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Kate Marshall's detective agency takes off when she and her partner, Tristan, are hired to investigate a cold case from more than a decade ago. Twelve years previously, a determined young journalist called Joanna Duncan exposed a political scandal that had major repercussions. In the fallout she disappeared without trace and was never found. When Kate and her partner, Tristan, examine the case files, they find the trail long cold, but they discover the names of two young men who also vanished at that time.

Kate Marshall was a promising young police detective when she caught the notorious Nine Elms serial killer. But her greatest victory suddenly turned into a nightmare. Traumatized, betrayed, and publicly vilified for the shocking circumstances surrounding the cannibal murder case, Kate could only watch as her career ended in scandal. Fifteen years after those catastrophic events, Kate is still haunted by the unquiet ghosts of her troubled past. Now a lecturer at a small coastal English university, she finally has a chance to face them.

Criminology academic Kate Marshall is on a scuba jaunt with her son when they dive toward a shocking discovery: the body of a teenage boy entangled below the surface of the Shadow Sands reservoir. The detective chief inspector’s too-quick narrative of a tragic drowning doesn’t add up, and when Kate follows the evidence, it leads to a darker discovery.

It's 1985, and 18-year-old Coco Pinchard is home in London for Christmas after her first term at Aberystwyth University. She has started to write, and has fallen hopelessly in love with Daniel Pinchard, a devilishly handsome musician from the wrong side of the river. But Coco's overbearing mother has other plans and resumes her campaign for Coco to meet and marry the 'right sort of man', preferably Kenneth, son of her best friends Adrian and Yvonne Rosebury, who will be joining them for Christmas.

Natalie Love has worked hard to have it all. She runs a successful London theatre that's about to host one of Hollywood's leading stars, Ryan Harrison. She’s pretty sure she’s found her man in yoga boyfriend Benjamin, despite his annoying habit of saying Namaste! every time he speaks. And her eccentric, glamorous Hungarian gran is always on hand to offer sage advice and steaming bowls of goulash. Life in the bright lights of London has always been Natalie's escape from her chaotic family in rural Devon and Jamie, the childhood sweetheart she left at the altar fifteen years ago.

It's December 1992, and children are going crazy for the Tracy Island toy - almost as crazy as the parents! Christmas day is fast approaching and Coco Pinchard is desperately trying to track one down for her four-year-old son Rosencrantz. Throw into the mix a horrible boss, a lazy husband, and the prospect of her in-laws arriving for the festivities, and Coco wishes she could cancel Christmas and sail off to a desert island somewhere - preferably with the gorgeous-yet-unattainable Tom from work.

Since Coco Pinchard found first husband Daniel in bed with another woman, she hasn't just picked up the pieces: she's now a best-selling author married to her hunky soul-mate Adam. She feels stronger and wiser and surely the second time round she'll have learnt from her mistakes?

Coco Pinchard always dreamed of being a successful writer, but then life got in the way. She married young, had a son, and put her dreams on hold. But now she's 40, and her first novel is about to be published! Her husband Daniel has greyed nicely into a silver fox, and her son Rosencrantz is all grown up. Shouldn't it be time to enjoy life? That is, until the annual family Christmas when her hideous in-laws come to stay, and Coco opens her gift from Daniel. It's not the jewelry she chose, but an iPhone.

When Detective Erika Foster receives a tip-off that key evidence for a major narcotics case was stashed in a disused quarry on the outskirts of London, she orders for it to be searched. From the thick sludge the drugs are recovered, but so is the skeleton of a young child. The remains are quickly identified as seven-year-old Jessica Collins. The missing girl who made headline news 26 years ago.

After a tumultuous divorce, Coco Pinchard has found love with the gorgeous, hunky, four-years-younger-than-her-so-technically-a-toy-boy Adam. Her career as an author is finally a success, and she has fabulous friends in Christopher, a neurotic middle-aged socialite, and Marika, a slightly alcoholic dog walker.

Sie blickt mich an. Ihre Lippen sind geöffnet, als wollte sie etwas sagen. Doch ihr toter Körper liegt gefroren im Eis. Und sie ist nicht die einzige... Acht Monate sind vergangen seit Detective Erika Fosters letztem Einsatz, der in einer Katastrophe endete und ihrem Mann das Leben kostete. Doch es ist an der Zeit, nach vorn zu blicken. Die Tochter einer der mächtigsten Familien Londons wurde ermordet, und Erika setzt alles daran, den Schuldigen zu finden. Während sie noch gegen die Dämonen der Vergangenheit kämpft, rückt sie ins Visier eines gnadenlosen Killers.

In the dead of a swelteringly hot summer's night, Detective Erika Foster is called to a murder scene. The victim, a doctor, is found suffocated in bed. His wrists are bound and his eyes bulging through a clear plastic bag tied tight over his head. A few days later, another victim is found dead in exactly the same circumstances. As Erika and her team start digging deeper, they discover a calculated serial killer - stalking their victims before choosing the right moment to strike.

He's your perfect date. You're his next victim. When the tortured body of a young woman is found in a dumpster, her eyes swollen shut and her clothes soaked with blood, detective Erika Foster is one of the first at the crime scene. The trouble is, this time it's not her case.

When a battered suitcase containing the dismembered body of a young man washes up on the shore of the river Thames, Detective Erika Foster is shocked. She's worked on some terrifying cases but never seen anything like this before. As Erika and her team set to work, she makes the link with another victim - the body of a young woman dumped in an identical suitcase two weeks ago. Erika quickly realizes she's on the trail of a serial killer who's already made their next move.

On a cold icy morning, a mother wakes to find her daughter’s blood-soaked body frozen to the road. Who would carry out such a horrific killing on the victim’s doorstep? Straight off her last harrowing case, Detective Erika Foster is feeling fragile but determined to lead the investigation. As she sets to work, she finds reports of assaults in the same quiet South London suburb where the woman was killed. One chilling detail links them to the murder victim - they were all attacked by a figure in black wearing a gas mask.

Offret är en ung, adlig societetsskönhet som tycks ha levt ett avundsvärt liv. Men när Erika börjar gräva sig in i fallet upptäcker hon kopplingar till tre tidigare mord på prostituerade kvinnor som alla hittats strypta med bundna händer och slängda som sopor i vattendrag runt London. Vilka mörka hemligheter dolde flickan i isen?Erikas senaste fall slutade med en katastrof som ledde till flera polisers död. En av dem var hennes man.

Kate Marshall is een sterke vrouwelijke hoofdpersoon à la Erika Foster en Helen Grace. Zestien jaar geleden was Kate Marshall een veelbelovende jonge politiedetective bij de Londense politie. Tot ze de opdracht kreeg een seriemoordenaar op te sporen, en hij haar eerst vond. Kate's carrière eindigde in een schandaal en ze bleef getraumatiseerd, verraden en publiekelijk vernederd achter. Jaren later worstelt Kate nog steeds met de gevolgen als ze de kans krijgt haar verleden recht te zetten. Er lijkt een copycat-moordenaar actief die het afgrijselijke werk van zijn idool voortzet.

Voor de fans van Karin Slaughter en M.J. Arlidge. Op een ijzig koude ochtend vindt een moeder het met bloed doordrenkte lichaam van haar dochter vastgevroren op de weg. Wie zou zo'n gruwelijke moord voor de deur van het slachtoffer uitvoeren? Detective Erika Foster, net bekomen van haar vorige zaak, is vastbesloten om ook deze zaak te leiden. Tijdens het onderzoek stuit ze op diverse aanvallen op jonge vrouwen in een doorgaans rustige buitenwijk van Londen.

De koffer was zwaar verroest. Erika Foster hield stug vol en uiteindelijk gaf hij mee. Maar de inhoud van de koffer overtrof haar ergste nachtmerries. Wanneer een gehavende koffer met het verminkte lichaam van een jonge man aan de oever van de Theems aanspoelt, is zelfs rechercheur Erika Foster geschokt. Ze heeft al heel wat gruwelen voorbij zien komen in haar leven, maar dit heeft ze nooit eerder gezien. Terwijl Erika en haar team de zaak voorbereiden leggen ze de link met een ander slachtoffer, een jonge vrouw die twee weken eerder in een vergelijkbaar type koffer werd gevonden.

Wanneer inspecteur Erika Foster een tip krijgt dat er bewijsmateriaal voor een grote narcoticazaak verstopt ligt in een ongebruikte groeve in een buitenwijk van Londen, gaat ze direct tot een zoekactie over. In de dikke modder worden inderdaad drugs gevonden, maar ook het skelet van een kind. De overblijfselen worden snel geïdentificeerd als de zevenjarige Jessica Collins: het vermiste meisje dat zesentwintig jaar geleden overal in het nieuws was.