Four psychological crime thrillers featuring a Welsh police detective facing off against the darkest minds while trying to hold on to his own sanity . . . Portraits of the Dead Emma had no idea he’d hidden in the Victorian wardrobe to the side of her bed, watched as she drifted into fitful sleep, pushed the doors open and crept towards her in the night. Now DI Gravel is racing against time to find the college student abducted and imprisoned by a sadistic killer who’s already killed five victims. Before I Met Him When Rebecca’s childhood abuser avoids prosecution, it sets her on a path to revenge—and now, at twenty-three, she’s handing out retribution on any man who preys on the innocent. Posing as a child online she sets her trap, luring one sex offender after another to their deaths. When a severed head washes up on a windswept beach, DI Gravel is called to investigate in this“stunning” novel of victim turned vigilante (Book Reader Magazine). Previously published as A Mind to Kill A Cold Cold Heart When DI Gravel’s daughter Emily accepts a job working for a solicitor, neither realizes that she will soon be entangled in—and endangered by—her father’s latest case: a search for an obsessive serial killer hiding in plain sight . . . Every Move You Make Unaware that a predatory psychopath has placed cameras in her home, Mia is terrified when she starts receiving untraceable emails with photos of her and her four-year-old daughter, which demand that Mia perform outlandish tasks and threaten dire consequences if she refuses. She’s advised to reach out to DI Gravel—but he’ll have to battle his own demons as he tries to catch her tormentor, in this “insidious and very creepy” psychological thriller (Patricia Dixon,author of Over My Shoulder).

A child psychiatrist wreaks havoc in books one and two of this psychological thriller series for fans of Rob Ashman, Mark Edwards, and John Marrs. White Is the Coldest Color The Mailer family is oblivious to the terrible danger that enters their lives when the family GP refers seven-year-old Anthony to the child guidance service. Fifty-eight-year-old Dr. David Galbraith, a sadistic, predatory pedophile, employed as a consultant child psychiatrist, has already murdered one child in the soundproofed cellar below the South Wales Georgian townhouse he shares with his wife and two young daughters. But can Anthony be saved before it’s too late? The book includes content that some readers may find disturbing from the start. It is dedicated to survivors everywhere. When Evil Calls Your Name When twenty-nine-year-old Cynthia Galbraith struggles to come to terms with her traumatic past and the realities of prison life, a prison counselor persuades her to write a diary exploring the events that led to a life sentence for murder. Although unconvinced at first, Cynthia finally decides she has all the time in the world and very little, if anything, to lose. As she begins writing she holds back nothing: sharing the thoughts she hadn't dare vocalize, the things that keep her awake at night and haunt her waking hours. Even the darkest secrets cannot stay hidden forever. . . . Praise for the series “A masterfully written dark psychological thriller.” —Albina Hume, bestselling author of Miss Fortune “Intrigues and keeps you turning the pages.” —Mark Tilbury, bestselling author of The Last One to See Her

The first three mysteries in the suspenseful British police procedural series, now in one volume. This three-in-one crime thriller collection includes: Copycat: When the body of a young woman is found abandoned—with a note on it saying “Remember me?”—DI Melanie Watton and her team soon conclude that the murder, the method, and the appearance of the victim indeed remind them of something they’ve seen before. But the next victim makes them question everything they thought they knew . . . The Watcher: How do you solve a case when there isn’t a crime scene? After Watton and her team are called in to investigate a video recording that surfaces in a local school, they realize they have a complex case on their hands—and then discover that they’re up against a killer more evil than anyone could have imagined . . . The Cutter: Watton is called in to investigate the brutal murder of a taxidermist, and she and her team find themselves tracking a killer and a thief . . .

Helene Tursten's explosive new series features Detective Inspector Embla Nyström, a sharp, unforgiving woman working in a man's world. When one of her peers is murdered during a routine hunting trip, Embla must track down the killer while confronting a dark incident from her past. Twenty-eight-year-old Embla Nyström has been plagued by chronic nightmares and racing thoughts ever since she can remember. She has learned to channel most of her anxious energy into her position as Detective Inspector in the mobile unit in Gothenburg, Sweden, and into sports. A talented hunter and prizewinning Nordic welterweight, she is glad to be taking a vacation from her high-stress job to attend the annual moose hunt with her family and friends. But when Embla arrives at her uncle’s cabin in rural Dalsland, she sees an unfamiliar face has joined the group: Peter, enigmatic, attractive, and newly divorced. And she isn’t the only one to notice. One longtime member of the hunt doesn’t welcome the presence of an outsider and is quick to point out that with Peter, the group’s number reaches thirteen, a bad omen for the week. Sure enough, a string of unsettling incidents follow, culminating in the disappearance of two hunters. Embla takes charge of the search, and they soon find one of the missing men floating facedown in the nearby lake. With the help of local reinforcements, Embla delves into the dark pasts of her fellow hunters in search of a killer.

To date, very few northern Albanian archaeological sites have been surveyed and excavated. Situated beyond the reach, and allure, of the Classical Greek colonies of south-central Albania, the region has drawn less scholarly attention. But in various ways, northern Albania is just as important to the ongoing archaeological debates regarding the origins of inequality and the rise of social complexity. Some of the earliest and largest hill forts and tumuli (burial mounds) in Albania, dating to the Bronze and Iron Age, are located in Shkodër. Shkodër (Rozafa) Castle became the capital of the so-called Illyrian Kingdom, which was conquered by Rome in the early 3rd century BC. This research report, focused on the province of Shkodër, is based on five years of field and laboratory work and is the first synthetic archaeological treatment of this region. The results of the Projekti Arkeologjik i Shkodrës (or PASH) are presented here in two volumes. Volume 1 includes geological context, a literature review, historical background, and reports on the regional survey and test excavations at three settlements and three tumuli. In Volume 2, the authors describe the artifacts recovered through survey and excavation, including chipped stone, small finds, and pottery from the prehistoric, Classical, Roman, medieval, and post-medieval periods. They also present results of faunal, petrographic, chemical, carpological, and strontium isotope analyses of the artifacts. Extensive supporting data is available on the University of Michigan's Deep Blue data repository: https: //doi.org/10.7302/xnpy-0e60 These two volumes place northern Albania--and the Shkodër Province in particular--at the forefront of archaeological research in the Balkans.

On the windswept shore of a frozen lake lurks a faceless killer determined to keep the past buried forever beneath half a century's silent ice and snow. The body of a young woman surfaces in the River Torne, in the far north of Sweden. Meanwhile, Rebecka Martinsson is working as a prosecutor in nearby Kiruna. Her sleep has been disturbed by haunting visions of a shadowy, accusing figure. Could the body be connected to the ghostly young woman in her dreams? Joining forces once again with Police Inspector Anna-Maria Mella, Rebecka is drawn into a murder and missing-person investigation that becomes entangled with old rumors of a German supply plane that mysteriously disappeared in 1943. Shame and secrecy shroud the locals' memories of the war, with Sweden's early collaboration with the Nazis still a raw wound. With psychologically complex twists and turns, this harrowing thriller captivates from the very first page.