Als toonaangevende thriller-auteur staat Sharon Bolton bekend om haar ijzingwekkende verhalen die lezers onderdompelen in de duistere krochten van de menselijke psyche. Haar stijl kenmerkt zich door spanning, bekwame karakterontwikkeling en het vermogen om lezers tot het einde toe te laten raden. Bolton verkent meesterlijk complexe relaties en morele dilemma's, wat een blijvende indruk achterlaat.
Eleven-year-old Barney has been on a quest to find his mother since she left when Barney was just a toddler. But everything changes when children about Barney's age--and all from the same neighborhood where he lives--start disappearing and turning up gruesomely murdered.
When a Cambridge student dramatically attempts to take her own life, DI Mark Joesbury realises that the university has developed an unhealthy record of young people committing suicide in extraordinary ways. Against huge personal misgivings, Joesbury sends young policewoman DC Lacey Flint to investigate.
Famous killers have fan clubs. Hamish Wolfe is charming, magnetic and very persuasive. Famed for his good looks, he receives adoring letters every day from his countless admirers. He's also a convicted murderer, facing life in prison. Who would join such a club? Maggie Rosie is a successful lawyer and true-crime author. Reclusive and enigmatic, she only takes on cases she can win. Hamish is convinced that Maggie can change his fate. Maggie is determined not to get involved. She thinks she's immune to the charms of such a man. But maybe not this time ...Would you?
'Spine-tingling suspense!' LISA GARDNER'A killer twist' Financial TimesSometimes I wish that she'd just leave me in peace . . Psychologist Evi has taken on a new patient: a grieving mother who lost her daughter in a fire two years ago - but who is convinced her little girl is still alive.
'One of the best thrillers ever' SOPHIE HANNAHConsultant surgeon Tora Hamilton has moved to remote Shetland to be with her husband. Not for this . . .In the peat soil near her new home she uncovers a perfectly preserved woman's body. But as Tora begins to ask questions around the island, she receives her first threat . . .
But she's seen the killer's face, and he's seen hers - and he won't rest until he's eliminated the last witness to his crime .
He makes his living from death. But is he capable of murder? Florence Lovelady's career was made when she convicted coffin-maker Larry Grassbrook of a series of child murders 30 years ago. Like something from our worst nightmares, the victims were buried, but while they were still alive. Larry confessed the crimes; it was an open and shut case. But now he's dead, and events from the past start to repeat themselves. Did she get it wrong all those years ago? Or is there something much darker at play?
