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James Marrison's chilling debut, The Drowning Ground, will plunge readers into of the secrets, fears and lies of a small community. Perfect for fans of hit TV series Broadchurch and The Missing. 'DARK, GRIPPING AND UNEXPECTED' LINWOOD BARCLAY *** A man is found dead near his home with a pitchfork through his neck. When DCI Guillermo Downes is called to the scene he realizes the victim is well known to him. A decade earlier, Downes made a promise to the families of two missing girls that he would find their daughters. Although cleared of any involvement, the dead man had been a suspect in their disappearance. And as the ripples from his death spread through the local community it happens to o...
The second thrilling detective mystery featuring Guillermo Downes, perfect for fans of Peter James, Ian Rankin and hit TV series The Missing. A gruesome find An abandoned car by a ramshackle Cotswold farm draws the attention of local police officers. When DCI Guillermo Downes arrives at the farmhouse he finds a sickening scene of devastation and destruction. A desperate search Now Downes has a murder investigation to run and almost nothing to go on. A cover up spanning decades At first Downes - and his right hand man Sergeant Graves - struggle to find answers. But as they follow the threads of this brutal murder they find a stack of photographs of missing boys. This case is bigger than Downes and Graves ever expected, and as they close in on the truth they uncover a conspiracy that goes right to the heart of the British establishment itself. Praise for James Marrison: 'This is an exceptional and haunting murder mystery, a real cut above the rest' Irish Independent 'Dark, gripping and unexpected' Linwood Barclay 'Assured, astutely paced, a gripping thriller' Herald 'Intriguing, taut, told with panache' Daily Mail
This is no ordinary true crime book. If you think you've got the stomach for the most blood-curdling, sickening and downright strangest murders you will ever come across, then look no further than these pages. You have been warned...Take, for example, Enriqueta Marti who kidnapped children from the streets of Barcelona, then boiled away their flesh and crushed their bones for ingredients for her coveted 'magic potions'. Or take Randy Kraft, known as The Scorecard Killer, a computer genius by day and a a deranged psychopath by night. Finally arrested with a corpse slumped in the passenger seat of his car, it emerged that Kraft had spent over a decade cutting up and disposing of his numerous v...
Take, for example, Enriqueta Marti who kidnapped children from the streets of Barcelona, then boiled away their flesh and crushed their bones for ingredients for her coveted 'magic potions'. Or take Randy Kraft, known as The Scorecard Killer, a computer genius by day and a a deranged psychopath by night. Finally arrested with a corpse slumped in the passenger seat of his car, it emerged that Kraft had spent over a decade cutting up and disposing of his numerous victims along the California highways. In this stomach-churning collection, all the stories have one thing in common - a unique bizarre twist. True crime writer James Marrison draws upon the material that has featured in the hugely successful column The Murder File in cult magazine Bizarre in order to disclose the kind of sickening deeds that are perpetrated more often than you might think, but which sometimes go largely unreported by the media. Welcome to The World's Most bizarre Murders - the most shocking true crime book you will ever read.
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The bestselling author of The Drowning Ground and The Sleepless Ones is back with a novella that delves into Guillermo Downes' Argentinian background. 1981, Buenos Aires A young Guillermo Downes finds himself pursued by the brutal Argentinian military police. Out of his depth, but with people to protect, Guillermo discovers there's more violence than he ever realised behind the facade of his beloved Buenos Aires . . . Praise for James Marrison: 'Dark, gripping and unexpected' Linwood Barclay 'Assured, astutely paced, a gripping thriller' Herald 'Intriguing, taut, told with panache' Daily Mail
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