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The Dry Line

Quinn Adler · Upmarket psychological suspense with a six-day flood deadline

If you liked Gone Girl, start here.

£3.76

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Thirty-two homes depend on one unbroken flood wall, but one wife is missing from the sandbag line and every glance turns towards her husband.

When a woman vanishes during a community flood defence, the neighbours stacking sandbags beside her husband find suspicion rather easier to pile up. He must keep their shared, hand-built levee intact long enough to discover why she disappeared, whilst every practical choice exposes the damage inside the marriage. Saving his own house could drown his sister’s future.

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Author
Quinn Adler
Length
59,951 words
Estimated reading time
4 hours
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