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E.L. Pender Reeks

Deze serie volgt de carrière en het leven van een FBI-agent die overstapt naar privédetective. Elke aflevering duikt dieper in de duistere kanten van de menselijke natuur en ontrafelt ingewikkelde complotten. Het biedt spannende lectuur voor liefhebbers van misdaadseries, met nadruk op nauwgezet onderzoek en onverwachte plotwendingen.

The Boys from Santa Cruz
When She Was Bad
Twenty-Seven Bones
Fear Itself
De vrouwen die hij aanbad

Aanbevolen leesvolgorde

  1. De vrouwen die hij aanbad

    • 320bladzijden
    • 12 uur lezen

    Wanneer psychiater Irene Cogan in de gevangenis kennismaakt met seriemoordenaar Max kost het haar weinig moeite te ontdekken dat er meerdere alter ego's actief zijn. Hij lijdt aan disassociatieve identiteitsstoornis. Vroeger stond dit fenomeen bekend als meervoudig persoonlijkheidssyndroom, en Irene ziet in hem een enorme uitdaging. Ze is een gerenomeerde én ambitieuze psychiater, en als ze Max succesvol behandelt zal ze alleen nog maar meer gerespecteerd worden. Maar naast haar professionele interesse, bemerkt ze tot haar verwarring dat er een spanningsveld is tussen een van de alter ego's en haarzelf. Agent Ed Pender is bijna pensioengerechtigd en heeft zijn beste tijd gehad bij de FBI. Hij is echter al enige tijd gefascineerd door een aantal vermissingen van vrouwen en vermoedt dat Max de dader is. Het kost hem heel wat overredingskracht om zich met Max, die immers bestempeld wordt als moordzuchtige gek, te laten opsluiten vermomd als mede-gevangene. Op die manier denkt hij belastende uitspraken aan Max te kunnen ontlokken. De moordzuchtige Max, die psychiater Irene nodig heeft om de baas over zijn alter ego's te blijven, is Ed te slim af... Wat volgt is een beklemmend spannende maar fascinerende psychothriller, waarin Irene en Pender beiden de gruwelijke waarheid achter de onberekenbare Max en zijn alter ego's te weten te komen.

    De vrouwen die hij aanbad1
    4,1

  2. Fear Itself

    A Novel

    • 336bladzijden
    • 12 uur lezen

    On his last day with the FBI, special agent E.L. Pender is drawn into the case of phobia disorder patient Dorie Bell, whose fellow attendees at a Las Vegas phobia convention have died in manners inconsistent with their fears.

    Fear Itself2
    3,8

  3. Twenty-Seven Bones

    • 368bladzijden
    • 13 uur lezen

    'As his eyes adjusted to the light, what appeared at first to be a can of ivory-coloured sticks proved to be a can of disarticulated bones, some long and thin, flared out delicately at the ends, others roundish, like irregularly-shaped stones, and still others short, with conical tips. They were of course the bones of a human hand. If he'd counted, he'd have found twenty-seven of them - eight carpals, five metacarpals and fourteen phalanges.' Although officially retired, ex-Special Agent Pender can't ignore a plea for help from an old friend - especially when there's an all expenses paid trip to the Caribbean attached. Julian Coffee, St Luke's chief of police, needs Pender's help to track down a serial killer known as the 'Machete Man' because of his habit of cutting off the right hand of his victims. Pender is about to discover the strangest and most baffling case of his long career.

    Twenty-Seven Bones3
    3,6

  4. When She Was Bad

    • 384bladzijden
    • 14 uur lezen

    Detective and mystery stories. Two hot young lovers who also happen to be cold-blooded killers ...Lily deVries suffers from DVD, a psychiatric condition known as dissociative identity disorder. Triggered by a devastating childhood trauma, her mind has fragmented into different personali- ties known as 'alters'. There's the gentle, child-like Lily; the sexually insatiable Lilah; and Lilith - the violent psychopath. Now Lily has found herself in the Reed-Chase mental institution where they're hoping to find a cure. But there's another patient undergoing treatment at the Institute. Fellow DID sufferer Ulysses Maxwell faces life imprisonment following the rape and murder of a dozen women. When Lilith and Max - Maxwell's psychopathic alter - meet, the reaction is dynamite. And when the ingenious lovers engineer a bloody escape, it's only ex-FBI Agent Pender who has any chance of stopping the ensuing carnage. Teaming up with Dr Irene Cogan, a brilliant psychiatrist, he must take on a pair of killers who win hearts as easily as they slit throats.

    When She Was Bad4
    4,0

  5. The Boys from Santa Cruz

    • 325bladzijden
    • 12 uur lezen

    In his four previous novels of suspense, Jonathan Nasaw gave readers a charming and unlikely hero against the forces of evil in former FBI agent E.L. Pender. Now, in The Boys from Santa Cruz, Pender faces his most terrifying foe to date. Like James Patterson and John Connolly, Jonathan Nasaw has proven time and again that he has an uncanny, almost eerie, knack for getting inside the labyrinthine and horrifying minds of the most deranged serial killers. In Fear Itself, Nasaw first introduced Pender, a rumpled, endearingly flawed investigator who immediately won readers’ hearts. In The Girls He Adored, Pender defeated a perverted psycho named Max, then went on to face The Machete Man in Twenty-Seven Bones, called a “skin-crawling, gory psycho-thriller” by the Scottish Daily Record. When last we left Pender, in Nasaw’s sexually charged thriller When She Was Bad, he took on a pair of mentally insane killers and nearly lost himself in the dark and blood-drenched recesses of their two twisted psyches. With his lust for terror and a frightening talent for getting deep under his readers’ skins, Nasaw promises to deliver more gripping action and unimaginably gruesome detail as he introduces readers to the bloodthirsty The Boys from Santa Cruz.

    The Boys from Santa Cruz5
    3,6