DCI Robert Kett – serie

'Fresh and ferocious' James Patterson They should have been safe, but now they’re gone. In the city of Norwich, fears are running rampant. Young women have gone missing in separate incidents while delivering newspapers. Is this the work of a serial kidnapper? Detective Robert Kett has just arrived in the area, and has enough troubles of his own to contend with. His wife was snatched from the streets of London – gone without a trace. His three children need his full attention, but his new police colleagues are stumped. Kett agrees to take a look at the evidence, and before long is dragged into the centre of one of the darkest cases of his career. Kett knows what it’s like to suffer. If he gets this right, he can save others from such horror. And maybe finally get some answers about what happened to his wife.

Monsters can come in all sorts of disguises. When a young woman is brutally murdered in the Norfolk countryside, the locals blame Black Shuck – a legendary wild dog. There’s only one problem: the wounds weren’t made by an animal.Detective Robert Kett is battling a black dog of his own. With his wife still missing, and the injuries from his last case leaving him in constant pain, everything seems impossible – not least looking after his three young children.But when a second body appears, even bloodier than the last, Kett finds himself on a hunt for one of the most ruthless serial killers the country has ever seen.A killer who may be hunting him too.

He will find the truth. Even if it kills him.Five months ago, Detective Robert Kett’s wife Billie was snatched from a London street. Five months of no leads, no evidence, and no suspects.Until now.When a routine police search uncovers a chamber of horrors beneath one of the city’s most expensive houses, detectives find a clue that points to Billie’s fate, and to the identity of her kidnapper.Desperate for closure, and Kett returns to London for his most personal and dangerous case yet – there, he must face pure evil.He doesn’t know if Billie is alive or dead. He doesn’t know if he’s too late to save her. All he knows is that he swore he’d go to hell and back to find out what happened.And now, he's about to.

'Fresh and ferocious' James PattersonDeath comes for us all.In the glorious heat of a Norfolk summer, the Extreme Crime Task Force is facing its biggest case yet: organising DS Kate Savage and PC Aaron Duke’s wedding.It should be a joyous escape after months of heartbreak. But the celebrations are interrupted by the discovery of a young woman, bloodied and barefoot, who claims she has just escaped from hell.What she leads DCI Kett and the team to is a nightmare beyond imagination: a house of horrors, and an act of unspeakable evil.The only thing the girl can tell them about the person who took her, is that his victims call him Mr Death.A man who is now nowhere to be found.A monster who has unfinished business.Kett and the Task Force must hunt down a killer as clever as he is ruthless, and as creative as he is sadistic. And what should be a summer of love quickly becomes the season of murder.Because sooner or later, everything must die.The twentieth novel in the internationally bestselling series from multi-million selling author Alex Smith. Relentless action, compulsive mystery and side-splitting humour abound in the books that Thrilling Fiction calls "heart-stoppingly gripping!" from the author that James Patterson describes as "fresh and ferocious!"

Every time you hear his voice, another child will die.Detective Robert Kett’s family may be whole again, but he is a broken man.Kett has been suspended from duty, so takes his family for a much-needed holiday on the Norfolk Coast. Instead of the peace he desperately seeks, however, Kett finds a community in chaos. Four teenagers are missing, and time is running out before they meet a horrific fate.Kett knows that the man who took them is the only one who can reveal where the children are being held. There’s only one problem.The kidnapper is already dead.

He has always been the hunter. He is about to become the prey.For years, Detective Robert Kett has tracked down the country’s most dangerous kidnappers and serial killers, earning a reputation as the best man to catch the worst men.The tables are about to turn.A series of brutal murders are found to have one alarming link: the victims are people that Kett put behind bars – and the ones that got away. It seems as if there is a vigilante on the loose.Kett is intrinsically linked to these crimes, and he starts to understand that something far more dangerous is going on.Because this killer isn’t just coming after the bad guys.He’s coming after Kett, too.

Ancient stories become real-life horrors. With Detective Robert Kett out of action a murder case falls to his detective colleagues, Kate Savage and Pete Porter. Norfolk is in the midst of a brutal winter, and the frozen body is discovered on the legendary Stone of Lyng. It quickly becomes clear that the young man wasn’t just killed, he was sacrificed.And he isn’t alone.Within a week, another mutilated dead man is found on one of Norfolk’s ancient stones. Somebody is acting out a ritual, and if Savage and Porter can’t stop them then more people will die. Because if the stories of the stones are to be believed, the Hateful Thing is coming – a killer whose thirst for murder and mayhem knows no bounds.