ELENA FORBES

Bestselling novelist Joe Logan walks out into a hot summers evening in central London. The next day his body is found dumped in a disused Victorian crypt at the Brompton Cemetery. He has been tied up, shot and castrated. The killing has the hallmarks of a professional hit. Detective Inspector Mark Tartaglia has a number of leads to follow, but hes getting nowhere. Then another body is found, in an old boathouse on the Thames, killed in an identical fashion to Logan. Both men were savagely tortured before they died. A vicious and methodical killer is at work but what does he want and how does he lure his victims to their death? If only Tartaglia can find the link between the two dead men maybe he can find the killer before he strikes again . . .

Slowly she opened her eyes and he rewarded her with one of his softest smiles, brushing her wet, sticky hair off her face, using the edge of her coat sleeve to wipe away the slime around her nose and lips. ''I don''t want to,'' she whispered, trembling as she gazed at him. ''I don''t want to...'' She couldn''t finish the sentence. Die. Die with me. Be with me forever. That''s what he''d said. You could find your new best friend on the net...

A chilling crime novel set in London featuring series characters DI Mark Tartaglia and DS Sam Donovan. Elena Forbes´ first chapter of Die With Me was shortlisted for a Crime Writers Association Debut

A life-or-death race against time as another serial murderer is at work on DI Mark tartaglia''s patch in west London. Una carrera a vida o muerte contra el tiempo mientras otro asesino en serie se halla en accion en la jurisdiccion del detective inspector Mark Tartaglia en Londres Oeste.

Londres. Jeune homme cherche adolescentes fragiles pour commettre à deux un suicide romantique... Sur le Net, derrière son écran, un tueur en série machiavélique manipule ses proies pour mieux les pi

Cuando el cadáver de una joven de quince años aparece en una iglesia de Londres, todo parece indicar que se trata de un suicidio, pero el detective Mark Tartaglia pronto descubre una realidad más compleja: la de un psicopata capaz de seducir por Internet y de convencer a jovenes fragiles y desorientadas de que la vida no tiene sentido, de que no puede haber un final mas hermoso que morir juntos

A young womans naked body is found in the undergrowth of Holland Park, London. Gagged, with her wrists and ankles bound, she has been posed, almost like a statue, kneeling as if in prayer - or begging for mercy. Stuffed into the womans mouth is a wad of paper. On the paper is a verse by a Victorian poet, renowned for his sadomasochistic tendencies. Progress on the investigation is frustratingly slow, until a link is made to another murder that occurred exactly a year earlier

You could find your new best friend on the web... or discover your worst nightmare. For fifteen-year-old Gemma, its already too late. Her body was found in the nave of the parish church in Ealing. For D.I. Mark Tartaglia and the murder squad at Barnes, its just a matter of time before the tragedy repeats itself.

DI Mark Tartaglia spends a night in a west London hotel with a woman he has just met. When he is called out to the same hotel the next morning to investigate a murder, he realises it must have taken place while he was there. If things werent already complicated enough, the investigation takes a new and horrifying turn when he recognises the young female victim. Still reeling from the shock, he learns that another case he has been investigating - the body of a homeless man found in a burnt-out car - is also not what it seems. Tests reveal that the corpse has been assembled from the body parts of four different people. Under mounting pressure from the media and unsure where his loyalties lie, Tartaglia must solve this new macabre puzzle before the Jigsaw Killer strikes again.