Bøger af Tyler Compton

Professor Fredrick Knott was known for his controversial yet successful teaching methods-gaining him both supporters and many enemies. When he and one of his female students are found stabbed to death in his office one night, the rumors spread through the campus like wildfire. Gossip of a clandestine affair was nothing new. But why murder, and who did it? Was it a student the professor had flunked? An angry parent? A former patient from his days as a therapist? Maybe his wife, who long knew about his co-ed exploits... or perhaps Knott wasn't even the intended target. Despite being on "borrowed time"-soon to be separated into different departments of a newly organized LAPD-Detective David Parks and his team are assigned the high profile case in hopes of quickly solving the murders and saving the reputation of the esteemed college. But fact and fiction begin to blur when a witness claims the good professor had been practicing an unspeakable horror on the campus grounds-greatly expanding the list of potential suspects with a strong motive. With the pressure building to find a killer hidden in a maze of blackmail, betrayal and lies, Detective Parks soon discovers the deadly lengths people will go to keep an enticing world and its secrets a mystery.

Two bodies are found on a secluded estate up in the Hollywood hills. Mary Delancy, a former actress who has been secluded from the public's scrutiny for over three decades, is found in her bed with her son, their arms wrapped around each other, fear forever plastered on their faces--their fingers and mouths turned blue. Forensic Toxicologist Jackie Isley quickly determines Mary and her son to be the victims of strychnine poisoning, though even she is astounded at how aggressive the poison has attacked their bodies. As she continues to investigate, Jackie stumbles upon something that takes the case in a direction far beyond the average homicide. When the Japanese symbol for nine is found at the crime scene, fear of the Palisades Poisoner striking again rise and Detective Dave Parks is quickly summoned back to a case he knows all too well, to face a killer they don't yet understand. A killer whose motives and intentions, Parks will come to discover, are far more personal than he could have ever imagined. A killer who will more than threaten to pick up where the Palisades Poisoner left off...

A woman is found in an abandoned house, the victim of cyanide poisoning, which has mottled her skin and turned her blood a dark shade of purple. Detective David Parks, battling his standing within the LAPD, is brought on to solve the murder. Forensic toxicologist Jacqueline Isley joins him to solve what becomes a series of gruesome murders: A famous photographer bleeds to death from his eyes while a woman's own body chokes her to death as it shuts down, organ by organ. Lives are threatened as Det. Parks and Dr. Isley get closer to the truth behind this poisonous killer. But as their feelings for each other intensify, Parks will have to discover just what he's willing to sacrifice and how far he'll go in order to stop a killer whose thirst for justice knows no limits-and whose obsession for vengeance knows no ends.