Minette walter (123 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Fair. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung; Wasserschaden. In prison, they call her the Sculptress for the strange figurines she carves - symbols of the day she hacked her mother and sister to pieces and reassembled them in a blood-drenched jigsaw. Sullen and menacing, Olive Martin is burned-out journalist Rosalind Leigh's only hope of getting a new book published.But as she interviews Olive, in her cell, Roz finds flaws in the Sculptress's confession. Is she really guilty as she insists? Drawn into Olive's world of obsessional lies and love, nothing can stop Roz's pursuit of the chilling, convoluted truth. Not the tidy suburbanites who'd rather forget the murders, not a volatile ex-policeman and her own erotic response to him, not an attack on her life.Not even the thought of what might happen if the Sculptress went free. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung. Suffering from posttraumatic amnesia, a respected fashion director and millionaire's daughter is placed in an exclusive private clinic after she is involved in a mysterious car accident. She soon begins to recover, but her memories are filled with desperation and absolute terror. A spellbinding tale of psychological suspense from the Edgar-winning author of The Sculptress.…

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen; Leichte Gebrauchsspuren. When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in nightclothes 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 Coronerâs inquest gives a verdict of ânatural causesâ but the gossip surrounding James refuses to go away. Why? Because heâs guilty? Or because resentful women in the isolated Dorset village where he lives rules the roost? Shenstead is a place of too few people and too many secrets. Why have James and Ailsa cut their children out of their will? What happened in the past to create such animosity within the family? Any why is James so desperate to find his illegitimate grandchild? Friendless and alone, his reclusive behavior begins to alarms his London-based solicitor, Mark Ankerton, whose concern deepens when he discovers that James has become the victim of a relentless campaign which accuses him of far worse than the death of his wife. Allegations which he refuses to challenge.Why? Because theyâre a motive for murder..…

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung. A woman doctor in an English village finds herself the center of some nasty attention from police as well as villagers. The will of a murdered woman names her the sole beneficiary and people assume she killed her. By the author of The Sculptress.…

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen; Leichte Verformung / umgeknickte Seiten; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung. A chilling novella of prejudice, ambition and cunning as villagers react to a brutal double murder.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Verformung / umgeknickte Seiten. Minette Walters has had an illustrious career, in the respect that her first three novels won a major prize, and The Sculptress was adapted as a major BBC drama. The Echo is her latest novel in the crime genre.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen; Leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Leichte Verformung / umgeknickte Seiten; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung. Winner of the CWA John Creasey Award for Best First Novel of the Year - and the start of Minette Walter's long list of bestsellers.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 village had never trusted the three women living up at the Grange - not since Phoebe Maybury's husband suddenly, inexplicably, vanished. Ten years later a corpse is discovered in the grounds and Phoebe's nightmare begins. For once they have identified the body the police are determined to charge her with murder . . . 'The most impressive first novel in years' Daily Telegraph 'A seductive writer with an imagination that makes her dangerous to know' Sunday Express 'Terrific first novel with a high Rendellesque frisson count' The Times.…

Softcover. Zustand: Fair. Anmerkungen / beschriftet / Stempel; Leichte Gebrauchsspuren. Twelve hours after a women's broken body is washed up on shore, her traumatised 3-year old daughter is discovered 20 miles away, alone & abandoned. Police suspicion falls on an actor whose boat is moored yards from the toddler & the victim's husband.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Einriss über 1 cm. In this acclaimed psychological mystery, Jinx Kingsley, a prominent photographer and millionaire' s daughter, wakes up in an exclusive hospital suffering from amnesia. Not only can she not remember the car accident that caused her memory loss, but she doesn' t remember that her impending wedding has been called off or that her former fiancé and his girlfriend have been brutally murdered in the same way her first husband had been ten years before. Now she must try to piece together her memories in order to determine her innocence. With deft psychological explorations and shocking twists, Walters brings the story to an awe-inspiring conclusion.…

Softcover. Zustand: Fair. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen; Starke Gebrauchsspuren. When an unidentified, rotting corpse is discovered in the old ice house at Streech Grange, the assumption is that the body is that of David Maybury, who went missing 10 years before. As village rumours of lesbianism and witchcraft, Sergeant Andy McLoughlin's investigation, focusing on Maybury's ex-wife, phoebe, and the two women who live with her in the Grange, uncovers numerous secrets - some of which people would rather have left buried.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen; Leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveranderung. In a gripping thriller, a sexual psychopath emerges among mercenaries as private security firms proliferate in war zones. When five women are brutally murdered in Sierra Leone, journalist Connie Burns questions the arrest of three rebel soldiers but is ignored. In a post-civil war environment where the rape and murder of women are overlooked, she suspects a foreigner--a man claiming to be an SAS operative and working as a bodyguard for a Lebanese diamond trader--might be behind the crimes. Connie recalls his past as a mercenary in Kinshasa and believes he exploits the chaos of war to fulfill sadistic fantasies against women. After enduring a harrowing experience in a Baghdad cellar, Connie goes into hiding in England, struggling to reclaim her former self. There, she forms a bond with Jess Derbyshire, a reclusive local who has distanced herself from the Dorset community. Finding strength in Jess, Connie decides to confront the serial killer once more, fully aware that he will come after her. The tension mounts as she navigates her fears and the dangerous path ahead, determined to seek justice despite the risks.…

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Abnutzung / Risse - leicht; Gebrochener Buchrücken / Seiten oder Softcover umgeknickt. A shattering new novel by Edgar Award-winner Minette Walters, The Echo unveils the secrets and betrayals, past and present, that always come home to haunt the ones who try to bury them. A destitute man has been found dead on the property of a wealthy socialite. Who is he? Why did he go there to die? A reporter investigates the man's identity--and is swiftly ensnared in a web of deception as tangled and complex as the hearts and minds that spun it.--back cover.…

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Leichte Verformung / umgeknickte Seiten; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung. Suffering from posttraumatic amnesia, a respected fashion director and millionaire's daughter is placed in an exclusive private clinic after she is involved in a mysterious car accident. She soon begins to recover, but her memories are filled with desperation and absolute terror. A spellbinding tale of psychological suspense from the Edgar-winning author of The Sculptress.…

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen; Leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Einriss bis 1 cm. A woman doctor in an English village finds herself the center of some nasty attention from police as well as villagers. The will of a murdered woman names her the sole beneficiary and people assume she killed her. By the author of The Sculptress.…

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Leichte Verformung / umgeknickte Seiten; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung. Thirty years after the death of an innocent man in prison, a social anthropologist discovers his case file and determines to track down the real killer. But sleeping dogs are best left alone.…

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Leichte Verformung / umgeknickte Seiten. Twelve hours after a women's broken body is washed up on shore, her traumatised 3-year old daughter is discovered 20 miles away, alone & abandoned. Police suspicion falls on an actor whose boat is moored yards from the toddler & the victim's husband.…

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen; Gebrochener Buchrücken / Seiten oder Softcover umgeknickt; Vergilbt / ausgeblichen. Walters' newest thriller is a haunting psychological tale about a scarred Iraq war veteran whose physical trauma may reflect the inner life of a killer.…

Softcover. Zustand: As New. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen. A terrific example of innovative crime fiction with a new cover treatment.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Verformung / umgeknickte Seiten; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung. In 1970 Howard Stamp, a retarded 20-year-old, was convicted on disputed evidence of brutally murdering his grandmother in her Dorset home. Less than three years later he was dead, driven to suicide by self-hatred and relentless bullying by other prisoners. A fate befitting a murderer, perhaps, but what if he was innocent? When 34-year-old anthropologist Dr. Jonathan Hughes re-examines Stampâs case for a book on injustice, his research into the written evidence leads him to believe that Stamp was wrongly convicted. But is the forgotten story of one friendless young man compelling enough to persuade Jonathan to confront the real murderer? One person believes it is. George Gardener, sixty, has been trying to bring Stampâs case to public attention for years and has unearthed new evidence that might exonerate him. But Gardener needs the young academic on board if it is to be used to maximum effect. On the face of it, there is no similarity between the illiterate Stamp and the highly educated Hughes, yet their lives resonate through their damaged childhoods and their mutual sense of exclusion. With the threat of war in Iraq dominating British hearts and minds, there begins a battle closer to home: an attempt to prove a grotesque miscarriage of justice. But if the killer is still at large.…

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Verformung / umgeknickte Seiten; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung. In prison, they call her the Sculptress for the strange figurines she carves - symbols of the day she hacked her mother and sister to pieces and reassembled them in a blood-drenched jigsaw. Sullen and menacing, Olive Martin is burned-out journalist Rosalind Leigh's only hope of getting a new book published.But as she interviews Olive, in her cell, Roz finds flaws in the Sculptress's confession. Is she really guilty as she insists? Drawn into Olive's world of obsessional lies and love, nothing can stop Roz's pursuit of the chilling, convoluted truth. Not the tidy suburbanites who'd rather forget the murders, not a volatile ex-policeman and her own erotic response to him, not an attack on her life.Not even the thought of what might happen if the Sculptress went free. …

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Verformung / umgeknickte Seiten; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveranderung. Something else had happened . . . Something so terrible that she was too frightened to search her memory for it . . . The newspapers reported the case with relish. Jane (Jinx) Kingsley, fashion photographer and heiress, tries to kill herself after being unceremoniously jilted by her fiance, who has since disappeared - together with Jinx's best friend Meg Harris . . . But when Jinx wakes from her coma, she can remember nothing about her alleged suicide attempt. With the help of Dr Alan Protheroe of the Nightingale Clinic, she slowly begins to piece together the fragments of the last few weeks. Then the memories begin to surface . . . memories of utter desperation and absolute terror. 'Violence may well be offered to anyone who tries to part you from this marvellous, dramatically intelligent novel. It shimmers with suspense, ambiguity and a deep, unholy joy' Frances Fyfield, Daily Mail 'Guaranteed to burn the midnight oil' Mike Ripley, Daily Telegraph. …

Softcover. Zustand: As New. Acid Row is a crime-infested housing project that exists by its own laws. When news comes that a child has been kidnapped, the frustration and anger that has been seething on the streets of Acid Row is ignited. And no one will be safe.

Softcover. Zustand: Fair. Verformung des Buches. The stunning new thriller from Britain's no.1 crime writer.

Softcover. Zustand: Gut bis sehr gut. The book has been read, but remains in very good condition. No marks or notes from previous owner. Fine, clean copy. Language - English.

Zustand: Fine. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Leichte Verformung / umgeknickte Seiten; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung. [Mrs.] Ranelagh is convinced one of her neighbors on Garden Street is guilty of murder. Was it racism or greed that drove one of them to leave poor Mad Annie Butts for dead in the gutter? Her compulsion to solve this case is to magnetic that you are there with her every step of the way.--Sheri Kraft, Alibi Books, Glenview, Ill.…

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Leichte Verformung / umgeknickte Seiten; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveranderung. Mathilda Gillespie parlait trop, buvait trop et terrorisait son entourage. Elle etait richissime, avare et fabulatrice. Sa fille se droguait, sa petite-fille la volait. Son testament, ignore de tous, les desheritait. On la retrouva noyee dans sa baignoire, enguirlandee d'asters et d'orties blanches, comme Ophelie, et affublee d'une museliere en fer rouille, comme une sorciere medievale. Ce suicide, ou plus vraisemblablement ce meurtre, etait une sorte de chef-d'oeuvre, une enigme resultant d'une vie entiere de mensonges, d'amours etranges, de haines et de violence. Seul le journal intime de Mathilda pourrait peut-etre en livrer tous les secrets. Mais ce journal a disparu.…

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen; Vergilbt / ausgeblichen. La premiere fois que j'ai vu Harwood j'etais a Kinshasa. La deuxieme fois, j'etais en Sierra Leone en tant que correspondante de guerre. Puis, des annees plus tard j'ai croise son chemin en Irak et, a chaque fois, dans son sillage, des corps de femmes violees, lacerees. Des meurtres mis sur le compte de " dommages collateraux ". Alors j'ai su. Il s'est senti traque. J'ai ete sequestree pendant trois jours. Puis relachee. Sans explication. Pour moi, il n'existait qu'un seul refuge possible pour tout oublier : un manoir isole au coeur de la campagne anglaise. Je me demande encore comment j'ai pu etre aussi bete.…

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Leichte Verformung / umgeknickte Seiten; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung. [Mrs.] Ranelagh is convinced one of her neighbors on Garden Street is guilty of murder. Was it racism or greed that drove one of them to leave poor Mad Annie Butts for dead in the gutter? Her compulsion to solve this case is to magnetic that you are there with her every step of the way.--Sheri Kraft, Alibi Books, Glenview, Ill.…

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Leichte Verformung / umgeknickte Seiten; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung. Dans un pub mal famé de Bournemouth, petite ville de la côte anglaise, Jonathan Hughes, anthropologue spécialiste des erreurs judiciaires, a rendez-vous avec Georgina, conseillère municipale, rondelette et un peu ridicule. Trente ans plus tôt, lui raconte-t-elle, un jeune déséquilibré a été accusé injustement d'avoir assassiné sa grand-mère. Jugé et condamné, Howard Stamp s'est pendu dans sa cellule. Jonathan se laisse convaincre par la joviale Georgina de réétudier l'affaire. L'improbable couple de détectives fait bientôt le rapprochement entre ce fait divers et le viol, à la même date, dans un parc de Bournemouth, d'une adolescente de treize ans par trois jeunes garçons. Les violeurs comme la victime connaissaient Howard Stamp. Que sont-ils devenus ? Quel lien entre le meurtre de la vieille dame et le drame de Colliton Park ? Un suspense merveilleusement tricoté. Une étude de caractères ensorcelante. Minette Walters est à juste titre considérée comme la nouvelle reine du thriller à l'anglaise.…