Mystery England

Er entführt seine Opfer, hält sie über Wochen gefangen und setzt sie unerträglicher Folter aus – diese Geschichte lässt einem das Blut in den Adern gefrieren! Auf einer Landstraße in Oxfordshire wird eine ausgemergelte junge Frau gefunden. Die Polizei geht von einer Drogensüchtigen aus, doch Detective Aidan Corcoran ahnt, dass hier ein grausames Verbrechen geschehen ist. Und seine Vermutung wird bald zur Bestätigung: Das Opfer weist Fesselmale auf und wurde über Wochen festgehalten und ausgehungert.

En ærlig og ordentlig mand bliver overordentligt overrasket, da han ved juletid finder en død gås med en enorm blå juvel maven. Faktisk bliver han så befippet, at han skynder sig hen til mesterdetektiven Sherlock Holmes med den. Den berømte og nonchalante detektiv er straks fanget af den mærkelige hændelse og kaster sig frådende over gåden. Sagen rummer et væld af mærkelige spor, som han på sin klassiske manér stykker sammen til en løsning...

Det kostede Dolly ni års fængsel, at hun dræbte sin mand, mesterforbryderen Harry Rawlins, som hævn for hans dobbelte bedrageri. Nu er hun ude og klar til at realisere sin drøm - at åbne et hjem for svigtede og hjemløse børn. Til formålet vil hun bruge sin skjulte formue - diamanter fra et tidligere røveri til en værdi af to millioner pund. Men så enkelt er det ikke. For der er andre, som kender til diamanterne og vil have deres andel af byttet. Desværre viser det sig, at diamanterne er forsvundet.

In a razor-sharp legal thriller, Jack Kowalski must win two challenging trials to save his reputation and his career. Junior barrister Jack Kowalski is crushed. His client Timothy Smart appears to have committed a monstrous crime while on bail - a bail application Jack fought hard to win. When a high-profile Polish footballer is charged with rape and demands a fellow countryman represent him, Jack must overcome his guilt and get back to work.

Die erfolgreiche Autorin Ella Martin recherchiert für ihre neue Romanreihe in Canterbury. Als sie beim Einkaufen auf deutsche Touristinnen trifft, die ihre Reiseleiterin Eve vermissen, bietet sie ihnen an, für sie zu dolmetschen. Auch die Polizei und das Reisebüro benötigen ihre Deutschkenntnisse und im Nu steckt Ella mitten in den Ermittlungen zu einem Raubüberfall, dem die Reiseleiterin Eve zum Opfer gefallen ist. Dabei will Ella eigentlich nur ihren Roman schreiben. Doch langsam, aber sicher kommt ihr der Verdacht, dass Eve ermordet wurde.

"Katten i dueslaget" foregår på den fornemme engelske pigeskole Meadowbank. For skolens ledelse er det en katastrofe, da den nye idrætslærerinde bliver myrdet, og det bliver ikke det sidste mord på skolen. Politiet står uden spor, men en af eleverne får øje på en sammenhæng og tilkalder mesterdetektiven Hercule Poirot. Hercule Poirot er Agatha Christies belgiske privatdetektiv, der er lige så genial, som han er sær.

Harriet and Mark have it all: successful careers, a lovely house in a leafy London suburb, twin boys on the cusp of leaving home. Yvette and Gary share a smaller place with their two daughters in a shabbier part of the same borough. But when the stars align for a collective move north, it means a fresh start for them all. For Mark, it’s a chance to escape the rat race; for Harriet, a distraction from her unfulfilled dream of a late third child. Gary has decided to reboot the Madchester band that made him famous, while Yvette hopes it will give her daughters what she never had.

Female friendship is intense and that intensity can erupt into dangerous passions when teenage girls are cooped up in an exclusive East Coast boarding school. Beautiful, streetwise Cassidy Thomas; debutante jock Abby Madison; academic, sensitive Karen Mullens; and sophisticated troublemaking Zoey Spalding are four seventeen-year-olds who should be cruising happily through their Senior Year. But jealousies are simmering. And when Zoey plays a game with the class list—if you lose your virginity you get a star beside your name—it sets in motion a chain of shocking events.

Kate Marshall er en lovende ung kriminalassistent, da hun fanger den berygtede seriemorder fra Nine Elms. Men hendes største sejr forvandler sig pludselig til et mareridt. Traumatiseret, forrådt og hængt offentligt ud for de chokerende omstændigheder omkring kannibalmordene kan Kate kun se til, mens hendes karriere ender i en skandale. Femten år efter de katastrofale begivenheder hjemsøges Kate stadig af fortidens spøgelser. En copycat-morder har taget Nine Elms-udfordringen op og fortsætter nu sit idols grufulde arbejde.

Efter Brændofre er en ny storm på vej... Jared Keaton, stjernekok. Charmerende. Karismatisk. Psykopat... Han er fængslet på livstid for det brutale drab på sin datter, Elizabeth. Liget af hende blev aldrig fundet, og Keaton blev i høj grad dømt på grundlag af kriminalassistent Washington Poes vidneudsagn. Så da en ung kvinde kommer stavrende ind på en landpolitistation med uigendrivelige beviser på, at hun er Elizabeth Keaton, ender Poe selv som mål for en efterforskning, der kan ende med at koste ham langt mere end karrieren.

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?

Eager for distraction in the aftermath of her messy divorce, Ellie Mileham dives into moderating the petty squabbles on her local Facebook group. When a prankster starts trolling uptight members, it’s a welcome diversion at first. But then the war of words moves onto the streets of Forest Grove, with threatening letters escalating into violent destruction. It’s suddenly clear there’s something much more dangerous at play.

When Jess meets five-year-old Daisy and her mum, Morag, in a local London park, they seem a perfectly happy and loving pair. Until Daisy whispers four little words that send ice seeping down Jess’ spine: she’s not my mum. Determined to save Daisy, Jess becomes obsessed with unearthing Morag’s secrets. As she digs ever deeper, her friends and family start to question her own increasingly paranoid behaviour.

There have been a countless number of serial killers throughout history, and certainly more prolific ones, but the timing, circumstances, and unsolved nature of the case continue to make Jack the Ripper the most famous serial killer in history. The murders came at a time when media coverage could be both more acute and more widespread, and it allowed the public a closer look into how police agencies operated at the time, exposing both their strengths and shortcomings.

As the title suggests, Wright examines the similarities between the Druids and a wide variety of their contemporaries, such as the Indian Brahmans, who share a number of religious symbols and practices. There is a fair amount of discussion regarding the symbol of the oak tree in both Druidism and Judaism as well as other faiths.

Robert Twigger, poet and travel author, was in search of a new way up England when he stumbled across the Great North Line. From Christchurch on the South Coast to Old Sarum to Stonehenge, to Avebury, to Notgrove barrow, to Meon Hill in the midlands, to Thor's Cave, to Arbor Low stone circle, to Mam Tor, to Ilkley in Yorkshire and its three stone circles and the Swastika Stone, to several forts and camps in Northumberland to Lindisfarne (plus about thirty more sites en route). A single dead-straight line following one degree 50 West up Britain.

They sent 300 warriors to kill one man. It wasn’t enough. Mercia lies broken but not beaten, her alliance with Wessex in tatters. Coelwulf, a fierce and bloody warrior, hears whispers that Mercia has been betrayed from his home in the west. He fears no man, especially not the Vikings sent to hunt him down.

When a mute criminal known as the "Street Arab" is taken into custody, police call on court missionary Robert Elliott to try and unravel the enigma. With the help of Mary O'Driscoll, a sharply perceptive nurse, Elliott reveals the prisoner to be Walter Stanford, a man with a blemished past and who is about to change their lives forever. As Elliott tries to understand the significance of a mysterious note found in a locket on the cell floor, Mary becomes haunted by a series of lucid dreams about Walter's life and a dark, harrowing crime.

1962, and on Christmas Day at precisely 6pm, a mysterious old man by the name of Silas Finn, calls on the new owners of an ancestral home in Devon and asks which they'd prefer to hear—a story or a song. Ten-year old Enys Quiller is adamant they must have a story, just as Cousin Beatrice instructed.

The villagers are quite a handful, from the rogue that is Claude Jeremiah Greengrass and his wily dog, Alfred, to the mysterious spinster Adelaide Bowes. Even some of the newcomers seem to be a little odd. But thankfully for Constable Nick, they are mostly law-abiding characters. But when old conflicts between villages flare up, it’s Constable Nick who has to sort things out.