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Named a Best Book of 2017 by Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews Winner of the 2018 Library of Virginia People’s Choice Award Judge Scott Sampson doesn’t brag about having a perfect life, but the evidence is clear: A prestigious job. A loving marriage. A pair of healthy children. Then a phone...

At eight o'clock on a blustery, mid-January morning, Charles Bliss is summoned to the head of school's office at Carrington Academy. Charles, a teacher at the elite Connecticut boarding school, is surprised by the unusual request, but when he arrives, no time is wasted. Charles learns that he has been accused of engaging in a romantic relationship with a student. The student behind the accusation, Hayley Goodloe, is the daughter of a state senator, the granddaughter of an ex-governor, and an heiress to a massive fortune.

In a rash of carjackings, Newark becomes newsworthy when one such theft ends in the murder of a wealthy banking executive. The affable, wisecracking Ross is assigned the story. To balance his reporting, he finds a Nigerian immigrant of more modest means who was also killed during a recent carjacking. It turns out the two victims knew each other, sharing an unexplained round of golf at a country club shortly before their deaths.

Quantum physicist Matt Bronik is suffering from strange, violent seizures that medical science seems powerless to explain - much to the consternation of his wife, Brigid. Matt doesn't think these fits could be related to his research, which he has always described as benign and esoteric. That, it turns out, is not quite true: Matt has been prodding the mysteries of the quantum universe, with terrible repercussions for his health. And perhaps even for humanity as a whole.

Award-winning author Brad Parks delivers a tense novel of thrills, twists, and deceit that grabs you and won’t let go until the final, satisfying page. Tommy Jump is an out-of-work stage actor approached by the FBI with the role of a lifetime: Go undercover at a federal prison, impersonate...

Four bodies, each with a single bullet wound in the back of the head, stacked like cordwood in a weed-choked vacant lot: That's the front-page news facing Carter Ross, investigative reporter with the Newark Eagle-Examiner. Immediately dispatched to the scene, Carter learns that the four victims - an exotic dancer, a drug dealer, a hustler, and a mama's boy - came from different parts of the city and didn't seem to know one another.

When he hears residents of a Newark neighborhood are getting sick - and even dying - from a strange disease, investigative reporter Carter Ross dives into the story - so deep he comes down with the illness himself. With even more motivation to track down the source of the disease, Carter soon hits upon a nearby construction site.

Brad Parks delivers a riveting, emotionally powerful stand-alone domestic suspense thriller perfect for fans of The Couple Next Door and What She Knew. Disaster is always closer than you know. It was a lesson Melanie Barrick learned the hard way growing up in the constant upheaval of foster...

Nate Lovejoy is a self-proclaimed nobody, a stay-at-home dad who doesn’t believe he’s important to anyone but his wife and their two daughters. So it’s a shock when members of a powerful secret society kidnap and spirit Nate away to a mansion at the behest of their leader, Vanslow DeGange, who claims to know the future. He’s foreseen that a billion people could die - unless Nate acts. It seems improbable, especially given what DeGange says will set this mass casualty incident in motion: a lawsuit against the biggest power company in Virginia, being brought by Nate’s wife.

Carter Ross, the sometimes-dashing investigative reporter for the Newark Eagle-Examiner, is back, and reporting on the latest tragedy to befall Newark, New Jersey: a fast-moving house fire that kills two boys. With the help of the papers newest intern, a bubbly blonde known as Sweet Thang, Carter finds the victims mother, Akilah Harris, who spins a tale of woe about a mortgage rate reset that forced her to work two jobs and leave her young boys without child care. But she's not what she seems....

As long as Newark Eagle-Examiner reporter Carter Ross turns in his stories on deadline, no one bats an eye if he doesn't wander into the newsroom until 10 or 11 in the morning. So it's an unpleasant surprise when he's awakened at 8:38 by a phone call from his boss, telling him a local policeman was killed and Carter will be covering the story, starting immediately. He's baffled when, hours later, there are still no other reporters at the widow's house. And then he gets another call from his boss: the story's off, the cop committed suicide.

Reading his own newspaper’s obituaries, veteran reporter Carter Ross comes across that of a woman named Nancy Marino, who was the victim of a hit-and-run while she was on the job delivering copies of that very paper, the Eagle-Examiner. Struck by the opportunity to write a heroic piece about an everyday woman killed too young, he heads to her wake to gather tributes and anecdotes. It’s the last place Ross expects to find controversy - which is exactly what happens when one of Nancy’s sisters convinces him that the accident might not have been accidental at all.

From international bestselling author Brad Parks comes a gripping story and prequel to his new thriller, The Last Act. After a career rising through the ranks, Mitchell Dupree has finally landed his dream job: compliance director for the Latin American division at Union South Bank. It's a...

Tommy Jump är en arbetslös skådespelare. Men FBI kontaktar honom och erbjuder honom hans livs roll – att under falskt namn spela en dömd fånge i ett federalt fängelse för att kunna bli vän med en annan fånge, den vanärade bankdirektören Mitchell Dupree, som vet var dokument som kan krossa en hänsynslös knarkkartell finns gömda … men som vägrar att avslöja var de finns. Kvinnorna i Tommys liv, hans fästmö och hans mor, säger att han är galen som ens reflekterar över att åta sig rollen.

Fra den internationale bestsellerforfatter kommer nu en ny thriller om en almindelig mand, som måske er i stand til at redde den verden, vi kender. Men for at gøre det, er han nødt til at træffe et umuligt valg. Nate Lovejoy er med egne ord et nul, en hjemme­gående far, som ikke mener, at han betyder noget for nogen andre end hans kone og deres to døtre. Derfor er det et chok, da medlemmer af en magtfuld, hemmelig sammenslutning kidnapper og lokker Nate med til en luksusvilla.

Katastrofen er altid tættere, end man tror. Melanie Barrick havde lært det på den hårde måde, mens hun voksede op i de sociale myndigheders varetægt. Men nu, som voksen og med en hengiven mand, fast arbejde og sin vidunderlige, nyfødte søn Alex troede hun, at det var et overstået kapitel i hendes liv. Lige indtil en tirsdag eftermiddag hvor hun som sædvanlig henter Alex hos dagplejeren – kun for at finde ud af at han er blevet tvangsfjernet af myndighederne.

Det er en helt almindelig onsdag eftermiddag. Dommer Scott Sampson er på vej hen for at hente sine seksårige tvillinger for at tage i svømmehallen, da hans kone, Alison, sender en besked om, at de skal til lægen, og at hun vil køre dem derhen. Scott tager derfor hjem, men da Alison kommer hjem lidt senere, er hun alene – ingen Sam, ingen Emma – og hun påstår, at hun ikke har sendt nogen besked.

Es hätte ein normaler Mittwochnachmittag werden sollen, an dem Bundesrichter Scott Sampson seine Kinder Sam und Emma zum Schwimmen begleiten würde. Doch dann erreicht ihn eine SMS seiner Frau, die besagt, dass sie die beiden von der Schule abholt. Als Alison später nach Hause kommt, sind die Kinder nicht bei ihr. Und sie hat auch keine SMS geschrieben. Stattdessen klingelt das Telefon. "Ihre Kinder sind in unserer Gewalt!", sagt eine Stimme. Wenn Scott die beiden wiedersehen wolle, habe er genaue Instruktionen zu befolgen. Wie weit wird er gehen, um das Leben seiner Kinder zu retten?

Es hätte ein normaler Mittwochnachmittag werden sollen, an dem Bundesrichter Scott Sampson seine Kinder Sam und Emma zum Schwimmen begleiten würde. Doch dann erreicht ihn eine SMS seiner Frau, die besagt, dass sie die beiden von der Schule abholt. Als Alison später nach Hause kommt, sind die Kinder nicht bei ihr. Und sie hat auch keine SMS geschrieben. Stattdessen klingelt das Telefon. "Ihre Kinder sind in unserer Gewalt!", sagt eine Stimme. Wenn Scott die beiden wiedersehen wolle, habe er genaue Instruktionen zu befolgen. Wie weit wird er gehen, um das Leben seiner Kinder zu retten?

Domare Scott Sampson skryter inte om att leva ett perfekt liv, men få tvivlar ändå. Ett prestigefyllt ämbete. Ett lyckligt äktenskap. Två friska och välartade barn.Sedan ringer telefonen och Scott Sampsons tillvaro förbyts till varje förälders värsta mar­dröm. Hans sexåriga tvillingar Sam och Emma är kidnappade. Och domare Sampson ges valet att döma exakt som han blir tillsagd i ett narkotikamål som just ska börja - eller att låta sina barn ta konsekvenserna av att han vägrar.