Jack Kerley

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Jack Kerley is an American author. He spent 20 years in a successful advertising career before writing his first book. He currently lives in Newport, Kentucky.

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[edit] Writing

Jack Kerley is the author of the Carson Ryder books, The Hundredth Man and The Death Collectors.

[edit] The Hundredth Man

Bizarre writings are found on two corpses in Mobile, Alabama. Detective Carson Ryder and Harry Nautilus, the two man team of PSIT (the Psychopathological and Sociopathological Investigative Team), are launched into a search to find the killer. In the process, Ryder reveals the terrible truth about his past; his brother Jeremy is a convicted serial killer, who often provides Ryder with information about the mentality of the killers he faces.

[edit] The Death Collectors

In 1972, the day he is being sentenced, well known artist and serial killer Marsden Hexcamp is shot to death in the courtroom. The members of his Mansonesque cult are imprisoned or vanish. 30 years later, a possible prostitute is found dead, in a motel room full of candles, resembling Marsden Hexcamp's first murder. Soon after Marsden's artwork is sent to many of his remaining followers, and shortly after his followers see his artwork, they are killed by an unknown assailiant. Detective Carson Ryder and Harry Nautilus, the only members of the Pyschopathilogical and Sociopathilogical Investigation Team, or PSIT, are put on the case. Following the artwork they descend into the world of the Death Collectors, people who spend obscene amounts of money to own memorabilia of serial killers.

[edit] The Broken Souls or The Garden Of Vipers(USA)

This is a major new psychological serial killer thriller featuring homicide detective Carson Ryder, hero of the bestselling "The Hundredth Man". It looked like an abattoir when they found the mutilated body of the young journalist inside her car. And if Carson Ryder and his partner had known what they were getting into, they would never have taken the case. Too late, what looks like the work of a lone madman spreads tentacles that wrap themselves round all sorts of strange areas. And it's not long before attention focuses on the city's most unlikely suspects: the wealthy family whose philanthropy has made them famous and influential. For behind every fortune, there is a crime. And behind their money and smiles is a family divided by hatred, a family whose strange and horrific past is about to engulf everyone around them - including Ryder.

[edit] Upcoming-Little Girl Lost

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 and civic politics. And with his partner Harry Nautilus fighting for his life after being viciously attacked, Carson is feeling increasingly isolated. Public rage is now reaching dangerous levels, and Ryder's bosses turn for help to ex-Detective Conner Sandhill whose uncanny ability to spot connections and details missed by others is legendary -- but who left the department under a cloud. Ryder and Sandhill form an uneasy alliance in the hunt for the missing children, a hunt which becomes all the more urgent for tragic personal reasons. But at the root of these disappearances is something truly evil! and its source is closer to home than either could have imagined.

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