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Every year, on average 23 people disappear without a trace from cruise ships. No one has ever come back. Until now. Five years ago police psychologist Martin Schwartz lost his wife and son. They were holidaying on a cruise ship when they simply vanished, the case written off as a straightforward murder-suicide. They are not the only parent-and-child pair to have disappeared from the ship in recent years – and yet, the authorities seem unconcerned. But when a missing girl reappears – carrying Martin's son's beloved teddy bear – the police won't be able to avoid the truth that something sinister is lurking on board... 'Without question one of the crime world's most evocative storytellers' KARIN SLAUGHTER 'Fitzek's thrillers are breathtaking, full of wild twists' HARLAN COBEN

On his way back from an ongoing investigation into a serial killer in Scotland, forensic anthropologist David Hunter is asked to examine a fire-death on the remote Hebridean island of Runa. Told only that there is something 'strange' about it, Hunter is intrigued enough to accept - despite the worsening winter weather conditions, and the strain it will put on his already troubled relationship with his girlfriend, Jenny.After a rough sea journey, he and the two police officers who accompany him are met by Brody, a retired DI who now lives on the island, and who discovered the body. Warned that it will be unlike anything he's seen before, Hunter is still unprepared for what confronts him at the abandoned old crofter's cottage - human remains that have been burnt to the bone, except for both feet and a single hand that have somehow survived unscathed. Even more inexplicably, nothing else in the cottage has been damaged by the fire.It appears to be a textbook case of the phenomenon known as spontaneous human combustion. But Hunter is certain there is a more rational explanation for what has happened. And although the police seem ready to dismiss this as a bizarre accidental death, he finds himself drawn more towards Brody's gut whatever caused this, it was no accident.But even as Hunter comes face to face with the knowledge that there is a murderer on the island, the full force of an Atlantic storm descends. Cut off from the mainland, he begins to realise that the burned corpse is only one of Runa's secrets. And as the storm rages, the killing begins in earnest...

Fünf tote Kinder in fünf Wochen und keine Spur vom Täter. Nur ein kleiner Junge hat einen schrecklichen Verdacht: alle Opfer waren in seinem Alter, ihre Leichen wurden nahe der Themse gefunden. Ganz London ist beunruhigt, doch wer glaubt schon einem Elfjährigen? Und der Blutdurst des Killers ist noch nicht gestillt ...

Saturday night dates at the skating rink have been a tradition in the small southern town of Heartsdale for as long as anyone can remember, but when a teenage quarrel explodes into a deadly shoot-out, Sara Linton -- the town's pediatrician and medical examiner-- finds herself entangled in a terrible tragedy.What seemed at first to be a horrific but individual catastrophe proves to have wider implications. The autopsy reveals evidence of long-term abuse, of ritualistic self-mutilation, but when Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver start to investigate, they are frustrated at every turn.The children surrounding the victim close ranks. The families turn their backs. Then a young girl is abducted, and it becomes clear that the first death is linked to an even more brutal crime, one far more shocking than anyone could have imagined. Meanwhile, detective Lena Adams, still recovering from her sister's death and her own brutal attack, finds herself drawn to a young man who might hold the answers. But unless Lena, Sara, and Jeffrey can uncover the deadly secrets the children hide, it's going to happen again...

Wie schuldig is zal niet ontkomen...Achter een Mariakapel in het Taunusgebergte wordt het lichaam van een zestienjarig meisje gevonden; ze lijkt te zijn gewurgd. Pia Sander en Oliver von Bodenstein worden op de zaak gezet en komen al snel op het spoor van een vluchteling die een eerder geweldsdelict op zijn naam heeft staan.Een paar dagen later komt in hetzelfde gebied een man om het leven door een aanrijding. Opmerkelijk is dat de man geen schoenen draagt en onder de bijtwonden zit. Bovendien blijkt hij een crimineel verleden te hebben en het jaar daarvoor te zijn vrijgelaten uit de gevangenis.Terwijl Pia en Bodenstein uitzoeken of de twee zaken iets met elkaar te maken hebben, stuiten ze op steeds meer mysterieuze sterfgevallen en vermissingen – en stevenen ze zonder het door te hebben af op een ramp...‘Zeer sterk verhaal. De parallellen met echte gebeurtenissen zijn onmiskenbaar.’ – BR KulturnachrichtenMonster is het elfde, los te lezen deel in de populaire thrillerreeks rondom rechercheurs Pia Sander en Oliver von Bodenstein van bestsellerauteur Nele Neuhaus. Voor de lezers van Samuel Bjørk en Jussi Adler-Olson.