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cbabe

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9. Sleeping Dogs/Thomas Perry

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Sun Apr 20, 2025, 12:35 PM

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One of his butcher’s boy series. After ten years he’s spotted in England and travels back to the US to take out all his perceived enemies.

Perry is a hypnotic writer. He makes a serial killer the hero and the reader is completely invested with the killer.

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