Анжела Марсонс — новинки

The victim is lying under the trees, arms lifted above his head, unnaturally still. His muscles are slack. His eyes are empty. There are no signs of life. But he is not quite dead… When Detective Kim Stone races to the crime scene, there is no body waiting for the paramedics are desperately trying to save the victim’s life. But there is something very strange…

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…

Международный бестселлер.
Юбилейный роман о легендарной женщине-инспекторе Ким Стоун.
Продан 1 000 000 экземпляров.

В мире продано более 5 000 000 книг о Ким Стоун, жесткой и волевой героине с очень непростым прошлым.
Права на издание серии проданы в 26 стран.

И ВСЕ-ТАКИ, ЧТО ЛУЧШЕ - УЖАСНЫЙ КОНЕЦ ИЛИ УЖАС БЕЗ КОНЦА?

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…

Анжела Марсонс - одна из самых успешных авторов в жанре детектива. В мире продано более 5 000 000, а в России - около 100 000 экземпляров ее книг. У автора огромная армия преданных поклонников. Они восхищаются острым умом и несгибаемой волей главной героини, подлинностью характеров персонажей, напряженными сюжетами и невероятными эмоциями, которые дарит чтение романов Анжелы.

"Для меня Марсонс - королева жанра. Она знает, как по-настоящему очеловечить детективные сюжеты…" - Postcard Reviews

"Это просто вау! Полицейский детектив в лучшем своем виде. Сложный, интригующий и поглощающий читателя без остатка…" - Rachel's Random Reads

Бестселлер № 1 в Великобритании.
В мире продано более 5 000 000 книг об инспекторе полиции Ким Стоун - жесткой и волевой героине с очень непростым прошлым.
Права на издание серии проданы в 26 стран.

ДЕЛАЙ СВОЙ ВЫБОР. НО ПОМНИ: ВЫБОРА НЕТ…

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 одно: убийца преследует одному ему ведомую цель - и он не остановится, пока не достигнет ее. Но сколько еще людей должны погибнуть, прежде чем команда Ким поймает его?

Анжела Марсонс - одна из самых успешных авторов в жанре детектива. В мире продано более 5 000 000, а в России - около 100 000 экземпляров ее книг. У автора огромная армия преданных поклонников. Они восхищаются острым умом и несгибаемой волей главной героини, подлинностью характеров персонажей, напряженными сюжетами и невероятными эмоциями, которые дарит чтение романов Анжелы.

"Для меня Марсонс - королева жанра. Она знает, как по-настоящему очеловечить детективные сюжеты…" - Postcard Reviews

"Это просто вау! Полицейский детектив в лучшем своем виде. Сложный, интригующий и поглощающий читателя без остатка…" - Rachel's Random Reads

Анжела Марсонс - одна из самых успешных авторов в жанре детектива. В мире продано более 5 000 000, а в России - около 100 000 экземпляров ее книг. У автора огромная армия преданных поклонников. Они восхищаются острым умом и несгибаемой волей главной героини, подлинностью характеров персонажей, напряженными сюжетами и невероятными эмоциями, которые дарит чтение романов Анжелы.
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…

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.