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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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Quince años han pasado desde el horrible día en el que la pequeña Jessica Cole, de diez años, apareció muerta en un viejo matadero abandonado, al que alguien había dado el macabro nombre de "La casa de la risa". Fue el primer caso de Theodore Tate y nunca ha podido olvidar el crimen y la espeluznante escena que se encontró allí. Pero localizaron al asesino. Lo detuvieron. Por lo menos eso pensaron, hasta ahora. Un nuevo asesino ha llegado a Christchurch y tiene en su mira a todas las personas que estuvieron envueltas en el caso de Jessica.

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.

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?

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.

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.

"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.

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.