Absolution

Her neighbor's husband died of liver failure. Her neighbor brought mole eleven days later.

Lourdes is a pharmacist. She knows what destroys a liver. She knows some of it has no taste.

Lourdes can't go to the police. She has a feeling, a timeline, and eleven years of pharmacy training, none of which adds up to evidence.

She can't unknow what she knows. And Adoncia, composed and warm and always watching, has made it clear she knows Lourdes is looking.

Perfect for readers of Freida McFadden, Lisa Jewell, and Shari Lapena. Some neighbors you wave to. Some you watch.

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All the Pretty Little Horses

The singing woke her up.

Sarita is three months into motherhood, running on no sleep, alone in the house while her husband travels for work. When a woman's voice comes through the baby monitor at 2 a.m., singing a lullaby to her son, she tells herself it's interference. A signal bleeding over from a neighbor's monitor. It has to be.

Then she meets Holly. The new neighbor behind her house. Chris's college ex-girlfriend, who moved in three months ago without mentioning it. Holly is building a nursery. She says she's adopting. But there's no agency. No caseworker. No process.

And Holly knows things about Logan she shouldn't. Things you can only know if you've been watching.

Nobody believes Sarita. Not Chris. Not her mother. The proof is missing.

For fans of Freida McFadden, Lisa Jewell, and Mary Kubica. A short read from Quinn Valdez. Part of the Good Fences collection.

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The Coach House

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The Conditions

Four women share a carpool. One of them knows what happened to the boy who went missing two years ago.

Bianca has been riding to work with the same three women for three years. Teresa drives. Patty sits up front. Felipa talks. The route crosses the river, passes the plant, and nobody mentions the boy whose flyers are still taped to the Dollar General window.

Then one of them repeats something overheard. A detail about what the boy was wearing that day. It was never in the news. You'd only know about it if you were there.

Bianca watches the women in the car.

Nobody else caught it.

A domestic thriller about a small town, a carpool, and the thing nobody will say out loud. Part of the Good Fences collection. For fans of Freida McFadden, Lisa Jewell, and Megan Miranda.

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Night Differential

Esme works nights.

Three or four shifts a week, she catches the 8:53 out of Berwyn, rides forty minutes west to a sleep clinic in Aurora, and sits behind a one-way glass watching strangers sleep. She reads their brainwaves. She listens to their breathing. She scores their data and writes up reports and catches the 4:48 back home before her kids wake up.

The eleven percent night differential is what keeps the mortgage paid with a little room left over. Tonight there's one patient. A sleepwalker. His wife is afraid he's going to burn the house down.

Esme hooks up the monitors. She turns up the audio. She watches him fall asleep.

Then he starts talking. And the things he says are not about his house.

A story about the distance between where you work and where your children sleep — and what can happen inside that distance.

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Unforced Entry

Valentina hasn't spoken in four meetings.

She comes every Tuesday. She takes the chair by the door. She listens to the others talk about what they've lost and she nods in the right places and she leaves before anyone can ask her anything. Her husband Hugo died five weeks ago in a fire at a rental house off I-10.

Tonight there's someone new in the circle. A man named Salvador. Mid-forties. Work jacket. Hands on his knees.

He says his wife died in a gas leak at a rental house off I-10, out past Sealy. Five weeks ago.

He says her name was Valentina.

A work of psychological suspense about two people in a church basement who can't say the real thing out loud. For fans of Freida McFadden, Lisa Jewell, and Megan Miranda.

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The Appointment

She listens to other people's secrets for a living. Today, she has ten minutes to confess her own.

Dr. Lena Mitchum has spent thirty-four years building a safe, perfectly controlled life. A respected clinical psychologist, a loving mother, a marriage she trusts. But safety is an illusion, easily dismantled by the quiet click of a deadbolt.

At 3:00 PM on a Friday, her final patient arrives. Beth Carson doesn't want therapy. She wants the truth about a murder that happened thirty-four years ago.

Beth has locked the office door. In a claustrophobic room where every word is a weapon, giving up her darkest secret might be the deadliest move of all.

The Appointment is a real-time domestic thriller about trauma, survival, and the price a child pays for keeping her family's worst secret. For readers of Gillian Flynn, Alex Michaelides, and Freida McFadden.

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Comfort

Marisol Reyes is thirty-one, lives alone on the Oregon coast, and has not seen her mother in twenty-seven years.

Then on a foggy Tuesday in October, a woman in a flannel shirt too thin for the weather knocks on her door and says five words: I didn't kill your father.

Marisol shuts the door.

But her mother doesn't leave town. And Marisol, trained as a social worker to read people, starts to notice things she doesn't want to notice. A woman sleeping in a shuttered doorway downtown who knows how to make herself invisible. A letter from 1999 with a single pronoun that doesn't fit. A kitchen cabinet her grandmother opens without looking, in a house she was never shown around.

The story Marisol grew up on was built like a house on a slab. Six words, given to a four-year-old: Your mother did a bad thing.

Twenty-seven years later, something has gotten into the foundation.

A slow-burn domestic thriller about the lies that feel like love, the women who hold our secrets hostage, and the question nobody in your family wants you to ask. For readers of Sally Hepworth, Lisa Jewell, and Ashley Audrain.

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