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Dean R. Koontz

A frightening novella from the #1 New York Times master of suspense Ben Chase is a war hero, but a reluctant one. He struggles with bitter memories and feels alienated from the culture to which he has returned. When he claims that a psychopath is stalking him, he has by then made such an outsider of himself that no one believes him. He must resurrect the repressed warrior within to save himself and a woman he comes to love. Heroes need monsters to slay, and they can always find them—within if not without.

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Josephine Bell

> Sally Combs had just finished a temporary job as a secretary to her uncle in Bermuda. As a farewell present he arranged for her to go on a cruise round the Caribbean. It seemed an ideal holiday, but the night before the ship arrived in Bermuda, Felicity Fennister, one of the passengers, suddenly disappeared. At first no one seemed at all anxious to discover the whereabouts of the missing woman - not even when Sally finds what looks like a suicide note. As sinister events build up into a pattern of violence, Sally is forced to realise that almost anyone on board could hold the key to the puzzle.

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Michael Harvey

Receiving a lucrative anonymous offer to track down an escaped criminal, private investigator Michael Kelly unwinds the past of the fugitive's wife, who harbors deeply complicated and dangerous reasons for standing by her husband. It's been two years since disgraced Illinois governor Ray Perry disappeared from a federal courthouse in Chicago moments after being sentenced to thirty-eight years in prison on corruption charges. P.I. Michael Kelly is offered nearly a quarter million dollars if he will find Perry, no questions asked. Kelly's investigation begins with the woman Ray Perry left behind: his wife, Marie, who has been ostracized by her former friends and hounded by the feds. As he hunts for her husband, Kelly finds that everyone in Chicago has secrets, including the governor's wife. And some of them could get Michael Kelly killed....

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Max Brand

Don Grier was a boy when he set out through the wilderness with a brutal and vindictive taskmaster. But three months later, when the two finally reached Chalmer's Creek, Don had the toughness and fighting skills of a man. He needed both to survive in the treacherous mining town--and to uncover the truth about his father's shameful death.