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  • Published: 2 February 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448116157
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448

Five Days to Die





The chilling serial killer thriller from the author of You Are Next

Your time is up...
Emily Parker is missing, kidnapped from a car park in broad daylight and the police are clueless as to her whereabouts.

The only man her family can turn to for help is retired FBI profiler John Geary. But Geary suspects she's been taken by a serial killer who targets mothers. Every seven years he strikes, enacting a gruesome ritual. And Geary knows that there's much worse to come....

Emily has five days left. Five days of waiting. Five days of hell. Five days before the killer returns for her son...

  • Published: 2 February 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448116157
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448

About the author

Katia Lief

Born in France to American parents, Katia Lief moved to the United States as a baby and was raised in Massachusetts and New York.

Katia has published two novels under her maiden name Katia Spiegelman, four novels under the name Kate Pepper and now writes under her married name Katia Lief. As Katia Lief she has published nine novels so far in the USA.

She has a master's degree in literature and creative writing and teaches fiction writing as a part-time faculty member at the New School in Manhattan. Katia lives in Brooklyn with her husband, two children, two cats, and several fish.

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Praise for Five Days to Die

Five Days to Die has it all: an attractive female detective, a crusty FBI profiler, and the scariest killer you'll never want to meet

Leslie Glass

Especially hard to put down . . .had this reviewer looking over her shoulder in her quiet apartment . . .the plot really cooks

The Mystery Reader

I put Five Days to Die aside only once . . . to make sure my doors were locked

Barbara Parker

Katia Lief has an amazing eye for detail . . . clever and realistic – a gripping, poignant portrayal of an innocent family caught in a nightmare of evil

Anne Frasier

The ultimate race-against-the-clock thriller

Lisa Gardner

tightly plotted thriller . . . finely drawn characterisations and taut, clean storytelling make this an enjoyable read

Publishers Weekly
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