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A local man has fatally overdosed on fentanyl at the ice cream parlor after polishing off a salted caramel cone. No history of drug use, no needles, no signs of addiction—only a body filled with poison. Rebecca suspects something far worse than a tragic accident. But how does fentanyl find its way into a dessert? When a father and his two children are poisoned by fentanyl after eating at a local diner, Rebecca comes to a startling realization. A sadistic killer is playing a dangerous game of chance, turning routine moments into fatal traps.

The graveyard of the New Hope Baptist Church in Juniper, Oregon should be a peaceful place, but when two teenagers are found murdered in the prime of their lives, the horror story begins. We discover a tatty paperback, written by bestselling crime author Amy Gallaty, and learn that its pages have been used as a blueprint for murder. When the murderer strikes again, mirroring yet another of Amy's plots, it becomes clear that someone smart, ruthless, and obsessed is pulling the strings and will not stop until we stop them.

À l’origine du roman, des faits réels : entre 1968 et 1969, celui que la presse a surnommé Bible John tua trois jeunes femmes rencontrées dans une discothèque de Glasgow. Il ne fut jamais identifié. En 1983, Noah Scott Sherington, enquêteur écossais obsédé par le meurtrier, est sur le point de l’arrêter, sous une pluie torrentielle au bord du loch Katrine, quand il est foudroyé par une crise cardiaque. À peine remis, écoutant son intuition et résistant aux injonctions des médecins et de sa hiérarchie, il suit sa piste jusqu’à Bilbao.

I den brændende hede sommer hærger en række skovbrande i bjergene, da liget af en ung kvinde findes i en flod. Liget er omgivet af en cirkel af sten, og i vandkanten ligger en perlekæde. Da endnu en ung kvinde findes død og omgivet af sten, indser Ellie Reeves, at hun er oppe imod en uhyggelig seriemorder.

Kommissar Olav Thorn ahnt nichts Gutes, als er zu einem bizarren Fund an den Bremer Busbahnhof gerufen wird: Im Gepäckraum eines Reisebusses aus Dortmund ist ein Koffer zurückgeblieben - mit grauenvollem Inhalt, sowie einem Zettel mit der Botschaft: "Ich packe meinen Koffer, und auf die Reise geht ...?" Noch bevor die Ermittlungen in Bremen richtig in Gang kommen, erreicht den Kommissar eine Nachricht aus Berlin: Auch am dortigen Busbahnhof ist ein Koffer mit Leichenteilen aufgetaucht.

Life was already complicated enough for Apple Rose. After all, bubbly cheerleader by day and ruthless serial killer by night isn’t an easy feat to pull off. Even if her victims might deserve their twisted fate. But when her best friend, Cindy Nix, learns the truth, things becomes about as thorny as can be. In some ways, Apple has always wanted to be seen and to have someone know the truest nature of her heart. But even this turn catches her by surprise. Will her bond with Cindy shatter now that the ugly truth is known, or will Apple be surprised again?

Billie-Rose's bloodstained body is found in the kitchen of her ground-floor flat. She's been strangled to death, there's a deep laceration to her upper thigh, and a wooden chess-piece grasped tightly in her hand. Daubed on the wall in Billie-Rose's own blood is a strange symbol: a bishop's mitre. All Detective Jack MacIntosh can think is: He's back. Four years earlier, four young women were also strangled to death in their own homes, the same deep wound to the thigh, the same weird symbol scrawled on the wall. The work of the killer they call the Bishop. Is he back to kill again?

Arriving at a quiet family home on the outskirts of the Lake District, Detective Morgan Brookes must deliver devastating news to a heartbroken mother. Seeing Lexie’s pink boots against the side of the house, she remembers the girl’s happy face and can’t help but think of her carefree childhood. Three years ago, Morgan saved Lexie from a serial killer, who is now behind bars. But this time, she’s failed to protect her. Certain a new and more terrifying killer is at large, Morgan finds a neighbor who claims a man in a silver car was watching Lexie’s house.

When you search for the missing, there’s no telling what you’ll find. PI Jessie Cole learned that painful truth firsthand when her sister disappeared. Now a new case will test Jessie and Ben once again. Owen Shepard, the public face of one of the country’s biggest health insurance companies, has become the target of a vengeful father. The man blames Shepard for his child’s death and plans to make the CEO know what it’s like to live with a broken heart - and watch others die.

Chicago is being haunted by a serial killer who doesn’t just take lives – they play a game. A game written in blood and fate. Each victim is left with a single Tarot card, a cryptic message that detective Audrey Holliday must decipher before the next murder. But just as she begins to understand the killer’s twisted logic, her own past is torn open with a revelation she never saw coming, a twin sister she never knew existed.

Her body floats. A bloated thing half atop the river. Naked. Pale. Mouth and eyes open wide. When two fishermen discover a corpse floating in the Clackamas river, profiler Violet Darger heads to rural Oregon to hunt another serial killer. What she discovers in the woods might change the course of her life. What secrets does the water conceal? The girl in the water marks the third such case in the area - all drowned with superficial stab wounds and discovered in a body of water - and Darger feels certain she won't be the last. The corpses are badly decomposed.

Er tötet dich. Und alle schauen zu. Video an, Mikrofon aus. Eine weitere Videokonferenz. Doch dann huscht ein Schatten über den Bildschirm. Du zoomst ran – und plötzlich ist überall Blut. Ein Teilnehmer wird mit einem Messer angegriffen. Du hörst seine Schreie, siehst wie er langsam und präzise vor laufender Kamera gequält wird. Und das Schlimmste ist: Du darfst nicht wegschauen... "Seelenleser" Tom Bachmann und sein Team vom BKA vernehmen mehrere traumatisierte Zeugen, die mitansehen mussten, wie ihr Kollege zu Tode gefoltert wurde. Doch wieso braucht der Killer ein Publikum?

A calculating serial killer, who 'trophies' the faces of his victims, is targeting Londoners and committing the most gruesome of murders. With each new atrocity, the public and the police are getting more desperate for results. Under enormous pressure, DCI Jack Hawksworth and his team begin their investigation and soon find it taking them into the murky world of illegal immigrants and human organ trading. But when the murderer strikes closer to home than Jack could ever have imagined possible, the case becomes a personal crusade – and a race against time.

One night, the body of a young woman is found, naked but for a necklace, tied to a statue outside a block of luxury flats. There should be an outcry. But the police rule it a suicide, and move on. Private investigators Lee and Jo, owners of No Stone Unturned detective agency in Leeds, are tasked with looking into the case. Who was the woman? Did she really kill herself? As they investigate, Lee and Jo uncover shocking secrets. And when they see links between this case and another they are working on, they are forced to question – is any woman ever truly safe in this world?

Of the real-life serial killers whose gruesome acts have been splashed across headlines, none has reached the mythical status of Jack the Ripper. In the Ripper's wake, terror swept through the streets of London's East End in the fall of 1888. As quickly as his nightmarish reign came, Saucy Jack vanished without a trace - leaving future generations to speculate upon his identity and whereabouts. He was diabolical in a way never seen before - a killer who taunted the police, came up with his own legendary monikers, and, ultimately, got away with his heinous crimes.

When Jake Boulder is asked to help investigate the murder of Kira Niemeyer, he soon finds himself tracking a serial killer who selects his next victim in a most unusual manner. As the body count rises, Boulder has to work with the police to identify the killer before more lives are taken. What ensues is a twisted game of cat and mouse. Only Boulder or the Watcher can survive.

With virtually identical women being murdered in Minnesota, panic is causing huge political pressure to get the killer off the streets. Celebrated investigator Cade Dawkins is given the hot potato case and hopes to get it wrapped up before the governor has his head. But the killer has his own agenda—one that goes beyond simply murdering knockout blondes. As it becomes a cat and mouse game between killer and investigator, Dawkins begins to realize he just may be the mouse.

Four years after serial killer Rudy Cutter was sent away for life, San Francisco homicide inspector Frost Easton uncovers a terrible lie: his closest friend planted false evidence to put Cutter behind bars. When he's forced to reveal the truth, his sister's killer is back on the streets. Desperate to take Cutter down again, the detective finds a new ally in Eden Shay. She wrote a book about Cutter and knows more about him than anyone. And she's terrified. Because for four years, Cutter has been nursing revenge day after stolen day.

They called him the Monday Morning Killer. That was 40 years ago, but now, it is happening again. A mother and her daughter are brutally murdered in their house on a peaceful Monday morning in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Detective Jack Ryder has enough on his plate, being home alone with six kids and his wife—country superstar Shannon King—on tour. This case takes his anxiety to a new level when he realizes the crime scene matches unsolved murders from four decades prior. He worries that a deranged serial killer has returned to Cocoa Beach.

Eine Serie rätselhafter Selbstmorde stellt Kriminalhauptkommissarin Tara Kronberg und ihr Dezernat für extreme Gewaltverbrechen im LKA vor eine schier unlösbare Aufgabe. Die Ermittlungen führen sie zu einem Podcast, der eine verstörende Fangemeinde anzieht – Menschen am Abgrund, die im trügerischen Versprechen auf Hilfe ihr Verderben finden. Als in einer verlassenen Fabrik die Leiche einer 16-Jährigen entdeckt wird, findet die Polizei nicht nur Spuren einer bizarren Tötungsmethode, sondern auch merkwürdige Abschiedsworte an einer Wand.