Showing results for "Paul Cleave" in Crime Fiction

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Der neue Thriller von Bestsellerautor Paul Cleave - spannungsvoll gelesen von Peter Lontzek. Als die siebenjährige Alyssa entführt wird, setzt der aufrechte Polizist Noah Harper alles daran, sie zu befreien - und steigert sich dabei in einen hemmungslosen Blutrausch. Noah rettet das Mädchen, aber er übertritt eine Grenze und verliert alles. Seinen Job, seine Frau, seine Freunde. Und auch sich selbst. Zwölf Jahre später: Noah hat ein neues Leben begonnen. Ein unheilvolles Leben mit Geheimnissen, an die keiner rühren sollte.

En ung mand vågner fra sin koma og opdager, at hans forældres mordere har ham i sigtekornet – alt imens en person udgiver sig for at være en berygtet Newzealandsk seriemorder. Hvordan fanger man en morder... Når det eneste bevis, man har, er en drøm? James Garrett blev kritisk såret, da han blev skudt i forlængelse af sine forældres henrettelse, og der var ingen, der forventede, at han ville vågne op fra sin dybe, traumatiske koma. Men da han alligevel kommer til bevidsthed ni år senere, bliver kriminalkommissær Rebecca Kent sat på sagen.

Paul Cleave ist der König des harten Thrillers. Wer könnte perfider morden als ein Thriller-Schriftsteller? Oder am besten gleich ein Autorenpaar? Cameron und Lisa Murdoch sind so ein Paar und behaupten, sie könnten ein perfektes Verbrechen begehen. Als ihr Sohn verschwindet, scheint aus blutigen Geschichten Ernst zu werden. Es beginnt eine öffentliche Hetzkampagne gegen das Ehepaar. Als Lisa bei einem Tumult schwer verletzt wird, bricht die Welt ihres Mannes endgültig zusammen. Doch dann wird der wahre Kidnapper des Jungen gefunden – tot.

Den internationale bestsellerforfatter bringer endnu en gang en af sine mest kendte romanfigurer på banen, den frygtede og berygtede Christchurch-snitter – men nu er det hans liv, der står på spil. Joe Middleton husker ikke at have slået nogen ihjel, så efter hans mening kan en jury umuligt dømme ham som seriemorder. Joe er fuldkommen overbevist om, at retssystemet nok skal redde ham til sidst.Andre kender Joe som den berygtede Christchurch-snitter og ønsker ham død.

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.

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.

Czy autorom kryminałów morderstwo może ujść płazem...? Para poczytnych autorów kryminałów znajduje się w kręgu podejrzanych, gdy ich siedmioletni synek znika bez śladu. Czy próbują oni pokazać, że są w stanie popełnić zbrodnię doskonałą? Oto przepysznie pokręcony, cudownie mroczny thriller, który wyszedł spod pióra mistrza kryminału, Paula Cleave’a... Cameron i Lisa Murdoch to udane małżeństwo, połączone wspólną pasją i tworzące razem autorski tandem pisarzy kryminałów.