A. K. Benedict Libros

Maria King knows a secret London. Born blind, she knows the city by sound and touch and smell. But surgery has restored her sight - only for her to find she doesn't want it. Jonathan Dark sees the shadowy side of the city. A DI with the Metropolitan Police, he is haunted by his failure to save a woman from the hands of a stalker. Now it seems the killer has set his sights on Maria, and is leaving her messages in the most gruesome of ways. Tracing the source of these messages leads Maria and Jonathan to a London they never knew. Finding the truth will mean seeing a side to the city where life and death is a game played by the powerful, where everyone is lost but nothing is missing and where the all the answers are hiding, if only they listen to the whispers on the streets. Shot through with love and loss, ghosts and grief, A K Benedict weaves a compelling mystery that will leave you looking over your shoulder and asking what lurks in the dark

If you get out, you'd think you'd be one of the lucky ones. But you're not. The house infects you. There's an old stone house near Coal Hill School. Most people hurry past it. They've heard the stories. But, if you stop, and look up, you'll see the face of a girl, pressed up against a window. Screaming. Tanya finds herself drawn to the stone house. There's a mystery there, and she's going to solve it. But the more she investigates, the more she realises that there's a presence in the house. One that wants her. Something is waiting for Tanya in the stone house. Something that has been trapping others in its web over the years. Something that is far worse than any ghost.

Stephen Killigan has been cold since the day he came to Cambridge as a junior lecturer. Something about the seven hundred years of history staining the stones of the university has given him a chill he can't shake. When he stumbles across the body of a missing beauty queen, he thinks he's found the reason. But when the police go to retrieve the body and find no trace, Killigan has found a problem - and a killer - that is the very opposite of reason. Killigan's unwitting entry into Jackamore Grass's sinister world will lead him on a trail of tattooists, philosophers, cadavers and scholars of a deadly beauty. As Killigan traces a path between our age and seventeenth century Cambridge, he must work out how a corpse can be found before someone goes missing, and whether he's at the edge of madness or an astonishing discovery. A fast-paced page-turner THE BEAUTY OF MURDER is a speculative crime thriller that travels to the heart of gruesome series of crime by way of a city and a person that have far too many secrets written in blood.

Blending elements of thriller and fantasy, the narrative reimagines classic storytelling with a daring twist. It features a unique fusion of styles reminiscent of Stuart Turton and Angela Carter, infused with a suspenseful tone akin to Stephen King's Misery. This bold approach promises to challenge traditional fairy tale conventions while delivering an engaging and thought-provoking experience.

Glauben Sie an Geister? Nein? Dann geht es Ihnen wie Detective Inspector Jonathan Dark, der in London einen Frauenmörder jagt. Gerade erst hat das potentielle Opfer, die blinde Maria, bei einer ihrer „Schatzsuchen“ im Schlamm der Themse einen menschlichen Finger gefunden. Darauf ein gelber Diamantring und eine Botschaft in Braille-Schrift: „Willst du mich heiraten, Maria?“ Wenn Jonathan Dark Maria retten will, muss er lernen, seiner Intuition zu vertrauen. Und den Seelen, die unsichtbar zwischen den Lebenden wandeln und ihre ganz eigenen Rachepläne hegen. A. K. Benedict hat eine unwiderstehliche Mischung aus Krimi, Grusel und Urban Fantasy geschaffen - für alle, denen Ben Aaronovitch nicht unheimlich genug ist.

Pred inšpektorkou Lylou Rondelovou stojí jej životný prípad. Séria záhadných vrážd, ktoré spája odkaz na klasické rozprávky bratov Grimmovcov. Vrah, ktorému prischne meno Rozparovač Grimm, sa nehodlá zastaviť pred ničím a jediná, kto mu stojí v ceste, je Lyla. Krvavá stopa vraha totiž siaha hlboko do jej vlastnej minulosti, ktorá hrozí, že Lylu celkom pohltí. Keď však odhalí pravdu, nič už nebude také ako predtým. Lylin svet sa triešti okolo nej a jediné, čoho sa môže zachytiť, je jej odhodlanie dočítať príbeh do konca.