Domestic thrillers·REC02:40:17

Watch the one who stays calm.

Domestic thrillers about ordinary people who notice the wrong thing at the wrong moment, and what it costs them to do something about it. Written by a twenty-year Army veteran.

He only tells the truth in his sleep.

New·Room 4 · 2:40 a.m.

The Night Study

A Domestic Thriller of Buried Family Secrets

At 2:40 a.m., deep in REM, the trucker in Room 4 tells sleep tech Dawn Parrish exactly how to kick open the stuck laundry chute in her own kitchen.

Rear Window by way of the sleep lab: a night-shift tech hears a sleeping stranger describe the crack in her basement floor, and the bucket her husband held the night someone went under it.

She heard the plan. So she took him first.

The first J.L. Vantrees novel·Houston

Who Took Wesley Kane

A Kidnapping Thriller

When a Houston oil heir’s nine-year-old son vanishes with his tutor, the whole country hunts her as a kidnapper. She’s the only one who knows the ransom note was written by the boy’s father, and why he needs his son dead.

Rae Dillard spent her childhood in eleven foster homes. She knows what it looks like when an adult decides a kid is a problem to be solved.

About

J.L. Vantrees served more than twenty years in the U.S. Army, long enough to learn to watch the person who stays calm while everyone else is shouting. Vantrees writes domestic thrillers about ordinary people who notice the wrong thing at the wrong moment, and about what it costs them to do something about it.

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