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It’s hard to find an employer who doesn’t ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, stay quiet until I get what I want.

From New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Freida McFadden comes the next installment of the unbelievably twisty, tension-packed and globally bestselling Housemaid series. This book can be enjoyed as a standalone listen: and once you start, it will have you up all night until the final explosive twist.

When Detective Jenna Alton and her deputy, David Kane are called to the dense woods surrounding Black Rock Falls during the Halloween season, they encounter a crime scene that will haunt them for ever. Two teenagers, Avril Lampton and Hank Parker, lie beside the makeshift camp where they had planned to spend a night under the stars, their innocent eyes frozen in fear forever.

Man kann nie wirklich wissen, was hinter verschlossenen Türen vor sich geht ... Mein Sohn Sam heiratet seine Jugendliebe, und ich könnte nicht stolzer auf den wundervollen Mann sein, zu dem er geworden ist. Noch nie war ich so froh, dass ich seinen gewalttätigen Vater vor Jahren verlassen habe. Denn heute steht Sam da, das absolute Gegenteil seines Vaters, und gibt der Schwiegertochter meiner Träume das Jawort. Ohne meine Hilfe hätte er vielleicht nie eine so perfekte Frau wie Lauren gefunden. Es stimmt schon: Mama weiß es immer besser.

From the moment I meet my son’s new girlfriend, I know she’s going to be trouble. Haven isn’t the kind of partner I imagined for my darling boy. Joel is sensitive and kind, whereas Haven is so loud and full of confidence. Her sun-kissed locks and gleaming smile are perfect… too perfect. She doesn’t belong here. And I’ll do whatever it takes to get rid of her…

The house where she lives alone lies dark and empty, her bed still perfectly made. Her car waits in the carpark, her phone unanswered. Mindy Carson has vanished into thin air…When Ursula leaves work for the evening, she’s shocked to see her friend’s car still parked nearby. Happy-go-lucky dog groomer Mindy left for home ages ago. Something is desperately wrong. On the window is an unmistakable smear of blood.

This is my first job as a housekeeper, but Evan Warner doesn’t need to know that. It’s the first of many lies I’ll tell him. He just lost his wife, Lola, and now he and his young daughter Jessica are adrift. But no amount of cleaning will rid this house of the secrets that have seeped into the cracks. I never forgave Lola for what she did to me. But I can’t let Evan get away with her murder.

Cora freezes, her breath catching in her throat. Outside her home is someone she thought she’d never see again: Violet. Cora fostered her years ago, and Violet nearly tore her family apart… Now Violet’s all grown up and her tawny eyes seem calmer, warmer. Cora can't ignore the guilt she's carried all this time… So, she welcomes Violet into her perfect home and perfect family–she has the kind of life some people would kill for.

Als Mia James an einem sonnigen Tag am Strand angespült wird, weiß sie weder, wer sie ist, noch was mit ihr passiert ist. Selbst ihr Gesicht ist das einer Fremden–bis ihr Partner Piers sich bei der Polizei meldet und sie identifiziert. Piers ist gut aussehend und fürsorglich, ihr luxuriöses Zuhause ist makellos eingerichtet, und ihre Freunde versuchen voller Hilfsbereitschaft die Lücken in ihrem Gedächtnis zu füllen. Eigentlich sollte Mia glücklich sein, nach dem Unfall in dieses perfekte Leben zurückzukehren.

The cottage sits pretty with ornate, stone walls and embers still glowing cozy in the fireplace within, the remnants of a happy, sheltered life. But a woman's body lies still on the floor, her frozen face smeared with blood-red lipstick. Detective Morgan Brookes thinks she’s seen it all, but goosebumps prickle her flesh as she walks inside a beautiful limestone cottage in Rydal Falls to find an innocent young woman strangled to death. The killer has applied lipstick to Rachel Hart and pressed her lips to a letter to seal it with a kiss.

Detective Alexandra Marshall is a fighter. Abducted, tortured and left for dead thirteen years ago, she battles every day to put murderers behind bars, haunted by the memory of the girls who didn’t survive. Then a woman is found murdered in an abandoned barn, her baby girl left screaming in a nearby car, and another woman goes missing the next day. Determined, Alex meets with their terrified husbands.

Everyone stares in admiration at my husband. As he accepts his award for excellence in service, his warm smile draws everyone in. Until a reporter shouts, “Detective Slater, did you kill your ex-wife?” When I first heard about Hannah Slater’s death, my heart stopped: we had the same auburn hair, brown eyes and difficult childhoods. It could have been me in that grave. Then I met Conor. Soon, I was putting Hannah’s clothes in the attic and raising his children while he was out fighting monsters.

The table is set for a feast–wine glasses, fancy tableware, candles. Like every year, we have gathered at our father’s home on Liars Island for the holidays. It’s the only time we’re ever together as a family. As we eat and raise our glasses, we avoid each other’s eyes… But this year someone new has been invited. Someone we haven’t seen for years. Someone who keeps asking questions about that terrible Christmas six years ago, when our mother died. Does our Christmas guest know more than he’s saying? Why is he here, and will we be able to keep our secrets safe?

Tracy and Malcolm Cowan have everything they ever wanted. Their world revolves around their beautiful little boy Finn, with his father's pale blue eyes and mother’s blonde hair. Tracy never has to think about the darkness in her past. The things she’s never told her husband.

‘I’ve come to report a murder,’ the little girl declares, lips trembling, her head only just high enough to see over the police counter. ‘Please, you have to help me.’ When tearful young Ellie O’Farrell walks into a rural Irish police station to report she’s dreamed a murder that hasn’t happened yet, she is gently, but firmly, sent on her way. But the very next night a beloved local grandfather is found dead, lethal knife wounds showing a struggle exactly as she’d described. How did innocent Ellie know what was going to happen?

Ich bin seine erste Frau. Nur ich kenne sein Geheimnis … Vor elf Jahren musste mein Ehemann von der Weltoberfläche verschwinden. Er hat mir von dieser furchtbaren Sache erzählt, die er getan hat – und die mich und unseren Sohn in größte Gefahr bringt. Wir hatten keine andere Wahl, als seinen Tod vorzutäuschen. Die Zeit seitdem war schwer, aber ich habe sie überstanden, weil er versprochen hat, eines Tages zurückzukehren. Dass wir in eine neue Stadt ziehen und noch mal ganz neu anfangen würden.

Dein neuer Ehemann hat ein Geheimnis. Und deine Schwiegermutter würde alles tun, um es zu bewahren…Von dem ersten Moment an, als ich meine neue Schwiegermutter Lilian Fletcher treffe, macht sie eins deutlich: Sie hasst mich. Und ist fest entschlossen, mich aus dem Leben ihres Sohnes zu vertreiben. Ich spüre, wie sie mich stets beobachtet, und plötzlich passieren Dinge, die mir angehängt werden: ein heruntergefallener Geburtstagskuchen, ein verschütteten Glas Wein. Dann erfahre ich, dass Seb schon einmal verheiratet war und seine erste Frau gestorben ist.

I thought I was the luckiest woman alive. I have a loving husband, who supports me in everything I do. A beautiful home, with comfy couches and art taped to the fridge. And Stella—my kind, gentle daughter. I’ve fought so hard for this life, and every day I’m grateful for it. So it hits me like lightning, the moment I see my nanny stumbling towards me, blood drying on her forehead. She was attacked. Stella is gone.

Haunted by the serial killer she never caught, Detective Kimberley King leaves her job in New York and relocates to the sleepy town of Dead Woman Crossing, Oklahoma. Kimberley hopes to bring her daughter Jessica up close to her family, far from the bad memories the city holds. But her quiet new home is not the peaceful place she dreamed of. Within days of her arrival, Kimberley is called to the scene of a terrible crime: her friend Hannah, a single mother, has been brutally murdered while her one-year-old daughter was sleeping nearby.

The girls walk arm-in-arm, laughing through the quiet late-night streets of Manchester Bay, celebrating their homecoming weekend. But arriving home, the laughter dies. Their best friend Cami lies still on the floor, hair splayed on the carpet, and rope marks all around her throat… When university student Cami Margot is found murdered, Agent Tori Hunter and Detective Will Braddock are among the first on the scene. For Tori, the image of this smart young woman with her whole life ahead of her being hunted down is instantly seared in her mind.