The Murder FarmA whole family has been murdered with a pickaxe. They were old Danner the farmer, an overbearing patriarch; his put upon devoutly religious wife; and their daughter Barbara Spangler, whose husband Vincenz left her after fathering her daughter little Marianne. She also had a son, two year old Josef, apparently the result of her affair with local farmer Georg Hauer after his wife's death from cancer. Hauer himself claimed paternity. Also murdered was

Eddie and Sarah

After he narrowly survives a brutal attack on his bar

While Liebermann attempts to get to the bottom of the mystery

He is also the bearer of an extraordinary gift

THE ILLUSIONS is the captivating new novel from the much-lauded author of THE GIFTS

Captivating

author of Into the Dark and Rattle

Thus they plan to head for the mountains and start a new and convivial civilisation

but which is known to others

'Astonishing' IAN RANKIN

The carnival folk are unwilling to answer a straight question and they begin to challenge Travis's once unshakeable faith in solid facts and hard evidence

For another