Els Braspenning Books

HE HIDES, HE KILLS, HE KEEPS . . . Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles is asked to attend an intriguing examination. An ancient mummy has been found in a museum basement, prompting great media excitement. But with horror she realises that itâe(tm)s not as ancient as they thought...A very modern bullet is showing up on the scan. Detective Jane Rizzoli is called to investigate and soon discovers a second âe" and then a third âe" mummified body. Who is this killer and why does he preserve his victims so meticulously? And who will be the next to join his monstrous collection?

Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles faces a chilling reality when she discovers a murder victim who is her exact double, down to intimate physical traits. The woman found shot outside Maura’s home shares not only her appearance but also her birth date and blood type, leading to a shocking revelation: she is Maura’s twin sister. This unsettling discovery propels Maura into a complex murder investigation intertwined with her own dark past. As she delves deeper, a DNA test confirms their connection, and Maura is compelled to confront the secrets of her origins. Her search for answers takes her to a seaside town in Maine, where she encounters further horrors. Meanwhile, an unidentified killer is on a nationwide rampage, and the stakes are rising. To uncover the truth about her roots and stop the ongoing violence, Maura must confront the mother she never knew—a cold and calculating figure who may hold the key to her existence and could pose a lethal threat. In a race against time, Maura must navigate a web of danger and deception to protect her life and unravel the mystery surrounding her family.

A blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli when she finds herself on the wrong side of a hostage crisis in this timely and relentless thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Body Double. A nameless, beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. An apparent suicide, she lies on a gurney, awaiting the dissecting scalpel of medical examiner Maura Isles. But when Maura unzips the body bag and looks down at the body, she gets the fright of her life. The corpse opens its eyes. Very much alive, the woman is rushed to the hospital, where with shockingly cool precision, she murders a security guard and seizes hostages . . . one of them a pregnant patient, Jane Rizzoli. Who is this violent, desperate soul, and what does she want? As the tense hours tick by, Maura joins forces with Jane's husband, FBI agent Gabriel Dean, to track down the mysterious killer's identity. When federal agents suddenly appear on the scene, Maura and Gabriel realize that they are dealing with a case that goes far deeper than just an ordinary hostage crisis.Only Jane, trapped with the armed madwoman, holds the key to the mystery. And only she can solve it if she survives the night. From the Hardcover edition.

'The most bone-chilling story featuring on-going characters Rizzoli and Isles.' Daily Mail HE WATCHES Something terrible has happened in the snowbound village of Kingdom Come, Wyoming. Twelve eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned. The people who lived in them appear to have vanished, seemingly into thin air. HE WAITS Maura Isles is driving through the area with a group of friends when they find themselves trapped in a snowstorm. They stumble into the abandoned village to take shelter. But their nightmare has only just begun. THEY DISAPPEAR Days later, Jane Rizzoli flies to Wyoming to search for her missing friend. A crashed vehicle has been found with four badly burned bodies still inside. Can one of the corpses be Maura's? Jane's hunt for the truth leads her to Kingdom Come. Where the person who was watching Maura now lies waiting for her ...

Dr. Catherine Cordell, recovering from a brutal attack and hiding her fear behind a mask of professionalism, is the only one who can stop a psychotic killer known as "The Surgeon," due to his horrific methods of murder, before he kills again. Reissue.

Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered in the early hours at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the sanctuary walls of the cloistered convent, now stained with blood, lie two nuns - victims of an unspeakably savage attacker.

In April came the rains. In August came the heat. In November came the horror. Itâe(tm)s paying a return visit. Lapped by the gentle waters of Locust Lake, the small resort town of Tranquility, Maine, seems like the perfect spot for Dr Claire Elliot to shelter her adolescent son, Noah, from the temptations of the big city and the lingering memory of his fatherâe(tm)s death. And sheâe(tm)s hopeful that she can earn the trust of the town as she builds a new practice. But all her plans unravel with the onset of winter when a rash of teenage violence, far more deadly than anything sheâe(tm)d encountered in the city, erupts in the local school. As she tries to find a medical explanation for this murderous epidemic, Claire stumbles upon an insidious evil which has blighted the townâe(tm)s past and threatens its future. Fearful that Noah, too, is at risk, she must race to prove her theory before everything she loves is destroyed.

Sorry. The single word was written on a mirror. In front of it hung the Minneapolis Internal Affairs cop. Was it suicide? Or a kinky act turned tragic?Either way, it wasn’t murder. At least not according to the powers that be. But veteran homicide detective Sam Kovac and his wisecracking, ambitious partner Nikki Liska think differently. Together they begin to dig at the too-neat edges of the young cop’s death, uncovering one motive and one suspect after another. The shadows of suspicion fall not only on the city’s elite, but into the very heart of the police department.Someone wants the case closed–quickly and forever. But neither Kovac nor Liska will give up. Now both their careers and their lives are on the line. From a murder case two months old to another case closed for twenty years, Kovac and Liska must unearth a connection the killer wants dead and buried. A killer who will stop at absolutely nothing to keep a dark and shattering secret . . .

Zarah wächst in einem liberalen, gemischt-gläubigen Elternhaus in Teheran auf. Als freiheitsliebende junge Frau erlebt sie mit, wie die Gesellschaft mehr und mehr unter die Kontrolle der islamischen Sittenwächter gerät. Die lebensfrohe Literaturstudentin fühlt sich im Umfeld einer regimekritischen Gruppe wohl, für deren Anführer sie schwärmt. Dies kommt sie teuer zu stehen. 2001 wird sie verhaftet und kommt ins Evin-Gefängnis. Nach wochenlangen Verhören, Demütigungen und körperlichen Torturen ist ihr Widerstand gebrochen. Doch die Freiheit hat einen hohen Preis. Zarah Ghahramanis autobiografischer Bericht ist eine erschütternde Anklage gegen religiöse Eiferer und die Unterdrücker im Iran.

Een vrouwelijke reclasseringsambtenaar probeert een van haar cliënten ondanks aanslagen op haarzelf, haar kinderen en haar cliënt van alle blaam te zuiveren.