John McMahon verfasst fesselnde Kriminalerzählungen, oft mit dem Georgia-Detektiv P.T. Marsh, die von der New York Times Book Review als „so gut wie perfekt“ gelobt wurden. Sein Schreiben erforscht die dunkleren Facetten der menschlichen Natur und die komplizierten Verstrickungen der Moral. McMahon's unverwechselbare Stimme und sein scharfsinniges Storytelling wurden mit Autoren verglichen, die scheinbar wie aus dem Nichts auftauchen und den Lesern eine frische und fesselnde Perspektive bieten. Sein Hintergrund in der Werbung verleiht seinen fiktiven Welten eine einzigartige Dynamik und kreativen Flair.
Das Böse im Menschen schneidet tief ...
Georgia, USA: Unter einem erbarmungslos weiten Himmel leben die Einwohner der Kleinstadt Mason Falls. Doch Detective P. T. Marsh weiß, dass die Abgründe oft näher sind, als man glaubt. Und dann zieht Düsternis in Mason Falls ein.
In einem Maisfeld wird ein toter Teenager gefunden: sein Körper ist geschunden, um seinen Hals liegt eine Schlinge. Die Medien stürzen sich auf den bizarren Mord, und Detective Marsh muss unter höchstem Druck ermitteln. Nach und nach offenbaren sich die Schattenseiten der Gemeinde und führen zu einem sinistren Kult, der Marsh ins Zentrum des Bösen zieht …
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Mason Falls – wo das Böse zu Hause ist Im beschaulichen Städtchen Mason Falls in Georgia wird ein Immobilienmogul tot aufgefunden. Die beiden Ermittler P.T. Marsh und Remy Morgan staunen nicht schlecht, wie viele Feinde das Opfer hatte: Konkurrenten, wütende Nachbarn und eine betrogene Exfrau. Bald wird klar, dass der Geschäftsmann nicht aus Habgier ermordet wurde, sondern dass dies nur Teil eines grausamen Plans war, in dem auch ein mysteriöser Unfall eine Rolle spielt, bei dem Marshs Frau und Sohn ums Leben kamen. Und als Nächstes hat der Killer ein kleines Mädchen im Visier … »McMahon erzählt mit ganz besonderem Gespür.« New York Times Book Review
An electrifying mystery featuring a troubled small-town police detective faced with three interwoven crimes that reveal sinister secrets about his community--and the deaths of his family, by the Edgar Award-and Thriller Award- short-listed author whose novels have been described by the New York Times Book Review as "pretty much perfect."In the years since the mysterious deaths of his wife and child, P.T. Marsh, a police detective in the small Georgia town of Mason Falls, has faced demons--both professional and personal. But when he is called to the scene of a school shooting, the professional and personal become intertwined, and he suspects that whoever is behind the crime may be connected to his own family tragedy.As Marsh and his partner Remy investigate the shooting, they discover that it is far from straightforward, and their search for answers leads them to a conspiracy at the highest levels of local government--including within the police force. The stakes in the case become increasingly high, culminating in a showdown that has Marsh questioning everything he knows, and wondering if some secrets are better left undiscovered.
"Head Cases follows an enigmatic group of FBI agents as they hunt down a murderer seeking his own justice in this electrifying-and commercial-series debut. Gardner Camden is a walking analytical brain with an affinity for riddles, puzzles, and codes. It makes him the perfect fit for the Patterns and Recognition (PAR) unit of the FBI, a team of five brilliant but misfit agents tasked with solving cold cases. Gardner's smart, but he's all business--except for his seven-year-old daughter and occasional visits to his elderly mother, he prioritizes his work and justice over everything else, no matter the cost. With rumors of PAR about to be disbanded, the team can't afford to make any mistakes. A serial killer from one of Gardner's solved cases, presumed to be dead for over a decade, is found murdered, and then soon after, another body with a similar story. The mastermind murderer has left clues and riddles for Gardner and his team--a mathematician, a sniper and weapons expert, a computer analytics specialist, and their leader, a career agent--as they track him across the country. With the threat of PAR dissolving, Gardner must work to solve the riddles before it's too late. McMahon's suspenseful and irresistible thriller confronts the scales of justices in the face of a twisted vengeance plot as this engaging cast of characters works together to stop a misguided vigilante"--
One of the New York Times Book Review's Top Ten Best Crime Novels of 2020 "[McMahon] tells his story with flair."--New York Times Book Review The author of The Good Detective delivers a gripping and atmospheric new novel in which a cop takes on a harrowing case and confronts old personal demons. What if the one good thing you did in your life doomed you to die? A hard-nosed real estate baron is dead, and detectives P.T. Marsh and Remy Morgan learn there's a long list of suspects. Mason Falls, Georgia, may be a small town, but Ennis Fultz had filled it with professional rivals, angry neighbors, and a wronged ex-wife. And when Marsh realizes that this potential murder might be the least of his troubles, he begins to see what happens when ordinary people become capable of evil. As Marsh and Morgan dig into the case, it becomes clear that Fultz's death was not an isolated case of revenge. It may be part of a dark web of crimes connected to an accident that up-ended Marsh's life a couple years earlier--and that now threatens the life of a young child. Marsh veers dangerously off track as his search for clues becomes personal..and brings him to a place where a man's good deeds turn out to be more dangerous than his worst crimes.
Hannah Declan arrives in Sydney at a time when bullock trains carry supplies
between towns, and lamplighters and street sweepers are a common sight. When
Hannah meets a young soldier, Tom Fields, their love blossoms in spite of the
distance created by war.
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