Showing results by author "Alison Belsham" in Police Procedurals

Detective Lexi Bennett is devastated when she finds the two teenagers lying side by side on the quiet green hillside, their throats cut. Convinced this is no ordinary killer, she vows to draw on all her profiling experience to find justice for these beautiful girls who will never have the chance to grow up.

When Detective Lexi Bennett is called to the scene, what she sees makes her heart clench. A young woman in angel wings lies dead, her eyes still fixed on her sobbing child. What kind of monster would leave a baby motherless and alone in the dark? Lexi promises herself she will catch the brutal killer who stole Bethany’s future. The body was found in the caves beneath Elvington vineyard. At first Lexi can find no connection with Bethany...until the owner reveals he is the father of her child. Could he have killed her to claim custody? Or did his jealous wife murder her rival?

After old remains resurface in a heat wave, a young woman is attacked and left fighting for her life in hospital. Twenty-four hours later she dies, and a deadly tattoo is discovered on her body. When another young woman disappears, Detective Francis Sullivan and his team fear a serial killer walks the streets of Brighton. His team identify a suspect, Alex Mullins, son of his lover, Marni. Can Francis forget their shared past and save the next victim before it is too late?

Detective Lexi Bennett is walking through the quiet Canterbury streets when she hears screaming. Rushing toward the sound, she finds the body of a teenage girl lying beneath one of the city’s ancient towers. Lexi looks up at the cold grey stone, and vows that she will find answers.

When a freshly mummified body is discovered at the Brighton Museum of Natural History, Detective Francis Sullivan is at a loss to identify the desiccated woman. But as Egyptian burial jars of body parts with cryptic messages attached start appearing, he realises he has a serial killer on his hands. Revenge, obsession and an ancient religion form a potent mix, unleashing a wave of terror throughout the city. Caught in a race against time while battling his own demons, Francis must fight to uncover the true identity of the Embalmer before it's too late.

En ung efterforsker på sin første drabssag. En tatovør med en drabelig hemmelighed. Og en vanvittig seriemorder, der hvæsser klingerne for at dræbe igen. Da tatovøren Marni Mullins fra Brighton falder over et lig, der er blevet flået, får den nyudnævnte kriminalkommissær Francis Sullivan brug for hendes hjælp. En seriemorder på fri fod fjerner tatoveringer fra sine ofre, mens de stadig er i live. Marni kender tatovørmiljøet som sin egen bukselomme, men har samtidig sine peronlige grunde til at være skeptisk over for politiet.

Han efterlader sine ofre kæmpende for deres liv, men dødsmærkede. Midt under en hedebølge bliver en ung kvinde brutalt overfaldet på vej hjem fra nattelivet og må siden kæmpe for livet på en hospitalsstue. Et døgn senere afgår hun ved døden, og man finder en dødbringende tatovering på hendes krop. Da endnu en ung kvinde forsvinder, frygter efterforskningschef Francis Sullivan og hans team, at en seriemorder er løs i Brightons gader. Hans team udpeger hans tidligere elskerinde Marnis søn Alex Mullins som hovedmistænkt.

Da et nyligt mumificeret lig dukker op på det naturhistoriske museum i Brighton, kniber det for kriminalkommissær Francis Sullivan at få identificeret den udtørrede kvinde. Men da egyptiske begravelsesurner med ligdele og tilhørende kryptiske budskaber begynder at dukke op, indser han, at han står over for en seriemorder. En farlig cocktail af hævn, besættelse og antik gudedyrkelse spreder skræk og rædsel i hele byen. Fanget i et kapløb med tiden, og mens han kæmper mod sine egne dæmoner, sætter Francis alt ind på at afsløre balsamørens identitet, før det er for sent.