Three Seconds

Emma Lawson is a good mother. She makes her son's sandwiches into triangles every morning. She puts a little drawing in herdaughter's lunchbox. She loves her husband. She laughs at the right moments. She rememberseveryone's name. She also has a small glass vial in her handbag. Between 2022 and 2024, five people died at ordinary gatherings in Valencia, Spain. A streetfestival. A school parents' evening.
A birthday dinner. A children's fete. A New Year's party. Nobody connected the deaths. They were not connected. They were all different people indifferent places at different times. There was no pattern anyone could see. Emma was at all five. Three Seconds is not a thriller about a detective closing in. There is no race against time. Nobodyfigures it out. This is a novel about a woman who lives a completely normal life and does onething inside it that nobody knows about.
She doesn't know why she does it. She has tried to findout. The answer never comes. What she does know is this: it takes three seconds. And she feels nothing she has a word for after. Dark. Quiet. Unforgettable.