Mordfall im südenglischen Sussex, 1920er Jahre. Elsie Cameron ist eine traurige Figur: wenig Selbstvertrauen, kaum Hoffnung, dass ihr Freund sie endlich heiratet. Norman Thorne, der Verlobte, mehr oder minder erfolgloser Hühnerfarmer und...

"Vossenhuid" von Minette Walters ist ein spannender Kriminalroman, der die Leser in die düstere Welt eines kleinen englischen Dorfes entführt. Die Geschichte dreht sich um die mysteriösen Ereignisse, die nach dem Tod einer alten Frau...

The Scold's Bridle von Walters, Minette

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...

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...