検索キーワード： 著者 "Margie Orford" すべてのカテゴリー

Cora carries secrets her daughter can't know. Freya is frightened by what her mother leaves unsaid. Angel will only bury the past if it means putting her abusers into the ground. One act of violence sets three women on a collision course, each desperate to find the truth, when the people they love are not what they seem.

I Cape Town står en seksårig pige og venter på, at hendes mor skal hente hende. En bil dukker ubemaerket op, og vaek er pigen. Mistanken falder på hendes far, kaptajn Riedwaan Faizal, som er chef for Cape Towns bandeenhed. Han er desperat efter at komme i gang med eftersøgningen, men politiet mistaenker ham for at vaere kidnapperen. Suspenderet fra politistyrken ser Faizal magtesløst til, idet eftersøgningen af hans datter indstilles.

A terrified, frozen child is found close to death on an icy Cape Town mountainside. But no one reported her missing. Who does she belong to? Profiler Dr Clare Hart is baffled - but when a young woman disappears, Clare sees a frightening pattern beginning to emerge. Rosa is a gifted but troubled young cellist, and her grandfather is at his wits end. Why did she walk out of her music school that day? Where has she gone now?

A dog scavenging in an illegal building site digs up a bone. A human bone. She drags it back to where her mistress lies dead in an abandoned shed, but there are hundreds more. Skeletons which have lain undisturbed for centuries beneath Gallows Hill, where Cape Town’s notorious gibbets once stood. Investigative profiler Dr Clare Hart is called in by Captain Riedwaan Faizal of the SAPS Gang Unit and soon discovers that a deadly, more recent secret lies hidden among these long-buried bones.