Search results for ""Author J. A. Kerley""
HarperCollins Publishers The Death Box Book 10 Carson Ryder
Book SynopsisDetective Carson Ryder faces his most terrifying adversary yet in this nail-biting thriller from the author of Her Last Scream.Trade ReviewPraise for the Carson Ryder series: 'Kerley will truly scare the pants off his readers. This one's another winner from a writer moving towards the top of the thriller heap' Publishers Weekly 'A fascinating and frightening take on the genre' Independent on Sunday 'A chilling journey into a pitch-black mind' Michael Marshall, author of The Straw Men trilogy
£12.34
HarperCollins Publishers Blood Brother Book 4 Carson Ryder
Book SynopsisThe spine-chilling serial killer thriller featuring Carson Ryder – the homicide detective with a hidden secret that could destroy his careerTrade ReviewPraise for the Carson Ryder series: 'Superb stuff' Independent on Sunday 'Kerley will truly scare the pants off his readers. This one's another winner from a writer moving towards the top of the thriller heap' Publishers Weekly 'Kerley, who writes like a house fire, has a boundless and truly ghastly imagination that'll keep you awake long after you turn the last page' Kirkus 'A fascinating and frightening take on the genre' Independent on Sunday 'A chilling journey into a pitch-black mind' Michael Marshall, author of The Straw Men trilogy 'A sturdy hero with a clearcut mission and a setting that holds possibilities for fresh adventure. Kerley writes in a thrusting style that pushes the action from crime scene to autopsy table' New York Times Book Review 'Superb… fantastic' Sunday Express
£13.29
HarperCollins Publishers Her Last Scream Book 8 Carson Ryder
Book SynopsisA serial-killer targets the country’s most vulnerable women in this new thriller featuring Detective Carson Ryder.Trade ReviewPraise for the Carson Ryder series: 'Superb stuff' Independent on Sunday 'Kerley will truly scare the pants off his readers. This one's another winner from a writer moving towards the top of the thriller heap' Publishers Weekly 'Kerley, who writes like a house fire, has a boundless and truly ghastly imagination that'll keep you awake long after you turn the last page' Kirkus 'A fascinating and frightening take on the genre' Independent on Sunday 'A chilling journey into a pitch-black mind' Michael Marshall, author of The Straw Men trilogy 'A sturdy hero with a clearcut mission and a setting that holds possibilities for fresh adventure. Kerley writes in a thrusting style that pushes the action from crime scene to autopsy table' New York Times Book Review 'Superb… fantastic' Sunday Express
£12.34
HarperCollins Publishers The Apostle
Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of Her Last Scream, a chilling tale of ritual murder and corruption, featuring Detective Carson Ryder.The Reverend Honus Schrum, a nationally renowned minister and owner of a broadcasting empire, tells the media he has come home to Key West to die. Meanwhile, Detective Carson Ryder is investigating the ritualistic murders of young women with chequered pasts, discovering the killings have religious overtones.Simultaneously, a newly retired Harry Nautilus takes a job as a driver/bodyguard for Richard Owsley, an ambitious pastor in Mobile. They come to Florida, where Owsley meets with Schrum and is enlisted to complete a special and mysterious project' Schrum has promised a billionaire benefactor.As Carson digs deeper into the murders, Harry, interest piqued by all the hush-hush goings-on of his new employer, begins to covertly investigate the strange project. Their independent investigations begin to converge, and Carson and Harry uncover a horrifying connectiTrade ReviewPraise for the Carson Ryder series: 'Kerley will truly scare the pants off his readers. This one's another winner from a writer moving towards the top of the thriller heap' Publishers Weekly 'A fascinating and frightening take on the genre' Independent on Sunday 'A chilling journey into a pitch-black mind' Michael Marshall, author of The Straw Men trilogy
£13.29
HarperCollins Publishers Little Girls Lost Book 6 Carson Ryder
Book SynopsisThe fourth in the bestselling series of psychological thrillers featuring Carson Ryder, the detective with a unique perspective on serial killers.Trade ReviewPraise for Jack Kerley: ‘A fascinating and frightening take on the genre’ Independent on Sunday ‘Superb… fantastic.’ Sunday Express ‘The master of the macabre’ Guardian ‘A chilling journey into a pitch-black mind’ Michael Marshall, author of ‘The Straw men’ trilogy ‘A sturdy hero with a clearcut mission and a setting that holds possibilities for fresh adventure. Kerley writes in a thrusting style that pushes the action from crime scene to autopsy table.’ New York Times Book Review ‘Kerley jacks up the tension effectively, building to an all-stops-out climax. The plot is a treasure chest of interlocked pieces.’ Booklist
£13.29
HarperCollins Publishers In the Blood Carson Ryder Book 5
Book SynopsisThe author of BLOOD BROTHER returns with a new psychological thriller featuring Carson Ryder, the detective with a unique perspective on serial killers – his brother’s one.Trade ReviewPraise for the Carson Ryder series: 'Superb stuff' Independent on Sunday 'Kerley will truly scare the pants off his readers. This one's another winner from a writer moving towards the top of the thriller heap' Publishers Weekly 'Kerley, who writes like a house fire, has a boundless and truly ghastly imagination that'll keep you awake long after you turn the last page' Kirkus 'A fascinating and frightening take on the genre' Independent on Sunday 'A chilling journey into a pitch-black mind' Michael Marshall, author of The Straw Men trilogy 'A sturdy hero with a clearcut mission and a setting that holds possibilities for fresh adventure. Kerley writes in a thrusting style that pushes the action from crime scene to autopsy table' New York Times Book Review 'Superb… fantastic' Sunday Express
£13.29
HarperCollins Publishers The Broken Souls
Book SynopsisA brilliant new psychological serial killer thriller featuring homicide detective Carson Ryder, hero of the bestselling The Hundredth Man' and Her Last Scream.'Blood was everywhere, like the interior had been hosed down with an artery The gore-sodden horror that greets homicide detective Carson Ryder on a late-night call out is enough to make him want to quit the case. Too late.Now he and his partner Harry are up to their necks in a Southern swamp of the bizarre and disturbing. An investigation full of twists and strange clues looks like it''s leading to the city''s least likely suspects a powerful family whose philanthropy has made them famous. But behind their money and smiles is a dynasty divided by hate.Their 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 Trade ReviewPraise for ‘The Broken Souls’: ‘As good as his first… superb stuff.’ Independent on Sunday Praise for ‘The Death Collectors.’ ‘A fascinating and frightening take on the genre.’ Independent on Sunday ‘Kerley will truly scare the pants off his readers. This one’s another winner from a writer moving towards the top of the thriller heap.’ Publishers Weekly ‘Kerley, who writes like a house fire, has a boundless and truly ghastly imagination that’ll keep you awake long after you turn the last page.’ Kirkus Praise for The ‘Hundredth Man’: ‘A chilling journey into a pitch-black mind.’ Michael Marshall ‘A sturdy hero with a clearcut mission and a setting that holds possibilities for fresh adventure. Kerley writes in a thrusting style that pushes the action from crime scene to autopsy table.’ New York Times Book Review ‘Kerley jacks up the tension effectively, building to an all-stops-out climax. The plot is a treasure chest of interlocked pieces.’ Booklist
£15.29
HarperCollins Publishers The Memory Killer Book 11 Carson Ryder
Book SynopsisDetective Carson Ryder faces a cunning and inventive adversary in this terrifying thriller from the bestselling author of Her Last Scream.Young men in Miami are being abducted and tortured after their drinks are spiked with a cocktail of drugs that leaves them unable to recall their ordeal. Despite this, Detective Carson Ryder knows the predator's name, height, age, colouring everything. It's impossible for the perpetrator to avoid detection. Yet he does.When Carson seeks answers from his brother, a wanted criminal intimate with twisted minds, Jeremy's odd behaviour sparks even more questions. With each abduction, the violence becomes more horrific, and it's only a short time until torture turns to murder.But how do you catch an invisible man?Trade ReviewPraise for the Carson Ryder series: 'Kerley will truly scare the pants off his readers. This one's another winner from a writer moving towards the top of the thriller heap' Publishers Weekly 'A fascinating and frightening take on the genre' Independent on Sunday 'A chilling journey into a pitch-black mind' Michael Marshall, author of The Straw Men trilogy
£13.29
HarperCollins Publishers The Death Collectors
Book SynopsisA terrifying new serial-killer thriller featuring Carson Ryder, hero of the bestselling The Hundredth Man.Thirty years after his death, Marsden Hexcamp''s Art of the Final Moment' remains as sought after as ever. But this is no ordinary collection. Hexcamp''s portfolio was completed with the aid of a devoted band of acolytes and half a dozen victims, each of whom was slowly tortured to death so that their final agonies could be distilled into art.When tiny scraps of Hexcamp''s art' begin appearing at murder scenes alongside gruesomely displayed corpses, Detective Carson Ryder and his partner Harry Nautilus must go back three decades in search of answers.Meanwhile an auction has been announced and the death collectors are gathering. These wealthy connoisseurs of serial-killer memorabilia will pay millions to acquire Hexcamp''s art unless Carson and Harry can beat them in their quest for the anti-grail.Trade ReviewPraise for The Death Collectors: ‘A fascinating and frightening take on the genre’ Independent on Sunday ‘Kerley who writes like a house on fire, has a boundless and truly ghastly imagination that’ll keep you awake long after you turn the last page’ Kirkus Praise for The Hundredth Man: ‘A superb debut novel. A headless torso, the heat-soaked Alabama nights, a detective with a secret. Fantastic’ Sunday Express ‘A chilling journey into a pitch-black mind’ Michael Marshall ‘A sturdy hero with a clearcut mission and a setting that holds possibilities for fresh adventure. Kerley writes in a thrusting style that pushes the action from crime scene to autopsy table…’ The New York Times Book Review ‘Kerley jacks up the tension effectively, building to an all-stops-out climax. The plot is a treasure chest of interlocked pieces’ Booklist (starred review)
£16.14
