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  • The Know by Martina Cole

    The Know by Martina Cole

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Joanie Brewer' s children meant the world to her. She'd do anything to protect them, even resorting to prostitution and petty crime in order to feed and clothe them. So when her beautiful teenage daughter is raped and murdered, only one thing will stop Joanie's pain - seeing her daughter's killer brought to justice. Joanie knows who he is and she'll do whatever it takes to nail him..
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    thriller  adult  book  contemporary  crime  family  fiction  horror
  • Vražedná lhůta by Andreas Gruber

    Vražedná lhůta by Andreas Gruber

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Když do 48 hodin zjistíte, proč jsem tu ženu unesl, zůstane naživu. Pokud ne, zemře.Tímto poselstvím začíná perverzní hra sériového vraha. Nechává své oběti vyhladovět, utopit v inkoustu nebo je zaživa zalije do betonu. Mnichovská komisařka Sabine Nemezová zoufale hledá nějaké vysvětlení, motiv...
  • The Whispering Room by Dean Koontz, Elisabeth Rodgers

    The Whispering Room by Dean Koontz, Elisabeth Rodgers

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    16 hrs 52 minsJane Hawk—fiction's most relentless, resourceful, stunning new heroine—continues her battle against a murderous conspiracy in the riveting sequel to The Silent Corner. "No time to delay. Do what you were born to do. Fame will be yours when you do this...
  • Shattered / Whispers / Watchers by Dean Koontz

    Shattered / Whispers / Watchers by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Three more electrifying thrillers by the new king of the genre. The New York Times #1 bestselling author's terrifying masterpieces: Watchers (his personal favorite), Whispers and Shattered, now for the first time in one hardcover edition...
  • Ebola K 2 by Bobby Adair

    Ebola K 2 by Bobby Adair

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ebola, Terrorism, and Hope The Ebola virus in Kapchorwa has mutated into an airborne strain. Terrorists have infected themselves with this new strain and are making their escape from Uganda, bent on spreading the deadly disease to western countries. The CIA is fighting to stop them while the Department of Homeland Security prepares a country for the coming pestilence...
  • Feral Outbreak by Sean Liscom

    Feral Outbreak by Sean Liscom

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    POST-APOCALYPTIC FICTION by Sean LiscomIn the wake of the cataclysmic events that reshaped our world in 2020, a sense of relief washed over us all. By late 2023, I think we were ready to just live life again. I know I was. It was a time to make new friends and put the past to rest. Rayne and I hadn’t known each other long, but we were building a solid friendship, nothing more...
  • Anatomy by Sebastian Fitzek, Michael Tsokos

    Anatomy by Sebastian Fitzek, Michael Tsokos

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    This is the autobiographic work by German inference fiction master according to his personal experience. Only the readers with high IQ can understand the ending...
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    thriller  crime  mystery  fiction  horror  audiobook  suspense  book
  • Labyrinthes by Franck Thilliez

    Labyrinthes by Franck Thilliez

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Une scène de pure folie dans un chalet. Une victime au visage réduit en bouillie à coups de tisonnier. Et une suspecte atteinte d’une étrange amnésie. Camille Nijinski, en charge de l’enquête, a besoin de comprendre cette subite perte de mémoire, mais le psychiatre avec lequel elle s’entretient à bien plus à lui apprendre. Car avant de tout oublier, sa patiente lui a confié son histoire...
  • Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose

    Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn't Have Come Here, comes a chilling family thriller about the (sometimes literal) skeletons in the closet. After their mother passes, three estranged siblings reunite to sort out her estate. Beth, the oldest, never left home. She stayed with her mom, caring for her until the very end...
  • Dark of Night by Jonathan Maberry, Rachael Lavin

    Dark of Night by Jonathan Maberry, Rachael Lavin

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The dead rose. We fell. The survivors are trapped in a world of monsters who prey on the helpless. Some of them are zombies...but they are not the only predators who feed on pain and suffering. Dark of Night is a story of worlds in collision. Three heroes who have survived the apocalypse are in a deadly race to save a busload of children from ravenous zombies and ruthless human scavengers...
  • Evil Unveiled by Robert McCammon

    Evil Unveiled by Robert McCammon

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "New York Times" bestselling author Robert McCammon continues his triumphant return with the conclusion of an epic tale of suspense that reinstates him as one of the great storytellers of our time....The Carolinas, 1699: After hearing damning testimony from the townspeople of Fount Royal, magistrate Isaac Woodward sentences the accused witch, Rachel Howarth, to death by burning...
  • The Victim by Jonas Saul

    The Victim by Jonas Saul

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In Book Five, Sarah Roberts is The Victim.Sarah is killed in a horrible car accident, the DNA found in the car verified as hers. But the government men at the Sophia Project have faked her death to keep her to themselves.After her funeral, she shows up in the food court of a busy mall where a violent exchange takes place. Things go wrong fast...
  • Widow Town by Joe Hart

    Widow Town by Joe Hart

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the future there is no such thing as a serial killer.A breakthrough research project has detected an active gene present in all known psychopaths and developed a vaccine to make it completely dormant. People are inoculated at birth. Society has rejoiced the extinction of the sociopathic mind. There hasn’t been a serial killing in America in over forty years...
  • Day of Reckoning: The Stereoscope by John Saul

    Day of Reckoning: The Stereoscope by John Saul

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When attorney Ed Becker spots the carved antique dresser in a dusty attic, he takes it to restore. Then Ed and his young daughter, Amy, make a curious discovery: Inside one of the drawers are a set of old pictures and a stereoscope, an old-fashioned device that allows you to see images in three dimensions. Oddly, all the photos resemble their house, where Ed’s grandparents lived long ago...
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    thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  pulp
  • Le Manuscrit Inachevé by Franck Thilliez, Jean-Yves Berteloot

    Le Manuscrit Inachevé by Franck Thilliez, Jean-Yves Berteloot

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Aux alentours de Grenoble, un jeune a fini sa trajectoire dans un ravin après une course-poursuite avec la douane. Dans son coffre, le corps d’une femme, les orbites vides, les mains coupées et rassemblées dans un sac...
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    thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  horror
  • Threshold by Jeremy Robinson

    Threshold by Jeremy Robinson

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    After a terrorist attack on a reservation in Oregon leaves thousands dead, Jack Sigler, call sign King and his Chess Team — Queen, Rook, Bishop and Knight — must protect the only survivor, thirteen year-old Fiona Lane. When a death in the family pulls King away, and the rest of the team is sent on a mission, Fort Bragg is attacked by a strange and overwhelming force...
  • The Reaper's Game by Layton Green

    The Reaper's Game by Layton Green

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Is it murder from beyond the grave . . . or the final ruse of a twisted serial killer?Three years ago, a deranged murderer dubbed the Halloween Killer butchered half a dozen people in New Orleans. He was caught and sentenced to die. Just before his execution, the Halloween Killer vowed to take revenge on the district attorney who put him behind bars...
  • Lake Ephemeral by Anya Allyn

    Lake Ephemeral by Anya Allyn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Six children without memories of their early years can never leave the valley that gave them life.Seven manors surround Lake Ephemeral, and their residents are hiding terrifying secrets. Seraphin Ferón was first brought to the valley of Lake Ephemeral as an eleven-year-old orphan, to meet a mother she’d never known she had...
  • Alice Isn't Well by Amy Cross

    Alice Isn't Well by Amy Cross

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "There are lots of demons in the sky above London. The problem is, this one came crashing down to earth." Ten years ago, Alice Warner was attacked and disfigured by an attacker in her own home. She remembers nothing of the attack, and she has been in a psychiatric hospital ever since. When she's finally released, however, she starts working as a security guard at an abandoned shopping mall...
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    thriller  adult  book  fiction  gothic  horror  lgbtq  mystery
  • The Shades by Amy Cross

    The Shades by Amy Cross

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One late September day, the entire population of the United States vanishes, leaving behind nothing but empty streets. For the rest of the world, there's no explanation for how 300m people could simply vanish in the blink of an eye. While international organizations dither over what to do next, a powerful company pays for a small team of investigators to head to the U.S. and learn the truth...
  • Hideout by Jack Heath

    Hideout by Jack Heath

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A tense, unputdownable thriller from the author of Hangman.Timothy Blake has nothing to lose. He's headed to an isolated house in rural Texas with a hammer in his pocket and murder on his mind. His target is Fred, the ringleader of a criminal empire on the dark web. Once Fred is gone, Blake can disappear for good.But it turns out that Fred isn't alone. Five other psychopaths live in the house...
  • Psychosis by Tony Marturano

    Psychosis by Tony Marturano

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Police, what is your emergency?” “They’re in the house and they’re going to kill me…” “My name is Marco and I am flawed. I know that. And I was fine with it until it cost me my family. Now, I’ll do anything to get them back – even see a therapist. Which is a joke, because I am a therapist. At least I was before I was fired...
  • Speak the Dead by Grant McKenzie

    Speak the Dead by Grant McKenzie

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Sally Blue was six years old, sleeping peacefully in her bed, a gunshot woke her up and subsequently ripped her world apart.Jolted awake by the scary noise, Sally ran to her parent's bedroom for comfort. Instead, she found her mother slumped against the headboard, her ravaged nightdress drenched from a double-barreled wound...
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    thriller  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror  mystery  paranormal
  • The Art of Dying: A Ray Hanley Crime Thriller by Derik Cavignano

    The Art of Dying: A Ray Hanley Crime Thriller by Derik Cavignano

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When the bizarre death of a mob foot soldier sparks an escalating war between Boston's Irish and Italian mafia, Detective Ray Hanley's relentless search for the truth uncovers evidence of a serial killer obsessed with the art of human suffering...
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    thriller  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror  murder  mystery
  • #NoEscape  (Volume 3) by Gretchen McNeil

    #NoEscape (Volume 3) by Gretchen McNeil

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The #murder and mayhem continue in this prequel companion novel to the grisly, campy social media insanity that is #MurderTrending and #MurderFunding. Gretchen McNeil brings her signature wit and merciless kills to this gruesome yet hilarious, wildly topical young adult novel.Twenty years before Dee Guerra and the Death Row Breakfast Club took down The Postman and Alcatraz 2...
  • Last Call by Sean Costello

    Last Call by Sean Costello

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    THIS BOOK is RATED-R FOR LANGUAGE by the publisher.In the space of a single day, twenty-year-old Trish West purchases her first car, gets accepted into veterinary college, and finds her rockstar father, Jim Gamble, a man who vanished into the streets before she was born and now clings to life in a Toronto intensive care unit.Eager to establish a relationship with Mr...
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    thriller  adult  book  crime  domestic-drama  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Ashes to Ashes:  The Dragon's Flame by John Saul

    Ashes to Ashes: The Dragon's Flame by John Saul

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When library assistant Rebecca Morrison comes across a beautifully ornate cigarette lighter in the shape of a fire breathing dragon, she gives it to her cousin, unwittingly igniting an evil that can only originate from the terrifying Blackstone Asylum. This is third installment in "The Blackstone Chronicles", Saul's serial novel about the horrors that plague a small New England town...
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    thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  pulp  supernatural
  • Asylum by John Saul

    Asylum by John Saul

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Editor Oliver Metcalf has written a provocative article on the Asylum that implies there may be a curse on the town. The community is outraged, charging him with inflaming hysteria. More urgent is the mysterious disappearance of Rebecca Morrison. As Blackstone rallies to find the missing woman, a mysterious package arrives on Harvey Connally’s front porch...
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    thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  pulp  suicide
  • Black for Remembrance by Carlene Thompson

    Black for Remembrance by Carlene Thompson

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Caroline Webb knows what it means to lose the person you love most. Twenty years ago, her five-year-old daughter, Hayley, was the light of her life, her treasure, her angle. Then came the terrible day when Hayley was kidnapped from her favorite swing. More than a month passed before her burned, lifeless body was found. All that remained was the silence of Caroline's heartache--and her guilt..
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    thriller  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Twist of Fate: The Locket by John Saul

    Twist of Fate: The Locket by John Saul

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jules Hartwick should be on top of the world. He has a distinguished career as president of the First National Bank of Blackstone, and his lovely daughter will soon be married. But his contentment is shattered: he's under investigation by the Federal Reserve--and that frightening audit threatens the financing of the Blackstone Center, which is slated to rise on the site of the old Asylum...
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    thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  pulp  suspense
  • In the Shadow of Evil: The Handkerchief by John Saul

    In the Shadow of Evil: The Handkerchief by John Saul

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    While researching an historical piece on the Asylum for the town’s newspaper, editor Oliver Metcalf digs through the attic that once belonged to his father, the last superintendent of the facility. There, among the dusty medical records, Oliver discovers a beautifully embroidered linen handkerchief with an ornate “R” in one corner...
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    thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  pulp  suspense
  • Buried by Graham Masterton

    Buried by Graham Masterton

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Beside the old woollen mill in Blarney, Cork, a worker's cottage guards its secrets. In 1921, a mother, father and their two young children disappeared from this house. And now, ninety years later, their mummified bodies have been discovered under the floorboards.The gunshot wounds in each skull look like the mark of the IRA...
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    thriller  adult  audiobook  book  crime  female-mc  fiction  horror
  • Under the Dome: Part Two by Stephen King

    Under the Dome: Part Two by Stephen King

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    All hell has broken loose in Chester's Mill after an invisible force field suddenly and inexplicably descends on the small Maine town, isolating all within it from the outside world. As the grim reality of the situation dawns and panic sets in, each other town's denizens reveals their true nature in the face of shortages, rationing, lawlessness, and uncertainty...
  • The Passengers by John Marrs

    The Passengers by John Marrs

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    You're riding in your self-driving car when suddenly the doors lock, the route changes and you have lost all control. Then, a mysterious voice tells you, "You are going to die...
  • La Ligne noire by Jean-Christophe Grangé

    La Ligne noire by Jean-Christophe Grangé

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Il existe, quelque part en Asie du Sud-Est, entre le tropique du Cancer et la ligne de l'Equateur, une autre ligne. Une ligne noire jalonnée de corps et d'effroi..
  • Exit 9 by Brett Battles

    Exit 9 by Brett Battles

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    From thriller and suspense master Brett Battles comes Exit Nine, the second book in the Project Eden thriller series.Before, it was just a test, a little demonstration to see if the virus worked. It did, and so much better than its creators could have ever hoped.But the testing phase is over. It’s time for Project Eden to take the next step...
  • The Cross by Steve Cavanagh

    The Cross by Steve Cavanagh

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    An exclusive race against time ebook short thriller. **Contains an extract from Steve Cavanagh's brilliant debut novel, THE DEFENCE** Eddie Flynn, con-man turned criminal lawyer, has an impossible choice.He has damning evidence against a corrupt NYPD detective who stands accused of killing a suspect...
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    thriller  crime  fiction  mystery  legal  horror  suspense  book
  • ASBO by Iain Rob Wright

    ASBO by Iain Rob Wright

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    YOUR FEAR IS THEIR ENTERTAINMENT...Andrew’s life is one of bored contentedness: a teenage daughter, a faithful wife, and a middle-class job. He even has a Mercedes. His life is without drama, and the comfort of middle-age is setting in.That all changes when he refuses to buy a pack of cigarettes for the local gang of youths...
  • The Silence of Six by E.C. Myers

    The Silence of Six by E.C. Myers

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    “What is the silence of six, and what are you going to do about it?”These are the last words uttered by 17-year-old Max Stein’s best friend, Evan: Just moments after hacking into the live-streaming Presidential debate at their high school, he kills himself...
  • Vertige by Franck Thilliez

    Vertige by Franck Thilliez

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
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  • Atomka by Franck Thilliez

    Atomka by Franck Thilliez

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A pocos días de Navidad, un suceso de gran envergadura irrumpe en las vidas de Lucie Hennebelle y Franck Sharko, policías de la famosa sección criminal del número 36 del Quai des Orfèvres...
  • La belle et la bête by Simon Rousseau

    La belle et la bête by Simon Rousseau

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Les contes de notre enfance revisités... pour nourrir tous nos cauchemars !Une jeune infirmière traumatisée, obligée de raconter sa terrible histoire aux autorités. Une résidence luxueuse dissimulée au coeur de la forêt boréale et regorgeant d'horreurs innommables... Un prisonnier sauvagement mutilé, incapable de venir en aide à une famille au funeste destin...
  • The Crypt by Jonas Saul

    The Crypt by Jonas Saul

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Crypt, Sarah Roberts Book 3, opens with Sarah Roberts walking the streets of Budapest in search of a weapon.A strange man in a fedora has been following her. Before she can find out who he is she’s arrested and brought to a Hungarian jail. After her release, she’s ordered out of the country. The man in the fedora shows up at her hotel...
  • Deuils de miel by Franck Thilliez

    Deuils de miel by Franck Thilliez

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Meurtre dans une église ... Une femme nue, rasée, intérieurement explosée...Sur son crane, des papillons, vivants... un message codé, gravé dans la pierre ... la menace de fléaux... Le mythe de l apocalypse et ses multitudes de victimes deviendra-t-il réalité ? C est ce que le commissaire Sharko tentera d empêcher, par tous les moyens, au cours d une enquête plus qu éprouvante...
  • Evolution by Teri Terry

    Evolution by Teri Terry

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A thrilling showdown brings the Dark Matter trilogy to a satsifying close. Shay is trapped at the Multiverse compound while looking for the real Callie, and an unforgiving Kai is her best chance at outsmarting Alex and saving countless lives.Shay has left Kai once again by following Alex to his Multiverse compound...
  • Apache Dawn  (The Wildfire Saga) by Marcus Richardson

    Apache Dawn (The Wildfire Saga) by Marcus Richardson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ten years after the deadliest pandemic in human history, the same once-defeated influenza virus strikes America without warning. One man holds the key to stopping the deadly outbreak in its tracks and the governments of the world--including his own--will stop at nothing to find him...
  • The Island by Adrian McKinty

    The Island by Adrian McKinty

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    IT WAS JUST SUPPOSED TO BE A FAMILY VACATION.A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT CHANGED EVERYTHING.YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE CAPABLE OF UNTIL THEY COME FOR YOUR FAMILY.After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter...
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    thriller  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction  horror  kidnapping
  • The Pain Colony by Shanon Hunt

    The Pain Colony by Shanon Hunt

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Six dead bodies with one disturbing similarity. An illicit genetic experiment. A secret society of true believers willing to do whatever it takes to become Pure.And this is only the beginning.DEA Special Agent Peter Malloy is no stranger to the devastating impact of drugs. So when six bodies turn up with surgical ports implanted in their spines, he's sure a potent new opioid is the culprit...
  • From Black Rooms by Stephen Woodworth

    From Black Rooms by Stephen Woodworth

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Natalie Lindstrom has finally left the underworld behind for a new career in the art world. But there's one world she can't escape: the Other world of the dead. As a former Violet, an elite crime-fighter with the power to channel murder victims, Natalie is now using her paranormal gift to summon the spirits of legendary painters...
  • Wave of Terror by Jon Jefferson

    Wave of Terror by Jon Jefferson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An unthinkable terrorist plot: The earth is shaking. The clock is ticking.Astronomer Megan O’Malley sees things on a cosmic scale—hidden planets, colliding galaxies, imploding stars deep in the universe. But this time, she’s sensing something much closer to home. And she can feel it underfoot, too: explosive seismic shifts along a geologic fault line that could unleash an apocalyptic disaster...
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