Bøker av Mary Stout

The Drake twins have been locked away forever, and the trauma they caused is preparing to heal, but that only leads to older wounds being reopened.Frederick comes to Lesley, Malcolm, and Julian with a problem: the agents of MI6 seem to be under siege by an unknown ailment. Strange, erratic behavior, fights breaking out without any source. Determined, they set about investigating, but nothing is as it seems.The crew is joined by a face from Malcolm's past, which only further aggravates the situation. Before too long, Malcolm starts exhibiting the same weird behavior that the agents did. All at once, the case goes from objective to deeply personal. With Malcolm ostensibly out of commission and under siege himself, Lesley and Julian must find a cure, or risk having to keep him locked up forever.What they discover, both about themselves and each other, is not what they expect. And it is certainly not what they are prepared for.

Lesley, Malcolm, and Julian did the unthinkable. They solved their first case and sent the murderous Hyde behind bars. Their newfound team has had their first victory. Now trouble comes hot on the heels of that victory and threatens to destroy it.The trio gets news of a dangerous threat on the streets of London-a threat that the city itself thought it stopped decades ago. The notorious Drake brothers have apparently risen from the dead. Crime has increased drastically across the city, bearing the familiar marks of the Drake family's old brutality. Commissioner Nicholas Drake, the son of one of the late mob brothers, asks Lesley's crew to help solve the crimes and find out who is resurrecting his late father and uncle's old gang.Enter Tommy and Timmy Drake, the commissioner's younger twin cousins. Two names that have been shrouded in obscurity will now come to be the bane of the trio's existence. The twins will make the trio's lives a living hell and scar one of them permanently for the rest of his life.In the second installment of the London Circle series, Lesley, Malcolm, and Julian will be pushed to their limits. Their faith in their government, in their law enforcement, and in one another will be challenged and damaged. And for one of them, that damage may be final.

The year is 2013, London, England. Whitechapel is the place of historical murders and a number of unsolved homicides. Now there's a threat on the streets. Young men are being targeted and murdered with no evidence pointing to the killer. MI5 is about to shut down, and MI6 is gaining more power. Lesley Ashcroft, the face and the brains behind the government, is threatened and must find a way to protect his position and his control of their nation. He creates a team to help him, but they can only operate under the government's nose. No one can know. Together with Malcolm Vance and Julian Radcliffe, a detective sergeant with a drive for justice no matter the cost and a psychologist with a knack for profiling, they need to find the killer before MI6 decides to step in and find the killer themselves.If they fail, they stand to lose everything.