A. J. Cross Livres

Marion Cane swapped a successful career in the city for a quiet life in a wealthy village near Birmingham. So why was she found dead in her new home just months later? Marion's death was thought to be due to natural causes, but an anonymous note draws DCI Watts, PC Chloe Judd and criminologist Will Traynor into a complex and disturbing case.

A man and a woman are found in a car in a rundown part of the city, both critically injured. When nothing about the case seems to add up, the police call on the help of criminologist Dr Will Traynor. Traynor knows that it's the small, easily missed details that will crack the case, but not even he could suspect just where those details will lead .

For ten years, David Lockman has been serving a life sentence for murder. Now an appeal judge has decreed the evidence unsatisfactory and the original verdict unsafe. Tasked with re-examining the case, forensic psychologist Kate Hanson and her team unearth serious flaws in the original investigation. But if Lockman isn't the killer, who is?

The badly decomposed remains of a young woman are discovered just outside Birmingham, identified as a Manchester University student who disappeared three years earlier. Why would the killer transport the victim on an eighty- mile journey? Criminologist Will Traynor believes that finding the answer to that question is the key to cracking the case.

Introducing criminologist Will Traynor in the first of a gripping new forensic mystery series from an expert in the field

Il nuovo anno porta con sé un'agghiacciante scoperta per la psicologa forense Kate Hanson dell'unità delitti insoluti di Birmingham: in un vecchio capanno sul lago viene ritrovato il cadavere mummificato di un giovane, morto per strangolamento. Si tratta di Nathan Troy, uno studente universitario scomparso vent'anni prima, un ragazzo dalla vita apparentemente senza ombre. Almeno secondo la sua famiglia e gli insegnanti. Ma allora perché alcune persone a lui legate sono scomparse, e altre sembrano molto reticenti sul suo conto? E qual era il suo rapporto con l'irrequieta figlia del professor Henry Levitte, celebre pittore e docente affermato? Mentre Kate scava nel torbido passato della famiglia Levitte, la scoperta di altri due cadaveri conferma che il killer non ha mai smesso di uccidere. E potrebbe tornare a farlo.

A brilliant debut crime thriller written by a British forensic psychologist.