Jenny CooperReeks

Deze serie volgt een lijkschouwer die werkt op het schilderachtige maar verraderlijke Engelse platteland. Elke zaak ontrafelt duistere geheimen die verborgen liggen onder het oppervlak van schijnbaar vredige gemeenschappen. Het volgen van de protagonist terwijl ze complexe moordonderzoeken doorloopt en haar eigen persoonlijke demonen confronteert, biedt een boeiend inzicht in forensische wetenschap en de menselijke natuur.

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The Coroner
Mari Hall
450bladzijden
16 uur lezen
3,7(148)Tarief
When lawyer Jenny Cooper is appointed Severn Vale District Coroner, she s hoping for a quiet life and space to recover from a traumatic divorce, but the office she inherits from the recently deceased Harry Marshall contains neglected files hiding dark secrets and a trail of buried evidence. Could the tragic death in custody of a young boy be linked to the apparent suicide of a teenage prostitute and the fate of Marshall himself? Jenny s curiosity is aroused. Why was Marshall behaving so strangely before he died? What injustice was he planning to uncover? And what caused his abrupt change of heart? In the face of powerful and sinister forces determined to keep both the truth hidden and the troublesome coroner in check, Jenny embarks on a lonely and dangerous one-woman crusade for justice which threatens not only her career but also her sanity."
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The Coroner
M. R. Hall
3,9(378)Tarief
Meet Coroner Jenny Cooper, a fearless yet human heroine and the last hope for the unjustly killed. Matthew Hall's novels have now been adapted into the hit TV series, Coroner.
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The Disappeared
Mari Hall
450bladzijden
16 uur lezen
3,7(78)Tarief
Jenny Cooper, a coroner with a detective's eye, investigates the disappearance of two young Muslim students, who vanished without a trace seven years ago.
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Pohřešovaní : Jenny Cooperová: úřad koronera
M. R. Hall
3,3(35)Tarief
Druhá kniha série Jenny Cooperová Dva mladí britští studenti zmizí beze stopy. Co všechno může odhalit vyšetřování a co všechno vyjde na povrch při hledání pravdy? Nazim Jamal a Rafi Hassan, dva mladí britští studenti, zmizí beze stopy. Jejich rodiče se od policie dozví, že byli sledováni a že pravděpodobně odjeli ze země, aby prosazovali své nové nebezpečné ideály. O sedm let později je Nazimova matka, sklíčená zármutkem, stále na pochybách. Nedokáže pochopit, proč policie přestala vyšetřovat podezřelé okolnosti obklopující zmizení obou mladíků, a nerozumí ani záhadné angažovanosti zpravodajských služeb. Při hledání pravdy už snad využila každou cestičku, která by ji k ní dovedla. Její poslední naděje je Jenny Cooperová.... Jenny si konečně upevnila pozici koronerky v Severn Valley. Když zahájí vyšetřování Nazimova zmizení, znovu se utkává s duchy své minulosti: korupcí a spiknutím. Natuší, že odhalováním pravdy mohou vyplynout na povrch její vlastní, hluboko pohřbená tajemství...
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The Redeemed
M. R. Hall
421bladzijden
15 uur lezen
3,7(66)Tarief
The body of a dead man is discovered in an overgrown cemetery in Bristol, the sign of the cross gouged into his flesh. At first it seems to coroner Jenny Cooper that all the evidence points to a horrific, if routine, suicide. Then an enigmatic young priest, Father Lucas Starr, arrives on Jenny's doorstep, entreating her to hold an inquest into the death of Eva Donaldson, a high profile political campaigner whose past life continued to haunt her. A young man, Paul Craven, has recently been sentenced for Eva's brutal murder. But despite Craven's conviction and the evidence against him, Father Lucas is convinced of the man's innocence. Jenny's lone quest for justice will take her to the dark heart of an establishment who wish to silence her, and on an inner journey to confront ghosts that have haunted her for a lifetime. For Jenny Cooper answers to no one but the dead...
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The Flight
Mari Hall
320bladzijden
12 uur lezen
3,5(90)Tarief
Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates . . . A tragic accident or a terrible crime? When Flight 189 plunges into the Severn Estuary, Coroner Jenny Cooper finds herself handling the case of a lone sailor whose boat appears to have been sunk by the stricken plane, and drawn into the mysterious fate of a ten year-old girl, Amy Patterson, a passenger on 189, whose largely unmarked body is washed up alongside his. While a massive and highly secretive operation is launched to recover clues from the wreckage, Jenny begins to ask questions the official investigation doesn’t want answered. How could such a high tech plane – virtually impregnable against human error – fail? What linked the high powered passengers who found themselves on this ill-fated flight? And how did Amy Patterson survive the crash, only to perish hours later? Under pressure from Amy’s grieving mother, and opposed by those at the very highest levels of government, Jenny must race against time to seek the truth behind this terrible disaster, before it can happen again . . .
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The Chosen Dead
Matthew Whalley
4,0(43)Tarief
When Bristol Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates the fatal plunge of a man from a motorway bridge, she little suspects that it has any connection with the sudden death of a friend's 13 year old daughter from a deadly strain of meningitis. But as Jenny pieces together the dead man's last days, she's drawn into a mystery whose dark ripples stretch across continents and back through decades. In an investigation which will take her into the sinister realms of unbridled human ambition and corrupt scientific endeavor, Jenny is soon forced to risk the love and lives of those closest to her, as a deadly race to uncover the truth begins.
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The Burning
Matthew Whalley
407bladzijden
15 uur lezen
3,8(31)Tarief
Another mysterious investigation by Coroner Jenny Cooper, a fearless yet human heroine and the last hope for the unjustly killed.
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The Burning
M. R. Hall
4,4(3)Tarief
In the icy, languid days following Christmas, a dense fog has settled over the Wye Valley. Local Coroner Jenny Cooper, still reeling after being abandoned by her partner for the festivities, is called to the scene of a dreadful tragedy: a house has been burned to the ground, revealing its terrible secrets. Before the fire began, a man - Ed Morgan - shot his two stepdaughters dead, before turning the gun on himself. His infant son is still missing . . . Jenny Cooper investigates. Ed's partner Kelly Hart was spared by the tragedy but has been left shattered by the loss of her children and the man she loved. The only clue to Ed's dark motives remains a jealous note left on his facebook page. As Jenny delves further into Ed and Kelly's life, something nags her about that fateful evening. What role did Ed's employer, the slaughterhouse at Fairmeadow's Farm, play in the sequence of events? And what could the connection be with the mysterious unsolved abduction of a little girl in the village ten years ago?
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A Life to Kill
Matthew Whalley
464bladzijden
17 uur lezen
The day they've all been waiting for is at hand. The last British combat soldiers in Helmand are counting the minutes until their departure for home. For their excited families in Highcliffe, it spells the end of an agonizing six month wait. But in the final hours, disaster strikes. Nineteen-year-old Private Pete "Skippy" Lyons is abducted and the patrol sent out to locate him is ambushed. One killed, two injured. One still missing in action. Their loved ones are left desperate for answers the Army won't provide. How could Private Lyons have been snatched from a heavily fortified command post? And why are officers trying to disguise what happened during the mission to save him? Their only hope lies with Coroner Jenny Cooper, who must take on the full might of the military to stop the truth being buried along with the boy soldiers. But in a town filled with secrets and rumors, it's not only the Army that has something to hide. A Life to Kill is the seventh installment in the Coroner Jenny Cooper series.