Wanneer vier scoutingvrienden elkaar eeuwig trouw beloven weten ze niet dat een kwart eeuw later een appel zal worden gedaan op deze eed.

Amber Hewerdine knows more than she is telling. She knows that she has'nt slept since the arson attack which killed her best friend. She knows that it is not normal for four members of your family to disappear one Christmas morning, and then reappear the next day, refusing to explain or ever speak of it again. And she knows that somewhere, buried deep in her subconscious, is the key to what happened all those years ago at Little Orchard. Kind, cruel, kind of cruel. These are the words she keeps coming back to. But what do they mean? And why is she arrested within hours of first saying them, for the murder of a woman she has never met?

Virginia medical examiner Kay Scarpetta finds herself up against a killer who hids his crimes with fire

Feline sleuth Midnight Louie joins forces with his disapproving daughter, Midnight Louise, and his human partner, Temple Barr, to investigate a baffling series of murders of unidentified women, crimes that baffle tough homicide detective Carmen Molina. 25,000 first printing. Tour.

#1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in this suspense classic. An unidentified nude female sits propped against a fountain in Central Park. There are no signs of struggle. When Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her colleagues Benton Wesley and Pete Marino arrive on the scene, they instantly recognize the signature of serial killer Temple Brooks Gault. Scarpetta, on assignment with the FBI, visits the New York City morgue on Christmas morning, where she must use her forensic expertise to give a name to the nameless—a difficult task. But as she sorts through conflicting forensic clues, Gault claims his next victim. He has infiltrated the FBI’s top secret artificial-intelligence system developed by Scarpetta’s niece, and sends taunting messages as his butchery continues, moving terrifyingly closer to Scarpetta herself.

The mysterious death of diver Ted Eddings, an investigative reporter, and the murder of a morgue assistant driving her car lead medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, her niece, and police captain Pete Marino on the trail of a deadly supremacist group. 1,200,000 first printing. Lit Guild, Doubleday, & Mystery Guild Main.

Drie verhalen rond een vrouwelijke hoofdcommissaris van politie in Zuid-Duitsland.

STEMMEN
Saskia Danner is dood. Haar lichaam wordt gevonden in de bergen van Tirol, gewurgd met een stuk staaldraad. Konstantin Steyer is dood. Gewurgd met staaldraad. Hetzelfde moordwapen als waarmee Saskia werd omgebracht?

ONTROUW
In de tuin van een verlaten huis wordt het lichaam gevonden van Thomas Belolavek, eigenaar van een softwarebedrijf. Van zijn vrouw en dochtertje ontbreekt elk spoor. Als kort daarna opnieuw een dode wordt gevonden, weet Mona Seiler dat ze snel moet handelen.

FAMILIEZAAK
In de rug van het lichaam dat voor een discotheek wordt gevonden, is met een mes een woord gekerfd. De identiteit van de dode is snel achterhaald: het is de zoon van een bekende psychotherapeut. Maar nauwelijks is Mona Seiler met het onderzoek begonnen, of ze wordt alweer naar een volgende plaats delict geroepen, waar ook een lijk met macabere inkervingen ligt.

Privé-detective Makana, een in Caïro woonachtige Soedanese vluchteling, probeert de herkomst van een dreigbrief te achterhalen.

A Suzie Fewings genealogical mystery - Nick Fewings, the husband of keen family history researcher Suzie, inherits a portrait of his great-grandfather, a famous lifeboatman in St Furseys. Nick and Suzie are keen to find out more, so they decide to take their two teenage children, Tom and Millie, on holiday there. The family stay with Nick's brother Leon and his daughter Anna, and the teen girls' imaginations are soon fired by tales of smugglers on the coast. They are delighted when Nick discovers that his ancestors once owned the Noah's Ark Inn, an old smuggling haunt, but when he and the girls visit they are chased off by its seemingly unbalanced owner. Then one afternoon the girls go missing. Tom thinks they've gone to search for smugglers, but the others aren't so sure. Could the girls have returned to the inn and run into trouble? Or does an offshore archaeological-survey vessel hold the answers? Either way, night is falling and the clock is ticking . . .