A desperate young woman runs through the storm. She hares up the path, hammering desperately on the front door, crying for help. The startled owner opens the door, ushers her inside, promising her whatever assistance she needs. This fateful decision will be his last. He should never have opened the door . . .
A middle aged couple are found brutally murdered in their ransacked suburban house. Helen Grace, now back at Southampton Central following her release from prison, is first on the scene. The crime is baffling, hideous, cruel, but before Helen can process the evidence, another double murder is reported – identical in almost every way to the first. What follows is the darkest, most dangerous night of Helen’s life as a sequence of brutal home invasions takes place. By sunrise eight people will be dead and Helen may well be the ninth as she finds herself locked on a collision course with a pair of rampaging spree killers. Is there method in their madness? Or are they selecting their victims at random? It falls to Helen to wrestle with these questions – only by answering them can she end the bloodshed.
A break neck thriller which takes place in real time over 24 hours, this is the sharpest, most adrenliased Helen Grace thriller yet.
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Angela Marsons - Blood Lines
How do you catch a killer who leaves no trace?
A victim killed with a single, precise stab to the heart appears at first glance to be a robbery gone wrong. A caring, upstanding social worker lost to a senseless act of violence. But for Detective Kim Stone, something doesn’t add up.
When a local drug addict is found murdered with an identical wound, Kim knows instinctively that she is dealing with the same killer. But with nothing to link the two victims except the cold, calculated nature of their death, this could be her most difficult case yet.
Desperate to catch the twisted individual, Kim’s focus on the case is threatened when she receives a chilling letter from Dr Alex Thorne, the sociopath who Kim put behind bars. And this time, Alex is determined to hit where it hurts most, bringing Kim face-to-face with the woman responsible for the death of Kim’s little brother – her own mother.
As the body count increases, Kim and her team unravel a web of dark secrets, bringing them closer to the killer. But one of their own could be in mortal danger. Only this time, Kim might not be strong enough to save them…
Angela Marsons - Silent Scream
Even the darkest secrets can't stay buried forever... Five figures gather round a shallow grave. They had all taken turns to dig. An adult-sized hole would have taken longer. An innocent life had been taken but the pact had been made. Their secrets would be buried, bound in blood ... Years later, a headmistress is found brutally strangled, the first in a spate of gruesome murders which shock the Black Country. But when human remains are discovered at a former children's home, disturbing secrets are also unearthed. D.I. Kim Stone fast realises she's on the hunt for a twisted individual whose killing spree spans decades. As the body count rises, Kim needs to stop the murderer before they strike again. But to catch the killer, can Kim confront the demons of her own past before it's too late? Fans of Rachel Abbott, Val McDermid and Mark Billingham will be gripped by this exceptional new voice in British crime fiction.
M. J. Arlidge - Ecc, pecc
Ez él, az meghal.
Más választás nincs.
A lány félholtan jött ki az erdőből.
A története hihetetlen volt. Mégis igaz.
Minden egyes iszonyú szava.
Pár nap múlva előkerül egy másik kétségbeesett megmenekült - lassan összeáll a séma. Az áldozatokat kettesével rabolják el, és szörnyű választás elé állítják őket: ölsz vagy megölnek.
Az életedet vagy az eszedet veszítenéd el inkább?
Helen Grace felügyelő a démonait legyűrve kapaszkodik fel a csúcsra.
A láthatatlan szörny utáni nyomozás során felmerül, hogy a megoldás kulcsa a túlélőknél - a gyilkos eleven névjegyeinél - lehet.
És hiába jár sikerrel, újabb ártatlanok halnak meg...
M. J. Arlidge tizenöt éve dolgozik a televíziós dráma műfajában. Az utóbbi öt évben olyan bűnügyi sorozatok gyártásában vett részt az ITV számára, mint a Torn vagy a The Little House, legújabban pedig az Undeniable, amelyet 2014 tavaszán sugároztak. Jelenleg A néma szemtanú epizódjait írja, de eredeti bűnügyi sorozatokon is dolgozik angol és amerikai tévécsatornáknak.
Bemutatkozó thrillere, az Ecc, pecc iránt világszerte érdeklődtek a kiadók. Ebben lépteti színre Helen Grace felügyelőt, aki a folytatásban - Pop Goes the Weasel - is főszerepet kap.
Kerri Maniscalco - Hunting Prince Dracula
In this hotly anticipated sequel to the haunting #1 bestseller Stalking Jack the Ripper, bizarre murders are discovered in the castle of Prince Vlad the Impaler, otherwise known as Dracula. Could it be a copycat killer...or has the depraved prince been brought back to life?
Following the grief and horror of her discovery of Jack the Ripper's true identity, Audrey Rose Wadsworth has no choice but to flee London and its memories. Together with the arrogant yet charming Thomas Cresswell, she journeys to the dark heart of Romania, home to one of Europe's best schools of forensic medicine...and to another notorious killer, Vlad the Impaler, whose thirst for blood became legend.
But her life's dream is soon tainted by blood-soaked discoveries in the halls of the school's forbidding castle, and Audrey Rose is compelled to investigate the strangely familiar murders. What she finds brings all her terrifying fears to life once again.
M. J. Arlidge - Szeret, nem szeret
Szeret...
Egy nő holtteste fekszik az úton. Elsőre tragikus balesetnek tűnik. Ám amikor Helen Grace megjelenik a helyszínen, hidegvérű gyilkosságnak látja. De miért venne célba bárki egy imádott feleséget és anyát?
Nem szeret...
A város másik végében megölnek egy gyógyszerészt, de a vevőit életben hagyják. Milyen alapon dönt a gyilkos?
Nem szeret...
Ha Helen nem oldja meg a halálos kirakós játékot, még több vér fog folyni. És ha téved, az az életébe kerülhet.
Helen Grace, aki a börtönből kiszabadulva visszatért a Southamptoni Központi Rendőrkapitányságra, elsőként érkezik a tetthelyre.
Az eddigi legfeszültebb Helen Grace-thriller eseményei nyaktörő sebességgel, valós időben játszódnak le, 24 óra alatt.
M. J. Arlidge tizenöt éve dolgozik a televíziós dráma műfajában. Az utóbbi öt évben olyan bűnügyi sorozatok gyártásában vett részt az ITV számára, mint a Torn vagy a The Little House, legújabban pedig az Undeniable, amelyet 2014 tavaszán sugároztak. Jelenleg A néma szemtanú epizódjait írja, de eredeti bűnügyi sorozatokon is dolgozik angol és amerikai tévécsatornáknak.
Bemutatkozó thrillere, az Ecc, pecc, amelyben bevezeti Helen Grace felügyelő alakját, világsikert hozott. A folytatások (Üsd, vágd; A babaház, Hazudsz, hazudsz; Szegény kisfiú, Bújócska) szintén bestsellerek. A Szeret, nem szeret a Helen Grace-thrillersorozat hetedik darabja.
Dot Hutchison - The Butterfly Garden
Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden.
In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees…and a collection of precious “butterflies”—young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens.
When the garden is discovered, a survivor is brought in for questioning. FBI agents Victor Hanoverian and Brandon Eddison are tasked with piecing together one of the most stomach-churning cases of their careers. But the girl, known only as Maya, proves to be a puzzle herself.
As her story twists and turns, slowly shedding light on life in the Butterfly Garden, Maya reveals old grudges, new saviors, and horrific tales of a man who’d go to any length to hold beauty captive. But the more she shares, the more the agents have to wonder what she’s still hiding…
Angela Marsons - Play Dead
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 …?
Jo Nesbø - The Snowman
The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its black eyes glaring up at the bedroom windows. Round its neck is his mother's pink scarf.
Paula Hawkins - The Girl on the Train
Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens.
She’s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. ‘Jess and Jason’, she calls them. Their life – as she sees it – is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy.
And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough.
Now everything’s changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she’s only watched from afar.
Now they’ll see: she’s much more than just the girl on the train…
Angela Marsons - Lost Girls
Two girls go missing. Only one will return.
The couple that offers the highest amount will see their daughter again. The losing couple will not. Make no mistake. One child will die.
When nine-year-old best friends Charlie and Amy disappear, two families are plunged into a living nightmare. A text message confirms the unthinkable; that the girls are the victims of a terrifying kidnapping.
And when a second text message pits the two families against each other for the life of their children, the clock starts ticking for D.I. Kim Stone and the squad.
Seemingly outwitted at every turn, as they uncover a trail of bodies, Stone realises that these ruthless killers might be the most deadly she has ever faced. And that their chances of bringing the girls home alive, are getting smaller by the hour…
Untangling a dark web of secrets from the families’ past might hold the key to solving this case. But can Kim stay alive long enough to do so? Or will someone’s child pay the ultimate price?
M. J. Arlidge - Little Boy Blue
The death of a young man, found cocooned in plastic, looks like it was a tragic accident -- a sex game gone wrong. But when another lifeless victim is found days later, wrapped tight, DI Helen Grace knows that she's on the hunt for a serial killer.
Angela Marsons - Vérvonal
Deanna Brightmant egyetlen pontos, szívet ért szúrással gyilkolták meg. Az egykori szociális munkás holttestére egy meglehetősen rossz környéken találnák rá, ezért a bűntény sokaknak egy balul sikerült rablótámadásnak tűnik. Kim Stone nyomozó azonban nem elégszik meg az egyszerű magyarázatokkal.
Amikor nem sokkal később egy kábítószerfüggő, fiatal lány holttestére bukkannak a korábbi áldozatéval megegyező sérüléssel, a nyomozó már biztos abban, hogy egy hidegvérű sorozatgyilkost kell keresniük. De milyen nyomon indulhatnak el, ha látszólag semmi sem köti össze az áldozatokat?
Ám Kim Stone-nak nem csak a rejtélyes gyilkosságsorozat ügyét kell megoldania. Egy váratlan levél ugyanis meglehetősen fölzaklatja az életét. Dr. Alex Thorne pszichiáter már egy korábbi esetnél is kis híján az őrületbe kergette, ezúttal pedig a börtönből nyúl Kim után, a legérzékenyebb pontján támadva a felügyelőt, akinek így ismét szembe kell néznie a testvére gyilkosával: a saját anyjával.
Chris Carter - The Death Sculptor
_Good job you didn't turn on the lights..._
A student nurse has the shock of her life when she discovers her patient, prosecutor Derek Nicholson, brutally murdered in his bed. The act seems senseless - Nicholson was terminally ill with only weeks to live. But what most shocks Detective Robert Hunter of the Los Angeles Robbery Homicide Division is the calling card the killer left behind.
For Hunter, there is no doubt that the killer is trying to communicate with the police, but the method is unlike anything he's ever seen before. And what could the hidden message be?
Just as Hunter and his partner Garcia reckon they've found a lead, a new body is found - and a new calling card. But with no apparent link between the first and second victims, all the progress they've made so far goes out of the window.
Pushed into an uncomfortable alliance with the confident Alice Beaumont, Hunter must race to put together the pieces of the investigation... before the Death Sculptor puts the final touches to his masterpiece.
Kathy Reichs - Monday Mourning
Three skeletons are found in the basement of a pizza parlour. The building is old, with a colourful past, and Homicide Detective Luc Claudel dismisses the remains as historic: not his case, not his concern... But Forensic Anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan has her doubts. Something about the bones of these three young women suggests a different message: murder. A cold case, but Claudel's case nonetheless. Brennan is in Montreal to testify as an expert witness at a trial. Digging up more bones was not on her agenda. And to make matters worse, her sometime-lover Detective Andrew Ryan disappears just as Tempe is beginning to trust him. Soon Tempe finds herself drawn ever deeper into a web of evil from which there may be no escape: three women have disappeared, never to return. And Tempe may be next...
Dot Hutchison - Pillangók kertje
A szépség még soha nem volt ilyen rettentő.
Egy elszigetelten álló, hatalmas ház mellett gyönyörű kert terül el.
A kert nemcsak buja virágokat és árnyas fákat rejt… A „Pillangók” becses gyűjteményét is: elrabolt fiatal nőket, akiket fogvatartójuk pillangószárnyas tetoválással bélyegez meg. A gyűjtemény ura a brutális, őrült Kertész, akinek mániája, hogy elkapja és megőrizze magának a szépséges pillangólányokat.
Miután a kertet végül fölfedezik, az FBI ki akarja kérdezni az egyik túlélőt. Victor Hanoverian és Brandon Eddison ügynökök kapják a feladatot, hogy göngyölítsék fel karrierjük egyik leggyomorforgatóbb ügyét. Ám a kihallgatott lány, akit csak a Maya néven ismernek meg, önmagában is kész rejtélynek bizonyul.
Ahogy kibontakozik a lány fordulatos és csavaros története, lassan fény derül a Pillangók kertjére is, Maya pedig mesél régi sérelmekről, új megmentőkről, valamint egy szörnyűséges férfiról, aki semmitől sem riadt vissza, hogy rabságban tarthassa a szépséget. De minél többet árul el a lány, az ügynökök annál inkább gyanakodnak, hogy vajon mit titkol még…
Azonnali sikert aratott thriller, mely a Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 szavazáson a 2. helyet érte el, a megfilmesítési jogokat pedig A visszatérő Oscar-díjas producerei vették meg.
Ismerd meg a pillangólányok múltba nyúló titkait!
Donato Carrisi - The Lost Girls of Rome
A young girl has mysteriously disappeared in Rome. As rain lashes the ancient streets, Clemente and Marcus sit in a cafe and pore over the details of the case. They are members of the ancient Penitenzeri - a unique team linked to the Vatican - and trained in the detection of true evil. Soon, they will uncover a terrible secret.
Tom Rob Smith - Child 44
Child 44 is a thriller set in the terror of 1950s Stalinist Russia, a brutal regime that executed anyone who disagreed with its dogma. It proclaimed to be a perfect society. So, when a series of brutal murders take place, no one is permitted to say that these are the work of a serial killer. In a perfect society there can be no crime.
One man, Leo Demidov, a State security agent, a man who has spent his entire career arresting innocent men and women, decides to redeem himself by catching this killer. To do so, he must buck the system, risking his life and the life of everyone he loves.
Barry Lyga - I Hunt Killers
The dark thriller, described as Dexter meets The Silence of the Lambs for teens, tells of a boy who uses his killer instinct, inherited from his serial killer father, to help solve a series of murders.
M. J. Arlidge - Hide and Seek
Detective Inspector Helen Grace has spent her whole life running.
From the past. From herself. From everyone who's ever tried to get close to her.
She's spent her whole life hiding.
Behind the badge. Behind her reputation as one of the country's best detectives. Until - framed for murder - she became one of its most high-profile prisoners.
Now there is nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide.
Because HMP Holloway is a place of dark days and long nights with dangers at every turn. Despised by the inmates and reviled by the guards, Helen must face her nightmare alone.
And then a carefully mutilated body is found in a locked cell.
Now Helen must find a ruthless serial killer. Before the killer finds her.
AFTER Little Boy Blue FIND OUT WHAT AWAITS DI HELEN GRACE IN THE SIXTH THRILLER BY BESTSELLING AUTHOR M. J. ARLIDGE: Hide and Seek
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'Helen Grace is one of the greatest heroes to come along in years'
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'The new Jo Nesbo'
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'Fast paced and nailbitingly tense ... gripping'
Sun
'DI Helen Grace is a genuinely fresh heroine ... MJ Arlidge weaves together a tapestry that chills to the bone'
Daily Mail
'Chilling stuff'
Fabulist
'A chilling read'
My Weekly
'A grisly, gripping thriller'
Sunday Mirror
'Gruesomely realistic, intriguing and relentless. Arlidge's fledgling army of fans is about to grow'
Sunday Sport
'Eeny Meeny debuts one of the best new series detectives, Helen Grace. Determined, tough and damaged, she must unravel a terrifying riddle of a killer kidnapping victims in pairs. Mesmerizing!'
Lisa Gardner
'Expertly pulled off. It has a devious premise. DI Helen Grace is fiendishly awesome. It's scary as all hell. And it has a full cast of realistically drawn, interesting characters that make the thing read like a bullet'
Will Lavender
'A fast-paced, twisting police procedural and thriller that's sure to become another bestseller'
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Donato Carrisi - The Whisperer
Six buried arms. Six missing girls. A team led by Captain Roche and internationally renowned criminologist Goran Gavila are on the trail of a serial killer whose ferocity seems to have no limits. And he seems to be taunting them, leading them to discover each small corpse in turn; but the clues on the bodies point to several different killers. Roche and Gavila bring in Mila Vasquez, a specialist in cases involving children, and Mila discovers that the real killer is one who has never lifted a finger against the girls - but merely psychologically instructs others to do his work: a 'subliminal killer' - the hardest to catch...