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Hailed as the "king of sleaze," tabloid editor Dennis Luxford is used to ferreting out the sins and scandals of people in exposed positions. But when he opens an innocuous-looking letter addressed to him at The Source, he discovers that someone else excels at ferreting out secrets as well. Ten-year-old Charlotte Bowen has been abducted, and if Luxford does not admit publicly to having fathered her, she will die. But Charlotte''s existence is Luxford''s most fiercely guarded secret, and acknowledging her as his child will throw more than one life and career into chaos. Luxford knows that the story of Charlotte''s paternity could make him a laughingstock and reveal to his beautiful wife and son the lie he''s lived for a decade. Yet it''s not only Luxford''s reputation that''s on the line: it''s also the reputationand careerof Charlotte Bowen''s mother. For she is Undersecretary of State for the Home Office, one of the most high-profile Junior Ministers and quite possibly the next Margaret Thatcher. Knowing that her political future hangs in the balance, Eve Bowen refuses to let Luxford damage her career by printing the story or calling the police. So the editor turns to forensic scientist Simon St. James for help. It''s a case that fills St. James with disquiet, however, for none of the players in the drama seem to react the way one would expect. Then tragedy occurs and New Scotland Yard becomes involved. Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley soon discovers that the case sends tentacles from London into the countryside, and he must simultaneously outfox death as he probes Charlotte Bowen''s mysterious disappearance. Meanwhile, his partner Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, working part of the investigation on her own and hoping to make the coup of her career, may be drawing closer to a grim solutionand to dangerthan anyone knows.

When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help from the lad''s housemaster, who also happens to be an old school chum. Thus, the inspector, his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, and forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James find themselves once again outside their jurisdiction and deeply involved in the search for a childand then, tragically, for a child killer. Questioning prefects, teachers, and pupils closest to the dead boy, Lynley and Havers sense that something extraordinarily evil is going on behind Bredgar Chambers''s cloistered walls. But as they begin to unlock the secrets of this closed society, the investigation into Matthew''s death leads them perilously close to their own emotional woundsand blinds them to the signs of another murder in the making....

Teo, una donna di origine nigeriana che lavorava per la polizia di Londra, ha cessato da poco di respirare. Una morte apparentemente inspiegabile, finché l'autopsia non rivela il trauma letale causato da un gesto omicida, oltre a un'ombra cupa che risale al suo passato. È stato questo passato a tenderle una trappola fatale, o la sua tragica fine e legata al difficile caso al quale era impegnata sotto copertura? E se le due cose fossero collegate? Solo due giorni prima della morte Teo aveva litigato furiosamente con la sorella, Rosie, che sembra sapere molto piu di quanto riveli. Cosa o chi cerca di nascondere? Sono i dubbi tra i quali si dibattono il sovrintendente Thomas Lynley, il sergente Barbara Havers e Winston Nkata, alle prese con l'indagine forse piu complessa e delicata della loro carriera. Un percorso a ostacoli tra omissioni, pressioni indebite e falsi indizi, le menzogne e i segreti di una comunita solo in apparenza unita e solidale, che nasconde sotto la superficie terribili verita e consuetudini crudeli.

George ist spannender!Bernard Fairclough ist das Oberhaupt einer wohlhabenden und einflussreichen Familie, die ihren Sitz im Lake District hat. Nichts ist ihm wichtiger, als jeden Makel, der die schone Fassade beschadigen konnte, zu vermeiden. Als sein Neffe eines Tages tot im See aufgefunden wird, erklart die ortliche Polizei schnell, dass es sich um einen Unfall handelt. Fairclough, der dennoch jeden Verdacht ausraumen will, engagiert Inspector Thomas Lynley von New Scotland Yard. Und wie dieser schon bald entdeckt, gibt es einige Familienmitglieder, die einen Grund gehabt hatten, Ian Cresswell Boses zu wollen. Zusammen mit seiner Kollegin Barbara Havers in London kommt er den Geheimnissen der Faircloughs Schritt fur Schritt naher und entdeckt dabei hinter der Fassade das Trummerfeld ...

Late summer on Whidbey Island after nine weeks of no rain and fire season has arrived ...along with a fire starter who soon begins tormenting the residents of this peaceful Pacific Northwest idyll with fires that escalate in intensity. Becca King and her friends Jenn and Derric are with her at the county fair when the third fire starts in a shed housing animals. The shed is destroyed, some of the animals are killed, and Becca hears from the nearby forest the 'whispers' of the fire starter who has remained to watch the havoc. More fires ensue and the situation escalates until someone dies. Becca thinks she knows who's behind it all, but only with the help of her friends and the development of her own incipient psychic talents can the perpetrator be brought to justice.

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Fat, unlovely Roberta Teys is found beside her father's headless corpse, wearing her best dress and with an axe in her lap. Her first words are: 'I did it. And I am not sorry' and she refuses to say more. Inspector Thomas Lynley and DS Barbara Havers are sent by Scotland Yard to solve this particularly gruesome murder. And as they navigate their way around a dark labyrinth of secret scandals and appalling crimes, they uncover a series of shocking revelations that shatter the facade of the peaceful Yorkshire village.

Deborah and Simon St. James have taken a holiday in the winter landscape of Lancastershire, hoping to heal the growing rift in their marriage. But in the barren countryside awaits bleak news: The vicar of Wimslough, the man they had come to see, is deada victim of accidental poisoning. Unsatisfied with the inquest ruling and unsettled by the close association between the investigating constable and the woman who served the deadly meal, Simon calls in his old friend Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley. Together they uncover dark, complex relationships in this rural village, relationships that bring men and women together with a passion, with grief, or with the intention to kill. Peeling away layer after layer of personal history to reveal the torment of a fugitive spirit, Missing Joseph is award-winning author Elizabeth George's greatest achievement.

Eine Studentin der Universität Cambridge wird tot aufgefunden. Der Mord an der jungen Frau erschüttert die Akademikerwelt. Und nur einer wie Inspector Lynley ist imstande, die gefährlichen unterschwelligen Strömungen hinter den dunklen Collegemauern zu erfassen. Mit seiner Assistentin dringt er immer tiefer in die arrogante Männerwelt ein, in ein tödliches Gespinst aus bedingungsloser Liebe, falschem Stolz, uneingestandenen Schuldgefühlen und dem Bedürfnis nach Rache. Subtil und dabei höchst präzise inszeniert Elizabeth George Inspector Lynleys fünften Fall.01Die Amerikanerin Elizabeth George hatte von Jugend an ein ausgeprägtes Faible für die britische Krimitradition. Psychologische Raffinesse, präziser Spannungsaufbau und ein unfehlbarer Sinn für Dramatik charakterisieren ihre Bücher. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Anthony Award, dem Agatha Award und dem Grand Prix de Litérature Policière. Die Autorin lebt in Huntington Beach/Kalifornien.

Award-winning author Elizabeth George gives us an early glimpse into the lives of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James, and Lady Helen Clyde in a superlative mystery that is also a fascinating inquiry into the crimes of the heart. Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton, has brought to Howenstow, his family home, the young woman he has asked to be his bride. But the savage murder of a local journalist is the catalyst for a lethal series of events that shatters the calm of a picturesque Cornwall village and embroils Lynley and St. James in a case far outside their jurisdictionand a little too close to home. When a second death follows closely on the heels of the first, Lynley finds he can''t help taking the investigation personallybecause the evidence points to a killer within his own family.