検索キーワード： 著者 "Val McDermid" すべてのカテゴリー

The fourth in the series featuring investigative journalist Lindsay Gordon. Leaving her new home in California for a trade union conference in Sheffield, Lindsay Gordon finds herself in the company of old friends - and enemies, including Tom Jack. When this unethical union leader is found dead, having catapulted out of Lindsay’s tenth-floor hotel room, she is taken in for questioning by the police.

When Alison Maxwell, a well-known Glaswegian journalist with an irresistible sexual attraction to both sexes, is found murdered the police look no further than the owner of the scarf used to strangle her. Lindsay Gordon, however, has other ideas. Maxwell was a serial seductress who kept a secret record of her encounters – including one with Lindsay herself. Recalling the threats that followed the end of the relationship, Lindsay knows all too well the feelings of rage, fear and passion that Alison Maxwell could invoke.

Freelance journalist Lindsay Gordon is strapped for cash. Why else would she agree to cover a fund-raising gala at a girls' public school? But when the star attraction is found garrotted with her own cello string minutes before she is due on stage, Lindsay finds herself investigating a vicious murder. Who would have wanted Lorna Smith Cooper dead? Who had the key to the locked room in which her body was found? And who could have slipped out of the hall at just the right time to commit this calculated and cold-blooded crime?

Tough, schottisch, Karen Pirie. Eine skelettierte Leiche in einem Wohnmobil gibt Cold-Case-Expertin Karen Pirie ebenso Rätsel auf wie ein Toter in einer Hummerfalle: Bei letzterem handelt es sich um den Bruder eines als vermisst geltenden schottischen Politikers. Akribisch folgt Karen Pirie auch dem kleinsten Hinweis - bis in die mondäne Welt des Kunsthandels, in der die toughe Ermittlerin sich denkbar deplatziert fühlt. Es scheint um Kunstfälschung und Identitätsdiebstahl zu gehen, doch der Fall nimmt immer neue Wendungen. Da erhält Karen eine beunruhigende Nachricht.

Kein Grab ist tief genug für die Wahrheit! Eine "Schatzkarte" ihres verstorbenen Großvaters führt eine junge Amerikanerin in die schottischen Highlands zu einem abgelegenen Ort mitten im Moor: Dort stößt sie auf ein vergrabenes, erstaunlich gut erhaltenes Motorrad, Baujahr 1944 - und auf eine männliche Leiche deutlich jüngeren Datums. DCI Karen Pirie, spezialisiert auf Cold Cases, ist eigentlich wegen eines anderen Falles in der Gegend, doch der Tote im Moor lässt ihr keine Ruhe. Er trägt ein sehr spezielles Paar Nike-Sneakers, eine Sonderanfertigung aus dem Jahr 1995. Und er ist offensichtlich keines natürlichen Todes gestorben.

Auf dem Gelände eines ehemaligen katholischen Waisenhauses für Mädchen wird ein grausiger Fund gemacht: Bauarbeiten fördern insgesamt vierzig Skelette von Mädchen zutage, alle vor mindestens zwanzig Jahren unter dem Rasen und im Nutzgarten vergraben - und an einer abgelegenen Stelle zehn männliche Skelette deutlich jüngeren Datums. Was ist in dem Waisenhaus geschehen, in dem Nonnen über Jahrzehnte hinweg ihr unerbittliches Regime ausgeübt haben?

In My Scotland, number one best-selling author Val McDermid takes readers to the landscapes she has known all her life and the places where her stories and characters reside. This remarkable book uncovers Val's own Scotland in all its glory - from the iconic Isle of Skye to the majestic streets of Edinburgh, from the undiscovered hideaways of the Highlands to the wild and untamed Jura. Featuring excerpts from Val McDermid's best-selling novels and charting Karen Pirie's Fife to Lindsay Gordon's Glasgow, My Scotland is an unforgettable and uniquely personal journey.

After an explosive case that forced Tony Hill and Carol Jordan to reassess everything they thought they knew about right and wrong, both are dealing with the fallout in their own separate ways. While Tony must pay the price for his actions, Carol is conducting investigations into suspected miscarriages of justice. But when a shocking discovery is made on a construction site, and skeletal remains are found to belong to a killer who is supposedly alive and in prison, suddenly Tony and Carol are brought into each other's orbit once again....

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 inheritance, the victim seems to belong to the distant past - until new evidence suggests otherwise, and Karen is called in to unravel a case where nothing is as it seems. It's not long before an overheard conversation draws Karen into the heart of a different case, however - a shocking crime she thought she'd already prevented. As she inches closer to the twisted truths at the centre of these murders, it becomes clear that she's dealing with a version of justice terrifyingly different to her own....

Kate Brannigan’s having a bad week. Her boyfriend’s death notice is in the paper and her plan to catch a team of fraudsters is in disarray. Kate can’t even cry on her best friend’s shoulder, for Alexis has worries of her own. Her girlfriend’s pregnant, and when the doctor responsible for the fertility treatment is murdered, Alexis needs Kate like she’s never done before. Delving into the alien world of medical experimentation, Kate confronts betrayal and cold-blooded greed as she fights to save not only her livelihood, but her life as well.

When a Monet is stolen from a stately home, Manchester-based private eye Kate Brannigan goes head to head with organised crime as she hunts the thieves through Europe. Meanwhile, someone is leaving a trail of bodies across the Northwest. As Kate confronts some harsh truths in her own life, the case stretches her love and loyalty to its limits.

Manchester-based private eye Kate Brannigan thought it would be safe to let her boyfriend help out with her investigation. But now he’s behind bars and she’s been left caring for his eight-year-old son. Soon Kate finds herself drawn into the world of drug traffickers, child pornographers and violent gangland enforcers – bringing her face to face with death in the most terrifying investigation of her career.

Gavin is an excellent writer; he can conjure up believable characters, evoke a credible setting and wrap the reader up in his language, but he can never seem to come up with a credible plot. On meeting Natasha at a creative writing group he thinks he has met his soulmate. Not only is she attractive, her plots are amazing. Combining their skills seems like the obvious route, and their stories become internet sensations. But when tragedy strikes, will the stories survive?

1979. It is the winter of discontent, and reporter Allie Burns is chasing her first big scoop. There are few women in the newsroom, and she needs something explosive for the boys' club to take her seriously. Soon Allie and fellow journalist Danny Sullivan are exposing the criminal underbelly of respectable Scotland. They risk making powerful enemies - and Allie won't stop there.

Fall Nr. 10 für Val McDermids berühmtes Ermittler-Duo: Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan und Profiler Tony Hill jagen den "Wedding Killer"! Eine verkohlte Leiche in einem ausgebrannten Auto - das ist alles, was von der unauffälligen Büroangestellten Kathryn McCormick übrig ist. Erst vor kurzem hatte sie auf einer Hochzeit einen attraktiven Mann kennengelernt und auf neues Glück nach einer herben Enttäuschung gehofft. DCI Carol Jordan und Profiler Tony Hill versuchen den Mann ausfindig zu machen, müssen aber feststellen, dass keiner der anderen Hochzeitsgäste ihn kannte.

Ein Verbrechen hat Carol Jordan und Tony Hill tief entzweit: Der Mord an Carols Bruder. Noch immer trägt sie schwer daran, dass Tony diese Tat nicht verhindert hat und will nichts mehr mit ihm zu tun haben. Doch plötzlich geschehen bizarre Morde. Ein Unbekannter tötet Frauen, die Carol erstaunlich ähnlich sehen. Alle Indizien deuten auf Tony. Will er sich so an ihr rächen?

Sebastian Fitzek, Val McDermid, Michael Connelly und zehn weitere Thrillerautoren lassen Ihnen das Blut in den Adern gefrieren...

Lindsay Gordon finds herself dragged into a sordid world of blackmail, prostitution, lies, and murder when she investigates the case of a former colleague jailed for killing a notorious Glaswegian journalist.

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.

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.