Hilary Bonner is een Engelse misdaadschrijfster, gevierd om haar meeslepende psychologische thrillers. Diep geïnspireerd door haar journalistieke achtergrond, zijn haar romans vaak gebaseerd op gebeurtenissen uit het echte leven, waarbij ze verhalen onthult die conventionele vertellingen uitdagen. Bonner combineert meesterlijk spanning met scherp psychologisch inzicht, wat lezers een ijzingwekkende en meeslepende ervaring biedt. Haar werk verkent de donkerdere kanten van de menselijke natuur en maatschappelijke kwesties met scherpe precisie.
Bestselling romance novelist Delia Day is headlining the annual Appledore book festival in North Devon. When her scriptwriter colleague James Harding drops dead during their panel discussion, DCI David Vogel must discover if there's more to the untimely death than natural causes before more people get hurt - or worse, killed ...
A man lies dead on his kitchen floor, his body punctured by multiple stab wounds. Beside him sits his silent, traumatised wife. DCI David Vogel reckons he's seen it all before - an abused wife snaps after years of suffering within a deeply tormented marriage - but he comes to realize that nothing about this case is as straightforward as it seems.
Dr Sandy Jones politely brushes-off her old friend Connie Pike when she unexpectedly calls. A few days later, Connie is killed in an explosion at her laboratory. Consumed by guilt, Jones heads to New Jersey, determined to find out the truth behind Connie's death - and exactly what Connie had been trying to tell her in that last anxious phone call.
When routine police enquiries reveal evidence indicating that Jane Ferguson's assumed suicide was actually a murder, her husband becomes the chief suspect. Called in to launch a major inquiry, Detective Inspector David Vogel discovers that nothing connected with the death is as it seems, uncovering a succession of shocking family secrets...
When Sir John Fairbrother, head of one of the world's biggest private banks, burns to death, in a catastrophic fire at his Somerset home, DI Vogel finds himself dealing with a complex and mystifying sequence of events. If arson was involved, as Vogel believes, the obvious suspect is Sir John's chauffeur, George Grey ... but is it as simple as that?
A fascinating psychological suspense novel - the first in a new series featuring Bristol-based detective DI Vogel
Marion Andersons Leben ist fast zu schön, um wahr zu sein:ein schönes Zuhause,ein liebevoller Ehemann,ein intellegenter, netter Sohn. Doch die Idylle zerbricht jäh, als sie ihren Sohn erhängt auffindet. Wenig später erfährt sie, daß ihr Mann ein Doppelleben mit zwei Familien führt. Und damit beginnt eine entsetzliche Spirale aus Verleumdung,Verbrechen und Verfolgung.Marion befindet sich in einem Albtraum, aus dem es kein Erwachen gibt......
The next brilliant thriller by Hilary Bonner, author of Friends to Die For.
Friends: can you really trust them? The next thrilling novel from Hilary Bonner.
John Kelly, once a reporter, always a maverick, has become embroiled in the mystery surrounding a series of disturbing deaths at a tough army training base in the heart of Dartmoor.