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Die dunkelsten Geheimnisse verbergen sich oft vor aller Augen ... An einem einsamen Pfad hoch oben an einer Klippe wird die Leiche einer ermordeten Jugendlichen gefunden, ihr engelsgleiches Gesicht ist der aufgehenden Sonne zugewandt. Nachdem ein unbekannter Mörder sie erwürgt hat, ist es nun an DI Tom Janssen und seinem noch jungen Team, herauszufinden, warum sie dort gelandet ist. Holly Bettany war eine Karriere als Ärztin vorbestimmt, die jene ihrer Eltern noch überflügeln sollte, ihre Zukunft schien erfolgversprechend und privilegiert.

Die Vergangenheit auszugraben ... ist ein Todesurteil ... Als ein Teenager während der Burns Night verschwindet, unternimmt DI Duncan McAdam alles, um ihn zu finden. Der Vater allerdings scheint sich keine großen Sorgen zu machen. Nachdem die Leiche einer Frau mit einer einzelnen Stichwunde in der Brust in der Bucht von Talisker gefunden wird, wird dem Team um DI McAdam klar, dass sich ein Mörder auf der Insel herumtreibt. Ein schwerer Schneesturm sucht die Insel heim. Schnell wird es zu einem Wettlauf gegen die Zeit, um den vermissten Jungen zu finden.

Die Vergangenheit holt jeden ein ... und ist tödlich ... Als der Besitzer einer Galerie in Portree am Fuß des Storr tot im Schnee aufgefunden wird, müssen DI Duncan McAdam und sein kleines Team herausfinden, warum er dort war ... und wer ein Motiv hatte, ihn zu ermorden. Ein ehrgeiziger Mann, dem die Herzen der Frauen zufliegen, liefert Leuten genug Gründe, um wegzusehen, sollte ihm etwas zustoßen ... und viele würden ihn nur allzu gerne selbst ins Jenseits befördern.

Der Tod währt nicht ewig... Ein Grüppchen junger Leute versammelt sich am abgelegenen Coral Beach auf der Insel Skye, um mit einer rauschenden Party ihren Schulabschluss zu feiern. Das neue Jahrtausend bricht an mit dem Versprechen neuer Abenteuer und Möglichkeiten. In den nächsten Tagen werden viele die Insel verlassen. Die Arbeit oder das Studium auf dem Festland erwartet sie. Andere werden auf Skye bleiben und sich für ein traditionelleres Leben entscheiden, wie es ihre Familien seit Jahrhunderten führen. Das heißt... alle, bis auf eine.

When I first meet Sophie, she seems like any normal loving mother, trying desperately to help her teenage daughter. That’s where I come in. The perfect tutor to get Katie’s life back on track. I connect instantly with Katie, and Sophie’s thoughtful husband Scott. But Sophie’s dark eyes are full of jealousy when I talk to Scott or share a smile with Katie. I know I’m helping her daughter, whatever she thinks.

When the body of a missing tourist is discovered slain in the foothills of the Cuillin Mountain range, it falls to D.I. Duncan McAdam and his small team to discover how he came to be there and who would have a motive to kill him. The summer season is a welcome distraction following a brutal and challenging winter. The Isle of Skye is booming with a revitalised tourist trade after a tough few years, and the Misty Isle is on course for its best year for visitors on record. But one person has not received the warm greeting the islanders are famed for.

A closely guarded secret, lying in a shallow grave for years, is under threat of being revealed and no one seems willing to face up to their past... least of all, Duncan McAdam himself. Duncan has a decision to make, one that will impact not only his life but the lives of those he cares about the most. Does he have the courage to follow his instincts? And just who is he acting in the interests of... the people he loves, or purely for himself?

The second book in the Misty Isle series, by J M Dalgliesh.

D.I. Duncan McAdam is dispatched home to the Misty Isle. A body has been found buried in a remote location on the Waternish peninsula. Well-preserved in the peat, Isla Matheson—missing for the better part of two decades—is revealed to a shocked island community. A teenage runaway is dead...and no one is talking.

When a man's dismembered body is discovered at an abandoned quarry on the north Norfolk coast, DI Tom Janssen and his team must wade through his secretive life to figure out how he met his end.The victim was a quiet man, well respected by those who knew him, and someone often willing to help local charities with his free time.

The Dark Yorkshire Series are fast-paced crime fiction stories featuring DI Nathaniel Caslin. Books four to six in this best-selling series are brought together for the first time in a great value collection. Includes: Blood Money, Fear the Past, and The Sixth Precept.

DI Nathaniel Caslin has earned the freedom to run his case load as he sees fit, bypassing the hierarchical constraints with his specialist unit. Little does he know a deadly adversary is walking the streets of York. One who will push the team to their psychological limits. Reluctantly agreeing to a joint investigation alongside a detective from the Drug Squad, Caslin is perplexed by the multiple homicides of a number of addicts. Poisoned by their own supply with no apparent motive, the killings appear gang related.

The Dark Yorkshire Series - fast-paced crime fiction stories featuring DI Nathaniel Caslin. The first three full-length books in this best-selling series are brought together for the first time in this great value set.

A murder without motive. A bombing. The sins of the past revisited.... DI Nathaniel Caslin is heading up a specialist unit, an opportunity to make a real difference. Little does he know, decisions taken decades previously are about to threaten all that he holds dear.... Gangland tensions are on the rise as an uneasy peace is fractured in spectacular fashion. Two warring factions are lining up to unseat the other. Old adversaries rekindle their passion to exact revenge whilst the next generation seek to make a name for themselves.

A businessman found hanged. A tortured and mutilated loaner. High finance has never been so deadly.... DI Nathaniel Caslin is spiralling toward a professional crisis. His biggest case in years has collapsed amid accusations of police intimidation. A rebuilt reputation is now facing ruin.... As the extremes of nationalist hate descend upon York, a refugee is tortured to death while a straightforward case of a bankrupt’s suicide proves to be anything but simple. How does an enigmatic campaigner with a secret to keep link these two disparate worlds?

Two women are missing. One who has it all. The other, has lost everything.... DI Nathaniel Caslin is in conflict with his inner demons. His career is resurgent but the greater battle, that with his addiction, is still raging...and he is losing. An abandoned car and a desperate call to the police, lead Caslin into the heart of two families where secrets and lies are a way of life. What links the fate of an MP's granddaughter and that of a recovering drug addict, working in the sex trade? Past horrors and personal scandals tag with the present, as the tension mounts.

A murdered family-man. A young woman tortured and set on fire. A face from the past…DI Nathaniel Caslin is stable, for the first time in years. Now, he can look to the future, or so he thought. Granting a small favour to a friend, can often be anything but simple. When the only link between two apparently random murders appears to be an aging, Catholic priest, Caslin is thrust into a world of long-buried secrets. Drawing unwanted attention from the intelligence services, he must consider if the man he once trusted above all others, is now playing by his own rules.

DI Nathaniel Caslin’s life is a mess. He works the minimum, abuses substances to survive the day and drinks his nights away. A once-promising career is in freefall. Investigating the death of an ex-serviceman in police custody reveals the disappearance of a young family. No-one noticed. No-one seems to care.

Get three absolutely gripping crime thrillers set on the UK's atmospheric north Norfolk coast from number one best-selling British author J M Dalgliesh in this great value collection.

When a man's body is discovered crammed into the boot of an abandoned car in a remote location, DI Tom Janssen and his team must unpick his life to find out how he came to be there. The victim was a local man, popular with some although hated by others, and he had a habit of making enemies, enemies that any sane man would seek to avoid. For once, the team do not struggle to find a suspect or a motive for his murder, but with several to choose from, how can they determine who delivered the killing blows?