Bøker av Gaynor Torrance

Newly promoted DCI Jemima Huxley faces her most challenging case yet in this fast-paced crime thriller from a bestselling author.Detective Jemima Huxley is called out to a gruesome scene in an isolated rural valley town.In Rhymney Valley, an area long-since left behind after the closure of the mines, two men have been bound and hanged from a strange old iron structure.From the decomposition, it's clear the bodies have been here some time. Birds have pecked the men's faces to ribbons. They both have something carved onto their foreheads - but in their current state, it's impossible to work out what.Jemima sets up a task force in the nearest station, but there are soon rising tensions between local police and these big-city detectives. The old guard have never encountered a woman in charge before. For Jemima's team, it's like stepping back in time.Then Jemima hears about a spate of unexplained deaths among young people in the area. Could it be connected to these grisly murders?Whatever is going on out in these valleys is darker than anything Detective Jemima Huxley has ever seen. It will take everything she's got to crack this case - before any more young lives are lost.

It's Jemima's first day back at work after maternity leave. It was always going to be heart-wrenching leaving baby Finlay, but this is about to be one of the longest days of her life. Cardiff, early morning.Two men are abducted - not even ten miles apart. The first, high court judge Rory Lawson, is kidnapped on a quiet country road. From the blood in his car, it's clear he was taken by force. The second man isn't so lucky. His bound and gagged body is found in the middle of the motorway. In a case where nothing is as it seems, the one thing Jemima knows is that she must find the link between the two men. But the clock is ticking. Because time is about to run out for the missing judge . . .

Evil lurks beneath the surface of the beautiful Welsh village of Leighton Meadow.A young woman is found dead in the village church. Shot through the heart with a crossbow.She thought she was safe there, but they found her in the end.DI Jemima Huxley thought Leighton Meadow was a safe place to raise her adopted ten-year-old son. But this is a village with many hidden secrets. And this case is hitting really close to home.The victim turns out to be a Czech student who went missing on a night out in Prague.How did she end up dead in a Welsh church?Detective Huxley must find out before more women pay the ultimate price.

Detective Jemima Huxley gets a frantic call from a man. His wife is missing. She went for drinks with a friend and neither of them made it home.The husband tells her, "You don't know me, but you know my wife, Violet Watkins."It's a name Jemima had done her best to forget.Six years ago, Violet was the victim of serial stalker and predator, Byron Toombes. He was her next-door neighbour. And he thought he could get away with anything because he worked for the police.Jemima tried to protect her. But Jemima and Violet only just made it out alive, and Toombes escaped. The case has haunted her ever since.Is Toombes back to finish what he started?On a cold, isolated Welsh mountainside, DI Huxley might finally face her nemesis.Readers of Simon McCleave, Rachel McLean, Ann Cleeves, Helen H. Durrant, Joy Ellis, Angela Marsons, L.J. Ross, J.M. Dalgliesh, Patricia Gibney, Mark Edwards and Lynda La Plante will love Gaynor Torrance's feisty and flawed protagonist DI Jemima Huxley.

A family brutally attacked in their own home. One survivor. A troubled female detective who must uncover the truth.The call comes through on DI Jemima Huxley's day off. A family of five brutally attacked in their own home. Bradley and Sally Rathbone and their teenage niece and nephew are dead. Only fourteen-year-old Millie survives, found in a broken heap at the bottom of the stairs.It's an unlikely crime scene: a comfortable five-bedroom property in one of Cardiff's most exclusive suburbs. Jemima quickly deduces this was no random burglary gone wrong. These killings were vicious, personal - and carefully planned. But why would someone target an ordinary family going about their everyday business?With Millie in a coma and unable to help with enquiries, it's up to Jemima and her team to unmask the killer.And could they be waiting to strike again . . . ?Readers of Simon McCleave, Rachel McLean, Ann Cleeves, Helen H. Durrant, Joy Ellis, Angela Marsons, L.J. Ross, J.M. Dalgliesh, Mark Edwards and Lynda La Plante will love Gaynor Torrance's feisty and flawed protagonist DI Jemima Huxley.

An isolated manor house. Shallow woodland graves. A troubled female detective facing the biggest case of her career.The call comes early in the morning. David and Helen Tremaine have discovered a body buried in the grounds of their large Victorian manor house, Llys Faen Hall, just north of Cardiff.DI Jemima Huxley and her partner, DS Dan Broadbent, race to the scene to discover that a second body has been unearthed in a shallow woodland grave. And the forensic team working the site believe this is just the start.Jemima knows this is the biggest case of her career. But it couldn't have come at a worse time. Struggling to get pregnant, she is a woman on the edge, a woman who self-harms just to make it through the day. And with no one reported missing, no apparent motive and no obvious suspect, the investigation is anything but straightforward.Eight graves. Eight dead women. All with pomegranate seeds placed inside their mouths.When Jemima makes an unexpected breakthrough, she enters a desperate race against time to prevent more women dying.Readers of Simon McCleave, Rachel McLean, Ann Cleeves, Helen H. Durrant, Joy Ellis, Angela Marsons, L.J. Ross, J.M. Dalgliesh, Mark Edwards and Lynda La Plante will love Gaynor Torrance's feisty and flawed protagonist DI Jemima Huxley.