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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.

Croyez-vous en l'instinct paternel ? Jack Hunter a longtemps été un bon époux et un père idéal. Un homme bien sous tous rapports, hormis cette petite manie secrète et discutable : le meurtre violent de prostituées. Aussi son fils Edward ne s'attendait-il pas à ce que la police vienne un jour frapper à la porte de leur maison si tranquille pour y arrêter le premier serial killer de l'histoire de Christchurch, Nouvelle-Zélande. Vingt ans plus tard, Edward est à son tour devenu un citoyen modèle.

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.

Tandis que la police traque le Boucher de Christchurch, Théodore Tate, ancien flic reconverti en détective privé, procède à l'exhumation du corps d'un directeur de banque dont la veuve est suspectée d'homicide. Un glissement de terrain accidentel révèle la présence de trois cadavres immergés dans le lac près du cimetière. S'agit-il de victimes du Boucher ou celles d'un autre tueur ?

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.

Den internationale bestsellerforfatter bringer endnu en gang en af sine mest kendte romanfigurer på banen, den frygtede og berygtede Christchurch-snitter – men nu er det hans liv, der står på spil. Joe Middleton husker ikke at have slået nogen ihjel, så efter hans mening kan en jury umuligt dømme ham som seriemorder. Joe er fuldkommen overbevist om, at retssystemet nok skal redde ham til sidst.Andre kender Joe som den berygtede Christchurch-snitter og ønsker ham død.

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.

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 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.

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..

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.

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.

Czy autorom kryminałów morderstwo może ujść płazem...? Para poczytnych autorów kryminałów znajduje się w kręgu podejrzanych, gdy ich siedmioletni synek znika bez śladu. Czy próbują oni pokazać, że są w stanie popełnić zbrodnię doskonałą? Oto przepysznie pokręcony, cudownie mroczny thriller, który wyszedł spod pióra mistrza kryminału, Paula Cleave’a... Cameron i Lisa Murdoch to udane małżeństwo, połączone wspólną pasją i tworzące razem autorski tandem pisarzy kryminałów.