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Lisa Stone
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How much do you know about the couple next door?
When Emily and Ben move in next door to Dr Burman and his wife, Anita, they are keen to get to know their new neighbours. Outgoing and sociable, Emily tries to befriend the doctor’s wife, but Anita is strangely subdued, barely leaving the house, and terrified of answering the phone.
When Emily goes missing a few weeks later, Ben is plunged into a panic. His wife has left him a note, but can she really have abandoned him for another man? Or has Emily’s curiosity about the couple next door led her straight into danger?
A gripping, sinister thriller with a twist you won’t see coming from the international best seller Lisa Stone.
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What a Dumb Chick!
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WOW. FINALLY. BRAVO. 👏🏽👌🏽
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EXCELLENT!
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Uh, what?
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By: K.L. Slater
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Single
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- Narrated by: Lucy Price-Lewis
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When single mother Darcy’s son falls from a rope bridge at a local playground, life stands still. She clutches his small, limp body, frozen, until a pair of strong hands push her aside, and she watches as George, a local doctor, saves her son’s life. George, with his twinkling hazel eyes, easy charm and lack of wedding band is almost too good to be true, but coffee becomes lunch, lunch becomes dinner, and soon they can’t go an evening without seeing each other.
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Just ridiculous
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By: K. L. Slater
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The Evidence
- By: K.L. Slater
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Esme is a start-up success who runs her own successful media company and heads up a series of investigative podcasts. She also has a beautiful home, where she lives with her sister, Michelle, and her son, Zachary. Sure, there’s an ex-husband hanging around - Owen likes to pop round a bit too often - but everything is civilised and amicable. She has life all tied up. But Esme knows that any successful podcaster is only as good as her last story, so she sets out on a new series of interviews to get to the truth behind Simone Fischer’s high-profile murder of her husband.
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Second best K.L. Slater ever!
- By Matthew Davis on 07-04-21
By: K.L. Slater
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"I was gripped immediately." (Katerina Diamond, Sunday Times best seller)
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- Paula B
- 08-17-19
CRAZY
This story is Super Suspenseful.... Creepy and Scary. Not to give anything away, but Beware of the Doctor next door. He's not dealing with a full deck. ???
Parts of this story are very disturbing, they were difficult to read. Pure torture and agony, very scary. But the impact added to the story, making it a Great Thriller.....
Very interesting suspenseful thriller.
I will be remembering this one. 👍
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- Deena
- 10-14-19
Fast paced thrill ride
This was a very thrilling read. My attention was grabbed from the very beginning all the way until the end. The charactor development was well rounded and the narrator did an excellent job of voicing through each charactor. The main charactors were likeable except Alisha. I couldn't get past the fact she was weak and passive the whole book, apparently so... All in all a really good read if you're on a budget and looking for a decent page turner.
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- Buyer110
- 07-29-19
Silly and Awful
I’m always ready to suspend my disbelief when reading fiction, but the plot holes in this story are simply too large to ignore. In addition, each character displays a level of stupidity that sapped what little interest I had in the silly plot.
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- sweta
- 09-09-19
Disturbing
This book is very disturbing. If you are sensitive to Violence and Animal abuse please do not purchase this book
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