Twelve Minutes To Midnight
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Every night, at 12 minutes to midnight, something sinister happens. Someone drops dead. A girl whose father is investigating the case, is suspicious. Something hits home about the murderer, something too near and too close.
The further she investigates, the more she gets tangled up in a deadly mystery.
How far will the murderer go to kill?
What is it about the murderer that seems so familiar?
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