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The sensational new crime novel from the best-selling author of Snap. Pensioner Felix Pink is about to find out that it’s never too late...for life to go horribly wrong. When Felix lets himself in to Number Three Black Lane, he’s there to perform an act of kindness and charity: to keep a dying man company as he takes his final breath. But just 15 minutes later Felix is on the run from the police - after making the biggest mistake of his life.

On a stifling summer's day, 11-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their broken-down car, waiting for their mother to come back and rescue them. 'Jack's in charge,' she said. 'I won't be long.' But she never comes back. Three years later, mum-to-be Catherine wakes to find a knife beside her bed, and a note that says: 'I could have killed you'. Meanwhile Jack is still in charge - of his sisters, of supporting them all, of making sure nobody knows they're alone in the house, and - quite suddenly - of finding out the truth about what happened to his mother. But the truth can be a dangerous thing....

“The dead can't speak to us,” Professor Madoc had said. But that was a lie. Sometimes, only an outsider can get to the truth. Patrick had been on the outside all his life. Thoughtful, but different, infuriating even to his own mother, his life changes when he follows an obsession with death to study anatomy at university. When he uncovers a crime that everybody else was too close to see, he proves finally that he has been right all along: Nothing is exactly as it seems. And there have been many more lies closer to home....

This is how it begins. Lone women terrorised and their helpless families forced to watch - in a sick game where only one player knows the rules. And when those rules change, the new game is Murder. Living with her parents in the dank beach community of Limeburn, ten-year-old Ruby Trick has her own fears. Bullies on the school bus, the forest crowding her house into the sea, and the threat of divorce. Helping her Daddy to catch the killer might be the key to keeping him close. As long as the killer doesn't catch her first...

At the height of summer a dark shadow falls across Exmoor. Children are being stolen from cars. Each disappearance is marked only by a terse note – a brutal accusation. There are no explanations, no ransom demands... and no hope. Policeman Jonas Holly faces a precarious journey into the warped mind of the kidnapper if he's to stand any chance of catching him. But – still reeling from a personal tragedy – is Jonas really up to the task?

Five footprints are the only sign that Daniel Buck was ever here. And now they are all his mother has left. Every day Anna Buck guards the little prints in the cement. Polishing them to a shine. Keeping them safe. Spiralling towards insanity. When a psychic offers hope, Anna grasps it. Who wouldn't? Maybe he can tell her what happened to her son.... But is this man what he claims to be? Is he a visionary? A shut eye? Or a cruel fake preying on the vulnerable? Or is he something far, far worse?

Steven Lamb digs holes on Exmoor, hoping to lay to rest the ghost of his uncle, who disappeared aged 11 and is assumed to have fallen victim to the serial killer Arnold Avery. Only Steven's Nan is not convinced her son is dead. Steven is determined to heal the widening cracks in his family before it's too late. And if that means presenting his grandmother with the bones of her murdered son, he'll do it. So the boy takes the next logical step, carefully crafting a letter to Arnold Avery in prison.

Eve Singer needs death. With her career as a TV crime reporter flagging, she'll do anything to satisfy her ghoulish audience. The killer needs death, too. He even advertises his macabre public performances, where he hopes to show the whole world the beauty of dying. When he contacts Eve, she welcomes the chance to be first with the news from every gory scene. Until she realizes that the killer has two obsessions. One is public murder. And the other one is her.

Shipcott in bleak mid-winter: a close knit community where no stranger goes unnoticed. So when an elderly woman is murdered in her bed, village policeman Jonas Holly is doubly shocked. How could someone have killed and left no trace? Jonas finds himself side-lined as the investigation is snatched away from him by an abrasive senior detective. Is his first murder investigation over before it’s begun?

Crime reporter Eve Singer's career is on the downward slope when a spate of bizarre murders - each carefully orchestrated and advertised like performance art - begin in her territory. Covering these very public crimes revives her byline, and when the killer contacts Eve to discuss her coverage of his crimes, she is suddenly on the inside of the biggest murder investigation of the decade. But as the killer becomes increasingly obsessed with her, Eve realizes there's a thin line between inside information and becoming an accomplice to murder.

Før var de en familie ligesom alle andre: Anna og James og deres fireårige søn, Daniel. Men i et flygtigt øjeblik forandrer alt sig. Fem fodspor i cementen er nu det eneste tegn på, at Daniel har eksisteret. Det eneste, hans mor har tilbage. Hver dag vogter hun de små fodspor. Holder dem rene. Pudser dem blanke. Anna er fuldstændig desperat af længsel og fortvivlelse, så da hun hører om en mand med ægte klarsyn, griber hun straks muligheden.

Et enkelt øjeblik... kan ændre alt. På en kvælende varm sommerdag sidder 11-årige Jack og hans to søstre i deres bil, som er brudt sammen, og venter på, at deres mor skal komme tilbage og redde dem. ”Jack har ansvaret,” sagde hun. ”Jeg er snart tilbage.” Men hun kom ikke tilbage. Hun kom aldrig tilbage. Og det liv, børnene kender, bliver forandret for altid.

Pensionisten Felix Pink finder snart ud af, at det aldrig er for sent til at livet kan gå frygteligt galt. Da Felix lukker sig selv ind i Black Lane nummer tre, er det for at udføre en velgørenhedssgerning: At sidde ved en døende mands side, mens han drager sit sidste suk... Men bare et kvarter senere er Felix på flugt fra politiet efter have begået sit livs største fejl. Hans verden bliver vendt på hovedet, da han må finde ud af, hvem der i virkeligheden bærer skylden, eller om der er noget meget mere dystert på spil. Alt imens han skal holde sig ét skridt foran politiet.

Drengen ville ha´sandheden - morderen ville lege... Dyster Viden er en skarp, isnende og psykologisk blændende debutkrimi, der får dig til at sidde med tilbageholdt åndedræt på det yderste af stolen... Billy Peters forsvandt for 18 år siden. Alle i byen Shipcott, Somerset, tror at Billy blev myrdet – især efter at den pædofile seriemorder Arnold Avery indrømmer at han dræbte seks andre børn og begravede dem på den samme øde hede, som omgiver byen. Billys mor er den eneste der tror, at han er i live.

Eve Singer har brug for mord. Hendes tv-karriere som kriminalreporter er for nedadgående, indtil hun begynder at dække en række bizarre mord – der alle er begået i det offentlige rum og annonceret som kunstudstillinger. Da morderen tager kontakt til Eve om hendes dækning af mordene, er hun pludselig langt mere indblandet, end hun har lyst til at være. Især da det hurtigt viser sig, at morderen har to besættelser.

Eve Singer har brug for mord. Hendes tv-karriere som kriminalreporter er for nedadgående, indtil hun begynder at dække en række bizarre mord – der alle er begået i det offentlige rum og annonceret som kunstudstillinger. Da morderen tager kontakt til Eve om hendes dækning af mordene, er hun pludselig langt mere indblandet, end hun har lyst til at være. Især da det hurtigt viser sig, at morderen har to besættelser

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