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The definitive biography of the deeply complex and widely misunderstood matinee idol of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Devastatingly handsome, broad-shouldered, and clean-cut, Rock Hudson was the ultimate movie star. The embodiment of romantic masculinity in American film throughout the ‘50s and ‘60s, Hudson reigned supreme as the king of Hollywood. But in a more conservative era, Hudson’s wholesome, straight-arrow screen image was at odds with his closeted homosexuality.

Holly Wakefield works for the NHS as a criminal psychologist specialising in serial killers. She has particular reason to be good at her job - but she keeps that to herself. When DI Bishop from the Met Police approaches Holly to investigate a recent killing, Holly is horrified by the dismembered bodies and the way they have been theatrically positioned. More shocking still is when the pathologist reveals this is not the first time she has seen these mutilations. It means a serial killer is out there, and they're going to kill again - soon.

On a cold winter's morning, the body of a young boy is discovered in Epping Forest. The body is pristine and peaceful, his head resting gently on a pillow, an angel pendant clenched in his small fist. It is a murder as carefully planned as it is brutal, and there's one person DI Bishop needs back on his team to help solve such a calculated crime. Holly Wakefield, clinical psychologist for the Met Police, is better than anyone Bishop knows at getting inside the brains of psychopaths.

When the mutilated body of a woman is discovered in her home, DCI Bishop from the Met murder squad is called in to oversee the case. The horrific killing bears a striking resemblance to three other murders years before, but the cases were never solved. Bishop knows they need the help of Holly Wakefield, a criminal psychologist who specialises in getting inside the minds of serial killers. The grisly murders occur every three years, but it is the stick-man drawing left at each crime scene that has the police baffled.

Holly Wakefield was just nine years old when her parents were murdered by notorious serial killer The Animal. The devastating event influenced her career as a criminal psychologist and now she helps the Met Police catch the most dangerous psychopaths. But Holly's world is turned upside down when she starts discovering messages at gruesome crime scenes from the person she fears above all else. The world believe The Animal is dead, yet Holly knows he is alive and killing again—and he wants her to know.

Just as Anthony’s career in stand-up comedy launched him onto the stage of The Tonight Show, he and his wife Brigitte faced an unimaginable personal nightmare: their two-year-old daughter, Brittany Nicole, was dying from cancer. While Anthony performed under bright lights, he struggled not to succumb to the darkness of losing a child.

Major Rodger Y. Murphy should have died when his helicopter crashed off the coast of Mogadishu in November, 1993. Instead, he woke up in August, 2125, in a binary star system 152 light years from home. Without any memory of the otherworldly abductors who spirited them away in cold sleep, Murphy and 100 other “Lost Soldiers” have been retrieved and awakened by officers of the Consolidated Terran Republic. Promising to return to the 55 Tauri B system after completing a distant mission, they leave the twentieth century castaways with a daunting objective.

Holly Wakefield arbeitet als Kriminalpsychologin. Ihr Spezialgebiet: Serienmörder. Es gibt einen guten Grund, weshalb sie die Beste in ihrem Job ist - aber den behält sie für sich. Als Detective Inspector Bishop von der Met Police Holly kontaktiert, um einen Mordfall zu untersuchen, ist Holly entsetzt von den brutal zugerichteten und theatralisch positionierten Leichen.

Wer stirbt als nächstes? Die Profilerin Holly Wakefield und Detective Inspector Bishop arbeiten an einem neuen Fall. Eine Prostituierte wurde brutal erstochen und verstümmelt. Geht es um eine Rachetat im Rotlichtmilieu? Holly erkennt schnell, dass der Fall einen anderen Hintergrund hat. Der Täter hat eine Strichmännchenzeichnung neben der Leiche zurückgelassen. Sofort denkt Bishop an zwei ungelöste Fälle vor mehreren Jahren. Damals wurden zwei Männer ähnlich brutal ermordet und dazu noch kastriert. Bei den Leichen wurden ebenfalls Zeichnungen von Strichmännchen gefunden.

Ein Junge wird ermordet in einem Londoner Park gefunden, fast nackt und arrangiert, als würde er schlafen. In seiner Hand befindet sich eine Kette mit einem Engelsanhänger. Der ermittelnde Detective Inspector Bishop bittet Profilerin Holly Wakefield um Hilfe. Es ist ihr zweiter gemeinsamer Fall. Doch sie kommen dem Täter nicht auf die Spur. Stattdessen finden sie eine zweite Leiche. Zahlreiche Jungs im Teenageralter werden in London vermisst. Wie viele von ihnen hat der Mörder bereits auf dem Gewissen?

Aus der Dunkelheit erhebt sich ein Mörder. Holly Wakefield war gerade neun Jahre alt, als ihre Eltern von dem berüchtigten Serienkiller "The Animal" ermordet wurden. Aus diesem Grund hat sie sich für eine Karriere als Kriminalpsychologin entschieden und macht Jagd auf die gefährlichsten Psychopathen. Ihre Welt wird auf den Kopf gestellt, als sie an grausamen Tatorten Botschaften von der Person entdeckt, die sie am meisten fürchtet. Die Welt glaubt, "The Animal" sei tot, doch Holly ist sich sicher: Er lebt – und er will, dass sie es weiß.

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