CAROL SMITH

À la suite d'un drame, Odile Annesley s'est exilée et vit recluse en Provence. À l'approche de son quatre-vingtième anniversaire, elle convie ses petits-enfants pour les informer de ses dispositions testamentaires. Comme dans toutes les familles, cousins et cousines ont quantité de choses à se raconter après tant d'années. Mais certains ont aussi des secrets qu'ils ne veulent pas voir dévoilés. Le jour où les premiers meurtres surviennent, il est clair qu'un des membres du clan Annesley possède un sens de famille bien particulier.

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Carol SmithJinx McLennan has it all - brains, popularity, her own successful business, plus a wide ranging network of lovers and friends. Then early one Sunday, she is discovered brutally murdered in her exclusive Kensington house. The killing triggers a police inquiry, which delves deep into her colourful past. It is an investigation going nowhere until, in a shock revelation, there turns out to be a case of mistaken identity. The wrong person has been murdered. Out there somewhere is still a crazed killer - a killer who will stop at nothing to take care of unfinished business ...

Rush hour on the underground and a killer is at large in London, striking apparently haphazardly in a series of vicious attacks. Andy Brewster, ex-SAS, on sick leave from active service in Iraq, works undercover for the Metropolitan police with his bomb expert partner, Burgess. Together they must find the killer before he strikes again. So far the victims have all been women with no apparent connection. Beth Hardy, former caterer who now runs a gourmet food shop; her daughter Imogen, dancing at the National; sad Celeste with her terrible secret; widowed Margaret, in to shop; and American tourist, Ellie, stranded there alone. Each of them regularly travels by tube not knowing they could be potential victims. When the July 7 bombs go off and public awareness is raised, Brewster and Burgess have a race against time to apprehend the stalker. But danger comes not just from knives and bombs. Murder is deadlier when the heart is involved.