Through an ingenious mixture of fiction and dramatized news coverage, "Vanished Echoes" transports readers into an abducting child incident which fires the worst instincts and most profound divisions of modern Britain. So when Lucy Carver, aged ten, vanishes, leaving no trace, the hunt for clues only inflames smouldering bombs around race, immigration and trust in institutions. As the country collapses into tumult, we look through them with a critical lens, which makes evident how human nature at its very worst and best is revealed in moments of crisis. The mass media—a friend and a foe—rallies millions to hope and ultimately breeds disunity. While reason gives way to suspicion, passion diminishes. As the lives of innocent people are sacrificed (for it was no accident that the arsonist torched a boat full of immigrants), one small community's conscience is put to the test - and even a nation's character. Combining mesmerising suspense with thoughtful insight, this audacious debut novel from Luigi Pascal Rondanini is a shout throughout the urgent warning system. Whether concern turns away or hatred takes power, it is still the same. And vanishing echoes sound a cautionary alarm to be heeded before shadows swallow our shared humanity.

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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story—and the master of American horror—tells the terrifying story of a woman who, in her desperation to flee the past, encounters an inexplicable aura of evil. Julia’s first purchase upon leaving her husband is a large, old-fashioned house in Kensington, where she plans to live by herself, well away from her soon-to-be-ex and the home where their young daughter died. She feels a peculiar affinity for the house right away, a feeling that deepens with each glimpse of a mysterious little girl—blond, like her daughter—in the neighborhood, and even in her dreams But the little girl and the big house have an inexplicable aura of evil. And Julia quickly discovers that escaping her past is not as simple as turning a key.

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