JILLIANE HOFFMAN

The chilling new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Retribution and Pretty Little Things THEY WATCH. The body of a student who went missing from a Florida nightclub is found in a dumpster. A horrifying scene, but nothing compared to what she had to endure before her murder. She was drugged and tortured - all broadcast live for the twisted pleasure of a snuff club. THEY WAIT. Detective Manny Alvarez works the homicide alongside young hotshot Assistant State Attorney Daria DeBianchi. The media spotlight shines on the accused, a privileged playboy seen leaving the club with the victim. But without cast-iron evidence, Daria and Manny must dig deeper to crack the case. THEY TAKE WHAT THEY WANT. The investigation exposes a terrifying connection between numerous unsolved murders and abductions stretching across the country. Their only lead is through notorious serial killer William Bantling, who knows the sinister society''s secrets first-hand. But Bantling won''t show his hand for free - he wants off Death Row. For Manny and Daria, the nightmare is just beginning. And the only thing more devastating than this case''s past is what lies ahead...

The prosecutor - Julia Valenciano. Young, ambitious and facing a case that could launch her career. The defendant - David Marquette. A successful Miami surgeon and devoted family man. The victims - Marquette's own wife and three small children. The plea - Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity. The perfect father and model husband, David Marquette seemingly just snapped. His experienced defence team claims paranoid delusions caused by schizophrenia drove him to slaughter his entire family. But the state suspects Marquette's insanity defence is being fabricated to disguise murders that were cold-blooded and calculated. Worse, Julia believes Marquette could be responsible for a string of unsolved, brutal homicides. The distraught survivor could just be one of the most prolific and elusive serial killers in the country's history. To bring him to justice, Julia must embark on a terrifying personal journey back into her own past - something she has struggled for fifteen years to forget. And this will lead her to confront a future so chilling, she's not sure she will ever be able to face it… Plea of Insanity confirms Jilliane Hoffman as a major thriller-writing talent at the peak of her powers.

The prosecutor - Julia Valenciano. Young, ambitious and facing a case that could launch her career. The defendant - David Marquette. A successful Miami surgeon and devoted family man. The victims - Marquette's own wife and three small children. The plea - Not Guilty by Reason More... of Insanity. The perfect father and husband, David Marquette seemingly just snapped. His defence team claims paranoid delusions caused by schizophrenia drove him to slaughter his entire family. But the state suspects Marquette's insanity defence is being fabricated to disguise murders that were cold-blooded and calculated. Worse, Julia believes Marquette could be responsible for a string of unsolved, brutal homicides. The distraught survivor could just be one of the most prolific serial killers in the country's history. To bring him to justice, Julia must embark on a terrifying personal journey back into her own past - something she has struggled for fifteen years to forget. And this will lead her to confront a future so chilling, she's not sure she will ever be able to face it.

She could have stopped an awful crime. She could have saved a life. She tried to forget about it. But now, the truth is out. The terrifying new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Retribution and Pretty Little Things. Faith Saunders is the perfect wife, mother, and community champion - loved and admired by all who know her. One night will change everything. As she drives home in the pouring rain, a dishevelled young woman appears out of nowhere, pleading for help. The isolated stretch of road is dark, and with her daughter Maggie asleep in the backseat, Faith refuses to let the stranger in. What she sees next will haunt her forever. When the missing-person posters go up, Faith's guilt consumes her. And then it turns out Maggie wasn't asleep that night, her perfect life begins to unravel. Maggie's testimony leads to an arrest. But Faith is the only one who can identify a second man involved in the woman's abduction and subsequent murder. She has one chance to convince a jury of what happened. If she fails, two killers will be set free. And they know exactly where to find Faith and her family...

Ella podría haber detenido un crimen horrible. Ella podría haber salvado una vida. Ella trató de olvidarlo. Pero ahora, la verdad está ahí fuera. El nuevo thriller de suspense psicológico del autor de exito de la Retribucion y Pretty Little Things. NIÑAS DESAPARECEN EN CONDADO DE PALM BEACH. Prostitutas, separadores - niñas que no tienen un hogar lleno de amor para perder

She could have stopped an awful crime. She could have saved a life. She tried to forget about it. But now, the truth is out. The terrifying new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Retribution and Pretty Little Things.Faith Saunders is the perfect wife, mother, and community champion loved and admired by all who know her. One night will change everything.As she drives home in the pouring rain, a dishevelled young woman appears out of nowhere, pleading for help. The isolated stretch of road is dark, and with her daughter Maggie asleep in the backseat, Faith refuses to let the stranger in. What she sees next will haunt her forever.When the missing-person posters go up, Faiths guilt consumes her. And then it turns out Maggie wasnt asleep that night, her perfect life begins to unravel. Maggies testimony leads to an arrest. But Faith is the only one who can identify a second man involved in the womans abduction and subsequent murder. She has one chance to convince a jury of what happened. If she fails, two killers will be set free. And they know exactly where to find Faith and her family

A terrifying new standalone psycholgical thriller from the bestselling writer of ''Retribution'' Special Agent Bobby Dees knows what grief feels like. He understands the pain of losing a child. And he''ll do whatever he can to prevent it from happening again. The phone call that comes on a Sunday morning will take him away from his insular world of grief and sleepless nights -- and into a far darker place. A young girl, Elaine Emerson, has gone missing and only Dees has a chance of finding her. It seems that Elaine had gone to meet her boyfriend, a mysterious figure she met secretly on the internet, who goes by the name of "Boogeyman", and whose reality is as cruel and chilling as the worst thing Dees can imagine!

El asesinato en Miami. El culpable: el famoso cirujano Dr. David Marquette. La víctima: su esposa y tres niños pequeños. Si el padre o los enfermos mentales, que ha asesinado a sangre fría? ¿Es tal vez un largo deseaba asesino en serie, como el detective John Latarrino creer? Fiscal Julia Valenciano quiere averiguar la verdad, contra toda la oposición. Los que acechan en su propio pasado, ella tiene quince años de éxito derrocado.

Recuperamos los turbadores escenarios y personajes de Castigo, y a su protagonista CJ, la fiscal y a la vez víctima del violador y asesino en serie que firma como Cupido. Utilizando método nada ortodoxos, CJ logro que lo condenaran a la pena capital, pero las muertes no cesan: policias del entorno de la fiscal son brutalmente asesinados y mutilados, Cupido dice conocer la identidad del verdadero asesino...Un thriller de calidad: accion, una excelente dosis de intriga, angustia, historia de amor.

¿Puede una célebre fiscal actuar con objetividad si en el banquillo de los acusados reconoce a quién la violó en su juventud? Un tenso e imprevisilbe thriller sobre la crueldad en serie, una aguda reflexion sobre la justicia, sus limites y sus imponderables. Su autora conoce de primera mano los resortes del mundo legal, y los del relato policial.

retribution: n. punishment that is considered to be morally right and fully deserved "-The Oxford American Dictionary" When an elite prosecutor faces the most lethal predator she''s ever encountered, it all comes down to a choice between justice . . . . . . and retribution

Este thriller impactante empieza con latensara del violador que acecha la llegada de su víctima a casa y la posterior violación de Chloe, una joven estudiante de Derecho. El violador ha escogido bien su victima, la conoce bien, la sigue desde hace semanas y se regodea ante las escena que va a tener lugar. Una escena horrible en la que Chloe durante cuatro horas es brutal y sadicamente violada. Queda en coma, desfigurada y vejada por un hombre que lleva una mascara de payaso y que le practica cortes en todo el cuerpo.Doce años mas tarde Chloe se ha convertido en una brillante fiscal, pero su miedo persiste. Se ha hecho la cirujia estetica en las cicatrices de la cara, ha cambiado el color de su pelo e incluso de nombre, C.J. Townsend, y de ciudad, pero todavia recuerda y teme que la vuelva a encontrar el violador.Hasta que un dia su peor pesadilla se hace realidad. Se ve involucrada como fiscal en el caso de un violador y asesino en serie, Cupido, acusado de violar a sus victimas bajo efectos de un farmaco que las inmoviliza pero las mantiene despierta y les permite sentir el dolor... mientras las destripa y saca el corazon.

Twelve years later a very different Chloe is forging a formidable reputation in the Miami State Attorney's Office, as a vicious serial killer nicknamed Cupid terrorises Florida - tearing out his tortured victim's hearts while they're still conscious. When the police stop a driver on the McArthur Causeway and a mutilated corpse is found in his trunk, it seems the hunt for Cupid is finally over. But as Chloe begins the task of prosecuting the suspect, she soon realises that this case will be anything but easy. Because her past is about to force itself on her present - and the terror is only just beginning.

Chloé Larson étudie le droit à New York. Un soir, elle est violée à son domicile. Profondément traumatisée, elle décide de commencer une nouvelle vie. Douze ans plus tard, Chloé a changé de nom et d'apparence, mais le souvenir de son agression la poursuit. Devenue procureur en Floride, elle doit instruire le dossier d'un effroyable tueur en série, et le passé resurgit. Qu'advient-il lorsqu'une victime se transforme en juge ?.

Truth and justice collide in former prosecutor Hoffman''s sequel to Retribution. Miami Assistant State Attorney C.J. Townsend finds herself living a nightmare, beginning with a call to go to the homicide scene of Victor Chavez, a cop who helped her convict serial killer William Bantling. Chavez''s body has been mutilated, his tongue twisted into what a former DEA officer calls the Colombian necktie. Early clues to this and subsequent, equally brutal, murders point to Florida''s drug underworld, but Townsend''s fiance, Special Agent Dominick Falconetti, and his team track the case back to Bantling. Falconetti is arrested for assaulting the ever-taunting Bantling, but even with the lead detective off the investigation, troubling facts emerge, while Townsend, haunted by her role in Bantling''s trial (she withheld evidence to put the man who raped her on death row), tries to distance herself. Instead, she must confront her torturer in court, putting her career, her relationship and eventually her life at risk. Reminders of fictional predecessors (Bantling in Hannibal Lecter restraints, Townsend''s Dirty Harriet heroics) and occasional uninspired romantic passages are Hoffman''s weakness; procedural detail and methodical depiction of the horrific are her strength. She combines the gruesome precision of Patricia Cornwell, the courtroom savvy of Linda Fairstein and the Miami setting of Edna Buchanan to produce an unsettling tale that, unlike most detective fiction, is not neatly tied up at the end.

Hace doce años, el estudiante de derecho Chloe Larson y caer brutalmente maltratadas, el autor nunca fue adoptado. Ahora está como un fiscal contra el sádico asesino en serie, y el pasado, las captur

Two years ago a brutal serial killer known as Cupid terrorized Miami, torturing and killing eleven young women. Sociopath William Bantling was arrested by police and Assistant State Attorney C.J. Townsend put him on Florida's death row, where he waits to pay for the crimes with his life. But now a new terror stalks Miami Beach. Three cops are dead - savagely mutilated while out on patrol. The killer's apparently motiveless attacks horrify the public and leave law enforcement officials shaken. And when it becomes clear that all three dead cops worked on the Cupid investigation, it seems the killer has an even more terrifying agenda. C.J. Townsend is worse than shaken. She shares a secret with three colleagues that may go right to the heart of this and the Cupid case - a secret that her colleagues have just taken to the grave. C.J. knows that she must keep that secret from the law and her friends, from all scrutiny. But she also knows that to do so means she will be its only living witness - and perhaps the next to die.

C. J. creía haber enterrado su terrible pasado cuando consiguió encarcelar a un horrendo violador en serie, el mismo que la había atacao en su juventud. Sin embargo, cuando su novio -el comisario de Florida Falconetti-, se encuentra ante una serie de crímenes, C. J. intuye, a través de las inquietatnes pistas, que aquello no fue un caso cerrado y que, en cambio, le queda mucho por descubrir.