Informationen zum Autor M. J. Arlidge has worked in television for the last fifteen years! specializing in high-end drama production! including the prime-time crime serials Torn! The Little House and Silent Witness. Arlidge also pilots original crime series for both UK and US networks. In 2015 his audio exclusive Six Degrees of Assassination was a Number One bestseller. His first thriller! Eeny Meeny! was the UK's bestselling crime debut of 2014. It was followed by the bestselling Pop Goes the Weasel! The Doll's House! Liar Liar! Little Boy Blue! Hide and Seek! Love Me Not! and Down to the Woods. Klappentext If you go down to the woods today The last thing Tom Campbell remembers is camping in the New Forest with his girlfriend! Melissa. Now he is helpless! alone and consumed by fear! hunted through the woods by a sinister! masked figure... When Tom's body is found! displayed with grisly relish! Helen Grace takes the case. But before she can catch her breath! a second victim is taken - a serial killer is on the loose. You better not go alone... Something dark and deadly stalks the forest. Helen and her team must race against time to catch the perpetrator! before more blood is shed. But the hunt will take Helen back into the eerie twilit woods - and this time she might not make it out alive. Zusammenfassung THE EIGHTH DI HELEN GRACE THRILLER BY BESTSELLING AUTHOR M. J. ARLIDGE There is a sickness in the forest. First! it was the wild horses. Now it's innocent men and women! hunted down and murdered by a faceless figure. Lost in the darkness! they try to flee! they try to hide. In desperation! they call out for help. But there is no-one to hear their cries here... DI Helen Grace must face down a new nightmare. The arrow-ridden victims hang from the New Forest's ancient oaks! like pieces of strange fruit. Why are helpless holidaymakers being targeted in peak camping season? And what do their murders signify? Is a psychopath stalking the forest? Is there an occult element to the killings? Could the murders even be an offering to the Forest itself? Helen must walk into the darkness to discover the truth behind her most challenging! most macabre case yet. *** PRAISE FOR M.J. ARLIDGE: 'Helen Grace is one of the greatest heroes to come along in years' JEFFERY DEAVER 'The new Jo Nesbo' JUDY FINNIGAN 'Fast paced and nailbitingly tense ... gripping' SUN 'DI Helen Grace is a genuinely fresh heroine ... MJ Arlidge weaves together a tapestry that chills to the bone' Daily Mail 'Chilling stuff' Fabulist 'A chilling read' My Weekly 'A grisly! gripping thriller' Sunday Mirror 'Gruesomely realistic! intriguing and relentless. Arlidge's fledgling army of fans is about to grow' S unday Sport 'Eeny Meeny debuts one of the best new series detectives! Helen Grace. Determined! tough and damaged! she must unravel a terrifying riddle of a killer kidnapping victims in pairs. Mesmerizing!' Lisa Gardner 'Expertly pulled off. It has a devious premise. DI Helen Grace is fiendishly awesome. It's scary as all hell. And it has a full cast of realistically drawn! interesting characters that make the thing read like a bullet' Will Lavender ...