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Alastair Sheridan has it all. Wealth, good looks, a beautiful wife and children and, in the chaotic world of British politics, a real chance of becoming prime minister. But Alastair also has a secret. He’s a serial killer with a taste for young women. Only a handful of people know what kind of monster he is, and disgraced detective Ray Mason is one of them....

He's a detective hunting cold-blooded killers, but does he know more than he admits? She's a lawyer who must defend a murderer - but how far will she go to protect her only child? They have a plan - but can they trust each other with their lives?

Syv ofre. Tre mordere. Én dødbringende hemmelighed. Et hus langt ude på landet, hvor resterne af syv uidentificerede kvinder netop er blevet fundet. En politimand, der er parat til at risikere alt i jagten på deres mordere. En mand, som har set mordene og nu er på flugt, fordi han frygter for sit liv. Således begynder kapløbet om at finde frem til vidnet, før morderne gør det. For Ray Mason og privatdetektiv Tina Boyd venter en farlig vej, hvor lig og bedrag lurer bag hvert et sving.

Alastair Sheridan har det hele. Penge, et godt udseende, en smuk kone og børn og, i Storbritanniens kaotiske, politiske verden, en reel chance for at blive premierminister. Men Alastair har også en hemmelighed. Han er seriemorder med smag for unge kvinder. Kun en lille håndfuld mennesker ved, hvilket monster han er, og den vanærede kriminalassistent Ray Mason er en af dem.

Det kan tage et helt liv at få hævn for en forbrydelse. Da resterne af en 21-årig kvinde, der forsvandt sporløst i Thailand i 1990, bliver fundet i jorden på en gammel katolsk skole i Buckinghamshire, tager det langvarige mysterium en helt ny drejning.

Da Operation Kirurgisk Indgreb, en politiaktion, der skal fange colombianske narkohandlere i at sælge et stort parti kokain til undercover-betjente på et hotel i Heathrow, går frygteligt galt, falder mistanken hurtigt på en af de involverede betjente: Stegs Jenner. Men Stegs er ingen almindelig undercover-betjent. Som lidt af en enspænder med en række disciplinære anmærkninger har han altid levet på kanten. Da hans nære ven er død i en skudepisode, beslutter han nu at gå selv.

Regel nummer et: hold dig i live. Sean Egan har arbejdet undercover de sidste ti år og er vant til at leve på kanten. For nylig har han infiltreret en af Londons farligste forbryderbander, og de har lige meddelt ham, at de vil have ham med på et helt særligt job: den dristige bortførsel fra politiets varetægt af en seriemorder kendt under navnet Natteluskeren. Morderen: Yderst voldelig, men meget intelligent. Natteluskeren har oparbejdet sit ry ved at torturere fem unge kvinder til døde.

Ingen at stole på. Ingen steder at løbe hen. Ingen steder at gemme sig. Da forfatteren Rob Fallon går i byen en aften og ender sammen med sin bedste vens kæreste, Jenny, føler han skyld, allerede før der er sket noget. Men skyldfølelsen forvandler sig hurtigt til chok, da to mænd bryder ind i Jennys lejlighed, bortfører hende og forsøger at slå Rob ihjel. Da Rob melder det til politiet, er der ingen, der tror på ham. Og da han taler med Jennys far, siger han, at hun er på ferie i udlandet. Rob ved, at Jennys liv er i fare, og han begynder at stille spørgsmål.

Undercover cop Chris Sketty became a hero when he almost died trying to stop the most brutal terror attack in UK history. With the suspects either dead or missing, the real motive remains a mystery. But someone is convinced Sketty is a liar. A criminal mastermind. A murderer. Blackmailed into revealing the truth, Sketty will share a twisting tale of betrayal, deception and murder...with a revelation so shocking that nothing will be the same again.

From Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Kernick - the UK's answer to Harlan Coben - come two electrifying novellas and three gripping short stories published in book form for the very first time. Fans of David Baldacci, Stuart MacBride and Peter James will not be disappointed.

A house deep in the countryside where the remains of seven unidentified women have just been discovered. A cop ready to risk everything in the hunt for their killers. A man who has seen the murders and is now on the run in fear of his life. So begins the race to track down this witness before the killers do. For Ray Mason and PI Tina Boyd, the road ahead is a dangerous one, with bodies and betrayal at every turn....

A new twist to a decades old mystery. 1990. A young woman goes missing while backpacking in Thailand. She is never seen again. 2016. Her bones are discovered 6000 miles away in an English field and, within hours, the boyfriend who reported her disappearance all those years ago is dead. So begins a hunt to solve her murder that will take DI Ray Mason and PI Tina Boyd into a dark and terrifying world of corruption and deadly secrets, where murder is commonplace, and nothing and nobody is safe....

Dennis Milne is a man with a past, and a past that involves murder. A former cop, he’s earned his living killing the bad guys – drug-dealers, corrupt business men - people who, in his opinion, deserve to die. For the past two days, he’s been in Manila, waiting for his next target: a young woman who’s made herself some poor life-choices, and some even worse enemies.DI Tina Boyd is a woman on a mission. Tough, spiky and determined, she’s looking for the man she holds responsible for the death of her lover.

The gripping new race-against-time thriller by the best-selling author of Relentless, The Last 10 Seconds and The Final Minute. When Jane Kinnear sees her lover being murdered, she suddenly finds herself in danger. Taken to an anonymous police safe house, it soon becomes clear that her lover was an MI5 informant with important information about an imminent terrorist attack.

'It's night, and I'm in a strange house. The lights are on and I'm standing outside a half-open door. Feeling a terrible sense of foreboding, I walk slowly inside. And then I see her. A woman lying sprawled across a huge double bed. She's dead. There's blood everywhere. And the most terrifying thing of all is that I think her killer might be me ...'

A race-against-time short story from the best-selling author of Relentless, Siege, and Ultimatum, Simon Kernick. MP Tim Horton arrives home to find his seven year old son has been abducted by a ruthless gang of kidnappers. All they have left behind is the brutally murdered body of the Horton’s nanny. The gang’s demands are simple: Tim must sacrifice his own life in order to save his son’s. It’s the ultimate dead man's gift....

The gripping new race-against-time thriller by the best-selling author of Relentless, The Last 10 Seconds, Siege and Ultimatum. One witness. You’re on a trip with your family, miles from anywhere. A shot rings out – and your whole life changes in an instant. One secret. A woman is racing towards you, chased by three gunmen. Although you don’t know it, she harbours a deadly secret. She’s in terrible danger. And now you are too. No escape. You’re running, terrified, desperate to find safety.

A gripping narrative from the master of the race against time thriller. Have you ever been in the wrong place at the wrong time? You are hiking in the Scottish highlands with three friends when you come across a girl. She is half-naked, has been badly beaten, and she can’t speak English. She is clearly running away from someone. Do you stop to help her? Even if it means putting your friends’ lives - and your own - in terrible danger?

A threat has been made. An ultimatum delivered. Innocent people are in mortal danger. The gripping new bestseller from the master of the race-against-time thriller.8am: an explosion blasts through a cafe in central London. Minutes later a call is made to a local radio station: ‘We’ve just detonated a bomb. Another will explode shortly. The British Government has until 8pm tonight to meet all our demands, or a far greater attack will take place somewhere in the country that will bring fire down on all your heads.

It's evening, you're back late from work - and the house is in darkness. You step inside, and the phone rings. You answer it - and your world turns upside down. Your 14-year-old daughter's been taken, and her kidnappers demand half a million pounds in cash. They give you 48 hours to raise the money, and warn you that if you call the police, she'll die. Trying desperately to remain calm, you realise that your husband - the man you married only two years previously - is also missing.