MINETTE WALTERS

When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries, he faces not only permanent disfigurement but also an apparent change to his previously outgoing personality. Crippled by migraines, and suspicious of his psychiatrist, he begins to display sporadic bouts of aggression, particularly against women, especially his ex-fiancee who seems unable to accept that the relationship is over.After his injuries prevent his return to the army, he cuts all ties with his former life and moves to London. Alone and unmonitored, he sinks into a private world of guilt and paranoid distrust ...until a customer annoys him in a Bermondsey pub and he attracts the attention of local police investigating three murders which appear to have been motivated by extreme rage ...Under suspicion, Acland is forced to confront the real issues behind his isolation. How much control does he have over the dark side of his personality? Do his migraines contribute to his rages? Has he always been the duplicitous chameleon that his ex-fiancee claims? And why - if he hates women - does he look to a woman for help?

Abgründiger Psychothriller nach einem historischen Kriminalfall!1925 geht ein spektakulärer Mord durch die britische Presse, der als "Hühnerfarm-Mord" die Gemüter erregt: Eines Tages entdeckt Scotland Yard die Leiche von Elsie Cameron auf dem Gelände der Hühnerfarm ihres Verlobten Norman Thorntons. Zwar hatten Elsie und Cameron kurz zuvor ein böses Zerwürfnis, doch Norman beteuert seine Unschuld. Zudem häufen sich die Stimmen, die von Elsies schwerer Persönlichkeitsstörung berichten. Dennoch spricht das Gericht ein Todesurteil aus.01Minette Walters gilt als die britische "Queen of Crime" und hat eine Fangemeinde von Millionen Leserinnen und Leser. Viele ihrer bisher erschienenen Romane wurden mit wichtigen internationalen Preisen ausgezeichnet. Minette Walters lebt mit ihrem Mann und ihren beiden Söhnen in Hampshire, England.

1970 wird der junge Howard Stamp wegen Mordes an seiner Großmutter zu einer lebenslangen Haftstrafe verurteilt. Im Gefängnis begeht der geistig zurückgebliebene junge Mann Selbstmord. Mehr als dreißig Jahre später rollt der Anthropologe Jonathan Hughes den Fall erneut auf. Gemeinsam mit der Anwältin George Gardener, die immer von Howards Unschuld überzeugt war, versucht er herauszufinden, was damals wirklich geschah. Dabei stoßen die beiden auf ein schreckliches Geheimnis und auf eine Reihe von Leuten, die größtes Interesse daran haben, die Vergangenheit ruhen zu lassen.01Minette Walters gilt als die britische "Queen of Crime" und hat eine Fangemeinde von Millionen Leserinnen und Leser. Viele ihrer bisher erschienenen Romane wurden mit wichtigen internationalen Preisen ausgezeichnet. Minette Walters lebt mit ihrem Mann und ihren beiden Söhnen in Hampshire, England.

On ne revient jamais sain et sauf de l'enfer. De retour d'Irak, où son tombés ses hommes, le lieutenant Charles Aucland ne voit plus la vie du même oeil. À moitié amnésique, le visage barré d'un éclat d'obus, l'homme doux que ses amis connaissaient n'est plus qu'une plaie ouverte, violente. Des haines coupables, des phobies nouvelles ternissent l'uniforme héroïque de miraculé qu'on voudrait lui passer. Aussi la police londonienne, complètement dépassée par une vague de meurtres homophobes, voit-elle en cet être marginalisé, un tueur idéal. Toutes les victimes ne sont-elles pas d'anciens soldats gays, violés puis battus à mort ? Le profil colle à la perfection : humeur changeante, terreur vis-à-vis de la sexualité, personnalité multiple. Le caméléon pourrait bien avoir pris, là-bas en Irak, la couleur du sang.

June, 1348: the Black Death enters England through the port of Melcombe in the county of Dorsetshire. Unprepared for the virulence of the disease, and the speed with which it spreads, the people of the county start to die in their thousands. A culture of terror and superstition quickly sweeps across the land as news of the Black Death travels far and wide. In the demesne of Develish, Lady Anne takes control of her people's future - including the lives of two hundred bonded serfs. Strong, compassionate and resourceful, Lady Anne chooses a bastard slave, Thaddeus Thurkell, to act as her steward. Together, they decide to quarantine Develish by bringing the serfs inside the walls. With this sudden overturning of the accepted social order, where serfs exist only to serve their lords, conflicts soon arise. Ignorant of what is happening in the world outside, they wrestle with themselves, with God and with the terrible uncertainty of their futures. Lady Anne's people fear starvation but they fear the pestilence more. Who amongst them has the courage to leave the safety of the demesne? And how safe is anyone in Develish when a dreadful event threatens the uneasy status quo...?

This is the terrifying new Hammer novella by Minette Walters, bestselling author of The Sculptress and The Scold's Bridle. 'Muna's fortunes changed for the better on the day that Mr and Mrs Songoli's younger son failed to come home from school.' Before then her bedroom was a dark windowless cellar, her activities confined to cooking and cleaning. She'd grown used to being maltreated by the Songoli family; to being a slave. She's never been outside, doesn't know how to read or write, and cannot speak English. At least that's what the Songolis believe. But Muna is far cleverer - and her plans more terrifying - than the Songolis, or anyone else, can ever imagine...

I wonder if I should keep these diaries under lock and key. Jenny Spede has disturbed them again...What does she make, I wonder, of an old woman, deformed by arthritis, stripping naked for a young man? The pills worry me more. Ten is such a round number to be missing...Mathilda Gillespie's body was found nearly two days after she had taken an overdose and slashed her wrists with a Stanley knife. But what shocked Dr Sarah Blakeney the most was the scold's bridle obscuring the dead woman's face, a metal contraption grotesquely adorned with a garland of nettles and Michaelmas daisies.What happened at Cedar House in the tortured hours before Mathilda's death? The police assume that the coroner will return a verdict of suicide. Only Dr Blakeney, it seems, doubts the verdict. Until it is discovered that Mathilda's diaries have disappeared...'An atmosphere of tantalizing, overpowering menace...The tradition of the English whodunnit has passed into the safe hands and dangerous imagination of Minette Walters' - "The Times".

The terrifying Hammer novella by Minette Walters, bestselling author of The Sculptress and The Scold's Bridle. Muna's bedroom is a dark windowless cellar and her activities are confined to cooking and cleaning. She's grown used to being maltreated by the Songoli family; to being a slave. She's never been outside, doesn't know how to read or write, and cannot speak English. At least that's what the Songolis believe. But Muna is far cleverer - and her plans more terrifying - than the Songolis, or anyone else, can ever imagine...

A bold and brilliantly inventive historical novel set in the reign of James II at a time of rebellion and unrest from a 25 million copy bestselling author

Walters makes a brilliant debut with this dark and suspenseful mystery that has the Book-of-the-Month Club raving, "One of the most impossible-to-put-down mysteries we've read this year". Three women who live together are thrown into turmoil when a mutilated body is found in their estate's ice house. Martin's.