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Elaine Murphy is a Canadian author who has lived on both coasts and several places in between. Among other things, she has volunteered in Zambia, taught English in China, jumped off a bridge, and out of an airplane. She has a diploma in Writing for Film & Television but has never worked in either field. She recently took an interest in the dark side and began plotting suspense and thrillers. She enjoys putting ordinary people in extraordinarily difficult situations, and seeing what they do about it. She lives in Vancouver, Canada.

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Average rating: 3.71 · 6,367 ratings · 800 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	Look What You Made Me Do 3.72 avg rating — 4,814 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Told You This Would Happen 3.65 avg rating — 1,553 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Drop Dead Sisters (The Finch Sisters, #1)

by Amelia Diane Coombs (Goodreads Author)

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Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

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Elaine Murphy has read The Push by Ashley Audrain (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I'm late to the party on this one, but that's pretty much the status quo. I actually intended to read this and got The Whispers instead, loved it, and was excited to read this one. It was written so differently from the books I normally read and I wa ...more
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“Some people have skeletons in their closets, but mine are buried all over town”
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