Böcker av Jamie Ford

Who could be worse than Fred and Rosemary West, Robert Black or Ian Brady and Myra Hindley? Meet Brenda, Fat Alec and Gregor Zimmel, then decide. Follow Chief Superintendent Dan Kernick as he unravels a horrific child exploitation ring. When the shoes of a girl, abducted two years ago, are found at the scene of a horrific double murder, an international police investigation is launched. Chief Superintendent Dan Kernick is reluctant to take on the case but dispatches a team to review the original investigation, while he and his sergeant fly to Austria to unravel why the missing girl's shoes have been discovered there. As the twin strands of the investigation unfold, child exploitation rings in England and mainland Europe are linked to the abductions and deaths of missing children. Set in the North of England and the Austrian Tyrol, this is a hard hitting story, with explicit descriptions of the inhuman treatment of victims, uncovering a world where those victims and the perpetrators of horrific crimes are tied inexorably together, in a web of cruelty, suffering, and perverse sexual gratification.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! ';One of the most beautiful books of motherhood and what we pass on to those that come after us.' Jenna Bush Hager, Today The New York Times bestselling author of the ';mesmerizing and evocative' (Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants) Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet returns with a powerful exploration of the love that binds one family across the generations. Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Washington's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has truly come to haunt her. Fearing that her child is predestined to endure the same debilitating depression that has marked her own life, Dorothy seeks radical help. Through an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma, Dorothy intimately connects with past generations of women in her family: Faye Moy, a nurse in China serving with the Flying Tigers; Zoe Moy, a student in England at a famous school with no rules; Lai King Moy, a girl quarantined in San Francisco during a plague epidemic; Greta Moy, a tech executive with a unique dating app; and Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman to set foot in America. As painful recollections affect her present life, Dorothy discovers that trauma isn't the only thing she's inherited. A stranger is searching for her in each time period. A stranger who's loved her through all of her genetic memories. Dorothy endeavors to break the cycle of pain and abandonment, to finally find peace for her daughter, and gain the love that has long been waiting, knowing she may pay the ultimate price.