Alex Lake
1) The last lie
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For Claire Daniels, life is good. She has everything she's ever wanted - a career she loves, friends she can rely on, and a husband who dotes on her. All she needs is to start a family of her own, and things will be even better than good. They'll be perfect... For Alfie, it couldn't be more different. He doesn't want children. He doesn't even like his wife very much. Alfie's life with Claire is built on a lie; a LOT of lies. And she can never find...
2) Ready or not
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2021
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Alice and Tom Sark seem to have it all. The perfect marriage, the perfect baby, the perfect life. And now Alice, an up-and-coming journalist, starts investigating a story which could make her career - a serial killer operating in her hometown. But soon, the case starts to hit a little too close to home. Alice and Tom begin fighting all the time. Their beautiful baby daughter, normally so calm, just won't stop crying. Then the serial killer turns their...
3) Seven days
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In seven days, Maggie's son, Seb, turns three. But she's not planning a party or buying presents or updating his baby book. She's dreading it. Because in her world, third birthdays are the days on which the unthinkable happens - she loses her child. For the last twelve years Maggie has been imprisoned in a basement. Abducted aged fifteen, she gave birth to two sons before Seb, and on their third birthdays her captor came and took them from her. She...
4) The choice
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Pub. Date
2020
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A kidnap. Matt Westbrook only turned his back for a moment. But when he looks around, his car - with his three young children inside - has vanished. A ransom. Panicked, Matt assumes a car thief has got more than he bargained for, but then he starts to receive text messages: This is a kidnap. If you want to see your children again, you will exchange them for your wife. A choice. Matt and his wife Annabelle are horrified. They can't involve the police,...
5) After Anna
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A girl is missing. Five years old, taken from outside her school. She has vanished, traceless. The police are at a loss; her parents are beyond grief. Their daughter is lost forever, perhaps dead, perhaps enslaved. But the biggest mystery is yet to come: one week after she was abducted, their daughter is returned. She has no memory of where she has been. And this, for her mother, is just the beginning of the nightmare...
6) Final call
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HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023
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Heading home after a conference, the senior leadership of a global corporation relax on their private jet ahead of their Christmas break. But their peace is shattered when they realise their jet isn't taking them home. Instead, it's heading east - out over the Atlantic Ocean. And things go from bad to worse when their pilot tells them she is going to crash into the ocean if one of them doesn't confess to murder.
7) Killing Kate
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Pub. Date
2017
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Kate returns from a post-break-up holiday with her girlfriends to news of a serial killer in her home town - and his victims all look like her. It could, of course, be a simple coincidence. Or maybe not. She becomes convinced she is being watched; followed, even. Is she next? And could her mild-mannered ex-boyfriend really be a deranged murderer? Or is the truth something far more sinister?
8) Copycat
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Pub. Date
2017
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When an old friend gets in touch, Sarah Havenant discovers that there are two Facebook profiles in her name. One is hers. The other, she has never seen. But everything in it is accurate. Photos of her friends, her husband, her kids. Photos from the day before. Photos of her new kitchen. Photos taken inside her house. And this is just the beginning. Because whoever has set up the second profile has been waiting for Sarah to find it. And now that she...