Bøger af Jane Heafield

From the author of Obsessed: Six women fight to survive a kidnapper's lethal game as a seventh is about to be drawn into his lair . . . Noa Vickerman, host of a late-night confession show, gets a call from a man claiming he has six young women imprisoned. At first, it's dismissed as a prank--but that changes when the first body shows up. As the captives huddle in fear, he puts them through challenges, intent on finding a single special woman that suits his ultimate purpose. Meanwhile, with police watching her every move and the public following the story breathlessly, Noa is determined to save the women--but will she have to put herself within the monster's reach to do so?

How do you hunt a monster when you can't remember his face? The author of Her Dark Past returns with a new novel of trauma, terror and missing memories . . . Lisa walks in the woods on a regular basis. But this time when she emerges, she is badly injured. Her wedding ring is missing. And her memory of the event is blank. Unsettled, she tells her husband that she was mugged by a young girl but insists he not call the police. It doesn't take long for fragments of the truth to come back, though, and when Lisa realises that she was assaulted by a man and left to die, she begins to live in fear, seeing threats everywhere she looks. What if he comes back for her--and she doesn't even recognise him? Even co-workers and neighbours could be suspects . . . Soon, Lisa discovers she is not the only victim and becomes fixated on pursuing the perpetrator. But is she really prepared for the horrifying truth she is about to discover? Content Warning: This book deals with themes of abuse and sexual assault.

“What a fantastic book! I was gripped from the start and read late into the night.” —Goodreads reviewer, five starsA series of bizarre crimes across the English city of Sheffield brings a police detective and a PI together in an increasingly dangerous game . . . Liam Bennet has just quit the force to become a private detective—and to his frustration, his first case is a weird petty crime while his good friend acting DCI Liz Miller is assigned a murder. Two murders, in fact—one recent, the other involving a skeletonized body, but both linked by pictures of dice at the scenes. After Liz is attacked on the job, Liam visits her in hospital and they discover another odd connection: both Liam and the police are looking into teachers who’ve been victimised. Meanwhile, more dice keep turning up—though the crimes connected to them seem utterly random, ranging from the serious to the bizarre. As the two close in on the mystery, will they be able to identify a pattern—or is their luck about to run out?

';Gripping... hooked me in straight away and I finished this book in less than 2 days... really kept me guessing.' Goodreads reviewer, five stars In this gripping thriller by the author of Don't Believe Her, one phone call brings a buried horror back to the surfaceand upends a family's life... When Sara answers the phone and hears the name Drake Mills, it makes her blood run cold. It is a name from her past. A name she would rather forget. Keeping the call a secret from her husband and her daughter, Marcie, Sara instead decides to confide in someone else from her past, a woman who knows all about Drake Mills. Eventually, Sara is forced to disclose the truth to her husband. What she doesn't realize is that Marcie senses something is going on with her parents, and when she discovers a book in the attic written by her mother, an account of how she survived a serial killer, it opens a door that Sara preferred to keep firmly locked...

A police inspector is drawn outside of his jurisdiction into the puzzling cold case of a missing girl, in this crime thriller by the author of Dead Cold.When DCI Liam Bennet receives an unexpected message from Lorraine, his ex-partner, he hopes that she wants to reconnect with Joe, their ten-year-old son. But all she wants is his help. She's part of a small film crew investigating a cold case in her home village of Lampton and she wants Bennet to access police files. He wants no part of it. But when Joe learns his mother has been back in touch, he orders his father to find her.Bennet takes time off work for what he thinks will be a quick trip to a tiny Peak District village. He's got no idea that he's about to be drawn into an obsessive hunt. In Lampton, the locals think he's investigating the missing girl cold case and want him gone. It looks like the film crew also hit the same wall of silence. But why is there no evidence they ever left the village? Did something happen to the film crew? Is it connected to a missing young girl? And just how many of the locals know more than they're saying? When a grim discovery is made in a local lake, Bennet finds himself in a race against time. It's not his case, not his jurisdiction, but he's determined to uncover the truth . . . Cold Blood is the perfect read for fans of authors like K.L. Slater, Robert Bryndza and Angela Marsons.

A weekend getaway leads to adeadly game of deceit between two cunning sisters-in-law in this British psychological thriller. Though Lucy and Tim have been married for years, she has never gotten along with his sister. So when they plan a weekend in the country, they certainly don't expect Mary to show up. But it's Mary who's shocked when she arrives to find Tim missing. His belongings are gone, there's a bloodstain on the floor, and Lucy's story doesn't add up. Lucy insists that he left her, but Mary suspects foul play. When the police are called, each woman tells her own storybut Detective Reavley doesn't trust either of them. Accusations of affairs and violence only add to the tension, but soon explosive secrets come to light that no one could have expected.

A Sheffield police detective risks her career to investigate a brutal double murder in this gripping crime thriller.The truth lies in the darkest places . . .When an anonymous call sends police to a house in Sheffield, a dead couple are discovered in the kitchen. Their skulls have been caved in, their hands mutilated, and their eyes damaged beyond recognition. When Detective Inspector Lucy Miller is handed the investigation, she is thrilled. She loves high-profile cases. But when her boss is involved in a traffic collision the investigation is stripped from her and given to DCI Bennet. But Miller refuses to quit. Soon Bennet realises that Miller is interfering with his investigation and warns her off the case.However, when a link is made to a cold case, she is drawn in deeper. Then, when the police discover the victims aren't who they think they are, the mystery is blown wide open . . . Will Miller be able to solve the case and keep her career intact? Or is this investigation going to be her undoing?Dead Cold is the perfect read for fans of authors like K.L. Slater, Robert Bryndza and Angela Marsons.