Leigh Russell crée des romans policiers captivants qui ont séduit des lecteurs du monde entier, se vendant à des millions d'exemplaires. Ses récits se distinguent par une perspicacité aiguë de la psychologie humaine et une création magistrale de suspense. Russell explore en profondeur la nature du crime et ses répercussions, en examinant les aspects les plus sombres du caractère humain. Son style d'écriture est à la fois accessible et stimulant, faisant d'elle une voix marquante dans le genre.
When a successful businessman is brutally murdered, the police suspect his glamorous wife and her young lover. Then the victim's business partner suffers the same gruesome fate and when yet another body is discovered, seemingly unrelated to the first two, the police are baffled. The only clue is DNA that leads them to two women: one dead, the other in prison.With a steady stream of bodies arriving at the morgue, can DI Geraldine Steel find the killer before the killer stages another deadly attack?
When a man plummets to his death from a balcony at York races, his wife and brother become suspects in a murder enquiry. Meanwhile Richard is being stalked by a killer issuing death threats. Richard is reluctant to go to the police, for fear his own dark secret will be exposed. Newly promoted Detective Inspector Ian Peterson is investigating the death at the races when a woman's body is discovered. Shortly after that, Richard is killed. With three murders and no suspect, the investigation seems to be going backwards. Ian is determined to discover who is responsible.
Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel relocates to London to take on another thrilling murder investigation While Geraldine strikes up a friendship with her new sergeant, the bodies of two black girls are discovered in quick succession in North London. Concerned about a reaction from the local black community, the police are puzzled to learn that two teeth were extracted from both victims after they died. One of the girls worked in a massage parlor and suspicion falls on a client of hers, a known racist. Geraldine is led to the upmarket shops of Bond Street in Central London. She fails to find the killer who is out prowling the streets hunting for his next victim. A young gay man unwittingly goes home with the killer who also takes another girl home to his attic, where he keeps his victims chained up while he shows them his "collection." With the death toll mounting, Geraldine has no time to search for her birth mother as she hunts for the elusive killer the papers are calling "The Dentist." When she finally discovers the gruesome collection on display in his attic, the killer knows that Geraldine must be his next victim.
DI Ian Peterson investigates a series of gruesome and brutal murders in York. As the body count mounts, the case demands all Ian's ingenuity, because these are murders committed seemingly at random, and this is a killer who leaves no clues.
Headmistress Abigail Kirby is dead. A potential witness has been murdered. And for DI Geraldine Steel, the stakes have been raised yet higher. Abigail's teenage daughter, Lucy, is missing, believed to have run away with a girl she met online. Time is quickly running out for Geraldine before her naivety costs Lucy her life. But with a...
When Henry's wife is stabbed to death, he pays a prostitute to give him an alibi. Her body is discovered, strangled, and the police realize they are dealing with a serial killer who will stop at nothing to cover his tracks. While they are hunting for evidence, another prostitute is brutally murdered. On the track of a vicious killer, DS Ian Peterson doesn't realize he is risking the life of his young colleague, Polly.
Eine Explosion reißt das mittelalterliche Städtchen Harchester frühmorgens aus dem Schlaf. Das Haus der Cliffs brennt, der Ehemann Thomas stirbt an einer Rauchvergiftung. DI Geraldine Steel, die ermittelnde Polizistin, glaubt nicht an einen Unfall, womit sie Recht behalten soll. Erste Spuren deuten auf die trauernde Witwe als Täter, die zudem kein Alibi vorweisen kann. Doch dann tauchen neue Beweise auf, die den Mord mit einer Einbruchsserie in Verbindung bringen. Wurde Thomas Cliff etwa von Einbrechern getötet? Als zwei weitere Morde geschehen, eskaliert die Situation ...
Nach der Trennung von ihrem Lebensgefährten wagt Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel den beruflichen Neuanfang in Woolsmarsh, einer beschaulichen Kleinstadt im Herzen Englands. Doch auch hier lauert das Verbrechen, denn bereits kurz nach Geraldines Ankunft geschieht ein furchtbarer Mord: Im Stadtpark wurde eine junge Frau erwürgt. Alle Spuren, die Geraldine und ihr Team verfolgen, führen ins Nichts. Es beginnt ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit, denn Geraldine weiß: Dieser Mörder wird nicht aufhören, zu töten, bis ihn jemand aufhält …
