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After a late night of partying, NYU student Matt Pine returns to his dorm room to devastating news: nearly his entire family - his mom, his dad, his little brother and sister - have been found dead from an apparent gas leak while vacationing in Mexico. The local police claim it was an accident, but the FBI and State Department seem far less certain - and they won’t tell Matt why.

It’s New Year’s Eve 1999. Y2K is expected to end in chaos: planes falling from the sky, elevators plunging to earth, world markets collapsing. A digital apocalypse. None of that happens. But at a Blockbuster Video in New Jersey, four teenagers working late at the store are attacked. Only one inexplicably survives. Police quickly identify a suspect, the boyfriend of one of the victims, who flees and is never seen again.

From Alex Finlay, the author of Every Last Fear and The Night Shift, comes an action-packed new thriller What Have We Done, about the lives we leave behind and the secrets we carry with us forever.

For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open. The crushing blow to the head. The hands yanking him from the vehicle. His girlfriend Ali’s piercing scream as she is taken. With no trace of Ali or the car, a cloud of suspicion hangs over Ryan. But with no proof and a good lawyer, he’s never charged, though that doesn’t matter to the podcasters and internet trolls. Now, Ryan has changed his last name, and entered law school. He's put his past behind him. Until, on a summer trip abroad to Italy, Ryan gets a call from his father.

Eine True-Crime-Doku machte die Familie Pine in den USA berühmt. Nun hat ein Unfall sie ausgelöscht. Ein Zufall? Die Nachricht trifft Matt Pine wie ein Schock: Bei einem Urlaub in Mexiko kam fast seine gesamte Familie ums Leben. Die örtliche Polizei behauptet, es sei ein Unfall gewesen, doch das FBI bezweifelt das. Allerdings wollen sie Matt den Grund für ihre Skepsis nicht verraten. Das Drama rückt Matts Familie erneut ins Rampenlicht der Medien. Vor sieben Jahren war sein älterer Bruder Danny wegen Mordes an seiner Highschool-Freundin zu lebenslanger Haft verurteilt worden.

Eine True-Crime-Doku machte die Familie Pine in den USA berühmt. Nun hat ein Unfall sie ausgelöscht. Ein Zufall? Die Nachricht trifft Matt Pine wie ein Schock: Bei einem Urlaub in Mexiko kam fast seine gesamte Familie ums Leben. Die örtliche Polizei behauptet, es sei ein Unfall gewesen, doch das FBI bezweifelt das. Allerdings wollen sie Matt den Grund für ihre Skepsis nicht verraten. Das Drama rückt Matts Familie erneut ins Rampenlicht der Medien. Vor sieben Jahren war sein älterer Bruder Danny wegen Mordes an seiner Highschool-Freundin zu lebenslanger Haft verurteilt worden.

L’ultimo dell’anno, 1999. Quattro ragazzi lavorano fino a tardi nell’unico videonoleggio in una paesino del New Jersey. Mentre il resto d’America aspetta l’arrivo del nuovo millennio, i quattro ragazzi vengono aggrediti. Solo una ragazza rimane in vita; scioccata dall’accaduto, non riesce a ricordare il volto dell’aggressore. La polizia individua un possibile colpevole, il ragazzo di una delle vittime, che però riesce in qualche modo a scappare e a far perdere le sue tracce.