A young woman is pushing a child in a stroller dangerouslyclose to the edge of a rock face. She has blood on her clothes. Is she a victimor a would-be killer? DI Joanna Piercy takes on the case, but the young womanis mute. As the questions mount, forensic psychiatrist Dr Claire Roget iscalled in to help. Can she persuade the woman to talk?
The final book in the exhilarating, icily brilliant Aud Torvingen trilogy, with sabotage and the film industry in the frame for Aud's most personal case
Boston, 1985. Gordon Stevenson, the former ambassador of Laos, has been getting death threats, and he demands private investigator Andy Roark take the case. After what Stevenson did during the Vietnam war, though, Roark's almost tempted to cheer the man's would-be assassin on. Then he finds out why he's been headhunted for the job ...
Steve Flynn's idyllic summer in Ibiza running pleasure cruises for holidaymakers is curtailed when some of his former police colleagues and friends begin to die in horrifically brutal ways. Flynn discovers that a hitlist exists, that his is the last name on it - and that a dead man is out for revenge.
When pre-teen millionaire Riley Schoenberg strides into family lawyer Sandy Moss's office without an appointment, Sandy will do anything to get her out again. Which includes, it seems, taking her on as a client. Did Riley's dad really kill her mom? Riley's convinced he's innocent. The trouble is, no one else is - including Riley's dad himself ...