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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. All he needs now is to take care of all the women who keep getting in his way, including his overprotective mother.

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 Middleton doesn't remember killing anyone. He calls himself Joe Victim, 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. Then there's Raphael, whose daughter was one of the Carver's victims.

Jerry Grey is known to most of the world by his crime-writing pseudonym, Henry Cutter - a name that has been keeping readers at the edges of their seats for more than a decade. Recently diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's at the age of 49, Jerry's crime-writing days are coming to an end. His 12 books tell stories of brutal murders committed by bad men, of a world out of balance, of victims finding the darkest forms of justice.

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.

Tandis que la police traque le Boucher de Christchurch, Théodore Tate, ancien flic reconverti en détective privé, procède à l'exhumation du corps d'un directeur de banque dont la veuve est suspectée d'homicide. Un glissement de terrain accidentel révèle la présence de trois cadavres immergés dans le lac près du cimetière. S'agit-il de victimes du Boucher ou celles d'un autre tueur ?

Croyez-vous en l'instinct paternel ? Jack Hunter a longtemps été un bon époux et un père idéal. Un homme bien sous tous rapports, hormis cette petite manie secrète et discutable : le meurtre violent de prostituées. Aussi son fils Edward ne s'attendait-il pas à ce que la police vienne un jour frapper à la porte de leur maison si tranquille pour y arrêter le premier serial killer de l'histoire de Christchurch, Nouvelle-Zélande. Vingt ans plus tard, Edward est à son tour devenu un citoyen modèle.

People are disappearing in Christchurch. 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.

Des gens disparaissent à Christchurch. Par exemple Cooper Riley, un professeur de psychologie criminelle. Ou encore Emma Green, l'une de ses étudiantes. Theodore Tate, qui vient de purger une peine de prison pour avoir renversé et blessé accidentellement Emma alors qu'il était ivre au volant, est engagé par le père de celle-ci pour la retrouver. Mû par un intense sentiment de culpabilité, Tate arpente les rues brûlantes de la ville pour retrouver Emma. Ses pas le mènent vers Grover Hills, l'ancien hôpital psychiatrique de Christchurch.

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.

Theodore Tate never forgot his first crime scene - 10-year-old Jessica found dead in the Laughterhouse, an old abandoned slaughterhouse. The killer was found and arrested. 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.

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.

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.

Theodore Tate har aldrig glemt sit første gerningssted – den ti år gamle Jessica Cole, som blev fundet myrdet i et gammelt, forladt slagtehus. Morderen blev fundet og anholdt. Retfærdigheden skete fyldest dengang. Eller gjorde den? Femten år senere er en ny morder på spil i Christchurch, og han har en liste over folk, der var involveret i mordet på Jessica. En af dem er doktor Stanton, far til tre små piger. Hvis Tate skal hjælpe dem, må han finde forbindelsen mellem morderen og slagtehuset og det stigende antal mord i Christchurch.

There's a common plea detectives get from the loved ones of victims: When you find the person who did this, give me five minutes alone with them. And that's exactly what someone is doing. Someone is helping these victims get their five minutes alone. When the body of a convicted rapist is found, the detectives try 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.

Cemetery Lake begins in a cold and rainy graveyard, where Private Detective Theodore Tate is overseeing an exhumation. But doubts are raised about the identity of the body found in the coffin.

Twenty years ago a serial killer was caught, convicted, and locked away in New Zealand's most hellish penitentiary. 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 in his world. Is Edward destined to be just like his father, to become a man of blood?

Imagine waking up covered in blood - but it's not your blood. The morning paper reports that two young women were brutally murdered. You recognize their names. Pieces of the night before come back to you through the haze. And now you're the suspect in their grisly deaths. Welcome to Charlie's world. On the run, Charlie suspects a man named Cyris, but no one believes that Cyris exists.

Après "Un employé modèle" : le Boucher de Christchurch revient pour sauver sa peau. Joe Middleton s'est tiré une balle dans la tête. Par malheur, il s'est raté et a atterri à l'hôpital, escorté par une horde de policiers qui se demandent déjà s'ils n'auraient pas mieux fait de l'achever discrètement. Peut-être en effet auraient-ils dû. Un an plus tard, Joe est toujours derrière les barreaux d'un quartier de très haute sécurité, accusé d'une série de meurtres plus horribles les uns que les autres.

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.