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The new masterfully plotted, standalone pyschological thriller from number-one best seller Jonathan Kellerman, featuring tough, brilliant young pyschologist Grace Blades, a former student of Alex Delaware. A brilliant and dedicated psychologist, Grace Blades has a gift for treating troubled souls and tormented psyches - because she bears her own invisible scars.

Una mattina, Jacob Lev, detective della polizia di Los Angeles, si sveglia stordito e confuso. Nei suoi ricordi della notte precedente solo qualche frammento sconnesso: un bar, un bicchiere, una bella donna... Non riesce a ricordare cosa sia successo nelle ore successive. Ma questo è solo un piccolo mistero in confronto a ciò che, ben presto, si troverà ad affrontare. Assegnato di recente alla squadra Progetti speciali, di cui per primo ignorava l'esistenza, Lev giunge su una scena del crimine in una casa sulle colline di Hollywood.

Clay Edison gets the call in the middle of the night, and it's a bad one. A party in Oakland, feuding neighbours, a wild crowd in the street. Two guns, firing at random, spreading chaos and death. Nobody knows the body count yet. It's going to be a long night for Clay - longer than he ever could have imagined. Because when the dust settles, there's a victim who can't be accounted for. A young woman, strangled instead of shot, without ID and a stranger to all. Clay's journey to give her a name and bring her justice will lead him into a bizarre world where right and wrong begin to blur.

A woman's body is found in marshland outside LA. By the next morning the police have discovered the decaying corpses of three more women. They were all prostitutes except for the most recent victim; a classically trained pianist employed by a wealthy family, Selena Bass seems out of place in the grim tableau. Psychologist Alex Delaware is drafted in by homicide detective Milo Sturgis to help with the case. Details of the crimes suggest a serial killer is prowling LA's gritty streets.

True Detectives follows Moe Reed and Aaron Fox on the twisted trail of a missing girl, a dark, baffling whodunit that forces the brothers to put aside their mutual animus - and to confront the unresolved family mystery that turned them into enemies. PIs can do things, legally, that cops can't. And cops have access to resources denied their private counterparts.

Nashville: Homicide detectives Baker Southerby and Lamar Van Gundy face a return to their musical roots when a legendary musician is found stabbed to death. It seems John Wallace "Jack" Jeffries was the victim of a random street crime: but as the detectives probe into Jack's chequered past, they discover he had many secrets.

A young woman who disappeared into the black night; a retired school teacher stabbed to death in broad daylight and two women butchered in a beauty parlour. Three murder cases, linked only by a perplexing lack of motive. But then LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware are called to the scene of a bizarre "crime". A stolen car has been anonymously returned to its owner, undamaged and unblemished - except for a tiny, solitary bloodstain.

A burned-out L.A. detective...a woman of mystery who is far more than she seems...a grotesque, ancient monster bent on a mission of retribution. When these three collide, a new standard of suspense is born. The legend of the Golem of Prague has endured through the ages, a creature fashioned by a 16th-century rabbi to protect his congregation, now lying dormant in the garret of a synagogue. But the Golem is dormant no longer....

Efter en snigskytte har skudt løs i en skolegård, bliver børnepsykologen Alex Delaware tilkaldt af politiet for at yde krisehjaelp til de rystede skolebørn. Da gerningskvinden selv er blevet skudt, finder politiet hurtigt frem til, at der er tale om en tidligere elev ved navn Holly Burden. Det lader til, at den unge, retarderede pige har vaeret under indflydelse af både nynazister og venstrefløjsterrorister.

When a wealthy man is found murdered in his hilltop home, Deputy Coroner Clay Edison is shocked to discover a link to his own brother, Luke, on the scene. Luke is fresh out of prison and struggling to stay on the straight and narrow. But surely he's not a killer? When Luke goes missing, the case becomes even more fraught for Clay. He knows that the conflict between family and the truth could take him down the wrong path.

Deputy Coroner Clay Edison is juggling a new baby who won’t sleep with working the graveyard shift. For once he’s trying to keep things simple. When infant remains are found by developers demolishing a local park, a devastating cold case is brought back to light. Clay has barely begun to investigate when he receives a call from a man who thinks the remains could belong to his sister – who went missing 50 years ago. Now Clay is locked in a relentless search that will unearth a web of violence, secrets and betrayal.

Early one morning a foreman shows up at the building site of a mega-mansion. Proceeding up unfinished plank steps, he arrives at the master bedroom. There, lying on a blanket, are a man and a woman, stabbed and bludgeoned to death. Who are the lovers? Why have they chosen a construction site for their late-night tryst? Is the double murder simply a horrific example of wrong-place, wrong-time? Or were the victims stalked? And will the outrage be repeated?

La Città degli Angeli ha la sua buona dose di psicopatici, e nessuno lo sa meglio del dottor Alex Delaware, il brillante psicologo che collabora con la polizia. Constance Sykes, un noto fisico piuttosto eccentrico, è la tipica donna che Alex Delaware sa di dover temere. Rimasto invischiato in una strana causa per la custodia di una bambina, intentata dalla scienziata contro la sorella, scoprirà che i rapporti tra fratelli sono più foschi e insondabili di quanto credeva.

From two number-one New York Times best-selling masters of crime fiction comes an extraordinary thriller about family, murder, and the secrets that refuse to stay buried. It's been over a year since LAPD detective Jacob Lev learned the remarkable truth about his family, and he's not coping well. He's back to drinking, he's not talking to his father, the LAPD Special Projects department continues to shadow him, and the memory of a woman named Mai haunts him day and night.