A. J. Cross Boeken

Marion Cane swapped a successful career in the city for a quiet life in a wealthy village near Birmingham. So why was she found dead in her new home just months later? Marion's death was thought to be due to natural causes, but an anonymous note draws DCI Watts, PC Chloe Judd and criminologist Will Traynor into a complex and disturbing case.

A man and a woman are found in a car in a rundown part of the city, both critically injured. When nothing about the case seems to add up, the police call on the help of criminologist Dr Will Traynor. Traynor knows that it's the small, easily missed details that will crack the case, but not even he could suspect just where those details will lead .

For ten years, David Lockman has been serving a life sentence for murder. Now an appeal judge has decreed the evidence unsatisfactory and the original verdict unsafe. Tasked with re-examining the case, forensic psychologist Kate Hanson and her team unearth serious flaws in the original investigation. But if Lockman isn't the killer, who is?

The badly decomposed remains of a young woman are discovered just outside Birmingham, identified as a Manchester University student who disappeared three years earlier. Why would the killer transport the victim on an eighty- mile journey? Criminologist Will Traynor believes that finding the answer to that question is the key to cracking the case.

Introducing criminologist Will Traynor in the first of a gripping new forensic mystery series from an expert in the field

Kurz nach Silvester wird in einem Haus im Woodgate Country Park eine mumifizierte Leiche gefunden. Rechtspsychologin Dr. Kate Hanson und ihre Kollegen von der Unsolved Crime Unit der Birminghamer Polizei finden heraus, dass es sich bei dem Toten um den Kunststudenten Nathan Troy handelt, der vor zwanzig Jahren spurlos verschwand. Kate beginnt, in Nathans Vergangenheit zu graben – und stößt auf eine Mauer des Schweigens. Wieso weigern sich Nathans frühere Mitbewohner, über den Toten zu reden? Als ein Teenager ermordet wird und ein weiterer Junge verschwindet, ist Kate überzeugt: N athans Mörder ist zurückgekehrt …

A brilliant debut crime thriller written by a British forensic psychologist.