Sarah Rayne Bücher

Bei einer Ausstellung ziehen die düsteren Fotos der jungen Simone Anderson den Journalisten Harry Fitzglen magisch in Bann. Und auch die Künstlerin selbst ist von einem Geheimnis umgeben. Ihre siamesische Zwillingsschwester Sonia verschwand als Baby spurlos, aber trotzdem spürt Simone täglich auf unheimliche Weise ihre Gegenwart. Alle Spuren, die Harry von Sonia findet, laufen in einem alten walisischen Waisenhaus zusammen, in dem das Leiden aller Menschen lebendig zu werden scheint, die dort einmal leben mussten ?

Absolute Gänsehautgarantie! Die junge Psychologin Antonia Weston sucht Zuflucht in der Einsamkeit des verschlafenen Ortes Amberwood. Doch ihre Ruhe wird gestört durch Erinnerungen an ihre schreckliche Vergangenheit. Außerdem macht ihr die nahe gelegene, unheimliche Mühle Twygrist Angst und fasziniert sie gleichzeitig. Wie besessen versucht sie, die blutigen Geheimnisse von Twygrist zu lüften. Dabei übersieht Antonia beinahe, dass die Mühle für sie zur tödlichen Falle werden soll - wie schon für viele junge Frauen zuvor ? Das schockierende Schicksal zweier Frauen aus zwei Jahrhunderten ist in diesem Psychothriller nervenaufreibend spannend verknüpft.

Researcher Phineas Fox has agreed to help track down his neighbour's cousin, who has disappeared without trace, leaving a single clue to her whereabouts: an obscure 1940s portrait of an alleged murderess. What exactly happened back in 1941 - and what is the connection with Arabella's disappearance?

Music researcher Phineas Fox is asked to verify the contents of an old scrapbook, rescued from the site of the historic Chopin Library in Warsaw. He discovers an intriguing link to an infamous piece of music that legend says was only performed at a traitor's execution - and was last played in 1944, on the night the Chopin Library was destroyed ...

Jack Fitzglens plans to seek out the infamous Talisman Chalice, steal it and create a dazzling piece of theater around it, but he uncovers something far darker. Scandal, secrets, and danger lurk in every shady corner. As past and present collide, can Jack find the Chalice, the truth and return to his theater of thieves unscathed?

Music researcher Phineas Fox has been enjoying gathering background material for a biography of Franz Liszt. But matters take a decidedly unexpected turn when his investigations lead to Linklighters, a new restaurant built on the site of a Victorian music hall, and unearth evidence of a possible murder involving a performer known as Scaramel.

Having unexpectedly inherited an Elizabethan manor house, the new owner Quentin Rivers has asked Phineas Fox to investigate the house's history. As Phin delves into The Tabor's dark and mysterious past, the terrible secrets of the house and the Rivers family ancestors begin to reveal themselves, secrets stretching back more than six hundred years.

Having undertaken an assignment at Cresacre Abbey School, researcher Phineas Fox discovers that curious legends about the school's past still linger, including the fate of a group of nuns who disappeared 200 years before. What happened to them? And who is the mysterious Ginevra, the shadowy figure whose true identity has never been known?

Old crimes cause new murder in Sarah Rayne's mesmerising psychological thriller