Olivia studeert aan de universiteit van Cambridge. Ze is mooi, veelbelovend en heeft al twee jaar een relatie met Nick. Maar wat de buitenwereld niet weet, is dat ze een zwaar jeugdtrauma heeft. Als ze samen met Nick naar het meifeest gaat, vindt ze het toegetakelde lichaam van een medestudente: June. Olivia is in shock. Vooral omdat dit niet de eerste moord op de campus is. Haar angsten uit het verleden komen in volle hevigheid terug… Later blijkt dat Olivia alle slachtoffers persoonlijk kende.
November in the West Country, and evening is closing in as DI Jack Caffery arrives to interview the victim of a stolen car. But this is no ordinary theft. The man who's stolen the car was wearing a Santa Claus mask. And, on the back seat, packing away the shopping, was an eleven year-old girl. And she's still missing.
It's been 22 years since Ellie Cavanaugh's testimony against 19-year-old Rob Westerfield convicted him of the murder of her sister. Now, Rob is up for parole. Ellie returns home to write a book, But she soon uncovers horrifying facts about her sister's murder.
The Victim: A teenage girl has been brutally murdered on her way home from school. The cryptic message ' all like her ' is crudely written on her body. The Silence: The dead girl's friends are deeply shocked and upset, but they all refuse to reveal anything about her last movements. Who are they protecting? And what more do they know? The Fear: Headstrong Detective Inspector Zoë Benedict knows exactly how she wants to work this case. But Zoë's own dark past, if exposed, may jeopardize the search for justice . . . and destroy her too. Tense, thrilling and brilliantly original, Hanging Hill reveals the evil side of human nature and the terrible things normal people can do...
Set in the heart of Europe, 'Inferno' follows renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon as he becomes drawn into a harrowing world centred around one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces: Dante's Inferno.
After her resignation as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner and the horrifying events which threatened her life in THE LAST PRECINCT, Kay Scarpetta has abandoned her elegant home in Richmond and is quietly living in Florida, beginning to get some balance back in her life and slowly establishing herself as a private forensic consultant. But her past won't let her rest, and her grief for Benton Wesley continues to grow, not diminish, as does the rage within Lucy, her niece. Then the architect of her changed fortunes contacts her from his cell on death row: deformed, blinded by Scarpetta's own actions, incarcerated in Texas strongest prison, Jean-Baptiste Chardonne still has the ability to terrify. But, unkown to Scarpetta, there are other forces behind the wolfman's apparent actions, invisibly shepherding her and those closest to her towards eliminating those who threaten them all. And it is all orchestrated by the one man in her life who knows every nuance of her soul. Visit the author's website at www.patricia-cornwell.com
Als Kate Benson de recente vakantiefoto's van vrienden bekijkt, krijgt ze de schrik van haar leven: haar man Charlie staat op de foto. Dat is onmogelijk, hij is namelijk overleden. Maar Kate weet zeker dat het haar grote liefde is die op de achtergrond staat. Ze besluit terug te keren naar de plaats waar hij een jaar eerder op mysterieuze wijze verdronk. Of werd hij vermoord? Haar vrienden verklaren haar voor gek, maar Kate ontdekt de schokkende waarheid.
Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand. The fact that there's no body attached is disturbing enough. Yet more disturbing is the discovery, a day later, of the matching hand. Both have been recently amputated, and the indications are that the victim was still alive when they were removed. DI Jack Caffery has been newly seconded to the Major Crime Investigation Unit in Bristol. He and Flea soon establish that the hands belong to a boy who has recently disappeared. Their search for him - and for his abductor - lead them into the darkest recesses of Bristol's underworld, where drug addiction is rife, where street-kids sell themselves for a hit, and where an ancient evil lurks; an evil that feeds off the blood - and flesh - of others ...
The nineteenth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. 'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. The prisoner is a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against advice, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out - she believes she may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings. As she learns more, Scarpetta is compelled to conclude that this is only the beginning of a terrifying terrain of conspiracy on an international scale. And she is the only one who can stop it . . . Praise for the groundbreaking series: 'One of the best crime writers writing today' Guardian 'Devilishly clever' Sunday Times 'The top gun in this field' Daily Telegraph 'Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns' Mirror 'The Agatha Christie of the DNA age' Express
