Анжела Марсонс — новинки

The woman’s bright blonde hair floats in the breeze. She almost looks like she could be resting on the soft green grass. But her brown eyes stare unblinking up at the sky, and the final cut across her mouth is dark with blood. Her words silenced forever…

Late one evening, as the final church bell rings out, Sandra Deakin’s cold and lifeless body is found in the overgrown graveyard with multiple stab wounds. When Detective Kim Stone rushes to the scene, the violence of the attack convinces her that this murder was deeply personal. What could have caused such hate?

As the team dig into Sandra’s life, they discover she believed she could communicate with the dead. Was that why she was targeted? The last people to see her alive were a group of women who had a session with her the night before she was killed, and as Kim and her team pay them a visit, they soon learn each of the women is lying about why they wanted Sandra’s help…

Kim realises she must dig deep and open her mind to every avenue if she’s going to stand a chance at solving this case. And when she learns that Sandra was banned from the church grounds and had been receiving death threats too, she’s ever more certain that Sandra’s gifts are at the heart of everything.

But just when she thinks she’s found a lead, the broken body of a nineteen-year-old boy is found outside a call centre – a single slash across his mouth just like Sandra’s. Kim knows they are now racing against time to understand what triggered these attacks, and to stop a twisted killer.

But they might be too late. Just as Kim sits down at a local psychic show she discovers something that makes her blood run cold. Both Sandra and the call centre were named in an article about frauds. And this show stars the next name on the list. She looks around the audience with a feeling of utter dread, certain the killer is among them…

While Jamie’s cold, lifeless body lay in the morgue, Detective Kim Stone stared at the empty board in the incident room and felt her anger boil. Why were there no photos, details, or lines of enquiry?

When a nineteen-year-old boy, Jamie Mills, is found hanging from a tree in a local park, his death is ruled a suicide. Detective Kim Stone’s instincts tell her something isn’t right – but it’s not her investigation and her temporary replacement is too busy waiting for the next big case to be asking the right questions.

Why would a seemingly healthy boy choose to end his life?
Why does his mother show no sign of emotional distress at the loss of her son?

Still mending her broken mind and body from her last harrowing case, Kim is supposed to be easing back into work gently. But then she finds a crucial, overlooked detail: Jamie had a recent injury that would have made it impossible for him to climb the tree. He must have been murdered.

Quickly taking back charge of her team and the case, Kim visits Jamie’s parents and is shocked to hear that they had sent him to a clinic to ‘cure’ him of his sexuality. According to his mother, Jamie was introverted and prone to mood swings. Yet his friend speaks of a vibrant, outgoing boy.

The clues to smashing open this disturbing case lie behind the old Victorian walls of the clinic, run by the Gardner family. They claim that patients come of their own accord and are free to leave at any time. But why are those that attended the clinic so afraid to speak of what happens there? And where did the faded restraint marks identified on Jamie’s wrists come from?

Then the body of a young woman is found dead by suffocation and Kim makes two chilling discoveries. The victim spent time at the clinic too, and her death was also staged to look like a suicide.

Scarred from an ordeal that nearly took her life, is Kim strong enough to stop a terrifying killer from silencing the clinic’s previous patients one by one?

It’s a typical teenage bedroom with posters covering the walls and clothes littering the floor. But the girl lying on her bed, wearing a delicate chain around her neck, is lifeless. A circle of red stains her white vest top. How had the girl’s mother looked down at her sleeping child and pulled the trigger?

When Detective Kim Stone rushes to the scene of a house fire, she’s shocked to discover it’s claimed the lives of two teenage children and their parents. But this tragedy is not quite as it seems. Each body is marked by a gunshot wound and the mother, Helen Daynes, is holding the gun.

The case sparks painful childhood memories for Kim who suffered at the hands of her own abusive mother, but it just makes her more determined to uncover the truth. As Kim untangles Helen’s past, she finds a history of clinical depression. But did it drive Helen to murder her loved ones?
Then Kim uncovers a tiny, vital clue in Helen’s bedroom that throws the investigation wide open. Could someone else have killed the Daynes family?
Kim is under pressure like never before, and the monster circling her is getting ever closer. Four bodies already. Four graves fresh in the ground. Who will be next? Can Kim find the killer and save herself before it’s too late?

Вечереет. В парке Хайден-Хилл сидит на детских качелях женщина лет шестидесяти. Она неподвижна и не раскачивается. Но если приглядеться, то можно увидеть, что ее тело прикручено к качелям колючей проволокой. Женщина мертва. А на шее у нее вырезана буква Х…

На место ужасного преступления прибывает детектив-инспектор Ким Стоун. Она выясняет, что жертва была некогда профессором детской психологии.

Затем находят еще два тела с такими же отметинами на шеях. Все убийства так или иначе связаны с известными детскими играми, и Ким понимает, что охотится за изощренным серийным убийцей. В конце концов она обнаруживает, что убитые когда-то участвовали в ежегодных турнирах для одаренных детей…

25 years ago he took a girl. Today he takes another.

One August afternoon, eight-year-old Grace Lennard skips into the garden of the childcare centre she attends and vanishes into thin air.

Hours before, Steven Harte walks into Halesowen police station and confesses to having information that will lead Detective Kim Stone to Melody Jones – the little girl who was taken from a playground exactly twenty-five years ago. But something about his confession is off and Kim dismisses his claims.

Arriving at the scene of Grace’s disappearance, Kim finds a chilling piece of evidence: the heart bracelet belonging to Melody. Now Kim must play Steven’s twisted game if she is to find Grace alive. But they’re going to play by Kim’s rules.

With only twenty-four hours to make every second of Steven’s interrogation count, and scan his behaviour for hidden clues, Kim and her team soon link Steven to the abduction of several vulnerable girls – two were kept for a year and then released, unharmed – but where are Melody and the others?

Then small bones are discovered in the grounds of a local park, and Kim fears the worst.

Kim may be close to convicting a killer, but there’s another who wants revenge against her – Dr Alex Thorne – the evil woman Kim did her best to keep behind bars. Alex is about to reveal a shocking secret to Kim that will hit her where it hurts the most. And if Kim lets Alex mess with her head, she might not be able to save Grace and find the other missing girls in time

Her stomach lurches as she sits in the windowless room. He throws her phone to the ground, grinds it against the floor with the heel of his shoe and brings his face closer to hers. There was no turning back now, her life as she knew it was gone.

When the lifeless body of a man is found on an industrial estate, Detective Kim Stone arrives on the scene and discovers he’s been tortured in the worst way imaginable.

But as she breaks the devastating news to the victim’s wife, Diane Phipps, Kim can’t help feeling that something isn’t quite right about the woman's reaction.

Twenty-four hours later, the victim’s family disappears into thin air.

Then a second body is found staked to the ground in a local nature reserve.

Desperate to crack the case open quickly, Kim and her team unravel a vital clue – a fiercely guarded secret that links both victims and could cost even more lives.

A secret that some police officers are also protecting.

В жилом блоке Башня Чосера обнаружены прикованные к батарее юноша и девушка – первый мертв, вторая едва жива. Сцена воспроизводит ужасный эпизод из прошлого инспектора Ким Стоун: она жила в этом блоке, и тридцать лет назад точно так же чудом выжила, а ее брат погиб. Вскоре кто-то заживо сжигает в автомобиле семейную пару, явно имитируя смерть любимых приемных родителей Ким. Похоже, неведомый убийца задумал воссоздать все самые кошмарные события в жизни Стоун, и это только начало его кровавого перформанса…

You have to stop me from hurting anyone else. I don’t want to do these horrible things. Help me before I’m forced to do it again. And I will do it again because I have no choice. I’ve never had a choice.

In a busy shopping centre, a little girl clutches a teddy bear, clinging to it in the absence of her mother, Katrina. Hours later, Katrina’s body is discovered in an abandoned building. For Detective Kim Stone, it looks like a quick, functional murder. But Kim’s instincts tell her there’s more to this senseless murder than meets the eye. What was the motive for killing a young mother out shopping with her child?

Days later, a second victim is found in a local park, her neck broken just like Katrina’s and her six-year-old son missing.

But with her colleague, Detective Stacey Wood, working on another unsolved crime and a member of the team grieving the loss of a close relative, Kim is struggling to make inroads on what is fast becoming a complex case. And when a handwritten letter from the killer lands on Kim’s desk addressed to her, and pleading for help, she knows time is running out to bring the little boy home alive.

With the support of a handwriting analyst and profiler, Kim and the team begin to get inside the mind of the killer and make a shocking discovery.

Some of the victims have scratch marks on their wrists.

But these are no random scratches. The killer is using them to communicate with someone. The question is… with whom?

And if Kim doesn’t find them soon, another innocent soul will die.

Когда в лесу нашли тело жестоко убитого мужчины, инспектор полиции Ким Стоун была поражена, опознав в убитом известного врача-гинеколога Гордона Корделла — главного фигуранта ее недавнего расследования загадочных смертей школьниц. Тогда доктору удалось уйти от заслуженного наказания. Но кто же теперь расправился с ним? И за что? Ким возглавляет расследование убийства. И тут же начинают сыпаться новые жуткие известия. При загадочных обстоятельствах в автоаварии разбивается сын Корделла. Затем гибнет женщина, чья дочь работала вместе с Гордоном и была его любовницей. Что это — семейная вендетта, или же здесь скрыты причины иного рода? Ясно…

It had seemed so simple. Get in, get the information, get out. But now they were getting inside her mind and she didn’t know how to stop them…

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 realises she’s made a huge mistake. Samantha didn’t take her own life, she was murdered.

Романы Анжелы Марсонс стали безусловными международными бестселлерами, уступившими по продажам только «Девушке в поезде» Полы Хокинс.
Известно, что самые заклятые враги получаются из бывших друзей. Так получилось и у инспектора полиции Ким Стоун со своим бывшим напарником Томом Тревисом, ныне служащим в соседнем управлении. Они на дух не переносят друг друга. Однако начальство затеяло совместное расследование, которое должны возглавить оба инспектора полиции – Стоун и Тревис. К чему приведет подобный эксперимент, трудно сказать. Тем более что дело попалось запутанное: на территории заброшенной фермы найдены останки по крайней мере трех человек, со следами пулевых ранений и… зубьев капкана на крупного зверя. Тут бы Ким и Тому объединить усилия, забыв былые раздоры, – но как? Ведь они и видеть друг друга не могут…

Романы Анжелы Марсонс стали безусловными международными бестселлерами, уступившими по продажам только «Девушке в поезде» Полы Хокинс.
Психиатр Александра Торн считает себя гением. Никто не может так точно «читать» людей, так легко вычислять и использовать их слабости и тайные фобии. При этом она – социопат, начисто лишенная чувства жалости к окружающим. Они – лишь бескрайнее поле для ее жестоких экспериментов. Эти опыты привели доктора Торн на тюремные нары. И с тех пор ей не терпится извести своего единственного достойного соперника, с чьей помощью она и оказалась за решеткой. Инспектора полиции Ким Стоун, до которой доктор Торн дотянется даже из тюрьмы. О, у нее есть блестящий план по уничтожению врага…

Инспектор английской полиции Ким Стоун, леди с «железным характером», приезжает на ферму «Вестерли» – секретный полигон, где ученые исследуют влияние природы на мертвые тела. Оказывается, что одного из тел здесь быть не должно: неизвестную женщину приволокли силой и жестоко убили. Но как и, главное, зачем убийца проник на территорию охраняемого секретного объекта?

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.

Searching the victim’s home, Kim discovers a little girl’s bedroom and a hidden laptop. Why is his sister relieved to hear he’s dead – and where is the rest of his family?

As Kim begins to unearth the dark secrets at the heart of the case, D.C. Stacey Wood finds a disturbing resemblance to the recent murder of Lester Jackson.

Романы Анжелы Марсонс стали безусловными международными бестселлерами, уступившими по продажам только «Девушке в поезде» Полы Хокинс.
Инспектор полиции Ким Стоун расследует дело об убийстве бывшего насильника, давно отсидевшего свое и вышедшего на свободу за примерное поведение. Его подкараулила на улице и зарезала женщина, над которой он когда-то надругался. Ким знает эту женщину, и ей очень странно, что такая надломленная, бесхарактерная личность могла пойти на убийство. Инспектор узнает, что до последнего времени жертва насилия ходила на сеансы к психиатру доктору Алекс Торн. При этом выясняется, что несколько других людей, неожиданно совершивших тяжкие преступления, также посещали эти сеансы. Не играет ли доктор Торн в злые игры?..

Finally we’re playing a game. A game that I have chosen. I give one last push of the roundabout and stand back. 'You really should have played with me,’ I tell her again although I know she can no longer hear.

Late one summer evening, Detective Kim Stone arrives at Haden Hill Park to the scene of a horrific crime: a woman in her sixties 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.

Then two more bodies are found bearing the same distinctive markings, and Kim knows she is on the hunt for a ritualistic serial killer. Linking the victims, Kim discovers they were involved in annual tournaments for gifted children and were on their way to the next event.

With DS Penn immersed in the murder case of a young man, Kim and her team are already stretched and up against one of the most ruthless killer’s they’ve ever encountered. The clues lie in investigating every child who attended the tournaments, dating back decades.

Faced with hundreds of potential leads and a bereaved sister who is refusing to talk, can Kim get inside the mind of a killer and stop another murder before it’s too late?

She ruined their lives. Now they’re going to destroy hers.

‘Someone is recreating every traumatic point in your life. They are doing this to make you suffer, to make you hurt and the only possible end game can be death. Your death.’

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 thirty 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.

Faced with a killer who is recreating traumatic events from her past, Kim must face the brutal truth that someone wants to hurt her in the worst way possible. Desperate to stay on the case, she is forced to work with profiler Alison Lowe who has been called in to observe and monitor Kim’s behaviour.

Kim has spent years catching dangerous criminals and protecting the innocent. But with a killer firmly fixed on destroying Kim, can she solve this complex case and save her own life or will she become the final victim?

Прыжок с крыши престижной частной школы – типичное самоубийство. Все знали эту ученицу как странноватую и не­управляемую; проблемную, одним словом. Не справилась с подростковыми переживаниями – вот и всё… Но для инспектора полиции Ким Стоун это не очевидно – некоторые улики упорно не сходятся. А уж когда через несколько дней в той же школе находят мертвое тело еще одного ученика, она начала расследование. Оказывается, в стенах школы уже много лет действуют несколько тайных сообществ. И правила в них более чем зловещие…

Этот роман Анжелы Марсонс стал безусловным международным бестселлером № 2, уступившим по продажам только «Девушке в поезде» Полы Хокинс.
Археологи убеждены: в окрестностях Бирмингема, на территории давно сгоревшего детского дома, зарыт богатейший древний клад. Но городские власти упорно не желают выдавать разрешение на раскопки. Это кажется странным инспектору полиции Ким Стоун – особенно после того, как один за другим начинают погибать бывшие сотрудники детского дома. Тогда она, на свой страх и риск, раскапывает вместе с коллегами участок – и обнаруживает… останки трех девочек-подростков! Сопоставив факты, Ким приходит к выводу: эти стены и эта земля хранят какую-то страшную тайну, которую пытались и похоронить, и уничтожить в пламени, но она снова ожила – и теперь убивает всех причастных к ней. Инспектор понимает: чтобы найти преступника, надо сначала выяснить, что за трагедия произошла здесь много лет назад…

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 school girl. 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. Then the body of a woman is found dead in suspicious circumstances and Kim makes a disturbing link between the victims and Russells Hall Hospital. The same hospital where Gordon…