En Oslo el verano promete ser largo y caluroso. Las elevadas temperaturas del mes de mayo han sorprendido a los noruegos; entre ellos a Hanne Wilhelmsen, que ha sido enviada a investigar un macabro escenario criminal: una caseta abandonada en los arrabales de Oslo regada, literalmente, de sangre. En una de las paredes destacan ocho dígitos escritos también en sangre. No hay rastro de la víctima. Aunque tampoco es seguro que haya una víctima humana hasta que se verifique la procedencia del fluido.Una semana más tarde, también un domingo, se reproduce la misma escena sanguinaria, esta vez en un párking. Y de nuevo, los ocho dígitos y ni víctima, ni testigos, ni motivo aparente. A Wilhelmsen le inquieta el tema, pero no tiene a qué agarrarse. Además, hay otro caso que ocupa su agenda estos días: una violación. Curiosamente, ésta ha coincido en un domingo en el que no se han repetido los desagradables episodios anteriores. Pero Hanne no es la única interesada en el caso, el padre de la chica violada está dispuesto a todo para dar con el culpable.Bienaventurados los sedientos es la segunda entrega de la serie protagonizada por la subinspectora Hanne Wilhelmsen y su equipo. La serie se caracteriza por la interesante descripción del trabajo cotidiano de una jefatura de Policía que Holt conoce bien por sus años como asesora legal de la policía noruega. El primer libro de esta serie, La diosa ciega, recibió el prestigioso premio Riverton.«Hanne Wilhelmsen es una detective brillante que domina el humor y las formas duras características del género, sin caer en la parodia de una mujer con gabardina». Politiken

Someone has set fire to a cottage on the premises of the prestigious Black Lotus Temple in 1691, Japan, killing three sect members. Veteran samurai-detective Sano Ichiro, the Most Honourable Investigator of Events, Situations and People, is uncharacteristically quick to blame a delinquent orphan-girl found fleeing the scene. But his young wife, Reiko, has different ideas. After hearing rumours of ill doings within the sect, and using information privy only to a woman of the samurai class, Reiko finds that newcomers to the Black Lotus are mysteriously disappearing almost as quickly as the sect can convert them. Unfortunately for the orphan and all who have disappeared in the name of the Black Lotus, no one will believe Reiko. If only she can convince her husband before he condemns an innocent to burn at the stake… This is the latest in a smashingly-received and best-selling series starring Sano Ichiro. Now, since the introduction of his winsomely take-charge wife, the series, set in the luscious finery of the samurai court of medieval Japan, has won an enormous following.

In Dirty Game, Annie Bailey was an East End Madam. In Black Widow she's queen of the gangs and trying to save her daughter's life! Annie Bailey had done it all; Madam, mistress and Gangster's moll. Now she's Annie Carter, and she taking over the East End. Annie knew that it wouldn't last. Everything was going so well; she was living in Majorca, had Max Carter – the head of the Carter firm by her side, and had given him a beautiful daughter, Layla. But if there was one thing life had taught her, it was that everything could change in the blink of an eye. One minute she's lying by the pool, the next she's out cold. When she comes round Max and Layla are gone. It's not long before she gets the demands. They want money or she'll be getting her little girl back in pieces! There's only one thing Annie can do, she heads back to the East End of London and gathers the Carter firm together. Someone has snatched her husband and child. Now there's a score to settle, and it's being settled Annie Carter style!

Eighteen years ago, Billy Peters disappeared. Everyone in town believes Billy was murdered--after all, serial killer Arnold Avery later admitted killing six other children and burying them on the same desolate moor that surrounds their small English village. Only Billy’s mother is convinced he is alive. She still stands lonely guard at the front window of her home, waiting for her son to return, while her remaining family fragments around her. But her twelve-year-old grandson Steven is determined to heal the cracks that gape between his nan, his mother, his brother, and himself. Steven desperately wants to bring his family closure, and if that means personally finding his uncle’s corpse, he’ll do it.Spending his spare time digging holes all over the moor in the hope of turning up a body is a long shot, but at least it gives his life purpose.Then at school, when the lesson turns to letter writing, Steven has a flash of inspiration… Careful to hide his identity, he secretly pens a letter to Avery in jail asking for help in finding the body of “W.P.”—William “Billy” Peters.So begins a dangerous cat-and-mouse game.Just as Steven tries to use Avery to pinpoint the gravesite, so Avery misdirects and teases his mysterious correspondent in order to relive his heinous crimes. And when Avery finally realizes that the letters he’s receiving are from a twelve-year-old boy, suddenly his life has purpose too.Although his is far more dangerous…Blacklands “is a taut and chillingly brilliant debut that signals the arrival of a bright new voice in psychological suspense.”