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Holy relics are disappearing from sacred spots around the world, and the Vatican will do whatever it takes to stop enterprising thieves from stealing what is left of the scattered and miniscule splinters of the true cross the Catholic Church has in its possession.

Bird Nichols is ready to make a fresh start in a familiar place. Last year, her parents died together in a car crash and her beloved grandmother is presumed dead from an ocean drowning. Bird is now moving onto her grandmother's California coastal property, and finally living out her dream. Bird loves cheese like nothing else. It's her autistic special interest, and she designs her boards along her sensory needs, and other people love them, too. But just when everything seems to be going right, the local troublemaker ends up dead on her rural road.

Ein schreckliches Verbrechen erschüttert Norwegen: Eine junge Mutter wird Anfang Januar erstochen neben den Osloer U-Bahn Gleisen aufgefunden. Es dauert nicht lange, bis Kriminalkommissar Cato Isaksen mögliche Verdächtige ausfindig macht: Ein Ex-Mann, mit dem es immer wieder Streit gab. Ein Verehrer aus dem Orchester, in dem sie spielte, der ihr leidenschaftliche Briefe schrieb … Aber was ist das Motiv? Hass? Unerfüllte Liebe? Alle Hinweise scheinen dem Ermittler wie Sand durch die Finger zu gleiten. Doch viel Zeit bleibt ihm nicht, denn auch zu Hause lauert die Gefahr.

Detective Philip ‘Cato' Kwong is investigating the death of a retiree found hacked to pieces in his suburban Perth home. The trail leads to Timor-Leste, with its recent blood-soaked history. There, he reunites with an old frenemy, the spook Rory Driscoll who, in Cato's experience, has always occupied a hazy moral terrain.

Detective Sergeant Philip ‘Cato' Kwong is light on sleep but high on happiness with his new wife Sharon Wang and their baby girl. But contentment is not compatible with life in the Job, and soon a series of murders of Fremantle's homeless people gets in the way of Cato's newfound bliss. As New Wave journalist Norman Lip flirts online with the killer, it becomes apparent that these murders are personal—every death is bringing the killer one step closer to Cato.

When wealthy property developer Francis Tan and his family are found slain in their mansion, Cato Kwong is forced to recall a personal history that makes his investigation doubly painful. The killer is elusive and brutal, and the investigation takes Cato to Shanghai. In a world of spoilt rich kids and cyber dragons, Cato is about to discover a whole lot more about the Chinese acquisition of Australian land—about those who play the game and those who die trying.

The world is in economic meltdown, but a mining town on the edge of nowhere is booming. With the town's population exploding, it's easy enough to hide a crime—or even a dirty past. Banished to the stock squad after the fallout from a police frame-up, Detective Senior Sergeant Cato Kwong is brought in from the cold to solve the case of a torso washed up on the wild shores of the Great Southern Ocean. When Kwong's investigation lifts the lid on the exploitation of migrant workers and disturbs an even darker criminal mind, the fallen cop faces powerful opposition.

En seriemördare i Oslo avrättar sina offer med kylig precision och efterlämnar en lapp med en strof ur barnvisan "Sov du lilla vide ung". Kriminalkommissarie Cato Isaksen får i uppdrag att leda mordutredningen. Han är fyrtiotre år och frånskild och lever i ett nytt förhållande med en yngre kvinna. Tillsammans har de en liten son på ett och ett halvt år. Arbetet på mordroteln kräver alltmer av utredarna samtidigt som Cato slits mellan sina båda familjer. Det är uppenbart att tonårssönerna från det första äktenskapet behöver mera tid tillsammans med pappa.

Siv Ellen Blad, tonårsmamma, postkassörska och passionerad violinist, hittas mördad en natt i början av januari. Det tar inte lång tid innan kriminalkommissarie Cato Isaksen hittar möjliga misstänkta. En utflyttad äkta man. En potentiell älskare. Och det har funnits fler män i offrets närhet, män som haft möjlighet att döda och sedan låta sig uppslukas av natten utan att bli sedda. Men vilket är motivet? Alla uppslag tycks glida som kvicksand mellan Cato Isaksens fingrar, gång på gång hamnar han i en återvändsgränd och får börja om från början. Och hemma väntar familjen.