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81) Criss cross
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 27
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"In a Virginia penitentiary, Detective Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson, witness the execution of a killer they helped to convict. Hours later, they are called to the scene of a copycat crime. A note signed 'M' rests on the corpse. 'You messed up big time, Dr. Cross.' Was an innocent man just put to death? Alex soon realizes he may have much to answer for, as 'M' lures the detective out of the capital to the sites of multiple homicides, all...
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Serge Storms novels volume 11
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Serge A. Storms, Florida's resident madman and serial killer, continues to dispense his own variety of justice against society's evildoers--this time he and his pal Coleman are out to get an assortment of skinheads and shysters as well as a particularly nasty thug called Jellyfish.
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Pub. Date
c2006
Description
On a freezing December night, with a full moon hovering in the black sky over New York City, two people are brutally murdered -- the death scenes marked by eerie, matching calling cards: moon-faced clocks investigators fear ticked away the victims' last moments on earth. Renowned criminologist Lincoln Rhyme immediately identifies the clock distributor and has the chilling realization that the killer -- who has dubbed himself the Watchmaker -- has...
84) Signature kill
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Series
Frank Behr novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"A stunning serial killer novel from David Levien, featuring his acclaimed and indomitable investigator, Frank Behr"--
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Series
Shadow man novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Vice cop Ben Wade has returned to his hometown of Santa Ana for a quieter life. When a woman is murdered in her kitchen, the town finds itself at the mercy of a serial killer who slips through windows and screen doors, shattering illusions of safety. As Ben and forensic specialist Natasha Betencourt struggle to stay one step ahead of the serial, Ben's own world is rocked again by a teen's suicide. Ben must decide how far he is willing to go, and...
86) Silent mercy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Prosecutor Alexandra Cooper is called to a Baptist church in Harlem, originally built as a synagogue, where the body of a young woman has been decapitated and set on fire. Was the fire meant to destroy the body or to draw attention to it? A second corpse is found at a cathedral in Little Italy. Alex mines the depths of Manhattan's many houses of worship to find a connection that will take her into terrible danger.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Two sensational unsolved crimes--one in the past, another in the present--are linked by one man's memory and self-deception in this chilling novel of literary suspense from National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon. "We are always telling a story to ourselves, about ourselves," Dustin Tillman likes to say. It's one of the little mantras he shares with his patients, and it's meant to be reassuring. But what if that story is a lie? A psychologist in suburban...
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Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
2006
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Description
Detective Harry Bosch, now in the Open-unsolved Unit, receives a call from the DA telling him a serial killer has confessed to several murders. Harry must interview the man about a case he couldn't crack involving the murder of a 22-year-old woman whose body was never found.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Description
After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed "The Angel of Death" by the media. But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster. He was a favorite son, husband, beloved father, best friend, and celebrated caregiver. Implicated in the deaths of as many as 300 patients, he was also perhaps the most prolific serial killer in American history. Cullen's murderous career in the world's most trusted profession...
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Series
John Cleaver novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Fifteen-year-old sociopath John Wayne Cleaver, having set rigid rules by which he must live in order to prevent himself from becoming a murderer, is intrigued by a body found behind a local Laundromat and conducts his own investigation into what he believes are the actions of a serial killer.
92) In the forest
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
O'Brien spins a tale of triple murder based on a notorious true crime. From an early age, unruly Michen O'Kane is the bane of village and countryside. The neglected and abused child's behavior worsens after he loses his adored mother, and, before he is out of grammar school, he is repeatedly incarcerated in juvenile detention institutions, where he is physically and psychologically damaged. He develops into a career criminal capable of violence, and...
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Pub. Date
c2007
Description
In his work as a Miami crime scene investigator, Dexter Morgan is accustomed to seeing evil deeds. . . particularly because, on occasion, he commits them himself. But Dexter's happy existence is turned upside down when he is called to an unusually disturbing crime scene at the university campus. Dexter's Dark Passenger – mastermind of his homicidal prowess – immediately senses something chillingly recognizable and goes into hiding. Dexter is alone...
94) Heartsick
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Portland detective Archie Sheridan spent years tracking Gretchen Lowell, a beautiful and brutal serial killer. In the end, she was the one who caught him…and tortured him…and then let him go. Why did Gretchen spare Archie's life and then turn herself in? This is the question that keeps him up all night―and the reason why he has visited Gretchen in prison every week since.
Meanwhile, another series of murders is tearing up the Portland streets....
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Series
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Description
In the midst of security mayhem after a Scottish delegate turns up dead days before the 2005 Group of Eight summit in Edinburgh, Inspector John Rebus searches for the brutal killer of a recently paroled rapist, discovering potential connections between the two deaths.
96) Babysitter
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"In the waning days of the 1970s, the lives of several residents of Detroit and its affluent white suburbs are drawn together following the disappearance of yet another child. Hannah, a wife and mother, begins an affair with a darkly charismatic stranger; Mikey, a young street hustler, finds himself on an unexpected mission to rectify injustice; and then there's the child serial killer known as Babysitter, an enigmatic and elusive figure at the periphery...
97) The drop
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fiercely than ever. In one morning, he gets two. DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime Lab? The latter possibility could compromise all of the lab's DNA cases currently in court. Then Bosch and his partner are called to...
98) Fair game
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Series
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Anna and Charles are werewolves and mates. He is an alpha and the son and enforcer of the leader of the North American werewolves, while she, an omega, can calm others. Now that the werewolves have revealed themselves to humans, the humans use the werewolves' talents to their advantage. That's how Charles and Anna end up in Boston helping the FBI track down a serial killer targeting werewolves.
99) Normal
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Description
He shops at your local supermarket. He drives beside you, waving to let you into the lane ahead of him. He also has an elaborate cage in a secret basement under his garage. The food he's carefully shopping for is to feed a young woman he's holding there against her will -- one in a string of many, unaware of the fate that awaits her. This is how it's been for a long time. It's normal... and it works. Perfectly. But this time it's different..
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Northern Ireland, spring 1981. Hunger strikes, riots, power cuts, a homophobic serial killer with a penchant for opera, and a young woman’s suicide that may yet turn out to be murder: on the surface, the events are unconnected, but then things―and people―aren’t always what they seem. Detective Sergeant Duffy is the man tasked with trying to get to the bottom of it all. It’s no easy job―especially when it turns out that one of the victims...