Niamh O. Connor Knihy

A beautiful woman Model and it-girl Tara Parker Trench is famous across Ireland with her beauty, glittering lifestyle and perfect three-year-old son Presley, she seems to have it all. A stolen child. Until, one cold wet Dublin night, Tara pulls into a service station for petrol, leaving Presley strapped into the back of her car. Five minutes later he's gone, kidnapped while his mother's back was turned. A hidden world Tara, terrified and hysterical, begs DI Jo Birmingham to help her find her child. But why doesn't Tara want the public to know he's missing? Soon, Jo is drawn into a dark underworld of corruption and extortion, where sex is a commodity, and life is cheap. Who is really telling Jo the truth about the missing little boy and who's got too much to hide? This is a gripping crime novel, with an unforgettable heroine welcome to the dark side of Dublin's Fair City

Nun's Cross: A dream, gated development in Dublin that sprang up during the boom and promised a better life at a time when the banks were giving away money and all kinds of people suddenly able to climb up the social ladder. But now the bubble has burst, the perfect place to bring up a family is full of residents struggling to make their mortgage repayments. AMANDA WELLS was one - a young mum down on her luck, who came up with a new source of income - and her body's just been found, dumped in a shallow grave in the Dublin mountains. Another neighbour, ROY MURPHY started working for a meat packing plant when his business went bust in the recession, and he's just vanished off the face of the earth. Could someone be using the skeletons in the closets of Nun's Cross residents to bail themselves out? Because the links between the recent cluster of crimes and the kind of secrets families like to keep buried are impossible for Jo Birmingham to ignore. Everyone else involved in the case believes the solution is open and shut, and that Roy has gone on the run because he murdered Amanda. That's because a plastic bag stuffed in Amanda's mouth bears the logo of a shop that went bust fifteen years previously, the exact same store where a missing woman, SARAH FLINT, was last seen alive. Since Roy happens to be married to Sarah's sister, MARY, the powers that be believe it's a coincidence impossible to ignore.

Opferspiel. Jo Birminghams Leben als alleinerziehende Mutter und Kommissarin bei der Dubliner Polizei gleicht einem Drah

„Jo Birmingham ist eine Kommissarin ganz nach meinem Geschmack!“ Tess Gerritsen Jo Birmingham, Kommissarin bei der Dubliner Polizei, hält sich nicht gerne an Vorschriften. Schon gar nicht von ihrem Chef, der gleichzeitig ihr Exmann ist. Gegen seinen Willen mischt sie sich in den Fall des vermissten dreijährigen Presley ein. Schon bald stößt sie auf mysteriöse Verbindungen zu einem Mordfall und zu einem Video, das ihr anonym zugespielt worden ist. Und Jo begreift: Sie ist einem Verbrechen von ungeahntem Ausmaß auf der Spur ...