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The gripping new thriller featuring DI Diana Walker: a gruesome murder leads Diana into the heart of Sheffield's seedy underbelly *Praise for Nina Bhadreshwar* 'One of the most original and exciting new voices in crime fiction’ – David Peace ‘Everything I love in a crime novel – passion...

Su uno scoglio del lungomare di Napoli viene ritrovato il corpo nudo e mutilato di una giovane donna. Un macabro rituale che ha già fatto più di una vittima. Una squadra di profiler, guidata dallo psichiatra Tito Jacopo Durso, sta indagando sul caso ed è alla disperata ricerca di qualche indizio sull'assassino, ribattezzato dalla stampa come l'Anatomista. Alla sua équipe la polizia ha deciso di affiancare una psicologa, Artemisia Gentile, esperta nella cura di vittime di abusi e maltrattamenti.

Le sue vacanze, appena cominciate, sono già finite. È il primo pensiero del maresciallo Simone Santomauro mentre, lasciati il libro e il latte di mandorla che si stava godendo al fresco in piazza, si mette a fare le prime domande e, con fare imperativo nonostante gli shorts e la maglietta, allontana i curiosi dalla spiaggia. Quello che è emerso da un mucchio di alghe, sollevato dalla ruspa di Peppenuzzo, è un cadavere in avanzato stato di decomposizione. Sfigurato e mutilato a tal punto che si fatica a capire se si tratta di un uomo o di una donna.

Fresh from maternity leave, Detective Elma finds herself confronted with a complex case, when a man is found murdered in a holiday cottage in the depths of the Icelandic countryside - the victim of a frenzied knife attack, with a shocking message scrawled on the wall above him.

*A Times Best Book of the Year* *An iPaper Best Crime Thriller of the Year* 'Everything I love in a crime novel – passion, interesting and rooted characters and a great story' Ann Cleeves Don't miss this award-winning debut crime thriller set in Sheffield introducing DI Diana Walker: A grizzly...

DCS Fran Harman's relationship with Assistant Chief Constable Mark Turner is going well and they are buying a house together. At work, a former protégé, Simon Gates, has just become her new boss. But there are complications with Simon and with Mark's daughter. Even the environment is hostile, the water in Fran's village tainted by something in the local reservoir. Some good old-fashioned detective work seems a useful antidote.

The small community of Akranes is devastated after a young man dies in a mysterious house fire. When Detective Elma and her colleagues from West Iceland CID discover the fire was arson, they become embroiled in an increasingly perplexing case. For the dead man's final online search raises fears that they could be investigating not one murder, but two.

When a body of a woman is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, it soon becomes clear that she’s no stranger to the area. Chief Investigating Officer Elma, who has returned to Akranes following a failed relationship, and her collegues Sævar and Hörður commence an uneasy investigation which uncovers a shocking secret in the dead woman’s past that continues to reverberate in the present day.

Chief Superintendent Frances Harman has been assigned to investigate the case of a woman beaten into a coma. Elise has been in a coma for two years, and if the hospital switches off her life support now, her attacker will be guilty of murder. Fran faces overload as she takes on more responsibilities – her elderly parents, Elise, a child abduction, the disappearance of her only witness, and the growing affection that she and her long-time colleague Mark Turner seem to share for one another.

When single mother Maríanna disappears from her home, leaving an apologetic note on the kitchen table, everyone assumes that she's taken her own life...until her body is found in the Grábrók lava fields seven months later, clearly the victim of murder. Her neglected 15-year-old daughter, Hekla, has been placed in foster care, but is her perfect new life hiding something sinister?

Alice Cores altes Leben als Chief Inspector bei Scotland Yard liegt weit zurück: Von Visionen geplagt, ohne ihren Verbündeten Ruben und mittellos in Südostasien gestrandet, muss sie sich ein letztes Mal zur TransCorp-Zentrale in England durchkämpfen. Dort wartet der Antichrist persönlich darauf, die Cthulhucalpyse einzuleiten... und nur Alice kann ihn vielleicht noch aufhalten.