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  • The Heist by Elle Gray

    The Heist by Elle Gray

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When an armored car heist turns into a bloody and grisly crime scene.Federal agent Blake Wilder is sent to Philadelphia to track down the culprits.But there’s more to this militantly precise and violent crew than meets the eye...As the death count rises and the case takes an even more violent turn, it becomes clear that there is more to these robberies than initially believed...
  • Justice by D. Camille

    Justice by D. Camille

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “The fool speaks, the wise man listens.” ~Ethiopian Proverb The saga continues…Justice Black is the heir to the Black legacy. Now ready to show that he’s more than the rich, handsome playboy…Justice sets out to prove that he can handle his own...
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    suspense  politics  mystery  fiction  book  adult
  • One Last Child by Anni Taylor

    One Last Child by Anni Taylor

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Winner, Audiofile Earphones Award 2020 - narration by Caroline Lee.Five long-missing children are about to be RETURNED.It was summer in the mountains when five small children vanished from their nursery school picnic. The heat was stifling that day, the tinkle of an ice-cream van in the air....Three-and-a-half years later, in the dead of winter, the children are returned to their families..
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    crime  kidnapping  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  drama
  • Whip Crack by Alex Smith

    Whip Crack by Alex Smith

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Every time you hear his voice, another child will die.DCI Robert Kett’s family may be whole again, but he is a broken man.Suspended from duty, he takes his girls out of the city for a much-needed holiday on the Norfolk Coast.Instead of the peace he desperately needs, however, Kett finds a community in chaos. Four teenagers are missing, and time is running out before they meet a horrific fate...
  • The Client by Janet McAlpin

    The Client by Janet McAlpin

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Mark Sway is eleven and he knows a terrible secret. He knows where a body is hidden. Some secrets are so dangerous that it's better not to tell. But it's just as dangerous if you don't. So Mark needs help fast - because there isn't much time...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  killer  legal
  • The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden

    The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    “Don’t go in the guest bedroom.” A shadow falls on Douglas Garrick’s face as he touches the door with his fingertips. “My wife… she’s very ill.” As he continues showing me their incredible penthouse apartment, I have a terrible feeling about the woman behind closed doors...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  mystery  psychological
  • Diamond by Jessie Keane

    Diamond by Jessie Keane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    *** THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER ***'A brilliant historical crime read' Bella'This thrilling and twisty crime novel is perfect for fans of Martina Cole' My Weekly'A rollercoaster of crime, revenge and murder' The SunBEHIND EVERY STRONG WOMAN IS AN EPIC STORY..
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction
  • L'Affaire Alaska Sanders by Joël Dicker

    L'Affaire Alaska Sanders by Joël Dicker

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Avril 1999. Mount Pleasant, une paisible bourgade du New Hampshire, est bouleversée par un meurtre. Le corps d'une jeune femme, Alaska Sanders, est retrouvé au bord d'un lac. L'enquête est rapidement bouclée, la police obtenant les aveux du coupable et de son complice.Onze ans plus tard, l'affaire rebondit...
  • Deadly Game by D.S. Butler

    Deadly Game by D.S. Butler

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What if the only way to save your child’s life was to take part in a deadly game? For the Watsons their worst nightmare becomes a reality when their daughter, Ruby, is kidnapped. But that’s only the beginning. When they receive a text message inviting them to take part in a deadly game, things get a whole lot worse...
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    crime  kidnapping  suspense  thriller  adult  book  family  fiction
  • Memories of the Falls by Elle Gray

    Memories of the Falls by Elle Gray

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It’s summertime at the Falls, and this season revenge tastes even sweeter…Sheriff Spenser Song thought she would get a much-needed break after aiding FBI agent Blake Wilder on an international trafficking ring.Shortly upon her return to the Falls and to Ryker, the place is once again in an uproar.When the town’s star athletes are found dead due to a drug overdose...
  • The Law Partners by John Ellsworth

    The Law Partners by John Ellsworth

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    ARRESTED FOR A MURDER YOU DIDN'T COMMIT? Michael Gresham is a criminal attorney who defends his clients with an iron will. They know that when he takes their case they are probably going to leave the courthouse a free man or free woman. But what happens when the defender becomes the defendant himself? A law partner will have to step up and do for him what he can't do for himself...
  • Fuse's Hold by E.C. Land

    Fuse's Hold by E.C. Land

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    FuseBeing who I am, most people, not a member of the club, assume I got my road name for being able to fix shit and my brains. What I’m really known for is my short fuse. Being a part of the Inferno’s Clutch MC, I handle shit for the club that could easily put me behind bars for years. I also go to fights to release the aggression that builds within me...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction
  • Dark Lies by Elliot York

    Dark Lies by Elliot York

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Relax, this won’t be so bad.After all, this isn’t the first time you’ve died.She was the girl everyone wanted but no one could have—no one but him. They’d loved each other. Becca’s suicide at age 18 broke Logan. The heartache never fully healed. But nothing could have prepared him for the shock of what came next.At age 39, Logan Cooper’s hard-earned detective career is hanging on by a mere thread...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  audiobook  fiction  mystery  book  adult
  • Only One Cure by Jenifer Ruff

    Only One Cure by Jenifer Ruff

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The President's son is dying. Terrorists claim to have the only cure.When a private plane whisks CDC epidemiologist Madeline Hamilton to Washington D.C. for an urgent medical symposium, she knows something significant is underway—but she doesn’t expect to face the most disturbing medical mystery of her career...
  • Noble Vengeance by William Miller

    Noble Vengeance by William Miller

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "As good as Mitch Rapp, Scot Harvath, and Kyle Achilles..." -EnzenauerJake Noble is Back... And Deadlier Than EverWhen a friend and former teammate goes missing while on assignment, Jake Noble takes the first plane to Mexico, determined to catch his friend's killer and exact revenge...
  • Sorin by Brooke Sivendra

    Sorin by Brooke Sivendra

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A code. A cult. A kidnapping. James Thomas is playing a deadly game of chess, but not everyone will survive…. Maya Ashwood has been taken hostage, and her kidnapper wants two things in exchange: James Thomas and Mak Ashwood.James must create a plan that will enable him to both rescue Maya and keep Mak safe from the clutches of the man hunting him.The stakes have never been higher...
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    crime  suspense  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction
  • Nora's Outrage by E.C. Land

    Nora's Outrage by E.C. Land

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    NoraAfter all Breaker and I went through when we first got together, you would think it would all be downhill from here. No one should have to go through what we have. The drama has been swirling around the club for a while now and it seems the danger attached is coming our way once again.In a way that could change everything...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction
  • Mayhem by T.L. Payne

    Mayhem by T.L. Payne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Their world is about to be turned upside down.Nine months after the lights went out, Maddie Langston and the other survivors in Texas County just want to replenish their food stores and prepare for the next winter but an unexpected encounter with a stranger takes all their lives in a whole new direction.It's not just their lives on the line this time...
  • The Prisoner by Kiersten Modglin

    The Prisoner by Kiersten Modglin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The epic conclusion to The Messes Series. This book is NOT standalone. Fiona Denali’s mind is a fortress of secrets. Things she can’t tell, people she must protect. She never wanted to hurt anyone, but they hurt her first. Now, she must protect the one person she can still count on—herself...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction
  • Axel by Elizabeth Knox

    Axel by Elizabeth Knox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    AxelOne drunken night. One drunken slip up. It's all it took before I started lookin' at her in a completely different way.She was in love with my brother before he met his ol' lady and now here I am, unable to keep my damn eyes off her. Rosa's one of the Vixens. She's been around for a couple years now, but I'd be lyin' if I said I knew a lot about her...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction
  • Fortunate Son by Andrew Bridgeman

    Fortunate Son by Andrew Bridgeman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A deadly prophecy must be stopped before all is lost. Trust none, sacrifice words to live (or die) by in this edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller of deceit and intrigue...
  • Necessary Decisions by Giacomo Giammatteo

    Necessary Decisions by Giacomo Giammatteo

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Gino Cataldi is a man hanging on by a thread. Cancer took his wife, and drugs put his son in rehab. All he has left is his badge. When a teenage girl is kidnapped, it brings back nightmares from the worst case he ever worked—the one that tore his life to shreds and forced him out of Philadelphia. Gino doesn’t want this case, but he knows he has to take it...
  • Tell No One / Gone For Good by Harlan Coben

    Tell No One / Gone For Good by Harlan Coben

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben comes an unforgettable duet of classic novels—two top-notch thrillers filled with the author’s signature storytelling genius.TELL NO ONEFor Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams...
  • The Dying Hour by Rick Mofina

    The Dying Hour by Rick Mofina

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In Book 1, The Dying Hour introduces Jason Wade, a rookie crime reporter with The Seattle Mirror, a loner who grew up in the shadow of a brewery in one of the city's blue-collar neighborhoods. At The Seattle Mirror, he is competing for the single full-time job being offered through the paper's intense intern program...
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    crime  kidnapping  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • Every Fear by Rick Mofina

    Every Fear by Rick Mofina

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    On an ordinary morning, Maria Colson takes her baby son Dylan to the corner store. She only turns her back for a few seconds. When she looks again, the stroller is empty, and her terrified child is being shoved into a waiting van that vanishes without a trace. Settle Mirror reporter Jason Wade is under a lot of pressure to bring in a big story, and the Colson kidnapping could be it...
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    crime  kidnapping  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • Carlos the Ant by John Ellsworth

    Carlos the Ant by John Ellsworth

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Carlos has a sick daughter and needs money. He's also an upstanding citizen who pays his taxes, puts in his forty hours, doesn't drink and carouse, and loves his wife. Still...he has nowhere else to turn. So Carlos gets money the old-fashioned way--he robs banks. The money comes pouring in but then a new man joins the crew and everything tumbles downhill...
  • First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

    First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist.The identity comes to Evie Porter. Once she’s given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it...
  • On Tilt by G.K. Parks

    On Tilt by G.K. Parks

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Five years ago, a teenage girl vanished. After a thorough police investigation, the case went cold. Her parents spent the next few years hiring private investigators to search for their daughter, but they've had no luck until now. When Alexis Parker, the newest detective at Cross Investigation, starts poking around, the cold case suddenly turns hot...
  • Mimik by Sebastian Fitzek

    Mimik by Sebastian Fitzek

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Ein winziges Zucken im Mundwinkel, die kleinste Veränderung in der Pupille reichen ihr, um das wahre Ich eines Menschen zu „lesen“: Hannah Herbst ist Deutschlands erfahrenste Mimikresonanz-Expertin, spezialisiert auf die geheimen Signale des menschlichen Körpers. Als Beraterin der Polizei hat sie schon etliche Gewaltverbrecher überführt...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  fiction  mystery  audiobook  book  adult
  • A Demon's Soul: A Devil's Riot MC Crossover by E.C. Land

    A Demon's Soul: A Devil's Riot MC Crossover by E.C. Land

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Devil's Riot MC Crossover Lex Years ago, I sold myself to Satan. I swore I'd find a way to break the deal I made, but that day never came. Now it's time I pay the piper, or whatever that old saying is. The fact of the matter is I don't have a choice. It's either that, or he'll go after the only person who's ever been important to me...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction
  • Deprave by E.C. Land, Elizabeth Knox

    Deprave by E.C. Land, Elizabeth Knox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    If I don't marry him there's no doubt a war will ensue.My brother crossed the line. He wanted an allegiance and in accepting it, he's promised me to a man. While he isn't a stranger, this isn't something I've wanted. I craved a normal life and now I'm just like every other mafia princess.I've been resenting my brother and why shouldn't I? He did the one thing he promised he'd never do...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  organized-crime
  • Detest by E.C. Land, Elizabeth Knox

    Detest by E.C. Land, Elizabeth Knox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I had one rule: don't sleep with the talent. Yet, I had no problem breaking it for her. RémyMy family had dealt with nefarious people for most of our lives. We became accustomed to it. In fact, we were raised by someone who was the worst of them all. We knew what to look out for, and we became a stronger family unit because of what we endured. Things had just begun to settle down...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  organized-crime
  • Quicksand / Blood Game / Eight Days to Live / Chasing the Night  (An Eve Duncan Collection) by Iris Johansen

    Quicksand / Blood Game / Eight Days to Live / Chasing the Night (An Eve Duncan Collection) by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen has captivated millions of readers with her fast-paced forensics thrillers featuring heroine Eve Duncan...
    Categorized as:
    crime  kidnapping  suspense  thriller  adult  book  espionage  fiction
  • Venom's Secret by Elizabeth Knox

    Venom's Secret by Elizabeth Knox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I've been in love with him for years, and one drunk slip up could be our friendships undoing...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction
  • Reclusive by Elizabeth Knox

    Reclusive by Elizabeth Knox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Trick When I was on the inside I found my faith again. I only found my faith because it helped lessened my sentence and let's be real - no one wants to be in the slammer. My priest told me that an angel would come to me, that she would help guide me through many trials and tribulations. Imagine my surprise when a woman named Angel comes barreling into my life...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  crime  organized-crime  fiction  book  adult
  • Saving Angela by Nicole Flockton

    Saving Angela by Nicole Flockton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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  • The Perfect Nanny by D.L. Fisher

    The Perfect Nanny by D.L. Fisher

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lucinda and Andrew Douglass are settling into life with their newborn baby, Delilah. Only four weeks in, much to Andrew’s dismay, Lucinda is planning her return to a high-powered job at the New York Stock Exchange, causing a major rift in their already volatile marriage.On the bright side, Lucinda has found the perfect nanny to care for their precious baby...
  • REST IN PEACE by Willow Rose

    REST IN PEACE by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sarah Chapman is angry at her husband. She’s also drunk… very drunk as she drives down their street, ready to face him.When a neighbor hears the commotion and rushes to help, he finds her inside, gun still in her hand, and her husband, Steven, dead in the bed.Sarah is arrested and taken away but claims to be innocent.The only one who believes her is FBI profiler, Eva Rae Thomas...
  • Accused by Mark Gimenez

    Accused by Mark Gimenez

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    'Scott, it's Rebecca. I need you.'After years of silence, Texan lawyer Scott Fenney receives a devastating phonecall from his ex-wife. She has been accused of murdering her boyfriend, Trey - the man she left Scott for - and is being held in a police cell. Now she is begging Scott to defend her.Scott is used to high-stakes cases, but this one is bigger than anything he has handled before...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  killer  legal
  • The Victim of the System by Steve Hadden

    The Victim of the System by Steve Hadden

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Twenty-two years ago, Ike Rossi’s life was shattered when his parents were murdered in cold blood. He surrendered his football scholarship and returned home to find their killer and raise his nine-year-old sister. Now, the crime of a local ten-year-old genius, Jack Cole, threatens to unearth old wounds rather than provide the closure Ike desperately wants...
  • A Murder Under The Bridge: A New "Broken Lawyer" Legal Thriller by Donald L'Abbate

    A Murder Under The Bridge: A New "Broken Lawyer" Legal Thriller by Donald L'Abbate

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A NEW "BROKEN LAWYER" NOVELWhen a mentally disturbed homeless man, charged with murdering a teenage boy under a Manhattan bridge, refuses to speak, can a veteran attorney who has battled his own demons save him? Facing seemingly overwhelming odds, the lawyer slowly begins to uncover the homeless man's secrets...
    Categorized as:
    thriller  crime  legal  fiction  book  adult
  • No Trivial Pursuit by John Ellsworth

    No Trivial Pursuit by John Ellsworth

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    No Trivial Pursuit. Not When It's Your Own Daughter Missing.A front-page murder is assigned to LAPD Detective Harley Ellis and her partner. Hollywood studio head Ira Spielman has been murdered. His widow says he had no enemies. Except one, says Harley, and she must discover who that is and why. She knows he sometimes interviewed actresses alone in his Hollywood office...
  • The GirI Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by David Donaldson

    The GirI Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by David Donaldson

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    NB: This is NOT the novel by Stieg...
  • Sakharov the Bear by John Ellsworth

    Sakharov the Bear by John Ellsworth

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    FROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR JOHN ELLSWORTH A Legal Thriller - in a Russian Courtroom Drama Two CIA field operators obtain a bill of lading from an arms supplier in Moscow. Tracing the origin and destination of the weapons there is reason to believe a massive arms shipment has come into the U.S. through the Port of Long Beach...
  • Inmate 1577 by Alan Jacobson, Christina Traister

    Inmate 1577 by Alan Jacobson, Christina Traister

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    National Bestselling Author Alan Jacobson brings back renowned FBI Profiler Karen Vail in an intelligent thriller that bridges time and space. When an elderly woman is found raped and brutally murdered in San Francisco, Vail heads west to team up with SFPD Inspector Lance Burden and her former task force colleague, Detective Roxxann Dixon...
  • A Broken Reality by Rob Kaufman

    A Broken Reality by Rob Kaufman

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A KIDNAPPING GONE WRONG. A PSYCHOPATHIC CRIMINAL. A VICTIM WITHOUT A MEMORY.Ten-year-old, Danny Madsen, has been missing for four days when Jesse Carlton begins his own search for his godson on a frigid, snowy night. Driving along a deserted rural road, Jesse hits a stretch of black ice at the same time Danny appears from the thicket. From that moment, life changes for everyone...
  • Hunting Delilah by Anne Baines

    Hunting Delilah by Anne Baines

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Con artist. Get-away driver. Thief. Delilah makes her own way in a crooked world.Desperate for money after a heist goes south, Delilah breaks into a rich man's home. But instead of cash and jewels, she discovers a severed head and a serial killer...
  • The Dead Man by Joel Goldman

    The Dead Man by Joel Goldman

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    If you like John Grisham's twists and turns and James Patterson's page-turning thrills, you'll love Joel Goldman's The Dead Man, the second book in the Jack Davis Thriller series! "A masterful blend of rock-solid detective work and escalating dread. The Dead Man is both a top-notch thriller and a heart-rendering story of loss, courage and second chances. I loved it...
  • The Perk by Mark Gimenez

    The Perk by Mark Gimenez

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Beck Hardin returns to his Texas hometown - and his estranged father - after the death of his wife leaves him with two children to raise. The town is still reeling from the murder of sixteen-year-old Heidi, whose father - Beck's old college friend - asks Beck to help him find Heidi's killer before the statute of limitations runs out...
  • Obsession by Stuart Woods

    Obsession by Stuart Woods

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Teddy Fay finds his skills put to the test in the latest thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods.While filming on location in scenic Santa Barbara, California, Peter Barrington and Ben Bacchetti look to expand Centurion Picture’s business by making a deal with a young Croatian billionaire...
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