Showing results for "The Moor" in Suspense

After the National Crime Agency cracks a major drug gang, junior barrister Julia McGann finds herself defending the violent enforcer Terrence Bonner. This high-profile case is a coup for her, but almost immediately things start to go wrong. Intruders break into her house, and then a young girl turns up at her door with a horrifying story to tell. Three months later, DCI Craig Gillard and his team struggle with the shocking murder of a much-respected local headmaster, found dead in his own car. The baffling crime fills the newspapers but yields few clues.

When John Simpson hears of a bizarre animal attack in his old home town of High Moor, it stirs memories of a long forgotten horror. John knows the truth. A werewolf stalks the town once more, and on the night of the next full moon, the killing will begin again. He should know. He survived a werewolf attack in 1986, during the worst year of his life. It's 1986 and the town is gripped in terror after the mutilated corpse of a young boy is found in the woods.

The bleak expanse of Vangmoor was a dark, forbidding place. One victim had been found there, blonde, her face disfigured, her head shorn close to the scalp - killed without motive or mercy. Then a second woman went missing on the moor, and a sense of utter dread gripped the fifty local men who searched for her. Someone watched them in that treacherous place. Was he a killer? Or was he merely angry that a killer had usurped him? For he, and only he, was the Master of the Moor.

Constable Nick has come to know and love the host of characters who live and work on the beautiful North Yorkshire Moors. The amiable constable handles every encounter with his characteristic humour and professionalism, whether he's investigating a plot to scare away a troublesome suitor or helping a neighbour return his late wife's ashes to her beloved moors. Not to mention the insurance agent with a rather unusual policy on Edgar Dawson’s dog, Arthur. It covers him for stealing clothes from washing lines and getting lady dogs pregnant!

The people of High Moor are united in horror at the latest tragedy to befall their small town. As dawn breaks, the town is left to count the cost and mourn its dead, while breathing a collective sigh of relief. John Simpson, the apparent perpetrator of the horrific murders, is in police custody. The nightmare is over. Isn't it? Detective Inspector Phil Fletcher and his partner, Constable Olivia Garner, have started to uncover some unsettling evidence during their investigations of John Simpson's past - evidence that supports his impossible claims: that he is a werewolf....

The war has begun...As the humans make their move against the werewolf threat in their midst, and civil war threatens to break the pack apart, John and Marie struggle to free the only person who can unite the werewolf factions against their common enemy: Marie's brother, Michael. However, their efforts may be for nothing. As tensions mount, the Moonborn prepare to combat the human aggression with an assault of their own; an attack that could spell doom for both man and werewolf alike.

'Gripping, devastating...Breathtaking' Clare Mackintosh 'Powerful and chilling, with a shocking twist' Guardian ________________ He's been looking in the windows again. Messing with cameras. Leaving notes. Supposed to be a refuge. But death got inside. When Katie Straw's body is pulled from the...

Du glaubst, du seist sicher in den eigenen vier Wänden? Du hast dich noch niemals im Leben so sehr getäuscht! Nach einem Schicksalsschlag lebt Grace zurückgezogen in einem ehemaligen B&B mitten im südenglischen Darthmoor. Sie leidet unter furchtbaren Panikattacken, schafft es nicht mehr, das Cottage zu verlassen, geschweige denn, Gäste hereinzubitten. Doch dann stehen eines Tages eine verängstigte junge Frau und ihre kleine Tochter vor der Tür. Beide benötigen dringend Hilfe. Und diesmal schafft es Grace nicht, die Fremden abzuweisen.

"Du musst kommen. Deine Mutter ist verschwunden!“ Mit diesen Worten wird Frederike Feldmanns schönes Leben auf den Kopf gestellt. Vor sieben Jahren hatte Freddi ihrer Familie den Rücken gekehrt. Nun bringt ihr schlechtes Gewissen sie dazu, nach Hause zu fahren und sich um ihre kleinen Geschwister zu kümmern. Als sie zu Hause ankommt, übertrifft die Realität ihre schlimmsten Erwartungen. Vor ihrem Verschwinden hatte ihre Mutter immer wieder vor dem Monster gewarnt, das nachts im Moor herumirren soll.