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El oficial de policía Noah Harper ha decidido que, cueste lo que cueste, encontrará a Alyssa, una niña de siete años que ha sido secuestrada. Pero, para conseguirlo, tendrá que adentrarse por un camino sin retorno. Salvar a la niña no impedirá que Noah pierda su trabajo, que su matrimonio se derrumbe ni que sea expulsado de Acacia Pines. Ha sido advertido de que, si vuelve a aparecerse por su pequeña ciudad natal, pasará el resto de su vida pudriéndose en la cárcel. Hoy, doce años después, Noah recibe una llamada telefónica.

Ha confesado todos los asesinatos. Pero ¿por qué nadie le cree? Paul Cleave, el gran autor nominado al premio Edgar, nos presenta una emocionante novela de suspenso de tintes psicológicos, donde un famoso escritor de novelas policíacas lucha por diferenciar su propia realidad de los aterradores argumentos que ha creado para sus obras. Jerry Grey es mundialmente conocido por su seudónimo de novela negra: Henry Cutter, y con este nombre le ha bastado para tener a los lectores en el filo de la butaca por más de un decenio.

Joshua is convinced there is a family curse. It’s taken loved ones from him, it’s robbed him of his eyesight, and it’s the reason why his father is killed while investigating the homicide of a young woman.

Joshua is convinced there is a family curse. It has taken loved ones from him, it has robbed him of his eyesight, and it is the reason why his father was killed while investigating the homicide of a young woman. But after his father's death, Joshua is handed an opportunity he can't refuse: an operation that will allow him not only to see the world but to see the world through his father's eyes.

Joe is in control of everything in his simple life, both his day job as a janitor for the police department and his night work. He isn't bothered by the daily news reports of the Christchurch Carver, who, they say, has murdered seven women. Joe knows, though, that the Carver killed only six. He knows that for a fact, and he's determined to find the copycat. He'll punish him for the one, then frame him for the other six. It's the perfect plan because he already knows he can outwit the police.

Joe Middleton's story is this: He doesn't remember killing anyone, so there's no way a jury can convict him of serial murder. He calls himself Joe Victim, trying, as he awaits trial, to convince the psychiatrists that he wasn't in control of his actions, trusting that the system will save him in the end. But others know Joe as the infamous Christchurch Carver and they want to see him dead. There's Melissa, Joe's accomplice in one of the murders, who plans on shooting him on his way to the courthouse before he gets a chance to start talking.

Den ökände seriemördaren Joe Middleton, i media mer känd som Karvaren, har äntligen gripits och Christchurchs invånare kan äntligen andas ut. Men, enligt Karvaren själv har han inte dödat någon. Han kallar sig för Offret Joe och i väntan på att bli ställd inför rätta gör han allt han kan för att övertyga psykiatrikerna om att han inte var vid sina sinnes fulla bruk vid dåden, i hopp om att undvika dödsstraff, vilket är på väg att återinföras i Nya Zeeland. Det faktum att Joe sitter fängslad, gör dock inte att han sitter säkert.

Para atrapar a un asesino, puede que tengas que convertirte en uno... La vida del sheriff Cohen se está desmoronando: su padre ha quemado por accidente la residencia de ancianos donde vivía, su mujer se ha mudado porque no soporta tener a su suegro en casa y su hijo está haciendo bullying a otros chicos. Cuando secuestran al adolescente Lucas Connor en el instituto, Cohen ve una oportunidad para hacerse con el dinero de la recompensa ofrecida por la captura del secuestrador y así volver a encauzar su vida y recuperar a su mujer.

Att människor försvinner i Christchurch är inte ovanligt, men när psykologiprofessorn Cooper Riley plötsligt inte dyker upp på sitt arbete och studenten Emma Green spårlöst försvinner efter sitt skift på ett kafé, börjar oron växa. Deras försvinnanden sammanfaller med att den tidigare kriminalinspektören Theodore Tate friges efter ett fyra månader långt fängelsestraff. Emma Greens far anlitar Tate som privatutredare för att hitta dottern, en skuld Tate bär på efter att ha varit inblandad i en rattfylleriolycka som nästan kostade Emma livet året innan.

Carl Schroder och Theodore Tate, bättre kända som “Komapoliserna”, har äntligen funnit stabilitet i sina liv. Tate har återvänt till poliskåren och känner tacksamhet över att återigen vara hemma med sin fru Bridget. För Schroder är tillvaron varken uppåt eller nedåt; en skottskada i hans huvud för sex månader sedan har inte fällt honom, men den har kastat honom in i en känslomässig ödemark, som är nästan lika dödlig som kulan. När en dömd våldtäktsman hittas livlös, överkörd av ett mötande tåg, kastas Tate in i fallet och kämpar för att avgöra om det handlar om mord eller självmord.

A standard exhumation becomes anything but for private investigator Theodore Tate when bodies begin bubbling to the surface of the cemetery lake. Tate knows he has to let it go. But when the coffin is opened and its occupant is not the old man supposed to be inside, he knows he cannot walk away. But he cannot let the police keep digging, because they are getting dangerously close to digging up the real truth: the truth about him.

Theodore Tate never forgot his first crime scene—ten-year-old Jessica found dead in the Laughterhouse, an old abandoned slaughterhouse with the S painted over. The killer was found and arrested. Justice was served. Or was it? Fifteen years later, a new killer arrives in Christchurch, and he has a list of people who were involved in Jessica's murder case, one of whom is the unfortunate Dr. Stanton, a man with three young girls. If Tate is going to help them, he has to find the connection between the killer, the Laughterhouse, and the city's suddenly growing murder rate.

Twenty years ago, a serial killer was caught, convicted, and locked away in the country's most hellish of penitentiaries. That man was Edward's father. Edward has struggled his entire life to put the nightmares of his childhood behind him. But a week before Christmas, violence once again makes an unwelcome appearance into his world. Suddenly he's going to need the help of his father, a man he hasn't seen since he was a boy. Is Edward destined to be just like him, to become a man of blood?

People are disappearing. Cooper Riley, a psychology professor, doesn't make it to work one day. Emma Green, one of his students, doesn't make it home. When ex-cop Theodore Tate is released from a four-month prison stint, he's asked by Green's father to help find Emma. After all, Tate was in jail for nearly killing her in a DUI accident the year before, so he owes him. Big time. What neither of them knows is that a former mental patient is holding people prisoner as part of his growing collection of serial killer souvenirs. Now he has acquired the ultimate collector's item—an actual killer.

In this heart-pounding thriller, only the dead know what happened last night. On the run, Charlie suspects a man named Cyris, but no one believes that Cyris exists. Not the police and not Charlie’s ex-wife Jo, though she wants to trust that the man she once loved is innocent. Soon, Charlie has Jo bound and gagged in the trunk of his car, fleeing across the countryside while the killing hour approaches yet again.

Kan krimiforfattere slippe af sted med drab? Cameron og Lisa Murdoch har succes som newzealandske krimiforfattere, er lykkeligt gift og topper alverdens bestsellerlister. De har i årevis været promoveret i medierne og spøger med, at de ved mere end nogen andre om, hvordan man slipper godt fra forbrydelser. De lever trods alt af at skrive om det. Så da deres psykisk udfordrede syvårige søn Zach forsvinder, spørger politiet og offentligheden helt naturligt sig selv, om de nu har besluttet sig for at føre bevis for det, de selv så længe har hævdet.

When seven-year-old Alyssa is kidnapped, Deputy Noah Harper decides he will do what it takes to find her - but that means crossing lines he can never come back from. Finding the girl safe isn't enough to stop Noah from losing his job, his wife, and from being kicked out of Acacia Pines. He's told if he ever returns, he'll be put in jail and left there to rot. Now, 12 years later, comes a phone call. Alyssa is missing again and her father wants him to honour the promise he made to her all those years earlier - that he would never let anything bad happen to her again.

Folk forsvinder i Christchurch. Cooper Riley, der er professor i psykologi, dukker ikke op på arbejde en dag. Emma Green, der er en af hans studerende, kommer ikke hjem. Da den forhenværende kriminalbetjent Theodore Tate bliver løsladt efter fire måneder i fængsel, beder Greens far ham om at hjælpe med at finde Emma. Tate sad trods alt i fængsel, fordi han nær havde slået hende ihjel i en spiritusulykke året forinden, og derfor står han i gæld til Greens far. Stor gæld.

Theodore Tate har aldrig glemt sit første gerningssted – den ti år gamle Jessica Cole, som blev fundet myrdet i et gammelt, forladt slagtehus. Morderen blev fundet og anholdt. Retfærdigheden skete fyldest dengang. Eller gjorde den? Femten år senere er en ny morder på spil i Christchurch, og han har en liste over folk, der var involveret i mordet på Jessica. En af dem er doktor Stanton, far til tre små piger. Hvis Tate skal hjælpe dem, må han finde forbindelsen mellem morderen og slagtehuset og det stigende antal mord i Christchurch.

Theodore Tate har aldrig kunnat glömma sin första brottsplats – tioåriga Jessica Cole hittades död i ett gammalt övergivet slakthus. Mördaren greps och dömdes. Rättvisa var skipad. Eller? Femton år senare härjas Christchurch av en ny mördare som verkar utgå från en lista med människor som var inblandade i Jessica Coles fall. En av dem är den olycksalige doktor Stanton, psykiatriker och pappa till tre små flickor. Om Tate ska lyckas hjälpa dem måste han hitta kopplingen mellan mördaren, slakthuset och stadens brant stigande mordstatistik.