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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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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?

Jerry Grey is bij veel mensen bekend onder zijn pseudoniem als thrillerauteur: Henry Cutter. Op zijn 49e wordt hij met alzheimer gediagnostiseerd en in een verzorgingstehuis geplaatst. Zijn herinneringen en zijn fantasie beginnen daar door elkaar te lopen; de beschreven moorden zijn niet zomaar verzinsels, hij biecht op ze zelf gepleegd te hebben. Gevolgen van die ziekte, zeggen mensen tegen hem. Maar als dat waar zou zijn, waarom blijven er dan mensen dood gaan om hem heen?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Da den syvårige Alyssa bliver bortført, sætter vicesherif Noah Harper sig for at finde hende for enhver pris - og en del af prisen bliver at krydse grænser, han aldrig kan vende tilbage fra. At finde pigen kan ikke redde Noah fra at miste både sit arbejde og sin hustru og blive fordrevet fra Acacia Pines. Han får at vide, at hvis han nogen sinde vender tilbage til den lille by, bliver han kastet i kachotten, hvor han kan rådne op. Tolv år senere ringer telefonen.

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.

Theodore Tate, detective privato, non ha mai dimenticato la sua prima scena del crimine. Quindici anni fa, quando era ancora uno stimato poliziotto, fu lui a ritrovare il corpo di una bambina, Jessica Cole, in un mattatoio abbandonato. Il killer fu identificato e arrestato e giustizia fu fatta. Ma è stato davvero così? Oggi, a quindici anni di distanza da quell’omicidio, un nuovo killer si aggira per Christchurch in Nuova Zelanda, e ha una lista di persone da uccidere, tutte coinvolte nell’assassinio di Jessica. Così Tate si trova, suo malgrado, proiettato di nuovo nelle indagini.

"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.

Charlie budzi się w ubraniu zbroczonym krwią i z potężnym guzem na głowie. Okazuje się, że dwie kobiety, w których towarzystwie spędził miniony wieczór, zostały brutalnie zamordowane. Wszystkie poszlaki wskazują na Charliego, ale on wie, że prawdziwym zabójcą jest Cyris. Problem polega na tym, że nikt nie wierzy w istnienie Cyrisa. Charlie samotnie wyrusza na poszukiwanie mordercy, choć nie ma pewności, czy Cyris nie jest aby jedynie wytworem jego wyobraźni.