Chris Mooney Livres

Membre de la police scientifique de Boston, Darby McCormick est aussi efficace dans son laboratoire que sur les scènes de crime, où elle n'a pas son pareil pour faire parler les indices. Envoyée sur les lieux d'un enlèvement, Darby découvre un témoin inattendu : une femme squelettique, vêtue de haillons, désorientée et terrorisée. L'inconnue, disparue depuis plusieurs années, aurait été enfermée dans un cachot obscur et sordide. Au fil de son enquête minutieuse, Darby comprend que les victimes seraient des dizaines à travers le pays, enlevées par un psychopathe dont les ressources et l'habileté défient l'entendement. Hantée par le sort de toutes ces femmes qui lui rappellent un souvenir traumatisant de son adolescence, Darby décide de partir en quête d'autres survivantes. Elle ne se doute pas qu'elle s'apprête à plonger au cœur de la perversité humaine... Dans ce thriller trépidant servi par des personnages complexes, Chris Mooney joue brillamment sur tous les registres, de l'émotion pure à la terreur.

In Every Pretty Thing serial killer hunter Darby McCormick finds herself in Montana, looking for a friend. Little does she realise that a murderer is waiting for her . . . from the publisher's description

Fear grips a town in Colorado as a murderer targets entire families in their own homes. As police and the FBI struggle to contain the situation, they bring in forensic investigator and serial killer expert Darby McCormick. What she finds is a brutal and elusive predator who stays one step ahead of their investigation. As Darby navigates the blood-ties and broken promises that divide the locals, she knows all the while the killer is watching, circling his next target: her. She must not only meet evil and survive, but also be prepared to face this small town's dark heart.

Charlie Rizzo has his family at gunpoint and when Darby arrives to defuse the scene, she finds him horrifically mutilated, with a mask of human skin sewn in place over his own face. Within minutes, a group of men disguised as SWAT officers bursts in and releases deadly Sarin gas. But where has Rizzo been held all these years?

A dead murderer. A living lie. A mother and her son have been executed in their home. Fingerprint matches reveal their murderer died twenty years ago. Crime Scene Investigator Darby McCormick must solve this disturbing puzzle. But the deeper she digs the more horrors come to light. What is the dark, long-held secret linking these sinister crimes?

Malcolm Fletcher - a former FBI profiler and now the nation's Most Wanted fugitive - arrives in Colorado to help Theresa and her husband find their son. But his arrival coincides with a dangerous and shocking twist in the case.

They're Dying to Meet Him... The discovery of a body in Boston harbor has crime scene investigator Darby McCormick looking into related cases: two dead female students wash up, both abducted months earlier, each carrying a Virgin Mary figurine. It's a troubling mystery that suddenly turns desperate when a third girl goes missing.

A master killer in the US, known as the Sandman, is killing whole families and complete neighbourhoods, and no one knows why. Jack Casey, ex-FBI profiler and cop, knows that the killer wants him in the middle of the investigation and wants him to suffer like everybody else.

Nine a.m. on a freezing January morning. Darby McCormick queues for the metal detectors at Boston Police Headquarters. A man at the front pulls out a 9mm handgun, fires into the air and takes a woman hostage. In his bag, is a block of plastic explosive. Throughout the city, homes, offices and cars, have been rigged to explode. Every three hours. Until he gets what he wants. And he wants Darby to be his mouthpiece. She has no choice. But as she pieces together the sinister conspiracy that the bomber wants exposed, she understands that no one will walk away unharmed.

A drug that makes the blood of carriers a fountain of youth, a psychopath who doesn't care how many bodies he leaves in his wake, and an LAPD detective hopelessly compromised by a dark secret. Together, they're an explosive mix that's going to shatter the city of Los Angeles into a million corpuscles. The most valuable commodity on earth is the blood of "carriers." These young people hold within them a virtual fountain of youth. Those with the right genes produce blood that, when treated with a new wonder drug, cures disease, increases power, and makes the recipient a virtual superman. It also makes the carriers targets. Blood farms filled with kidnapped children spring up around the country, and Los Angeles is at the center of this blood-dealing world. The police are overwhelmed. Ellie Bautista became an LAPD officer specifically to fight this evil as a member of the Blood Squad, but she has been consistently denied a transfer to the prestigious unit--until the day she and her partner are ambushed during a routine stop. The resulting events plunge her into an undercover world more dangerous than she could have ever imagined. A madman has found a way to increase the potency of the blood to levels previously unimagined. As he cuts a bloody swath through the already deadly world of blood cartels, Ellie is the only hope to stop him before the body count rises.

The CIA is facing an unknown enemy. His genius: the ability to steal prototype weapons with unimaginable destructive powers, and leave no trace of their whereabouts. The weapons never appear on any black market. They're never used to wage a battle on US soil. And they're never sold to foreign agents. It's as if they simply vanish. But a top-secret CIA operation is one step ahead of the game. They know the next target. A company in Texas has developed a military combat uniform that renders a soldier virtually invisible. Optical camouflage offers limitless possibilities - and no one knows that better than CIA operative Steve Conway. But as Conway and his team set the trap for the elusive thief, things go terribly wrong. A hair-raising blend of mystery, manhunt and terror, WORLD WITHOUT END is an electrifying, page-turning novel of suspense by an author destined to join the ranks of the masters.

Drie tieners zijn getuige van een gruwelijke moord. De dader wil hun het zwijgen opleggen... Op een nacht zijn drie nietsvermoedende tieners in het bos getuige van de moord op een vrouw. Darby McCormick en haar twee vriendinnen vluchten, maar laten een spoor achter, wat de wraak van de moordenaar alleen maar vereenvoudigt. Vijfentwintig jaar later is Darby rechercheur bij de politie van Boston. Als een jonge vrouw midden in de nacht wordt ontvoerd, vindt Darby een onverwachte getuige - een in lompen gehulde vrouw. Ze is ernstig ondervoed en verward. Uit Darby's onderzoek blijkt dat de vrouw, Rachel Swanson, al meer dan vijf jaar wordt vermist. Terwijl Darby haar aan de praat probeert te krijgen over de verschrikkingen die ze heeft doorstaan, ontdekt ze dat ze een moordenaar, de FBI en de politie al meer dan twintig jaar heeft weten te misleiden...

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