Luca Veste
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"The day she died was only the beginning... Sam Cooper is on the verge of a happy life-a true feat after his disastrous childhood. Sam's mother, Laurie, died tragically and his father was torn apart by grief. But now after years of silence, Sam's father makes a shocking confession on his deathbed. Who was Laurie Cooper? What happens when you discover you've been lied to for twenty-five years? Sam is determined to find out, but someone wants to silence...
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"Twenty years ago, four teenagers went exploring in the local woods, trying to find to the supposed home of The Bone Keeper. Only three returned. Now, a woman is found wandering the streets of Liverpool, horrifically injured, claiming to have fled the Bone Keeper. Investigating officer DC Louise Henderson must convince sceptical colleagues that this urban myth might be flesh and blood. But when a body is unearthed in the woodland the woman has fled...
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"Here comes a candle to light you to bed. And here comes a chopper to chop off your head. Chip chop chip chop the last man is dead. Matt Connolly and five of his friends are at a music festival when, in the dead of night, they are awakened by a bloodcurdling scream. That's when the group discover one of their own being assaulted by a man in the darkness. In the resulting fight, the man ends up dead. Nearby, another body is discovered beheaded in the...
4) Dead Gone
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When a student turns up murdered at the City of Liverpool University, Detectives David Murphy and Laura Rossi are charged with finding the culprit. Attached to the deceased body is a letter from her killer, which details a famous unethical psychological experiment; it is that experiment that was used on this victim, resulting in her death. Thinking the letter is just an attempt to throw them off course, Murphy and Rossi initially dismiss it. But then...
5) The Scotsman
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The Black Spring Crime Fiction 2020 Prize Winner
Chic Cowan will do anything to find his daughter's killer . . . even sacrifice his own sanity... and maybe he wasn't all that sane to start with...
Six months ago, tough-as-nails, old-school, no-time-for-the new-school Glasgow Detective Chic Cowan received a call no parent should have to take. His daughter has been murdered, 4,000 miles away from their home in Scotland. Across the Atlantic ocean to...