J. A. Kerley

When police detective Carson Ryder wins a free vacation to the isolated Appalachian mountains, he welcomes the chance to take a well-deserved rest. But all too soon an anonymous phone-call summons him to the scene of grisly torture.

Buried Alive

Detective Carson Ryder's reputation is on the line when a sociopathic serial killer embarks on a personal vendetta, constructing his crimes to hit Carson's weak spot. He's coming to get you... After a humiliating encounter with a cop, Romanian immigrant Gregory Nieves launches a vendetta against the Mobile Police Department, Alabama. Nieves can't fight a department, so he selects one man who symbolizes all men in blue: Carson Ryder, the MPD's specialist in bizarre and twisted crimes. Carson has never seen a killing spree like this one: Nothing connects the victims, the murder weapon is always different, and the horrific crime scenes are devoid of evidence. It almost seems he's being taunted. Even laughed at. 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 Killing Game

When tiny scraps of Marsden 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.

The Death Collectors

A darkly compelling serial-killer novel introducing the next big name in psychological thrillers and, in Carson Ryder, a fascinating and complex protagonist set for many books to come.

The Hundredth Man (Carson Ryder, Book 1)

Detective Carson Ryder faces his most terrifying adversary yet in this nail-biting thriller from the author of Her Last Scream.

The Death Box (Carson Ryder, Book 10)

Morg

The author of BLOOD BROTHER returns with a psychological thriller featuring Carson Ryder, the detective with a unique perspective on serial killers – his brother’s one.

In the Blood (Carson Ryder, Book 5)

From 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 connection between the cases...

Carson Ryder 12

Investigating an unusually grisly murder involving a concrete pillar of human remains, detective Carson Ryder struggles to protect a terror-stricken girl with ties to a human trafficking ring. By the author of Her Last Scream. Original. 25,000 first printing.

The Death Box

The fourth in the bestselling series of psychological thrillers featuring Carson Ryder, the detective with a unique perspective on serial killers.

Little Girls Lost

A brilliant new psychological serial killer thriller featuring homicide detective Carson Ryder, hero of the bestselling ‘The Hundredth Man’ and ‘Her Last Scream.’

The Broken Souls (Carson Ryder, Book 3)

A terrifying new serial-killer thriller featuring Carson Ryder, hero of the bestselling The Hundredth Man.

The Death Collectors (Carson Ryder, Book 2)

A serial-killer targets the country’s most vulnerable women in this thriller featuring Detective Carson Ryder.

Her Last Scream (Carson Ryder, Book 8)

Detective Carson Ryder returns, on the trail of a brutal killer with mysterious motives.

The Death File: A gripping serial killer thriller with a shocking twist (Carson Ryder, Book 13)

Detective Carson Ryder faces a cunning and inventive adversary in this terrifying thriller from the bestselling author of Her Last Scream.Young gay men are disappearing from bars, showing up days later sexually assaulted and semi-comatose, all recollections obliterated by hallucinations. Pathologist Vivian Morningstar determines the men have been dosed with toxins found in plants common throughout the US: black locust to make them weak, dieffenbachia to paralyze vocal chords, and jimson (locoweed) to create fierce visions. DNA leads Detective Carson Ryder to comic-bookstore owner Gary Ocampo, but upon arresting Ocampo, he finds the man hugely obese and bedridden. The only seeming explanation is that Ocampo's identical-twin brother, Donnie, is committing the abductions. The only problem is that Donnie died shortly after birth...

The Memory Killer

The spine-chilling serial killer thriller featuring Carson Ryder – the homicide detective with a hidden secret that could destroy his career.

J. A. Kerley

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