Bøger af Valerie Keogh

The next brilliant psychological thriller from the NUMBER ONE bestselling author Valerie Keogh!She wants what you have...Hannah Parker is a woman who always gets what she wants.When her current husband discovers she has been lying to him - again - she knows it's time to move on and find someone who can give her the life she desires... The life she knows she deserves...But who will be the lucky man?When her eye catches a glimpse of an old flame in a photograph, she's sure it's a sign. Mark Shepherd has always been in her thoughts - they'd been happy once, he'd adored her, but she'd made a mistake and let him get away. She won't make the same mistake again....Hannah is older now and wiser. She knows what men want and she knows how to keep them happy.So what if Mark is happily married with a family of his own?All good things must come to an end...'Keogh is the queen of compelling narratives and twisty plots' Jenny O'Brien'A wonderful book, I can't rate this one highly enough. If only there were ten stars, it's that good. Valerie Keogh is a master story-teller, and this is a masterful performance.' Anita Waller'This deliciously twisty story kept me up late at night, desperate to know the outcome. A definite 5 stars.' Keri Beevis'I was blown away with this book!' ★★★★★ Reader Review'I didn't see the twist coming at all!' ★★★★★ Reader Review'A rollercoaster of a story!' ★★★★★ Reader Review

“Gripping . . . had me hooked from the very first page. I couldn’t put it down and read it in a weekend . . . keeps the reader on their toes.” —Amazon reviewer, five starsA darkly suspenseful story of troubled marriages, small-town secrets, and shocking twists by the author of The Couple in the Photograph. After a row with her husband, Jocelyn Dexter leaves London and heads to their country cottage for a break. While she’s there, Jocelyn joins a group of women one night at the manor house nearby—and gets entangled in other people’s relationships. Picking up on the tension beneath the surface, Jocelyn entertains herself by indulging in some snooping, and tries to pry secrets out of the locals. The tables turn when she discovers that someone is spying on her, and it becomes clear that someone wants her to go back where she came from. Jocelyn considers it a challenge. But involving herself in the affairs of others will lead her down a dark path . . .

One cheating man. Four angry women. One crime of passion. "e;A gripping and very entertaining"e; thriller from the bestselling author of The Perfect Life (Once Upon a Time Book Review).Successful Misty is happy living with her perfect boyfriend until he tells her he is leaving.Elegant Gwen is excited about the new man in her life until she discovers he's been lying to her.Angry Babs has the love of her life lured away, first by Misty then by Gwen, and she wants revenge.Long-suffering Dee is a wife who takes her wandering husband back every single time.When the lives of these four women collide, the results are deadly.One thing is for certain, the consequences of lying will be murder . . .

An Irish police detective must juggle multiple murder cases when macabre clues start appearing . . .Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West just wants to take a break and settle down with his fiancee. But now two new cases have come in: A hit and run in which the victim's family is acting suspiciously, and a missing woman found dead with the post-mortem suggesting foul play.It only gets worse when human body parts start turning up. Everybody avoids using the words serial killer-but West fears that if he can't make some progress, someone else is bound to die . . .

A young woman's idyllic life comes apart when her past comes back to haunt her in this psychological thriller by the author of the Dublin Murder Mysteries.After working as a hospital nurse in Dubai and London, Jodie settles down in Kent. With her job at a quiet nursing home and her loving new relationship, it seems that she's finally put her troubled past behind her. But someone from her childhood has been following her for years. And he's decided it's time to makes his presence felt . . . When Jodie receives a distressing call from her manager, her life takes an unexpected turn. Suddenly she's suspended and under investigation. Then her past comes thundering back with a strange parcel tied to her front door. As everything begins to crumble around her, she wonders who she can trust.

A bizarre murder in the suburbs of Dublin leads a Garda Siochana detective into a perplexing investigation in this gritty crime novel.When Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West and his partner answer an emergency call from St. Monica's church, they discover a dead body suspended from the beams in front of the altar. The victim is identified as Ian Moore, a man recently released from prison after serving time for rape. Revenge seems like the obvious motive for Moore's murder, but as the list of suspects grows, West begins to wonder if there's something deeper going on. Perhaps the killer believes this is God's work. With pressure from both the church and his boss to get the case solved quickly, West and his team have their work cut out for them.

A Dublin suburb is rocked by multiple murder investigations while the detective in charge must also face a personal crisis in this Irish crime thriller. When Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West and his partner, Garda Andrews, are called to an abandoned house, they are shocked to find the body of a small child stuffed inside a suitcase. With no child reported missing, they must first determine who she is. As their search for her identity reaches beyond Ireland, another murder takes their attention, one with a surfeit of suspects. Meanwhile, West's personal life is upended when someone targets his partner with compromising photographs. With troubles mounting on all sides, restoring peace to the village of Foxrock seems like an impossible task.

Nothing can ruin a romantic weekend like murder . . .Crime keeps getting in the way of Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West's personal life. The woman he loves is living in his house, in his spare bedroom. It should be simple, but it isn't. He has a solution: a romantic getaway in a lighthouse on Clare Island. A stunning place, a beautiful woman. What could be more perfect?Then one of the islanders dies in a bizarre and a tragic accident, and West is roped in to help. But it isn't an accident. There is more than one suspect, and more than one secret, and this is about to become a working vacation . . .Previously published under the title Murder on Clare Island

From the bestselling author of the Dublin Murder Mysteries, a novel of a dark and long-held secret that asks: How well do you know your friends?When Beth, Megan, and Joanne meet at university, they become inseparable friends who'd do anything for one another-even agreeing to tell no one about the events of one shocking night.Now in their forties and outwardly successful, each of the three has dealt with what happened in her own way. But secrets and lies leave their mark.When Megan decides to tell her fiancee the truth about that night, it threatens to ruin the lives of everyone around her. And someone is prepared to do anything to stop it . . .

In the Dublin suburbs, a police detective copes with a series of inexplicable crimes-and the return of a woman from his past . . .A murder followed by a series of random, motiveless crimes has left Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West and his team puzzled.When Edel Johnson arrives at the scene of a crime Mike is taken aback, more so when he discovers she is now working with a victim support group. He has feelings for her, but he is the garda who investigated her husband's murder, and their relationship is complicated.With crime in Dublin's suburbs at an all-time high, and his superiors breathing down his neck, West doesn't need the distraction. But someone wants Edel out of the way, and it's up to West to find out who . . .Previously published under the title Close Ranks

A detective follows a case from Dublin to Cornwall-but the suspect keeps disappearing into the mist . . .When Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West is called to investigate a murder in a Dublin graveyard, suspicion immediately falls on a local woman, Edel Johnson, whose husband disappeared some months before. But then she vanishes.Evidence leads West to a small village in Cornwall, but when he checks in to an inn, he finds Edel has arrived ahead of him. Her explanation seems to make sense, but just as West begins to think his suspicions of her are unfounded, she disappears again.Is she guilty? West, fighting an unsuitable attraction, doesn't want to believe it. But the case against her is growing. Back in Dublin, his team uncovers evidence of blackmail and illegal drugs connected to Edel's missing husband. When another man is murdered, she once again comes under suspicion. West knows he has to untangle the truth-but it may not be the truth he wants to hear . . .Previously published under the title That One May Smile