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Birdman showcases Hayder at her spine-tingling best as beloved series character Jack Caffery tracks down a terrifying serial killer. In his first case as lead investigator with London's crack murder squad, Detective Jack Caffery is called on to investigate the murder of a young woman whose body has been discovered near the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, southeast London.

Journalist Joe Oakes makes a living exposing supernatural hoaxes, but when he visits a secretive religious cult on a remote Scottish island, everything he thought he knew is overturned. While investigating a strange apparition caught briefly on film wandering the lonely beaches of Pig Island, so deformed it can hardly be human, Oakes crosses a border of electrical fencing, toxin-filled oil drums, and pigs' skulls to infiltrate the territory of the group's isolated founder, Malachi Dove.

With the redolent atmosphere of Ian Rankin and the spine-chilling characters of Thomas Harris, Mo Hayder's The Devil of Nanking, takes the reader on an electrifying literary ride from the palatial apartments of yakuza kingpins to deep inside the secret history of one of the twentieth century's most brutal events: the Nanking Massacre.

In a quiet residential area in London, a couple is discovered bound and imprisoned in their own home. Savagely battered and severely dehydrated, the worst revelation is yet to come: their eight-year-old son has been abducted. But when the body is found and forensic evidence turns the case on its head, revealing disturbing parallels to events in Detective Caffery's own past, Caffery realizes he's dealing with much more sinister forces than he'd anticipated - and finds it increasingly difficult to maintain his distance.

When a vagrant - the Walking Man - finds a dog wandering alone with the words Help Us written on its collar, he's sure it's a desperate plea from someone in trouble and calls on Detective Inspector Jack Caffery to investigate. Caffery has no idea who or what he is searching for, but one thing he is sure of: it's a race against time. Meanwhile, the Anchor-Ferrers, a wealthy local family, are fighting for their lives in their remote home 10 miles away. Two men have tricked their way into the house and are holding the family for ransom.

Jack Caffery's newest case seems like a routine carjacking, a crime he's seen plenty of times before. But as the hours tick by and his investigation morphs into a nightmare, he realizes the sickening truth: the thief wasn't after the car, but the eleven-year-old girl in the backseat. Meanwhile, police diver Sergeant Flea Marley is pursuing her own theory of the case, and what she finds in an abandoned, half-submerged tunnel could put her in grave danger.

When the decomposing body of a young woman is found, the wounds on her wrists suggest an open-and-shut case of suicide. But Jack Caffery is not so sure. Other apparent suicides are cropping up, and they all have a connection to Elf's Grotto, a nearly bottomless network of flooded quarries just outside the city. Caffery begins to suspect a shadowy and sinister predator, someone - or something - that can disappear into darkness and slip into houses unseen.

Les fantômes n'existent pas... Un terrible accident... Niché au cœur des Cotswolds, Eastonbirt a tout du village anglais idyllique. Mais ses habitants restent hantés par une tragédie. Une tragédie à laquelle Alex Mullins a survécu. La silhouette d'une femme... Cette nuit-là, une femme au visage décharné s'est penchée sur Alex. Une femme qui ressemble à Crâne d'os, une prostituée assassinée un siècle plus tôt. Une vérité pire que la légende... Alex ne croit pas aux légendes urbaines. Avec Arran, son ami d'enfance, elle décide de remonter le fil de la nuit du drame.

Nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand. The fact that there's no body attached is disturbing enough. Even more disturbing is the discovery, a day later, of the matching hand. Both have been recently amputated, and the indications are that the victim was still alive when they were removed. DI Jack Caffery has been newly seconded to the Major Crime Investigation Unit in Bristol. He and Flea soon establish that the hands belong to a young man who has recently disappeared.

Everything goes according to procedure when a patient, Isaac, is released into the community from a high-security mental health ward. But when the staff realizes that he was connected to a series of unexplained episodes of self-harm among the ward's patients, and furthermore that he was released in error, they call on Detective Jack Caffery to investigate and to track Isaac down before he can kill again.

One morning in picture-perfect Bath, England, a teenage girl's body is found on the towpath of a canal: Lorne Woods - beautiful, popular, and apparently the victim of a disturbingly brutal murder. Zoe Benedict - Harley-riding police detective, independent to a fault - is convinced the department head needs to look beyond the usual domestic motives to solve the case.

Quand Grey débarque à Tokyo sans argent ni bagages, elle a beaucoup à prouver et encore plus à cacher... Obsédée par un passé tumultueux, elle a quitté son Angleterre natale dans le seul but de retrouver un vieux film disparu. Ces images seraient l'unique témoignage visuel des atrocités commises par les Japonais à Nankin en 1937. Un seul homme pourrait aider Grey. Un survivant du massacre, professeur à l'université Todai. Mais ce dernier, méfiant, refuse de répondre aux questions de la jeune femme.

Patienterne på den lukkede afdeling på Beechway Sikringsanstalt i Bristol er letpåvirkelige. En hallucination kan sprede sig som et virus. Da uforklarlige strømafbrydelser fører til en række skrækindjagende hændelser, breder frygten sig fra patienterne til personalet. Midt i det stigende hysteri prøver oversygeplejersken AJ desperat at beskytte sine patienter. Mod det usynlige. Mod det, der kommer lige efter, strømmen er gået. Politikommissær Jack Caffery leder efter liget af en forsvunden ung kvinde.