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La specialità dello psicologo e profiler Tony Hill è scandagliare le menti dei criminali e comprenderne i meccanismi. A fronte di una misteriosa serie di omicidi che vede vittime degli psicologi brutalmente uccisi e segnati con un atroce scalpo rituale, è a lui che le autorità si rivolgono per decodificare la folle logica che sta mietendo vittime tra i suoi colleghi.

In una piccola e cupa stanza è stato ritrovato il corpo di una donna con il panico e il dolore ancora impressi sul volto. La scena ricalca in ogni dettaglio una serie di omicidi avvenuti due anni prima, che portarono alla condanna di un giovane profondamente disturbato di nome Derek Tyler, sulla base di prove allora ritenute inconfutabili. Chi ha commesso questi nuovi, efferati delitti? Si tratta dunque di un emulatore?

Le adolescenti di una piccola cittadina stanno scomparendo una dopo l'altra, senza lasciare tracce. Le autorità sono convinte che siano fuggite, forse attratte dalla città, ma chi ha indagato i meccanismi del crimine sa che si tratta di una spiegazione troppo debole. Tocca allo psicologo Tony Hill trovare il filo rosso che lega le sparizioni.

The first stunning thriller in the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series, from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Val McDermid. You always remember the first time. Isn’t that what they say about sex? How much more true it is of murder… Up till now, the only serial killers Tony Hill had encountered...

Award-winning novelist Val McDermid and Geographer Royal Professor Jo Sharp bring Scotland’s greatest historical catastrophe vividly to life. The Darien Venture was the singular event at the end of the seventeenth century that fundamentally altered Scotland's future. It took place on the other...

In the north of England, single women are beginning to disappear from weddings. A pattern soon becomes clear: Someone is crashing the festivities and luring the women away - only to leave the victims' bodies in their own burned-out cars in remote locations. Tony and Carol are called upon to investigate - but this may be the toughest case they've ever had to face. Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant Paula McIntyre and her partner Elinor must deal with a cruel cyber-blackmailer targeting their teenage ward, Torin.

In the Peak District village of Scarsdale, thirteen-year-old girls didn’t just run away. So when Alison Carter vanished in the winter of ’63, everyone knew it was a murder. Catherine Heathcote remembers the case well - a child herself when Alison vanished. Now a journalist, she persuades DI...

Natale in Scozia, il periodo dell’anno che esalta la bellezza di questa terra selvaggia, punteggiata di distillerie di whisky e di guglie e castelli che ne fanno il tripudio del gotico. Ma i sussulti di un indipendentismo che ha origini antiche scuotono la struttura portante del Regno Unito, con il rischio di un referendum che rappresenterebbe un pericoloso precedente. Allie Burns, giovane reporter del Clarion, un quotidiano di Glasgow, sta tornando a casa in treno dopo le vacanze quando si imbatte in qualcosa di inaspettato: un parto in una carrozza.

From the no.1 bestseller Val McDermid: journalist Lindsay Gordon becomes embroiled in a world of secrets, lies and blackmail in this gripping thriller When Alison Maxwell, a well-known Glaswegian journalist, is found murdered, the police look no further than the owner of the scarf use to...

The fifth thrilling novel in the DCI Karen Pirie series. 'Somebody has been here before us. And he's still here . . .' When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands, DCI Karen Pirie finds herself in the right place at the right time. Unearthed with someone's long-buried...

From the no.1 bestseller Val McDermid comes a gripping mystery starring journalist Lindsay Gordon A women’s protest peace camp comes under fire when Rupert Crabtree is found murdered on the grounds. Rupert was a solicitor leading a campaign against the camp, and the police suspect the...

From the no.1 bestseller Val McDermid: Introducing journalist Lindsay Gordon who finds herself solving a murder after a musician is killed at a concert Moments before she was due to appear on stage at school fundraising gala, star cellist Lorna Smith is found dead, garrotted with her own cello...

From the no.1 bestseller Val McDermid: When union leader Tom Jack falls to his death after a spectacularly public row with Lindsay, the only way to prove her innocence is to find the real culprit. When lecturer Lindsay Gordon returns to the UK for a trade union conference in Sheffield, she finds...

An enthralling anthology of 20 CWA Dagger Award-shortlisted gripping and thrilling stories for the most hardened crime fan. Featuring bestselling authors such as Neil Gaiman, Ann Cleeves, Christopher Fowler and Val McDermid. OVER TWENTY CWA DAGGER AWARD-WINNING SHORT STORIES FROM THE BEST OF THE...

Winter is the time to snuggle indoors without guilt; to curl up on the sofa with a good book or a box set, a hot drink or a wee whisky to hand. Val McDermid has always had a soft spot for winter: the bitter clarity of a crisp cold day, the vivid skies over the Firth of Forth, the crunch of frost...

Lindsay Gordon, self-proclaimed cynical socialist lesbian feminist journalist, is less than overjoyed at the prospect of spending a weekend at a posh girls' boarding school. Tensions are running high over the school's financial problems; the fact that school alumna and renowned musician Lorna Smith-Couper will return to the school to perform at a benefit concert only exacerbates anxieties. When Smith-Couper is found strangled with her own cello string right before the concert, Lindsay and Cordelia find their new relationship tested in unique ways as they seek to find the murderer among a long list of suspects.

The second thrilling novel in Val McDermid's new Sunday Times best-selling series It's 1989, and Allie Burns is back. Older and maybe wiser, she's running the northern news operation of the Sunday Globe, chafing at losing her role in investigative journalism and at the descent into the gutter of...

THE FIRST IN A THRILLING NEW SERIES FROM THE QUEEN OF CRIME, AND AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER NARRATED BY ACCLAIMED SCOTTISH ACTRESS AND HARRY POTTER STAR KATIE LEUNG “McDermid is at her considerable best.” GUARDIAN The shadows hide a deadly story . . . 1979. It is the winter of...

For fifteen years, Janet has been married to her devoted and boring husband, Trevor. But their marriage was not as simple as it seemed. Now Janet is on the road, hurtling towards another man, and another life. Has she found freedom, and the strength to escape Trevor’s dominating fetishes? Or...

Welcome to the Sounds of Crime, an exclusive collection of five brand new short stories by some of the best crimewriters around. Using the theme of 'audio', this unique collection features brand new stories by Lawrence Block, Peter James, Val McDermid, Mark Billingham and Christopher Fowler. By...