Two girls are missing. Only one will return. The couple that offers the highest amount will see their daughter again, but the other will not. Make no mistake - one child will die. As the families are set against one another, each attempting to save their own child, DI Kim Stone fears that these ruthless criminals might be the most deadly she has ever faced.
The dead don't tell secrets ... unless you listen. The girl's smashed-in face stared unseeing up to the blue sky, soil spilling out of her mouth. A hundred flies hovered above the bloodied mess. Westerley research facility is not for the faint-hearted. A 'body farm' investigating human decomposition, its inhabitants are corpses in various states of decay. But when Detective Kim Stone and her team discover the fresh body of a young woman, it seems a killer has discovered the perfect cover to bury their crime. Then a second girl is attacked and left for dead, her body drugged and mouth filled with soil. It's clear to Stone and the team that a serial killer is at work - but just how many bodies will they uncover? And who is next? As local reporter, Tracy Frost, disappears, the stakes are raised. The past seems to hold the key to the killer's secrets - but can Kim uncover the truth before a twisted, damaged mind claims another victim ...?
The rising star of the British thriller scene returns with the next D.I. Kim Stone thriller, that will enthrall fans of Rachel Abbott, Helen Fields and Peter Robinson
The greater the Evil, the more deadly the game… When a rapist is found mutilated in a brutal attack, Detective Kim Stone and her team are called in to bring a swift resolution. But, as more vengeful killings come to light, it soon becomes clear that there is someone far more sinister at work. With the investigation quickly gathering momentum, Kim finds herself exposed to great danger and in the sights of a lethal individual undertaking their own twisted experiment. Up against a sociopath who seems to know her every weakness, for Detective Stone, each move she makes could be deadly. As the body count starts to mount, Kim will have to dig deeper than ever before to stop the killing. And this time - it’s personal. The rising star of the British thriller scene returns with a novel that enthrall fans of Rachel Abbott, Val McDermid and Mark Billingham.
Deux meurtres spectaculaires sont perpétrés à Boston à six semaines d'intervalle. Dans les deux cas, les victimes sont des femmes seules, atrocement mutilées, à côté desquelles l'assassin a déposé une rose. L'inspectrice D.D. Warren, chargée de l'enquête, décèle vite une similitude entre ces mises en scène macabres et une longue série de meurtres ayant défrayé la chronique à Boston quarante ans plus tôt et dont l'auteur, Harry Day, s'est suicidé depuis. Seul recours pour D.D. Warren : se rapprocher des deux filles de Harry Day. Se pourrait-il qu'il y ait un lien entre les récents crimes et Shana et Adeline ? Pour le savoir, D.D. Warren va devoir se confronter à cette interrogation : peut-on échapper à son destin lorsqu'il est marqué du sceau de la mort ? Une plongée stupéfiante au coeur d'un enfer familial : Lisa Gardner s'impose définitivement comme une virtuose du thriller psychologique
Rachel and Rose grew up worlds apart. Rachel, in the lap of Manhattan luxury, an ice princess determined to be a great doctor. Rose, in the New York slums, yielding to passion too young, and fleeing heartbreak to become a star lawyer. When they both fall in love with the same fascinating man, they are brought face to face with the truth about each other and themselves.
Bangkok, 1862. Anna Leonowens arrive avec son fils Louis à la cour du roi de Siam pour assurer l'éducation du prince héritier. Pour cette jeune veuve d'officier, pourtant habituée aux colonies britanniques d'Extrême-Orient, le dépaysement est total et l'accueil des plus déroutants. L'arrivée d'une femme, étrangère de surcroît, suscite bien des réticences dans un palais régi par une étiquette ô combien étrange pour une Occidentale. Après un premier contact orageux, une surprenante complicité se tisse peu à peu entre la gouvernante anglaise et le roi Mongkut, homme de paix et monarque éclairé. Une complicité qui éveille bientôt d'autres sentiments. Ainsi commence l'histoire d'Anna et le Roi, fresque tour à tour drôle et émouvante, qui évoque la rencontre véridique de deux êtres au destin exceptionnel dans le contexte troublé d'un pays envoûtant fait à la fois de violence et de raffinement.
Within the walls of a cloistered convent, a scene of unspeakable carnage is discovered. On the snow lie two nuns, one dead, one critically injured - victims of a seemingly motiveless, brutally savage attack. Medical examiner Maura Isles' autopsy of the murder victim yields a shocking surprise, but the case takes a disturbing twist.
It's a profile, like all the others on the online dating site. But as NYPD Detective Kat Donovan focuses on the accompanying picture, she feels her whole world explode, as emotions she's ignored for decades come crashing down on her. Staring back at her is her ex-fiance Jeff, the man who shattered her heart 18 years ago. Kat feels a spark, wondering if this might be the moment when past tragedies recede and a new world opens up to her. But when she reaches out to the man in the profile, her reawakened hope quickly darkens into suspicion and then terror as an unspeakable conspiracy comes to light, in which monsters prey upon the most vulnerable. As Kat's hope for a second chance with Jeff grows more and more elusive, she is consumed by an investigation that challenges her feelings about everyone she ever loved - her former fiance, her mother, and even her father, whose cruel murder so long ago has never been fully explained. With lives on the line, including her own, Kat must venture deeper into the darkness than she ever has before, and discover if she has the strength to survive what she finds there.
What if your child wanted you dead? Julia is terrified by her daughter's aggressive behaviour. Lily has changed from an angelic little girl into someone she is afraid to be alone with. What scares Julia most, though, is that she knows why Lily is acting this way, but no-one will believe her. If she is going to help Lily, she will have to find the answers alone, embarking on a search that will take her to the shadowy back streets of Venice. There Julia finds far more than just answers, and uncovers a heartbreaking, long-buried tale of tragedy and devastation. And this discovery has put her in serious danger . . .
