Showing results by author "Mo Hayder" in All Categories

Alex Mullins knows she is one of the lucky ones. When a fatal coach crash at her school reunion killed several of her classmates, she was saved from a grisly fate. She is haunted by what she thinks she saw that night - a vision of a skeletal woman, known by the locals as the Bonehead - a woman who brings bad luck to all that see her. Now a police officer in Gloucestershire, Alex fights to overcome the past by helping other people. But when her path crosses with someone who was there that fateful night, her new life begins to unravel at the seams.

In an unassuming house, on a quiet residential street in south London, a husband and wife are discovered imprisoned in their own home. Badly dehydrated, they’ve been bound and beaten. Worse still, their young son is missing. When DI Jack Caffery of the Met’s AMIT squad is called in to investigate, the similarities to events in his own past make it impossible for him to view this new crime with the necessary detachment.

The Maude is outside. It wants to come in. It wants to sit on your chest. The mentally ill patients in Amberly Secure Unit are highly suggestible. A hallucination can spread like a virus. When unexplained power cuts lead to a series of horrifying incidents, fear spreads from the inmates to the staff. Amidst the growing hysteria, AJ, a senior psychiatric nurse, is desperate to protect his charges.

Greenwich, south-east London: Detective Inspector Jack Caffery—young, driven, unshockable—is called to one of the most gruesome crime scenes he has ever seen. Five young women have been ritualistically murdered and dumped on wasteland near the Millennium Dome. Subsequent post-mortems reveal a singular, horrific signature linking the victims.

Student Grey Hutchins comes to Tokyo seeking answers to what happened during the notorious Nanking Massacre in which, in one city, the Imperial Japanese Army killed up to 300,000 civilians. Only one man can help her, a survivor of the Massacre, and now a visiting professor at the prestigious university of Todai in Tokyo; a man who is rumoured to possess documentary evidence of Nanking.

'I believe, from what I can hear, that either my daughter or my wife has just been attacked. I don't know the outcome. The house is silent.' Fourteen years ago two teenage lovers were brutally murdered in a patch of remote woodland. The prime suspect confessed to the crimes and was imprisoned. Now, one family is still trying to put the memory of the killings behind them. But at their isolated hilltop house... the nightmare is about to return.

Les fantômes n'existent pas... Un terrible accident... Niché au cœur des Cotswolds, Eastonbirt a tout du village anglais idyllique. Mais ses habitants restent hantés par une tragédie. Une tragédie à laquelle Alex Mullins a survécu. La silhouette d'une femme... Cette nuit-là, une femme au visage décharné s'est penchée sur Alex. Une femme qui ressemble à Crâne d'os, une prostituée assassinée un siècle plus tôt. Une vérité pire que la légende... Alex ne croit pas aux légendes urbaines. Avec Arran, son ami d'enfance, elle décide de remonter le fil de la nuit du drame.

Patienterne på den lukkede afdeling på Beechway Sikringsanstalt i Bristol er letpåvirkelige. En hallucination kan sprede sig som et virus. Da uforklarlige strømafbrydelser fører til en række skrækindjagende hændelser, breder frygten sig fra patienterne til personalet. Midt i det stigende hysteri prøver oversygeplejersken AJ desperat at beskytte sine patienter. Mod det usynlige. Mod det, der kommer lige efter, strømmen er gået. Politikommissær Jack Caffery leder efter liget af en forsvunden ung kvinde.

Als Zelda Lornton in der psychiatrischen Klinik von Bristol tot aufgefunden wird, glauben alle zu wissen, wer daran schuld ist - der Geist von Beechway, von dem erzählt wird, dass er nachts die Patienten heimsucht und dazu treibt, sich selbst zu verletzen, manchmal sogar tödlich. AJ, der verantwortliche Pfleger, will an diese Gerüchte nicht glauben. Als dann der psychisch schwer kranke Isaac Handel unerwartet entlassen wird, hat AJ einen Verdacht.

Quand Grey débarque à Tokyo sans argent ni bagages, elle a beaucoup à prouver et encore plus à cacher... Obsédée par un passé tumultueux, elle a quitté son Angleterre natale dans le seul but de retrouver un vieux film disparu. Ces images seraient l'unique témoignage visuel des atrocités commises par les Japonais à Nankin en 1937. Un seul homme pourrait aider Grey. Un survivant du massacre, professeur à l'université Todai. Mais ce dernier, méfiant, refuse de répondre aux questions de la jeune femme.