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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.

Cameron and Lisa Murdoch are successful crime-writers. They have been on the promotional circuit, joking that no one knows how to get away with crime like they do. After all, they write about it for a living. So when their 7 year old son Zach goes missing, naturally the police and the public wonder if they have finally decided to prove what they have been saying all this time - are they trying to show how they can commit the perfect crime?

A young man wakes from a coma to find himself targeted by the men who killed his parents, while someone is impersonating a notorious New Zealand serial killer... the latest chilling, nerve-shredding, twisty thriller from the author of The Quiet People... How do you catch a killer... When the only evidence is a dream? James Garrett was critically injured when he was shot following his parents’ execution, and no one expected him to waken from a deep, traumatic coma.

Acacia Pines, USA. Sheriff Cohen's life is falling apart – his father accidentally burned down the retirement home, his wife has moved out, and his son is bullying other kids at school. When high-school student Lucas Connor is abducted, Cohen sees a chance to get his life back on track – to win back his wife and scoop the reward money offered for Lucas's safe return. But as the body count rises, it becomes clear that Cohen's going to have to make the kind of decision from which there's no coming back...a decision with deadly consequences.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Auteurs de thrillers écrits à quatre mains, Cameron et Lisa Murdoch jouissent d’une confortable notoriété à Christchurch, où ils mènent une existence paisible et heureuse. Certes Zach, leur fils de sept ans, peut être difficile à vivre, mais Cameron et Lisa font face, s’arment de patience. Jusqu’au jour où Zach disparaît en pleine nuit. Fugue ? Enlèvement ? Les Murdoch sont bouleversés, prêts à tout pour retrouver leur fils.

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?

Mit 11 Jahren muss James zusehen, wie seine Eltern hingerichtet werden, bevor ihn ein Schuss in den Kopf trifft. Erst 9 Jahre später erwacht er aus dem Koma. Die Killer sind noch auf freiem Fuß und wollen ihn nun wieder zum Schweigen bringen. Rebecca Kent soll den alten Fall aufklären, bevor die Täter James ein weiteres Mal zu fassen bekommen. Doch sie steckt tief in den Ermittlungen um einen brutalen Copycat-Mörder, der Christchurch heimsucht. Als James aber von seinem Traum im Koma erzählt, ändert sich alles für Rebeccas Ermittlungen. Denn was er berichtet, schockiert alle zutiefst …

Quince años han pasado desde el horrible día en el que la pequeña Jessica Cole, de diez años, apareció muerta en un viejo matadero abandonado, al que alguien había dado el macabro nombre de "La casa de la risa". Fue el primer caso de Theodore Tate y nunca ha podido olvidar el crimen y la espeluznante escena que se encontró allí. Pero localizaron al asesino. Lo detuvieron. Por lo menos eso pensaron, hasta ahora. Un nuevo asesino ha llegado a Christchurch y tiene en su mira a todas las personas que estuvieron envueltas en el caso de Jessica.

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.

Carl Schroder y Theodore Tate, a quienes los medios de comunicación llaman los Policías del Coma, por fin están recuperando sus vidas. Tate ha vuelto al cuerpo de policía y está agradecido de que su mujer, Bridget, haya regresado a casa. Sin embargo, para Schroder, las cosas no son ni buenas ni malas; hace seis meses recibió un disparo en la cabeza que lo ha arrojado a un desierto emocional casi tan mortífero como la bala.

Fiktion eller verklighet? Hittade han på brotten eller begick han dem? Deckarförfattaren Jerry Grey har under sin pseudonym Henry Cutter hållit läsarna på helspänn i över ett decennium. I tolv böcker har skoningslösa mördare kunnat utföra brutala mord i en snedvriden värld där offren inte har en chans. Men, vid fyrtionio års ålder får Jerrys karriär ett abrupt slut när han diagnostiseras med tidig Alzheimer. I och med att sjukdomen avancerar får Jerry allt svårare att skilja det verkliga livet från de blodiga intriger han skapat i sina böcker.

Un bestseller internacional y uno de los libros más vendidos en la historia de Nueva Zelanda, la oscura novela de suspenso de Paul Cleave es una obra maestra brillante y sangrienta. Joe tiene todo en su sencilla vida bajo control: tanto su trabajo diurno como empleado de la limpieza del departamento de policía como su «trabajo nocturno». No le inquietan las noticias diarias sobre el Carnicero de Christchurch, quien, según dicen, ha asesinado a siete mujeres. Pero Joe sabe que sólo ha matado a seis. Lo sabe a ciencia cierta, y está decidido a encontrar al imitador.

For at fange en morder er man måske nødt til selv at slå ihjel … Acacia Pines, USA. Sherif Cohens liv er ét stort kaos – hans far har ved et uheld brændt plejehjemmet ned, hans kone er skredet, og hans søn mobber en af de andre elever på skolen. Da teenageren Lucas Connor bliver bortført, ser Cohen en mulighed for at få sit liv tilbage på rette spor – og både få sin kone tilbage og indløse dusøren for at finde Lucas. Men efterhånden som flere og flere dør omkring ham, står det klart for Cohen, at han bliver nødt til at træffe en af den slags beslutninger, som ikke er så let at gøre om... og som vil få dødelige konsekvenser..

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.

Algunos secretos se niegan a permanecer enterrados... Una vibrante novela de misterio y crimen que te mantendrá intrigado hasta la última página. Una exhumación normal se convierte en todo menos eso para el investigador privado Theodore Tate cuando los cuerpos empiezan a salir a la superficie del lago del cementerio. Tate sabe que debe mantenerse alejado y dejar que sus antiguos compañeros de la policía se ocupen de ello.