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A classic novel from the bestselling crime writer - now in an arresting new package

Winner of the CWA John Creasey Award for Best First Novel of the Year -- and the start of Minette Walter's long list of bestsellers

Acid Row. The name the beleaguered inhabitants give to their 'sink' estate. A no-man's land of single mothers and fatherless children - where angry, alienated youth controls the streets. Into this battleground comes Sophie Morrison, a young doctor visiting a patient in Acid Row. Little does she know that she is entering the home of a known paedophile . . . and with reports circulating that a tormented child called Amy has disappeared, the vigi...

A classic novel from the bestselling crime writer - now in an arresting new package

Mordfall im südenglischen Sussex, 1920er Jahre. Elsie Cameron ist eine traurige Figur: wenig Selbstvertrauen, kaum Hoffnung, dass ihr Freund sie endlich heiratet. Norman Thorne, der Verlobte, mehr oder minder erfolgloser Hühnerfarmer und immer zögernder in seiner Beziehung zu Elsie, verliebt sich schließlich in eine andere Frau und das Ganze nimmt ein tragisches Ende. Der Mordprozess wird zum Skandal - schuldig oder unschuldig? Eine wahre Ge...

ChickenfeedAs part of World Book Day 2006, Minette Walters took part in the Quick Reads initiative, designed to encourage developing readers and adult learners as they explore the exciting world of books. Chickenfeed, Walter's contribution, is a crackling tale based on the true story of the 'chicken farm murder' that took place in Blackness Road, Crowborough, East Sussex in December, 1924.Although Norman Thorne never confessed to killing his g...

A dark, gripping tale of solitude and evil

Two suspenseful #1 international bestsellers about murder, past and present-day. One is based on a true story, the other is a tale of bigotry, loyalty, and ambition.

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Waltersin dünyasi karanlik ve müphemdir, Seytan Fox öz güvenin ve üstün bir yetenegin doruklarinda olan biryazarin calismasidir.- Marcel Berlins , the timesYasli Aisla Lockyer-Fox üzerinde geceligi ve cansiz bedeninin yani basindaki kan lekeleriyle evinin bahcesinde bulundugunda süpheli gözler, toprak sahibi zengin kocasi Albay James Lockyer-Foxa cevrildi. Resmi sorusturma ölümün dogal nedenlerden gerceklestigi kararina varsa da, Jamesle ilgil...

It was a slaughterhouse, the most horrific scene I have ever witnessed... Olive Martin is a dangerous woman. I advise you to be extremely wary in your dealings with her.' The facts of the case were simple: Olive Martin had pleaded guilty to killing and dismembering her sister and mother, earning herself the chilling nickname 'The Sculptress'. This much journalist Rosalind Leigh knew before her first meeting with Olive, currently serving a life...

I wonder if I should keep these diaries under lock and key. Jenny Spede has disturbed them again . . . What does she make, I wonder, of an old woman, deformed by arthritis, stripping naked for a young man? The pills worry me more. Ten is such a round number to be missing . . . Mathilda Gillespie's body was found nearly two days after she had taken an overdose and slashed her wrists with a Stanley knife. But what shocked Dr Sarah Blakeney the m...

When she revisited, always with astonishment, what had happened to her, it was the deliberate breaking of her fingers that remained indelibly printed on her memory . . . Twelve hours after a woman's broken body is washed up on a deserted shore, her traumatized three-year-old daughter is discovered twenty miles away wandering the streets of Poole. But why was Kate killed and her daughter, a witness, allowed to live? And why weren't they togethe...

Have you ever wanted to bury a secret so deeply that no one will find out about it? With private security firms supplying bodyguards in every theatre of war, who will notice the emergence of a sexual psychopath from the ranks of the mercenaries? Reuters correspondent Connie Burns is no stranger to the world's troublespots, including the vicious civil unrest in Sierra Leone and the war in Iraq. But as she begins to suspect that a foreigner is u...

When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in night clothes and with blood stains on the ground near her body, the finger of suspicion points at her wealthy, landowning husband, Colonel James Lockyer-Fox. A coroner's inquest gives a verdict of 'natural causes' but the gossip surrounding him refuses to go away. Why? Because he's guilty? Or because resentful women in the isolated Dorset village where he lives rule t...

Hilda Lawrence was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1894. An avid reader of crime fiction, she wrote her first novel, Blood upon the Snow, in 1946. The novel introduced her three main series characters: Manhattan private investigator Mark East and sleuthing New England spinsters Miss Beulah and Miss Bessy. By combining these characters Hilda Lawrence's novels are a clever mixture of the hardboiled and softboiled styles of detective fiction. Hil...

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From critically acclaimed author Walters comes a blistering new suspense novel about the horrors of war and the struggle to survive in the face of pure evil.

In this hypnotic novel of psychological suspense, a homeless man is found starved to death in the garage of a ritzy London home. The police chalk it up to an unfortunate accident, but a journalist, Michael Deacon, is intrigued. Amanda Powell, a socialite whose wealthy husband vanished five years ago after being accused of embezzlement, is just as interested as Michael in finding out who died in her garage. They have no idea that this simple st...