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Twenty years ago, a serial killer was caught, convicted, and locked away in the country's most hellish of penitentiaries. That man was Edward's father. Edward has struggled his entire life to put the nightmares of his childhood behind him. But a week before Christmas, violence once again makes an unwelcome appearance into his world. Suddenly he's going to need the help of his father, a man he hasn't seen since he was a boy. Is Edward destined to be just like him, to become a man of blood?

Theodore Tate never forgot his first crime scene—ten-year-old Jessica found dead in the Laughterhouse, an old abandoned slaughterhouse with the S painted over. The killer was found and arrested. Justice was served. Or was it? Fifteen years later, a new killer arrives in Christchurch, and he has a list of people who were involved in Jessica's murder case, one of whom is the unfortunate Dr. Stanton, a man with three young girls. If Tate is going to help them, he has to find the connection between the killer, the Laughterhouse, and the city's suddenly growing murder rate.

When the body of a convicted rapist is found, obliterated by an oncoming train, Tate works the case, trying to determine if this is murder or suicide. The following night, two more rapists go missing. It's hard to investigate when everyone on the police force seems to be rooting for the killer. There's a common plea detectives get from the loved ones of victims: When you find the man who did this, give me five minutes alone with him. And that's exactly what someone is doing.

A standard exhumation becomes anything but for private investigator Theodore Tate when bodies begin bubbling to the surface of the cemetery lake. Tate knows he has to let it go. But when the coffin is opened and its occupant is not the old man supposed to be inside, he knows he cannot walk away. But he cannot let the police keep digging, because they are getting dangerously close to digging up the real truth: the truth about him.

Joe is in control of everything in his simple life, both his day job as a janitor for the police department and his night work. He isn't bothered by the daily news reports of the Christchurch Carver, who, they say, has murdered seven women. Joe knows, though, that the Carver killed only six. He knows that for a fact, and he's determined to find the copycat. He'll punish him for the one, then frame him for the other six. It's the perfect plan because he already knows he can outwit the police.

Joshua está convencido de que hay una maldición familiar. Le ha arrebatado a sus seres queridos, le ha robado la vista y es la razón por la que su padre es asesinado mientras investigaba el homicidio de una joven. Joshua recibe una oportunidad que no puede rechazar: una operación que le permitirá ver el mundo a través de los ojos de su padre. A medida que Joshua descubre el mundo, empieza a ver lo que estos ojos podrían haber presenciado en su vida anterior.

Theodore Tate har aldrig kunnat glömma sin första brottsplats – tioåriga Jessica Cole hittades död i ett gammalt övergivet slakthus. Mördaren greps och dömdes. Rättvisa var skipad. Eller? Femton år senare härjas Christchurch av en ny mördare som verkar utgå från en lista med människor som var inblandade i Jessica Coles fall. En av dem är den olycksalige doktor Stanton, psykiatriker och pappa till tre små flickor. Om Tate ska lyckas hjälpa dem måste han hitta kopplingen mellan mördaren, slakthuset och stadens brant stigande mordstatistik.

Att människor försvinner i Christchurch är inte ovanligt, men när psykologiprofessorn Cooper Riley plötsligt inte dyker upp på sitt arbete och studenten Emma Green spårlöst försvinner efter sitt skift på ett kafé, börjar oron växa. Deras försvinnanden sammanfaller med att den tidigare kriminalinspektören Theodore Tate friges efter ett fyra månader långt fängelsestraff. Emma Greens far anlitar Tate som privatutredare för att hitta dottern, en skuld Tate bär på efter att ha varit inblandad i en rattfylleriolycka som nästan kostade Emma livet året innan.