James Marrison

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This is no ordinary true crime book. If you think you've got the stomach for the most blood-curdling, sickening and downright strangest murders you will ever come across, then look no further than these pages. You have been warned...Take, for example, Enriqueta Marti who kidnapped children from the streets of Barcelona, then boiled away their flesh and crushed their bones for ingredients for her coveted 'magic potions'. Or take Randy Kraft, known as The Scorecard Killer, a computer genius by day and a a deranged psychopath by night. Finally arrested with a corpse slumped in the passenger seat of his car, it emerged that Kraft had spent over a decade cutting up and disposing of his numerous victims along the California highways. In this stomach-churning collection, all the stories have one thing in common - a unique bizarre twist. True crime writer James Marrison draws upon the material that has featured in the hugely successful column The Murder File in cult magazine Bizarre in order to disclose the kind of sickening deeds that are perpetrated more often than you might think, but which sometimes go largely unreported by the media. Welcome to The World's Most bizarre Murders - the most shocking true crime book you will ever read.

The World's Most Bizarre Murders

Forced to leave his native Argentina, Detective Chief Inspector Guillermo Downes sought tranquility in the English Cotswolds. But violence can strike anywhere. With the kind of insights into village life that made Broadchurch so powerful, The Drowning Ground introduces a terrific new voice in crime fiction.

The Drowning Ground

A new police inspector with a mysterious past investigates the disappearance and murder of a young girl in a quiet village in the English Cotswolds

A Novel

"A grisly murder In the heart of the English countryside a man is stabbed to death with a pitchfork. When DCI Guillermo Downes arrives he finds he knows the victim. An innocent victim? A decade earlier, Downes made a promise to the families of two missing girls that he'd find their daughters - and the dead man was a suspect in their disappearance. Perhaps he can finally make good on his promise. A secret unearthed But DCI Downes - an Argentinian who fled his homeland - knows that old secrets are always reluctantly surrendered. And the darker they are, the more tightly the guilty cling to them . . ."

James Marrison's chilling debut will plunge readers into the secrets, fears and lies of a small community. Perfect for fans of hit TV series Broadchurch and The Missing. 'DARK, GRIPPING AND UNEXPECTED' LINWOOD BARCLAY A man is found dead with a pitchfork through his neck. When DCI Guillermo Downes is called to the scene he realises he knows the victim. Because a decade earlier, Downes made a promise to the families of two missing girls that he would find their daughters, and this man had been a suspect in their disappearance. And as the ripples from his death spread through the local community, there is fresh hope that the detective might finally make good on his promise. But it soon becomes clear that there's a darkness at the heart of the investigation more dreadful than either could ever have imagined . . . Praise for The Drowning Ground: 'An Argentinian DCI in the heart of middle England brings a thoughtful outsider's viewpoint to a murder that has troubling links to unsolved crimes from the past. Guillermo Downes's intelligent, intuitive police work keeps the pages turning' Sunday Times 'An intriguing debut ... the plot [has] a strength and texture that help set it apart . . . Taut and told with panache, it ushers in a suitably spiky police hero' Daily Mail 'Marrison's tense début expertly evokes a sense of place . . . the highly unusual denouement will catch readers by surprise' Publishers Weekly 'A gripping thriller . . . a readable, complex tale, astutely paced . . . If the mark of a good whodunnit is that you can't actually guess whodunnit, then The Drowning Ground does its job well. Despite following the plot closely, I was still taken aback' The Herald 'Move over Morse' Oxford Times

The second thrilling detective mystery featuring Guillermo Downes by James Marrison A gruesome find A car abandoned by a ramshackle Cotswold farm draws the attention of local police officers. When DCI Guillermo Downes arrives at the farmhouse he finds a sickening scene of devastation and destruction. A desperate search Now Downes has a murder investigation to run and almost nothing to go on. What were the ransackers looking for? Why didn't they take anything? And could there have been a witness who made a lucky escape? A cover up spanning decades At first Downes - and his right hand man Sergeant Graves - struggle to find answers. But as they follow the threads of this brutal murder they find a stack of photographs of boys that have been missing for over twenty years. This case is bigger than Downes and Graves ever expected, and as they close in on the truth they uncover a conspiracy that goes right to the heart of the British establishment itself. Praise for James Marrison: 'This is an exceptional and haunting murder mystery, a real cut above the rest' Irish Independent 'Dark, gripping and unexpected' Linwood Barclay 'Assured, astutely paced, a gripping thriller' Herald 'Intriguing, taut, told with panache' Daily Mail

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