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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?

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.

Privatdetektiv Theo Tate läßt auf dem örtlichen Friedhof die Leiche eines alten Mannes exhumieren. Doch anders als erwartet liegt im Sarg der Körper einer jungen Frau...

Joe har total kontroll över sitt nedskalade liv, som består dels av hans dagarbete som städare vid polisen, dels av det arbete han på eget initiativ utför på kvällar och nätter. Medias ständiga och upprörda rapportering om Christchurchkarvaren, som sägs ha mördat sju kvinnor, bekymrar honom inte särskilt mycket. Frånsett att Joe vet att Karvaren bara har dödat sex. Det vet han bortom allt tvivel, och han är fast besluten att identifiera den som kopierat Karvarens metoder och dödat den sjunde.

I det strilande regnet öppnas en grav på den kalla begravningsplatsen. Det finns skäl att misstänka att den döda har blivit mördad. För den före detta kriminalutredaren Theodore Tate borde det vara en rutinsak. Men när lik flyter upp till ytan på den lilla sjön och den öppnade kistan visar sig innehålla en okänd ung kvinna förvandlas allt. Tate är inte längre polis. Han vet att han måste lämna över ansvaret till sina före detta kollegor.

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.

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?

"Bienvenido, profesor. Bienvenido a mi colección". Cooper Riley está encerrado en una celda a oscuras cuando recobra el conocimiento. Al otro lado de la puerta metálica Adrian lo saluda: "Bienvenido, profesor. Bienvenido a mi colección". A Adrian siempre le han fascinado los asesinos en serie. Colecciona todo lo relacionado con ellos: historias, fotos, recuerdos... Y ahora a Cooper, profesor de psicología criminal y asesor de la policía. La "pieza" definitiva. Es experto en su tema preferido. Él podrá enseñarle lo que aún no sabe: cómo matar.

Edward Hunter har allt en kärleksfull fru och dotter, ett bra jobb med goda inkomster, en ljus framtid och ett mycket mörkt förflutet. För tjugo år sedan fångades och dömdes en seriemördare som sedan dess suttit inspärrad i Nya Zeelands mest ökända högsäkerhetsfängelse. Den mannen var Edwards far.

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.

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 Acacia Pines wird der Schüler Lucas entführt. Sheriff Cohen übernimmt den Fall und findet heraus, dass Lucas in die Fänge eines Serienmörders geraten ist. Eine erbittere Jagd auf den Täter beginnt in der Hoffnung, Lucas noch lebend zu finden. Doch nicht nur das treibt den Sheriff an, denn sein Leben ist in letzter Zeit völlig aus den Fugen geraten: Er ist pleite, geschieden und droht sein Haus zu verlieren. Die ausgeschriebene Belohnung dafür, den Serienkiller zu fassen, könnte all seine Probleme lösen. Doch ist er, der Sheriff, so verzweifelt, sich dafür außerhalb des Gesetzes zu bewegen?

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.

For at fange en morder er man måske nødt til selv at slå ihjel … Acacia Pines, USA. Sherif Cohens liv er ét stort kaos – hans far har ved et uheld brændt plejehjemmet ned, hans kone er skredet, og hans søn mobber en af de andre elever på skolen. Da teenageren Lucas Connor bliver bortført, ser Cohen en mulighed for at få sit liv tilbage på rette spor – og både få sin kone tilbage og indløse dusøren for at finde Lucas. Men efterhånden som flere og flere dør omkring ham, står det klart for Cohen, at han bliver nødt til at træffe en af den slags beslutninger, som ikke er så let at gøre om... og som vil få dødelige konsekvenser..

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.

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.

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?

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 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.

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.