02615cam a2200457 4500 385936577 TxAuBib 20190705120000.0 180523s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018945708 9781538713891 1538713896 (OCoLC)1080266194 TxAuBib Patterson, James. The house next door : thrillers / James Patterson ; with Susan DiLallo, Max DiLallo, and Tim Arnold. First edition. New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2019. ©2019. 432 pages ; 21 cm. The house next door / with Susan DiLallo -- The killer's wife / with Max DiLallo -- We. Are. Not. Alone. / with Tim Arnold. Collects three stories, including "The Killer's Wife," in which Detective McGrath encourages a relationship with a suspect's wife in order to locate six missing girls. The House Next Door (with Susan DiLallo): Married mother of three Laura Sherman was thrilled when her new neighbor invited her on some errands. But a few quick tasks became a long lunch-and now things could go too far with a man who isn't what he seems.... The Killer's Wife (with Max DiLallo): Four girls have gone missing. Detective McGrath knows the only way to find them is to get close to the suspect's wife...maybe too close. We. Are. Not. Alone (with Tim Arnold): The first message from space. It will change the world. It's first contact. Undeniable proof of alien life. Disgraced Air Force scientist Robert Barnett found it. Now he's the target of a desperate nationwide manhunt-and Earth's future hangs in the balance. A collection of three novellas, involving a neighbor who isn't what he seems ; a detective who gets too close to a suspect's wife; and a disgraced Air Force scientist who finds a message that will change the world-- if it survives the next few days. -- adapted from jacket. 20190705. Neighbors Fiction. Missing children Fiction. Extraterrestrial beings Fiction. Crime Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Neighborhood Fiction. Aliens Fiction. Suspense fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Detective and mystery fiction. DiLallo, Susan, 1947- DiLallo, Max, author. Arnold, Tim.