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Five Shots
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ISBN13: 9798297871489
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 13 2025
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 13 2025
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In her weather-beaten seaside bookshop, Jane Wragge trades in rare volumes and silence, communicating only by handwritten notes. Six years ago, she emptied a revolver into her husband's head-five shots, no explanation.
When true-crime writer Alex Morland arrives, researching women who kill, Jane's carefully walled-off life begins to crack. Locals whisper to Alex about Jane's glamorous marriage to Mark, the parties, the perfect photographs-never the control, the threats, the secrets. Then come the midnight knocks. The postcard with one word: SOON.
When true-crime writer Alex Morland arrives, researching women who kill, Jane's carefully walled-off life begins to crack. Locals whisper to Alex about Jane's glamorous marriage to Mark, the parties, the perfect photographs-never the control, the threats, the secrets. Then come the midnight knocks. The postcard with one word: SOON.
As Alex digs, a missing woman's name surfaces: Lucy, gone eight years. Jane's private voice returns in a hidden notebook, the past unfurling in fragments. Following a trail of lies, Jane uncovers a house Mark kept hidden-and Lucy, alive but broken, in its basement.
Alex's final revelation binds them: Lucy is his mother. The truth behind the five gunshots is not just murder-it is rescue.
A taut novel of silence and survival, Five Shots is about the lives we destroy, the ones we save, and the price of speaking at last.
Alex's final revelation binds them: Lucy is his mother. The truth behind the five gunshots is not just murder-it is rescue.
A taut novel of silence and survival, Five Shots is about the lives we destroy, the ones we save, and the price of speaking at last.
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