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Vor 20 Jahren trafen 7 Jungen in der elitären Privatschule Potter's Field aufeinander und wurden Freunde. Nun sterben sie, einer nach dem anderen, auf unvorstellbar grausame Art. Das ruft Detective Constable Max Wolfe auf den Plan: Koffeinjunkie, Hundeliebhaber, alleinerziehender Vater. Und der Albtraum jedes Mörders. Er folgt der blutigen Fährte des Killers von Londons Hinterhöfen und Straßen bis in die dunkelsten Winkel des Internets. Mit jeder neuen Leiche kommt Max dem Täter näher - doch damit bringt er nicht nur sich selbst, sondern auch seine kleine Tochter in tödliche Gefahr.

In London macht eine Bürgerwehr, der Club der Henker, Jagd auf böse Menschen - auf Pädophile, Mörder, Hassprediger - und erhängt sie. Mit diesen Fällen von Lynchjustiz beginnen für Detective Max Wolfe seine bisher schwierigsten Ermittlungen. Denn wie fängt man Mörder, die von der Öffentlichkeit als Helden gefeiert werden? Seine Spurensuche führt ihn tief unter die Stadt, in den Untergrund Londons mit seinen vielen stillgelegten Tunneln und Geisterstationen.

Tony Parsons writes for the first time about his rock and roll years in a touching novel about friendship and growing up This is the UK of the summer of 1977 – in the midst of the Silver Jubilee celebrations, a generation are trying to grow up and discovering the limits of freedom. It is 16th...

After Alfie Budd’s beloved wife dies, he returns to England to find his parents feuding and his grandmother’s health failing. Alfie’s ambitions to be a writer are fading as well. But when he begins tutoring a young single mother for her A level exams, his bewildering life is suddenly transformed. A widely published journalist and the best-selling author of Man and Boy, Tony Parsons also regularly appears on BBC television.

Bestselling author Tony Parsons has been appointed Heathrow’s writer-in-residence. The result is Departures – seven stories of high drama, offbeat humour and raw emotion Here is Heathrow as it has never been seen before – a secret city populated by the 75 million travellers who pass...

#taken in the night: They thought they were kidnapping the mistress of one of London’s most powerful gangsters. But they’ve taken the wrong woman. And crossed the wrong detective. #taken underground: Detective Max Wolfe's hunt for the missing woman takes him from New Scotland Yard’s legendary Black Museum to the glittering mansions of career criminals, from sleazy strip joints to secret sex dungeons - and to unspeakably dark deeds committed decades ago. 

London, Hampstead Heath. Während eines Spaziergangs stolpert Detective Max Wolfe über die Leiche von Vic Masters, zu Lebzeiten Handlanger der Kray-Zwillinge, eines berüchtigten Verbrecher-Duos der 1950er und 1960er Jahre. Tatwaffe und Tötungsart sprechen für die Zwillinge. Handelt es sich tatsächlich um eine Botschaft des bereits 1968 verhafteten Verbrecher-Duos oder wandelt jemand anders auf ihren Spuren?

London, ein Uhr nachts am 2. Weihnachtsfeiertag. Schnee fällt, die Stadt schläft. Aber nicht Detective Max Wolfe. Durch die großen Fenster seines Lofts beobachtet er die dunkle Straße ein paar Stockwerke unter ihm. Ein Kastenwagen hat dort gerade angehalten. Zwei Männer springen heraus, vermummt und schwarz gekleidet. Sie zerren etwas aus dem Wagen. Es ist ein Mann halb nackt, halb tot, am Leben. Doch nicht mehr lange. Bald schon jagt Max Wolfe eine Bande von Mördern, die ihre Opfer buchstäblich einen Kopf kürzer macht.

London an einem klirrend kalten Neujahrstag. Detective Max Wolfe ist entsetzt: In einem noblen Wohnkomplex wurde die Familie Wood erschossen. Nur der jüngste Sohn scheint verschont worden zu sein, doch von ihm fehlt jede Spur. Hat der Killer ihn in seiner Gewalt? Max bleibt nicht viel Zeit. Seine Ermittlungen führen ihn weit in die Vergangenheit, zu einem Killer, der vor 30 Jahren eine Familie tötete, auf die gleiche brutale Art. Doch der ist mittlerweile alt und sterbenskrank. Trotzdem verbirgt er etwas, das spürt Max - eine Ahnung, die ihn ins Grab bringen wird, und zwar buchstäblich.

When terrorists use a drone to bring down a plane on one of London’s busiest shopping centres, it ignites a chain of events that will draw in the innocent and the guilty alike. DC Max Wolfe finds himself caught in the crossfire between a tech-savvy terrorist cell and a revenge-seeking, Bible-quoting murderer called Bad Moses.

A band of vigilante executioners roam London's hot summer nights, abducting evil men and hanging them. Sentenced to death is the gang member who abused vulnerable girls, the wealthy drunk driver who mowed down a child and the hate preacher calling for the murder of British troops. As the bodies pile up and riots explode all over the sweltering city, DC Max Wolfe embarks on his most dangerous investigation yet: hunting a gang of killers whom many believe to be heroes....

On New Year’s Day, a wealthy family is found slaughtered inside their exclusive gated community in north London, their youngest child stolen away. The murder weapon is a gun for stunning cattle, leading Detective Max Wolfe to a dusty corner of Scotland Yard’s Black Museum devoted to a killer who thirty years ago was known as the Slaughter Man. But the Slaughter Man is now old and dying. Can he really be back in the game?

Harry Silver has it all. A successful job in TV, a gorgeous wife, a lovely child. But in one moment of madness, he chucks it all away. A modern classic, Man and Boy is a hilarious and touching novel about how Harry comes to terms with his life, brings up his son alone and, gradually, learns what words like love and family really mean.

The final episode in the trilogy that began with the million-copy bestseller MAN AND BOY Ten years on from MAN AND BOY, it is crunch time for Harry… Life is good for Harry Silver. He has a beautiful wife, three wonderful children and a great job as producer of the cult radio show, A Clip Round...

Brought to you by Penguin. Max Wolfe is back! This is the long-awaited seventh instalment in the popular crime series from the number-one bestselling author of Man and Boy. Emma Moon is out. She’s served 16 years for a notorious armed robbery that left two men dead – and enriched many more...

A young woman moves into a small cottage in a Cornish fishing village. She is beautiful and alluring, and among both the locals and the summer visitors, she inspires infatuation and resentment in equal measures. She carries with her no trace of her history, or her previous life, or the past she has left behind. But that past is closer than she thinks. And it is looking for her. 

Brought to you by Penguin. Lana and Roman Wade have fled the city for a little corner of paradise, exchanging their flat with its unhappy memories for a small honey-coloured house among the rolling green hills of Oxfordshire. Their new home, set in a residential Close known as The Gardens, is...

Just how badly do you want to find paradise? When Tom Finn is almost jailed for confronting two burglars in his own home, this taxi driver takes his young family to live on the tropical island of Phuket, Thailand. Phuket is all the Finn family dreamed of – a tropical paradise where the...

‘Wistful, touching and funny’ Mail on Sunday ‘Hilarious and tear-jerking in turns’ Express ‘A sharp, witty and wise book straight from the heart’ Daily Mail Harry Silver has it all. A successful job in TV, a gorgeous wife, a lovely child. But in one moment of madness, he chucks it...

It should be the most natural thing in the world. But in Tony Parsons’ latest bestseller, three couples discover that Mother Nature can be one hell of a bitch. A hard-working trainee doctor, Megan Jewell finds herself accidentally pregnant. She wants a baby one day – but God, not now! Can...