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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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Den ökände seriemördaren Joe Middleton, i media mer känd som Karvaren, har äntligen gripits och Christchurchs invånare kan äntligen andas ut. Men, enligt Karvaren själv har han inte dödat någon. Han kallar sig för Offret Joe och i väntan på att bli ställd inför rätta gör han allt han kan för att övertyga psykiatrikerna om att han inte var vid sina sinnes fulla bruk vid dåden, i hopp om att undvika dödsstraff, vilket är på väg att återinföras i Nya Zeeland. Det faktum att Joe sitter fängslad, gör dock inte att han sitter säkert.

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.

Christchurch, Nouvelle-Zélande. Célibataire, aux petits soins pour sa mère, Joe Middleton, homme de ménage au commissariat central de la ville, est au fait des enquêtes criminelles en cours. En particulier celle relative au Boucher de Christchurch, un serial killer sanguinaire accusé d'avoir tué sept femmes dans des conditions atroces. Pourtant, Joe sait qu'une de ces femmes n'a pas été tuée par le Boucher de Christchurch. Il en est même certain, pour la simple raison qu'il est le Boucher de Christchurch.

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.

Ny thriller fra den prisnominerede forfatter. En blind teenager, der får transplanteret nye øjne fra en donor og begynder at se og føle minderne fra deres tidligere ejer – en kriminalbetjent, som også var hans far. Joshua er overbevist om, at der hviler en forbandelse over hans familie. Den har taget elskede familiemedlemmer fra ham og stjålet hans syn, og den er grunden til, at hans far bliver slået ihjel, mens han er i gang med at efterforske drabet på en ung kvinde.

Kan deckarförfattare mörda ostraffat? De framgångsrika deckarförfattarna Cameron och Lisa Murdoch från Nya Zeeland är ett lyckligt gift par vars böcker toppar bestsellerlistorna över hela världen. Under sina bokturnéer har de i flera år skämtat om att de vet allt om hur man kommer undan med mord. Det är trots allt deras jobb att skriva om det. När deras sjuårige son Zach försvinner undrar polisen och allmänheten därför om de har bestämt sig för att bevisa vad de så länge har hävdat...

Forestil dig, at du vågner op badet i blod – men det er ikke dit blod. Du har en forfærdelig bule i panden, og du kan ikke huske den foregående aftens begivenheder. Næste morgen skriver aviserne om to unge kvinders brutale mord. Du genkender deres navne. Brudstykker af din aften vender tilbage fra tågen. Og nu er du den hovedmistænkte i deres mord. Velkommen til Charlies verden.

Algunos secretos se niegan a permanecer enterrados... Una vibrante novela de misterio y crimen que te mantendrá intrigado hasta la última página. Una exhumación normal se convierte en todo menos eso para el investigador privado Theodore Tate cuando los cuerpos empiezan a salir a la superficie del lago del cementerio. Tate sabe que debe mantenerse alejado y dejar que sus antiguos compañeros de la policía se ocupen de ello.

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.

Edward Hunter lo tiene todo: una esposa y una hija hermosas, un buen trabajo, un futuro brillante... y un pasado muy oscuro. Veinte años atrás, atraparon a un asesino en serie, lo condenaron y lo encerraron en la penitenciaría más infernal del país. Ese hombre era el padre de Edward. Edward ha luchado toda su vida para dejar atrás las pesadillas de su infancia. Pero una semana antes de Navidad, la violencia vuelve a aparecer en su vida. De pronto necesitará la ayuda de su padre, un hombre al que no ha visto desde que era niño.