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She’s a murderer. Everyone knows she killed Stuart Rees - why else would his dead body be found in her shed? So now Tabitha is in prison, awaiting trial. Coming back to the remote coastal village where she grew up was a mistake. She didn’t fit in then, and she doesn’t fit in now. That day is such a blur, she can’t remember clearly what happened. There is something she is missing, something important. She only knows one thing.

Tyler Green, accused of murdering his friend Leo on a graduation trip in 1993, has just been released from a commuted life sentence. In the three decades since his trial Tyler has been adamant that he’s innocent, and now he’s determined to confront whoever allowed him to take the fall while they walked free.

It’s a simple enough favor. Jude hasn’t seen Liam in years, but when he shows up at her work asking for a favor, she finds she can’t refuse. All Jude has to do is pick Liam up at a country train station—without telling anyone. So what if she has to lie to her fiancé? Jude is still committed to him and their imminent wedding, even if she and Liam were in love once. She owes him.

In a north London high street, a runaway vehicle crashes to a halt. The man in the driving seat was murdered a week earlier. On Hampstead Heath, a bonfire blazes: in the flames lies the next victim. As autumn leaves fall, a serial killer runs amok in the capital, playing games with the police. The death toll is rising fast, and the investigation is floundering. But this is no ordinary killer, and every new victim is intended as a message to just one woman. Because psychologist Frieda Klein is in hiding. And someone is coming to find her....

A trusted colleague and friend. A mother. A wife. Neve Connolly is all these things. She has also made mistakes: some small, some unconsciously done, some large, some deliberate. She is only human, after all. But now one mistake is spiralling out of control, and Neve is bringing those around her into immense danger. She can’t tell the truth. So how far is she prepared to go to protect those she loves? And who does she really know? And who can she trust? A liar. A cheat. A threat. Neve Connolly is all these things. Could she be a murderer?

Tess’ number one priority has always been her three-year-old daughter, Poppy. But splitting up with Poppy’s father, Jason, means that she cannot always be there to keep her daughter safe. When she finds a disturbing drawing, dark and menacing, among her daughter’s brightly coloured paintings, Tess is convinced that Poppy has witnessed something terrible. Something that her young mind is struggling to put into words. But no one will listen. It’s only a child’s drawing, isn’t it?

Ellie Falkner’s world has been destroyed. Her husband, Greg, died in a car crash - and he wasn’t alone. In the passenger seat was the body of Milena Livingstone, a woman Ellie’s never heard of. But Ellie refuses to leap to the obvious conclusion, despite the whispers and suspicions of those around her. Maybe it’s the grief, but Ellie has to find out who this woman was - and prove Greg wasn’t having an affair. And soon she is chillingly certain their deaths were no accident.

In this new heart-pounding stand-alone from the internationally best-selling author that People calls “razor sharp", a single mother suspects her young daughter has witnessed a horrible crime when the girl draws a disturbing picture - but the deadly path to unravel the truth could cost her everything.

Tabitha is not a murderer. When a body is discovered in Okeham, England, Tabitha is shocked to find herself being placed in handcuffs. It must be a mistake. She’d only recently moved back to her childhood hometown, not even getting a chance to reacquaint herself with the neighbors. How could she possibly be a murder suspect? As Tabitha is shepherded through the system, her entire life is picked apart and scrutinized - her history of depression and medications, her decision to move back to a town she supposedly hated, and her past relationship with the victim, her former teacher.

When Bonnie Graham arrives at her boyfriend’s apartment in London, she is horrified to discover a dead body in a pool of blood on the floor. But she doesn’t call the police. Bonnie hides the corpse and then carefully wipes away any evidence she was ever there. Bonnie is a music teacher who spent a long, hot summer in London rehearsing with a band to play at a friend’s wedding. It was supposed to be fun, but the band members find the complicated knots of their friendships - some old, some new - unraveling as the days themselves unwind.

London cycle courier Astrid Bell has known most of her housemates for years, but while they have a tangled history together - romantic pairings, one-night stands, friendships - they each have secrets. Astrid is on her way home one day when her neighbor accidentally knocks her off her bike. Suffering a few bruises, her roommates help her home. The next day, they learn that same neighbor was bludgeoned to death only hours after the accident.

Nina Landry awakens on her 40th birthday, anticipating a day filled with excitement. She, her new boyfriend, and her two children are taking a trip - leaving their home on Sandling Island, off the coast of England, for a dream vacation. As soon as her 15-year-old daughter, Charlie, returns from a sleepover, they can get ready to leave. But Charlie doesn’t come home at the expected time. As minutes and then hours tick by, Nina’s annoyance soon changes to concern, and then to a chilling certainty that something terrible has happened.

It should have been just a mid-life fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could have weathered. An escape from 20 years of routine marriage to her overworked husband, and from her increasingly distant children. But when Neve pays a morning-after visit to her lover, Saul, and finds him brutally murdered, their pied-à-terre still heady with her perfume, all the lies she has so painstakingly stitched together threaten to unravel.

Sur une route de Londres, une voiture fonce à toute allure dans une vitrine de magasin. Mais le conducteur a été étranglé une semaine auparavant. Peu après, à Hampstead Heath, un feu fait des ravages et, au milieu des flammes, une autre victime est découverte. Alors que les premières feuilles d'automne tombent, un serial killer traumatise la ville, jouant avec la police. Tandis que le nombre des victimes augmente, l'enquête n'avance pas, le temps de comprendre qu'il ne s'agit pas d'un killer ordinaire.

La psychothérapeute Frieda Klein découvre le corps d'un homme sous le plancher de son appartement. Il est mort, une jonquille à la main, les deux oreilles tranchées. Frieda affirme qu'il s'agit d'un ancien policier, tué par Dean Reeve, responsable d'une série d'enlèvements et d'un meurtre. Le problème c'est que ce dernier est censé avoir mis à fin à ses jours il y a sept ans... Puis, Chloé, la nièce de Frieda est kidnappée. La presse se déchaîne, la police est dépassée... Frieda et ses proches sont plus que jamais en danger.

Lorsqu'une ancienne relation de travail lui demande d'établir le bilan psychiatrique de Hannah Docherty, Frieda Klein se retrouve dans une situation délicate. Elle ne peut refuser de rendre service à ce collègue influent, mais elle éprouve un choc en rencontrant la jeune femme. Incarcérée depuis treize ans dans une institution douteuse pour avoir assassiné sa famille, Hannah n'est plus que l'ombre d'elle-même. Convaincue de l'innocence de Hannah et malgré les injonctions de la police, la psychothérapeute rouvre le dossier de ce crime sordide et met au jour des incohérences.

Il y a des vendredis où rien ne va. Comme celui du Dr Frieda Klein, appelée à reconnaître un cadavre repêché dans la Tamise. Cadavre qui porte un bracelet à son nom et qui n'est autre que celui de son ex-petit ami, Sandy. Leur relation s'était terminée sur une rupture plutôt douloureuse. Puis il y avait eu cette violente altercation en pleine rue. Lorsque la police retrouve le portefeuille du défunt dans l'appartement de la jeune femme, tout bascule. Devenue malgré elle le suspect n° 1, Frieda ne voit qu'une seule issue : prendre la fuite et mener sa propre enquête.

Il y a vingt-trois ans, Frieda quittait Braxton sans un regard en arrière. Devenue psychothérapeute, elle pensait avoir tiré un trait définitif sur le traumatisme de sa jeunesse. Pourtant, les révélations de Becky, sa nouvelle patiente, vont rouvrir en grand les portes de son passé. Comme Frieda, Becky est une adolescente de Braxton fragile et incomprise. Comme Frieda, la jeune fille a perdu son innocence trop tôt, trop vite, dans d'étranges circonstances. Et comme Frieda, elle n'a trouvé personne pour croire à son histoire.

C'était la famille parfaite... mais un meurtre va tout ébranler. Quand elle rentre de l'école, ce mercredi-là, Dora Lennox trouve une maison en pagaille, des biscuits brûlés et un cadavre, celui de sa mère, sauvagement assassinée. Épouse et mère aimée, aide-soignante charitable, voisine exemplaire : pour l'inspecteur Karlsson, Ruth Lennox avait pourtant tout de la femme sans histoire - jusqu'à ce que les langues se délient. Et, face à des proches meurtris, qui mieux que la psychothérapeute Frieda Klein pour déceler les noirs secrets de l'âme ?

Un homme nu, assis dans un fauteuil, une pâtisserie à la main...et pourtant bien mort. Voilà la découverte que fait l'assistante sociale chez une de ses patientes, Michelle Doyce. Celle-ci, pourtant, ne peut dire aux policiers d'où vient cet homme, ni qui il est. Face à ce mystère, l'inspecteur Karlsson fait appel à la psychothérapeute Frieda Klein et à son incomparable capacité à sonder l'âme humaine. Car pour découvrir le meurtrier, il faut d'abord connaître la victime.