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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 ...

Hanté par le souvenir d'humiliations subies durant son enfance, un marinier sillonne les canaux d'Europe du Nord en quête d'une impossible revanche qui le conduit au meurtre. Au même moment, Carol Jordan, agent de liaison Europol, arrive à Berlin. Elle a pour mission d'infiltrer un réseau de drogue et de démanteler un trafic de clandestins, en usant de son extraordinaire ressemblance avec la maîtresse du gangster qui les contrôle. Mais trois meurtres au scénario pervers, commis en Allemagne et en Hollande, l'entraînent sur la piste d'un serial killer. Carol saute sur l'occasion pour reprendre contact avec Tony Hill, l'as du profilage britannique, et le persuader de sortir de sa retraite.

A killer is on the loose, blurring the line between fact and fiction. His prey - the writers of crime novels who have turned psychological profilers into the heroes of the nineties. But this killer is like no other. His bloodlust shatters all the conventional wisdom surrounding the motives and mechanics of how serial killers operate. And for one woman, the desperate hunt to uncover his identity becomes a matter of life and death. Professor Fiona Cameron is an academic psychologist who uses computer technology to help police forces track serial offenders. She used to help the Met, but vowed never to work for them again when they went against her advice and badly screwed up an investigation as a consequence. Still smarting from the experience, she's working a case in Toledo when her lover, thriller writer Kit Martin, tells her a fellow crime novelist has been murdered. It's not her case, but Fiona can't help taking an interest. Which is just as well, because before too long the killer strikes again. And again. And Fiona is caught up in a race against time, not only to save a life, but to bring herself redemption, both personal and professional. Rich in atmosphere, Killing the Shadows uses the backdrops of city and country to create an air of threatening menace, culminating in a tense confrontation between hunter and hunted, a confrontation that can have only one outcome.

The Torment of Others.On a blood-soaked mattress lies a dead prostitute, her limbs spread in a parody of ecstasy, panic and pain etched in her face. The scene matches in every detail a series of murders two years ago - murders that ended when irrefutable forensic evidence secured the conviction of Derek Tyler. But there's no way Tyler could have killed the latest victim. He's been locked up in a mental institution since his trial, barely speaking a word. So is there a copycat? All his years of experience tell top criminal psychologist Dr. Tony Hill that there isn't - but that would make the murders literally impossible. While Hill tries to crack Tyler, DCI Carol Jordan and her team mount a desperate undercover operation to trap the murderer - a decision that will have terrible consequences.

It was a winter morning in 1978, that the body of a young barmaid was discovered in the snow banks of a Scottish cemetery. The only suspects in her brutal murder were the four young men who found her: Alex Gilbey and his three best friends. With no evidence but her blood on their hands, no one was ever charged. Twenty five years later, the Cold Case file on Rosie Duff has been reopened. For Alex and his friends, the investigation has also opened old wounds, haunting memories-and new fears. For a stranger has emerged from the shadows with his own ideas about justice. And revenge. When two of Alex's friends die under suspicious circumstances, Alex knows that he and his innocent family are the next targets. And there's only way to save them: return to the cold-blooded past and uncover the startling truth about the murder. For there lies the identity of an avenging killer...

'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 ...

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. Mai

'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.

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

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!

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...

After a night of drinking, four college friends happen upon a woman all four know who has been raped and left for dead. When the woman does in fact die, the four friends are all questioned as suspects, but released for lack of evidence. A quarter of a century later, the police reopen the investigation in the hopes that the dramatic improvements in forensic detection will help crack the case, and the four friends slowly find their lives, both in the past and in the present, meticulously deconstructed and laid bare.

Terrifying psychological chiller featuring clinical psychologist Tony Hill of The Mermaids Singing and Wire in the Blood. 'There is no one in contemporary crime fiction who has managed to combine the visceral and the humane as well as Val McDermid ...She's the best we've got' New York Times 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.

Invierno de 1963, dos adolescentes desaparecen en Manchester. Poco después, en una aldea perdida de Derbyshire, desaparece Alison Carter,otra jovencita de trece años. Para el inspector George Bennet es el principio de un caso terriblemente angustioso: un crimen sin cadaver, un misterio indescibrable entre personajes impenetrables cuyos secretos muy bien guardados no salen a la luz hasta muchos años mas tarde.