The Scold's Bridle von Walters, Minette

"The Echo" von Minette Walters ist ein psychologischer Thriller, der sich um die Entdeckung einer Leiche in einem verlassenen Lagerhaus in London dreht. Die Leiche gehört zu Billy Blake, einem obdachlosen Mann, dessen Tod zunächst kaum...

I wonder if I should keep these diaries under lock and key. Jenny Spede has disturbed them again . . . What does she make, I wonder, of an old woman, deformed by arthritis, stripping naked for a young man? The pills worry me more. Ten is...

"The Cellar" von Minette Walters ist ein psychologischer Thriller, der die Geschichte von Muna erzählt, einem jungen Mädchen, das von einer Familie in London als Hausmädchen gehalten wird. Muna lebt unter schrecklichen Bedingungen und...

In 1970, Harold Stamp, a retarded twenty-year-old was convicted on disputed evidence and a retracted confession of brutally murdering his grandmother - the one person who understood and protected him. Less than three years later he is...

When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in night clothes and with blood stains on the ground near her body, the finger of suspicion points at her wealthy, landowning husband, Colonel James Lockyer-Fox. A...

November 1978. Britain is on strike. The dead lie unburied, rubbish piles in the streets - and somewhere is West London a black woman dies in a rain-soaked gutter. Her passing would have gone unmourned but for the young woman who finds...

It was a slaughterhouse, the most horrific scene I have ever witnessed . . . Olive Martin is a dangerous woman. I advise you to be extremely wary in your dealings with her. The facts of the case were simple: Olive Martin murdered her...

'It was evident, if there were no other entrance to the ice house, that the body had at some point traversed this thorny barrier . . . The big question was, how long ago? How long had that nightmare been there?' The people of Streech...

Last Hours: The Complete Omnibus Edition von Walters, Minette

The exquisitely wrought and thrillingly gripping second novel setduring the time of the Black Death from Minette Walters. von Walters, Minette

Dorset, 1642.When bloody civil war breaks out between the King and Parliament, families and communities across England are riven by different allegiances.A rare few choose neutrality.One such is Jayne Swift, a Dorset physician from a...