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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’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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Joshua está convencido de que hay una maldición familiar. Le ha arrebatado a sus seres queridos, le ha robado la vista y es la razón por la que su padre es asesinado mientras investigaba el homicidio de una joven. Joshua recibe una oportunidad que no puede rechazar: una operación que le permitirá ver el mundo a través de los ojos de su padre. A medida que Joshua descubre el mundo, empieza a ver lo que estos ojos podrían haber presenciado en su vida anterior.

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.

El autor del best seller internacional "Limpieza mortal" nos trae de regreso a uno de sus personajes más infames, El Carnicero de Christchurch, en este nueva y apasionante novela de misterio. A veces la realidad puede interponerse en el camino de una buena historia. La historia de Joe Middleton es esta: no recuerda haber matado a nadie, por lo que es imposible que un jurado lo condene por asesinatos en serie.

Des gens disparaissent à Christchurch. Par exemple Cooper Riley, un professeur de psychologie criminelle. Ou encore Emma Green, l'une de ses étudiantes. Theodore Tate, qui vient de purger une peine de prison pour avoir renversé et blessé accidentellement Emma alors qu'il était ivre au volant, est engagé par le père de celle-ci pour la retrouver. Mû par un intense sentiment de culpabilité, Tate arpente les rues brûlantes de la ville pour retrouver Emma. Ses pas le mènent vers Grover Hills, l'ancien hôpital psychiatrique de Christchurch.

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.

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.

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.

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.