England Fiction Mystery

Melissa Byatt’s life in Forest Grove seems as perfect as can be: a doting husband, three loving children and a beautiful house in a close-knit community. But appearances can be deceiving. One evening, Melissa arrives home to the unimaginable: her husband lies stabbed on the kitchen floor, their children standing calmly around him.... With horror, she realises that one of them is to blame. But which one? And why would they attack their own father?

In the quiet seaside town of Weston-super-Mare, a man is found unconscious on the beach with a strange symbol carved into his skin. The victim - a local drug addict - has no recollection of who attacked him or how he got there. The sleepy coastal community is sent into shock. And when another victim branded with the same vicious mark dies from his wounds, DI Louise Blackwell realizes she is dealing with a sadistic serial killer. But why is the twisted attacker targeting Weston’s most vulnerable people? And what is the meaning behind the mysterious symbol?

Tre kan behålla en hemlighet... om två är döda. "Tror du att Will tog sitt eget liv?" Min fråga ekade mot de vita kakelplattorna i sjukhusets kalla, grottliknande bårhus. Wills kropp låg på stålbordet framför oss, fridfull och surrealistisk under ett vitt lakan. Jag lutade mig ner och lade min panna mot hans. Tysta tårar rann nerför mina kinder. De kändes varma och han kändes så kall. Det hade gått fem dagar sedan han dog och min sorg kändes tung, som en stor, mörk massa som tryckte ner mig.

Spänning. Hemligheter. Misstankar. Skandal. En berättelse som tvingar läsaren att gissa ända till slutet. "Fångad" är den nervslitande nya romanen från författaren till den internationella bestsellern "Bakom stängda dörrar". Det är mörkt. Du vet inte var du är. Och du hör steg som närmar sig. Ett förhållande kan rymma många hemligheter... Amelie har alltid varit en överlevare. Hon förlorade sin familj som ung, flyttade till London och tvingades klara sig på egen hand.

Mortician Tennessee England lives to honor the dead. But a slow season means she’s back freelancing as a party planner. Doctor Phillip Saint James warns the stress might worsen her cerebral aneurysm, causing all sorts of mystifying symptoms. To her disgust, he’s right. She’s been hallucinating a sexy ghost samurai all damn day. Or has she? His icy touch on the nape of her neck feels awfully real! So do his dire warnings that she must choose a side: mortal or immortal.

Charlie Rutland, a womanizing journalist, is found brutally murdered. He worked for a muck-raking gossip magazine and therefore had many enemies. Detective Crow is assigned to Yorkshire where he must eliminate a long list of suspects. And where does the German businessman Conrad Gunther fit in? Mysterious lights at Lockyer Tarn, a homeless man hiding out on the Yorkshire Dales, a stolen Volvo, and a former Gestapo officer are all seemingly linked in some manner. And then the British spy services get involved....

Nine-year-old Jenny Carson is brutally murdered in Kenton Wood on her way from school. Then Charles Lendon is found stabbed to death with a skewer through his heart. He was a ruthless lawyer and something of a womanizer. Jenny's father blamed him for her murder. As the local police struggle, Inspector Crow is called in. Can he connect the two killings? He discovers that several of those closest to Charles Lendon had good reason to hate him: his housekeeper lover, her unstable brother, even the boyfriend of his attractive young colleague Cathy Tennant.

Må vi præsentere Jane Bell. Efter sin mands død forlader hun sit job som lærer for at melde sig frivilligt som reservebetjent ved politiet. På sin allerførste vagt bliver Jane kaldt ud til gerningsstedet for et mord. En ung mand har slæbt sig op til øverste trin på Greestone Stairs for at dø. Jane handler instinktivt og er pludselig dybt involveret i sagen Set fra politiinspektør Steph Warwicks stol har reservebetjente ikke noget at gøre i en mordefterforskning. Hun mener, at den uerfarne grønskolling blander sig i noget, der ikke kommer hende ved.