Стив Мосби — новинки

Brillant, verstörend, hoch spannend - der neue Psycho-Thriller von Steve Mosby, Englands Meister des Genres.

Na miejskim blokowisku dochodzi do brutalnego morderstwa. Sledztwo prowadzi Andrew Hicks (wraz ze swoja partnerka, Laura Fellowes), doswiadczony detektyw, ktory w swojej pracy opiera sie na statystykach i logice. Uwaza, ze nie ma rzeczy niewytlumaczalnych, a kazda zbrodnia ma jasno sprecyzowany motyw. Szybko jednak okazuje sie, ze ostatnie zabojstwo nie daje sie zaklasyfikowac do zadnego z "pokoi", w ktorych zdaniem Hicksa kryja sie przyczyny typowych przestepstw. Gina kolejne, niepowiazane ze soba osoby, a do serii zabojstw przyznaje sie niejaki General, ktory w swoich listach rzuca wyzwanie policji, aby zlamala szyfr do jego zbrodni. Pomimo usilnych staran detektyw nie moze znalezc zadnego logicznego wytlumaczenia dzialan zabojcy ani przejrzec jego perfekcyjnego szyfru. Sprawa zmusza go nie tylko do zrewidowania swoich dotychczasowych przekonan, ale takze do zmierzenia sie z demonami przeszlosci. Nad sledztwem ciazy bowiem konflikt Hicksa z ciezarna zona, ktorego zrodlo okazuje sie tkwic w traumatycznych doswiadczeniach detektywa z dziecinstwa. Po raz pierwszy w zyciu Hicks zaczyna dochodzic do wniosku, ze zlo, w ktore dotad nie wierzyl, jednak istnieje, a przyczyny niektorych zdarzen bywaja niewytlumaczalne, tak jakby zrodzily sie w jakims zupelnie nowym dla niego, ciemnym pokoju... Oprocz trzymajacego w napieciu watku kryminalnego nadrzednym motywem calej powiesci jest przyczynowosc w zyciu czlowieka. Ukazujac niezwykle i zaskakujace powiazania pomiedzy poszczegolnymi bohaterami powiesci, autor dowodzi, ze nic na swiecie nie jest przypadkowe: wszyscy jestesmy uwiklani w lancuch przyczyn i skutkow, wszystkie dzialania maja swoje konsekwencje, i wszystko, czego doswiadczamy, okazuje sie miec glebszy - choc nierzadko ukryty - sens.

This is not a story about a girl who disappears. This is the story of a little girl who comes back. As if from nowhere, she appears one day on a seaside promenade, with a black flower and a horrifying story about where she's been. But telling that story will start a chain reaction of dangerous lies and deadly illusions that will claim many more victims in the years to come. Neil Dawson has grown up wanting to be like his father—a writer. When his father commits suicide, he is devastated. But through his grief, Neil knows something isn't right. Looking through his father's papers, he finds a copy of an old novel, The Black Flower. Opening it will take Neil into an investigation full of danger, pain and subterfuge. Hannah Price is also mourning her father. She followed his footsteps into the police force, and knows she has a big reputation to live up to. When she gets assigned to Neil's father's case, it will lead her on a journey into her own past and to the heart of a shattering secret.

Mark Nelson is a young police officer, newly assigned to the team of John Mackey--a highly-decorated and successful detective, and author of a bestselling true crime book based on his years of experience catching killers. Mackey is a legend in the force and it's a huge opportunity for Mark, who has dedicated his life to his job ever since the death of his girlfriend years before.

When a man is found burned to death in his own home, Mackey's team is thrown into an investigation that grows darker and more complex at every turn. The evidence points to a man known as the Fifty-Fifty Killer. His targets are young couples, who he stalks and subjects to a single night of torture and manipulation, testing and destroying the love between them.

Only one of them ever survives until dawn. Soon afterwards, a young man walks into a police station badly tortured and with his memory in tatters. He knows only that his girlfriend is still being held captive in the woods he's escaped from. But the team know that by fleeing, the man has sealed his girlfriend's fate. If they can't piece together his experience by daybreak then she will die in his place. However, all is not what it seems.