12 must-read thriller books like The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr

Cover of The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr

The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

By: Samuel Burr

3.86

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary, gloriously uplifting novel about the power of friendship and the puzzling ties th…

"As far as she was concerned, it was something people didn't do enough of: to take a few moments to yourself, when your mind was at its clearest. To reflect on the endless possibilities of the day stretched befor you. To spoil yourself before the world spoils you. She swore by it."

-Samuel Burr, The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

"As far as she was concerned, it was something people didn't do enough of: to take a few moments to yourself, when your mind was at its clearest. To reflect on the endless possibilities of the day stretched befor you. To spoil yourself before the world spoils you. She swore by it."

-Samuel Burr, The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

If you liked the thriller plot in The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey

1. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

Similar categories in Jennie Godfrey's The List of Suspicious Things book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of You Are Here by David Nicholls

2. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

Similar categories in David Nicholls's You Are Here book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

Cover of How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1) by Kristen Perrin

3. How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

By: Kristen Perrin

3.80

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

Frances Adams always said she'd be murdered. She was right. It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams … read more

Similar categories in Kristen Perrin's How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1) book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"My favourite chess saying is very simple: You can play without a plan, but you’ll probably lose.’ - Rutherford Gravesdown"

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

"You stupid b*tch, you think you're so worthy? You deserve nothing but a hole in the ground. You're a wh*re and a liar, and I swear if you don't stop this I'll snap your scrawny neck like a twig."

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

"Don’t worry, Annie, I’m not going to murder you.’ ‘I appreciate that, Saxon,’ I reply. ‘I’m not going to murder you either.’ And then we both smile, because this is such a strange thing to say ten mi…"

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

"You little b*tch, you think you can stand in my way? You're so used to getting what you want, with your perfect pretty face. If you don't stop I swear I'll ruin that face. I'll put your bones in a bo…"

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

Cover of Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles

4. Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

By: Janet Skeslien Charles

4.02

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the “captivating, richly drawn” (Woman… read more

Similar categories in Janet Skeslien Charles's Miss Morgan's Book Brigade book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading by James  Patterson

5. The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

By: James Patterson

3.92

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, … read more

Similar categories in James Patterson's The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • adult
  • audiobook
"Different books speak to us at different times."

-James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

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6. The Husbands

By: Holly Gramazio

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exuberant debut, The Husbands delights in how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world … read more

Similar categories in Holly Gramazio's The Husbands book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Real Americans

By: Rachel Khong

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Khong's Real Americans book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

Cover of The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl

8. The Paris Novel

By: Ruth Reichl

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Ruth Reichl takes readers on an adventure of food, art, and fashion in 1980s Par… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Reichl's The Paris Novel book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"That is the most expensive spice in the world. It comes from the Valley of Flowers, where everyone's hands are red from separating the saffron from the blossoms. Each flower has just three strands, s…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"The fat was bubbling in a pot on the stove. The potatoes went in, were snatched out, then plunged back in. They emerged crisp and golden; Richard sprinkled them with salt and piled them on a platter,…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"The oysters arrived on a deep bed of ice. She had never eaten an oyster, and she stared down at the platter. A ruffle of black encircled each opalescent heart; she thought of orchids. Triangles of le…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"A waiter set a small tart of caramelized pears before each of them and added a dab of licorice ice cream. Next came bananas topped with passion fruit and black pepper, little pirouettes of pleasure. …"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

Cover of The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton

9. The Last Murder at the End of the World

By: Stuart Turton

3.68

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Devil and the Dark Wat… read more

Similar categories in Stuart Turton's The Last Murder at the End of the World book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder by C.L.   Miller

10. The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder

By: C.L. Miller

3.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this irresistible and thrilling debut novel, a former antique hunter investigates a suspicious d… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Miller's The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies (The Vacation Mysteries, #1) by Catherine  Mack

11. Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies (The Vacation Mysteries, #1)

By: Catherine Mack

3.53

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Ten days, eight suspects, six cities, five authors, three bodies . . . one trip to die for. All … read more

Similar categories in Catherine Mack's Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies (The Vacation Mysteries, #1) book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3) by Robert Thorogood

12. The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3)

By: Robert Thorogood

3.93

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The Marlow Murder Club is on the hunt for a killer... Geoffrey Lushington, Mayor of Marlow, dies su… read more

Similar categories in Robert Thorogood's The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3) book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke

13. A Short Walk Through a Wide World

By: Douglas Westerbeke

3.56

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the in… read more

Similar categories in Douglas Westerbeke's A Short Walk Through a Wide World book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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15. The Book of Doors

By: Gareth Brown

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go? In New York City, bookseller Cassie An… read more

Similar categories in Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"It's not the number of books that matters, is it? It's what one does with them."

-Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

"One does not look at a dog and assume it is the only animal to exist. ~ Edmund Fox"

-Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

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16. Lies and Weddings

By: Kevin Kwan

3.82

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A forbidden affair erupts dramatically amid a decadent Hawaiian wedding in this hilarious, sophisti… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Kwan's Lies and Weddings book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. How to Read a Book

By: Monica Wood

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A charming, deeply moving novel about second chances, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing p… read more

Similar categories in Monica Wood's How to Read a Book book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same."

-Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

Cover of Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2) by Benjamin   Stevenson

18. Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2)

By: Benjamin Stevenson

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the … read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Stevenson's Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2) book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. The Ministry of Time

By: Kaliane Bradley

3.62

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the natu… read more

Similar categories in Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"And then when she was given a second chance, she caught the sword and came up singing."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?"

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

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20. Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

By: Olivia Ford

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food Nothing… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Ford's Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"To want something, she realized, was to make yourself vulnerable to losing it."

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

"It's sometimes easy to feel left behind at my age, as if the world has a future and you have no place in it...but I hope to discover that there is meaning and adventure still to be found."

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

"...the strongest couples I know have grown together, supporting their partner's changes rather than harnessing or fearing them. It's a bit like growing roses - you don't get to choose exactly which w…"

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

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21. The Night in Question

By: Susan Fletcher

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A lyrical and emotionally engaging novel infused with mystery and wisdom about love, friendship, an… read more

Similar categories in Susan Fletcher's The Night in Question book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"So walk into your life. Do what you want to do, Florrie, always – because a timid, obedient woman is quite the tragedy… Life. What a shame we only get one shot at it."

-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question

".. they discussed what they wanted from this life- this brief, single dance in the sunlight of life. "Adventures," she told him... "I've always wanted them." from the moment that Bobs drew the world …"

-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question

"… how on earth had it come to this; how was she looking at care homes for the elderly when she still felt twenty years old inside, still believed she could do headstands, and when there was still so …"

-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question

"We think, for so long, that old age will never find us. We feel that we, as individuals, might somehow be exempt from it, that we might be given some sort of ticket that allows us to sidestep death, …"

-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question

Cover of The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson

22. The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club

By: Helen Simonson

3.96

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A timeless comedy of manners—refreshing as a summer breeze and bracing as the British seaside—about… read more

Similar categories in Helen Simonson's The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) by Steven  Rowley

23. The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

By: Steven Rowley

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Ita… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr

24. The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

By: Samuel Burr

3.86

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary, gloriously uplifting novel about the power of friendship and the puzzling ties th… read more

Similar categories in Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
"As far as she was concerned, it was something people didn't do enough of: to take a few moments to yourself, when your mind was at its clearest. To reflect on the endless possibilities of the day str…"

-Samuel Burr, The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

Cover of I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue

25. I Hope This Finds You Well

By: Natalie Sue

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this wildly funny and heartwarming office comedy, an admin worker accidentally gains access to h… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Sue's I Hope This Finds You Well book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"All the shit inside me hardens."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

"Shit. This is already a toothpaste-out-of-the-tube situation."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

"You can't legally brag about your son since you named him "Carl"."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

"He nods and names everyone he passes like the damn president of Clown Town."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

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26. Nosy Neighbors

By: Freya Sampson

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Two neighbors-at-war band together to stop a dangerous criminal in their midst in this enthralling … read more

Similar categories in Freya Sampson's Nosy Neighbors book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller

27. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

By: Kirsten Miller

4.19

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking!… read more

Similar categories in Kirsten Miller's Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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28. The Lost Story

By: Meg Shaffer

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy tale fo… read more

Similar categories in Meg Shaffer's The Lost Story book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley

29. How to Age Disgracefully

By: Clare Pooley

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A senior citizens’ center and a daycare collide with hilarious results in the new ensemble comedy f… read more

Similar categories in Clare Pooley's How to Age Disgracefully book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • adult fiction
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Mature? Good grief! I'm not a cheese. Or a herbaceous border."

-Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

"Mature'? Good grief! I'm not a cheese. Or a herbaceous border."

-Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

Cover of Seven Days by Robert Rutherford

30. Seven Days

By: Robert Rutherford

3.60

Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition

'Wow! An absolutely fantastic edge of your seat thriller. I could not turn the pages fast enough...… read more

Similar categories in Robert Rutherford's Seven Days book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Betrayal of Thomas True by A.J.  West

31. The Betrayal of Thomas True

By: A.J. West

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It is the year 1710, and Thomas True has arrived on old London Bridge with a dangerous secret. One … read more

Similar categories in A.J. West's The Betrayal of Thomas True book and Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction

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Transform Your Habits

The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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You Are Here

David Nicholls

4.08

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How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

Kristen Perrin

3.80

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Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

Anthony Horowitz

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Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera

4.13

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Alex Michaelides

3.38

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Lisa Unger

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