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Leela’s enemies are dying. They appear to be unrelated suicides, but she refuses to believe in mere coincidence. Someone is targeting these victims. But why? A single clue emerges, leading her to believe these deaths are linked to a cover-up job she did when she worked PR for the tech goliath Jolvix. It involves a high-tech novelty weapon, shrouded in secrecy, one she’s legally forbidden from discussing with anyone—including the hungry writer publishing an exposé on Jolvix who’s itching to get the full scoop.

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?

When new victims of the still-at-large serial killer known as the Red Reaper start to appear in London, DCI Declan Walsh and his team are placed back on the case—but everything isn't what it seems. For a start, the deaths are different, and the calling card is new. It could be a copycat, apart from one thing... They know what Declan did to the real Red Reaper a year earlier. Something only Declan and the closest members of his team keep secret. Is this the real Reaper, back to gain revenge on Declan and his family—or is this a protégé, staking his own claim to the serial killer name?

A stunning, erotic thriller by the bestselling author of Whiteness of Bones. Following the gruesome murder of a young woman in her neighborhood, a self-determined woman living in New York City--as if to test the limits of her own safety--propels herself into an impossibly risky sexual liaison...

A decorated police officer is found dead in a farmer's field, covered in what appear to be wasp stings. Except it's almost Thanksgiving in New York, and three inches of snow cover the ground. Days later, a prominent businessman with a fear of heights leaps from Harmon's tallest skyscraper. Are the deaths related?

Falkenberg, Suède. Le commissaire Bergström découvre le cadavre terriblement mutilé d'une femme. Londres. Profileuse de renom, la ténébreuse Emily Roy enquête sur une série de meurtres d’enfants dont les corps présentent les mêmes blessures que la victime suédoise : trachée sectionnée, yeux énucléés et un mystérieux Y gravé sur le bras. Étrange serial killer, qui change de lieu de chasse et de type de proie.

A new thriller starring Alabamian police Detective Cooper Devereaux, who confronts a murderer dubbed the Birthday Killer. A woman disappears on the way to her 20th birthday party. Three days later her body is found neatly laid out in the grounds of a Birmingham cemetery. The following week, a second woman disappears on her 21st birthday. Her body is discovered in a crematorium parking lot, and grisly forensic evidence leads Detective Devereaux to make a high-profile arrest.

The body of Amos Price lies in a pool of blood on the polished floor of an otherwise empty house. With no signs of a break in and no clues left at the scene, Detective Jenna Alton is at a loss. But as the team begins to unpick the life of the reclusive victim, they discover a disturbing link between Amos and the disappearance of several young girls in the county going back years.

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Madison Colson knows deep down that her father—a convicted serial killer—is innocent. Duty calls her back to Fog Lake, Tennessee, where terrifying events begin to unfold. The Good Samaritan Killer—or a copycat—is back. FBI Special Agent Shane Townsend is determined to stop the deadly rampage that has sent the tight-knit community into a frenzy. But he needs to earn Madison’s trust first. The task feels impossible, especially considering his father is the one who put her dad in prison.

When Detective Natalie Ward is called to the home of 14-year-old Roxy Curtis she can’t help but empathise with Roxy’s distraught mother Cathy. Roxy hasn’t come home, last seen heading next door for a sleepover with her best friend Ellie. As the mother of two teenagers herself, Natalie knows that this is every parent’s worst nightmare. But when Roxy’s body is found in the basement of a beautiful Victorian mansion on the other side of town, Natalie’s darkest fears are confirmed. What was Roxy doing there? Cathy seems evasive, and Ellie refuses to talk.

Medierna kallar dem The Postcard Killers. De är unga, vackra och välutbildade - och de skär halsen av unga människor över hela Europa. Eftersom de postar vykort till en journalist i varje stad där de dödat är rubriken given: The Postcard Killers har mördat igen. Nu har de kommit till Stockholm. Det inser Dessie Larsson, journalist på tidningen Aftonposten, för hon har precis hittat deras kort i sitt postfack. Tillsammans med Jacob Kanon, mordutredare från New York, dras hon motvilligt in i våldsverkarnas vanvettiga värld.

They aren't the kind of women anyone misses. Truck-stop hookers, runaways...no one would even notice they'd disappeared if the killer didn't photograph their lifeless bodies, posed in the back of a semi-trailer. Exactly like the infamous Trucker murders. Carmen Jacobs interviewed the world's most terrifying serial killers for her best-selling book. The police might not believe her, but she knows there's a monster out there, paying homage to other murderers. The only person who can predict where he'll strike next is Griffin Archer - a reclusive software millionaire with ample reason not to help her.

The early years of the killer's life unfolded in a seemingly ordinary environment, yet beneath the surface simmered a darkness that would later manifest in unimaginable ways. Born into a family that projected a façade of normalcy, the killer's childhood was marked by neglect and cruelty. The seeds of violence were sown in a household where love was scarce and anger was abundant. Each moment spent in this toxic atmosphere nurtured a growing resentment and a thirst for control, laying the groundwork for a future steeped in horror.

Dit is Annies verhaal. Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine en Mary Jane zijn vijf compleet verschillende vrouwen en hebben elkaar nooit ontmoet. Toch zijn ze beroemd om dezelfde reden: ze werden allemaal in 1888 vermoord. Hun moordenaar is nooit gepakt, maar de naam die de pers voor hem bedacht kennen we tot op de dag van vandaag. Na bijna anderhalve eeuw krijgen De vijf van Whitechapel eindelijk zelf een stem in hun wereldberoemde verhaal.

From the day he was born into this world, Andy never stood a chance. Raised by abusive drug addicted parents, he was brutally tortured daily. Andy became numb to the world around him and developed a disdain for the people in it. As he grew, the constant abuse caused his youthful mind to finally snap. Liberating himself from his parents at 17, he now has a new mission in life. He will be the worlds most notorious serial killer.

When bodies are discovered in the open, the killings seeking to reenact Jamie's previous investigations, the team picks up the trail. A single killer is working from the shadows with ruthless efficiency, claiming victims before Jamie can even take a breath. But what's his endgame and what message is he trying to send? As Jamie starts to close in on the culprit, she begins to buckle under the weight of her own career. The monsters she's worked so hard to lock away are clawing their way out, and as the bodies start piling up, the team is pushed to their breaking point.

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.

AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTELLER A wildly funny thriller about reluctant partners who hit the danger jackpot when they discover that a serial killer is on their heels . . . again. Grace and Amber’s first encounter was anything but ordinary—they bonded over being stalked by the same psychopath...

Dangerously obese Marty Clawson persuades her cheating husband to dump her in the woods where she hopes to be scared skinny. But her fantasies about heroic outdoor survival flop as hard as her marriage. Dejected beyond measure, she takes a bus to Montana to visit an old high school suitor—someone she once suspected too sinister to pursue.