Mila Vasquez Series by Donato Carrisi

A gripping literary thriller and smash bestseller that has taken Italy, France, Germany and the UK by storm.Six severed arms are discovered, arranged in a mysterious circle and buried in a clearing in the woods. Five of them appear to belong to missing girls between the ages of eight and eighteen. The sixth is yet to be identified. Worse still, the girls' bodies, alive or dead, are nowhere to be found... moreA gripping literary thriller and smash bestseller that has taken Italy, France, Germany and the UK by storm.Six severed arms are discovered, arranged in a mysterious circle and buried in a clearing in the woods. Five of them appear to belong to missing girls between the ages of eight and eighteen. The sixth is yet to be identified. Worse still, the girls' bodies, alive or dead, are nowhere to be found.Lead investigators Mila Vasquez, a celebrated profiler, and Goran Gavila, an eerily prescient criminologist, dive into the case. They're confident they've got the right suspect in their sights until they discover no link between him and any of the kidnappings except the first. The evidence in the case of the second missing child points in a vastly different direction, creating more questions than it answers.Vasquez and Gavila begin to wonder if they've been brought in to take the fall in a near-hopeless case. Is it all coincidence? Or is a copycat criminal at work? Obsessed with a case that becomes more tangled and intense as they unravel the layers of evil, Gavila and Vasquez find that their lives are increasingly in each other's hands.THE WHISPERER, as sensational a bestseller in Europe as the Stieg Larsson novels, is that rare creation: a thought-provoking, intelligent thriller that is also utterly unputdownable. less

We call them the sleepers...At the elite Missing Persons bureau of the Federal Police, Mila Vasquez is tasked with finding the hundreds of lost people who have vanished from their former lives. However, the longer they are gone, they more they are forgotten by the world. Now they are returning. Appearing at random, wielding devastation and heartbreak, they enact a horrifying pattern of murders, leaving Mila scrabbling to discover where they have come from and they want before it's too late... moreWe call them the sleepers...At the elite Missing Persons bureau of the Federal Police, Mila Vasquez is tasked with finding the hundreds of lost people who have vanished from their former lives. However, the longer they are gone, they more they are forgotten by the world. Now they are returning. Appearing at random, wielding devastation and heartbreak, they enact a horrifying pattern of murders, leaving Mila scrabbling to discover where they have come from and they want before it's too late. Yet the deeper into the case she gets, the more Mila begins to realise that her colleagues are hiding something from her - something which will jeopardise everything... less

As dark and gripping as ever, this is Donato Carrisi's latest thriller.A young woman wakes up in a hospital bed, disoriented and with a broken leg. The room she is in has no windows, only a huge mirror lining one wall, although she can't see her reflection in it. With her is a man who introduces himself as Dr White, a criminal profiler. He explains that her name is Samantha, that she has been kidnapped and kept prisoner, but managed to escape, and that his job is to find her kidnapper... moreAs dark and gripping as ever, this is Donato Carrisi's latest thriller.A young woman wakes up in a hospital bed, disoriented and with a broken leg. The room she is in has no windows, only a huge mirror lining one wall, although she can't see her reflection in it. With her is a man who introduces himself as Dr White, a criminal profiler. He explains that her name is Samantha, that she has been kidnapped and kept prisoner, but managed to escape, and that his job is to find her kidnapper. However, the hunt will not take place in the outside world, but in Samantha's mind. White reveals to Samantha that she is no longer thirteen, but twenty-eight. In other words, she was held prisoner for fifteen years. With his help, she gradually starts to recall certain episodes from her captivity.In a city overcome by a ferocious heatwave, where the people have taken to sleeping during the day, and leaving their homes only at night, a private detective called Bruno, who has spent years investigating Samantha's disappearance, learns of her liberation. Now, stricken with a heart disease, the detective has only two months to live, but nonetheless, he takes up the hunt once more. less

Auf einem einsamen Bauernhof weist alles auf einen brutalen Mord an einer ganzen Familie hin – nur von den Leichen fehlt jede Spur. Als ein Verdächtiger festgenommen wird, scheint die Lösung nah. Der am ganzen Körper tätowierte Mann aber, den die Medien ›Enigma‹ nennen, schweigt hartnäckig und gibt den Ermittlern Rätsel auf. Ihre einzige Hoffnung liegt auf der ehemaligen Polizistin Mila Vasquez... moreAuf einem einsamen Bauernhof weist alles auf einen brutalen Mord an einer ganzen Familie hin – nur von den Leichen fehlt jede Spur. Als ein Verdächtiger festgenommen wird, scheint die Lösung nah. Der am ganzen Körper tätowierte Mann aber, den die Medien ›Enigma‹ nennen, schweigt hartnäckig und gibt den Ermittlern Rätsel auf. Ihre einzige Hoffnung liegt auf der ehemaligen Polizistin Mila Vasquez. Auf Drängen ihrer früheren Vorgesetzten übernimmt sie die Ermittlungen und findet bald heraus, dass Enigmas Tätowierungen Koordinaten in einem ominösen Videospiel darstellen. Auf der Suche nach Anhaltspunkten für den Mord vertieft sich Mila immer weiter in die so geheimnisvolle wie gefährliche virtuelle Schattenwelt ihres Gegenspielers … less