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Joe tiene sotto controllo ogni aspetto della sua modesta esistenza, inclusi il lavoro che svolge di giorno presso il dipartimento di polizia e quello "notturno" consumato per le strade di Christchurch, in Nuova Zelanda.

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.

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?

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.

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.

"Bienvenido, profesor. Bienvenido a mi colección". Cooper Riley está encerrado en una celda a oscuras cuando recobra el conocimiento. Al otro lado de la puerta metálica Adrian lo saluda: "Bienvenido, profesor. Bienvenido a mi colección". A Adrian siempre le han fascinado los asesinos en serie. Colecciona todo lo relacionado con ellos: historias, fotos, recuerdos... Y ahora a Cooper, profesor de psicología criminal y asesor de la policía. La "pieza" definitiva. Es experto en su tema preferido. Él podrá enseñarle lo que aún no sabe: cómo matar.

In Acacia Pines wird der Schüler Lucas entführt. Sheriff Cohen übernimmt den Fall und findet heraus, dass Lucas in die Fänge eines Serienmörders geraten ist. Eine erbittere Jagd auf den Täter beginnt in der Hoffnung, Lucas noch lebend zu finden. Doch nicht nur das treibt den Sheriff an, denn sein Leben ist in letzter Zeit völlig aus den Fugen geraten: Er ist pleite, geschieden und droht sein Haus zu verlieren. Die ausgeschriebene Belohnung dafür, den Serienkiller zu fassen, könnte all seine Probleme lösen. Doch ist er, der Sheriff, so verzweifelt, sich dafür außerhalb des Gesetzes zu bewegen?

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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..

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.

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.

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.