Crime Fiction Thriller Serial Killer

For years, unbeknownst to his wife and teenage daughter, Martin Reese has been illegally buying police files on serial killers and obsessively studying them, using them as guides to find the missing bodies of victims. He doesn't take any souvenirs, just photos that he stores in an old laptop, and then he turns in the results anonymously. Martin sees his work as a public service, a righting of wrongs. Detective Sandra Whittal sees the situation differently.

Firefighters race to put out a blaze at a remote farmhouse. They discover two young girls alone in the house. Their mother is gone, and in her place is the dead body of a man, frozen naked in the fetal position. Two chess pieces made of ice have been left on the doorstep. Then it happens again. A missing woman. A frozen body. Chess pieces made of ice. Detective Dove Milson and her team are on the case, but time is running out to stop a serial killer.

Three men, sleeping rough on London's mean streets, have been found brutally murdered - each victim kicked to death and found with a £20 note pinned to his chest. But were they killed at random, or were they targeted for a reason? Tom Thorne is posted to the same streets - working undercover, disguised as a homeless man. In a harsh and harrowing underworld, Thorne discovers the horrifying link between the homeless victims and the perpetrators of a 15-year-old atrocity. Those who know are keeping quiet. But the word on these streets is that the killer is a cop....

Ende der 20er Jahre versetzte ein Eisenbahnattentäter die Bevölkerung in Braunschweig und Umgebung in Angst und Schrecken. Die Polizei tappte zunächst ...

Die Freight Train Riders of America (FTRA), sind eine hauptsächlich im Norden der USA aktive Vereinigung Wohnungsloser, die regelmäßig illegal in ...

Im April 1906 wurde am Bahnhof von Frankfurt am Main ein Koffer entdeckt, aus dem starker Verwesungsgeruch drang. Die darin befindliche Leiche einer 76-jährigen Rentnerin war erwürgt worden. Der Hauptverdächtige Wilhelm Meyer behauptete, sie habe Selbstmord begangen, und er habe die Leiche nur versteckt, um nicht unter Mordverdacht zu geraten. Der Fall zeigt, wie der Versuch, eine Leiche im Koffer per Bahn zu entsorgen, nicht unentdeckt blieb und scheiterte.

In den frühen 1930er-Jahren versuchte das Wiener Ehepaar Franz und Marie Laudenbach, seine finanziellen Schwierigkeiten durch Heiratsbetrug mit tödlichem Ausgang zu lösen. Zur Beseitigung der Leichen nutzte Laudenbach sowohl die Eisenbahn als auch die Gepäckaufbewahrung, indem er einen Koffer mit Teilen des Opfers in einen Zug nach Amsterdam stellte und ein weiteres Paket am Nordbahnhof deponierte….

Josiah Flynts "Tramping with Tramps" (Auf der Fahrt mit Landstreichern) aus dem Jahr 1904 gilt als Standardwerk über die frühe Hobo-Kultur. Zehn Jahre lang hatte der Autor in den USA als Tramp unter anderen Tramps gelebt, war mit Hobos auf Güterzügen von Küste zu Küste gereist und hatte auch Ausflüge zu Vagabunden in Deutschland, England und Russland unternommen, um in deren Gesellschaft vergleichende Studien anstellen zu können.

Am 6. Juli 1949 wurde eine zerstückelte Leiche auf Gleisen im Adachi-Distrikt von Tokio gefunden. Der Präsidenten der japanischen staatlichen ...

Am Ostersonntag 1998 wurde die Krankenschwester Elisabetta Zoppetti im Waschraum eines Intercity-Zuges auf brutale Weise ermordet: kniend, mit einem ...

When a young red-haired woman is found brutally murdered in downtown Chicago, one detail stands out: the red lipstick encircling her wrists and ankles. Detective Harriet Foster is on the case, even though she’s still grieving the sudden death of her partner. As a Black woman in a male-dominated department, Foster anticipates a rocky road ahead acclimating to a new team—and building trust with her new partner isn’t coming easily. After another victim turns up with the same lipstick markings, Foster suspects she’s looking for a serial killer.

Four-year-old Ellen is snatched by a stranger in the dead of night. Her devastated mother, Nicole, receives four identical phials and a threatening note in a familiar scrawl that chills her to the bone. But she always knew this would happen. She’s been expecting it for years. According to the note, one of the phials is poisoned. Nicole is given a deadly challenge: If she drinks one, the sadistic kidnapper will notify the police of Ellen’s location. The sender claims to be Luka Volkov, but Luka is supposed to be dead, killed long ago in a fire that haunts all those involved.

In Chicago a young man jumps from his 30th-story hotel room; along the Missouri River, a hunter and his son stumble upon a lake whose surface is littered with snow geese, all of them dead; and in Southern Alabama, Ryder Creed and his search-and-rescue dog, Grace, find the body of a young woman who went missing in the Conecuh National Forest, and it appears she filled her pockets with rocks and walked into the river. Before long Ryder Creed and FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell will discover the ominous connection among these mysterious deaths.

When a high-society call girl is murdered in her Georgetown home, investigators find two cameras hidden in the walls of her bedroom. One has its memory erased, presumably by the murderer. The second is connected to the Internet through an encrypted connection...and no one knows who's on the other end. Special Agent Allison McNeil is asked by beleaguered FBI Director Clarence Mason to run an off-the-record investigation of the murder because of the murder's similarity to a case she worked a year earlier.

Sommerfeldt ist wieder da, wo er ganz am Anfang war: auf der Flucht! Gejagt von Polizei, BKA, mehreren Profikillern und Gangsterbossen. Raus aus der Klinik und weg aus Ostfriesland. Nach ihrer Hochzeit am Strand hatte Frauke sich ihre Flitterwochen anders vorgestellt. Anstelle von Champagner und Gourmet-Dinner im Luxushotel heben die beiden mitten in der Nacht in Gelsenkirchen-Ückendorf ein Grab aus. Hier hatte Sommerfeldt Papiere, Bargeld und Waffen deponiert, um jederzeit untertauchen zu können.

Sie vergiften und erschlagen, sie erschießen und erstechen, und wenn es sein muss, tun sie das alles auch in Serie: die Mörderinnen dieser Welt. Die Autoren erzählen in diesem True-Crime-Hörbuch wahre Geschichten über perverse und ganz „normale" Mörderinnen aus sechs Jahrhunderten – von der „Blutgräfin" Elizabeth Bathory bis zur „schwarzen Witwe" Elfriede Blauensteiner. Auf dass allen Männern und Frauen das Blut in den Adern gerinnen möge … – Mütter, Töchter, Ehefrauen: Zu wenig Taschengeld?

All of Nashville is on edge with a serial killer on the loose. A madman is trying to create his own end-of-days apocalypse and the cops trying to catch him are almost as damaged as the killer. Field of Graves reveals the origins of some of J.T. Ellison's most famous creations: the haunted Lieutenant Taylor Jackson; her blunt, exceptional best friend, medical examiner Dr. Samantha Owens; and troubled FBI profiler Dr. John Baldwin.

It was a vicious, calculated murder. The killer selected his victim at Euston station, followed her home on the tube, strangled her to death in front of her child. At the same time, killed in the same way, a second body is discovered at the back of King's Cross station. And this grisly event eerily echoes the murder of two other women, stabbed to death months before on the same day. It is DI Tom Thorne who sees the link and comes to the horrifying conclusion. This is not a serial killer the police are up against. This is two of them - and two killers are way more deadly than one....

Jimmie Putnam is an ordinary man by any measure. By day, he works as a law clerk. At night, when he can't fight the cravings, he becomes a collector. He takes great care of his human things, and when they've been on their best behavior, he even takes them out of his freezers. Florel Ross has been mostly invisible since the death of her twin, who died 20 years ago at the hands of a serial killer. Obsessed with justice, Florel is willing to risk anything for the answers she craves: What goes on in the mind of a serial killer?

Getting in his car was a mistake. But as the frigid air whipped through her thin coat, she felt too cold to say no. Now, snowflakes settle on her long dark lashes. Ice-cold and forever fifteen years old, she’ll never see her mother’s smile again… As the biggest snowstorm the Outer Banks has seen in decades ravages the coastline, Detective Casey White is called to an abandoned junk yard miles beyond the marshes. Teenager Jill Carter’s body is posed on her back, a look of terror frozen on her beautiful face.