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'Please don't let anything bad have happened to her, please don't let anything have happened to my baby...' Marcus and Lena Fulford are the envy of their friends. Wealthy, attractive and successful, the couple, with their strikingly beautiful teenage daughter Amy, seem settled and content. But appearances mask a strained relationship almost at breaking point. Marcus's latest business venture has failed, draining Lena, the major breadwinner, dry. Putting Amy into weekly boarding school and striving to get her own career back on its feet, Lena remains alone in the luxurious family house as her marriage heads towards as amicable a divorce as she and Marcus can muster, and joint custody of their only child. So when Amy arranges a sleepover with a school friend one weekend, neither parent sees the need to be in touch with her. Saturday, Sunday, Monday morning pass before Lena - seething from her first, unexpectedly confrontational, meeting with Marcus's divorce lawyer - phones Amy. Straight to Amy's voicemail. She must be in lessons. Lena sends a text. She waits. No reply, no contact whatsoever. It is only when Amy is reported missing from school and her friend's mother reveals that, instead of staying with them, Amy was visiting her father - a fact vehemently denied by Marcus - that Lena contacts the police. Her daughter has not been seen since Saturday afternoon. As the police intensify their enquiries, their reassurances that Amy will be found safe and well begin to sound increasingly hollow. DI Victor Reid, in charge of the case, fears the worst - abduction or murder. A family under constant police and press scrutiny, a father who has seemingly lied about his alibi for the weekend, a mother whose perfect world is crumbling beneath her feet, a detective under pressure from his impatient superiors to deliver a result, the length of time that Amy has been missing gathering speed...all conspire to make Lynda La Plante's latest thriller her most tense and terrifying yet. Where is Amy? Is she alive or dead? Lies and betrayal mount as the hunt for a missing girl becomes a search for a body...

Hot young British film star Amanda Delany had the world at her feet. Never one for the quiet life, she'd had a string of affairs with famous actors, making perfect fodder for the tabloids. Then came a commission to write a tell-all memoir. When Amanda is found brutally murdered in her elegant mews house, the suspects are lining up - from jealous ex-flat mates to famous lovers to a corrupt agent. As DCI James Langton leads his team in an extensive enquiry, they discover the sad truth behind Amanda's successful façade. An autopsy reveals that she was addicted to drugs and starvation diets. Amanda's parents are a cold, unemotional couple who hushed up the fact that their daughter once almost died from a botched back-street abortion. When Amanda's ex-flat mate is suddenly found dead, DI Anna Travis makes shocking discoveries about the identity of Amanda's killer. Meanwhile, Travis is up for promotion, but her boss DCI James Langton is blocking her, with an accusation of professional misconduct. This latest case, her toughest challenge so far, could make or break Anna's career.

The first in a crime series new to Simon & Schuster by the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of ABOVE SUSPICION and THE RED DAHLIA

Cuando el cuerpo de una joven aparece en la orilla del Támesis, la policía queda profundamente impactada ante la brutalidad del crimen: el cadáver de la muchacha, espantosamente mutilado, despierta el recuerdo del famoso asesinato conocido en su dia como el de la Dalia Negra, ocurrido en la decada de 1940 en la ciudad de Los Angeles.La detective Anna Travis debera emprender una carrera contra el tiempo a fin de atrapar al asesino de la Dalia Roja, llamado asi por la flor que la victima llevaba en el pelo. Sin embargo, no hay ningun sospechoso y el descontrol amenaza el frenesi mediatico que ha despertado el caso. Anna acude a su jefe James Langton en busca de ayuda, pero las fricciones provocadas por la relacion que les uniera en el pasado no hacen sino complicar aun mas el caso.

Llibre Fitxa Más allá de la sospecha Lynda La Plante La investigación de una cadena de asesinatos y un atractivo sospechoso… No puede decirse que el debut en el cuerpo policial londinense de Anna Travis, joven investigadora e hija de un querido ex miembro del cuerpo, sea precisamente fácil. Las piezas no encajan en una serie de asesinatos que tienen en común el mismo modus operandi pero distintos perfiles de las víctimas. Además, Anna debe demostrar a su jefe, el escéptico inspector Langton, que su juventud no es un obstáculo para convertirse en una extraordinaria investigadora. La perspicacia de Anna ayuda a encontrar la pieza que faltaba para encontrar un móvil y un asesino. Pero, qué ocurrirá cuando esa pieza apunte a Alan Daniels, un guapo y consagrado actor que la opinión pública adora, y del que la propia Anna podría enamorarse?

Features La Plante's new character, Anna Travis, a rookie detective about to embark on her first murder case - a series of gruesome murders over eight years. Anna stumbles on a vital information that links the killings to one man - but he is a household name, a well- known, much-loved actor. Could he possibly be the killer?

High adventure, furious plotting, blackmail and betrayal...'The Colonel' is rumoured to have masterminded several of the most successful robberies in the UK over the last forty years. But who is he? Edward de Jersey, now a wealthy man, owns a very successful racing yard and stud farm and his pride and joy is his horse, Royal Flush, who he has always dreamed will one day win the Derby. But de Jersey's luck runs out when his trusted financial advisor invests his fortune in a fledgling internet company which goes bust, leaving de Jersey with no capital and mounting debts. In danger of losing everything, De Jersey resurrects his criminal past, turning to the internet to find a team of specialists who will help him pull off the most audacious heist in history.

LYNDA LA PLANTE'S FANTASTIC NEW NOVEL OF POLITICS. SCANDAL AND AN ISLAND PARADISE...Fabulously wealthy entrepreneur Sir William Benedict has always dreamed of being accepted amongst society's elite, despite his working class roots. When fast-rising Tory MP Andrew Maynard enters his life, William suddenly finds that he has gained the social status that he has always craved. But when a political scandal erupts around him, William is shunned by the socialites he once called friends, and his reputation is left in tatters. Now the worm is ready to turn...With the help of the wild and enigmatic ...

Helena Lanark is an elderly woman, living in a luxurious care home. The heiress of an immense family fortune, she keeps the secret to the horror which once occurred within the Lanark family house. Jane Tennison is leading a murder investigation into the recent brutal death of a young girl, her decomposed starved body discovered in an old air raid shelter in the garden of the Lanark's now derelict house. Initially the focus is on identifying the victim, until another body is found, hidden in the walls of the shelter. As the investigation and search for answers intensifies, Jane travels to Australia. There she discovers the dark secret, that the Lanark family has kept hidden for decades. A secret, that not only threatens to bring down a family dynasty, but also places Jane Tennison in mortal danger . . .