検索キーワード： 著者 "Angela Marsons" すべてのカテゴリー

Quando, durante uno scavo archeologico, vengono rinvenute alcune ossa umane, uno sperduto campo della Black Country si trasforma improvvisamente nella complessa scena di un crimine per la detective Kim Stone. Non appena le ossa vengono esaminate diventa chiaro che i resti appartengono a più di una vittima. E testimoniano un orrore inimmaginabile: ci sono tracce di fori di proiettile e persino di tagliole da caccia. Costretta a lavorare fianco a fianco con il detective Travis, con il quale condivide un passato che preferirebbe dimenticare, Kim comincia a investigare sulle famiglie.

When Detective Kim Stone is called to the home of Samantha Brown, she finds the young woman lying in bed with her throat cut and a knife in her hand. With no sign of forced entry or struggle, Kim rules her death a tragic suicide. But a visit to Samantha’s parents rings alarm bells for Kim - there’s something they’re not telling her. And, when she spots a clue in a photograph, Kim realizes she’s made a huge mistake. Samantha didn’t take her own life, she was murdered.

In the darkness of a cold December morning, Detective Kim Stone steps through the doors of Halesowen Police Station. She’s about to meet her team for the first time. When the body of a young man is found beheaded and staked to the ground in a secluded area of the Clent Hills, Kim and her new squad rush to the crime scene. This audio edition includes exclusive bonus content.

Late one summer evening, Detective Kim Stone arrives at Haden Hill Park to the scene of a horrific crime: a woman in her 60s tied to a swing with barbed wire and an X carved into the back of her neck. The victim, Belinda Evans, was a retired college professor of child psychology. As Kim and her team search her home, they find an overnight bag packed and begin to unravel a complex relationship between Belinda and her sister Veronica.

On the fourth floor of Chaucer House, two teenagers are found chained to a radiator. The boy is dead but the girl is alive. For Detective Kim Stone every detail of the scene mirrors her own terrifying experience with her brother Mikey, when they lived in the same tower block 30 years ago. When the bodies of a middle-aged couple are discovered in a burnt-out car, Kim can’t ignore the chilling similarity to the deaths of Erica and Keith - the only loving parents Kim had ever known.

When the body of a doctor is discovered brutally murdered in local woodland, Detective Kim Stone is shocked to discover the victim is Gordon Cordell - a man linked to a previous case she worked on involving the death of a young schoolgirl. Gordon has a chequered past, but who would want him dead? As the investigation gets underway, Gordon’s son is involved in a horrific car crash which leaves him fighting for his life. Kim's sure this was no accident.

When nine-year-old best friends Charlie and Amy disappear, two families are plunged into a living nightmare. A text message confirms the unthinkable; that the girls are the victims of a terrifying kidnapping. And when a second text message pits the two families against each other for the life of their children, the clock starts ticking for D.I. Kim Stone and the squad.

A victim killed with a single, precise stab to the heart appears at first glance to be a robbery gone wrong. A caring, upstanding social worker lost to a senseless act of violence. But for Detective Kim Stone, something doesn't add up. When a local drug addict is found murdered with an identical wound, Kim knows instinctively that she is dealing with the same killer. But with nothing to link the two victims except the cold, calculated nature of their death, this could be her most difficult case yet.

When a collection of human bones is unearthed during a routine archaeological dig, a Black Country field suddenly becomes a complex crime scene for Detective Kim Stone. As the bones are sorted, it becomes clear that the grave contains more than one victim. The bodies hint at unimaginable horror, bearing the markings of bullet holes and animal traps. Forced to work alongside Detective Travis, with whom she shares a troubled past, Kim begins to uncover a dark, secretive relationship between the families who own the land in which the bodies were found.

When a rapist is found mutilated in a brutal attack, Detective Kim Stone and her team are called in to bring a swift resolution. But, as more vengeful killings come to light, it soon becomes clear that there is someone far more sinister at work.

They thought they were safe. They were wrong. The murder of a young prostitute and a baby found abandoned on the same winter night signals the start of a disturbing investigation for Detective Kim Stone - one which brings her face to face with someone from her own horrific childhood. As more sex workers are murdered in quick succession, each death more violent than the last, Kim and her team realize that the initial killing was no one-off frenzied attack, but a twisted serial killer preying on the vulnerable.

When teenager Sadie Winter jumps from the roof of her school, her death is ruled as suicide - a final devastating act from a troubled girl. But then the broken body of a young boy is discovered at the same school and it’s clear to Detective Kim Stone that these deaths are not tragic accidents. As Kim and her team begin to unravel a dark web of secrets, one of the teachers could hold the key to the truth. Yet just as she is about to break her silence, she is found dead.

When Detective Kim Stone and her team are sent to Westerley, a forensic research facility, they discover the body of a young woman, her mouth filled with soil. But she doesn’t belong there. It seems a killer has discovered the perfect cover for their crime. Kim breaks the devastating news of Jemima’s murder to her parents, who speak of a gentle soul with no enemies. Yet when Jemima’s sister confides in Kim that she was afraid to leave the house, Kim is certain that Jemima knew her killer, and is determined to find this brutal murderer before he strikes again.

Three sisters. Three childhoods ruined. One chance to heal the scars of the past. After their death of their cruel and abusive mother, estranged sisters Alex, Catherine and Beth reunite once again.

Kit Mason has lived a life of unimaginable pain. An ex-prostitute, she has fled the clutches of an abusive pimp and now finds herself living hand to mouth in a new city, without anyone to help her. Frances Thornton seems to be living the perfect life. A lawyer from a privileged background, her perfect façade hides the painful secrets that still haunt her.

En tidigare dömd våldtäktsman hittas brutalt knivskuren till döds och kommissarie Kim Stone kallas in för att snabbt lösa fallet. Det som först ser ut att vara en hämnd visar sig vara något långt mer kalkylerat och ondskefullt. Undersökningen tar fart parallellt som arbetet med att avslöja en pedofilring pågår, men Kim inser också att hon är måltavla för en sjuk människas livsfarliga experiment med mänskliga offer. I en kraftmätning mot en livsfarlig psykopat som verkar känna alla hennes svagheter, blir plötsligt vartenda steg Kim tar en potentiell dödsfälla.

Un secreto. Cuatro cadáveres. Seis sepulturas. Cuando la detective Kim Stone llega a la escena de un incendio, se encuentra con los cadáveres de dos adolescentes y sus padres. Solo que esta tragedia no es lo que parece. Los cuatro cuerpos muestran heridas de bala y todos los indicios apuntan a que Helen Daynes, la madre, es quien ha disparado a su familia. En el pasado de Helen, hay un historial clínico de depresión.

Im większe zło, tym bardziej niebezpieczna gra... W brutalnym ataku zostaje okaleczony gwałciciel. Detektyw Kim Stone i jej zespół muszą szybko rozwiązać sprawę. Jednak mściciel dokonuje kolejnych zabójstw i szybko staje się jasne, że chodzi o coś znacznie więcej. Śledztwo nabiera tempa, a Kim znajduje się w wielkim niebezpieczeństwie - staje się celem niebezpiecznego przestępcy, który prowadzi własny, przerażający eksperyment. W starciu z socjopatą, który zna wszystkie jej słabości, detektyw Stone na każdym kroku ociera się o śmierć. Liczba ofiar rośnie.

Nawet najmroczniejszych sekretów nie da się pogrzebać na zawsze. W Black Country z zimną krwią zostaje zabita dyrektorka szkoły. Ofiara wiedziała, że ten dzień nadejdzie, i nie próbowała zmienić przeznaczenia. Detektyw Kim Stone, która jedzie na miejsce zbrodni, ma przeczucie, że to dopiero początek serii bestialskich zabójstw. Sprawa dodatkowo się komplikuje, gdy równolegle z teraźniejszymi przestępstwami na jaw wychodzą okrutne mordy sprzed lat, mające miejsce na terenie domu dziecka w Crestwood. Wtedy to został zawarty pakt nad grobem dziecka, któremu odebrano niewinne życie.

Inte ens de mörkaste hemligheter förblir begravda för alltid ... Fem personer står samlade runt en grund grav. De har turats om att gräva. Ett hål stort nog att passa en vuxen skulle ha tagit längre tid. Ett oskyldigt liv har tagits, men en blodpakt har ingåtts. Deras hemligheter kommer att begravas och skulden binda dem samman för alltid. Många år senare hittas en rektor mördad i ett badkar. Det är det första av en rad hemska mord som skakar Black Country. Och när mänskliga kvarlevor upptäcks nära ett före detta barnhem kommer oroväckande hemligheter i dagen.