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Carrie

★★★★☆
Stephen King's debut novel about a shy teen with telekinetic powers is a tour-de-force, which established him as a master of his craft

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The Gray Man

★★★☆☆
A former CIA assassin is now the subject of a manhunt, a manhunt by his counterparts from a dozen different countries

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Nine Perfect Strangers

★★★☆☆
Nine people from different walks of life attend a 10-day retreat at a luxury wellness centre

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Persuader

★★★☆☆
Jack Reacher goes undercover at the behest of the DEA to track a personal enemy

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The Couple Next Door

★★★★☆
A small baby goes missing while under the care of the seemingly perfect "couple next door"

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My Sister, The Serial Killer

★★★☆☆
Korede has to juggle her job as a nurse with her love for her murderous sister

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The Keeper of Lost Causes

★★★★☆
A police detective is assigned a cold case to keep him occupied, and has breakthroughs using exceptional detecting skills

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Shadow of the Wind

★★★★★
A mystery, thriller, romance and detective story which will have you gripped from the beginning to the end

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Dark Matter

★★★★☆
A married college physics professor is drugged and wakes up in an alternate world, where he is a successful single scientist

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The Housemaid

★★★☆☆
Millie, a young woman with a troubled past on the verge of penury, is hired as a housemaid by the wealthy Winchester family, but there is something off about the employers

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Verity

★★★☆☆
A struggling young author is recruited to ghost-write the novels of the severely incapacitataed best-selling author Verity Crawford

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The Defense

★★★★☆
Eddie Flynn, a former con-artist turned lawyer, is trapped into defending a notorious Russian mobster

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The Secret History

★★★★★
A young classics student relates the incidents which lead up to the murder of one of his classmates at an exclusive liberal arts college in Vermont.

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A German Requiem

★★★☆☆
The third in the Berlin Noir series; WW2 is done, and Bernie is still trying to eke out a living. He is called to Vienna to investigate a case, but is caught up in the complex interplay between Germans, the Allies, the Red Army and former Nazis in hiding

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The Black Echo

★★★★☆
LA detective and Vietnam vet Harry Bosch is called in to examine a body found in a drainage tunnel, but the case hits closer to home when he recognises the body as an old comrade

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Behind Her Eyes

★★★★★
A doctor's secretary is having an affair with the doctor, while being a close confidant of his wife.

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