Sharon Bolton

Catrin Quinn's job at Falkland Conservation is to protect the sea life in the Falklands' fragile ecology. Why would her goal, her passion, lie in nursing a plan to kill her former best friend, Rachel Grimwood? "In such a small community as the Falkland Islands, a missing child is unheard of. In such a dangerous landscape it can only be a terrible tragedy, surely... When another child goes missing, and then a third, it's no longer possible to believe...

Tora Hamilton is an outsider at her new home on the rocky, wind-swept Shetland Islands, a hundred miles from the northeastern tip of Scotland. Though her husband grew up here, it's the first time he's been back in twenty years. Digging in the peat on their new property, Tora unearths a human body, at first glance a centuries-old bog body, interesting but not uncommon. But realizing that the body is in fact much newer, that the woman's heart has been...

"He's a serial killer. A murderer of young women, all killed in brutal attacks. But despite Hamish Wolfe's conviction, he's always stuck to his story--he's innocent and he's been wrongly imprisoned. And now he wants someone to investigate and, more importantly, to write his story. Maggie Rose is a notorious defense attorney and writer whose specialty is getting convictions overturned. At first, Maggie is reluctant to even acknowledge Hamish's requests...

"No matter how far you run, some secrets will always catch up with you... The remote Antarctic island of South Georgia is about to send off its last boat of the summer - which signifies safety to resident glaciologist Felicity Lloyd. Felicity lives in fear - fear that her ex-husband Freddie will find her, even out here. She took a job on this isolated island to hide from him, but now that he's out of prison, having served a term for murder, she knows...

Something isn't quite right in Heptonclough, including the mysterious accidental deaths of three toddlers over the last ten years. It is not until Tom Fletcher's siblings, two-year-old Milly and five-year-old Joe Fletcher, go missing in turn that the little village's evil secret turns his family's dreams of an English paradise into a nightmare.

"Now living in a houseboat on the River Thames, Lacey Flint is becoming a part of London's weird and wonderful riverboat community. But at dawn one hot summer morning, Lacey finds the body of a shrouded young woman in the river. She assumes it was chance--after all she's recently joined the marine policing unit--but further investigation leads her team to suspect it was deliberately left for her to find. She is no longer a detective, but as she begins...

Just weeks ago, a Jack the Ripper copycat terrorized London, leaving London police officer Lacey Flint scarred both physically and emotionally. Still recovering from the ordeal and technically off-duty, Lacey almost ignores it when she hears a call for back-up as she's heading home. But, she's close by and figures they could use her help. She could never have expected the horrible crime she would witness on arriving at the scene, or the frightening...

Das Böse in dieser Stadt ist niemals verschwunden ... Ein schauderhafter Fund führt Florence Lovelady, die ranghöchste Polizeibeamtin Großbritanniens, zurück in ihre Heimat: In der englischen Kleinstadt Sabden sind in der Nähe des ehemaligen Waisenhauses vier Kinderskelette aufgetaucht. Nach offizieller Verlautbarung sind sie uralt. Doch Larry Glassbrook, verurteilter Mörder und berüchtigtster Sohn der Stadt, vertraut Florence an, dass hier...

Eine angelegene Insel, umgeben von ewigem Eis - und es gibt kein Entkommen ... Die Angst vor ihrem Ehemann Freddie hat Felicity bis ans Ende der Welt getrieben: auf die kleine antarktische Insel Südgeorgien, kurz vor dem Südpol. Jedes Mal, wenn sich ein Schiff nähert, sucht Felicity ein Versteck auf und beobachtet die Passagiere durch ihr Fernglas. Sehnsüchtig wartet sie darauf, dass der Winter kommt und das Eis die Insel für ein paar Monate...

Anlässlich der Beerdigung des ehemaligen Sargtischlers und Mörders Larry Glassbrook kehrt die Polizistin Florence Lovelady mit ihrem Sohn Ben zurück nach Lancashire - in die Stadt des spektakulären Falls, der einst ihre Karriere begründete. 1969 wurden dort mehrere Jugendliche vermisst. Es stellte sich heraus, dass sie entführt und in Särgen lebendig begraben worden waren. Florence gelang es, Grassbrook dieser grausamen Taten zu überführen...