Free suspense/horror:
The Boat House by Stephen Gallagher. Originally published in 1991.
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A dark love story, and a disturbing tale of a divided soul. In the days leading to the fall of the Soviet empire, a young woman with a deadly secret slips unnoticed into the West. And when Alina Petrovna first appears in Three Oaks Bay it's clear that her frail, luminous beauty is likely to cause some ripples in the surface calm of the peaceful resort town.
For Pete McCarthy, the boatyard worker who gives her shelter, she's an enigma. A complex, well-meaning young woman with a difficult past. Someone whose mystery deepens as the season gets under way, and the deaths by drowning begin...
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Fall Guy by John Dodd.
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Run him over.
Drown him.
Or shoot him.
It seems like everyone is out to get Stan Arkle.
Even the police.
With his marriage on the rocks, and his employer threatening him with the sack, newspaper photographer Stan Arkle returns to the town on the South coast where he grew up.
His best friend from the old days is dead - murdered.
Now someone wants to kill Stan as well.
But why?
On the run from everyone, he must learn the dark secrets of the town he thought he had left behind years ago.
Can he unlock the devastating mystery before it is too late? Or will Stan become the Fall Guy for someone else's crime?
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