Alex Smith

The one case he couldn't crack was the one that finally broke him.Haunted by his inability to track down and save his missing wife, DCI Robert Kett leaves the Metropolitan Police behind and moves to Norwich with his three young children, hoping to heal their broken family. But his newfound peace...

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The eighth book in the internationally bestselling series, with over a million copies sold! Extreme crime needs extreme measures. DCI Kett is back, heading Norfolk Constabulary’s brand-new Extreme Crime Task Force. And it’s just in time. The body of a woman bound in thorns has been...

After the horrors of their last case, DCI Kett and the rest of Norfolk Constabulary’s Extreme Crime Task Force are in need of a break. And that’s just what they think they’re getting when Superintendent Clare takes them on a team building exercise in the middle of a quiet Norfolk village.

WOULD YOU START A WAR TO AVENGE YOUR BROTHER’S MURDER? Ian Softley is a killer. He’s the man governments call when they want somebody dead. His is a life of intimidation and brutality, of beatings and executions—including, ultimately, his own. Jack Softley’s life is a world away from his...

He will find the truth. Even if it kills him. Five months ago, DCI Robert Kett’s wife Billie was snatched from a London street. Five months of no leads, no evidence, and no suspects. Until now. When a routine police search uncovers a chamber of horrors beneath one of the city’s most...

Every time you hear his voice, another child will die. DCI Robert Kett’s family may be whole, but he is a broken man. Suspended from duty, he takes his girls out of the city for a holiday on the Norfolk Coast. Instead of the peace he needs, however, Kett finds a community in chaos....

War is coming... It has been months since DCI Robert Kett’s world was almost shattered by the murderous syndicate known as Hollenbeck. What he wants now is a slow return to the job and a handful of easy cases. What he gets, though, is a dead woman in a park, her eyes replaced with molten tin...

Getting blood from these stones will be all too easy. In the middle of one of Norfolk’s most brutal winters, a frozen body is discovered on the legendary Stone of Lyng. With Robert Kett out of action, the case falls to DC Kate Savage and DI Pete Porter, and it quickly becomes clear to them...

He has always been the hunter. He is about to become the prey. For years, DCI Robert Kett has tracked down the country’s most dangerous kidnappers and serial killers, earning a reputation as the best man to call to catch the worst men. The tables are about to turn. When somebody starts...

Whatever you do, don’t open the door… When a severed foot is delivered to the unsuspecting residents of a student house in Norwich, DCI Kett’s Extreme Crime Task Force begins one of the most gruesome investigations of its career. It’s not just a foot. More packages begin to appear at...

Some legends can kill you. When a young woman is brutally murdered in the Norfolk countryside, the locals blame Black Shuck - a legendary wild dog. There’s only one problem: The wounds weren’t made by an animal. DCI Robert Kett is battling a black dog of his own. With his wife still...

DCI Robert Kett’s efforts to return to a normal life are dashed after he receives a phone call from his mother, Mary—a woman he hasn’t spoken to in almost two decades....

"In six days, six hours, and six minutes, I will come back and kill you. Tell anyone, and your wife and child will die. Call the police, and your wife and child will die. Try to run, or hide, or trick me in any way, and your wife and child will die. And they will not die quickly, Blake. Theirs...

Robert Kett hat dem Dienst abgeschworen, um für seine drei Töchter da zu sein. Doch der verzweifelte Anruf seiner Mutter Mary, zu der er seit zwanzig Jahren keinen Kontakt hatte, ändert alles. Sie lebt in der isolierten, technikfeindlichen Gemeinde »Whytetail«.

Fünf Monate, nachdem DCI Ketts Frau entführt wurde, gibt es endlich eine Spur: Es ist ein Horrorkabinett, das die Ermittelnden in der verlassenen Londoner...

Ein nervenzerreißender britischer Crime-Thriller von Alex Smith Ein Vater, ein Fall, eine Stadt, die ihre Geheimnisse nicht preisgibt. Der Nr.-1-Amazon-Bestseller eröffnet die Detective-Robert-Kett-Reihe, gelesen von Günther Harder.

Manche Legenden sind tödlich... Im beschaulichen Norfolk wird die schlimm zugerichtete Leiche einer Frau im Wald gefunden. Schnell wird eine in der...

Mitten in einem der brutalsten Winter in Norfolk wird auf dem legendären Stone of Lyng eine gefrorene Leiche entdeckt. Schnell wird ihnen klar, dass der junge Mann nicht einfach nur getötet, sondern geopfert wurde.

Jahrelang hat Detective Chief Inspector Robert Kett die gefährlichsten Entführer und Serienmörder des Landes aufgespürt und sich den Ruf erworben, der Beste in diesem Metier zu sein. Doch nun wendet sich das Blatt. Jemand beginnt, die Kriminellen, die Kett hinter Gitter gebracht hat, brutal zu ermorden.