Новинки Саймона Лелича

16-year-old Sadie Saunders is missing. Five friends set out into the woods to find her. But they're not just friends... THEY'RE SUSPECTS. You see, this was never a search party. It's a witch hunt. And not everyone will make it home alive... THE CHALK MAN meets THE HUNTING PARTY in this gripping story; witness four suspects as, alongside DI Fleet, you attempt to discover the truth about what happened to Sadie...

Она — психоло, он — ее клиент. Но являются ли они теми, кем хотят казаться?
Одна комната. Два лжеца. Выхода нет.
У Сюзанны Фентон есть секрет. Четырнадцать лет назад ей пришлось сменить личность и начать жизнь заново. Это был единственный способ защитить дочь.
Все меняется, когда к ней на прием приходит Адам Герати. Сюзанна никогда не встречала его прежде, но почему же он кажется ей таким знакомым? Адам просит о помощи и задает неожиданные вопросы. Сюзанна начинает бояться, что ее секреты могут быть раскрыты.
Она его не знает. НО ОН ЗНАЕТ ЕЕ.
Кто такой Адам на самом деле и что он хочет?

Susanna Fenton hütet ein Geheimnis. Und deswegen blieb ihr nur die Wahl, ihr altes Leben hinter sich zu lassen, sich neu zu erfinden. Heute, vierzehn Jahre später, ist sie erfolgreiche Psychotherapeutin.
Ihr aktueller Klient verursacht ihr jedoch Unbehagen. Adam Geraghty erzählt ihr nicht nur von schrecklichen Gewaltfantasien, sondern erscheint ihr auch seltsam vertraut. Fast zu spät erkennt Susanna, dass er von ihrer Vergangenheit weiß - und gekommen ist, alte Rechnungen zu begleichen ...

Она — психолог, он — ее клиент. Но являются ли они теми, кем хотят казаться? Одна комната. Два лжеца. Выхода нет. У Сюзанны Фентон есть секрет. Четырнадцать лет назад ей пришлось сменить личность и начать жизнь заново. Это был единственный способ защитить дочь. Все меняется, когда к ней на прием приходит Адам Герати. Сюзанна никогда не встречала его прежде, но почему же он кажется ей таким знакомым? Адам просит о помощи и задает неожиданные вопросы. Сюзанна начинает бояться, что ее секреты могут быть раскрыты. Она его не знает. НО ОН ЗНАЕТ ЕЕ. Кто такой Адам на самом деле и что он хочет?

ONE ROOM. TWO LIARS. NO WAY OUT.

THE NEXT SPINE-TINGLING THRILLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE HOUSE

Susanna Fenton has a secret. Fourteen years ago she left her identity behind, reinventing herself as a counsellor and starting a new life. It was the only way to keep her daughter safe.

But everything changes when Adam Geraghty walks into her office. She's never met this young man before - so why does she feel like she knows him?

Adam starts to tell her about a girl. A girl he wants to hurt. And that's when Susanna realises she was wrong.

She doesn't know him.
He knows her.
And the girl he plans to hurt is her daughter.

Susanna Fenton has a secret. Fourteen years ago she left her identity behind, reinventing herself as a counsellor and starting a new life. It was the only way to keep her daughter safe.

But everything changes when Adam Geraghty walks into her office. She's never met this young man before - so why does she feel like she knows him?

Adam starts to tell her about a girl. A girl he wants to hurt. And that's when Susanna realises she was wrong.

She doesn't know him.

He knows her.

And the girl he plans to hurt is her daughter.

An unimaginable crime and the man who must defend it-a probing psychological thriller from the author of A Thousand Cuts.A chance phone call throws the biggest muder case in southern England into the hands of provincial attorney Leo Curtice. Twelve-year- old Daniel Blake stands accused of murdering an eleven-year-old girl. But who is truly responsible when one child kills another? As Curtice sets out to defend the indefensible, he soon finds himself pitted against an enraged community calling for blood. When the buildup of pressure takes a sinister turn, he fears for his wife and young daughter's safety. Must he choose between his family and the life of a damaged child? With piercing psychological insight, Lelic examines a community's response to a hideous crime.

Schulversammlung in der drückenden Hitze eines Londoner Sommers. Der Geschichtslehrer betritt die Aula - und eröffnet das Feuer: Drei Schüler und eine Lehrerin sterben, dann richtet er sich selbst. Auf Druck von oben soll die junge Ermittlerin Lucia May den Fall schnellstmöglich abschließen. Doch sie stellt sich eine Frage, die sonst niemand stellen will: Was trieb einen kultivierten, schüchternen Mann zu diesem grauenvollen Verbrechen? Wie ein Puzzle setzen sich die Aussagen der Lehrer, Kinder und Eltern zu einem erschütternden Bild zusammen. Lucia stößt auf Sensationslust, Verzweiflung, Verleugnung - und für sie steht fest: Sie wird die Wahrheit enthüllen. Was immer es sie kosten mag ...

Как часто вас одолевает ярость? А ненависть? А желание убить? Как часто мы думаем про себя, что "готовы убить того-то и того-то"? И что будет, если такое желание прорвет оболочку цивилизованности и вырвется наружу? Чья вина тяжелее? Убийцы или того, кто подтолкнул его?.. Душным летним днем преподаватель истории Сэмюэл Зайковски приходит на общее школьное собрание и открывает огонь. Убив трех школьников и коллегу, он стреляет в себя. Что это было? Приступ маниакального безумия? Расчетливый и продуманный поступок? Как вообще тихий, незаметный учитель истории мог совершить такое? Для полиции дело предельно ясно: еще один школьный инцидент с…

"Every day the same question. A different uniform but the same question. They thought Lucia enjoyed being here. They thought that was why she kept coming back. But they were asking the wrong thing. She had found what she was looking for - she had found what she had been sent to discover - but she had found out more besides. The question was what to do about it. The question was whether to do anything at all."

In the depths of a sweltering summer, teacher Samuel Szajkowski walks into his school assembly and opens fire. He kills three pupils and a colleague before turning the gun on himself.

Lucia May, the young policewoman who is assigned the case, is expected to wrap up things quickly and without fuss. The incident is a tragedy that could not have been predicted and Szajkowski, it seems clear, was a psychopath beyond help. Soon, however, Lucia becomes preoccupied with the question no one else seems to want to ask: what drove a mild-mannered, diffident school teacher to commit such a despicable crime?

Piecing together the testimonies of the teachers and children at the school, Lucia discovers an uglier, more complex picture of the months leading up to the shooting. She realises too that she has more in common with Szajkowski than she could have imagined. As the pressure to bury the case builds, she becomes determined to tell the truth about what happened, whatever the consequences . . .

A stunning debut novel that unravels the hidden story behind a school shooting

It should be an open-and-shut case. Samuel Szajkowski, a recently hired history teacher, walked into a school assembly with a gun and murdered three students and a colleague before turning the weapon on himself. It was a tragedy that could not have been predicted. Szajkowski, it seems clear, was a psychopath beyond help. Yet as Detective Inspector Lucia May- the only woman in her high-testosterone office in the Criminal Investigations Department-begins to piece together the testimonies of the various witnesses, an uglier and more complex picture emerges, calling into question the innocence of others. But no one, including Lucia's boss, is interested.

As the pressure to close the case builds and her colleagues' sexism takes a sinister turn, Lucia begins to realize that she has more in common with the killer than she could have imagined, and she becomes deter­mined to expose the truth. Brilliantly interweaving the witnesses' accounts with Lucia's own perspective, A Thousand Cuts is a narrative tour de force from a formidable new voice in fiction.