Janice Hallett
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"Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. Severely dyslexic and wanting to know more, he took it to his remedial English teacher Miss Iles, not realising the chain of events that he was setting in motion. Miss Iles became convinced that the book was the key to solving a puzzle, and that a message in secret code ran through all Twyford's...
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Appeal volume 1.5
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The Christmas season has arrived in Lower Lockwood, and the Fairway Players are busy rehearsing their festive holiday production of Jack and the Beanstalk to raise money for a new church roof. But despite the season, goodwill is distinctly lacking among the amateur theater enthusiasts with petty rivalries, a possibly asbestos-filled beanstalk, and some perennially absent players behind the scenes. Of course, there's also the matter of the dead body...
3) The appeal
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"Welcome to Lockwood, proud home of The Fairway Players, who, under the creative control of Martin Hayward, the owner of the local country club, are putting on a production of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons." The star, as always: Martin's wife, Helen, the only person in the troupe with any real acting talent. But this is not a production like any other: just as rehearsals get under way, tragedy strikes: Poppy Reswick, Martin and Helen's beloved granddaughter,...
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"A novel about a journalist in pursuit of a story about a child who survived a cult mass suicide, which may not be all that it appeared to be, told in Janice Hallett's signature original and innovative style of emails, messages, news clips, and screenplay excerpts." --
5) The examiner
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"Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative page-turner follows a group of students in an art master's program that goes dangerously awry, from the internationally bestselling author Janice Hallett"--
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Bienvenido a Lockwood, hogar orgulloso de The Fairway Players, quienes, bajo el control creativo de Martin Hayward, el propietario del club de campo local, están organizando una producción de "All My Sons" de Arthur Miller. La estrella, como siempre: la esposa de Martin, Helen, la única persona en la compañía con verdadero talento actoral. Pero esta no es una producción como cualquier otra: justo cuando comienzan los ensayos, ocurre una tragedia:...
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"Amanda Bailey, una exitosa autora de novelas true crime, lo sabe todo sobre la tristemente célebre secta de los Ángeles de Alperton. Al fin y al cabo, se han escrito docenas de libros y hecho varias películas sobre ellos desde aquella aciaga noche, hace ya casi veinte años, en la que intentaron sacrificar a un bebé que afirmaban que era el Anticristo. Ahora, todos los miembros de la secta han muerto excepto su carismático líder, y parece que...
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"Solo tú puedes resolver el misterio del siglo. Edith Twyford fue una escritora de libros infantiles famosa en todo el mundo, pero ahora su único legado es la rumoreada existencia del código Twyford: una serie de pistas ocultas en sus libros que conducen… ¿a qué? Nadie lo sabe, pero no por ello han cesado las especulaciones.Steve Smith puede relacionar casi todas las desgracias de su vida con Edith Twyford. Cuando era niño, encontró una...
9) Retreat
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Martin and Kate find that their island retreat is about to become a prison of unimaginable terror. When a blood-soaked stranger stumbles through their door claiming an apocalyptic virus is sweeping across Europe, their lives are turned upside down as they face what could be the end of everything they know. Using all means necessary, they must fight to escape the approaching threat. But escape is only the beginning of their terrifying fight for survival....