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Caroline Mitchell

    Diese irische Autorin, eine ehemalige Polizistin, die sich auf die Arbeit mit gefährdeten Opfern spezialisiert hat, widmet sich nun ganz dem Schreiben. Ihre Thriller, die oft in düsteren städtischen Umgebungen angesiedelt sind, werden als fesselnd und psychologisch packend beschrieben. Sie erschafft spannende Erzählungen, die sich mit den dunkleren Aspekten der menschlichen Natur befassen. Leser können akribisch durchdachte Geschichten erwarten, die ein beklemmendes und fesselndes Leseerlebnis bieten.

    Flesh and Blood
    The Secret Child
    Left For Dead
    How to Live with Dragons
    Dragon Path Oracle Cards
    Silent victim
    • Manches ist schlimmer als Mord. Emma ist eine liebende Ehefrau – und eine Mörderin. Vor Jahren hat sie ihren Lehrer, der sie als Teenager verführte, erschlagen und auf dem Grundstück ihres Elternhauses vergraben – so glaubt sie zumindest. Als ihr Ehemann Alex eine neue Stelle annimmt, muss Emma ihr Elternhaus verkaufen. Zuvor will sie die Leiche verschwinden lassen. Doch das vermeintliche Grab ist leer. In ihrer Not offenbart sie sich ihrem Ehemann und löst damit etwas aus, das ihre Familie zu zerstören droht. Psychologische Spannung vom Feinsten – der Bestseller aus Großbritannien.

      Silent victim
      3,7
    • Dragon Path Oracle Cards

      • 80 Seiten
      • 3 Lesestunden

      A unique oracle deck to channel the energy and insight of the 33 powerful dragon guides revealed over two decades to the original Dragon Lady Caroline Mitchell. The dragons urge us to become the best possible version of ourselves, to release fears and pain, to accept and nurture ourselves and embrace our spiritual awakening.

      Dragon Path Oracle Cards
      4,5
    • How to Live with Dragons

      • 224 Seiten
      • 8 Lesestunden

      A complete guide to finding and working with your personal dragons for healing, empowerment and adventure from Caroline Mitchell, bestselling creator of the Dragon Path Oracle Cards.

      How to Live with Dragons
      4,5
    • Left For Dead

      • 336 Seiten
      • 12 Lesestunden

      Shopping with her sister, DI Amy Winter is admiring a Valentine's Day window display of a perfect bride encrusted in diamonds and resplendent in lace -- until she notices blood oozing from the mannequin's mouth. This is no stunt. A post-mortem reveals the victim was left to die on her macabre throne for all to see. When a second victim is found, it emerges that both women were "Sugar Babes" arranging dates with older men online, and Amy finds herself hunting an accomplished psychopath

      Left For Dead
      4,4
    • The Secret Child

      • 336 Seiten
      • 12 Lesestunden

      DI Amy Winter knows evil. She’s lived through it.Four-year-old Ellen is snatched by a stranger in the dead of night. Her devastated mother, Nicole, receives four identical phials and a threatening note in a familiar scrawl that chills her to the bone. But she always knew this would happen. She’s been expecting it for years…According to the note, one of the phials is poisoned. Nicole is given a deadly challenge: if she drinks one, the sadistic kidnapper will notify the police of Ellen’s location. The sender claims to be Luka Volkov but Luka is supposed to be dead, killed long ago in a fire that haunts all those involved.DI Amy Winter is still reeling from the discovery that she is the daughter of a serial killer, and her childhood trauma only makes her more determined to bring Ellen home. When another child is taken, Amy finds herself in a race against time. To rescue the children, must she seek help from the one person she wants to forget…?

      The Secret Child
      4,3
    • A string of suicides. A community in terror. And a chilling conspiracy only DI Amy Winter can crack.A wave of apparent suicides hits a string of seaside resorts, but when a police officer is named as the latest to die, DI Amy Winter suspects there may be more than mere coincidence to these tragic deaths. But what dark motive could cause someone to throw themselves into the cold depths of the North Sea?Someone in the community knows more than they are letting on, but Amy’s questions are met with resistance. A group of mysterious teenagers might hold the key, but why are they so afraid to talk? Meanwhile, after the release from prison of her serial killer mother, Amy is fighting her own demons.In her toughest investigation yet, Amy must confront her dark past if she is to put an end to the carnage. What secret is so terrible that it’s worth killing a police officer for? Amy needs to find the answer, before the sea washes up any more bodies.

      Flesh and Blood
      4,3
    • Truth and Lies

      • 347 Seiten
      • 13 Lesestunden

      Meet Amy Winter: Detective Inspector, daughter of a serial killer. DI Amy Winter is hoping to follow in the footsteps of her highly respected police officer father. But when a letter arrives from the prison cell of Lillian Grimes, one half of a notorious husband-and-wife serial-killer team, it contains a revelation that will tear her life apart. Responsible for a string of heinous killings decades ago, Lillian is pure evil. A psychopathic murderer. And Amy's biological mother. Now, she is ready to reveal the location of three of her victims--but only if Amy plays along with her twisted game. While her fellow detectives frantically search for a young girl taken from her mother's doorstep, Amy must confront her own dark past. Haunted by blurred memories of a sister who sacrificed herself to save her, Amy faces a race against time to uncover the missing bodies. But what if, from behind bars, Grimes has been pulling the strings even tighter than Amy thought? And can she overcome her demons to prevent another murder?

      Truth and Lies
      4,3
    • Women & radio. Airing differences

      • 320 Seiten
      • 12 Lesestunden

      Combining classic work on radio with innovative research, journalism and biography, Women and Radio offers a variety of approaches to understanding the position of women as producers, presenters and consumers as well as offering guidelines, advice and helpful information for women wanting to work in radio.Women and Radio examines the relationship between radio audiences, technologies and programming and reveals and explains the inequalities experienced by women working in the industry.

      Women & radio. Airing differences
      4,0
    • The Islanders

      • 288 Seiten
      • 11 Lesestunden

      She thinks the island will keep her safe--she is wrong. Traumatised by the death of a child in her care, top London paediatrician Claire seeks refuge on remote Selkie Island in the wilds of the Irish Sea with her husband Daniel and their baby daughter Kitty. Hidden away in Daniel's old family home, Claire hopes to be as cut off from her guilt as she is from the mainland, but can she find peace in a place so full of its own secrets? Twenty years earlier, Daniel's parents left the island in a boat and never made it to the mainland. Mystery surrounds their deaths--and their lives. Why did they set out late at night in a storm? What had really been going on at the house? Even as Claire begins to recover her sense of self amid the island's rugged beauty, she can't shake off a chilling suspicion that Selkie Island has a dark history that the locals just can't face--and that it somehow has a connection to her own life. When baby Kitty suddenly disappears, Claire's fragile world falls apart. The only way to secure her future is to uncover the past, but the closer she gets to answers, the more danger she finds herself in. Will she be able to save her family or will the island's dark secrets take another life?

      The Islanders
      4,1
    • The Perfect Mother

      • 367 Seiten
      • 13 Lesestunden

      She thought they wanted her baby. But they won't stop there. Roz is young, penniless and pregnant. All she wants is to be the perfect mother to her child, but the more she thinks about her own chaotic upbringing, the more certain she is that the best life for her baby is as far away as possible from her hometown in Ireland. Determined to do the right thing, Roz joins an elite adoption service and can't believe her luck. Within days she is jetting to New York to meet a celebrity power couple desperate for a child of their own. Sheridan and Daniel are wealthy and glamorous--everything Roz isn't. Her baby will never go hungry, and will have every opportunity for the perfect life. But soon after Roz moves into their plush basement suite, she starts to suspect that something darker lurks beneath the glossy surface of their home. When Roz discovers she isn't the first person to move in with the couple, and that the previous woman has never been seen since, alarm bells start ringing. As the clock ticks down to her due date, Roz realises her unborn baby may be the only thing keeping her alive, and that despite her best intentions, she has walked them both into the perfect nightmare...

      The Perfect Mother
      4,1