Val McDermid returns with DCI Karen Pirie in a new thriller of deceit and vengeance, set against the disquiet and investigative challenges of a global pandemic.
THE SETTING The body of a bookseller is discovered, lying in a pool of blood in his Bristol bookshop. Police have one question: how did the man meet such a violent, murderous end in this peaceful place…
Bruno Courrèges, chef de la police municipale, est réveillé au milieu de la nuit: un incendie s'est déclaré dans un champ de céréales génétiquement modifiées. -------------------------------------- Beno…
When a murder is committed at a party given in honour of a famous writer-detective, the guests impersonate famous murderers and the victim is found hanging from a fake gallows erected as a joke. '
An eighty-year-old man is found murdered in his home. His age and standing in the community makes finding his killer difficult – why would anyone harm an elderly man? What threat could he possibly be …
To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldal…
