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Brigid Quinn ma wspomnienia, których wolałaby nie mieć, i zabójcze umiejętności, których wolałaby już nigdy nie potrzebować. Widziała i robiła rzeczy, które wymazała z pamięci. Poza jedna... Morderca z Drogi 66 zabił sześć kobiet. Porywał je z szosy, a potem pozostawiał ciała na spalonych słońcem pustkowiach Arizony. Poza jednym. Ciała Jessiki, młodej podwładnej Brigid, nigdy nie odnaleziono. A Brigid nigdy nie zapomniała, że to ona wysłała Jessikę na Drogę 66... Trzynaście lat później ta nierozwiązana sprawa znowu wdziera się w życie Brigid. Życie spokojne, ułożone na nowo u boku kochającego męża, profesora filozofii i byłego pastora.

Eks-FBI-agenten Brigid Quinn har set rigeligt med psykopater. Hun er klar til at lægge det hele bag sig og opbygge et nyt liv i Tucson med sin mand, venner og et godt, stille arbejde som privatdetektiv. Men nogle gange er tingene ikke så simple. Da hendes svigerinde dør, beslutter Brigid sig for at tage sin syttenårige niece Gemma-Kate under sine vinger. Der har altid været noget foruroligende ved Gemma-Kate, men familie er familie. Det går fint, indtil Gemma-Kate begynder at få en usund interesse for at dissekere det lokale dyreliv.

Eks-FBI-agent Brigid Quinn har set det hele – og overlevet det. Men intet er så udfordrende som ens familie... Da Brigid får en opringning fra sin mor om, at hendes far er kommet på hospitalet, vender hun næsen mod Florida og sin dysfunktionelle familie. Skæbnen vil, at hendes tidligere kollega Laura Coleman bor i nærheden, så hun griber chancen, da Laura beder om hjælp med en appel for en dødsdømt.

Som ung FBI-agent var Brigid Quinn den perfekte lokkemad for seriemordere – slank og blond, tilsyneladende et let bytte. Men da hun bliver ældre, må hun finde en afløser, en protege, som kan tage hendes plads. Hun træner en nyuddannet agent op og bruger hende som madding. Og alt går efter planen… lige indtil Route 66-morderen finder maddingen, tager den – og myrder den unge agent. Mange år senere kæmper Quinn stadig med det faktum, at hun har en ung kvindes liv på samvittigheden.

University student Daniel is shattered when his best friend Rick is found dead in their Manchester halls. Becky, Daniel’s fiercely loyal friend, is determined to uncover the truth behind Rick’s death. Juggling her own personal struggles with a manipulative tutor and a troubled home life, Becky dives headfirst into a dark investigation. Desperate and spiraling into grief, Daniel turns to Alan, a charismatic Kabbalistic leader, for answers. But Alan’s help comes at a dangerous price.

Girl time is hard to come by for new moms. So when Kate's best friend, Paula, invites her to Spa Day, Kate jumps at the chance for break from diaper duty. But when a body is recovered from one of the saunas, it may prove that the guest was Pampered to Death!

Martial arts master Lin Su Yoshimura is a force to be reckoned with. Now in the US after being shunned as a mixed-race Chinese-Japanese girl, then kidnapped as a teen and sold into the sex-trafficking trade, Lin Su is rescued from an abusive New York pimp by one of the city’s top-level cocaine dealers. Navigating both back alleys and opulent venues with lethal grace, Lin Su finds her way forward through the underbelly of the city, as she wrestles with the horrors of her past.

On 7th November 1843, Harriet Monckton, 23 years old and a woman of respectable parentage and religious habits, is found murdered in the privy behind the chapel she regularly attended in Bromley, Kent. The community is appalled by her death, apparently as a result of swallowing a fatal dose of prussic acid, and even more so when the surgeon reports that Harriet was around six months pregnant. Drawing on the coroner’s reports and witness testimonies, Elizabeth Haynes builds a compelling picture of Harriet’s final hours through the eyes of those closest to her and the last people to see her alive.

In the middle of the night, 14-year-old Samuel is woken by the sound of a terrified scream from the kitchen of his home on a quiet street. The police - finding him sobbing on the kitchen floor, cradling his mother's lifeless body - hit a dead end before the investigation has even begun: because although he witnessed the murder, Samuel is blind. But when Detective Jessica Daniel meets the boy, the way he uses just his sense of sound to accurately locate her hand to shake it convinces her that this clever young teenager could hold the key to the entire case.

A man who survived being drowned ends up in Manchester’s canal. Someone who was hit by a car is shoved in front of DC Archie Davey’s patrol vehicle. Killers generally aren’t a happy bunch, but this particular one seems to have a problem with second chances. Luckily for DI Jessica Daniel, things are looking up. She’s been assigned to work on the most crime-free estate in the city, and she’s back living with her best friend. Things could not be hunky-dorier. That is unless there’s a sinister reason why the estate is so free of trouble....

It started with a phone call. Just one word - ‘Jessica’ - and now Detective Inspector Jessica Daniel has a big problem. Her missing friend, Bex, called from a battered seaside payphone, and yet, by the time Jessica arrived, there was nobody there. One man claims he can help - but then he turns up on a beach stabbed to death. Jessica believes someone must be framing her. Someone who is always a step ahead. When she finds a boy whose tattoo matches Bex's, she becomes more desperate than ever for answers.

In 1959, a family of four were brutally murdered in Holcomb, Kansas. Perry Smith and Dick Hickok were convicted and executed for the crime, and the murders and their investigation and solution became the subject of Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood. But what if there was a third killer, who remained unknown? What if there was another family, also murdered, who crossed paths with this band of killers, though their murder remains unsolved? And what if Dick Hickok left a written confession, explaining everything? 

Detective Sergeant Mona Hendricks has enough on her plate: she's separated from her husband, her teenage daughter is punishing her for it, and she's having to babysit. When her daughter's favourite influencer, Kylie May, finds a dead body and broadcasts it to the world, Mona is thrown into a very public murder investigation. What ensues are two duelling investigations between a seasoned detective and an ambitious influencer, one using good old-fashioned police work, and the other using sensational tactics to keep spotlight on the case - and on herself.

FOUR UNSOLVED MURDERS In 1959, The Walker family murders shook Florida. At one time, 587 people were considered suspects - but 60 years later the investigation remains unsolved. AN FBI AGENT'S FINAL JOB Former FBI agent Brigid Quinn is trying to enjoy life after work. But when the intriguingly...

After a long and murky career with the FBI, Brigid Quinn is trying to move on. She's got a nice house. Dogs. A husband who knows nothing of her past. But the abduction and murder of a young female colleague still haunts her. So when the girl's body is finally found, and a man confesses to the...

Ex-FBI Agent Brigid Quinn thinks she has a second chance at life. After too many years spent in the company of evil, she's quit the Feds and is working out what normal is meant to feel like. She's swapped serial killers, stakeouts and interrogation for a husband, friends and free time. But when you've walked in darkness for so long, can you stand the light? When a local teenager dies in a tragic drowning accident, the community thinks Brigid might be able to help comfort the family.

It takes a strong woman to be able to watch someone die. Brigid Quinn is tough, determined, steely and sharper than sharp. As an ex-agent of the FBI, she has seen it all - and survived. But nothing can cut her closer to the bone than family.... When Brigid gets a call from her mother saying her father is in hospital with pneumonia, she decides to check on her former colleague Laura Coleman, who is living nearby. Having saved Brigid's life, Laura is now working on an innocence project, investigating cold cases.

From Kindle number one bestselling author, Kerry Wilkinson, Crossing the Line is a darkly gripping novel where Jessica Daniel faces her toughest investigation yet. Long before Jessica Daniel became a police detective, Manchester was a ghost city after dark. Fear ruled as people were afraid to be...

The Woman in Black is the third gripping Jessica Daniel novel from bestselling sensation, Kerry Wilkinson. Someone has left a severed hand in the centre of Manchester and the only clue Detective Sergeant Jessica Daniel has to go on is CCTV footage of a woman in a long black robe placing it...

In bestselling crime author Kerry Wilkinson's Eye for an Eye, DI Jessica Daniel is tasked with multiple investigations while facing demons from her past. Seventeen years ago, Damian Walker abducted five women because the voices in his head told him to. Now he has been declared sane and is about...