When Laura Fletcher approaches her home in Oxfordshire to find hordes of photographers crowding the gates, she knows there is something terribly wrong. She is faced with the shocking news that her husband is dead - brutally murdered - and according to Chief Inspector Tom Douglas, there is little doubt that the murderer is a woman. In a marriage that has taken her from the glamorous five star luxury of London, Venice and Positano to a bleak and draughty manor house in rural Oxfordshire, Laura has learned to guard her secrets well. She is not alone. It would appear that all the women in her husband's life have something to hide. But there is one secret that she has never shared, and when the investigation reaches its dramatic and horrific climax, she realises that she has no choice. She has to give Tom Douglas the final piece of the puzzle. And this changes everything, leaving Douglas with a terrible dilemma: whether to punish the guilty, or protect the innocent. ONLY THE INNOCENT is a spellbinding psychological thriller that will leave you breathless!
DCI Tom DouglasSéria
Táto séria napínavých detektívok sleduje brilantného, no často rozpolteného policajného inšpektora pri vyšetrovaní komplexných vrážd. Každý prípad sa ponára hlboko do ľudskej psychiky a odhaľuje temné tajomstvá skryté pod povrchom zdanlivo obyčajných životov. S precízne budovaným napätím a nečakanými zvratmi tieto príbehy skúmajú hranice spravodlivosti a morálky. Čitatelia budú uchvátení zložitými zápletkami a morálnymi dilemami, ktorým postavy čelia.






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