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The Death Sculptor

the MOST ADDICTIVE, gripping and suspenseful serial killer thriller you'll read in 2025

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The Death Sculptor

By: Chris Carter
Narrated by: Thomas Judd
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 FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE CALLER

'Good job you didn't turn on the lights . . .' 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.

For Hunter, there is no doubt that the killer is trying to communicate with the police, but the method is unlike anything he's ever seen before. And what could the hidden message be?

Just as Hunter and his partner Garcia reckon they've found a lead, a new body is found - and a new calling card. But with no apparent link between the first and second victims, all the progress they've made so far goes out of the window.

Pushed into an uncomfortable alliance with confident investigator Alice Beaumont, Hunter must race to put together the pieces of the puzzle . . . before the Death Sculptor puts the final touches to his masterpiece.

PRAISE FOR CHRIS CARTER

'A touch of Patricia Cornwell about Chris Carter's plotting' Mail on Sunday

'Gripping . . . not for the squeamish' Heat

'A page-turner' Express Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction
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Compelling. Great story with a grotesque style serial killer and the usual excellent characterisations. Carter builds the backgrounds of his protagonists over time, over the entire series (so far). I like his style. Not everything comes out at once but behaviours do. You don’t find out what’s behind these behaviours at once. You find out over time. It’s much more natural.
Great writer.

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