Normal: The Most Original Thriller Of The Year. Graeme Cameron
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      “The truth is I hurt people. It’s what I do. It’s all I do. It’s all I’ve ever done.”

      He lives in your community, in a nice house with a well-tended garden. He shops in your grocery store, bumping shoulders with you and apologizing with a smile. He drives beside you on the highway, politely waving you into the lane ahead of him.

      What you don’t know is that he has an elaborate cage built into a secret basement under his garage. And the food that he’s carefully shopping for is to feed a young woman he’s holding there against her will—one in a string of many, unaware of the fate that awaits her.

      This is how it’s been for a long time. It’s normal…and it works. Perfectly.

      Then he meets the checkout girl from the 24-hour grocery. And now the plan, the hunts, the room…the others. He doesn’t need any of them anymore. He needs only her. But just as he decides to go straight, the police start to close in. He might be able to cover his tracks, except for one small problem—he still has someone trapped in his garage.

      Discovering his humanity couldn’t have come at a worse time.

      Graeme Cameron

      For Oscar, Lewis, Sophie, Eve and Tracie

       and To Jamie Mason, for everything.

      Contents

       Cover

       Back Cover Text

       Title Page

       Dedication

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Chapter Seventeen

       Chapter Eighteen

       Chapter Nineteen

       Chapter Twenty

       Chapter Twenty-One

       Chapter Twenty-Two

       Chapter Twenty-Three

       Chapter Twenty-Four

       Chapter Twenty-Five

       Chapter Twenty-Six

       Chapter Twenty-Seven

       Chapter Twenty-Eight

       Chapter Twenty-Nine

       Chapter Thirty

       Chapter Thirty-One

       Chapter Thirty-Two

       Chapter Thirty-Three

       Chapter Thirty-Four

       Chapter Thirty-Five

       Acknowledgments

       A Conversation with Graeme Cameron

       End Pages

       Copyright

       CHAPTER ONE

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