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Paul Johnston

    1 januari 1957

    Paul Johnston duikt via meeslepende verhalen in de diepten van de menselijke psyche en de complexiteit van moraliteit. Zijn werken barsten van de spanning, vaak gesitueerd tegen sfeervolle achtergronden die de atmosfeer versterken. Johnston weet meesterlijk spanning op te bouwen en personages te ontwikkelen die de lezer meeslepen in zijn ingewikkelde plots. Zijn onderscheidende stem en inzichtelijke verkenning van de menselijke natuur maken hem tot een memorabele verteller.

    Paul Johnston
    The bone yard
    The Soul Collector
    The Blood Tree
    Water of death
    The House of Dust
    Maps of Hell
    • Maps of Hell

      • 409bladzijden
      • 15 uur lezen
      3,7(13)Tarief

      I awake in a windowless room naked, filthy, bruised, robbed of my every memory. I feel inexplicably drowned in a sea of hatred and rage. I don't know who I am. But I know I must escape. Crime writer Matt Wells could never have conjured a plot this twisted. A secretive militia running brainwashing experiments in a remote location have made him a subject. He knows they have been feeding him instructions, but why? Taunted by maddening snatches of a life he can't trust as his own including memories of a woman he feels he should remember Matt's accused of three gruesome murders. On the run from his kidnappers and the law, Matt must piece everything together before it's too late. Blood, gore and ingenious twists I loved it. Kate Atkinson Johnston does an expert job Great stuff. Laura Wilson, Guardian Fast, furious and twisted as hell. Mark Billingham PRAISE FOR THE DEATH LIST AND THE SOUL COLLECTOR

      Maps of Hell
    • The House of Dust

      • 352bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen
      3,9(77)Tarief

      It's April 2028. Youth gangs roam the streets of independent Edinburgh, forcing the ruling Council of City Guardians to seek advice. Experts from the utopian university-state of New Oxford recommend a maximum security prison alongside the central tourist zone, but at the prison opening ceremony an Edinburgh guardian is shot. Quint gathers evidence linking New Oxford to the assassination. Sent there to close the case, he finds a ruthless administration beneath the glossy hi-tech veneer, and a conspiracy which leads from New Oxford's mysterious heart to his home city.

      The House of Dust
    • Water of death

      • 391bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen
      4,0(118)Tarief

      Edinburgh, 2025 - sweat city. Global warming has led to strict water rationing. The ruling Council of City Guardians has been forced to become more user-friendly - so citizens now live for the weekly lottery draw. Then people start dying after drinking poisoned whisky, and subversive, blues-haunted investigator Quintilian Dalrymple is thrown into a nightmare case which threatens the Council's very existence. For Quint, distinguishing friend from foe soon becomes a question of life or death. And the body count, like the temperature, keeps on rising...

      Water of death
    • The Blood Tree

      • 434bladzijden
      • 16 uur lezen
      3,9(84)Tarief

      It is 2026, and Edinburgh is an independent state. A break-in at the former Scottish parliament archive is followed by two murders, the victims covered with blood-drenched branches. Before Quint Dalrymple can figure out what is going on, Edinburgh's brightest teenagers are spirited away to the feared city-state of Glasgow.

      The Blood Tree
    • The Soul Collector

      • 441bladzijden
      • 16 uur lezen
      3,8(234)Tarief

      Brutally targeted by the "White Devil" serial killer, crime writer Matt Wells knows what it's like to look evil in the face and survive. He's rebuilt his life—but with a disciple of his tormentor still at large, he has never stopped looking over his shoulder.When mystery writers start dying and his friend is found murdered, Matt's paranoia appears well-founded. Now he must use all his resources to orchestrate the psychopath's end. But as cryptic clues to the next victims mock him, it is chillingly clear that his dance with the devil has only just begun.…

      The Soul Collector
    • It is the 21st century and 2 private investigators in Edinburgh are trying to solve a series of murders in which music tapes are planted inside the victims and the solution lies in The Boneyard. If they can ever find out what The Boneyard is.

      The bone yard
    • Impolitic Corpses

      • 256bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen
      3,5(20)Tarief

      Quint Dalrymple investigates the strange disappearance of the Lord of the Isles in this gripping dystopian thriller.November, 2038. Scotland has been reunified and Edinburgh's thirty-year experiment with supposedly benevolent totalitarianism is over. But there's still plenty of work for ex-investigator Quint Dalrymple, who's looking into an attempted strangling in Leith. A young man has been attacked by an assailant wearing a bizarre tree-fish costume.Before Quint can make headway, he is asked by the head of government to look into the strange disappearance of the Lord of the Isles. How could Angus Macdonald, leader of the opposition, have vanished from inside his locked bedroom while his valet was sitting outside? And why has a severed finger been hidden in the room? When a body is discovered, arranged in a disturbingly macabre pose, it becomes clear the two cases are linked. As Quint delves further, he is drawn into a complex web of deception whose threads lead far back into his past ...

      Impolitic Corpses
    • The last red death

      • 416bladzijden
      • 15 uur lezen
      3,6(66)Tarief

      IRAKLIS - a mysterious Greek terrorist group. A rogue offshoot of the communist party. At its head, a man with many names. An elusive master assassin who has been in exile for ten years. ALEX MAVROS - half-Greek, half-Scottish investigator. A man driven by the desire to find his missing brother, last heard of at an underground resistance meeting during the dictatorship. GRACE HELMER - an American who saw her father murdered when she was a child. Iraklis was responsible. Two businessmen are murdered in Athens. The trademark piece of olive wood is found with the victims' bodies. Iraklis is back. And Grace Helmer employs Mavros to track down her father's killer.

      The last red death
    • Rayne Comes

      • 252bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen

      In a mythical realm filled with shapeshifters and sorcery, a lone warrior named Con faces a pivotal moment in his long quest to protect a deposed royal bloodline. With the rise of Lilith, an evil queen wielding dark magic, Con must summon extraordinary strength to confront her and restore the bloodline to the throne. As he battles against the encroaching darkness, the fate of mankind hangs in the balance, and Con's resilience will be tested like never before.

      Rayne Comes
    • Edinburgh im Jahr 2020, eine Stadt ohne Verbrechen, aber mit Tausenden von ausländischen Touristen. Quint Dalrymple, ehemals hohes Mitglied des Direktorates für Öffentliche Ordnung, jetzt Arbeiter in Parkanlagen, wird von höchster Stelle reaktiviert um den ersten Mord in Edinburgh seit fünf Jahren aufzuklären. Tatausführung und Vorgehensweise lassen auf einen nie gefassten Serienmörder schließen, dessen bestialische Morde mehrere Jahre zurückliegen. Entgegen der Meinung der staatlichen Stellen weiß Dalrymple, dass der Täter diesmal ein anderer sein muss.

      Die kalte Stadt