Best Selling Books by Meg Gardiner

Inspired by the never-caught Zodiac Killer, this riveting psychological thriller by an Edgar-winning author follows a young detective who''s determined to apprehend the serial murderer who destroyed her family and terrorized a city 20 years earlier. Tall Premium Edition.

Elvis Costello has written songs in every conceivable musical genre. A surprising number of these songs are crime stories-complete tales of murder and violence told in verse.

Jo Beckett is a forensic psychiatrist who profiles victims'' lives to help solve their deaths. On a San Francisco street, she is confronted by a scene of pure carnage: four dead and five injured after a high speed pursuit. In the mangled remains of a BMW lies prosecutor Callie Harding, dead with the word "dirty" written in lipstick on her thigh. Why did Harding run from the police? Why did she crash through a bridge railing? Was it an accident? Suicide? Or murder? Jo is a last resort in difficult cases. But now she''s on the front line, because Callie Harding isn''t the first high flyer to go down and take others with her.

When Evan Delaney''s father disappears, the cops think he''s fled the coutnry to avoid prosecution. But Evan is sure that Phil has been abducted or killed for reasons associated with his work for Naval Intelligence. Can Evan save her father''s reputation - and his life?

When a woman''s body washes up on the shore of California''s Jericho Point, she''s identified as Evan Delaney. Except that Evan is very much alive--apparently the victim of an identity thief who''d been scamming Hollywood elite. The thief may be dead, but the crimes she was murdered for--committed in Evan''s name--are turning Evan''s life into a nightmare. Now it''s all Evan can do to survive in the shadow of a dead woman''s lies.

Evan Delaney, novelist and legal go-fer, is dressed as Diana Ross in order to crash a fancy-dress party and serve a summons, when she hears that Franklin Brand is back in town. Brand is the hit-and-run driver who sentenced Evan''s lover Jesse to life in a wheelchair, and killed his best friend. Since the accident, Brand has been avoiding justice overseas; but if he''s back, Evan and Jesse are determined to get him, helped by the dead boy''s brother Adam. Brand had been a high-flier in Mako Technologies, a cyber-security firm, and this is where Evan starts looking. She quickly uncovers evidence that Brand was embezzling funds, and that Adam''s brother knew all about it. So maybe that hit-and-run wasn''t an accident at all?Then the policeman investigating is killed, and Adam and Jesse both come under suspicion. The plot has more twists, thrills and spills than a white-knuckle ride, and is complicated by the confused emotions of the main parties involved: Jesse feels a survivor''s guilt; Adam resents the fact that Jesse is alive while his brother died. But there are more corpses - including a near miss for Evan herself - to come before the bad guys are finally brought to book.

De politie van San Francisco vraagt een vrouwelijke psychiater om hulp bij het onderzoek naar ongelukken die op het eerste gezicht zelfmoord lijken te zijn, maar bij nader inzien ook wel eens moord zouden kunnen wezen.

Née en 1957 dans l''Oklahoma, Meg Gardiner est diplômée de droit de l''Université deStanford, en Californie. Après avoir travaillé en entreprise, puis enseigné le droit, elle a déménagé près de Londres avec son mari et leurs trois enfants. Le dirty secrets club est le premier roman de sa série mettant en scène l''héroïne Jo Beckett. Jo Beckett est " psychiatre post mortem ". Son rôle n''est pas d''autopsier les corps mais de disséquer la vie des défunts pour déterminer les causes de leur décès. Elle est appelée par le lieutenant Tang le jour où Callie Harding, adjointe au procureur fédéral, trouve la mort en jetant sa voiture d''un pont d''autoroute. Tout semble indiquer un suicide. Pourtant, un détail troublant retient leur attention : le mot " dirty " est inscrit au rouge à lèvres sur la cuisse de la victime. Et puis, on se suicide rarement avec une passagère à ses côtés ! Très vite, Jo Beckett est mise sur la piste du mystérieux club fondé par Callie Harding, baptisé dirty secrets club. Un confessionnal virtuel pour personnalités en mal d''excitation et de rédemption, venues expier des actes socialement inavouables en relevant des défis indécents. Rien de très grave jusqu''à ce qu''une " séance " tourne mal... Alors que l''enquête progresse, les meurtres continuent. Quelqu''un cherche à éliminer les adeptes un à un. Et ce quelqu''un voit d''un très mauvais oeil les découvertes de Jo. Sans doute la raison de ce billet qu''elle reçoit. Quelques mots seulement. Implacables. Vous avez tué voter mari. Bienvenue au dirty secrets club.