MICHAEL SLADE TITLES

From deep within the high security ward of a mental hospital, the Ripper plots revenge against Inspector Zinc Chandler of Special X. When Chandler responds to a bizarre murder at a hotel in Vancouver - a Hollywood producer found suspended upside down like the Hanged Man card in a Tarot deck - the Mountie becomes enmeshed in a deadly battle with the most implacable of psychotic enemies. To solve that murder and the horrific killings that follow, Chandler must look back in time to 1888, when London was terrorized by its own demented Ripper, and into the weird world of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. His search takes him from a high-speed car chase with guns blazing in the streets of Vancouver to the fantasy realm of dark Goths at the World Horror Convention in Seattle, and finally to a nail-biting climax in the Kingdom of Bones on Cannibal Island in the South Pacific, where Survivor is the game and Chandler an unwilling contestant.

SIGNED BY SLADE. The photos pinned to the Strategy Wall in Chief Superintendent Robert DeClercq's office prove that he and his colleagues are up against a monster this time - or is it monsters? First there's the baffling murder by incineration of eight people in Britain, which seems to have been done simply to steal a corpse. Next it's two Canada Customs officials who are killed so the corpse can be smuggled into Vancouver. Mixed in with these mysteries is a local porn king, a network of wealthy connoisseurs obsessed with made-to-order snuff videos, and a slew of deformed bodies that are being dumped around the Gulf Islands. Then there's the madman the Mounties don't know about. The psycho to end all psychos, who has confounded them before. And this time he's looking for diabolical revenge...

SIGNED BY SLADE. The RCMP's Zinc Chandler forms an uneasy alliance with US homicide detective Madeline Thorne to hunt the elusive Hangman, a cross-Border serial killer called The Hangman. The murders attract other players who want in on the action: small-time lawyer Jeffrey Kline, out to make his name on the killings, his hapless legal partner Justin Whitfield, media shark Sue Frye, who fights for the story, and Zinc's girlfriend, crime writer Alexis Hunt. But nobody is quite what they seem, and the secrets of the past explode in a stunning courtroom climax.

SIGNED BY SLADE. The bodies were all the same. First they had been stripped naked. Then the blood had been drained from them while they were still alive. Then their hearts had been cut out. The police looked for a psycho killer. The press screamed that a vampire was loose. But they were wrong. It was worse...

Cutthroat has San Francisco, Vancouver and Hong Kong clutched in his death grip. Somewhere between man and monster, he is driven by a motive as old as human evolution, and as modern as today's highest tech, a secret worth any price.

SIGNED BY SLADE. From the Vancouver author of HEADHUNTER. A mystery weekend on a secluded Caribbean island is somehow connected with a series of gruesome murders, the Jack the Ripper legend, and secrets of the Tarot.

SIGNED BY SLADE. Decades ago, Inspector DeClerq's young daughter was kidnapped and killed. Now his Special X Team receives a shrunken head, heralding the return of the Headhunter--a psychopath who left a trail of headless bodies in his wake eleven years earlier--or is it a copycat killer?

SIGNED BY SLADE. The sadistic psychopath known as Mephisto sends a challenge from cyberspace to DeClerq and the RCMP's Special X section. Mephisto uses murder and torture in a deadly quest to discover the secret of the Stonehenge.

The Headhunter is loose on the streets of Vancouver. The victims are everywhere - floating in the Fraser River, buried in a shallow grave, nailed to an Indian totem pole on the university campus. All are women. All are headless.

SIGNED BY SLADE. From the author of CUTTHROAT and RIPPER. DeClerq, Chandler and their colleagues in the Special X unit of the RCMP confront a complex case of violent death and occult terror rooted in a murder and a battle against overwhelming odds in Africa over a century ago.