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England, 1921. Drei Jahre, nachdem ihr Mann Alex im Krieg über Deutschland abgeschossen wurde, trauert Jo Manders immer noch. Als sie zu dessen Anwesen in Sussex reist, merkt Jo schnell, dass sie über seine Herkunft kaum etwas wusste. Die Enthüllung eines mysteriösen Todesfalls in der...

Brought to you by Penguin. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They're on a long dark road, late at night, and they see a woman up ahead, clearly in trouble. They stop and pick her up. It's only once she's in the car that they see the blood. And then they see the headlights, and at last...

Brought to you by Penguin. In 1977, in the small town of Claire Lake, two men were murdered with the same gun. Beth Greer was the prime suspect - a rich, eccentric 23-year-old woman, seen fleeing one of the crimes. Ever since her surprise acquittal, she's retreated to her mansion, Greer house...

1982. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel, in Fell. But Viv feels that something is wrong, something disturbing and haunting. And then she vanishes. 2017. Carly Kirk has never been able to let go of the story of her aunt Viv. She decides to move to Fell and take a job at the hotel - as a night clerk - to try to get to the bottom of the mystery. But Carly soon discovers that, before she vanished, Viv believed she was on the trail of something truly sinister.

A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deserted road in this terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases. July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They’re looking for the small...

Upstate, Nueva York, 1982. En toda ciudad de dimensiones modestas como Fell, en el estado de Nueva York, existe un motel como este, el Sun Down. Hay gente que se aloja en él cuando va de paso, es gente de fuera que se dirige a otro lugar, un lugar mejor. Pero otros son gente de la localidad; gente que acude allí para guardar sus más oscuros secretos. Viv Delaney trabaja en el Sun Down como recepcionista de noche, pues necesita dinero para mudarse a la ciudad de Nueva York.

“No one mixes romance, mystery, and that faint, spine-tingling sense of the supernatural, that curtain lifting in a breeze that isn't there, the hair prickling on the back of your neck, like Simone St. James. Her novels are the perfect combination of classic ghost story, historical fiction...

A young woman searches for the truth behind her uncle’s mysterious death in a town haunted by a restless ghost in this gripping novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases. Oxford student Jillian Leigh works day and night to keep up with her studies—so to leave...

“Portis House emerged from the fog as we approached, showing itself slowly as a long, low shadow....” In 1919, Kitty Weekes, pretty, resourceful, and on the run, falsifies her background to obtain a nursing position at Portis House, a remote hospital for soldiers left shell-shocked by the...

A woman of limited means and even less experience must confront a vengeful spirit in this haunting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Broken Girls and The Sun Down Motel. 1920s England. Sarah Piper’s lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her...

London, 1922: Überraschend wird die junge Sarah Piper beauftragt, den Geisterjäger Alistair Gellis bei seiner Arbeit zu unterstützen. Gellis untersucht derzeit einen höchst mysteriösen Fall: Maddy Clare, ein 19-jähriges Dienstmädchen, erhängte sich in einer Scheune. Angeblich sucht die...

A woman moves to a town where she becomes obsessed with watching the lives of her neighbors while stuck in a house that refuses to let her leave in this first ever short story from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases. Is there something wrong with Ginette Cox? It’s...

Vermont 1950. Idlewild Hall ist ein Ort für Mädchen, die keinen anderen Platz in der Gesellschaft haben. Abends erzählen sich die Schülerinnen Schauergeschichten von der "schwarzen Mary". Doch als eines Nachts eine von ihnen unter mysteriösen Umständen ums Leben kommt, wird der Schrecken real. 2014 ist das Internat eine Ruine, aber die Journalistin Fiona Sheridan kann nicht von Idlewild Hall lassen: Hier wurde vor 20 Jahren ihre Schwester ermordet.

A Most Anticipated Novel by PopSugar * Crime Reads * Goodreads * A true crime blogger gets more than she bargained for while interviewing the woman acquitted of two cold case slayings in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel. In 1977, Claire...

The “clever and wonderfully chilling” (Fiona Barton) suspense novel from the award-winning author of The Haunting of Maddy Clare... Vermont, 1950. There's a place for the girls whom no one wants—the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the too smart for their own good. It's called Idlewild...

They won't forgive. They won't forget. 1950. At the crumbling Idlewild Hall school for unwanted girls, four roommates begin to bond over dark secrets and whispered fears - until one of them mysteriously disappears.... 2014. Journalist Fiona Sheridan can't get over the murder of her sister 20 years ago, near the ruins of Idlewild. And when another body is found during renovations of the school, she'll begin to uncover secrets that were meant to remain hidden in the past - and a voice that won't be silenced....

Una mujer que odiaba a los hombres en vida... y que siguió haciéndolo después de muerta. Pero ¿por qué? ¿Podrá desvelarse el secreto tantos años después? La vida solitaria e insípida de Sarah Piper cambia cuando la agencia de trabajo temporal con la que colabora la envía a ayudar a un cazador de fantasmas. Alistair Gellis -rico, atractivo y destrozado por la Segunda Guerra Mundial y también obsesionado con los fantasmas- ha sido contratado para investigar el espíritu de la joven de diecinueve años Maddy Clare, que mantiene embrujado el granero en el que se suicidó. 

Un lugar oscuro donde las chicas problemáticas, las hijas de madres solteras o las que han cometido un desliz... desaparecen. ¿Logrará Fiona Sheridan descubrir el misterio que envuelve Idlewild Hall? Vermont, 1950. Existe un lugar para jóvenes a las que nadie quiere: las que dan problemas, las hijas ilegítimas, las que son más atractivas de lo que les conviene. 

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Something hasn’t been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls. Upstate New York, 1982. Viv...

Brought to you by Penguin. From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases, the new pulse-pounding standalone story about the childhood traumas that haunt each of us . . . Something dark has always hung over the Esmie siblings. Each one is haunted, but all in different ways...