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When 12-year-old Paul disappears from school, Yorke’s only clue is a pool of animal blood. Fearing the worst, he turns toward the most obvious suspect: recently released local murderer Thomas Ray. But as the snow in Salisbury worsens, Ray’s mutilated body is discovered, and Yorke is left with no choice but to journey into the sinister heart of a demented family that has plagued the community for generations.

Come closer. My name is Lacey Ray and I am thirteen years old. I should be an ordinary girl, but I am not. My ancestors were killers. I was born into darkness and secrets. Come closer. I am fourteen years old. I am learning to move. To navigate the silences that exist between the ticking of clocks. To stand on the edge of the abyss and look down. Come closer. I am fifteen years old. I am ready to be alone. To be powerful. To be the perfect predator.

As winter settles over Yorkshire, DCI Emma Gardner is hoping that work will calm down for everyone. Distracted by the continued disappearance of DI Paul Riddick Emma can’t seem to get her head back in the game. But when a human skull is discovered in a local pub, Emma knows it’s time to get a grip. With no one local reported missing, and with no body to be found, the team have their work cut out and no obvious clues to follow. Who could the skull belong to and what message is the killer trying to leave them? And then the first body is found…

They say that lightning doesn't strike the same place twice. How the people of Wiltshire wished that were true. When Paul Ray decides to burn down his evil family's legacy, he falls into the clutches of those he thought gone. And now Detective Yorke and his team face a race against time to find Paul before Wiltshire again falls under the dark spell of a ruthless family. Unfortunately for Yorke, the answers lie in the most sinister of places. The beating heart of a long-dead killer. Can Yorke find the truth before it's too late? Or will the curse of the Ray family prove too strong?

When the body of a young girl is found exhumed from her grave, DCI Emma Gardner knows there’s more to this grisly find than just misadventure. Penny Maiden was killed in a hit and run accident forty years ago, and her killer was never found…Could someone be trying to right an old wrong?

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DCI Emma Gardner has retreated to Salisbury, leaving North Yorkshire – and her complicated relationship with DI Paul Riddick – behind her. But when local whistleblowers and journalists are brutally killed Emma realises that she simply can’t walk away from the fight. In fact, if she has any chance of rebuilding her life, she has to face everything that has brought her here once and for all.

How do you stop a perfect killer? After the terrible events of the past year, DCI Yorke's team are on the verge of finding peace. But after a terrifying act of violence shatters their equilibrium, they are forced to dance with a skilled assassin who knows no equal. After it becomes clear that this hitman is connected to the most shadowy of criminal organisations, Yorke is forced to dive into his own past, and face a future in which he is either alone, or dead.

DCI Michael Yorke and Emma Gardner are still plagued by guilt over their failure to catch the murderous psychiatrist known as the Conduit, and the loss of their former colleague to insanity. On Christmas Day, following a brutal massacre in Leeds, Yorke and Gardner find themselves once again chasing the ruthless puppeteer, believing that they have the initiative.

A chief of police out of control. A suspected child killer from a bygone era. And a schoolgirl washed up on the banks of the River Skweda. A storm is coming to Blue Falls, Maine. An unprecedented storm. And in the eye of the storm stands ex-detective Jake Pettman. A man desperate for sanctuary and desperate for the truth. But in a place of undying and heinous secrets, such desperations become dangerous. Both to yourself, and the people that you love.

Für Detective Chief Inspector Frank Black sind es nicht nur vergessene Knochen. Es sind vergessene Hoffnungen. Vergessene Träume. Die vergessene Stimme eines Engels. Als ein Sturm im malerischen Küstenstädtchen Whitby in North Yorkshire vergrabene Knochen freilegt, wird Frank in eine Ermittlung hineingezogen, die ihn zurück in die späten Achtziger und zum feurigen Untergang eines beliebten Pubs führt. Frank ist mit Verletzlichkeit vertraut. Mit einer zerbrochenen Tochter lebt er damit. Mit einem Außenseiter wie Detective Inspector Gerry Carver arbeitet er damit.

Following the brutal events of the past months, the Maine State Police cannot stem the rising tide of violence sweeping through Blue Falls and its neighboring towns. At the heart of this discontent, Jake Pettman hides from men he betrayed back in England. Savage men who now know where he is. But Jake has more pressing concerns. Kayla MacLeoid. A kidnapped 14-year-old girl. And Jake cannot turn his back on a child. Even if it kills him.

La disparition d'un jeune garçon. Une enquête pavée de dépravation et de mort. Le DCI Michael Yorke pourra-t-il s'en sortir corps et âme intacts ? Alors que la petite ville de Yorke est paralysée par une tempête de neige dévastatrice, l'inspecteur obstiné découvre le lien entre un garçon disparu et les Ray, une famille dérangée dont l'histoire est imprégnée de violence. Mais quand tout semble perdu, Yorke refuse d'abandonner et s'aventure au cœur même de cette famille sinistre pour découvrir la vérité.

Pour le Commissaire Frank Black, ce ne sont pas que des ossements oubliés. Ce sont des espoirs oubliés. Des rêves oubliés. La voix oubliée d'un ange. Lorsque des ossements enterrés sont mis au jour par une tempête dans la pittoresque ville côtière de Whitby, dans le North Yorkshire, Frank se retrouve plongé dans une enquête qui le ramène à la fin des années quatre-vingt et à l'incendie dévastateur d'un pub populaire.