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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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Des gens disparaissent à Christchurch. Par exemple Cooper Riley, un professeur de psychologie criminelle. Ou encore Emma Green, l'une de ses étudiantes. Theodore Tate, qui vient de purger une peine de prison pour avoir renversé et blessé accidentellement Emma alors qu'il était ivre au volant, est engagé par le père de celle-ci pour la retrouver. Mû par un intense sentiment de culpabilité, Tate arpente les rues brûlantes de la ville pour retrouver Emma. Ses pas le mènent vers Grover Hills, l'ancien hôpital psychiatrique de Christchurch.

Auteurs de thrillers écrits à quatre mains, Cameron et Lisa Murdoch jouissent d’une confortable notoriété à Christchurch, où ils mènent une existence paisible et heureuse. Certes Zach, leur fils de sept ans, peut être difficile à vivre, mais Cameron et Lisa font face, s’arment de patience. Jusqu’au jour où Zach disparaît en pleine nuit. Fugue ? Enlèvement ? Les Murdoch sont bouleversés, prêts à tout pour retrouver leur fils.

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.

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?

El autor del best seller internacional "Limpieza mortal" nos trae de regreso a uno de sus personajes más infames, El Carnicero de Christchurch, en este nueva y apasionante novela de misterio. A veces la realidad puede interponerse en el camino de una buena historia. La historia de Joe Middleton es esta: no recuerda haber matado a nadie, por lo que es imposible que un jurado lo condene por asesinatos en serie.

Joshua está convencido de que hay una maldición familiar. Le ha arrebatado a sus seres queridos, le ha robado la vista y es la razón por la que su padre es asesinado mientras investigaba el homicidio de una joven. Joshua recibe una oportunidad que no puede rechazar: una operación que le permitirá ver el mundo a través de los ojos de su padre. A medida que Joshua descubre el mundo, empieza a ver lo que estos ojos podrían haber presenciado en su vida anterior.

Theodore Tate har aldrig glemt sit første gerningssted – den ti år gamle Jessica Cole, som blev fundet myrdet i et gammelt, forladt slagtehus. Morderen blev fundet og anholdt. Retfærdigheden skete fyldest dengang. Eller gjorde den? Femten år senere er en ny morder på spil i Christchurch, og han har en liste over folk, der var involveret i mordet på Jessica. En af dem er doktor Stanton, far til tre små piger. Hvis Tate skal hjælpe dem, må han finde forbindelsen mellem morderen og slagtehuset og det stigende antal mord i Christchurch.

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.

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.

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.

Folk forsvinder i Christchurch. Cooper Riley, der er professor i psykologi, dukker ikke op på arbejde en dag. Emma Green, der er en af hans studerende, kommer ikke hjem. Da den forhenværende kriminalbetjent Theodore Tate bliver løsladt efter fire måneder i fængsel, beder Greens far ham om at hjælpe med at finde Emma. Tate sad trods alt i fængsel, fordi han nær havde slået hende ihjel i en spiritusulykke året forinden, og derfor står han i gæld til Greens far. Stor gæld.