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Jackie and Pete King have lived in Dunmore for years, running one of the two local pubs in the sleepy little town. Money has been tight after the bushfires, and it’s about to get tighter if they can’t find a way to pay their suppliers to keep their business going and keep the bank from foreclosing on their property. So when Jackie receives a mysterious phone call offering them $100,000 to let someone bury a body on their land, the answer isn’t as simple as they thought it would be.

Melbourne, 2018: Als Kim Leamy von einem Fremden angesprochen wird, der glaubt, in ihr seine Schwester Sammy wiedergefunden zu haben, hält sie das für einen schlechten Scherz. Die zweijährige Sammy Went war 1990 in Manson, Kentucky, spurlos verschwunden. Kim weiß, es muss eine Verwechslung vorliegen, hat sie doch hier in Australien eine geborgene Kindheit verlebt. Und trotzdem bleiben Zweifel. Zweifel, die Kim schließlich in die USA, in Sammys kleine Heimatstadt führen: in eine beklemmende Welt von religiösem Fanatismus und dunklen Geheimnissen.

“Evans is so good at nail-biting narrative.” —WashingtonPost “[A]crackling literary mystery. . . . Harrow itself contains Shirley Jackson levelsof gloomy passages and dark secrets. Smart, scary, sexy, and gorgeously writtento boot.” —Booklist (starredreview) Joe Hill’s Horns meets...

The aliens have seen many worlds, but they know that Earth in particular is a jewel. They lust for its soaring mountains, its shining seas, its gorgeous forests and majestic deserts. There is just one part of the planet that they don't want: us. Flynn Carroll knows that the aliens are a race of brilliance and extraordinary cruelty. And he knows that they have found a way to eliminate humanity: capture the mind of the president of the United States.

Jessica Chamberlain and her search-and-rescue dog, Luke, hunt for lost people in the Tidewater area of Virginia. But that's a side hustle: Jess's work as a private investigator pays the bills. Right now, she's looking for a girl missing for twenty years and the truth about a man's suicide. When someone runs her off the road and her house burns down, she could take the hint and leave—but she won't. Regrouping in a fleabag motel far from her friends, Jess battles loneliness and anxiety. When a rich man in Norfolk asks her to find his runaway wife, Jess happily accepts his hefty advance.