Дэн Уоделл – лучшие книги

Таинственный маньяк отрубает жертвам кисти рук и вырезает у них на груди странные комбинации букв и цифр. Детектив Грант Фостер, ведущий дело, установил: кровавые надписи - это регистрационные номера свидетельств о рождении, смерти и заключении брака. Грант Фостер обращается за помощью к известному специалисту по генеалогии, историку Найджелу Барнсу. В ходе…

Northumberland; 1992. In the early years of his police career, a young and idealist Grant Foster investigates a crime that shocks the nation. A widower beaten to death in a sleepy former mining town. The murderers: two schoolboys aged 9 and 10. Eight years later, they are released from prison and disappear into adult life with new identities.

London; present day. DCI Foster investigates the death of a man found incinerated in his own car. But this isn't an isolated crime and as more gruesome murders come to light, he soon finds himself forced to confront not only that hideous scene from all those years ago, but also his own memories . . .

From the author of the award-winning The Blood Detective comes the long-awaited third book in the series. A crime novel about secrets, the ghosts of hideous crimes – and a past that refuses to die.

Katie Drake was an affluent single mother living in Queen's Park - until someone cut her throat and tore out her tongue. Worse still, the killer has abducted her 14-year-old daughter, Naomi. Detective Chief Inspector Grant Foster quickly sees chilling parallels with the disappearance of teenage Leonie Stamey three years earlier.