Книги автора Beckett Simon

The Calling of the Grave
Название: The Calling of the Grave
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Год: 2012
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Описание: When DI Terry Connor turns up on David Hunter's doorstep, it's an unwelcome reminder of the past in more ways than one. The two used to be friends before Connor's behaviour caused a bitter rift. And the news the policeman brings is even less welcome: the psychotic rapist and murderer Jerome Monk has escaped from high security prison. Monk's is a name all too familiar to Hunter. Eight years before he'd part of an ill-fated Body Recovery team assembled to try and find the graves of Monk's teenage victims on the bleak expanse of Dartmoor. Only one of the missing girls' bodies was ever found, and Monk's own controversial involvement in the search led to more failure and a violent denouement. And now Monk is on the loose — and seems to be targeting anyone involved with the original search. Then Hunter receives a mysterious appeal for help from Sophie Keller, a young woman who also worked on the operation, he suddenly finds that the past is far from dead and buried. Neither the events unfolding now, nor those from all those years ago, are quite as they seem. And as the maniac's bloody trail edges ever closer, Hunter is forced to question who he can really trust. Especially when his own life depends on it...
Obsession
Название: Obsession
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Жанр: Rowohlt
Год: 2010
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Описание: Als seine Frau plötzlich stirbt, ist Ben am Boden zerstört. Allein Sarahs autistischer Sohn Jacob spendet ihm Trost. Aber während er die Schränke der Toten ausräumt, macht Ben eine grausame Entdeckung: Jacob war gar nicht Sarahs Kind. Offenbar hat sie den Jungen entführt, als der noch ein Baby war. Fassungslos macht sich Ben auf die Suche nach Jacobs leiblichen Eltern und gerät in einen Strudel tödlicher Obsessionen.
Stone Bruises
Название: Stone Bruises
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Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2005
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Описание: Somebody! I half-sob and then, more quietly, Please. The words seem absorbed by the afternoon heat, lost amongst the trees. In their aftermath, the silence descends again. I know then that I'm not going anywhere... Sean is on the run. We don't know why and we don't know from whom, but we do know he's abandoned his battered, blood-stained car in the middle of an isolated, lonely part of rural France at the height of a sweltering summer. Desperate to avoid the police, he takes to the parched fields and country lanes only to be caught in the vicious jaws of a trap. Near unconscious from pain and loss of blood, he is freed and taken in by two women — daughters of the owner of a rundown local farm with its ramshackle barn, blighted vineyard and the brooding lake. And it's then that Sean's problems really start... Superbly written, Stone Bruises is a classic nail-shredder of a thriller that holds you from the beginning. The narrative slowly, inexorably tightens its grip as the story unfurls and will keep you guessing until the unnerving and shocking final twist...