Bøger af John Carson

Years ago, DI Frank Miller caught a notorious serial killer and put him away for life. This man taunts Miller from the psychiatric hospital where he's incarcerated. He tells Miller he'll see him soon.Now he's escaped and he wants Miller to play a game to find a victim they didn't know about. Senior officers know the killer had help in escaping, and as an investigation is launched, suspicion falls on Miller. He's then suspended from duty.Disobeying orders to stay off the case, he follows a clue he's been given, but he's attacked and left for dead. Then things escalate out of control. A warrant is issued for Miller's arrest and now he's on the run, being hunted by colleagues.Miller knows he is on his own now, and time is running out, but help comes from an unexpected source.Together, they work to uncover the truth, but one man will do anything to make sure they die before that happens...

THEY'RE RICH. THEY'RE POWERFUL. THEY'RE DEAD. Settling into his new life, Detective Chief Inspector Harry McNeil is being kept busy, but life is going to become a lot busier. The body of an MSP has been found slaughtered in an empty house in Edinburgh. But this is no ordinary crime scene. It's one that Harry McNeil thinks he's seen before. Down to the last detail, including the position of the bodies. As they start the hunt, they're looking for a killer who seems to know far too much detail of what goes on behind the scenes at a kill site. Somebody who doesn't want to stop. Then Harry recollects where he saw this crime scene before. This killer is copying murder scenes from the past. But the past is very much going to catch up with the present... Do Unto Others is the 17th book in the bestselling DCI Harry McNeil series.

With property developers greedy for land to build on, it comes as no surprise that there will be fierce bidding for a site that has just come on the market. Edinburgh's New Town North is how it's being touted.It is widely known that property developer George Stone is in the running. A man who is used to getting his own way.One of Stone's biggest rivals is Kerry Hamilton. A ruthless millionairess, and she too, gets what she wants.As the offices are cleared and the sale of the site is made official, the body of a man is found on one of the empty floors. Rick Dempsey was an architect. But what was he doing here alone in the middle of the night? DI Frank Miller begins to wonder. He soon learns that some business leaders are far more deadly than gangsters. Then the body of a city official turns up. Somebody is sending a message, but some people aren't easily scared away.More bodies turn up and Miller realises that somebody will stop at nothing until the competition is gone.But behind the mask lies the face of a devil. A devil with secrets that nobody will ever reveal.And he's watching Miller's every move. Watching and waiting...

How have modern democracies squared their commitment to equality with their fear that disparities in talent and intelligence might be natural, persistent, and consequential? This work tells the story of how two nations - America and France - wrestled scientifically with human inequalities and their social and political implications.