04268cam a2200697 4500 2770841139 TxAuBib 20260601120000.0 ||||||s2026||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9798217088034 B0FL9S3HZJ Amazon 74c4f3e3-5c8a-4bab-840b-9267d343d883 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 12190632 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Bannister, Ilona. Five [Bridges eBook] : A Novel. Crown, 2026. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. psychological thrillers books. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. psychological thriller books. mystery thriller suspense. psychological thrillers. mysteries and thrillers. suspense thriller books. realistic fiction books. psychological thriller. mystery and thriller. Ilona Bannister. thriller books. suspense books. judge and jury. Psychological. Social Issues. mystery books. thriller book. Storytelling. mystery book. family life. stereotypes. fourth wall. strangers. Thrillers. judgement. suspense. chilling. Thriller. society. mystery. London. train. Death. five. HTML:<b>“[A] sizzling summer thriller . . . a kind of morality tale, a Rorschach test for all of us.”—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> (Editors’ Choice)<br /> Five lives. Five stories. Four will live—one will die. Who it will be? In this slow-burn masterpiece of psychological fiction, the choice is all yours.<br /></b><br /> <b>“<i>Five</i> is a gripping, chilling story that asks difficult questions about judgement, forgiveness, and the notion of cause and effect.”—Chris Whitaker, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>All the Colors of the Dark</i></b><br /> Have you ever tried to pass the time by imagining the lives of the strangers standing next to you? Ilona Bannister’s <i>Five</i> introduces readers to five seemingly random people waiting for a train. But these are not just any five people. From the beginning we know that one of them is going to die soon. Very soon. In five minutes the next train to London will arrive, killing one of them. But before this happens you will learn their stories.<br /> None of these people are saints. Readers might fall in love with the beautiful young man who is on the verge of gambling his life away. They may pity the cantankerous old woman who has fallen to the ground yet is refusing help. Perhaps readers will look away from the child throwing a tantrum. Or judge his mother, who must surely be to blame. And some will be curiously compelled by the successful and damaged businessman orbiting them all.<br /> These are the candidates for this morning’s misfortune. But they don’t know it. Only you know. And you, our complicit reader, will not be able to resist deciding who deserves to walk away, and who deserves only five more minutes to live.<br /> An incredibly original novel that breaks the fourth wall and asks the reader to be judge, jury, and executioner, <i>Five</i> looks at some of the most complicated issues of contemporary life: motherhood, disability, addiction. Every stranger has a story. And in Ilona Bannister’s skillful hands, five people’s stories come together to create an unforgettable novel. Literature. Thriller. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-05-30 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=74c4f3e3-5c8a-4bab-840b-9267d343d883&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=74c4f3e3-5c8a-4bab-840b-9267d343d883&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)