Used book – The Dark Room, Minette Walters, Odile Demange

A young woman alone in an isolated mansion... A pack of mastiffs roaming in an abandoned garden... A psychopathic mercenary on the prowl...

Connie Burns is a war correspondent. After several missions in Africa, she is sent to Iraq... And discovers that wherever she is, sexual murders occur, perpetrated according to the same staging. All have been attributed to so-called "collateral" massacres. But Connie makes the connection with the presence of a British mercenary on the scene. Hunted by the young woman, the psychopath abruptly turns his perverse delusions against her. And kidnaps her.

What happened during the three days of her abduction, Connie wants to forget at all costs. She flees as far as she can, to Barton House, in a small English village she believes to be quiet, and where she meets a strange woman with a painful past, Jess Derbyshire. But the nightmare continues: the psychopathic killer is lurking around Barton House and Connie understands that she will have to confront him again... That day, she will only have Jess to help her.

Minette Walters, the new queen of English crime fiction, expertly plays on all the springs of anxiety.