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On the first morning of her new job at Heartfield House, a care home for the elderly, Annie Jackson wakens from a terrifying dream. And when she arrives at the home, she knows that the first old man she meets is going to die. How she knows this is a terrifying mystery, but it is the start of horrifying premonitions...a rekindling of the curse that has trickled through generations of women in her family - a wicked gift known only as 'the murmurs'... With its reappearance comes an old, forgotten fear that is about to grip Annie Jackson.

Forty years ago, the name Rachel McMahon was synonymous with evil. After killing four men in the most brutal of ways, the world rejoiced as she was locked up. Now Rachel has done her time, repented for her crimes, and is ready to live a quiet life back in Scotland under a new name.

Ce soir-là, quand Liam rentre des forêts montagneuses où il est parti chasser, il devine aussitôt qu'il s'est passé quelque chose. Son petit garçon de cinq ans, Aru, ne l'attend pas devant la maison. Dans la cour, il découvre les empreintes d'un ours. À côté, sous le corps inerte de sa femme, il trouve son fils. Vivant. Au milieu de son existence qui s'effondre, Liam a une certitude : ce monde sauvage n'est pas fait pour un enfant. Décidé à confier son fils à d'autres que lui, il prépare un long voyage au rythme du pas des chevaux.

Homicide Detective Max Rupert never fully accepted his wife's death, even when he believed that a reckless hit and run driver was the cause. But when he learns that in fact she was murdered, he devotes himself to hunting down her killers. Most of his life he had thought of himself as a decent man. But now he's so consumed with thoughts of retribution that he questions whether he will take that last step and enact the vengeance he longs for.

A million-pound heist. A man on the run. A gang hellbent on seeking revenge. When private investigator Detective Sebastian Clifford is asked by his former society girlfriend to locate her fiancé—who's disappeared along with some valuable pieces of art—he's reluctant to help. He's left the...

Redemption is the phenomenal third instalment in Jussi Adler-Olsen's internationally bestselling department Q series, which follows the Sunday Times smash hit Mercy and its sequel Disgrace. The prefect treat for all fans of the classic Scandinavian crime thriller in the vein of The Killing and...

When a nurse is murdered on her way home from nightshift, Jack and his team go on the hunt for her killer. As more victims are uncovered, Jack finds himself tracking a murderer afflicted by a unique psychosis - one that leaves him free to maim and kill without a shred of remorse. Facing a new type of killer in an unfamiliar city, DCI Jack Logan is about to be pushed to his limits, before being forced to realize just how little he truly knows.

Artemus Black doesn't believe in fate...but even a hardened Hollywood PI can question destiny when cases turn ugly. With an assistant who mocks him relentlessly, an obese cat that loathes him, a romantic life that's deader than Elvis, money problems, booze, nicotine, and anger management issues, how much worse can it get? The answer is plenty, and Black finds himself in a web of deceit, betrayal, and murder - and bad hair days.

Matthew Scudder reminisces of his uniformed days and of the night he bent the law to help some "friends of a friend." When a friendly game of poker turns deadly, Scudder is called upon to solve the murder…and hide the body.

I den avslutande delen i Döden i December brakar helvetet löst på riktigt. Frågan är vem som kommer ut levande från den blodiga upplösningen.Kim Cordell har jobbat hårt för att samla information om olika seriemördare på darknetsajten som Halmdockan gav henne tillgång till. Nu måste...

Un ex poliziotto. Una città che non perdona. Una resa dei conti rimandata troppo a lungo. Segui le indagini del Drago, un investigatore senza licenza né padroni, nelle ombre di una Milano sotterranea. Dopo giorni di convalescenza, l’ex poliziotto Lorenzo Visconti, detto il Drago, lascia il...

I et hus opfyldt af mørke kæmper en kvinde for at finde en vej ud ... Efter en tilsyneladende perfekt start på deres forhold gifter Emma sig med Simon. Men så snart de kommer hjem fra bryllupsrejsen, forandrer Simon sig. Han forbyder Emma at se sine venner og forældre. Han kontrollerer...

Kun 48 timer ... afgør, om du får lov til at leve eller dø. En betjent skal løse en livsfarlig sag. Han er kriminalbetjent og jager koldblodige mordere, men ved han mere, end han vil indrømme? En mor skal redde sin datter. Hun er advokat og skal forsvare en drabsmand – men hvor langt vil hun gå for at beskytte sit eneste barn? Et par vil gerne begå den perfekte forbrydelse.

A man lies beaten to a pulp in a deserted car park in Maidstone, Kent. His own brother put him there. Josh Winters never saw it coming. He trusted his brother Alex. He always has. Detective Abigail Morton is embedded in a fractured source-handling unit on the Kent coast. She's working a dangerous informant operation against the Winters' criminal gang. Everyone says the brothers are untouchable. But something is shifting inside the organisation.

Operating from the deepest shadows of the dark web, a sadistic predator orchestrates his atrocities remotely, hiring ruthless mercenaries to abduct women off the streets of Denmark and stream their terrifying final moments live directly to his screen. His methods are flawless, his proxies are...

It’s a two-for-one deal when a pair of accused rapists from a New Jersey-based gang surfaces in South Lake Tahoe. The first is easy to catch, but the second, a Satanist suspected of a string of murders, is an adversary unlike any Reno has faced. After escaping Reno’s clutches in the desert outside of Carson City, the target vanishes. That is, until he makes it clear he intends to settle the score.

Could a nightmare be used as a murder weapon? That's the provocative question confronting Gurney in the thrilling new installment in this series of international bestsellers. The former NYPD star homicide detective is called upon to solve a baffling puzzle: Four people who live in different parts of the country and who seem to have little in common, report having had the same dream - a terrifying nightmare involving a bloody dagger with a carved wolf's head on the handle.

A novel set in the underbelly of upstate New York that's as hardboiled and punchy as a swift right hook to the jaw, a classic noir for fans of James Ellroy and John D. Macdonald. Isaiah Coleridge is a mob enforcer in Alaska--he's tough, seen a lot, and dished out more. But when he forcibly ends...

There were some things about Chief Inspector Wexford's trip to China that he could never have dreamt of: That an old woman would haunt him from one city to the next. That a man would be tragically drowned. Or that, back in England, he would be investigating the murder of one of his fellow tourists.

March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Carter Crossing, Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base.Is the murderer a local guy - or is he a soldier? Jack Reacher, still a major in the military police, is sent in undercover.The county sheriff is a former U.S. Marine - and...