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"Seven Minutes to Noon starts off running, and never stops until the end. A tightly woven plot keeps the story flowing...You'll startle at every strange sound as you read Kate Pepper's second book. Best not to be alone when turning the pages..." Mary Ann Smyth, BookLoons.com "Kate Pepper was quite a hit with her debut suspenser Five Days in Summer and she keeps up the pace with Seven Minutes to Noon...Nail-biting stuff." MysteryLovers.com "This mystery suspense thriller is one of the best I've ever read. Through skillful wordsmithery, appealing characters, and deft plotting, reality becomes far scarier than supernatural hauntings could ever be." Midwest Book Review

Seven Minutes to Noon
Kate Pepper

In a comfortable Brooklyn neighborhood, Alice Halpern waits for her best friend, Lauren, at the local playground. But when Lauren doesn't show up, and then fails to pick her son up from school, Alice watches her own life turn into a nightmare. As the police desperately search for Lauren, who is nearly nine months pregnant, Alice, herself pregnant with twins, realizes she's being followed and has the creeping fear that she'll be next. As the investigation intensifies, Alice is shocked to see her familiar world turned upside down by the list of suspects. And as two new lives grow within her, she must fight to save them, her family—and herself.

Signet, May 2005
ISBN #0451215796
320 pages Paperback
$6.99