Introducing Dexter Morgan, a serial killer to fall in love with...

Twice every three days another citizen in Baltimore is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the centre of this hurricane of crime is the city's homicide unit, and the author gained unlimited access to this homicide unit. This book presents his account of casework and an investigation into our culture of violence.

Piatkus are proud to be publishing the first in a series of twenty - with more to come - romantic suspense novels from one of the world's bestelling authors.

With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially - kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. There are irritating flies in the ointment, though, including a missing wife, a nagging cocaine habit, and a dramatic deterioration in his genital health.

When Eve conducts an investigation into the death of a fellow officer, she is treading on dangerous ground. She must put professional ethics before personal loyalties, but then a dead body is placed outside her home and Eve is drawn into the most dangerous case of her career.

Eve Dallas' latest homicide is a particularly vicious case. A young mother, Elisa Maplewood, is found raped and strangled in the park, her body naked but for what appears to be a red ribbon tied around her neck.

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With the precision of a surgeon, a serial killer preys on the most vulnerable souls of the world's city streets. Detective Eve Dallas is assigned to investigate. But as she is lured into a cat-and-mouse game with the killer, Dallas also becomes the focus of an internal investigation.

For 20 years the officers in Pennsylvania State Police Barracks have kept a secret in Shed B. A vintage Buick which lures the troopers to come and take a look. Young Ned Wilcox can't resist having a peek - and it's time the veteran troopers shared the skin-curdling secret of this machine.

In the final weeks of 2058, guns were banned, and medical science had learned how to prolong life to well beyond the century mark. And man had yet to stop killing man. It was Eve Dallas's job to stand for the dead.' No one likes to be alone during the holidays. For New York's most exclusive dating service, Personally Yours, it is the season to bring lonely hearts together. But Lieutenant Eve ...

In surreal Bangkok, city of temples and brothels, where Buddhist monks in saffron robes walk the same streets as world-class gangsters, a US marine sergeant is killed inside a locked Mercedes by a maddened python and a swarm of cobras. Two policemen - the only two in the city not on the take - arrive too late. Minutes later, only one is alive.

There are three apparent suicides, who all died with smiles on their faces. But police lieutenant Eve Dallas is immediately suspicious of their deaths. When autopsies reveal small burn marks on their brains, her investigation turns to the provocative world of virtual reality games.

When a police officer is found bludgeoned to death in an uptown strip joint, NYPD Lieutenant Eve Dallas discovers a private club called Purgatory in which clients are given a chance for atonement, everyone is judged, and one man's sins could spell damnation for the innocent. Nora Roberts writing as J.D. Robb.

Eve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers - both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm - are brutally killed on the same night. It doesn't leave Eve a lot of leftover time to put together a baby shower for her best-friend Mavis, but that's supposedly what friends are for.

The brilliantly original new novel from Michael Chabon, author of 'The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' and 'The Final Solution'.

When NYPD lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates the murder of a top model, she is putting her career on the line, because the prime suspect is her best friend. Eve's investigations lead her into the glamorous world of high fashion.

The maid at the Roarke Palace Hotel has been murdered by Sly Yost, a virtuoso of music and assassination, a hit-man for the elite. Detective Eve Dallas is aware that knowing Sly did it is no help because someone with a personal motive was behind the murder, and her husband Roarke is probably the next target.

'No matter how many times you looked at the horror man inflicted on man, you never saw it all. As Lieutenant Eve Dallas stood over what had once been a woman, she wondered when she would see worse than this...

Roarke's security specialist Reva Ewing is the prime suspect in a double homicide - accused of killing her adulterous husband and his lover. But despite having every reason for wanting both of them dead, Reva protests her innocence and Lieutenant Eve Dallas believes her.

Cosmetic surgeon Dr Wilfred B. Icove has been found dead in his office- murdered in a chillingly efficent manner by one swift stab to the heart. Struck by the immaculate condition of the crime scene, Eve Dallas suspects a professional killing. Security discs show a stunningly beautiful woman calmly entering and leaving the building- the good doctor's final appointment. Known as 'Dr Perfect, the ..