Sophie Brinkman Books

Chapters include How to Become a Genius, The Trial of Love, The Triumph of Avida Dollars, and Hallucinations or Scientific Visions.

Terrifying psychological chiller featuring clinical psychologist Tony Hill of The Mermaids Singing and Wire in the Blood. 'There is no one in contemporary crime fiction who has managed to combine the visceral and the humane as well as Val McDermid ... She's the best we've got' New York Times A twisted killer targeting psychologists has left a grisly trail across Europe. Dr Tony Hill, expert at mapping the minds of murderers, is reluctant to get involved. But then the next victim is much closer to home... Meanwhile, his former partner, DCI Carol Jordan, is working undercover in Berlin, on a dangerous operation to trap a millionaire traffiker. When the game turns nasty, Tony is the only person she can call on for help. Confronting a cruelty that has its roots in Nazi atrocities, Tony and Carol are thrown together in a world of violence and corruption, where they have no one to trust but each other.

On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his vehicle. Archie - working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt - is calling it quits, the deciding factor being the flip of a coin. When the owner of a nearby halal butcher shop (annoyed that Archie's car is blocking his delivery area) comes out and bangs on the window, he gives Archie another chance at life and sets in motion the events of the story. Set in post-war London, this novel of the racial, political, and social upheaval of the last half of the twentieth century follows two families - the Joneses and the Iqbals, both outsiders from within the former British empire - as they make their way in modern England

Een strafgevangene in 1830 op Van Diemen's Island weet te overleven door zijn uitzonderlijke tekenkunst.

In het Engelse plaatsje Bradfield wordt een prostituee op gruwelijke wijze vermoord. Rechercheur Carol Jordan onderzoekt de zaak en stuit al snel op overeenkomsten met een serie moorden die jaren geleden gepleegd is. De dader, Derek Tyler, is echter allang opgepakt en Jordan onderzoekt nu of de prostituee vermoord is door een zogenaamde copycat. Forensisch psycholoog Tony Hill doet ondertussen zijn uiterste best Derek Tyler aan het praten te krijgen.