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NEVER LOOK AWAY by Linwood Barclay David Harwood, a journalist at Promise Falls in the state of New York, faces a difficult time at work. His newspaper is outsourcing local news reporting, he can’t get a handle on the corrupt for-profit prison moving to town, and his wife, Jan, is struggling against depression. They could both do with a break, or at least a relaxing weekend. On a warm summer Saturday, the couple take their four-year-old son Ethan to an amusement park. But what begins as a pleasant family outing turns into a terrifying nightmare when, inexplicable, Jan disappears. FINDING FRANKIE by Maeve Binchy One of the world’s best-loved and most mesmerising storytellers, Maeve Binchy, enchants her readers once again in this magical tale. Set in Binchy’s beloved Dublin, it explores unconventional families, and relationships that aren’t quite what they seem. Frankie, the child at the heart of everyone’s lives, is a little girl who just needs to be loved. There’s a secret behind Frankie’s birth, and there are questions about her father. The neighbours want Frankie to grow up in the warm protection of their street – but will they see these fond dreams come true? THE GENESIS PLAGUE by Michael Byrnes Good versus evil is at the core of this razor-sharp, action-packed thriller, as it moves between Iraq and the streets of Boston. It begins when a mercenary unit in northern Iraq, led by Sergeant Jason Yaeger, surrounds radical Islam’s most wanted target in a mysterious cave that sits at the heart of the biblical story of Genesis. The unit goes in – but their extraction mission releases a horror that no one could have predicted. Is a deadly bubonic plague virus about to be unleashed upon the world? Or can the forces of reason win the day? THE SUMMER OF THE BEAR by Bella Pollen Summer 1979. On an island in the Hebrides, a captive grizzly bear, tempted by the freedom of the open sea, escapes its keeper. Heading out of London, a recently widowed woman is about to drive north with her three children to holiday in the Hebrides. In her grief, Letty is haunted by a suspicion that her late husband might have been a spy. His death in a fall from the roof of the British Embassy in Bonn was deemed an accident, but Letty is tortured by doubt. Only nine-year old Jamie keeps his calm, as he clings to an enduring faith in his father. Dada never broke a promise, and Jamie knows he will return, one day soon … Hardcover, 575 pages in total. In very good preloved condition.