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The Ruins

Mat Osman

"I was about to start the earthquake when the phone rang. It wasn’t to be a big earthquake—I was thinking of two, maybe three hundred dead."


The Only Child

Mi-ae Seo

"I told you about the room, didn’t I? The room with dozens of locks on it."


The Museum of Desire

Jonathan Kellerman

"Doctors in Florida, uncommon surname, easy trace."


In the Shadow of Vesuvius

Tasha Alexander

"Some corpses lie undisturbed longer than others."


Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

Deepa Anappara

"Our school is locked up behind a six-foot wall with barbed wire on top, and an iron gate that has a door painted purple."


Things in Jars

Jess Kidd

"The nurse, Mrs Bibby, sits with her bad leg on an upturned bucket."


Real Life

Adeline Dieudonné

"One summer evening, my mother had made peaches stuffed with tuna, which we ate on the blue stone terrace overlooking the garden."


Crooked River

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

"The tide was coming in, the wind had picked up, and the surf was beating against the shore with a little more energy."


The Killing Tide

Jean-Luc Bannalec

"He pulled his cell phone out of his jacket pocket."


Behind Every Lie

Christina McDonald

"'The police think I was at Mom’s house?' I asked Andrew, stunned."



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