Different motives. One target. Danger stalks a young girl in this international thriller from the Hercule Poirot Award–winning author of Absinthe. It begins with a robbery from the cargo hold of a plane in Belgium; fifty million dollars worth of diamonds are taken. But a Russian mercenary named Alexei leaves with the real prize: a data card containing secret and sensitive information from the Israeli government. When Alexei is killed by an Arab operative while trying to negotiate for more money, the data card survives inside a locket he gave to his lover’s daughter, Lucy. In a panic, mother and daughter flee to Jamaica, where Lucy’s father lives. Yet the Caribbean island is no safe haven. A serial killer is using Kingston’s streets as a hunting ground, targeting young schoolgirls—ones who look a lot like Lucy. And as Arab and Mossad agents converge on the town, Lucy disappears. On the hunt for a psychopath, one police...

A stunning new work of intimate, nuanced, and quietly profound realism.From the award-winning author Nina Dunic, stories in this collection have twice won the Toronto Star Short Story Contest, been long-listed for the CBC Short Story Prize four times, nominated for The Journey Prize, and pre-date her critically acclaimed novel The Clarion.With crisp and penetrating prose that recalls the work of Mavis Gallant and Alice Munro, the stories in Suddenly Light are bracing, buoyant, and test the delicate threads that tie us together.

Bentham, Wyoming. A deserted ghost town built upon abandoned coal mines. Once windtorn woodrot, now a private penitentiary set in a reformative community pledged to clinical testing.Neurosurgeon Dr. Wayne Sykkes truly believed he had found the cure for all sin. But one year into testing and Belle Rivera, twenty-four, was found dead. Bloodied in the underbrush. A sprig of hyssop pressed to her lips.Enter Corey Handler Delgado. Fallen angel scorned. Five years ago he was nothing more than a scruffy detective. For an act of brutal justice he was arrested in the attempted murder of an innocent man.One call and the charming doctor has convinced him to take a second chance. Insists that he can be saved. But something is wrong.Something is wrong with this town.Something is wrong with this body.Something is wrong with this cure.Cora isn't dead.

With her housemate Blake away and her lover Chase also absent, Sam Westin, at loose ends, embarks on a backpacking trip in the North Cascades, hoping to photograph the elusive gray wolves. Blake, reeling from a recent breakup, has taken a six-week job far away in Evansburg, caring for three gorillas while their owner, Dr. Grace McKenna, is on vacation. But events take a dark turn when the baby gorilla is shot by an intruder, prompting Grace's lover, Detective Finn, to investigate.Sam's impromptu trip becomes dangerous when she finds a corpse and then stumbles upon an injured immigrant and pack horse carrying drugs. After a gunshot forces her to flee her campsite, Sam faces a perilous cross-country journey with the injured man and horse in tow.In Evansburg, while following the trail of the gorilla shooting, Detective Finn stumbles upon a murdered woman in a nearby abandoned house and her child hiding in the gorilla barn. With both investigations going nowhere fast,...

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