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Cuando la niebla se disipa en una fría mañana de diciembre en Essex, emerge una pesadilla. El cuerpo de Lily Monteith, de 17 años, aparece en un campo; su asesinato es escalofriantemente único: concebido solo para ella. El Sargento Detective Tomek Bowen, quien intenta equilibrar una investigación exigente con la vida de padre soltero, descubre un vínculo inquietante entre la muerte de Lily y una serie de asesinatos sin resolver de años atrás. Los homicidios se detuvieron de golpe, pero ahora, al parecer, el depredador ha vuelto. A contrarreloj, Tomek debe desentrañar el pasado para...

The Voodoo Killer is the pulse-pounding first book in the DI Stephanie Broadbent crime thriller series by Jack Probyn. If you love fast-paced British police procedurals filled with memorable characters, mind-bending twists that will keep you guessing to the last moment, and oodles of black humor, you'll love this series.

Books included in this collection: BOOK 4—DEATH’S KISS, BOOK 5—DEATH’S TASTE, and BOOK 6—DEATH’S ANGEL.

Acaba de conocer a la hija que no sabía que tenía. Ahora debe salvar a una chica a la que quizá nunca llegue a conocer. La vida del sargento detective Tomek Bowen siempre ha sido complicada, pero su mundo se pone de cabeza cuando descubre que tiene una hija de trece años. Suspendido del servicio y lidiando con la idea de la paternidad, lo llaman de vuelta al trabajo de manera inesperada: una estudiante ha sido secuestrada después de subirse al auto de un desconocido. Ya reincorporado, Tomek debe sortear una investigación volátil mientras intenta construir una relación con la hija ...

Cuando se descubre el cadáver de un hombre sin hogar, cuidadosamente metido entre las desgastadas casetas de playa de Thorpe Bay, en el malecón de Southend, los residentes de Essex apenas se inmutan. Eso, hasta que la autopsia sorprende a todos al revelar la identidad de la víctima: Herbert Tucker, el diputado local con un pasado turbio. A medida que la presión política y mediática sube como una marea creciente, el sargento detective Tomek Bowen se ve obligado a navegar una traicionera corriente subterránea de mentiras, traición y escándalo. Al ahondar en la turbia historia de ...

Nota: esta versión ha sido traducida al español latinoamericano. Algunas verdades nunca se borran… A lo largo de la llana costa de Essex, en pleno corazón de Southend-on-Sea, aparece el cuerpo de un hombre en un huerto comunitario, medio desnudo y gravemente mutilado. La investigación recae rápidamente en el sargento detective (DS) Tomek Bowen de la Policía de Essex, quien, treinta años atrás, encontró a su hermano muerto en un lugar y de una manera similares, una tarde al salir del colegio. La muerte de su hermano había sido sin motivo aparente, un acto brutal y malvado que ...

The DS Tomek Bowen Series are fast-paced crime fiction stories featuring DS Tomek Bowen. The first three full-length books in this gripping series are brought together for the first time in this great value boxset.

First, he takes you. Then he cuts you. Again and again, until your last breath slips away. DS Tomek Bowen is back from a short suspension that nearly derailed his career, and he wants to hit the ground running. But an unexpected phone call from prison shakes his focus — and threatens to pull him into a web of lies and betrayal. It isn't until a witness comes forward, reporting a missing persons case, that Tomek is reminded of his priorities. Somebody has been abducted, and now their slow, torturous death is being documented live on the Dark Web. One life-ending cut at a time…

Mersea Island. Over 2,500 acres of farmland, marshland, and several caravan parks. Usually, it is home to 7,000 people. But for the August Bank Holiday weekend, it is home to two more residents: DS Tomek Bowen and his daughter, Kasia, looking to make the most of the end of the school holidays, the end of summer, and the end of Tomek’s extended time away from work. But when a body is discovered tethered to a buoy one morning, Tomek is pulled into the murky world of murder and death sooner than anticipated.

When the body of a homeless man is discovered on Southend seafront, wedged between the beach huts of Thorpe Bay, the people of Essex don’t raise an eyebrow. But when the post-mortem reveals the identity to be that of local MP, Herbert Tucker, the town begins to sit up.

Annabelle Lake thought she recognised the Ford Fiesta waiting outside her school, and the driver in it. She was wrong. Her body is discovered some time later, dangling from a swing in a local playground on Canvey Island. The post-mortem shows she’s been fed, clothed and kept warm. That whoever was responsible had looked after her. But when another girl goes missing and is found in a similar fashion, that’s where the similarities end.

Dead men can’t speak. When Danny Cipriano’s body is discovered buried in a concrete tomb at the London Olympic Stadium, one thing becomes clear: the former leader of the Crimsons knew too much. And somebody wanted him silenced. For good.

Southend-on-Sea, Essex: Detective Sergeant Tomek Bowen — driven, dogged, and haunted by the death of his brother — is called to one of the most shocking crime scenes he has ever seen. A man has been ritualistically murdered and dumped in an allotment near the local airport. Early investigations indicate this was a man with a past. A past that earned him many enemies. But when another victim is found murdered under similar circumstances, it becomes clear that Bowen is on the trail of a serial offender.

The owner of a jewelry store has been kidnapped. The people responsible are known as The Crimsons, an organized crime group the police have been hunting for years.

Jake Tanner, a trainee detective constable with Croydon CID, is eager to impress his bosses. So when a body is found face-down in the city’s farmlands, head crushed, split in two, Jake jumps at the opportunity. The victim is soon identified as Zeke Harrison. A successful businessman and philanthropist. A man who had it all. But, as the investigation into his death develops, it becomes clear that Zeke had more secrets than success.

Every angel deserves their wings… When flight attendant Angelica Whitaker is reported missing after a night out at one of the most popular nightclubs in Southend, the case is handed to DS Tomek Bowen for the first time in his career. As soon as the investigation begins, the finger is pointed at the man she danced with at the club, but when her body is later found in a church, posed like an angel, the same fingers begin to point towards a calculated, composed, and sadistic killer.

On a windy and blistering cold morning, Morgana Usyk, owner of one of DS Tomek Bowen’s favourite haunts, Morgana’s Café, visits Mulberry Harbour a little over a mile out to sea. A short while later, her body is found in the shallows, floating beside the harbour.

During the middle of a storm, a local radio DJ is savagely murdered in his Essex mansion. When the clouds and rain clear the following morning, DS Tomek Bowen and his team discover a crime scene reminiscent of something from the history books. The evidence suggests this was a random killing. But as Tomek peels back the layers of the victim's life, he realises there's more to the DJ than meets the eye.

When the fog clears one December morning in Essex, the body of a teenage girl is discovered lying face down in a field. The victim, Lily Monteith, was murdered in a peculiar and unique way — so unique that it could have only happened to her. As a result, the case quickly lands on DS Tomek Bowen’s desk who, while trying to juggle his newfound life as a single parent to a thirteen-year-old daughter, must unearth the deadly sequence of events and bring the truth to light.

Henry Matheson owns the drug trade in East London. To his competitors, he’s feared. To his customers, he’s God. To the police, he’s untouchable. But when the smoldering remains of Henry’s closest competitor are discovered dangling from a lamppost in the middle of his estate, one man decides to take him on: Jake Tanner. But he can’t do it alone. And with The Cabal’s clandestine network of corrupt officers threatening him and his family at every turn, Jake doesn’t know who to trust.