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A terrifying accident leaves Alex Mullins grappling with survival after a fatal coach crash at her school reunion claims the lives of several classmates. Although she escaped a grisly fate, she is haunted by a vision of a skeletal woman known as the Bonehead, who is said to bring misfortune to those who see her. Now a police officer in Gloucestershire, Alex strives to move past the trauma by helping others. However, her life begins to unravel when she encounters someone from that fateful night. As she delves deeper into the mystery of the crash, she must confront the truth of what happened and what it will take for the Bonehead to finally leave her alone. This new crime thriller promises to terrify, showcasing the author's masterful ability to shock and surprise. With a blend of forensic detail, thrills, and poetic imagery, the narrative captivates from the first page. Critics have praised the writing for its haunting and lyrical quality, describing it as both disturbing and important. Prepare for a gripping journey filled with suspense and a chilling exploration of fear and survival.

THE FINAL NOVEL FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER MO HAYDER, WITH A FOREWORD FROM KARIN SLAUGHTER

SAND. A hostile world of burning sun. Outlines of several once-busy cities shimmer on the horizon. Now empty of inhabitants, their buildings lie in ruins. In the distance a group of people - a family - walk towards us. Ahead lies shelter- a 'shuck' the family call home and which they know they must reach before the light fails, as to be out after dark is to invite danger and almost certain death. To survive in this alien world of shifting sand, they must find an object hidden in or near water. But other families want it too. And they are willing to fight to the death to make it theirs. It is beginning to rain in Fairfax County, Virginia when McKenzie Strathie wakes up. An ordinary teenage girl living an ordinary life - except that the previous night she found a sand-lizard in her bed, and now she's beginning to question everything around her, especially who she really is ... Two very different worlds featuring a group of extraordinary characters driven to the very limit of their endurance in a place where only the strongest will survive.

Een pathologe en een rechercheur proberen de brute moord op twee nonnen op te lossen door verband te veronderstellen met een zaak aan de andere kant van de wereld.

The sensational new Jack Caffery thriller from Mo Hayder, bestselling author of Gone and Poppet. Who's afraid?I believe, from what I can hear, that either my daughter or my wife has just been attacked. I don't know the outcome. The house is silent. Fourteen years ago two teenage lovers were brutally murdered in a patch of remote woodland. The…

The patients at Beechway High Secure Unit are terrified. Unexplained power cuts have lead to a series of horrifying incidents. And now fear has spread from the inmates to the staff. DI Jack Caffery is called to investigate, whilst working the most impossible case of his life. Will he be able to stare pure evil in the eye, and survive?

Le corps de Lorn Wood, ado populaire, vient d'être retrouvé au milieu des bois. Son meurtrier s'est acharné. La police suspecte qu'au moment de la tuer, il lui a coincé une balle de tennis dans la bouche pour l'empêcher de hurler. Depuis cette découverte, Sally ne dort plus: Millie, sa fille de 15 ans, connaissait Lorn... Comme tout le monde de la petite ville de Bath. D'ailleurs, c'est Zoé, la sieur de Sally, qui enquête sur le crime. La descente aux enfers sera collective. Version française de "Hanging Hill"

What if you found yourself divorced, penniless and with a teenage daughter to support? What if the only way to survive was to do thing you never thought possible? These are the questions Sally has never really thought about before. Until now. Her sister Zoe is a detective inspector working out of Bath Central. No one would guess that she hide a crippling secret that date back twenty years, and which - if exposed - may destroy her. -- back cover

Night is falling in the West Country as murder detective Jack Caffrey arrives to interview the distraught victim of a car-jacking. What he hears horrifies him. The car was taken by force, and on the back seat was a passenger. An eleven-year-old girl. Who is still missing. Before long the jacker starts to communicate with the police. And Caffrey becomes certain that he is planning to take another car. And another child. Who is the car-jacker? How is he choosing his targets? And - most urgent of all - can Caffrey find where the child has been hidden? Before it's too late ...

When the decomposed body of a young woman is found by near railway tracks just outside Bristol one hot May morning, all indications are that she's committed suicide. That's how the police want it too; all neatly squared and tidied away. But DI Jack Caffery is not so sure. He is on the trail of someone predatory, someone who hides in the shadows and can slip into houses unseen.And for the first time in a very long time, he feels scared.Police Diver Flea Marley is working alongside Caffery.Having come to terms with the loss of her parents, and with the traumas of her past safely behind her, she's beginning to wonder whether their relationship could go beyond the professional. And then she finds something that changes everything. Not only is it far too close to home for comfort - but it's so horrifying that she knows that nothing will ever be the same again.And that this time, no one - not even Caffery - can help her ...

Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand. The fact that there's no body attached is disturbing enough. Yet more disturbing is the discovery, a day later, of the matching hand. Both have been recently amputated, and the indications are that the victim was still alive when they were removed. DI Jack Caffery has been newly seconded to the Major Crime Investigation Unit in Bristol. He and Flea soon establish that the hands belong to a boy who has recently disappeared. Their search for him - and for his abductor - lead them into the darkest recesses of Bristol's underworld, where drug addiction is rife, where street-kids sell themselves for a hit, and where an ancient evil lurks; an evil that feeds off the blood - and flesh - of others ...

Joe è un giornalista investigativo specializzato nello smascherare gli imbroglioni di mezzo mondo: guaritori filippini, zombie e statue della Vergine che grondano latte. Scettico fino al midollo, certo che ci sia una spiegazione logica per qualunque avvenimento soprannaturale, quando sente parlare di un mostro mezzo uomo e mezzo bestia su un'isoletta della costa scozzese, non può che partire, convinto che saprà dare una risposta alle mille domande che affollano la sua mente. Perché la comunità è stata accusata di satanismo? Che fine ha fatto il loro capo con la sua setta di fanatici adoratori che lui stesso aveva contribuito a sgominare? E cos'è quella strana creatura di cui nessuno vuole parlare, avvistata sulle spiagge dell'isola? Un essere infelice, un ibrido, una vittima o il parto di una mente malata?

Student Grey Hutchins has come to Tokyo because of an obsession. Vulnerable and on the edge, she is searching for a fragment of film supposedly taken during the notorious Nanking Massacre in 1937 when the Japanese murdered 300,000 civilians. Some say the film doesn't exist. The only man who can help is a survivor of the Massacre. He works at the university, immersed in his books and wary of strangers, he will at first have nothing to do with Grey. Increasingly desperate and alone in this alien city, she accepts a hostess job at an exclusive nightspot catering for businessmen and gangsters and it is there she comes to the attention of one particular man. Ancient, wheel-chair bound and guarded by a terrifying nurse, it is rumoured he relies on a strange elixir for his continued well-being - an elixir others want, at any price. It is from here that will Grey unearth the horror that links the present with the past... With its heady atmosphere of overt violence, lurking fear and sexual tension, TOKYO grabs the reader and refuses to let go until its shattering final pages.

I bambini lo chiamano troll. Ma chi dà retta ai bambini? Certamente non la polizia, che pure è impegnata nelle indagini su Rory Peach, nove anni, tenuto prigioniero in casa sua per tre giorni e poi scomparso nel nulla. Le speranze di ritrovare vivo Rory sono pochissime. Ma che cos'è accaduto veramente nella casa dei Peach? Per il detective Jack Caffrey molte, troppe cose non tornano e quando Rory viene ritrovato cadavere in cima a un albero del parco vicino a casa sua, risolvere il caso Peach diventa per lui una ossessione.

In un'area industriale semi abbandonata della periferia londinese vengono scoperti i cadaveri di cinque donne mutilate e seviziate. Scattano immediatamente le indagini che vengono affidate al giovane ispettore Jack Caffery. Egli comprende all'istante che i delitti sono opera di un maniaco:le vittime sono state infatti sottoposte a procedure chirurgiche amatoriali per la riduzione del seno e sono state pettinate e truccate in modo da ricordare delle bambole. La morte tuttavia non è stata causata dalle orrende ferite, bensì da un'iniezione letale; inoltre il killer ha inserito nel petto delle vittime e cucito accanto al cuore un uccellino vivo, simbolo e firma del suo macabro operato.