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    "description": "Something whistling through the door behind her caused her to turn. A shadow spread across the opening. She clasped a hand to her mouth, stilling the fear that was rising. The menacing shadow was followed by a face that sent a cold shiver down her spine\u2026\n\nWhen the call comes in about Lucy, a seventeen-year-old girl murdered after the secret party she held in her parents\u2019 home, Detective Lottie Parker is first on the scene. As she picks her way through the smashed glasses and the blood spatter on the perfect cream carpet, she is horrified to see Lucy\u2019s angelic face, silvery-blue eyes forever closed.\n\nAs Lottie breaks the news to Lucy\u2019s heartbroken parents and the devastated partygoers, she discovers that hours before her death Lucy had revealed a terrible secret about her friend Hannah. And when Lottie finds Lucy\u2019s bloodstained clothing hidden in Hannah\u2019s bedroom, she has no option but to bring the shy, frightened girl into custody.\n\nBut Hannah claims to have no memory of the night Lucy died and Lottie begins to question her guilt. Then a fifteen-year-old boy who also attended the party is pulled from the canal. And as Lottie investigates, she discovers something shocking. Her own son Sean was at the party. Why did he lie to her? Is her beloved child a witness or a suspect\u2026 or is he now in the killer\u2019s sights?",
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