Bøger af Sally Spedding

'Truly chilling. Sally Spedding at her story-telling best.' - David EvansDelphine Rougier, while training to become a gendarme in the Corrèze, witnesses a middle-aged couple emptying a suspicious-looking liquid into a nearby stream.It's poison, but why?The couple vanish and Delphine finds their car a burnt-out wreck. Also, their farm's cows have been savaged by wolves previously unseen in the region. There are more questions than answers.Meanwhile, her mother's killer, Patrick Gauffroi, has been sprung from a Paris jail. Who helped him escape, and why?Is Gauffroi now stalking Delphine?She becomes stretched on more than one front. Friends become enemies.But Delphine is determined to uncover the truth, in relation to both her investigation and the true character of Gauffroi.Welsh-born, award-winning Sally Spedding's dark crime/thrillers, short stories and poetry are inspired by Wales and France where she lives. She is also the author of the Detective Inspector John Lyon thriller series.Find out more here - www.sallyspedding.comPraise for Sally Spedding: 'No-one does evil like Sally Spedding.' - Thorne Moore'An alarming story of surprises and shocks.' - The Scotsman'Sally Spedding has written an excellent, creepy chiller of what can happen to ex-pats who fall foul of their new neighbours. The perfect gift for those who boast about their French idyll they're about to live.' - Daily Mail'A tale of chilling menace and powerful atmosphere in haunted fen country. A ghost story handled with real assurance.' - Barry Foreshaw'True noir from Sally Spedding ... like a cold breath on the back of the neck.' - Adrian Magson

France, early April 1986 and fifty-four-year-old John Lyon, newly retired Detective Inspector from Nottingham, breaks his journey in the eastern Pyrenees where he stumbles across a strange, half-hidden house and an intriguing name on its letter box.This attractive, wheelchair-bound woman with a new name and nationality, soon draws him into her world shaped by a tragic past. As that past catches up and enemies draw closer, who is lying? Who tells the truth? Who has most to lose?But John has fallen in love and is also a target. Only La Chasse, a hunt to the death in wild scrubland, where loyal Frenchmen have also entered the night. Where shocking truths will be revealed, and blood will be shed. The Nighthawk is a dark, enthralling thriller that grips from start to finish. Recommended for fans of Gillian Flynn, Bernard Minier and Manda Scott.

The third in the DC Martin Webb trilogy If you think Burke and Hare are part of history, think again. In the Australian winter of 2006, twenty-eight year-old ex-pat Chris Mears, haunted by the mysterious death of his baby brother, is worth more dead than alive. Disease-free and still relatively young, he's been lured from his IT workplace in Brisbane by sexy colleague, Angelica Wood, to a remote island where danger and death lurk amongst the sand dunes. Will best friend DI Martin Webb in Malvern, reach him and other victims in time, and at what cost to his partner and young daughter left at home? To what lengths will Caritas, a global funeral company, go to keep their evil chapels of unrest a secret? Bone and tissue theft for the British market is still big business. However, for one deranged, manipulative man on the other side of the world, reclaiming a particular heart is his main mission. But even if Martin survives, could he and his family be in the greatest danger? Their lives changed forever because nowhere is safe... Be sure to keep the light on! The DC Martin Webb Trilogy: Book 1 - Come and be KilledBook 2 - Office for the DeadBook 3 - White Meat www.sallyspedding.com

Guiseppe Verdi's pleading Requiem Mass opens this chilling account of a secondary school party from Oakwood Comprehensive School in Lincolnshire who, on Monday October 7th with several optimistic teachers, especially Suzanne Priscilla Price, youthful Head of Modern Languages, eagerly display Tour-Ed's vivid posters promoting next year's Whitsun trip to Carcassonne and its historic surroundings.Little do they realise what lies in store...Once there, it's no easy task keeping everyone in sight in such a particularly strange and eerily historic area where little English is spoken, and often unreported dark deeds have proliferated for years.Of course, Suzanne with a birthday looming, and her colleagues do their best to keep that lively, often disobedient flock on the straight and narrow, but how can any of them know what lies in wait in that gloomy, unsettling Tower of Justice?Read and be chilled....

According to ancient folklore in Scotland and northen England, the yellowhammer bird is said to drink a drop of the Devil's blood every May Day morning, but for pretty, young, Catriona McPhee in rural Argyll in 1846, this mere titbit will never satisfy her dark soul. From the day she arrives to work as a maid at Ardnasaig House on the bleak shores of Loch Nonach during the time of the Clearances, she brings a growing fear to those already there. Yet nothing - not even her shocking secret - will dent her ambition. However, Janet Lennox, the housekeeper's plain, less-educated daughter, harbouring her own tragedy, has other ideas, and soon a dance to the death begins. As winter chills the vast rooms and freezes the bottomless Loch Nonach, who, within that haunted, granite prison, will live, and who will die?

It's June 2007 when Welsh poet and lecturer Ifor Griffiths gets news that he's to receive a prestigious Bursary enabling him to further research and translate the poetry of the late, hermitic Gaspard Lecroix, from the Sarthe department in France.Normally, this would be thrilling news, but it comes freighted with danger, not least from his mean-spirited partner, Menna Edwards with whom he has a young son, Arthur. Ifor is guarding a potentially risky secret, having fallen in love with a beautiful, young Muslim woman whom he'd met in Le Mans the previous year. A woman with powerful connections and a secret agenda of which he knows nothing.Meanwhile, sous-lieutenant Delphine Rougier has encountered the truly bizarre Athène Lardin at her rundown farmhouse, where many almost dead birds lie twitching in agony. But why? And what is this bitter, bizarre woman's real agenda? Who is the surly man she seems to be related to? And as the days pass, with ever more unforeseen and shocking events causing fear and tension at the Labradelle gendarmerie, will Delphine and her boss, Colonel Valon, with whom she is having a relationship, be able to prevent further tragedy and eventually find happiness?Or will Lardin with her obsessive agendas prevail? And the poet Ifor Griffiths who's inadvertently stepped into a death-trap, ever see his young son again?Only Walpurgis Night will reveal the truth.

Retired farmer, François Rougier, is creating a shrine near his dilapidated farm in the Sarthe, when his wife tells him they have received another threatening letter. The letter is worse than the last. Both know why. But they must at all cost keep their secrets hidden from their daughter. Delphine Rougier, who owns ambitions of becoming a gendarme, works as a chambermaid in a hotel near Le Mans. One morning Delphine discovers a new-born baby boy, left in one of the rooms. Dead. Delphine soon begins her own investigation into the horrific crime - and uncovers not only corruption within the local gendarmerie but also a disturbing event involving her father in 1968. Secrets and enemies are unleashed. Delphine and her parents are plunged into grave danger, becoming the target for a ruthless assassin.Justice must be done. But whose justice?

This literary thriller mainly set in London and the south of France, draws upon parallels of evil through the ages. From 1271-1310 after the purging of the Knights Templar in 1307 and the round-up and torture of homosexuals from the French Riviera during World War II, to 1983 and young Catherine and Clement Ash's loveless marriage. It also charts one deranged old man's unfinished business leading to a different, even more deadly Apocalypse.

From the sonnet, ''Tournesols'' to ''Boutique Hotel,'' any joy and relief in this collection of poems are short-lived, reflecting their creator''s real-life experiences and those of others she knows well. We are born, we bloom for a while, if lucky, but like the wondrous evening primrose, emblem of her childhood on the sand dunes near Porthcawl, soon wrinkle and close. And all along the way lies hidden danger. From whoever is lying in wait for us to trip and fall, to the very air we breathe. Whoever is pressing the right buttons to create the kind of world only seen in futuristic films. Beneath and beyond the temporal, visible beauty of this planet and those we love, lurk our worst imaginings, while easily peddled words of comfort and hope soon weaken and disintegrate. And then there''s the never-ending guilt. William Butler Yeats was right.                       ''Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?''

WHERE NO-ONE IS SAFE... In 2008, when Rita Martin's feckless husband leaves her and their three children to fend for themselves, her secure world is turned upside down. When they have to move to Coventry's Scrub End estate, her every worst fear is realised. Yet how can she possibly know that her eldest son's best friend from a nearby luxury development has only evil in mind? A teenage boy with, it seems, everything, yet damaged and dangerous like the very area itself. And will DI Tim Fraser believe Rita enough to help protect her family and bring a killer to justice? CUT TO THE BONE is a dark, psychological chiller, set in troubled times. You will be left unsure whom to trust and wondering when all else fails, if even love is enough.

Have you dreamt of becoming a thriller writer but not dared to do so because of lack of self-belief, or the necessary time, or both? Are you also a thriller reader who has been disappointed by the sameness and lack of ambition in what youve read? If so, this book will help you create chiller thrillers with a difference, with memorable characters and truly chilling plots, drawing not only from the past and present, but the future too. From horror and the paranormal, to equally disturbing scientific and hi-tech developments. Bravery is the key. So, come on board!