Leigh Russell schreibt fesselnde Kriminalromane, die Leser auf der ganzen Welt in ihren Bann gezogen haben und sich millionenfach verkauften. Ihre Erzählungen zeichnen sich durch scharfe Einblicke in die menschliche Psychologie und eine meisterhafte Erzeugung von Spannung aus. Russell taucht tief in die Natur des Verbrechens und seine Folgen ein und erforscht dabei die dunkleren Facetten des menschlichen Charakters. Ihr Schreibstil ist sowohl zugänglich als auch zum Nachdenken anregend, was sie zu einer herausragenden Stimme im Genre macht.
Eine Explosion reißt das mittelalterliche Städtchen Harchester frühmorgens aus dem Schlaf. Das Haus der Cliffs brennt, der Ehemann Thomas stirbt an einer Rauchvergiftung. DI Geraldine Steel, die ermittelnde Polizistin, glaubt nicht an einen Unfall, womit sie Recht behalten soll. Erste Spuren deuten auf die trauernde Witwe als Täter, die zudem kein Alibi vorweisen kann. Doch dann tauchen neue Beweise auf, die den Mord mit einer Einbruchsserie in Verbindung bringen. Wurde Thomas Cliff etwa von Einbrechern getötet? Als zwei weitere Morde geschehen, eskaliert die Situation ...
Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel hat in ihrer Dienstzeit schon viele furchtbare Dinge gesehen. Doch als die Leiche der Schulleiterin Abigail Kirby in einem Park gefunden wird, ist selbst die erfahrene Ermittlerin entsetzt. Denn die Frau wurde nicht einfach nur getötet - ihr wurde die Zunge herausgeschnitten, während sie im Sterben lag. Geraldine und ihre Kollegen stehen vor einem Rätsel - und bald vor der nächsten verstümmelten Leiche, einem Mann, dem vor seinem Tod die Augen entfernt wurden. Als wenig später die Tochter des ersten Opfers verschwindet, ahnt Geraldine, dass ihnen die Zeit davonläuft ...
Nach der Trennung von ihrem Lebensgefährten wagt Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel den beruflichen Neuanfang in Woolsmarsh, einer beschaulichen Kleinstadt im Herzen Englands. Doch auch hier lauert das Verbrechen, denn bereits kurz nach Geraldines Ankunft geschieht ein furchtbarer Mord: Im Stadtpark wurde eine junge Frau erwürgt. Alle Spuren, die Geraldine und ihr Team verfolgen, führen ins Nichts. Es beginnt ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit, denn Geraldine weiß: Dieser Mörder wird nicht aufhören, zu töten, bis ihn jemand aufhält …
A sixteenth-century Jewish woman flees persecution and an abusive marriage in this historical saga from "a brilliant talent" (Jeffery Deaver). When soldiers attack the inhabitants of a Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Lithuania, Abigail manages to escape both the attack and her abusive husband, Reuven. She travels over land and sea to Venice, where she settles in another ghetto. Believing Reuven is dead, Abigail falls in love with her widowed neighbour, Daniel. But before Abigail and Daniel announce their betrothal, her violent husband reappears. Reuven is arrested for drunken brawling and sentenced to slavery in the galleys. Abigail hopes she has finally seen the last of him, but he returns to Venice, and Abigail fears she will never be free of him . . . From the Dagger Award finalist and acclaimed author of the Geraldine Steel novels, Abigail of Venice is an engrossing story of forbidden love that explores domestic violence, religious persecution, the Inquisition, and witch burning against the backdrop of one of the most turbulent periods of European history. Praise for the novels of Leigh Russell: "Tense and compelling." --Publishers Weekly "Unmissable." --Lee Child
When a hysterical mother reports her baby's sudden disappearance, suspicion immediately falls on the absent husband. But Detective Geraldine Steel's gut instinct tells her this case is not as simple as her colleagues think... Complications in the mother's life begin to surface, including her relationship with her controlling father, a controversial political figure. As the police investigate, their urgent attempt to find the missing infant grows ever more perplexing. Steel is forced to suspect everyone associated with the family - and when a body is discovered, matters take a deadly turn. Praise for Leigh Russell 'Brilliant and chilling, Leigh Russell delivers a cracker of a read!' - Martina Cole 'Unmissable' - Lee Child 'A brilliant talent in the thriller field... you're just plain going to love DI Geraldine Steel' - Jeffery Deaver 'Taut and compelling' - Peter James 'Leigh Russell has become one of the most impressively dependable purveyors of the English police procedural' - Times
Geraldine Steel is reunited with her former sergeant, Ian Peterson. When two
people are murdered, their only connection lies buried in the past. As police
search for the elusive killer, another body is discovered. Pursuing her first
investigation in York, Geraldine Steel struggles to solve the baffling case.
How can she expose the killer, and rescue her shattered reputation, when all
the witnesses are being murdered?
When a successful businessman is brutally murdered, the police suspect his glamorous wife and her young lover. Then the victim's business partner suffers the same gruesome fate and when yet another body is discovered, seemingly unrelated to the first two, the police are baffled. The only clue is DNA that leads them to two women: one dead, the other in prison.With a steady stream of bodies arriving at the morgue, can DI Geraldine Steel find the killer before the killer stages another deadly attack?
When a man plummets to his death from a balcony at York races, his wife and brother become suspects in a murder enquiry. Meanwhile Richard is being stalked by a killer issuing death threats. Richard is reluctant to go to the police, for fear his own dark secret will be exposed. Newly promoted Detective Inspector Ian Peterson is investigating the death at the races when a woman's body is discovered. Shortly after that, Richard is killed. With three murders and no suspect, the investigation seems to be going backwards. Ian is determined to discover who is responsible.
Plunged into a double murder investigation and plagued by an alibi that doesn't ring true, intuition tells DI Geraldine Steel they have the wrong man; at odds with her boss, and burdened with the return of a troubled twin sister she never knew she had, Geraldine is drowning. When she finds that her career is not the only thing threatened by the case at hand - that this time, it's her life - will she sink, or find the strength to pull through?
An inoffensive man is murdered in a seemingly motiveless attack. DI Geraldine
Steel and her team are baffled, until DNA from an apparent stranger is
discovered on the victim's body. Someone is lying and the police must uncover
the truth before anyone else is killed......
