Val McDermid

When Charlie Flint is sent a mysterious package of cuttings about a brutal murder, it instantly grabs her attention. The murder occurred in the grounds of her old Oxford college - a groom battered to death just hours after his wedding. As his bride and wedding guests sipped champagne, his alleged killers were slipping his bloodstained body into the river. Charlie doesn't know who sent the package, or why, yet she can't get the crime out of her head. But as she delves deeper, and steps back into the mysterious world of Oxford colleges, she realises that there is much more to this crime than meets the eye...

There is one serial killer who has shaped and defined police profiler Tony Hill's life. One serial killer whose evil surpasses all others. One serial killer who has the power to chill him to the bone: Jacko Vance. And now Jacko is back in Tony's life. Even more twisted and cunning than ever before, he is focused on wreaking revenge on Tony - and DCI Carol Jordan - for the years he has spent in prison. Tony doesn't know when Jacko will strike, or where. All he knows is that Jacko will cause him to feel fear like he has never known before ? and devastate his life in ways he cannot imagine...

Someone is brutally killing women. Women who bear a striking resemblance to former DCI Carol Jordan. The connection is too strong to ignore and soon psychological profiler Tony Hill finds himself dangerously close to the investigation, just as the killer is closing in on his next target. This is a killer like no other, hell-bent on inflicting the most severe and grotesque punishment on his prey. As the case becomes ever-more complex and boundaries begin to blur, Tony and Carol must work together once more to try and save the victims, and themselves. Breathless, gripping and thrilling -- the Queen of the Psychological Thriller is back with her most spine-chilling novel to date. The perfect introduction to the unforgettable world of Tony Hill and Carol Jordan.

When a skeleton is discovered hidden at the top of a gothic Victorian building in Edinburgh, which is scheduled for renovation, Cold Case Squad detective Karen Pirie is given the task of identifying the decades-old bones. Her investigation leads her back to past conflicts, false identities and buried secrets...

A modern re-imagining of the Gothic Classic Northanger Abbey by the bestselling crime author Val McDermid. The second book in The Austen Project.For Cat Morland life being home-schooled in Dorset is unendurably ordinary. To cope, she devours as many novels as possible, especially anything supernatural. But if Cat can tear her eyes away from the page, shes in for a shock: the very stuff of her dreams is about to come true.An invite to the Edinburgh Festival from some wealthy neighbours throws her in the way of a mysterious young man, Henry Tilney; a like-minded friend, Isabella Thorpe; and her odious brother, who threatens to ruin Cats chances of adventure. But this heroine is not so easily deterred, especially when shes singled out by the Tilney family to stay with them at their imposing gothic castle, Northanger Abbey.Turrets and creaking doors there may be, but in the depths of the Scottish Borders Cat is isolated from the outside world, with no phone signal and no internet. Shes all alone in an ancient abbey alive with old secrets and a family who are not quite as they seem. Is real life about to become more terrifying than the world of her imagination?

Le corps du jeune Philip Carling est retrouvé dans un étang, à Oxford, quelques heures seulement après son mariage. Il a été battu à mort avant d’être jeté à l’eau. Charlotte Flint, psychiatre, a éga

Ein neuer Fall fur Carol Jordan und Tony Hill.Ein Unbekannter bringt Frauen um, die alle eine verbluffende Ahnlichkeit mit Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan haben. Eigentlich ein perfekter Fall fur sie und ihren Kollegen, den Profiler Tony Hill, doch Carol hat gerade ihren Job hingeschmissen. Der brutale Mord an ihrem Bruder und dessen Frau hat sie in eine Krise gesturzt. Sie wirft Tony vor, diese Bluttat nicht vorhergesehen zu haben, und will nichts mehr mit ihm zu tun haben. Als der Verdacht schlielich sogar auf Tony fallt, beginnen die Ereignisse sich zu uberschlagen...

Grièvement blessé par un dément, le profileur Tony Hill doit en sus affronter la rapacité de sa redoutable mère, tandis que Carol Jordan est chargée d'élucider une série de mystérieux empoisonnements. La première victime, vedette du football-club de Bradfield, déchaîne l'hystérie des foules. Quelque temps plus tard une bombe explose un jour de match... Des terroristes ? Malgré sa faiblesse, seul Tony Hill sera capable de faire le lien entre ces affaires apparemment distinctes. Étonnamment excitant, horriblement bon. Ruth Rendell

Bradfield steht unter Schock. Zuerst wird der Star des Erstliga-Clubs Bradfield Victoria vergiftet. Kurz darauf kommen bei einem Bombenanschlag auf das Fußballstadion Dutzende von Menschen ums Leben. Die Wahnsinnstat eines Terroristen? Oder vielleicht etwas noch Unheimlicheres? Carol Jordan und ihr Major Incident Team (MIT) stehen unter großem Druck, denn die Boulevardpresse wartet mit immer neuen Spekulationen auf und heizt die Stimmung in der Öff entlichkeit an. Aber Dr. Tony Hill liegt nach der Attacke eines Psychopathen, der ihn mit einem Beil schwer verletzte, im Krankenhaus. Als ein zweiter Giftmord geschieht, müssen die beiden alles daransetzen, einen Killer zu stellen, über den sie so gut wie nichts wissen ...

'You should have been a detective. If there's one thing the last year has proved, it's how good you are at finding things out. Not simple things. Hard things. Things that nobody is supposed to be able to find out. Things that are buried so deep nobody even thinks twice about them. The sort of things that turn people's lives inside out once they're exposed.' Meet Tony Hill's most twisted adversary - a killer with a shopping list of victims, a killer unmoved by youth and innocence, a killer driven by the most perverted of desires. The murder and mutilation of teenager Jennifer Maidment is horrific enough on its own. But it's not long before Tony realises it's just the start of a brutal and ruthless campaign that's targeting an apparently unconnected group of young people. Struggling with the newly-awakened ghosts of his own past and desperate for distraction in his work, Tony battles to find the answers that will give him personal and professional satisfaction in his most testing investigation yet.

Il n'a pas voulu de moi. Je ne demandais qu'à lui donner de l'amour, mais il a refusé tout ce que je lui offrais. C'est à ce moment-là que les meurtres ont commencé à Bradfield. Les flics ont même demandé l'aide d'un profileur, sous prétexte qu'ils n'ont jamais rencontré un tel tueur en série. A Bradfield, personne n'avait jamais eu peur. Je ne voulais que les aimer, mais ils ont eu peur de moi, parce qu'ils ne me connaissaient pas. Ils ont eu tort. Ils ont eu tous eu tort d'hésiter.

St Andrews, un coin paisible d'Ecosse. Cette nuit-là, pourtant, un cadavre atrocement mutilé y est découvert par une bande d'étudiants éméchés : celui de Rosie, barmaid. Instantanément dégrisés, les jeunes gens alertent l police. Sans se douter que tout les accable : chacun d'eux n'avait-il pas un motif secret d'en vouloir à une fille aussi séduisante ? Faute de preuve, ils restent libres. Sauf que les frères de la victime, eux, sont bien décidés à les faire payer. Et le temps n'y changera rien, même si, trente ans plus tard, de nouvelles techniques d'investigation permettent d'espérer que la justice aura enfin le dernier mot. Une seule solution : mener l'enquête soi-même. Quitte à affronter la folie d'un tueur.

''That day, waiting had been almost unbearable. He wanted something more spectacular, something that couldn''t be ignored. These deaths needed to make a mark ...'' Psychological profiler Tony Hill is trained to see patterns, to decode the mysteries of human behaviour, and when he comes across a series of suicides among women tormented by vicious online predators, he begins to wonder if there is more to these tragedies than meets the eye. Similar circumstances, different deaths. Could it be murder? But what kind of serial killer wants his crimes to stay hidden? Former DCI Carol Jordan has her own demons to confront, but with lives at stake, Tony and Carol begin the hunt for the most dangerous and terrifying kind of killer - someone who has nothing to fear and nothing to lose ...

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