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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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.

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.

"Gotowy na wszystko" to najnowsza książka Paula Cleave'a, przebojowego pisarza kryminałów z Nowej Zelandii. Noah Harper dwanaście lat temu prowadził śledztwo w sprawie zaginięcia siedmioletniej dziewczynki w Acacia Pines. Postanowił sobie, że uczyni wszystko, aby mała wróciła do domu. W tym celu przekroczył granice, co sprawiło, że choć dopiął swego i uratował dziecko, stracił żonę, pracę i w niesławie musiał opuścić rodzinne miasteczko. Teraz, dwanaście lat później, ten były zastępca szeryfa zostaje poproszony przez ojca owej dziewczynki sprzed lat o pomoc. Raz jeszcze.

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.

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?

Para atrapar a un asesino, puede que tengas que convertirte en uno... La vida del sheriff Cohen se está desmoronando: su padre ha quemado por accidente la residencia de ancianos donde vivía, su mujer se ha mudado porque no soporta tener a su suegro en casa y su hijo está haciendo bullying a otros chicos. Cuando secuestran al adolescente Lucas Connor en el instituto, Cohen ve una oportunidad para hacerse con el dinero de la recompensa ofrecida por la captura del secuestrador y así volver a encauzar su vida y recuperar a su mujer.

Fiktion eller verklighet? Hittade han på brotten eller begick han dem? Deckarförfattaren Jerry Grey har under sin pseudonym Henry Cutter hållit läsarna på helspänn i över ett decennium. I tolv böcker har skoningslösa mördare kunnat utföra brutala mord i en snedvriden värld där offren inte har en chans. Men, vid fyrtionio års ålder får Jerrys karriär ett abrupt slut när han diagnostiseras med tidig Alzheimer. I och med att sjukdomen avancerar får Jerry allt svårare att skilja det verkliga livet från de blodiga intriger han skapat i sina böcker.

Il y a pire que de tuer quelqu'un : ne pas savoir si on l'a tué. Les auteurs de thrillers ne sont pas des personnes très fréquentables. Ils jouent du plaisir que nous avons à lire d'abominables histoires, de notre appétit pour des énigmes qui le plus souvent baignent dans le sang. Ce jeu dangereux peut parfois prendre des proportions inquiétantes et favoriser un passage à l'acte aux conséquences funestes. Eux les premiers, qui pensent connaître toutes les ficelles du crime parfait, ne sont pas à l'abri de faire de leurs fictions une réalité.

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.

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.