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The Oxford Murders

by Guillermo Marti?nez, Sonia Soto, Guillermo Martinez, Guillermo Martinez

Two mathematicians must join forces to stop a serial killer in this spellbinding international bestseller A paperback sensation in Argentina, Spain, and the United Kingdom, The Oxford Murders has been hailed as "a remarkable feat" ( Time Out London) and its author as "one of Argentina’s most distinctive voices" ( The Times Literary Supplement ). It begins on a summer day in Oxford, when a young... (more)

Women's Murder Club: Book 4

4th of July

by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

After losing one of its own, Lindsay Boxer and the Womens Murder Club make a courageous return for their fourth and most chilling case ever--one that could easily be their last. A young girl is killed in crossfire after a routine arrest goes terribly wrong, and Lt. Lindsay Boxer has to defend herself against a charge of police brutality. In a landmark trial that transfixes the nation, Lindsay fights to save her... (more)

The Rosary Girls: A Novel

by Richard Montanari

In his sleek, visceral novels Deviant Way , Kiss of Evil, and The Violet Hour, Richard Montanari slammed into the suspense field like a force of nature. Now Montanari has written an astounding novel that pits two besieged detectives against a fiercely intelligent serial killer. Sprawling beneath the statue of William Penn, Philadelphia is a city of downtrodden crack houses and upscale brownstones. Somewhere... (more)

The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers

The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers

by Harold Schechter

Serial killers have never enjoyed a firmer grip on the nation's imagination. A steady stream of horrific crimes have made serial murder a subject of both tabloid attention and serious study. With hundreds of entries spanning the entire spectrum of serial murder, this comprehensive resource examines these shocking crimes, and their infamous practicioners, from every angle.

Bishop/Special Crimes Unit: Book 8

Chill of Fear (Fear(mass market))

by Kay Hooper

New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper turns up the heat even as she chills readers to the bone with a new suspense novel that distills the essence of fear itself. In this relentless thriller, two psychics put more than their lives on the line to stop a killer darker and more evil than they could ever imagine. . . . FBI agent Quentin Hayes always knew he had an unusual talent, even before he was recruited... (more)

The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers

The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers

by Harold Schechter

THE DEFINITIVE DOSSIER ON HISTORY’S MOST HEINOUS! Hollywood’s make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can’t hold a candle to real life monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and scores of others who have terrorized, tortured, and terminated their way across civilization throughout the ages. Now, from the much-acclaimed author of Deviant, Deranged , and Depraved, comes ... (more)

Tenderness

by Robert Cormier

EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD ERIC HAS just been released from juvenile detention for murdering his mother and stepfather. Now he’s looking for some tenderness—tenderness he finds in caressing and killing beautiful girls. Fifteen-year-old Lori has run away from home again. Emotionally naive but sexually precocious, she is also looking for tenderness—tenderness she finds in Eric. Will Lori and Eric be each other’s salvation or... (more)

Bloody Mary (Jack Daniels Mysteries (Paperback))

Bloody Mary (Jack Daniels Mysteries (Paperback))

by J. A. Konrath

tart with a tough but vulnerable Chicago cop. Add a hyperactive cat, an ailing mother, a jealous boyfriend, a high-maintenance ex-husband, and a partner in the throes of a mid-life crisis.

While My Pretty One Sleeps

by Mary Higgins Clark

Neeve Kearny may be the only person in New York worried about the disappearance of Ethel Lambston. Ethel, a bestselling author famous for her juicy exposés, is one of the best customers at Neeve's exclusive Madison Avenue boutique. But Ethel's ex-husband, her parasitical nephew, and the fashion moguls skewered in her latest article all have reason to be glad she's no longer around. When Ethel Lambston is found... (more)

My Life Among the Serial Killers: Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers

My Life Among the Serial Killers: Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers

by Helen Morrison

Helen Morrison produces controversial theories as to why people commit multiple murders, having interviewed some of the most notorious killers in the world. Are serial killers born? Does child abuse really play a part in the formation of a killer's psyche? Are serial killers neurologically different from the rest of humanity? Helen Morrison provides her opinions on these and many other questions in her... (more)

Bishop/Special Crimes Unit: Book 9

Sleeping with Fear (Fear (Hardcover))

by Kay Hooper

Fear has never been so close.… New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper returns with a relentless thriller that brings her readers face-to-face with fear itself. In this terrifying new novel, a psychic special agent finds herself caught up in a tangled web of secrets, lies . . . and evil. Riley Crane woke up fully dressed, a gun under her pillow, and covered in blood. Even more frightening, she didn’t... (more)

The Skin Gods (Unabridged)

by Richard Montanari

With the breakneck pacing and intricate plotting of his most recent novel, The Rosary Girls, Richard Montanari established himself as one of the most exciting suspense writers working today. Now he proves himself a virtuoso with The Skin Gods, an explosive new thriller featuring Philadelphia homicide detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano. It is the steaming heart of summer in the City of Brotherly Love. Back... (more)

Cold Truth: A Novel

by Mariah Stewart

TRUTH HAS DEADLY CONSEQUENCES Twenty-six years ago, even before a series of brutal murders rocked the idyllic town of Bowers Inlet, Cassie Burke lost her parents, her sister, and nearly her own life to a transient befriended by her father. Back then, Cassie was a scared kid–now she’s a homicide cop. Back then, the suspect was caught and convicted–he died in prison. But now the killing has started again. And all... (more)

By Reason of Insanity

by Randy Singer

After a series of kidnappings and murders in Virginia Beach, newspaper reporter Catherine O'Rourke experiences disturbing dreams that detail each crime. In an effort to aid the investigation, she shares them with her confidential source--a detective working on the case. Catherine's intimate knowledge of the crimes immediately makes her a prime suspect. When scientific evidence corroborates her guilt, she's... (more)

Elizabeth Stride And Jack The Ripper: The Life and Death of the Reputed Third Victim

Elizabeth Stride And Jack The Ripper: The Life and Death of the Reputed Third Victim

by Dave Yost

As soon as the newspapers hit the streets on October 1, 1888, Elizabeth Stride became world renowned as the third victim of Jack the Ripper. Reportedly, Stride was killed only an hour before fellow victim Catherine Eddowes, becoming a key player in the legendary "double event" of Jack the Ripper's brief but notorious killing career. This book tells the complete life story of Elisabeth Gustafsdotter, beginning... (more)

The Bone Garden: A Novel

by Tess Gerritsen

370 pages, size 8.5 x 5.5

Sweeney Todd: The True Story of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street [SWEENEY TODD]

Sweeney Todd: The True Story of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street [SWEENEY TODD]

by Peter(Author) Haining

Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer

Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer

by David Reichert

It began with the discovery of three women’s bodies found near suburban Seattle’s Green River in August, 1982. Soon more corpses and human remains would be found, some as far as Oregon. They were teenage runaways or other women whose anonymous lifestyles had made them easy, vulnerable targets—and they were all the victims of a faceless murderer whose rampage would span two decades and take as many as forty-nine... (more)

The Want-Ad Killer

by Ann Rule, Andy Stack

After his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipulate, rape, and bludgeon women to death--using want ads to lure his young female victims. And time after time, justice was thwarted by a killer whose twisted legal genius was matched only by his sick savagery. Here, complete with the testimony of women who suffered his unspeakable sexual abuses and barely escaped... (more)

The Blue Edge of Midnight

by Jonathon King

Max Freeman's old life ended on a night that will haunt him for ever. The night he killed a twelve-year-old child in self-defence in a Philadelphia shootout. The night he stopped being a cop. Now he lives a solitary existence on the edge of the Florida Everglades. Then he finds the corpse of a child beside an ancient river, and Freeman's past explodes into the present. He is thrust into the centre of the search... (more)

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by Guillermo Marti?nez, Sonia Soto, Guillermo Martinez, Guillermo Martinez

by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

by Richard Montanari

by Harold Schechter

by Kay Hooper

by Harold Schechter

by Robert Cormier

by J. A. Konrath

by Mary Higgins Clark

by Helen Morrison

by Kay Hooper

by Richard Montanari

by Mariah Stewart

by Randy Singer

by Dave Yost

by Tess Gerritsen

by Peter(Author) Haining

by David Reichert

by Ann Rule, Andy Stack

by Jonathon King