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The house promises a kind master, but the monster in the dungeon wants her. And Brian breaks all his toys. Mina Calloway is lured to the Pleasure House with the promise that all her dark fantasies will come true, but her past abuse makes her too hard to train. Instead of being sold to someone safe as promised, she ends up in the dungeons, left in the hands of the house’s most brutal and sociopathic trainer. When she looks into his cold dark eyes, she’s sure her life is over. Brian is a monster, a known killer. But he’s paid a lot of money to possess her.

I've always been the outcast—awkward, invisible, a loser. My pet rat and my computer are my only friends. I've accepted the fact that I'll probably die a lonely virgin—until I pick up the hottest man I've ever met for a ride home. An impulsive invitation, a strange encounter. He's way out of my league. Then he tosses me out, sending me back into the hole I'd crawled out of. I didn't think I'd ever see him again—until I walked into my new job two months later. Turns out, he's my new boss.

A sociopath cuts a path of destruction across the rural Midwest. In pursuit: a vigilante detective and a prosecutor, one bent on revenge, the other on virtue. And in the wrong place at the wrong time: a doctor in a life-and-death moral struggle. Barreling toward justice, their fates converge in these four interlocking short stories of cunning misdirection by internationally bestselling author Jeffery Deaver.

A baby lies abandoned amongst the rubbish, her tiny face as white as alabaster, her body as stiff as a miniature doll. A young prostitute lies beaten, her figure lying like a mannequin on the frozen concrete, her blood spilt, her life ebbing away. As DC 'Charlie' Stafford and her boss, DI Hunter, struggle to identify the victim from the violator, their hunt brings them to the crack houses of Lambeth, littered with damaged people, their lives scarred by tragedy and violence, most broken beyond repair.

Jefferson Winter ist Sohn eines berüchtigten amerikanischen Serienmörders. Und vielleicht ist es genau das, was ihn zu einem der besten Profiler weltweit macht. Wenn die Polizei vor Ort nicht mehr weiter weiß, holt man ihn. Sein erster Fall "Broken Dolls" führt ihn nach London: Bereits vier junge Frauen sind Opfer eines perfiden Täters geworden, der ihnen einen Teil des Gehirns entfernt und sie damit zu empfindungslosen Puppen gemacht hat. Jetzt ist eine fünfte Frau verschwunden. Jefferson setzt alles daran, den Täter zu finden, bevor auch ihre Seele zerstört wird.

Jefferson Winter ist Sohn eines berüchtigten amerikanischen Serienmörders. Und vielleicht ist es genau das, was ihn zu einem der besten Profiler weltweit macht. Wenn die Polizei vor Ort nicht mehr weiter weiß, holt man ihn. Denn niemand kann sich in einen sadistischen Mörder so hineinversetzen wie er. Sein aktueller Fall führt ihn nach London: Bereits vier junge Frauen sind Opfer eines perfiden Täters geworden, der ihnen einen Teil des Gehirns entfernt und sie damit zu empfindungslosen Puppen gemacht hat. Jetzt ist eine fünfte Frau verschwunden.

One is Paul Offenbach, a sadistic crime boss with a life-threatening bullet wound. The other is his hostage, Dr. Stuart Collier, now faced with a harrowing ethical quandary. Mile by mile, as a calculated battle of wills and wits plays out, the killer plots his next move. So does the doctor, sworn to do no harm but desperate to escape.

Steven Ross, a family man from a small midwestern town, has been arrested for murder. Evidence suggests he’s an accomplice of the sadistic killer Paul Offenbach. County district attorney Evan Quill believes in his heart that Ross is guilty, but as the trial unfolds, doubts emerge. He presses forward anyway, in a legal fencing match against a brilliant big-city defense attorney. Will Quill’s uncompromising beliefs put an innocent man in jail? Or will a misstep let a killer go free?