J. A Kerley
1) The Apostle
Author
Series
Formats
Description
From the bestselling author of Her Last Scream, a chilling tale of ritual murder and corruption, featuring Detective Carson Ryder. The Reverend Honus Schrum, a nationally renowned minister and owner of a broadcasting empire, tells the media he has come home to Key West to die. Meanwhile, Detective Carson Ryder is investigating the ritualistic murders of young women with chequered pasts, discovering the killings have religious overtones. Simultaneously,...
2) Detective Carson Ryder Thriller Series: Buried Alive, Her Last Scream, The Killing Game: Books #7-9
Author
Series
Description
Three thrillers featuring Detective Carson Ryder.
BURIED ALIVE: Carson's vacation in the Kentucky mountains is interrupted by a series of grisly murders. Carson's psychopath brother Jeremy appears, claiming innocence in the series of symbol-laden deaths. But Jeremy has never been a fan of the truth.
HER LAST SCREAM: Abused women are entering a secret 'underground railroad' to escape tormentors. But a killer is loose in the anonymous system. Carson...
3) Buried Alive
Author
Series
Description
The next in the bestselling series of psychological thrillers featuring Carson Ryder, the detective with a unique perspective on serial killers
Soon after witnessing the escape of violent psychopath Bobby Crayline from prison, Alabaman detective Carson Ryder takes a rare break in the mountains. But his vacation is interrupted when an anonymous phone call summons him to the scene of a grisly murder.
With more savage killings, and the heavy-handed...
Author
Series
Description
A serial-killer targets the country's most vulnerable women in this thriller featuring Detective Carson Ryder. They thought they were safe at last...
Across the US, a secret network of crisis centres permanently relocates women in serious danger from domestic abuse. But now someone is killing them before they reach their destinations. Detectives Carson Ryder and Harry Nautilus are having trouble gaining the trust of the volunteers who run the scheme....
5) Detective Carson Ryder Thriller Series: Blood Brother, In the Blood, Little Girls Lost: Books #4-6
Author
Description
Three thrillers featuring Detective Carson Ryder.
BLOOD BROTHER: The Manhattan murder of a close friend draws Carson to New York, dropping him into a whirlpool that pulls him deep into his own past. Carson's mad brother Jeremy returns to the mixture.
IN THE BLOOD: A baby floats in from the sea and launches Carson and Harry into a world of money-hungry preachers, white-supremacists, and genetics researchers. Where did the child come from? And why do...
Author
Series
Description
Detective Carson Ryder faces his most terrifying adversary yet in this nail-biting thriller from the author of Her Last Scream. Carson Ryder thought he'd seen everything. A specialist in twisted crimes, Detective Carson Ryder thought he'd seen the lowest depths of human depravity. But he's barely started his new job in Miami when called to a horrific scene: a concrete pillar built of human remains, their agony forever frozen in stone. Finding the...
Author
Series
Description
The fourth in the bestselling series of psychological thrillers featuring Carson Ryder, the detective with a unique perspective on serial killers.
Children are disappearing in Mobile, Alabama, the latest snatched from her own bedroom. There are no clues - and, as yet, no bodies.
Homicide Detective Carson Ryder is called in to investigate the abduction of little LaShelle Shearing only to find the case getting tangled up in murky departmental...
Author
Series
Description
A darkly compelling serial-killer novel introducing the next big name in psychological thrillers and, in Carson Ryder, a fascinating and complex protagonist set for many books to come. A body is found in the sweating heat of an Alabama night; headless, words inked on the skin. Detective Carson Ryder is good at this sort of thing - crazies and freaks. To his eyes it is no crime of passion, and when another mutilated victim turns up his suspicions are...
Author
Series
Description
Detective Carson Ryder's reputation is on the line when a sociopathic serial killer embarks on a personal vendetta, constructing his crimes to hit Carson's weak spot. He's coming to get you...
After a humiliating encounter with a cop, Romanian immigrant Gregory Nieves launches a vendetta against the Mobile Police Department, Alabama. Nieves can't fight a department, so he selects one man who symbolizes all men in blue: Carson Ryder, the MPD's specialist...
10) The Death File
Author
Series
Description
Detective Carson Ryder returns, on the trail of a brutal killer with mysterious motives.
Two psychologists are murdered 2000 miles apart - one in Phoenix, Arizona, one in Miami, Florida.
Amazingly, both have noted down the name of Carson Ryder - a detective with the Florida Center for Law Enforcement who specializes in catching psychopathic killers.
Carson joins forces with troubled Phoenix Detective Tasha Novarro to trace a ruthless killer whose...
Author
Series
Description
Three thrillers featuring Detective Carson Ryder.
THE HUNDREDTH MAN: A body is found in the sweating heat of an Alabama night; headless, words inked on the skin. Detective Carson Ryder is good at this sort of thing - crazies and freaks. To his eyes this is the work of a serial killer - and when another mutilated victim turns up his suspicions are confirmed.
Famous for solving a series of crimes the year before, Carson Ryder has experience with psychopaths....
Author
Series
Description
Detective Carson Ryder faces a cunning and inventive adversary in this terrifying thriller from the bestselling author of Her Last Scream.
Young men in Miami are being abducted and tortured after their drinks are spiked with a cocktail of drugs that leaves them unable to recall their ordeal. Despite this, Detective Carson Ryder knows the predator's name, height, age, coloring ... everything. It's impossible for the perpetrator to avoid detection....
13) Blood Brother
Author
Series
Description
The spine-chilling serial killer thriller featuring Carson Ryder - the homicide detective with a hidden secret that could destroy his career. These brothers have murder in their veins. Detective Carson Ryder's sworn duty is to track killers down. He's never revealed the fact that his brother, Jeremy, is one of America's most notorious killers - now imprisoned. Secretly, Ryder has used Jeremy's homicidal insight to solve cases. He's made a career out...
14) The Broken Souls
Author
Series
Description
A brilliant new psychological serial killer thriller featuring homicide detective Carson Ryder, hero of the bestselling 'The Hundredth Man' and 'Her Last Scream.'
Blood was everywhere, like the interior had been hosed down with an artery ...
The gore-sodden horror that greets homicide detective Carson Ryder on a late-night call out is enough to make him want to quit the case. Too late.
Now he and his partner Harry are up to their necks in a Southern...
15) In the Blood
Author
Series
Description
The author of BLOOD BROTHER returns with a psychological thriller featuring Carson Ryder, the detective with a unique perspective on serial killers - his brother's one.
TV evangelist Reverend Scaler made his fortune from firebrand rhetoric on the sins of modern America. But Scaler has preached his last sermon after being bound and beaten to death in an apparent S&M session.
Detective Carson Ryder has his own problems. He's edgy and unpredictable,...
Author
Series
Description
A terrifying new serial-killer thriller featuring Carson Ryder, hero of the bestselling The Hundredth Man. Thirty years after his death, Marsden Hexcamp's 'Art of the Final Moment' remains as sought after as ever. But this is no ordinary collection. Hexcamp's portfolio was completed with the aid of a devoted band of acolytes - and half a dozen victims, each of whom was slowly tortured to death so that their final agonies could be distilled into art....