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London an einem klirrend kalten Neujahrstag. Detective Max Wolfe ist entsetzt: In einem noblen Wohnkomplex wurde die Familie Wood erschossen. Nur der jüngste Sohn scheint verschont worden zu sein, doch von ihm fehlt jede Spur. Hat der Killer ihn in seiner Gewalt? Max bleibt nicht viel Zeit. Seine Ermittlungen führen ihn weit in die Vergangenheit, zu einem Killer, der vor 30 Jahren eine Familie tötete, auf die gleiche brutale Art. Doch der ist mittlerweile alt und sterbenskrank. Trotzdem verbirgt er etwas, das spürt Max - eine Ahnung, die ihn ins Grab bringen wird, und zwar buchstäblich.

In London macht eine Bürgerwehr, der Club der Henker, Jagd auf böse Menschen - auf Pädophile, Mörder, Hassprediger - und erhängt sie. Mit diesen Fällen von Lynchjustiz beginnen für Detective Max Wolfe seine bisher schwierigsten Ermittlungen. Denn wie fängt man Mörder, die von der Öffentlichkeit als Helden gefeiert werden? Seine Spurensuche führt ihn tief unter die Stadt, in den Untergrund Londons mit seinen vielen stillgelegten Tunneln und Geisterstationen.

Vor 20 Jahren trafen 7 Jungen in der elitären Privatschule Potter's Field aufeinander und wurden Freunde. Nun sterben sie, einer nach dem anderen, auf unvorstellbar grausame Art. Das ruft Detective Constable Max Wolfe auf den Plan: Koffeinjunkie, Hundeliebhaber, alleinerziehender Vater. Und der Albtraum jedes Mörders. Er folgt der blutigen Fährte des Killers von Londons Hinterhöfen und Straßen bis in die dunkelsten Winkel des Internets. Mit jeder neuen Leiche kommt Max dem Täter näher - doch damit bringt er nicht nur sich selbst, sondern auch seine kleine Tochter in tödliche Gefahr.

Harry Silver has it all. A successful job in TV, a gorgeous wife, a lovely child. But in one moment of madness, he chucks it all away. A modern classic, Man and Boy is a hilarious and touching novel about how Harry comes to terms with his life, brings up his son alone and, gradually, learns what words like love and family really mean.

London, Hampstead Heath. Während eines Spaziergangs stolpert Detective Max Wolfe über die Leiche von Vic Masters, zu Lebzeiten Handlanger der Kray-Zwillinge, eines berüchtigten Verbrecher-Duos der 1950er und 1960er Jahre. Tatwaffe und Tötungsart sprechen für die Zwillinge. Handelt es sich tatsächlich um eine Botschaft des bereits 1968 verhafteten Verbrecher-Duos oder wandelt jemand anders auf ihren Spuren?

London, ein Uhr nachts am 2. Weihnachtsfeiertag. Schnee fällt, die Stadt schläft. Aber nicht Detective Max Wolfe. Durch die großen Fenster seines Lofts beobachtet er die dunkle Straße ein paar Stockwerke unter ihm. Ein Kastenwagen hat dort gerade angehalten. Zwei Männer springen heraus, vermummt und schwarz gekleidet. Sie zerren etwas aus dem Wagen. Es ist ein Mann halb nackt, halb tot, am Leben. Doch nicht mehr lange. Bald schon jagt Max Wolfe eine Bande von Mördern, die ihre Opfer buchstäblich einen Kopf kürzer macht.

Emma Moon is out. She's served nine years hard time for an armed robbery that killed two men and enriched many more. But Emma’s never talked; she's never revealed who was with her on the day of the robbery or who killed both men. And she's never given up the money. And now she's free. But everything has gone: her family; her share of the money and her faithless loser of a husband. So now Emma Moon is in a hurry. Because it's payback time

Vor 20 Jahren trafen 7 Jungen in der elitären Privatschule Potter's Field aufeinander und wurden Freunde. Nun sterben sie, einer nach dem anderen, auf unvorstellbar grausame Art. Das ruft Detective Constable Max Wolfe auf den Plan: Koffeinjunkie, Hundeliebhaber, alleinerziehender Vater. Und der Albtraum jedes Mörders. Er folgt der blutigen Fährte des Killers von Londons Hinterhöfen und Straßen bis in die dunkelsten Winkel des Internets. Mit jeder neuen Leiche kommt Max dem Täter näher - doch damit bringt er nicht nur sich selbst, sondern auch seine kleine Tochter in tödliche Gefahr.

Twenty years ago seven students became friends at their exclusive private school, Potter's Field. Now they have started dying in the most violent way imaginable. Detective Max Wolfe follows the bloody trail from the backstreets and bright lights of the city, to the darkest corners of the corridors of power. As the bodies pile up, Max finds he is fighting not only for justice, but for his own life....

After Alfie Budd’s beloved wife dies, he returns to England to find his parents feuding and his grandmother’s health failing. Alfie’s ambitions to be a writer are fading as well. But when he begins tutoring a young single mother for her A level exams, his bewildering life is suddenly transformed. A widely published journalist and the best-selling author of Man and Boy, Tony Parsons also regularly appears on BBC television.

Lana and Roman Wade have fled the city for a little corner of paradise, exchanging their flat with its unhappy memories for a small honey-coloured house among the rolling green hills of Oxfordshire. Their new home, set in a residential Close known as The Gardens, is their dream and their new neighbours are charming. So why is Lana feeling so uneasy? Lana and Roman may seem like an attractive, popular couple. But they are also a couple with a secret, a secret buried in the life they have left behind, a secret they have shared with no one.

A band of vigilante executioners roam London's hot summer nights, abducting evil men and hanging them. Sentenced to death is the gang member who abused vulnerable girls, the wealthy drunk driver who mowed down a child and the hate preacher calling for the murder of British troops. As the bodies pile up and riots explode all over the sweltering city, DC Max Wolfe embarks on his most dangerous investigation yet: hunting a gang of killers whom many believe to be heroes....

On New Year’s Day, a wealthy family is found slaughtered inside their exclusive gated community in north London, their youngest child stolen away. The murder weapon is a gun for stunning cattle, leading Detective Max Wolfe to a dusty corner of Scotland Yard’s Black Museum devoted to a killer who thirty years ago was known as the Slaughter Man. But the Slaughter Man is now old and dying. Can he really be back in the game?

Harry Silver returns to face life in the 'blended family'. A wonderful new novel about modern times, it is both a sequel to the million selling Man and Boy and a stand-alone story.

A young woman moves into a small cottage in a Cornish fishing village. She is beautiful and alluring, and among both the locals and the summer visitors, she inspires infatuation and resentment in equal measures. She carries with her no trace of her history, or her previous life, or the past she has left behind. But that past is closer than she thinks. And it is looking for her.

When terrorists use a drone to bring down a plane on one of London’s busiest shopping centres, it ignites a chain of events that will draw in the innocent and the guilty alike. DC Max Wolfe finds himself caught in the crossfire between a tech-savvy terrorist cell and a revenge-seeking, Bible-quoting murderer called Bad Moses.

#taken in the night: They thought they were kidnapping the mistress of one of London’s most powerful gangsters. But they’ve taken the wrong woman. And crossed the wrong detective. #taken underground: Detective Max Wolfe's hunt for the missing woman takes him from New Scotland Yard’s legendary Black Museum to the glittering mansions of career criminals, from sleazy strip joints to secret sex dungeons - and to unspeakably dark deeds committed decades ago.

As dawn breaks on a snowy February morning, a refrigerated lorry is found parked in the heart of London's Chinatown. Inside, 12 women, apparently illegal immigrants, are dead from hypothermia. But in the cab, DC Max Wolfe finds 13 passports. Twelve dead women. Thirteen passports. The hunt for the missing woman will take Max Wolfe into the dark heart of the world of human smuggling, mass migration and 21st-century slave markets.

Harry Silver has it all. A successful job in TV, a gorgeous wife, a lovely child. And in one moment of madness, he chucks it all away.

A hard-working trainee doctor, Megan Jewell, finds herself accidentally pregnant. She wants a baby one day, but God, not now! Can Megan really bring a baby into the world when she can hardly look after herself?