Résultats pour "Paul Cleave" dans Fiction criminelle

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.

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.

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.

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 ?

Pour attraper un tueur, il faut peut-être en devenir un… La vie du shérif Cohen s’effondre : son père a accidentellement incendié la maison de retraite, sa femme est partie, et son fils mène la vie dure aux autres enfants à l’école. Lorsque Lucas Connor, un lycéen, est enlevé...

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.

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.

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.

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 thriller from the Edgar-nominated author of Trust No One and Joe Victim about a blind teenager who receives a corneal donation and begins to see and feel memories from their previous ownera homicide detective who was also his father. Joshua is convinced there is a family curse. Its taken loved...

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.

Fiktion eller verklighet? Hittade han på brotten eller begick han dem? Deckarförfattaren Jerry Grey har under sin pseudonym Henry Cutter hållit läsarna på helspänn i över ett decennium. I tolv böcker har skoningslösa mördare kunnat utföra brutala mord i en snedvriden värld där offren inte har en chans. Men, vid fyrtionio års ålder får Jerrys karriär ett abrupt slut när han diagnostiseras med tidig Alzheimer. I och med att sjukdomen avancerar får Jerry allt svårare att skilja det verkliga livet från de blodiga intriger han skapat i sina böcker.

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..

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?

Imagine waking up covered in blood—but it’s not your blood. There’s a nasty bump on your head, and you can’t remember a thing about last night. The morning paper reports that two young women were brutally murdered. You recognize their names. Pieces of the night before come back to you...

"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.

El oficial de policía Noah Harper ha decidido que, cueste lo que cueste, encontrará a Alyssa, una niña de siete años que ha sido secuestrada. Pero, para conseguirlo, tendrá que adentrarse por un camino sin retorno. Salvar a la niña no impedirá que Noah pierda su trabajo, que su matrimonio se derrumbe ni que sea expulsado de Acacia Pines. Ha sido advertido de que, si vuelve a aparecerse por su pequeña ciudad natal, pasará el resto de su vida pudriéndose en la cárcel. Hoy, doce años después, Noah recibe una llamada telefónica.

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.

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.

Det skulle egentlig være en rutineopgravning af et formodet mordoffer, men den forvandler sig hurtigt til en kompliceret sag for privatdetektiv Theodore Tate, der selv kæmper for at få sit liv på ret køl, efter at hans verden sank i grus to år tidligere. Mens han står i regnen og holder opsyn med opgravningen, dukker et lig op fra dybet i kirkegårdens sø nær ved, og så endnu et og et til ...