J.D. Barker - Szíve helyén sötétség

A new novel by the author of the fourth monkey trilogy!

As a child, Jack Thatch first meets Stella, a mysterious eight-year-old girl with dark hair and even darker eyes, sitting alone on a bench in a cemetery clutching her favorite book. Their meeting becomes an obsession: Jack's thoughts constantly revolve around her, and he finally sees her again a year later, on the same bench in the cemetery, but Stella soon disappears again.

Meanwhile, they find a man's body in one of the alleys. The case is rather mysterious: her body was horribly burned all over, but her clothes remained intact, which seems impossible. Detective Faustino Brier knows that this man was not the first victim to die this way, and he will not be the last. Brier also knows that they will have to look for the next victim in exactly one year, unless they track down the perpetrator first.

A little boy, whom everyone knows only as subject "D", waits, grows and learns in the depths of a carefully guarded, dark laboratory, closed off from the world. He can't talk to anyone, and no one can touch him. A terrible power resides in it, so those who locked it up will never let it out.

The characters are connected by unimaginable threads.

Darkness in the Heart's Place is a masterpiece, unadulterated Barker. His style is reminiscent of early Stephen King and Dean R. Koontz. An unforgettable story that gets under your skin and keeps you reading late into the night.