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Seven days after being abducted, the body of a 20-year-old woman is found on a grassy area by the Los Angeles International Airport. She has been left with her limbs stretched out and spread apart, placing her in a five-point human star. The autopsy reveals that she has been tortured and murdered in a bizarre way, but the surprises don't end there. The killer likes to play, and he left something behind for the cops to find. Detective Robert Hunter is assigned to the case, but almost immediately a second body turns up.

In 1993, Fox debuted a strange new television show called The X-Files. Little did anyone suspect that the series would become one of the network's biggest hits - and change the landscape of television in the process. Now, on the occasion of the show's 25th anniversary, TV critics Zack Handlen and Todd VanDerWerff unpack exactly what made this haunting show so groundbreaking. Witty and insightful reviews of every episode of the series, revised and updated from the authors' popular A.V. Club recaps, leave no mystery unsolved and no monster unexplained.

A freak accident in rural Wyoming leads the sheriff's department to arrest a man for a possible double homicide, but further investigations suggest a much more horrifying discovery - a serial killer who has been kidnapping, torturing, and mutilating victims all over the United States for at least 25 years. The suspect claims he is a pawn in a huge labyrinth of lies and deception - but can he be believed?

After 40 years, members of the global conspiracy known only as the Project are finally nearing the completion of their plans. FBI special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully alone have a glimpse of the nightmare that lies ahead for the rest of the world: an alien invasion fueled by the most devastating virus in human history. And only they know that the truth isn't out there anymore - it's already here.

When the body of a young woman is discovered in a derelict cottage in the middle of Los Angeles National Forest, Homicide Detective Robert Hunter finds himself entering a horrific and recurring nightmare. Naked, strung from two wooden posts, the victim was sadistically tortured before meeting an excruciatingly painful death. All the skin has been ripped from her face - while she was still alive.

‘Do you believe the Devil exists, Detective?’ the officer at the end of the line asks. ‘Because if you don’t...I’m sure you will once you get here.’ This is how Robert Hunter is called to one of the most vicious crime scenes he has ever attended. The disturbing nature of the murder is heightened when the autopsy reveals a poem, left by the killer, inside the body of their victim. When another murder occurs, the methods and signature of each death differ so greatly that forensics fail to link the two crimes.

Inside a Los Angeles church, on the altar steps, lies the blood-soaked, decapitated body of a priest. Carefully positioned, legs stretched out, arms crossed over the chest, the most horrifying thing of all is that the priest's head has been replaced by that of a dog. Later, the forensic team discover that on the victim's chest, the figure 3 has been scrawled in blood.

Profiler Robert Hunter vertraut nur wenigen Menschen. Eigentlich gibt es nur einen, für den er immer seine Hand ins Feuer legt: Lucien Folter, seinen Freund aus Studientagen. Beide können Menschen besser lesen als jeder andere. Hunter vertraute Folter seine engsten Geheimnisse an. Bis dieser plötzlich verschwand. Jetzt kommt ein Anruf. Die Körperteile unzähliger Mordopfer sind aufgetaucht, grausige Trophäen. Angeklagt ist Lucien Folter. Und er will nur mit einem reden: Robert Hunter.

They met for the first time in college. Two of the brightest minds ever to graduate from the prestigious Stanford University. They met again in Quantico, Virginia. Robert Hunter has become the head of the LAPD’s Ultra Violent Crimes Unit. Lucien Folter has become the most prolific and dangerous serial killer in FBI history. The FBI caught Lucien. He's been in prison for years. But Lucien has just escaped. And he’s angry. He's going to make the person who put him away suffer. That person...is Robert Hunter.

When a routine autopsy on what looked like a straightforward hit-and-run leads the LA Chief Medical Examiner, Dr Carolyn Hove, to discover some puzzling inconsistencies, she calls in Detective Robert Hunter of the LAPD Ultra Violent Crimes Unit. Not only did Dr Hove discover that the death wasn’t caused by a hit-and-run, but she also found indications that the victim had been severely tortured prior to death.

Nach einer harten Arbeitswoche freut Tanya Kaitlin sich auf einen entspannten Abend. Als sie aus der Dusche kommt, klingelt ihr Telefon. Ein Videoanruf von ihrer besten Freundin. Tanya nimmt den Anruf an - der Alptraum beginnt. Ihre Freundin ist gefesselt und geknebelt in ihrem eigenen Wohnzimmer. Tanya hat nur eine Chance, die Freundin zu retten, hört sie von einer tiefen, dämonischen Stimme. Sie muss nur zwei Fragen richtig beantworten. Sie scheitert - und ihre Freundin wird vor ihren Augen brutal ermordet.

"Treinta y un años en el cuerpo, y en todos estos años he visto mucha más locura de la cuota que me corresponde, pero si antes de morir se me permitiera elegir tan solo una cosa que pudiera borrar de mi mente… sin duda, elegiría borrar lo que he visto allí dentro". Eso es lo que un teniente del Departamento de Policía de Los Ángeles les dice a Hunter y a Garcia, detectives de la Unidad de Crímenes Ultraviolentos, al llegar a una de las escenas del crimen más horrorosas en las que hayan jamás estado.

Los Angeles: Die Leiche einer wunderschönen Frau wird gefunden, zu Tode gequält und bestialisch verstümmelt. Keinerlei Spuren. Bis auf ein in den Nacken geritztes Kreuz, ein Teufelsmal: das Erkennungszeichen eines hingerichteten Serienmörders. Detective und Profiler Robert Hunter wird schnell klar, dass der Kruzifix-Killer lebt. Er mordet auf spektakuläre Weise weiter. Und er ist Hunter immer einen Schritt voraus - denn er kennt ihn gut. Zu gut.

A student nurse has the shock of her life when she discovers her patient, prosecutor Derek Nicholson, brutally murdered in his bed. The act seems senseless - Nicholson was terminally ill, with only weeks to live. But what most shocks Detective Robert Hunter of the Los Angeles Robbery Homicide Division is the calling card the killer left behind.

Tu única esperanza es morir. ¡Cuanto antes! El cuerpo de una mujer brutalmente asesinada es hallado en una cabaña abandonada en el Parque Nacional de los Los Angeles. Desnuda, atada a dos postes de madera y con la piel de la cara desollada - cuando aún seguía con vida. En la nuca tiene grabado un extraño símbolo, un crucifijo doble: la firma de un psicópata conocido como el Asesino del Crucifijo. Pero no es posible porque el Asesino del Crucifijo fue arrestado y ejecutado dos años atrás. ¿Podría tratarse de un imitador?

Robert Hunter, Anfang zwanzig, ist das Wunderkind der amerikanischen Polizei. Er verfügt über eine besondere Gabe: Er weiß, was Mörder denken. Als jüngster Ermittler in der Geschichte der USA tritt er in den Dienst des LAPD Morddezernats. Worüber sein neuer Chef alles andere als glücklich ist. Was soll er mit diesem Anfänger? Er übergibt ihm einen einfachen Selbstmord. Am Tatort angekommen, stellt Hunter fest, dass das Apartment von innen verschlossen war. Auf dem Bett liegt eine junge Frau in einer riesigen Blutlache.

Detective Robert Hunter of the LAPD's Homicide Special Section receives an anonymous call asking him to go to a specific web address - a private broadcast. Hunter logs on, and a show devised for his eyes only immediately begins. But the caller doesn't want Detective Hunter to just watch; he wants him to participate, and refusal is simply not an option. Forced to make a sickening choice, Hunter must sit and watch as an unidentified victim is tortured and murdered live over the Internet.

Han er den farligste seriemorder, FBI nogensinde har fanget. Og han er lige flygtet fra fængslet. De mødtes første gang på universitetet, hvor de var værelseskammerater. To af de dygtigste studerende, der nogensinde havde taget afgangseksamen fra det psykologiske fakultet på Stanford University.

An Evil Mind was Chris Carter's most acclaimed novel to date, described by the Daily Mail as "[a] chilling, compulsive portrait of a psychopath, and proves that Carter is now in the Jeffrey Deaver class." It spent three weeks in the Sunday Times top 10 and received brilliant reviews and sales. This terrifying new standalone thriller reunites Hunter and Garcia in their most explosive case to date.

'Thirty-seven years in the force, and if I was allowed to choose just one thing to erase from my mind, what's inside that room would be it.' That's what a LAPD Lieutenant tells Detectives Hunter and Garcia of the Ultra Violent Crimes Unit as they arrive at one of the most shocking crime scenes they have ever attended. In a completely unexpected turn of events, the detectives find themselves joining forces with the FBI to track down a serial killer whose hunting ground sees no borders, a psychopath who loves what he does.