Bøker av David George Clarke

This title was previously published as The Assassin's Dog by David George Clarke.COSIMO GRAZIANO ROSSELLI. A Mafia assassin who prides himself on his humanity: his victims feel nothing as they die; they simply cease to exist.When newly promoted Detective Sergeant Jennifer Cotton's close friend Detective Superintendent Trisha McVie disappears in mysterious circumstances, a huge search throughout the UK's East Midlands proves fruitless and frustrating.Little does Jennifer realise that the person behind her friend's disappearance is far closer to home than she imagines.Little does she realise that an elderly man she sees sitting with his placid pug dog in a pub in central Nottingham is the enigmatic assassin Cosimo Graziano Rosselli.Little does she realise that Cosimo Graziano Rosselli is planning how and when to kill her."It will be instant, amore.One moment she will be alive, the next her soul will be on its way to heaven while her body crumples to a lifeless shell."

In 1895, Marchese Salvatore Brocanti abruptly abandoned the villa in the forests of Tuscany that had been his family home for generations. Today it lies hidden, crumbling and forgotten. But why did the tyrannical artist flee the palatial villa? Was it cursed as he insisted? Did his wife and children really desert him as he claimed? Or were his stories simply smoke and mirrors to hide a more sinister purpose?In 2018, after seeing extraordinary old prints of the villa, photographer Joe Oliver is determined to explore it. While on assignment with travel writer Evie Lorrigan to review the Brocanti estate, he breaks into the villa, only to find a maze of deception beyond his imagination.When Evie mysteriously disappears, Joe is convinced she has become a victim of the villa's secrets. But in attempting to rescue her, will Joe become a victim himself?'An Imperfect Revenge' is a chilling psychological thriller about one man's crazed mission for retribution, a mission that can still have tragic consequences more than a century later for anyone who ventures too close.

Seven Score To Settle; Seven Lives To Take. Revenge Will Be Sweet.Detective Constable Jennifer Cotton is convalescing at her stepfather's villa on Sardinia, slowly recovering from the vicious assault in Nottinghamshire's Harlow Wood that almost claimed her life.Initially convinced that her assailant will not risk being caught by attacking her again, she is forced to face reality when a killing spree commences in England targeting individuals from that fateful night.However, when the search for the serial killer goes cold and Jennifer is back to full health, she puts all her energy into her new role with the London Metropolitan Police's Art Fraud Squad who are investigating a multi-million-pound art-forgery racket based in Italy.But has Jennifer's nemesis gone to ground permanently or is she closer than Jennifer thinks, biding her time?REMORSELESS is the gripping sequel to Irrefutable Evidence in which Jennifer once again finds herself in the cross hairs of a merciless serial killer who will stop at nothing until she has achieved her revenge, a killer without scruples, a killer bent on retribution.

Charged with a murder he didn't commit, his life is in ruins.And there's nothing he can do about it.HENRY SILK, star of a popular TV soap, is an actor with a bad-boy reputation. When police link his car to a body found in woods near Nottingham, he is dismissive: they must be mistaken. But with no alibi, no memory of the night of the killing and an increasingly watertight case against him, his disdain turns to horror when he is charged with murder.JENNIFER COTTON, the young detective constable who uncovers much of the damning evidence, has no doubt about the actor's guilt until an unexpected revelation turns her world on its head. Unceremoniously removed from the case and her reputation in tatters, she risks her future by pursuing her own investigation, determined to prove Silk's innocence.As one startling discovery leads to another, Jennifer draws closer to the real killer, and closer to a potentially fatal confrontation.A gripping tale full of believable characters interwoven with humour and drama, IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE is an action-packed crime thriller guaranteed to keep the reader guessing.