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Überall in Cumbria hinterlässt ein Serienkiller »Weihnachtsgeschenke« für die Polizei: abgetrennte Finger und dazu die Nachricht »#BSC6«. DS Washington Poe und die Analystin Tilly Bradshaw stehen vor einem Fall, der einfach keinen Sinn ergibt. Ihr einziger Verdächtiger leugnet hartnäckig, was sie zweifelsfrei beweisen können–gibt dafür aber Dinge zu, von denen die Polizei noch gar nichts wusste. Und warum haben die Opfer, die scheinbar nicht das Geringste miteinander zu tun hatten, alle vor drei Jahren dieselben zwei Wochen Urlaub genommen?

Ein Serienmörder foltert seine Opfer in den uralten Steinkreisen der Grafschaft Cumbria und verbrennt sie bei lebendigem Leibe. Der Täter hinterlässt keinerlei Spuren – bis die scheinbar willkürlichen Foltermale des dritten Opfers bei einer genauen Untersuchung den Namen "Washington Poe" ergeben. Könnte Detective Poe das nächste Opfer sein?

Seit sechs Jahren sitzt der charismatische Sterne-Koch Jared Keaton im Gefängnis wegen Mordes an seiner eigenen Tochter. Zwar wurde die Leiche von Elizabeth nie gefunden, doch die hartnäckigen Ermittlungen von DS Washington Poe hatten schließlich zu Keatons Verhaftung und Verurteilung geführt. Als jetzt in einem Polizeirevier in Cumbria eine junge Frau auftaucht, die behauptet, Elizabeth Keaton zu sein, steht Poes Welt plötzlich auf dem Kopf. Denn eine DNA-Analyse scheint zweifelsfrei zu beweisen, dass die Frau die Wahrheit sagt.

Detective Sergeant Washington Poe is in court, fighting eviction from his beloved and isolated croft, when he is summoned to a backstreet brothel in Carlisle where a man has been beaten to death with a baseball bat. Poe is confused—he hunts serial killers and this appears to be a straightforward murder-by-pimp—but his attendance was requested personally, by the kind of people who prefer to remain in the shadows. As Poe and the socially awkward programmer Tilly Bradshaw delve deeper into the case, they are faced with seemingly unanswerable questions.

Er schickt seinen Opfern Gedichte und getrocknete Blumen, bevor er sie vergiftet–und er kann offenbar durch Wände gehen, denn selbst Polizeischutz rund um die Uhr kann ihn nicht stoppen. »Der Botaniker«, wie ihn die Presse nennt, hat bereits drei Opfer auf dem Gewissen und ein viertes ausgewählt. Für DS Washington Poe kommt der scheinbar unmögliche Fall zur Unzeit: Seine Freundin, die geniale Pathologin Estelle Doyle, wird verdächtigt, ihren Vater erschossen zu haben.

A shooting at Gretna Green. A bride is murdered on her wedding day, seconds after she slips on her new ring. It's brutal and bloody but she isn't the first victim and she won't be the last. With the body count now at 17, people are terrified, not knowing where the sniper will strike next. With the nation in a state of panic, the police are at a loss and turn to Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw - the only team who just might be able to track down a serial killer following no discernible pattern and with the whole country as his personal hunting ground.

Detective Sergeant Washington Poe can count on one hand the number of friends he has. And he'd still have his thumb left. There's the guilelessly innocent civilian analyst, Tilly Bradshaw of course. Insanely brilliant, she's a bit of a social hand grenade. He's known his beleaguered boss, Detective Inspector Stephanie Flynn for years as he has his nearest neighbour, full-time shepherd/part-time dog sitter, Victoria. And then there's Estelle Doyle. Dark and dangerous and sexy as hell.

A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District's prehistoric stone circles. He leaves no clues, and the police are helpless. When his name is found carved into the charred remains of the third victim, disgraced detective Washington Poe is brought back from suspension and into an investigation he wants no part of. He is reluctantly partnered with brilliant but socially awkward civilian analyst Tilly Bradshaw, and the mismatched pair uncover a trail that only he is meant to see. The elusive killer has a plan, and for some reason Poe is part of it.

Detective Inspector Avison Fluke is a man on the edge. He has committed a crime to get back to work, concealed a debilitating illness and is about to be made homeless. Just as he thinks things can't get any worse, the body of a young woman is found buried on a Cumbrian building site. Shot once in the back of the head, it is a cold, calculated execution. When the postmortem reveals she has gone to significant expense in disguising her appearance, Fluke knows this is no ordinary murder.

Shortlisted for the VN Thriller of the Year 2022 Longlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger 2021 'Dark, sharp and compelling' PETER JAMES 'Fantastic' MARTINA COLE 'Britain's answer to Harry Bosch' MATT HILTON 'A powerful thriller from an explosive new talent' DAVID MARK LONGLISTED...

After The Puppet Show, a new storm is coming. Jared Keaton, chef to the stars. Charming. Charismatic. Psychopath. He's currently serving a life sentence for the brutal murder of his daughter, Elizabeth. Her body was never found, and Keaton was convicted largely on the testimony of Detective Sergeant Washington Poe. So when a young woman staggers into a remote police station with irrefutable evidence that she is Elizabeth Keaton, Poe finds himself on the wrong end of an investigation, one that could cost him much more than his career.

Washington Poe has a story to tell. And he needs you to listen. You'll hear how it started with the robber birds. Crows. Dozens of them. Enough for a murder. He'll tell you about a man who was tied to a tree and stoned to death, a man who had tattooed himself with a code so obscure, even the gifted analyst Tilly Bradshaw struggled to break it. He'll tell you how the man's murder was connected to a tragedy that happened fifteen years earlier when a young girl massacred her entire family. And finally, he'll tell you about the mercy chair.

A collection of seven short stories, featuring crime-fighting duo Tilly and Poe: The Killing Field, Why Don't Sheep Shrink?, Dead Man's Fingers, Strange Ink, A Permanent Solution, Mondo Bizzarro and Once in a Red Moon.

Investigating how a severed hand ends up on the third green of a Cumbrian golf course is not how Detective Inspector Avison Fluke has planned to spend his Saturday. So when a secret protection unit from London swoops in quoting national security, he's secretly pleased. But trouble is never far away. A young woman arrives at his lakeside cabin with a cryptic message: a code known to only a handful of people, and it forces Fluke back into the investigation he's only just been barred from.

Dangling from a hook in a meat packing plant isn't how Detective Sergeant Washington Poe wants to spend his weekend. He's been punched and kicked and threatened, and when a contract killer arrives, it seems things are about to go from bad to worse. He goes by the name of the Pale Man, and he and his straight-edged razor have been feared all over London for 20 years. But Poe knows two things the Pale Man doesn't. Although it might seem like a hopeless situation, Poe has planned to be here all along.

Jared Keaton, chef trois étoiles, est en prison, reconnu coupable après l'enquête de Washington Poe du meurtre de sa fille, dont le corps n'a jamais été retrouvé. Mais cette dernière réapparaît, avant de nouveau disparaître. Poe se serait-il trompé ? Une fois libéré, Keaton n'a qu'un but : briser Poe.

Poe and Tilly are having breakfast, wondering how to spend the rest of their holiday, when their presence is requested at a Cumbrian airfield. An airfield that, during the 2001 foot-and-mouth crisis, was known as the killing field.

Whilst on a murder-mystery evening in deepest darkest Northumberland, Poe manages to annoy everyone whilst simultaneously solving a mystery - what happened to a five-carat red diamond called the Red Moon of Coonowrin.

El sargento Washington Poe está en la corte, luchando contra el desalojo de su amada y aislada granja, cuando lo citan a un burdel callejero en Carlisle, donde un hombre ha sido asesinado a golpes con un bate de béisbol. Todo hace indicar que es un simple asesinato por parte de un proxeneta, pero su asistencia fue solicitada personalmente, por el tipo de personas que prefieren permanecer en las sombras.

La dernière chose à laquelle on s'attend en déballant un cadeau, c'est bien de trouver à l'intérieur des fragments de corps humain... Bientôt, d'autres doigts sectionnés, accompagnés du même code cryptique, sont découverts dans des lieux aussi insolites que l'étal d'un boucher ou les fonts baptismaux d'une église. Face à ce jeu de pistes aussi macabre que déroutant, Washington Poe, de la National Crime Agency, pourra de nouveau compter sur Tilly Bradshaw, geek atypique, pour démêler les fils d'une enquête à double détente.