Five Shots - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

In her weather-beaten seaside bookshop, Jane Wragge trades in rare volumes and silence, communicating only by handwritten notes. Six years ago, she emptied a revolver into her husband’s head—five shots, no explanation.
When true-crime writer Alex Morland arrives, researching “women who kill,” Jane’s carefully walled-off life begins to crack. Locals whisper to Alex about Jane’s glamorous marriage to Mark, the parties, the perfect photographs—never the control, the threats, the secrets. Then come the midnight knocks. The postcard with one word: SOON.
As Alex digs, a missing woman’s name surfaces: Lucy, gone eight years. Jane’s private voice returns in a hidden notebook, the past unfurling in fragments. Following a trail of lies, Jane uncovers a house Mark kept hidden—and Lucy, alive but broken, in its basement.
Alex’s final revelation binds them: Lucy is his mother. The truth behind the five gunshots is not just murder—it is rescue.
A taut novel of silence and survival, Five Shots is about the lives we destroy, the ones we save, and the price of speaking at last.

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