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Zatváranie očí pred pravdou môže mať temné a smrteľné následky. Calluma Hughesa označili za vraha a psychopata. Takúto nálepku mu dali médiá, spolužiaci a predovšetkým rodina chlapca, ktorého prebodol. Rogera Gougha nazvali obeťou. Všetci, ktorých polícia vypočula, ho opísali ako športovo založeného, zábavného a obľúbeného chlapca. Callum ho vraj brutálne zavraždil… Život je však zriedka taký čierno-biely. Koronerka Martha Gunnová chápe bolesť spôsobenú stratou milovaného človeka a význam spravodlivosti, ktorú si zaslúžia mŕtvi. Je totiž vdova a navyše sa musí vyrovnať s odchodom syna na futbalovú akadémiu. Keď Calluma nájdu mŕtveho v cele iba dva dni po jeho zatknutí, polícia dospeje k záveru, že sa jednoducho nedokázal prispôsobiť novému prostrediu a spáchal samovraždu. Bol však taký plachý a inteligentný chlapec schopný vraždiť bez motívu? A dokázal by si vôbec siahnuť na život? Martha sa odváži preniknúť hlbšie a odhalí pravdu, ktorá je oveľa znepokojujúcejšia a desivejšia ako čokoľvek, čo si dokážu vymyslieť noviny. Je odhodlaná vyriešiť záhadu zničených životov dvoch zásadne odlišných chlapcov.

Súdna lekárka Harperová zistí, že muž má na tele reznú ranu odborne zašitú chirurgickou niťou. Na prvý pohľad sa zdá, akoby mu operovali herniu, no pri pitve vyjde najavo, že rez mu urobili až po smrti. Ďalšou obeťou vraha prezývaného Chirurg je mladá zdravotná sestra. Inšpektor Forrest márne hľadá súvislosť medzi obidvoma obeťami. Všetko nasvedčuje tomu, že mali niečo spoločné s nemocnicou. Vyšetrovatelia si prizvú na pomoc súdneho psychiatra, aby im zostavil profil páchateľa. Doktor Barney Lewisham je bývalý spolužiak doktorky Harperovej, no majú aj inú spoločnú minulosť. Tá je napokon kľúčom k riešeniu celého prípadu.

Podobně jako ve svém předchozím románu Fatální řez líčí britská autorka Priscilla Mastersová příběh lékařky, která se vydává na stopu zločinu… Harriet Lamontová je povolána k případu Reubena Carnfortha, starého muže, který žije na kraji lesa. Při přepravě do nemocnice ji umírající Reuben požádá o pomoc: před deseti lety se mu ztratila šestiletá vnučka a Reuben nyní po lékařce chce, aby její zmizení objasnila. Když se nedlouho poté definitivně rozpadá lékařčino manželství, pomáhá jí k překonání životní krize zaujetí pro záhadný úkol, který před ni předestřel Reuben. S neodbytnou představou ztraceného děvčátka bloudícího v lese se pouští do pátrání po dívce - a po jejím vrahovi… ... celý text

Annabelle Bellange and her friend Dorothée left Paris for a summer hitchhiking holiday in England, but the only contact from them has been a postcard sent three months ago. DI Joanna Piercy investigates, and must answer two important questions: what is the anxious bed-and-breakfast owner trying to hide, and where are Annabelle and Dorothée?

Set in the medieval town of Shrewsbury, this is the third in the compelling ‘Martha Gunn’ series - When a woman arrives in A and E clutching a child in a pink blanket, Martha Gunn is not quite ready to make the discovery that the evening has in store for her. The baby is dead, and not only that, it has been mummified. Post mortem reveals the child to be a new born, deceased for over five years and, despite the mysterious woman’s protestations that it is called ‘poppy’,  most certainly a boy. As always coroner Martha Gunn reserves judgement until she is able to get to the bottom of the case.

A tragic car crash leads to a young girl going missing near the legendary Devil's Chair. Can coroner Martha Gunn and DI Alex Randall sift through fact and fiction, folklore and reality to uncover the truth?

Callum Hughes has been labelled a killer and a psycho. He has been labelled by the press, by his classmates and most of all by the family of the boy he stabbed. Roger Gough has been labelled a victim. He is described by everyone that the police question as a sporty, funny and popular boy who was brutally murdered by Callum.

Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy breaks into the house of missing nurse Marilyn Smith. She finds Marilyn upstairs, spreadeagled across the bed, provacatively dressed and elaborately made up - she is also stone dead. Despite a lack of evidence at the post mortem, Piercy is convinced that Marilyn was murdered. As a newcomer and a woman in this remote moorland town, she must battle against long-held prejudices in her determination to find the killer. But could she be wrong? Is it possible that Marilyn Smith's death was not murder after all ...? 'It's Masters' first novel and a cracking start to her career in literary crime' - Daily Express

'Jonathan Selkirk - make your will.' Hours after opening this letter, high-powered solicitor Jonathan Selkirk is in hospital recovering from a suspected heart attack. That night, he vanishes from his private room. Has he discharged himself? Or been abducted? Briefly admitted to the same hospital after a road accident, Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy finds herself having to cope with not only a broken arm but also a murder investigation and the arrival of a senior officer from the Regional Crime Squad. Superintendent Karen Pugh thinks there is a contract killer at work - but who, in the small town of Leek, could have hired him? 'Clear and well-crafted story-telling that pulled me in right from the start ... I'm so glad that these books will get a wider audience.' - Ann Cleeves The fourth of Telos Publishing's reissues of noted British crime author Priscilla Masters' Joanna Piercy mystery series

A young woman is pushing a child in a stroller dangerously close to the edge of a rock face. She has blood on her clothes. Is she a victim or a would-be killer? DI Joanna Piercy takes on the case, but the young woman is mute. As the questions mount, forensic psychiatrist Dr Claire Roget is called in to help. Can she persuade the woman to talk?