Val McDermid
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When charred human remains are discovered in the driver's seat of a burning car, DCI Carol Jordan and psychological profiler Tony Hill are brought in to investigate. They soon discover that what appeared to be a terrible accident is, in fact, murder. Delving deeper into the case, they begin the dangerous hunt for a most sinister killer with the power to inflict untold fear and pain on their victims.
Author
Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
Bestselling author of Broken Ground “offers fascinating glimpses” into the real world of criminal forensics from its beginnings to the modern day (The Boston Globe).
The dead can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them. Using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene, or the faintest of human traces, forensic scientists...
The dead can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them. Using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene, or the faintest of human traces, forensic scientists...
Author
Language
English
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Description
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 were safely behind bars. This one's different -- this one's on the loose. In the northern town of Bradfield four men have been found mutilated and tortured. Fear grips the city; no man feels safe. Clinical psychologist Tony Hill is brought in to profile the killer. A man with...
Author
Language
Deutsch
Description
Jane Austens Northanger Abbey neu verfasst von Krimimeisterin Val McDermid
Lesen ist gefährlich! Zu gern verliert die 17-jährige Pfarrerstochter Cat Morland sich in der Welt der Bücher und träumt von aufregenden Abenteuern, die sie in ihrer Heimat im ländlichen Piddle Valley leider niemals finden wird. Zum Glück darf sie zu einem Kulturfestival nach Edinburgh reisen, wo sie sich in den jungen, aufstrebenden Rechtsanwalt Henry Tilney verliebt....
Author
Publisher
BBC Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Manchester-based private eye Kate Brannigan is not amused when she is woken up in the middle of the night and informed that a Monet has been stolen from a stately home where she arranged security. Feeling that it's her responsibility to get it back, she decides to investigate - and after talking to the insurers, she discovers that the robbery was just the latest in a series of art thefts at British stately homes. There have been three identical burglaries...
Author
Series
Allie Burns volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Val McDermid's award-winning, internationally bestselling novels have captivated readers for over three decades. In her new novel 1979, she returns to the past with the story of an investigative journalist whose work leads her into a world of corruption,terror, and murder. It's only January, and the year has already brought blizzards, strikes, power cuts, and political unrest. But for journalist Allie Burns, bad news provides an opportunity to escape...
Author
Series
Tony Hill and Carol Jordan mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Across the country, dozens of teenage girls have vanished. It's the job of criminal profilers Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan to look for a pattern. They've spent years exploring the psyches of madmen. But sane men kill, too. And when they hide in plain sight, they can be difficult to find... He's handsome and talented, rich and famous - a notorious charmer with the power to seduce...and the will to destroy. No one can fathom what he's about to do...
8) Dead beat
Author
Series
Kate Brannigan mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1993, c1992
Physical Desc
207 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
404 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Kate Brannigan mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
283 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
12) A darker domain
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
355 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
13) The retribution
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jacko Vance is an ex-celebrity and sociopath whose brilliance and utter lack of remorse have never left Tony's mind in the ten years since his imprisonment. Now Jacko has escaped from prison, and he is focused on wreaking revenge on Tony and Carol for his years spent in prison.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st St. Martin's Minotaur ed.
Physical Desc
390 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan turns to clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill to help solve the grotesque murder of a prostitute, a crime that bears a striking resemblance to an earlier series of solved crimes.
15) Cross and burn
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
438 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The crime fighting team of clinical psychologist Tony Hill and police detective Carol Jordan investigate a serial killer who is targeting women who look suspiciously like Carol.
18) Still life
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 6
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
pages ; cm.
Language
English
Description
"The UK's "Queen of Crime" Val McDermid returns to her propulsive series featuring cold case detective Karen Pirie, who finds herself investigating the shadowy world of forgery, where things are never what they seem. Still Life is intensely gripping from the first page and further proof that McDermid is writing at the top of her game. When a lobster fisherman on an early morning run pulls in his traps, he finds something he wasn't expecting to catch-a...
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 3
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When remains are found in the pinnacle of a Victorian Gothic building in Edinburgh, Karen Pirie stumbles into a cold case linked to the Balkan Wars.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Is it violence if it's virtual? The outspoken women targeted by the increasingly cruel Internet trolls and bullies would probably say so. For some of them, the torrents of bile and vicious threats prove too much. They begin to silence themselves in a series of high-profile suicides. Or do they? Tony Hill isn't convinced. But he's the only one. Former cop Carol Jordan is too busy messing up her life to care. Until she gets an unexpected second chance....