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A rainy night in London. Shots are fired into a car which swerves on to the pavement, ploughing into a bus stop. It seems that a chilling gang initiation has cost an innocent victim their life. But the reality is far more sinister.... One life is wiped out, and three more are changed forever: the young man whose finger was on the trigger, an aging gangster planning a deadly revenge and the pregnant woman who struggles desperately to uncover the truth. Two weeks away from giving birth, how will she deal with a world where death is an occupational hazard?

It's only 10 days since Douglas Remfry's release from prison, having served seven years for rape, and now he's dead: naked on a bare mattress in a grubby north London hotel room, his head hooded and his hands tied with a brown leather belt. Someone knew he was coming out. Someone wanted to mete out some punishment of his own. And when a second sex offender is found dead, DI Tom Thorne knows he has a vicious, calculating vigilante on his hands.

It was a vicious, calculated murder. The killer selected his victim at Euston station, followed her home on the tube, strangled her to death in front of her child. At the same time, killed in the same way, a second body is discovered at the back of King's Cross station. And this grisly event eerily echoes the murder of two other women, stabbed to death months before on the same day. It is DI Tom Thorne who sees the link and comes to the horrifying conclusion. This is not a serial killer the police are up against. This is two of them - and two killers are way more deadly than one....

Alison Willetts has survived a stroke, deliberately induced by a skilful manipulation of pressure points on the head and neck. She can see, hear and feel, but she is completely unable to move or communicate. In leaving Alison Willetts alive, the police believe the killer's made his first mistake. Then DI Tom Thorne discovers the horrifying truth: it isn't Alison who is the mistake, it's the three women already dead. Thorne must find a killer whose agenda is disturbingly unique, and Alison, the one person who holds the key to the killer's identity, is unable to say anything....

Sarah thinks of herself as a normal single mum. It's what she wants others to think of her. But the truth is, she needs something new, something thrilling. Meanwhile, DI Tom Thorne is investigating a woman's suicide, convinced she was driven to do it by a man who preys on vulnerable women. A man who is about to change Sarah's life.

So many things that could have been different. An almost infinite number of them: the flight of the ball, the angle of the bat, the movement of his feet as he skipped down the pitch. The weather, the time, the day of the week, the whatever. The smallest variance in any one of these things or in the way that each connected to the other at the crucial moment and nothing would have happened as it did. An inch another way or a second or a step and it would have been a very different story.

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The targeted murder of four officers is only the first in a series of attacks that leaves police scared, angry and, most disturbingly of all, vengeful. As Tom Thorne and Nicola Tanner dig into the reasons for the violence, a deeper darkness begins to emerge: the possibility that these murders are payback. The price paid for an unspeakable betrayal.

Małym miasteczkiem Polesford, w którym dorastała funkcjonariuszka Helen Weeks, wstrząsa tragedia – zaginięcie dwóch nastolatek. Gdy do prasy przecieka informacja o aresztowaniu statecznego męża i ojca rodziny, Stephena Batesa, Helen wraz z detektywem Thorne’em przybywa po latach w rodzinne strony, by odkryć prawdę o uprowadzeniach, ale też zmierzyć się z własną mroczną przeszłością. Okazuje się, że żoną podejrzanego jest przyjaciółka Helen z lat szkolnych, która potrzebuje wsparcia w tej niezwykle trudnej sytuacji.

Een regenachtige avond in een achterbuurt in Zuid-Londen. Vijf tieners wachten in een auto op hun prooi. De eerste de beste passerende automobilist zal het slachtoffer worden van een dodelijke initiatierite. Het is het begin van een bloedstollend verhaal waarin niets is wat het lijkt. Het speelt zich af in een gewelddadige stad, waar jeugdbendes slaags raken met professionele criminelen en waar loyaliteit in mensenlevens wordt betaald. Geheimen worden ontsluierd in hetzelfde tempo waarmee er nieuwe slachtoffers vallen. De adembenemende en verrassende ontknoping van In het duister blijft tot het einde onvoorspelbaar.

W Pelican Palms na Florydzie spotykają się trzy pary Brytyjczyków. Zaprzyjaźniają się, ale ostatniego dnia ich doskonałe wakacje zmieniają się w koszmar: znika trzynastoletnia córka jednej z wczasowiczek kurortu. Podejrzany może być każdy z powyższej szóstki, bo wszyscy mają swoje mroczne tajemnice. Po powrocie do Anglii trzy pary kontynuują znajomość, ale mroczny cień na ich przyjaźń rzuca sprawa zaginionej - a jak się wkrótce okazuje, zamordowanej dziewczynki.

He's a detective, a dancer, he has no respect whatsoever for authority ­- and he's the best hope Blackpool has for keeping criminals off the streets. Meet Detective Declan Miller. A double murder in a seaside hotel sees grieving Miller return to work to solve what appears to be a case of mistaken identity. Just why were two completely unconnected men taken out? With a distinctly loose relationship with reality and a new partner to deal with, can eccentric, offbeat Miller find answers where more traditional police have found only an impossible puzzle?

A killer is on the loose. The victims: children whose mothers can't protect them. The past is coming back to haunt the people of London: a murderer is targeting the children of victims of Raymond Garvey, an infamous serial killer from London's past.

The customers in a London convenience store are taken captive. Among them is a young mother, Detective Helen Weeks. She is told her life depends on the co-operation of one of her colleagues - detective Tom Thorne. Akhtar is desperate to know what really happened to his beloved son, who died a year before in prison. He is convinced the death was not an accident and forces the one man who knows more about the case than any other, Thorne, to re-investigate.

Unconventional Detective Declan Miller has a problem. Still desperate to solve the murder of his wife, a young man has just appeared on his doorstep with a briefcase...containing a pair of severed hands. Miller knows this case is proof of a contract killing commissioned by local ne'er do well Wayne Cutler - a man he suspects might also be responsible for his wife's death. Now Miller has leverage, but unfortunately he also has something that both Cutler and a villainous fast-food kingpin are desperate to get hold of.

Unconventional Detective Declan Miller has a problem. Well, two problems. First, there's his dead wife and her yet-to-be-solved murder. He really should stop talking to her ghosts. Second, and most pressing, a young man has just appeared on his doorstep with a briefcase containing a pair of severed hands.

Maverick sleuth Declan Miller is back at work following the murder of his wife (and amateur ballroom dancing partner) Alex. Working with new partner and heavy metal enthusiast DS Sara Xiu, he is tasked with investigating the double killing of gangland family scion Adrian Cutler and IT consultant Barry Shepherd at the Sands Hotel. Initial evidence suggests a hired gun and a botched job. The search for the hitman begins and Miller begins to reconnect with his old network.

Jessica Clarke zostala podpalona przed dwudziestoma laty. Sprawce szybko ujeto i gdy przyznal sie do winy, trafil do wiezienia. Jeszcze jeden platny zabójca znikl z ulic Londynu. Kto wobec tego neka byla policjantke Carol Chamberlain twierdzac, ze to on jest prawdziwym podpalaczem? Carol zwraca sie o pomoc do Toma Thornea. Inspektor ma tymczasem mnóstwo problemów z seria zabójstw, która prawdopodobnie jest wynikiem wojny o wplywy dwóch rywalizujacych gangów. Nie uklada mu sie takze wspólpraca z nadinspektorem.

Tom Thorne znalazl sie na dnie. Pograzony w depresji po smierci ojca inspektor zostaje przeniesiony do pracy biurowej, jego kariera zalamuje sie. Kiedy w Londynie zaczynaja ginac bezdomni, Thorne zglasza sie na ochotnika, by wejsc jako tajniak w ich srodowisko. Szybko, moze nawet za szybko, staje sie jednym z nich. Na ulicach miasta doswiadcza strachu, glodu, zimna i biedy. Poznaje pare mlodych narkomanów i pomimo gry, jaka z nimi prowadzi, i ich pragmatycznej brutalnosci, przyjazn tej trójki wydaje sie szczera.

16-letni Luke Mullen byl widziany po raz ostatni, jak wsiadal do samochodu ze starsza od siebie kobieta. Nikt nie wie, dlaczego zostal porwany. Jego ojciec, byly nadinspektor policji, wie tylko, ze im dluzej trwa sledztwo, tym mniejsze sa szanse, ze jego syn zostanie odnaleziony zywy. Rodzice Luke’a otrzymuja niepokojace nagranie, na którym on z przerazeniem patrzy, jak ktos podchodzi do niego ze strzykawka w dloni. Inspektor Thorne potrafi rozpoznac psychopate na pierwszy rzut oka. A nagranie na tasmie zmrozilo mu krew w zylach. Wie, ze zycie chlopca wisi na wlosku i ze liczy sie kazda minuta.