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    "description": "For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open. The crushing blow to the head. The hands yanking him from the vehicle. His girlfriend Ali\u2019s piercing scream as she is taken.\n\nWith no trace of Ali or the car, a cloud of suspicion hangs over Ryan. But with no proof and a good lawyer, he\u2019s never charged, though that doesn\u2019t matter to the podcasters and internet trolls. Now, Ryan has changed his last name, and entered law school. He's put his past behind him.\n\nUntil, on a summer trip abroad to Italy with his law-school classmates, Ryan gets a call from his father: Ali's car has finally been found, submerged in a lake in his hometown. Inside are two dead men and a cryptic note with five words written on the envelope in Ali\u2019s handwriting: If something happens to me\u2026\n\nThen, halfway around the world, the unthinkable happens: Ryan sees the man who has haunted his dreams since that night.\n\nAs Ryan races from the rolling hills of Tuscany, to a rural village in the UK, to the glittering streets of Paris in search of the truth, he has no idea that his salvation may lie with a young sheriff\u2019s deputy in Kansas working her first case, and a mobster in Philadelphia who\u2019s experienced tragedy of his own.\n\nIn classic Alex Finlay form, If Something Happens to Me is told by several distinct, compelling characters whose paths intersect, detonating into a story of twist after pulse-pounding twist. The novel cements Finlay as one of the leading thriller writers today.",
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