Val McDermid

Terrifying psychological chiller featuring clinical psychologist Tony Hill of The Mermaids Singing and The Wire in the Blood. A twisted killer targeting psychologists has left a grisly trail across Europe. Dr Tony Hill, expert at mapping the minds of murderers, is reluctant to get involved. But then the next victim is much closer to home! Meanwhile, his former partner, DCI Carol Jordan, is working undercover in Berlin, on a dangerous operation to trap a millionaire traffiker. When the game turns nasty, Tony is the only person she can call on for help. Confronting a cruelty that has its roots in Nazi atrocities, Tony and Carol are thrown together in a world of violence and corruption, where they have no one to trust but each other.

Traumatisée par un viol récent, Carol Jordan dirige une nouvelle brigade d'élite où chacun, la sachant fragilisée, met en doute ses capacités. Sa première enquête la conduit à traquer un violeur particulièrement pervers, pour qui rien n'est plus exquis que la souffrance des autres. L'aide de Tony Hill, psychologue profiteur, lui sera indispensable pour démêler une intrigue qui repose sur la manipulation mentale. La reine incontestée du thriller psychologique joue avec nos nerfs dans un suspense démoniaque.

The Number One bestselling crime series featuring Dr Tony Hill, hero of TVs Wire in the Blood. The award-winning Val McDermid is at the height of her powers in this tense masterclass in psychological

The Number One bestselling crime series featuring Dr Tony Hill, hero of TVs Wire in the Blood, written by the award-winning Val McDermid. The hunt for a serial killer leads from Britain through Europe in this terrifying psychological thriller.

The Number One bestselling crime series featuring Tony Hill, hero of TVs Wire in the Blood, written by the award-winning Val McDermid. This is a psychological thriller - and serial killer - that will

The award-winning and Number One bestselling Val McDermid crafts an electrifying psychological suspense thriller that mixes history, heritage and heinous crimes. A 200 year-old-secret is now a matter of life and death. And it could be worth a fortune. It's summer in the Lake District and heavy rain over the fells has uncovered a bizarrely tattooed body. Could it be linked to the old rumour that Fletcher Christian, mutinous First Mate on the Bounty, had secretly returned to England? Scholar Jane Gresham wants to find out. She believes that the Lakeland poet William Wordsworth, a friend of Christian's, may have sheltered the fugitive and turned his tale into an epic poem - which has since disappeared. But as she follows each lead, death is hard on her heels. The centuries-old mystery is putting lives at risk. And it isn't just the truth that is waiting to be discovered, but a bounty worth millions ...

Stephanie Harker franchit les contrôles de sécurité à l'aéroport quand elle voit son fils, devant elle, se faire embarquer par un homme en uniforme. Prise de panique, elle sonne l'alerte. Mais les au

''There were a lot of things that ran in families, but murder wasn''t one of them...''When a teenage joyrider crashes a stolen car, a routine DNA test could be the key to unlocking the mystery of a twenty-year-old murder inquiry. Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is an expert at solving the unsolvable. With each cold case closed, justice is served. So, finding the answer should be straightforward, but it''s as twisted as the DNA helix itself.Meanwhile, Karen finds herself irresistibly drawn to another case, one that she has no business investigating. And as she pieces together decades-old evidence, Karen discovers the most dangerous kind of secrets. Secrets that someone is willing to kill for...Number one bestseller Val McDermid returns with her most atmospheric, spine-chilling and gripping novel to date.

When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands, DCI Karen Pirie finds herself in the right place at the right time. Unearthed with someone's long-buried inheritance, the victim seems to belong to the distant past - until new evidence suggests otherwise, and Karen is called in to unravel a case where nothing is as it seems.

Une série de suicides attire l'attention du profiler Toni Hill : les défuntes sont toutes des femmes ayant revendiqué leur engagement féministe sur Internet, et elles ont toutes été victimes de cyber harcèlement. Mais ces suicides en sont-ils vraiment ? Quel genre de tueur en série chercherait a camoufler ainsi ses crimes ? Et que signifient les livres de Sylvia Plath et de Virginia Woolf retrouvés a leurs côtés ? L'enquête s'avère vertigineuse et Toni Hill est amené a refaire équipe avec Carol Jordan, encore fragilisée par ses propres démons. Avec l'aide d'une hackeuse de génie, ils se lancent a la poursuite d'un tueur obsessionnel qui n'a plus rien a perdre. Dans Les Suicidées, Val McDermid reforme son duo de choc et signe un polar a vous glacer le sang, aux enjeux plus contemporains que jamais.

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 ...

Contains many Dickensian themes poverty desperation fear temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of adversity This book features some of the characters such as Oliver himself Who dares to ask for more the tyrannical Bumble the diabolical Fagin the menacing Bill Sikes Nancy and the Artful Dodger

Karen Pirie returns in a thrilling new novel from the internationally bestselling Val McDermid.Edinburgh, haunted by the ghosts of its many writers, is also the cold case beat of DCI Karen Pirie. So she shouldn't be surprised when an author's manuscript appears to be a blueprint for an actual crime.Karen can't ignore the plot's chilling similarities to the unsolved case of an Edinburgh University student who vanished from her own doorstep. The manuscript seems to be the key to unlocking what happened to Lara Hardie, but there's a problem: the author died before he finished it.As Karen digs deeper, she uncovers a spiralling game of betrayal and revenge, where lies are indistinguishable from the truth and with more than one unexpected twist . . .The Queen of Crime Val McDermid is at the top of her game in her most gripping and fiendishly clever case yet.

''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.

Powerful and atmospheric psychological thriller from the multi-award-winning Val McDermid: 'McDermid's capacity to enter the warped mind of a deviant criminal is shiveringly convincing' The Times SOME THINGS JUST WON'T LET YOU GO The past, for instance. That night in the cemetery. The girl's body in the snow, her blood scarlet against the white ground! Four a.m. on a freezing Fife morning and four drunken students stumble upon the body of a woman lying in the snow. Rosie has been raped, stabbed and left for dead in an ancient Pictish cemetery. And the only suspects are the four young men now stained with her blood. Twenty-five years later the police mount a 'cold case' review of Rosie's unsolved murder and the four are still suspects. But when one of them dies in a suspicious house fire and another in a burglary gone bad, it seems that someone is pursuing their own brand of justice. For the remaining two there is only one way to avoid becoming the next victim -- find out who really killed Rosie all those years ago!