William Shaw

'Shaw's novels combine a strong central character with an atmospheric setting and original plots' Sunday TimesIf only Alexandra Cupidi had turned south instead of north, she would have found the dead woman. Instead it is her vulnerable daughter Zoë who stumbles across Mimi Greene's lifeless body on the shoreline. A regular wild swimmer with a group of close friends, it's out of character for Mimi to have been swimming alone, especially in bad weather. DS Cupidi starts to suspect this is more than just an accidental drowning. Meanwhile, her friend and colleague Jill Ferriter receives a mysterious letter from a man who claims to be her father. Stephen Dowles has been in prison for the last twenty years, convicted of two brutal and senseless murders. With Cupidi obsessed by the death of Mimi Greene, Ferriter must lean on Bill South to uncover the facts around Dowles' conviction, revisiting old colleagues and criminals. The Wild Swimmers is an explosive return to the DS Alexandra Cupidi Series, where the shores of the south Kent coastline expose deadly secrets.

THE STUNNING FOURTH BOOK IN THE DS ALEXANDRA CUPIDI INVESTIGATIONS FROM ONE OF CRIME FICTION'S FINEST WRITERS

'If you're not a fan yet, why not?' VAL MCDERMID'A superb storyteller' PETER MAYA BIZARRE DISCOVERYAn unidentified corpse is found in a freezer in the garage of an unoccupied house. DS Alexandra Cupidi is handed a case that is made even colder by no-one seeming to know or care whose body it is. A HISTORIC CRIMEIt becomes clear there is a connection between the crime and a skeleton uncovered underneath a housing development of Trevor Grey, a boy who went missing twenty five years earlier. A BURIED LIFEDigging deep into secrets that have long been concealed brings Cupidi to face a deadly conspiracy to hide these crimes. Her investigation is complicated by a secret liaison, a political cover-up and the underground life of Trevor Grey's only friend. With meticulously realised characters and a brooding setting, Grave's End confronts the crisis in housing, environmentalism, historic cases of abuse and the protection given to badgers by the law. The third book in the DS Alexandra Cupidi series confirms William Shaw as one of our finest writers of crime fiction

Et morbid funn Et uidentifiserbart lik blir funnet i en fryser i et tomt rikmannshjem. Ingen virker til å bry seg om hvem det er eller hvem som har plassert det der. Na.r etterforsker Alexandra Cupidi får saken, har hun ingen anelse om at den vil lede henne til en rekke av mord og begravde hemmeligheter. En forbrytelse fra historien Han forsvant fem år tidligere og nesten ingen fikk det med seg. Men når bevis flyter til overflaten, som tyder på at han var knyttet til sexforbrytelser, kommer Alexandra Cupidi, datteren Zo.e og vennen William South borti en skummel kraft som ønsker å bringe dem til taushet. Et begravlagt liv Når hun graver i hemmelighetene finner Alexandra Cupidi ut at kriminalitet og makt sjelden befinner seg langt fra hverandre. Det er farlige forbindelser mellom de to sakene.

"Crime fiction is an extraordinary genre. It's one that doesn't know its place, and never really has... There is a reason why crime fiction is still so loved, and why the writers featured in the following pages are telling the stories we want to hear. The human appetite for the grisly is an entirely natural one. Blood, cruelty and deception lie behind the oldest stories we've been told... There's nothing beats a stunning good murder, after all." - William Shaw "Crime writing is a broad church. Far from being just about cops and robbers, violence, action and entertainment, at its best it holds a mirror up to our world, urging us to examine the line between right and wrong, and what leads people to cross it. The best crime fiction leans into the darkest and the noblest parts of humanity, and can take us into all areas of society - from inner city council estate to remote Greek island, from outwardly innocent English suburbia to raw, Australian outback. You'll find all of that in here, and more." - Julia Crouch

In hedonistic 1960s London, a police detective investigates the unexpected connections between two suspicious deaths: a call girl and a rock star. It's the summer of '69, and the hard-living rock stars of the British Invasion still rule London. When former Rolling Stone Brian Jones turns up dead, floating in the pool of his palatial home while the party continues around him, Detective Sargeant Cathal Breen is called away from his former partner, now girlfriend--who quit the force when she became pregnant with his child--to take the case. Breen's investigation soon uncovers another body spat out by the hedonistic '60s party scene: a young woman, a call-girl for the rich and famous, a girl they called Julie Teenager. Her client list is thick and full of suspects--all rich, powerful, and protected. When Breen gets too close to fingering a financier with ties to Russia--and gets a phone call from MI6 warning him to watch his back--the investigation seems almost insurmountable. But Breen has the keenly intuitive, deeply moral Helen Tozer at his side, who, despite her pregnancy, can't help but be drawn into the case of a girl used and cast aside by London's elite. Tense, dramatic, and with a blistering pace, Sympathy for the Devil is a gripping police thriller set in the darkly technicolor world of the 1960s.

***The bestselling William Shaw returns with a thrilling investigation in the unmissable new series***'One of the great rising talents of UK crime fiction' PETER JAMES'If you're not a fan yet, why not?' VAL MCDERMID'A superb storyteller' PETER MAYYOU CAN RUNThe two boys never fitted in. Seventeen, the worst age, nothing to do but smoke weed; at least they have each other. The day they speed off on a moped with a stolen mobile, they're ready to celebrate their luck at last. Until their victim comes looking for what's his - and ready to kill for it. YOU CAN HIDEOn the other side of Kent's wealth divide, DS Alexandra Cupidi faces the strangest murder investigation of her career. A severed limb, hidden inside a modern sculpture in Margate's Turner Contemporary. No one takes it seriously - not even the artwork's owners, celebrity dealers who act like they're above the law. YOU CAN DIEBut as Cupidi's case becomes ever more sinister, as she wrangles with police politics and personal dilemmas, she can't help worrying about those runaway boys. Seventeen, the same age as her own headstrong daughter. Alone, on the marshes, they're pawns in someone else's game. Two worlds are about to collide. Kent and its social divisions are brilliantly captured in Deadland, a crime thriller that's as ingeniously unguessable as it is moving and powerful.

Ingen visste hva de døde menneskene som ble funnet i vannet het. Det finnes folk her som ingen legger merke til. Politietterforsker Alexandra Cupidi har gjort det igjen. Hun burde ha lært seg å holde munn, etter skandalen som gjorde at hun måtte flytte fra det urbane London-politiet til Kents øde kystlinje. Og det med sin bitre tenåringsdatter på slep. Alt er annerledes i Kent. Selvmord ser annerledes ut i dette landskapet med myrer, grøfter og strender, skyggelagt av tårnene til kraftstasjonen Dungeness. Og mord ser mye verre ut. Mannen som druknet i gropa hadde blitt herdet som et dyr. Han var nordafrikansk, som mange av de andre fruktplukkerne som jobbet på jordene. Desto mer Cupidi graver i saken, jo flere spørsmål får hun. Men menneskene hun møter synes spørsmål er skummelt. Det krever en forståelse for dette underlige stedet og dets gamle normer, for å kunne avdekke den mørke konspirasjonen bak mordet. Cupidi er ikke redd for å ta den veien. Men det burde hun være. Hun burde ha lært. "Salt Lane" er den andre boken i serien om Alexandra Cupidi. Med sine flotte karakterskildringer og sosiale teft, har William Shaw skrevet en kriminalroman som griper tak i deg.

'William Shaw is one of the great rising talents of UK crime fiction. This is his best book to date' Peter James'Taut, terrifying and timely' Val McDermid'William Shaw is a superb storyteller' Peter MaySHE ALWAYS WENT TOO FAR DS Alexandra Cupidi has done it again. She should have learnt to keep her big mouth shut, after the scandal that sent her packing - resentful teenager in tow - from the London Met to the lonely Kent coastline. Murder is different here, among the fens and stark beaches. SHE WAS THE ONE WHO FOUND THE KILLERSThe man drowned in the slurry pit had been herded there like an animal. He was North African, like many of the fruit pickers that work the fields. The more Cupidi discovers, the more she wants to ask - but these people are suspicious of questions. AND NOW IT WAS KILLING HERIt will take an understanding of this strange place - its old ways and new crimes - to uncover the dark conspiracy behind the murder. Cupidi is not afraid to travel that road. But she should be. She should, by now, have learnt. Salt Lane is the first in the new DS Alexandra Cupidi series. With his trademark characterisation and flair for social commentary, William Shaw has crafted a crime novel for our time that grips you, mind and heart.

Ingen visste hva de døde menneskene som ble funnet i vannet het. Det finnes folk her som ingen legger merke til. Politietterforsker Alexandra Cupidi har gjort det igjen. Hun burde ha lært seg å holde munn, etter skandalen som gjorde at hun måtte flytte fra det urbane London-politiet til Kents øde kystlinje. Og det med sin bitre tenåringsdatter på slep. Alt er annerledes i Kent. Selvmord ser annerledes ut i dette landskapet med myrer, grøfter og strender, skyggelagt av tårnene til kraftstasjonen Dungeness. Og mord ser mye verre ut. Mannen som druknet i gropa hadde blitt herdet som et dyr. Han var nordafrikansk, som mange av de andre fruktplukkerne som jobbet på jordene. Desto mer Cupidi graver i saken, jo flere spørsmål får hun. Men menneskene hun møter synes spørsmål er skummelt. Det krever en forståelse for dette underlige stedet og dets gamle normer, for å kunne avdekke den mørke konspirasjonen bak mordet. Cupidi er ikke redd for å ta den veien. Men det burde hun være. Hun burde ha lært. "Salt Lane" er den andre boken i serien om Alexandra Cupidi. Med sine flotte karakterskildringer og sosiale teft, har William Shaw skrevet en kriminalroman som griper tak i deg.

Politibetjent William South har én grunn til ikke å delta i en drapsetterforskning: Han har selv drept. Men offeret i denne etterforskningen var hans eneste venn; også han med en lidenskap for fuglekikking. South får den viljesterke politietterforskeren Alexandra Cupidi, som nylig har blitt rekruttert til Kent-kysten fra London, som partner. Sammen finner de et lik, mørbanket på et soverom, i en oppbevaringsboks. Kun ekstremt raseri kunne drept en mann på denne måten. Dette vet South noe om. De finner tidlig en mistenkt: Donnie Fraser, en landstryker fra Nord-Irland. Hans opphold i Kent gir William en dårlig følelse - fordi han kjente ham som gutt. Når fortiden nærmer seg ønsker William å komme den i forkjøpet. For samtidig som han desperat undersøker forbindelsene, vet han at forbrytelsen neppe kan sammenlignes med den store løgnen fra hans egen barndom. Fuglekikkeren er en historie full av spenning, intelligens og spesielle bånd mellom fedre og sønner, sorg og skyld, og å møte sitt innerste mørke. Første bok i en ny serie.

Politibetjent William South har én grunn til ikke å delta i en drapsetterforskning: Han har selv drept. Men offeret i denne etterforskningen var hans eneste venn; også han med en lidenskap for fuglekikking. South får den viljesterke politietterforskeren Alexandra Cupidi, som nylig har blitt rekruttert til Kent-kysten fra London, som partner. Sammen finner de et lik, mørbanket på et soverom, i en oppbevaringsboks. Kun ekstremt raseri kunne drept en mann på denne måten. Dette vet South noe om. De finner tidlig en mistenkt: Donnie Fraser, en landstryker fra Nord-Irland. Hans opphold i Kent gir William en dårlig følelse - fordi han kjente ham som gutt. Når fortiden nærmer seg ønsker William å komme den i forkjøpet. For samtidig som han desperat undersøker forbindelsene, vet han at forbrytelsen neppe kan sammenlignes med den store løgnen fra hans egen barndom. Fuglekikkeren er en historie full av spenning, intelligens og spesielle bånd mellom fedre og sønner, sorg og skyld, og å møte sitt innerste mørke. Første bok i en ny serie.

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