検索キーワード： 著者 "Paul Cleave" すべてのカテゴリー

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?

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.

Mit 11 Jahren muss James zusehen, wie seine Eltern hingerichtet werden, bevor ihn ein Schuss in den Kopf trifft. Erst 9 Jahre später erwacht er aus dem Koma. Die Killer sind noch auf freiem Fuß und wollen ihn nun wieder zum Schweigen bringen. Rebecca Kent soll den alten Fall aufklären, bevor die Täter James ein weiteres Mal zu fassen bekommen. Doch sie steckt tief in den Ermittlungen um einen brutalen Copycat-Mörder, der Christchurch heimsucht. Als James aber von seinem Traum im Koma erzählt, ändert sich alles für Rebeccas Ermittlungen. Denn was er berichtet, schockiert alle zutiefst …

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.

Para atrapar a un asesino, puede que tengas que convertirte en uno... La vida del sheriff Cohen se está desmoronando: su padre ha quemado por accidente la residencia de ancianos donde vivía, su mujer se ha mudado porque no soporta tener a su suegro en casa y su hijo está haciendo bullying a otros chicos. Cuando secuestran al adolescente Lucas Connor en el instituto, Cohen ve una oportunidad para hacerse con el dinero de la recompensa ofrecida por la captura del secuestrador y así volver a encauzar su vida y recuperar a su mujer.