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Carlos Abreu Fetter

    The Housemaid Is Watching
    The Wife Upstairs
    The Other People
    Under the Whispering Door
    The Housemaid's Secret
    The house in the Cerulean Sea
    • The house in the Cerulean Sea

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Linus Baker is sent to assess a magical orphanage, filled with dangerous children. They could bring about the end of everything - or be the family he'd always wanted

      The house in the Cerulean Sea2025
      4.5
    • "'You must be our new neighbors!' Mrs. Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my daughter's hand and smile back: but the second Mrs. Lowell sees my husband a strange expression crosses her face. In that moment I make a promise. We finally have a family home. My past is far, far behind us. And I'll do anything to keep it that way... I used to clean other people's houses - now, I can't believe this home is actually mine. The charming kitchen, the quiet cul-de-sac, the huge yard where my kids can play. My husband and I saved for years to give our children the life they deserve. Even though I'm wary of our new neighbor Mrs. Lowell, when she invites us over for dinner it's our chance to make friends. Her maid opens the door wearing a white apron, her hair in a tight bun. I know exactly what it's like to be in her shoes. But her cold stare gives me chills... The Lowells' maid isn't the only strange thing on our street. I'm sure I see a shadowy figure watching us. My husband leaves the house late at night. And when I meet a woman who lives across the way, her words chill me to the bone: Be careful of your neighbors. Did I make a terrible mistake moving my family here? I thought I'd left my darkest secrets behind. But could this quiet suburban street be the most dangerous place of all?"--Publisher's description.

      The Housemaid Is Watching2024
      3.8
    • Victoria Barnett has it all. A great career. A handsome and loving husband. A beautiful home in the suburbs and a plan to fill it with children. Life is perfect—or so it seems. Then she’s in a terrible accident… and everything falls apart. Now Victoria is unable to walk. She can’t feed or dress herself. She can’t even speak. She is confined to the top floor of her house with twenty-four-hour care. Sylvia Robinson is hired by Victoria’s husband to help care for her. But it turns out Victoria isn’t as impaired as Sylvia was led to believe. There’s a story Victoria desperately wants to tell... if only she could get out the words. Then Sylvia discovers Victoria’s diary hidden away in a drawer. And what’s inside is shocking.

      The Wife Upstairs2024
      3.9
    • The Housemaid's Secret

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      In this gripping tale, a woman finds refuge working for the mysterious Garrick family in their luxurious penthouse. As she uncovers dark secrets, including signs of distress from Mrs. Garrick, she vows to protect her while concealing her own past. The story explores themes of loyalty, revenge, and hidden truths.

      The Housemaid's Secret2024
      4.2
    • Under the Whispering Door

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Welcome to Charon's Crossing. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh and the dead are just passing through. When a reaper collects Wallace from what she claims is his funeral, he's outraged. But Hugo, owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over - and Wallace reluctantly accepts the truth. Yet even in death he refuses to abandon his life, despite spending all of it working. And as Wallace grows closer to Hugo and shares jokes with his resident ghost, he wonders if he's missed something. So, when he's given one week to pass to the other side. Wallace sets about creating a lifetime in just seven days

      Under the Whispering Door2023
      4.2
    • The Other People

      • 416 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      The chilling new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Chalk Man and The Taking of Annie Thorne Driving home one night, Gabe sees the face of a little girl he knows in the rear window of the car in front. She mouths one word - 'Daddy'. He never sees his five-year-old daughter, Izzy, again. The police believe she's dead. But three years later, Gabe still drives the roads, searching for the car that took Izzy, never giving up hope . . . Fran and her daughter, Alice, aren't searching - but running. Always one step ahead of the people who want to hurt them. Because Fran knows the truth about Gabe's daughter - and she knows what those chasing her and Alice will do if they ever catch them . . .

      The Other People2021
      4.1
    • The Chalk Man

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      The Chalk Man is coming ... It was 1986 when a teenage Eddie Munster helped save Waltzer girl's life. That summer was the one that changed everything. It was the one they came up with the chalk men - drawing them on the pavement in a secret code. But then the chalk men started to appear on their own volition, prophesying grisly scenes on the dusty pavement. They knew about the body in the river. And knew about Waltzer girl's corpse lying still in the wood without a head. It's 2016 and Eddie is still living in Anderbury, teaching at his old school and living with a lodger, Chloe. Life is quiet. Life is rather empty. Until the day the chalk men reappear.

      The Chalk Man2017
      3.8