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Fiona Barton

    Deze auteur, die na een carrière in de journalistiek waarin ze beruchte misdaden versloeg, gefascineerd raakte door de onuitgesproken kennis van degenen die het dichtst bij de beschuldigden stonden, duikt in de complexiteit van wat mensen weten, of willen weten, over overtreding en de gevolgen daarvan. Door een vertelling vanuit meerdere perspectieven creëert ze boeiende verhalen die de ijzingwekkende stilte en verborgen waarheden rond een centraal mysterie belichten. Haar werk nodigt lezers uit om na te denken over de psychologische landschappen van schuld, onschuld en de ongrijpbare aard van de waarheid.

    Fiona Barton
    Local Gone Missing
    The Widow
    The Suspect
    The child
    Ik zie jou
    The Suspect : From the No. 1 bestselling author of Richard & Judy Book Club hit The Child
    • Three women. One Killer.Talking to strangers has never been more dangerous...When the body of forty-four-year-old Karen Simmons is found abandoned in remote woodland, journalist Kiki Nunn is determined this will be the big break she so desperately needs.Because she has a head start on all the other reporters. Just a week before Karen was killed, Kiki interviewed her about the highs and lows of mid-life romance. Karen told her all about kissing strangers on the beach under the stars, expensive meals, roses. About the scammers, the creeps, the man who followed her home the other night...While the police appear to be focusing on local suspects, Kiki sets out to write the definitive piece on one woman's fatal search for love. But she will soon learn that the search for truth can be just as deadly...

      Talking to Strangers2024
    • Elise King is a successful and ambitious detective - or she was, before medical leave left her unsure if she'd ever return to work. She now spends most days watching the growing tensions in her small seaside town of Ebbing- the weekenders in their fancy clothes, renovating old bungalows into luxury homes, and the locals resentful of the changes. Elise can only guess what really happens behind closed doors. But Dee Eastwood, her cleaner, often knows. She's an invisible presence in many of the houses in town but she sees and hears everything. The conflicts in town boil over when a newcomer wants to put Ebbing on the map with a giant music festival, and a teenage girl ends up dead because of drugs. When a man also disappears the first night of the festival, Elise is drawn back into her detective work and starts digging for answers. Ebbing is a small town, but it's full of myriad secrets and hidden connections that run deeper and darker than Elise could have ever imagined.

      Local Gone Missing2022
      3,4
    • Pocket: Le Suspect

      • 544bladzijden
      • 20 uur lezen

      Jusqu'où iriez-vous pour protéger votre famille ? Quand deux jeunes filles de dix-huit ans disparaissent lors de leur année sabbatique en Thaïlande, leurs familles se retrouvent aussitôt sous les projecteurs des médias internationaux : désespérées, paniquées et exposées jusque dans leur intimité. La journaliste Kate Waters, toujours avide d'un bon papier, se charge immédiatement de l'affaire, mais cette fois elle est loin d'imaginer à quel point elle va être impliquée personnellement. Car deux corps correspondant aux signalements sont retrouvés dans un incendie et ne laissent aucun doute sur le sort des disparues. Autre découverte : la correspondance personnelle d'une des victimes. La jeune femme y fait référence à un certain Jack, rencontré peu avant son décès. Jack qui n'est autre que le fils de Kate dont elle n'a plus de nouvelles....

      Pocket: Le Suspect2021
    • Nach dem Abitur verschwinden die Freundinnen Alex und Rosie in Bangkok. Reporterin Kate Waters wird in den Fall involviert, da auch ihr Sohn in Thailand ist. Nach einem Hostel-Brand werden die Leichen der beiden gefunden, doch die Umstände sind mysteriös. Ein verletzter Zeuge könnte entscheidende Informationen haben.

      Der Trip. Deine Tochter macht die Reise ihres Lebens – bis sie spurlos verschwindet …2021
    • Sleep

      • 353bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen

      All Anna wants is to be able to sleep. But crushing insomnia, terrifying night terrors and memories of that terrible night are making it impossible. If only she didn’t feel so guilty… To escape her past, Anna takes a job at a hotel on the remote Scottish island of Rum, but when seven guests join her, what started as a retreat from the world turns into a deadly nightmare. Each of the guests have a secret but one of them is lying – about who they are and why they’re on the island. There’s a murderer staying in the Bay View hotel. And they’ve set their sights on Anna. Seven strangers. Seven secrets. One deadly lie. Someone’s going to sleep and never wake up…

      Sleep2019
    • `The police belonged to another world - the world they saw on the television or in the papers. Not theirs.' When two eighteen-year-old girls go missing on their gap year in Thailand, their families are thrust into the international spotlight: desperate, bereft and frantic with worry. Journalist Kate Waters always does everything she can to be first to the story, first with the exclusive, first to discover the truth - and this time is no exception. But she can't help but think of her own son, who she hasn't seen in two years, since he left home to go travelling. This time it's personal. And as the case of the missing girls unfolds, they will all find that even this far away, danger can lie closer to home than you might think . . .

      The Suspect : From the No. 1 bestselling author of Richard & Judy Book Club hit The Child2019
      3,9
    • The Suspect

      • 384bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      Superb writing, often blackly funny, and a scene that made me cry into my pillow.' Gillian McAllister, Sunday Times bestselling author of EVERYTHING BUT THE TRUTH'Fiona Barton is perceptive, empathetic and a talented writer' Daily Express

      The Suspect2019
      3,8
    • Stile Libero Big: La vedova

      • 379bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      Lo hanno visto tutti, il mostro, sbattuto in tv e sulle prime pagine dei giornali. Era accusato di un crimine raccapricciante, ma adesso che è morto, la verità finirà sepolta con lui. A meno che Jean, la vedova, la moglie devota che gli è sempre stata a fianco in tribunale, non si decida a parlare. A meno che Jean alla fine non decida di raccontare la sua storia.

      Stile Libero Big: La vedova2016
    • 'The ultimate psychological thriller' Lisa Gardner We've all seen him: the man - the monster - staring from the front page of every newspaper, accused of a terrible crime. But what about the woman who grips his arm on the courtroom stairs âe" the woman who stands by him? Jean Taylorâe(tm)s life was blissfully ordinary. Nice house, nice husband. Glen was all sheâe(tm)d ever wanted: her Prince Charming. Until he became that man accused, that monster on the front page. Jean was married to a man everyone thought capable of unimaginable evil. But now Glen is dead and sheâe(tm)s alone for the first time, free to tell her story on her own terms. Jean Taylor is going to tell us what she knows. Du Maurier's REBECCA meets WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN and GONE GIRL in this intimate tale of a terrible crime. 'My book of the year so far' C. L. Taylor, author of THE LIE

      The Widow2016
      3,5
    • Ik zie jou

      • 384bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      Na haar succesdebuut Mea culpa (I Let You Go) slaagt Clare Mackintosh er opnieuw in een geweldige thriller te schrijven. Ik zie jou (I See You) is een thriller over forenzen, routines en obsessie. Je treinreis, je rit naar je werk wordt nooit meer hetzelfde na het lezen van dit boek! Wanneer Zoë Walker, tijdens een treinrit naar haar werk, tot haar verbijstering een foto van zichzelf in de krant ziet in de rubriek met seksadvertenties, is ze vastbesloten uit te zoeken hoe die foto daar terecht is gekomen. Ze heeft geen andere aanwijzingen dan de korrelige foto, een website en een telefoonnummer. Haar familieleden wuiven het weg als iemand die misschien veel op haar lijkt. Maar dan verschijnt er een foto van een andere vrouw, een vrouw die net als Zoë elke dag die trein neemt. Wanneer deze vrouw vervolgens gewurgd wordt gevonden, beseft Zoë dat ze gevaar loopt. Maar van wie komt dat gevaar? Iemand die net als zij dagelijks die trein neemt? Iemand die precies weet wat haar routines zijn? Van Mea culpa (I Let You Go) werden wereldwijd meer dan een miljoen exemplaren verkocht en ook Ik zie jou (I See You) was na verschijnen direct een hit.

      Ik zie jou2016
      4,0