Résultats pour "Paul Cleave" dans Suspense

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.

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...

Il y a pire que de tuer quelqu'un : ne pas savoir si on l'a tué. Les auteurs de thrillers ne sont pas des personnes très fréquentables. Ils jouent du plaisir que nous avons à lire d'abominables histoires, de notre appétit pour des énigmes qui le plus souvent baignent dans le sang. Ce jeu dangereux peut parfois prendre des proportions inquiétantes et favoriser un passage à l'acte aux conséquences funestes. Eux les premiers, qui pensent connaître toutes les ficelles du crime parfait, ne sont pas à l'abri de faire de leurs fictions une réalité.

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.

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.

Kan krimiforfattere slippe af sted med drab? Cameron og Lisa Murdoch har succes som newzealandske krimiforfattere, er lykkeligt gift og topper alverdens bestsellerlister. De har i årevis været promoveret i medierne og spøger med, at de ved mere end nogen andre om, hvordan man slipper godt fra forbrydelser. De lever trods alt af at skrive om det. Så da deres psykisk udfordrede syvårige søn Zach forsvinder, spørger politiet og offentligheden helt naturligt sig selv, om de nu har besluttet sig for at føre bevis for det, de selv så længe har hævdet.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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. 

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.