry, she raises the alarm with her husband—but he stares at her blankly, like she's out of her mind.
He says he has no idea what she's talking about. They don't have any children, and he's never heard of a boy called Jacob…
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- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
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On the day she returns to active duty with the Serial Crimes Unit, Detective Inspector Anjelica Henley is called to a crime scene. Dismembered body parts from two victims have been found by the river. The modus operandi bears a striking resemblance to Peter Olivier, the notorious Jigsaw Killer, who has spent the past two years behind bars. When he learns that someone is co-opting his grisly signature - the arrangement of victims’ limbs in puzzle-piece shapes - he decides to take matters into his own hands.
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This had so much potential
- By Janice P. Yates on 03-29-21
By: Nadine Matheson
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The Forgotten Boy
- By: Laura Andersen
- Narrated by: Kim Bretton
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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1460: Ismay Deacon, caught between sides in the War of the Roses, tries to hide away in her ancestral home, Havencross. But when word gets out that she has a child, and speculation on who the father might be, Ismay has to make a terrible choice to protect her son. The Deacon family disappears, but there are rumors of a fair-haired, unsmiling ghost of a boy haunting the halls of Havencross.
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Fun read, very interesting
- By Omaha-Mom on 08-08-24
By: Laura Andersen
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Ghost Mother
- By: Kelly Dwyer
- Narrated by: Renata Friedman
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
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Lilly Bly desperately wants to have a baby. She is struggling with infertility and bad spending habits when her husband, Jack, gets a new job that moves them from Chicago to a small town in Wisconsin. Impractical Lilly falls in love with a decrepit mansion well out of their price range—she is convinced that she will finally get pregnant and have a baby in this house—and Jack agrees to it. But when Lilly learns that her dream house was the site of a gruesome triple homicide/suicide in the 1950s, she begins to experience strange occurrences that soon lead her to believe the house is haunted.
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The creep builds throughout the story to a fantastic ending!
- By K. on 08-16-24
By: Kelly Dwyer
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After Oz
- By: Gordon McAlpine
- Narrated by: Maria Ru-Djen
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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Kansas, 1896. After a tornado destroys the Gale family farm, eleven-year-old Dorothy goes missing. As the days pass, the Gales are increasingly terrified the worst has happened. But when the girl turns up unharmed four days later, the townsfolk breathe a sigh of relief. That is, until Dorothy herself relates her account of the events that took place during her disappearance. In vivid detail, Dorothy describes a fantastical land and its magical inhabitants: a scarecrow, a tin man, a cowardly lion, a wizard, a witch.
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A Twist on a Classic
- By Garrett on 11-01-24
By: Gordon McAlpine
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Dear Hanna
- A Novel
- By: Zoje Stage
- Narrated by: Helen Laser
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Now twenty-four, Hanna is living an outwardly normal life of domestic content. Married to real estate agent Jacob, she’s also stepmother to his teenage daughter Joelle. They live in a beautiful home, and Hanna loves her career as a phlebotomist—a job perfectly suited to her occasional need to hurt people. But when Joelle begins to change in ways that don’t suit Hanna’s purposes, her carefully planned existence threatens to come apart.
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Buckle up for a terrific sequel!
- By NStrein on 08-14-24
By: Zoje Stage
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The Perfect Child
- By: Lucinda Berry
- Narrated by: Christine Williams, Erin Bennett, Dan John Miller
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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Christopher and Hannah are a happily married surgeon and nurse with picture-perfect lives. All that’s missing is a child. When Janie, an abandoned six-year-old, turns up at their hospital, Christopher forms an instant connection with her, and he convinces Hannah they should take her home as their own.
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You can see it coming... but how bad is it?
- By shelley on 03-02-19
By: Lucinda Berry
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- MA Reviewer
- 08-11-24
Eye-rolling!
Huge fan of this author. Not his best book.
TW: gaslighting and abuse of females.
Unrealistic plotline.
Great narration. Loved "The Lottery Winners" but not this one.
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