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A sighting of a woman who supposedly died years ago sparks a desperate search for the truth in this breakout suspense thriller, perfect for readers of The Good Girl and The Widow. Sometimes we choose to see only what we want. Sometimes what we see changes the way we look at everything ... Jarlath "Jar" Costello's girlfriend, Rosa, committed suicide when they were both students at Cambridge, and Jar has thought about her every day since. It's been five years, yet Jar is still obsessed with the idea that Rosa, the one true love of his life, is alive. He's tormented by disturbingly real sightings of her - experiences the psychologist treating him describes as "post-bereavement hallucinations." When Rosa's aunt uncovers an encrypted file on her laptop that she believes is Rosa's diary, she gives Jar the hard drive, sending him on a frantic quest to unlock the mysterious document and finally make sense of the suspicious circumstances surrounding Rosa's suicide. But the deeper he digs, the more confused he becomes as he is pressed into a dark underworld where nothing is as it seems and no one can be trusted. When a startling discovery convinces him more than ever that these are not just hallucinations - that Rosa really is alive - Jar is thrust into the heart of a larger intrigue that may finally shed some light on Rosa's death ... even as it dangerously threatens his own life.



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J.S. Monroe

J.S.Monroe's new novel, Forget My Name, published by Head of Zeus in the UK on 4 October 2018. It will be published in the US as The Last Thing She Remembers by Park Row Books (HarperCollins) in May 2019.Monroe's best-selling debut, Find Me, was published in the UK and the US in 2017. Translation rights have been sold to 14 countries.J.S.Monroe is the pseudonym of author Jon Stock (see separate author page) . After reading English at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Jon worked as a freelance journalist in London, writing features for most of Britain's national newspapers, as well as contributing to BBC Radio 4. He was also chosen for Carlton TV's acclaimed screenwriters course. In 1995 he lived in Kochi in Kerala, where he worked on the staff of India's The Week magazine. Between 1998 and 2000, he was a foreign correspondent in Delhi, writing for the Daily Telegraph, South China Morning Post and the Singapore Straits Times. He also wrote the Last Word column in The Week magazine from 1995 to 2012.On his return to Britain in 2000, Monroe worked on various Saturday sections of the Telegraph before taking up a staff job as editor of its flagship Weekend section in 2005, which he oversaw for five years. He left Weekend and the Telegraph in 2010 to finish writing his Daniel Marchant trilogy (under the name Jon Stock) and returned to the Telegraph in February 2013 to oversee the Telegraph's digital books channel. In May 2014 he was promoted to Executive Head of Weekend and Living, editing the paper's Saturday and Sunday print supplements, as well as a range of digital lifestyle channels. He left the paper in October 2015 to resume his thriller-writing career.His first novel, The Riot Act, published by Serpent's Tail, was launched on the top floor of Canary Wharf tower in 1997. The book was shortlisted by the Crime Writers' Association for its best first novel award and was subsequently published by Gallimard in France as part of its acclaimed Serie Noir. The Sunday Times called it a "darkly sparkling crime thriller". The Cardamom Club was published in 2003 by Blackamber (now Arcadia Books) in Britain and by Penguin in India. It was hailed by the travel writer William Dalrymple as a "witty, fast-moving, cleverly plotted espionage romp".Dead Spy Running, his third novel and the first in the Daniel Marchant (or 'Legoland') trilogy, was published by HarperCollins (Blue Door) in 2009 and has been translated into five languages. It follows Daniel Marchant, a young MI6 officer, as he tries to clear the name of his disgraced father, the former Chief of MI6. The sequel, Games Traitors Play, was published in 2011, and the final part of the trilogy, Dirty Little Secret, was published in 2012.Warner Brothers bought the film rights to the trilogy in 2009, hiring Oscar-winner Stephen Gaghan (Traffic, Syriana) to write the screenplay for Dead Spy Running, which went into development with McG (Termina



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