The Laughterhouse
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Publisher Description
From the author of the international best-selling thrillers The Cleaner, The Killing Hour, Cemetery Lake, Blood Men and Collecting Cooper
A gripping new thriller from crime writing sensation Paul Cleave
Theodore Tate never forgot his first crime scene – ten-year-old Jessica found dead in the 'Laughterhouse', an old abandoned slaughterhouse with the 'S' spray-painted over. The killer was found and arrested. Justice was served. Or was it?
Fifteen years later, there's a new killer on the loose and he has a list of people who were involved in Jessica's murder case, among them Doctor Stanton, a man with three young daughters.
If Tate is going to help them, he has to find the connection between the killer, the 'Laughterhouse' and a growing list of murder victims. And he needs to figure it out fast, because Stanton and his daughters have been kidnapped, and Stanton is being forced to make an impossible decision: which one of his daughters is to die first.
'Piano wire-taut plotting, Tate's heart-wrenching losses and forlorn hopes, and Cleave's unusually perceptive gaze into the maw of a killer's madness make this a standout chapter in his detective's rocky road to redemption.' Publishers Weekly
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A brutal sadist stalks Christchurch, New Zealand, in Cleave's compelling third noir thriller featuring PI Theo Tate (after 2011's Collecting Cooper). The down-and-out Tate, a former cop who yearns to return to the police force, remains haunted by a case he investigated 15 years earlier the rape and murder of a girl in an abandoned slaughterhouse, whose defaced sign gives the novel its horrifyingly ironic title. When a "spree killer" strikes one victim after another in an appalling day of terror, then kidnaps and unspeakably tortures a physician and his three young daughters, Tate and his former police partner, Carl Schroder, who's burning out just as Tate's finding his emotional footing again, gradually untangle the killer's demented motives. Piano wire taut plotting, Tate's heart-wrenching losses and forlorn hopes, and Cleave's unusually perceptive gaze into the maw of a killer's madness make this a standout chapter in his detective's rocky road to redemption.
