A blistering new thriller about the horrors of war and the struggle to survive in the face of pure evil.
Foreign correspondent Connie Burns is hunting a British mercenary that she believes is responsible for the rape and murder of five women in Sierra Leone in 2002. Two years later she finds him training Iraqi police in Baghdad. Connie is determined to expose his crimes, but then she is kidnapped and released after three days of unspeakable torture. Silently, she returns to England and attempts to isolate herself, but it soon becomes apparent that the horrors of the world and her own...

In this acclaimed psychological mystery, Jinx Kingsley, a prominent photographer and millionaire s daughter, wakes up in an exclusive hospital suffering from amnesia.Not only can she not remember the car accident that caused her memory loss, but she doesn t remember that her impending wedding has been called off or that her former fiance and his girlfriend have been brutally murdered in the same way her first husband had been ten years before. Now she must try to piece together her memories in order to determine her innocence. With deft psychological explorations and shocking twists, Walters...

When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries, he faces not only permanent disfigurement but also an apparent change to his previously outgoing personality. Crippled by migraines, and suspicious of his psychiatrist, he b

Mordfall im südenglischen Sussex, 1920er Jahre. Elsie Cameron ist eine traurige Figur: wenig Selbstvertrauen, kaum Hoffnung, dass ihr Freund sie endlich heiratet. Norman Thorne, der Verlobte, mehr oder minder erfolgloser Hühnerfarmer und immer zögernder in seiner Beziehung zu Elsie, verliebt sich schließlich in eine andere Frau und das Ganze nimmt ein tragisches Ende. Der Mordprozess wird zum Skandal - schuldig oder unschuldig? §Eine wahre Geschichte, die sich als Lektüre vorwiegend für Erwachsene eignet.

Chickenfeed
As part of World Book Day 2006, Minette Walters took part in the Quick Reads initiative, designed to encourage developing readers and adult learners as they explore the exciting world of books. Chickenfeed, Walter's contribution, is a crackling tale based on the true story of the 'chicken farm murder' that took place in Blackness Road, Crowborough, East Sussex in December, 1924.
Although Norman Thorne never confessed to killing his girlfriend Elsie, he was tried and hanged for the crime. Minette's fictionalised account of their relationship is told from the points of view...

From the internationally bestselling crime writer Minette Walters, The Cellar is a harrowing, compulsively readable novel about a family of African immigrants, the Songolis, and the dark secret they keep hidden in the depths of their seemingly respectable British house.
On the day Mr. and Mrs. Songoli s younger son fails to come home from school, fourteen-year-old Muna s fortunes change for the better. Until then, her bedroom was a windowless cellar, her activities confined to cooking and cleaning. Over the years, she had grown used to being abused by the Songoli familyto being a...

The master of crime fiction for nearly two decades has turned her talents in a bold new direction; a sweeping, utterly gripping historical novel set in the time of the Black Death. Lady Anne decides to protect her people from the Plague by bringing the serfs inside her walls. Conflicts arise with this overturning of the accepted social order, then a dreadful event threatens the uneasy status quo.

The exquisitely wrought and thrillingly gripping second novel set during the time of the Black Death from Minette Walters.