Crime Fiction Thriller Serial Killer

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.

Writing scrawled on the wall of Sheriff Jenna Alton’s office leads her, and her deputy, David Kane, to a secluded house on the outskirts of town. Inside, Jenna is devastated to find a much-loved local resident with stab wounds covering her lifeless body. As the small town grieves, Jenna discovers the wreck of a car with another dead woman inside. And, before she can make her next move, one of her own team is found unconscious, covered in the blood of a third female victim - a knife inches away from his hand. The clock ticks to uncover a dark secret that connects all three victims.

Two decades ago Marissa Mo escaped a basement prison - the only home she’d ever known. At twenty-seven, Marissa’s moved beyond the trauma and is working under a new name as a freelance photographer. But when she accepts a job covering a string of macabre murders in Portland, it’s impossible for Marissa not to remember. Everything is eerily familiar. The same underground lairs. Sad trinkets and toys left behind, identical to those Marissa had as a child. And then there is the note meant just for her that freezes Marissa’s blood: See you soon, Missy.

On the muddy banks of the Calumet River, a body has been found posed next to a series of mysterious glyphs and bearing wounds from a ritualistic slaying. Chicago detective Addie Bisset knows only one man who can decipher the message left by the killer: her friend Dr. Evan Wilding. A brilliant forensic semiotician, Evan decodes the etchings as Viking Age runes. They suggest either human sacrifice or righteous punishment. But to what god? And for what sins? Only one thing is clear from the disturbing runic riddles: there are more victims to come.

She left the wide skies of Colorado for a dream job in New York City’s glamorous fashion world—bright lights, bold designs, and a future full of promise. What she never expected... was to fall for a man who would nearly take it all away. When Elena Matthews meets the enigmatic Dr. Damien Cole, their chemistry is undeniable. He’s brilliant. Mysterious. Generous with flowers and affection—but strangely cold beneath the surface. As their passionate romance heats up, so does fear across the city. A serial killer is targeting young women, leaving no trace behind—except for dead flower petals.

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It began with the whispers. In the woods, in the park, and always at night. Then they came into town, down dark alleys, and in the shadows. Before long, the black-eyed children were moving closer, until finally there was a knock on the door. When the couple were found dead with their faces frozen in horror, the children were nowhere to be seen. Until it happened again. Join Detective Sarah Noble as she investigates another dark case in the town of Slayton.

À Boston, un tueur en série sévit. Sa cible ? Les roux, qu'il considère comme l'apanage du Diable en personne. Sa signature ? Des méthodes de tortures effroyables, datant du moyen-âge, pour tuer les femmes rousses qu'il trouve sur son passage. Qui pourra l'arrêter ? L'un est lieutenant de police expérimenté, arrogant, et odieux. L'autre est une professeure de théologie à Harvard. Elle est timide, mais surtout, elle est rousse. Il est tout ce qu'elle n'est pas, et elle est tout ce qu'il fuit et même au-delà.

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.

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.

A caravan of cars drives down Route 66, each passenger bearing a photograph. They are the parents of missing children, all brought together by word that children's grave sites are being discovered along the road. Kathy Mallory drives with them. The child she seeks, though, is herself. During the next few days, she will find herself hunting a killer like no one she has ever known, and will undergo a series of revelations of stunning intensity and effect.

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.

When the broken body of a seventy-one-year-old woman is found beneath the Humber Bridge, a sign around her neck with the words ‘Pure Evil’ spray-painted in red, Detective Hollie Turner can’t help but wonder–who would want this frail elderly woman dead? As she starts to delve into the victim’s personal life, Hollie discovers that the woman, Sister Brennan, ran a local mother and baby home at the Church of St Mary and the Angels. The unit may have shut down years ago, but the pain and anguish of those who were forced to give up their babies remains.