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THE KILLING HOUR SERIES

Margie Benedict The Killing Hour series books 1-3 box set.

The gripping thrillers that will keep you up all night. Full of mystery, danger, and heart, each book in The Killing Hour Series is about grabbing at second chances to make things right, even when the risk of failure may be death.

 

But sometimes it’s better to let sleeping villains lie.

Cozy house on a cliff reflects warm lights on dark water at night.

BEFORE THE KILLING

BOOK ONE

Before the Killing book thriller by Margie Benedict.

In the summer of 1973, Cassie returns to her coastal Massachusetts hometown. The next day, the town is shaken by a brutal killing – and someone close to her is accused of the crime. The investigation tears through the community, leaving behind guilt, suspicion, and secrets Cassie can’t forget. Seven years later, Cassie’s life is still defined by that night. An unexpected and inexplicable event gives her a chance to finally uncover the truth. But as she retraces the days leading up to the murder, she begins to realize the story she remembers isn’t the whole one—and that someone has been keeping dangerous watch all along.

Rustic cabin glows brightly under an ominous red, smoky, forested sky.

BEFORE SHE WAS TAKEN

BOOK TWO

Before She Was Taken thriller book by Margie Benedict

What happened to Sadie? This question has plagued 25-year-old Rebecca Danser for 19 years. Imagine if at the age of six, you had ditched your four-year-old sister to go play with your friend… and then you never saw her again. In the intervening years, now living in Silicon Valley, Rebecca has made a mess of her life. But soon she realizes this strange ability she recently gained, allowing her to cast her consciousness back into a younger version of herself, can be used to discover who took Sadie that fateful day. What she learns leads her into a remote forest in the Sierra Mountains… where the monster responsible for the destruction of her family lies in wait for her.

Small house with warm lights in dark, misty forest under green sky.

BEFORE HE VANISHED

BOOK THREE

Book cover BEFORE HE VANISHED, A Thriller by Margie Benedict, dark house.

Rebecca is troubled by the growing sense that she should be using her unique time-traveling ability to find children who have disappeared. When she learns about a black child who vanished a year ago, she becomes obsessed by his case. Frustrated that police and media have made little effort to find 13-year-old Ethan Pitt or publicize his disappearance, she jumps back in time to discover what really happened.

 

Though she struggles to trace his movements, her motivation increases the more she learns about this bright, resourceful child, forced to grow up fast after his widowed mother lost her job and became injured in a car crash. Rebecca places her past and present lives at deadly risk as she narrows down the suspects and infiltrates the lair of the ruthless manipulator who she thinks must be responsible for Ethan's vanishing.

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