by J. A. Kerley
THE DEATH COLLECTORS
The portfolio of a psychopathic artist thirty years dead sends Detective Carson Ryder and his partner Harry Nautilus into the chilling and hidden world of those who collect serial-killer memorabilia …
THE BROKEN SOULS
Carson and his partner Harry are up to their necks in a harrowing investigation, where all clues point to a powerful family whose strange and horrific past is about to engulf everyone around them in a storm of violence and depravity. And Ryder’s right in the middle of it …
BLOOD BROTHER
Detective Carson Ryder has a secret. His brother, Jeremy, is one of America’s most notorious killers – now imprisoned. When Jeremy escapes, he becomes the chief suspect in a series of horrifying slayings in New York – and soon Carson is pulled into a dangerous game of life, death and deceit …
IN THE BLOOD
Detective Carson Ryder must put his personal problems aside when he takes on a bizarre new case involving an abandoned infant, a murdered S&M-loving televangelist, Neo-Nazis and satantic rituals. It seems that the baby fighting for its life has powerful enemies. Can Ryder save the life of an innocent child?
LITTLE GIRLS LOST
Children are disappearing in Mobile, Alabama, the latest snatched from her own bedroom. There are no clues – and, as yet, no bodies. Carson is brought in to the investigation, and discovers that the answers lie closer to home than he could have imagined …
BURIED ALIVE
Carson Ryder’s vacation is interrupted when he’s summoned to a grisly murder scene. With more savage killings, and the FBI inflaming the situation, Ryder sifts through the increasingly bizarre clues. Is there more than one killer involved? And how does Carson’s clinically insane brother, Jeremy, now on the run, fit into the picture?
HER LAST SCREAM
A secret network of crisis centres helps abused women escape their tormentors. But now someone is killing them before they reach safety. Carson and Harry need an undercover cop to pose as a threatened woman, drawing the killer out. Harry’s niece volunteers, but Harry promised to keep Reinetta safe. Suddenly he’s unsure if he can even keep her alive …
THE KILLING GAME
After a humiliating encounter with a cop, Gregory Nieves launches a vendetta against the Mobile Police Department, Alabama, and one man in particular: Detective Carson Ryder. Carson doesn’t know it yet, but he is caught up in a sadistic game of life and death. And there can only be one victor …
THE DEATH BOX
A specialist in twisted crimes, Detective Carson Ryder has barely started his new job in Miami when called to a horrific scene: a concrete pillar built of human remains, their agony forever frozen in stone. The case drags him into the sordid world of human trafficking, where one terrified girl holds the key to unraveling a web of pain, prostitution and murder. But Ryder’s not the only one chasing the girl. And the others will kill to keep the secret safe.
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2013
Copyright © Jack Kerley 2014
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