On a stifling summer's
day, eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their broken-down
car, waiting for their mother to come back and rescue them. Jack's in charge, she said. I won't be long.
But she doesn't come back. She never comes back. And life as the children know it is changed for ever.
Three years later, mum-to-be Catherine wakes to find a knife beside her bed, and a note that says: I could have killed you.
ID: TH - 901
The dead can't speak to
us, Professor Madoc had said. But that was a lie. The body Patrick Fort
is examining in anatomy class is trying to tell him all kinds of
things. But no one hears what he does, and no one understands when he
tries to tell them.
Life is already strange enough for Patrick - being a
medical student with Asperger's Syndrome doesn't come without its
challenges. And that's before he is faced with solving a possible
murder, especially when no one believes a crime has even taken place. Now he must stay out of danger long enough to unravel the mystery.
But
as Patrick learns one truth from a dead man, he discovers there have
been many other lies closer to home.
ID: TH - 902
There’s no safety in numbers . . .
Eve Singer needs death. With her career as a TV crime reporter flagging, she’ll do anything to satisfy her ghoulish audience.
The killer needs death too. He even advertises his macabre public performances, where he hopes to show the whole world the beauty of dying.
When
he contacts Eve, she welcomes the chance to be first with the news from
every gory scene. Until she realizes that the killer has two
obsessions.
One is public murder.
And the other one is her . . .
ID: TH - 903
'Call your mother.'
'What do I say?'
'Say goodbye.'
This is how it begins.
Lone
women terrorised and their helpless families forced to watch - in a
sick game where only one player knows the rules. And when those rules
change, the new game is Murder.
Living with her parents in the
dank beach community of Limeburn, ten-year-old Ruby Trick has her own
fears. Bullies on the school bus, the forest crowding her house into the
sea, and the threat of divorce.
Helping her Daddy to catch the killer might be the key to keeping him close.
As long as the killer doesn't catch her first...
ID: TH - 904
'The most polished
crime writer on the murder beat . . . Exhausting, exhilarating and damn
scary, another 24-carat creation from the Queen of Thrills' Daily Express
Five footprints are the only sign that Daniel Buck was ever here.
Yesterday they were a family just like any other: Anna and James, and their little boy, Daniel.
But in one careless moment everything changed.
A front door accidentally left ajar . . . and Daniel was gone.
Now they are a pair of strangers who can't even look each other in the eye.
Distrust and unspoken words fill the void where their son used to be.
Anna
will go to any lengths to find Daniel - a four-year-old doesn't just
vanish into thin air. But how far will this desperate search push her?
Right to the brink.
And beyond.
ID: TH - 905
Twelve-year-old Steven
Lamb digs holes on Exmoor, hoping to find a body. Every day after
school, while his classmates swap football stickers, Steven goes digging
to lay to rest the ghost of the uncle he never knew, who disappeared
aged eleven and is assumed to have fallen victim to the notorious serial
killer Arnold Avery.
Only Steven's Nan is not convinced her son
is dead. She still waits for him to come home, standing bitter guard at
the front window while her family fragments around her. Steven is
determined to heal the widening cracks between them before it's too
late. And if that means presenting his grandmother with the bones of her
murdered son, he'll do it.
ID: TH - 906/1
In bleak midwinter, the
people of Shipcott are shocked by the murder of an elderly woman in her
bed. As snow cuts off the village, local policeman Jonas Holly is torn
between catching a brutal killer and protecting his vulnerable wife,
Lucy.
When the inquiry is commandeered by an abrasive senior
detective, Jonas finds himself derided by his colleagues and ashamed to
admit to Lucy that he’s been sidelined. It seems his first murder
investigation may be over before it’s begun. But when he receives a
series of increasingly sinister anonymous notes, Jonas is thrust back
into the center of the case.
Someone in the village is taunting him,
blaming him for the tragedy. Someone thinks he’s not doing his job;
someone seems to know every move he makes.
And soon Jonas has to ask: Who’s hunting who?
ID: TH - 906/2
The eight-year-old boy
had vanished from the car and - as if by slick, sick magic - had been
replaced by a note on the steering wheel ... 'You don't love him' ...
At
the height of summer a dark shadow falls across Exmoor. Children are
being stolen from cars. Each disappearance is marked only by a terse
note - a brutal accusation. There are no explanations, no ransom demands
... and no hope.
Policeman Jonas Holly faces a precarious
journey into the warped mind of the kidnapper if he's to stand any
chance of catching him. But - still reeling from a personal tragedy - is
Jonas really up to the task?
Because there's at least one person
on Exmoor who thinks that, when it comes to being the first line of
defence, Jonas Holly may be the last man to trust ...
ID: TH - 906/3
