Hilary Bonner ist eine englische Kriminalautorin, die für ihre fesselnden psychologischen Thriller bekannt ist. Stark beeinflusst von ihrer journalistischen Vergangenheit, sind ihre Romane häufig von wahren Begebenheiten inspiriert und decken oft Geschichten auf, die konventionelle Erzählungen in Frage stellen. Bonner versteht es meisterhaft, Spannung mit scharfer psychologischer Einsicht zu verbinden, was den Lesern ein packendes und eindringliches Leseerlebnis beschert. Sie erforscht meisterhaft die dunkleren Seiten der menschlichen Natur und gesellschaftliche Probleme mit präziser Schärfe.
Marion Andersons Leben ist fast zu schön, um wahr zu sein:ein schönes Zuhause,ein liebevoller Ehemann,ein intellegenter, netter Sohn. Doch die Idylle zerbricht jäh, als sie ihren Sohn erhängt auffindet. Wenig später erfährt sie, daß ihr Mann ein Doppelleben mit zwei Familien führt. Und damit beginnt eine entsetzliche Spirale aus Verleumdung,Verbrechen und Verfolgung.Marion befindet sich in einem Albtraum, aus dem es kein Erwachen gibt......
When Sir John Fairbrother, head of one of the world's biggest private banks, burns to death, in a catastrophic fire at his Somerset home, DI Vogel finds himself dealing with a complex and mystifying sequence of events. If arson was involved, as Vogel believes, the obvious suspect is Sir John's chauffeur, George Grey ... but is it as simple as that?
When routine police enquiries reveal evidence indicating that Jane Ferguson's assumed suicide was actually a murder, her husband becomes the chief suspect. Called in to launch a major inquiry, Detective Inspector David Vogel discovers that nothing connected with the death is as it seems, uncovering a succession of shocking family secrets...
A man lies dead on his kitchen floor, his body punctured by multiple stab wounds. Beside him sits his silent, traumatised wife. DCI David Vogel reckons he's seen it all before - an abused wife snaps after years of suffering within a deeply tormented marriage - but he comes to realize that nothing about this case is as straightforward as it seems.
In 1967 young Jennifer Stone discovers the corpse of an unidentified young woman in the sea. The next day a local girl disappears; she never reappears and the murder remains unsolved. Twenty years later Jennifer, now a successful newspaper reporter, has to uncover the secrets of the murders.
Journalist Joyce Carter is murdered in her Devon cottage, a few miles from Richard's country home and forensics implicate Richard in the killing. Also among the suspects are Joyce's jealous, druggy toyboy lover and Richard's own wife, the beautiful, icy Amanda, who suspects her husband of having an affair with Joyce.
Friends: can you really trust them? The next thrilling novel from Hilary Bonner.
John Kelly, once a reporter, always a maverick, has become embroiled in the mystery surrounding a series of disturbing deaths at a tough army training base in the heart of Dartmoor.
A fascinating psychological suspense novel - the first in a new series featuring Bristol-based detective DI Vogel