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Nel cuore fangoso delle Fens, nell'Inghilterra orientale, una ragazza adolescente vaga confusa nel buio, fradicia di pioggia e terrore. Dice di essere stata drogata a una festa e che la sua amica Emily è stata rapita. Ma chi è Emily? Nessuno sembra conoscerla. Nessuno l'ha vista. Poco lontano, su una spiaggia deserta, riaffiora il cadavere di un'altra giovane donna. In quella stessa terra di campi e paludi, dieci anni prima, una bambina era sparita nel nulla.

Ci sono luoghi dove il silenzio ha echi sinistri, e la troppa tranquillità nasconde molti segreti. Inghilterra, paludi del Lincolnshire. Una donna viene pugnalata con inaudita violenza nella sua cucina; vent'anni prima, nello stesso villaggio, un contadino e sua moglie erano stati fatti a pezzi senza pietà. La detective Marie Evans non vede l'ora di andarsene di lì: è stata in polizia abbastanza a lungo da vedere molte cose, ma ciò che si è trovata di fronte quella mattina la disturba profondamente.

Nikki Galena è una detective in gamba, ma non gioca secondo le regole. Di certo non quando ha a che fare con i malviventi responsabili di aver ridotto in fin di vita sua figlia. È anche una donna solitaria, per niente brava nel gioco di squadra. E invece è costretta a lavorare in coppia con Joseph Easter, l'ultimo arrivato alla Centrale, preceduto da una pessima reputazione. Insieme dovranno affrontare due casi apparentemente semplici, destinati però a mettere a dura prova le loro abilità di investigatori.

The Fens are burning, and Detective Nikki Galena faces a cat-and-mouse battle with a killer arsonist. Someone is lighting fires. First they target homes and businesses, but then a body is found at one of the crime scenes. More fires are lit. And at each one a single person dies. But the victims have led spotless lives, and apparently there's no connection between them. Meanwhile, the town is facing a very peculiar threat from a group of sinister Satanists led by a charismatic businessman. Who is burning with anger, and can Nikki stop them before anyone else dies? 

A young woman's body is found in a remote barn on the Fens. Before she was killed, one of her fingers had been cut off. Who is inflicting this violence and why? The young woman in the barn had been kept captive for some time. And the case shows strong similarities to an unsolved murder in Derbyshire. When another woman is found alive with similar injuries, the case grows even more complicated.

Detective Nikki Galena's friend and neighbor meets a tragic end, but there's more to his death than meets the eye. And someone terrible from DS Joseph Easter's past is back.

Det är polisassistent Danny Wilshires första dag i tjänst. Tillsammans med kriminalassistent Cat Cullen gör han ett snabbt ärende till konditoriet–men allt förändras i ett ögonblick när en svart bil med full fart svänger upp på trottoaren. Den siktar rakt mot dem. Kollisionen är brutal. Glas exploderar, montrar krossas, och Danny slungas genom skyltfönstret. Han blir liggande bland splitter, krossade bakelser och blod. Det var ingen olycka. Det var en varning.

Kriminalkommissarie Nikki Galena har förlorat allt–en ung flicka dör i hennes armar och hennes egen dotter kommer troligen aldrig att lämna sjukhuset. Hennes hämndlystnad har gjort henne hårdare mot de kriminella, men nu har hon fått en sista varning: samarbeta med kriminalinspektör Joseph Easter, eller förlora jobbet. Joseph Easter är en plikttrogen nykomling i teamet, känd som "Helige Joe", men hans soldaterfarenheter från armén ger honom en annan sida. Han har också förlorat kontakten med sin dotter, som anklagar honom för familjens fall.

När kriminalkommissarie Nikki Galena kallas till St Saviour’s-tornet, väntar ett misstänkt självmord. Men kroppen i den rödbruna leran får henne att stelna – det är hennes granne, Martin Durham. Mannen hon just pratat med. Mannen som skulle komma över på kaffe till helgen. Frågan är: hoppade han – eller blev han knuffad?

A brand new Nikki Galena mystery where echoes from the past haunt the twistiest, most complex investigation of her career.

Matt is intrigued when his partner Liz brings home an old carpet bag she found dumped in the local library. It contains a pile of mysterious handwritten notes. Liz is convinced the bag belongs to Old Molly, a local woman who lives on the streets. The following day, a body is discovered in a marshy lagoon. It's Old Molly. Suffocated with an expensive men's handkerchief. Molly clearly knew something that got her killed. Liz believes she was trying to tell them something important. She calls on her nephew David to help decipher the carpet bag notes.

It arrives in the morning. An old-fashioned airmail envelope addressed to Detective Nikki Galena. Inside, on a single sheet of blue airmail paper, are three words: You failed me. The second airmail envelope arrives at Nikki's home address. The same message. Only this time, it's followed by four names: Alexandra Cornfield, Ruth Baker, Bethany Lyons, Leanne Delaney. Four missing women. Four local women whose bodies were never found.

Photography student Toby Unsworth has found the location for the perfect night-time shoot. A cobbled street in the old part of Fenfleet. Later, when he looks at the images on his laptop, he thinks he sees a woman's face in the window of an old, disused building. He asks his housemate Alex to come and take a look . . . Two days later, Toby and Alex are dead. Carbon monoxide poisoning. An unfortunate accident. But Alex's mother doesn't believe it. She hires Matt and Liz to find out the truth.

In the beautiful gardens of Shelley House a shocking discovery is made. A blackened hand dangles over the side of a wheelbarrow. The horrific scent of burnt flesh lingers in the air. Detectives Nikki Galena and Joseph Easter are called in to investigate.

An old friend's sister disappears without a trace. There's no sign of foul play, but she'd been acting very peculiarly. Meanwhile, Liz's cousin, Christie, comes to stay. She takes an immediate - and uncharacteristic - dislike to the local bookshop owner, Gina. Why does everyone put up with her awful behavior? Christie is convinced that Gina is manipulating everyone around her. Is she onto something dangerous or just pushing her new friends away? No one believes her suspicions until another friend goes missing late at night on the misty Fen marshes.

One moonlit night, the bodies of two young people are discovered lying entwined on a blanket in the woods. The young man is clutching a red rose. It appears to be a lovers' suicide pact.... Until Detective Nikki Galena and DS Joseph Easter look more closely. Romeo and Juliet, as they decide to call them, were murdered somewhere else and brought to the woods. But why? Then another young couple are found dead, again beautifully posed as lovers. 

As the mists roll over the fens and enigmatic lights twinkle in the distance, only the locals know their way along the hidden paths through the mysterious watery terrain of one of England's most beautiful and sometimes dangerous places. Detective Matt Ballard may have retired but there's still plenty going on in the fens to keep him busy. Someone trashes an old lady's garden and daubs her isolated cottage with hateful graffiti. Emilia Swain seems to be totally harmless, so why is she being targeted?

Detective Joseph Easter's daughter discovers a cottage hidden in some trees on a large fenland farm. Someone has been living there. The farm owner's wife has been receiving sinister pagan artifacts, including a witch's knife. Are they some sort of warning or message? Joseph and his daughter search the cottage and find an old satchel. Inside are photos of a beautiful girl, Jennifer Cowley. She went missing 15 years ago. She'd been stalked by a young man, who was convicted of her murder, even though her body was never found.

Stella North, a rising star in the police, has her life torn apart by a gunman's bullets. She has often faced danger, but these injuries mean she must give up the job she loves. Her grandmother Beth is her rock. And Beth is no ordinary woman. At 70, she runs marathons and has a past that Stella knows very little about. Beth calls in her friend, Michael, to help with Stella's recovery. But this man means a lot more to Beth than she reveals. And Stella's ex-husband, Edward, and old police partner, Robbie, want to help, but Stella puts up emotional barriers.

Revellers are flocking into Greenborough for the yearly Dark Greenborough Festival, a three-day event celebrating local folklore, superstition, and the darker side of life. What the public doesn't know is that there has been a warning sent to the police, saying that Greenborough will be a very dangerous place this year. The anonymous letter ends with the Latin phrase, Mors certa, hora incerta: Death is certain, the hour uncertain.