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When Dave Gurney, retired NYPD homicide detective, is contacted by an old college acquaintance about some startling letters he's been receiving, it is a sinister puzzle. Then the acquaintance is brutally killed… Suddenly Gurney finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation that makes...

Tensions have been running high in White River as it approaches the anniversary of a fatal shooting of a black motorist by a local police officer. The economically depressed, racially polarized city is on edge, confronted with angry demonstrations, arson, and looting. In the midst of the turmoil, a White River police officer is shot dead by an unknown sniper. As the town spirals out of control, local authorities approach Dave Gurney to conduct an independent investigation of the shooting. But when he zeroes in on peculiar aspects of the individual murders that follow, his involvement is suddenly terminated.

The daunting task that confronts Gurney, once the NYPD’s top homicide cop: determining the guilt or innocence of a woman already convicted of shooting her charismatic politician husband. Gurney quickly finds himself waging a dangerous battle of wits with a thoroughly corrupt investigator, a...

Could a nightmare be used as a murder weapon? That's the provocative question confronting Gurney in the thrilling new installment in this series of international bestsellers. The former NYPD star homicide detective is called upon to solve a baffling puzzle: Four people who live in different parts of the country and who seem to have little in common, report having had the same dream - a terrifying nightmare involving a bloody dagger with a carved wolf's head on the handle.

Retired NYPD detective Dave Gurney becomes ensnared in a case of murderous political intrigue tearing apart a once bucolic Upstate New York town. The final, thrilling chapter in the fair play Dave Gurney saga finds the storied detective, often compared to Sherlock Holmes, confronted with an...

Pushed to his breaking point and accused of murder, retired NYPD detective Dave Gurney must face his greatest adversary yet to solve a mystery that is quickly tearing his world apart Tennis bad boy Zeko Slade is serving twenty years for the grisly murder of small-time criminal Lenny Lerman. The...

In John Verdon’s most sensationally twisty novel yet, ingenious puzzle solver Dave Gurney brings his analytical brilliance to a shocking murder that couldn’t have been committed the way the police say it was. The daunting task that confronts Gurney, once the NYPD’s top homicide cop...

When an old colleague comes to him for help solving the mysterious death of his town's most prominent resident, retired NYPD detective Dave Gurney must use all of his analytical skills to hunt a murderer who just might be killing from beyond the grave. The idyllic community of Larchfield is...

The first book in the Dave Gurney series, Think of a Number is a heart-pounding game of cat and mouse that grows relentlessly darker and more frightening as its pace accelerates Threatening letters arrive in the mail over a period of weeks, ending with a simple declaration: “Think of any...

In this novel from bestselling author John Verdon, ingenious puzzle solver Dave Gurney puts under the magnifying glass a notorious serial murder case — one whose motives have been enshrined as law-enforcement dogma - and discovers that everyone has it wrong. The most decorated homicide...

Dave Gurney, retired NYPD homicide investigator, is back in Shut Your Eyes Tight, the sequel to the international bestseller Think of a Number Dave Gurney, a few months past the Mellery case that pulled him out of retirement and then nearly killed him, is trying once again to adjust to his...

Por primera vez, Dave Gurney está investigando un asesinato ya resuelto y juzgado en los tribunales, aparentemente de forma impecable. Llevado al límite y acusado de asesinato, Gurney deberá enfrentarse a su mayor adversario para resolver un misterio que está acabando con su mundo. Ziko...

David Gurney se sentía casi invencible, hasta que se topó con el asesino más inteligente con el que jamás había tenido que enfrentarse. Ha pasado un año desde que el ex detective de la policía de Nueva York consiguió atrapar al asesino de los números y, aunque es su intención retirarse definitivamente junto a su esposa Madeleine, un nuevo caso se le presenta de forma imprevista.

El asesinato de un rico empresario ocurrido tiempo atrás es el punto de partida de una compleja red de mentiras que David Gurney deberá desentrañar. Y la identidad del asesino resulta ser la más grande de todas las sorpresas... Han pasado cuatro meses desde que David Gurney resolvió el caso del Buen Pastor y las consecuencias han sido terribles: se perdieron vidas y hubo carreras profesionales afectadas. Uno de los que más ha sufrido ha sido Jack Hardwick, que violó la normativa por ayudar a Gurney.

¿Cómo pueden tener el mismo sueño cuatro personas? ¿Por qué iban a suicidarse después de soñarlo? John Verdon, la gran sensación del thriller a escala internacional, ha vuelto con un nuevo libro que recordará a sus seguidores el ritmo cinematográfico de su escalofriante novela debut Sé lo que estás pensando.

Dave Gurney, a retired NYPD homicide detective, agrees to meet a woman making a documentary on ‘The Good Shepherd’, whose shootings made headline news a decade ago. But the killings stopped, and nobody could say why. Finding himself back on the case, Gurney soon discovers facts the original...

Ex detective Dave Gurney is supposed to be retired. But people with problems keep knocking… Like the police, who are baffled by a gruesome murder they just can't solve. A bride has been killed in the middle of her wedding reception. The suspect - her husband's gardener - is missing. So is the...

¿Qué ocurre cuando tu verdugo parece saber todo lo que pasa por tu mente? No hay escapatoria: vas a morir. Un hombre recibe una carta que le urge a pensar en un número, cualquiera. Cuando abre el pequeño sobre que acompaña al texto, siguiendo las instrucciones que figuran en la propia carta, se da cuenta de que el número allí escrito es exactamente en el que había pensado.

Nada es nunca lo que parece. Y menos si David Gurney está involucrado. Han pasado seis meses. David Gurney apenas ha conseguido reincorporarse a una cierta normalidad después de haberse encontrado al borde de la muerte tras resolver el caso más peligroso al que se había enfrentado. Madeleine, su esposa, está preocupada; Gurney ha sido diagnosticado con síndrome de estrés post traumático y nada parece alegrarle. Días después el ex detective recibe una llamada. Connie Clark, la periodista que creó la leyenda de Súperpoli y lo catapultó a la fama quiere pedirle ayuda.