Résultats pour "Paul Cleave" dans Suspense

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.

Christchurch, Nouvelle-Zélande. Célibataire, aux petits soins pour sa mère, Joe Middleton, homme de ménage au commissariat central de la ville, est au fait des enquêtes criminelles en cours. En particulier celle relative au Boucher de Christchurch, un serial killer sanguinaire accusé d'avoir tué sept femmes dans des conditions atroces. Pourtant, Joe sait qu'une de ces femmes n'a pas été tuée par le Boucher de Christchurch. Il en est même certain, pour la simple raison qu'il est le Boucher de Christchurch.

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 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.

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.

Il y a pire que de tuer quelqu'un : ne pas savoir si on l'a tué. Les auteurs de thrillers ne sont pas des personnes très fréquentables. Ils jouent du plaisir que nous avons à lire d'abominables histoires, de notre appétit pour des énigmes qui le plus souvent baignent dans le sang. Ce jeu dangereux peut parfois prendre des proportions inquiétantes et favoriser un passage à l'acte aux conséquences funestes. Eux les premiers, qui pensent connaître toutes les ficelles du crime parfait, ne sont pas à l'abri de faire de leurs fictions une réalité.

When the body of a convicted rapist is found, obliterated by an oncoming train, Tate works the case, trying to determine if this is murder or suicide. The following night, two more rapists go missing. It's hard to investigate when everyone on the police force seems to be rooting for the killer. There's a common plea detectives get from the loved ones of victims: When you find the man who did this, give me five minutes alone with him. And that's exactly what someone is doing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Theodore Tate, detective privato, non ha mai dimenticato la sua prima scena del crimine. Quindici anni fa, quando era ancora uno stimato poliziotto, fu lui a ritrovare il corpo di una bambina, Jessica Cole, in un mattatoio abbandonato. Il killer fu identificato e arrestato e giustizia fu fatta. Ma è stato davvero così? Oggi, a quindici anni di distanza da quell’omicidio, un nuovo killer si aggira per Christchurch in Nuova Zelanda, e ha una lista di persone da uccidere, tutte coinvolte nell’assassinio di Jessica. Così Tate si trova, suo malgrado, proiettato di nuovo nelle indagini.

Jerry Grey is bij veel mensen bekend onder zijn pseudoniem als thrillerauteur: Henry Cutter. Op zijn 49e wordt hij met alzheimer gediagnostiseerd en in een verzorgingstehuis geplaatst. Zijn herinneringen en zijn fantasie beginnen daar door elkaar te lopen; de beschreven moorden zijn niet zomaar verzinsels, hij biecht op ze zelf gepleegd te hebben. Gevolgen van die ziekte, zeggen mensen tegen hem. Maar als dat waar zou zijn, waarom blijven er dan mensen dood gaan om hem heen?

Edward Hunter lo tiene todo: una esposa y una hija hermosas, un buen trabajo, un futuro brillante... y un pasado muy oscuro. Veinte años atrás, atraparon a un asesino en serie, lo condenaron y lo encerraron en la penitenciaría más infernal del país. Ese hombre era el padre de Edward. Edward ha luchado toda su vida para dejar atrás las pesadillas de su infancia. Pero una semana antes de Navidad, la violencia vuelve a aparecer en su vida. De pronto necesitará la ayuda de su padre, un hombre al que no ha visto desde que era niño.

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 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.

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.