Renée Vink Books

When the body of a young girl is found hanging from a tree, the only clue the police have is an airline tag around her neck. It reads 'I'm travelling alone'. In response, police investigator Holger Munch is immediately charged with assembling a special homicide unit. But to complete the team, he must track down his former partner, Mia Kr�ger - a brilliant but troubled detective - who has retreated to a solitary island with plans to kill herself. Reviewing the file, Mia finds something new - a thin line carved into the dead girl's fingernail: the number 1. She knows that this is only the beginning. To save other children from the same fate, she must find a way to cast aside her own demons and stop this murderer from becoming a serial killer.

The action in this novel begins the day after the end of 'A Storm of Swords'. The remaining northern lords war endlessly with each other and the ironmen of the isles attack the Dreadfort.

The bestselling series, a former Richard and Judy bookclub pick, returns with another chilling case. 'Gives Jo Nesbo a run for his money' Sunday Express Munch and Krüger. An unexpected pairing. A brilliant team. Winter 1996. An old man is driving home when his headlights catch an animal on the empty road up ahead. He stamps hard on the brakes. But it is not an animal at all. It is a young boy, frightened and alone, with a set of deer antlers strapped firmly to his head. Fourteen years later, a body is found in a mountain lake. Within weeks, three people have died. Each time, the killer has left a clue, inviting Special Investigations Detectives Munch and Krüger to play a deadly game - a game they cannot possibly win. Against the most dangerous and terrifying kind of serial killer. One who chooses their victims completely at random. To find the killer they must look deep within their own dark pasts, but how can you stop a murderer when you cannot begin to predict their next move?

Wir sind im mittelalterlichen China. Ein 14-jähriges Mädchen, He Pao, ist Zeuge des Makers an ihren Adoptiveltern. Versteckt unter männlicher Kleidung und entschlossen, den Mörder zu finden und zu bestrafen, macht sie sich im 12. Jahrhundert auf den Weg, allein auf den Straßen des mittelalterlichen China zu reisen. Sie wird eine Weile von Nonnen bewirtet und findet schließlich Yu Kong, der ein Anhänger des verrückten Mönchs geworden ist. He Pao, fasziniert von diesem Mönch, beschließt, seine Geheimnisse zu entdecken. Der Teenager wird erwachsen und mit ihr der Wunsch, das Geheimnis ihrer frühen Kindheit zu lüften. Vink erzählt und illustriert auf brillante Weise die Geschichte dieses komplexen, originellen und unabhängigen Charakters, der sich weigert, sich in die verschiedenen Gesellschaften zu integrieren, denen er während seiner Abenteuer begegnet ist. Die Zeichnung in Pastellfarben, sofort erkennbar, bringt mit Wärme und Exotik ein mysteriöses China hervor, das von wilden Räubern, religiösen Fanatikern, müßigen Adligen und armen Bauern bevölkert wird.