Crime Fiction Thriller Serial Killer

It's the ultimate test of strategy and skill. The killer chooses each opponent carefully, learning each one's weaknesses. Every meticulously planned move is leading to a devastating checkmate. Because in this game, all the pretty pawns must die.

Kate Marshall was a promising young police detective when she caught the notorious Nine Elms serial killer. But her greatest victory suddenly turned into a nightmare. Traumatized, betrayed, and publicly vilified for the shocking circumstances surrounding the cannibal murder case, Kate could only watch as her career ended in scandal. Fifteen years after those catastrophic events, Kate is still haunted by the unquiet ghosts of her troubled past. Now a lecturer at a small coastal English university, she finally has a chance to face them.

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.

Los Angeles, 1999. Ein Serienmörder hinterlässt eine Schneise der Verwüstung in Downtown Los Angeles. Der perfide Killer macht bei der Auswahl seiner Opfer keinen Unterschied: Männer und Frauen aller Ethnien fallen ihm zum Opfer. Gemeinsam mit dem FBI jagt der psychisch labile Detective Blake den Mörder. Doch als plötzlich einige Mitglieder des Ermittlerteams spurlos verschwinden, droht die Situation zu eskalieren – und Blake verlässt Los Angeles. Napa Valley, 2023. Blake, mittlerweile Sheriff von Napa County, wird an einem einzigen Tag zu mehreren grausamen Tatorten gerufen.

From the outside, Glenfarach looks like a quaint, sleepy village, nestled in the heart of Cairngorms National Park, but things aren't what they seem. The place is thick with security cameras, and there's a strict nine o'clock curfew, because Glenfarach is the last safe haven for people who've served their sentences but can't be safely released into the general population. For Detective Constable Edward Reekie, this was supposed to be a simple delivery job—drive his new boss up to HMP Grampian and collect Marky Bishop, take him to Glenfarach, then head back home again.

Diary of a Murderer captivates and provokes in equal measure, exploring what it means to be on the edge - between life and death, good and evil. In the titular novella, a former serial killer suffering from memory loss sets his sights on one final target: his daughter's boyfriend, who he suspects is also a serial killer. In other stories we witness an affair between two childhood friends that questions the limits of loyalty and love; a family's disintegration after a baby son is kidnapped and recovered years later; and more.

This is Reaper speaking. So begins an anonymous letter published in a Utah newspaper after a young couple is viciously murdered. Tooele County sheriff Elizabeth Gray leads the investigation into the double homicide, which is eerily reminiscent of a string of brutal killings years ago. When the letter leads detectives to yet another body, Gray calls on an old friend for help.

Agosto 1990: Due ragazzini sotto gli undici anni, a distanza di alcuni giorni, spariscono misteriosamente dalla rinomata Foresta di Mercadante, alle porte di Cassano delle Murge, ridente paesino dell’hinterland barese. Nonostante le ricerche si protraggano a lungo per scoprire che fine abbiano fatto, nessuno dei due bambini viene più ritrovato. Febbraio 1991 – Giugno 1991: In circostanze misteriose si perdono le tracce di altri due ragazzi, coetanei di quelli svaniti sei mesi prima: il primo da un quartiere periferico di Bari; il secondo, ancora una volta, dalla Foresta di Mercadante.

Andet bind i krimiserien om kriminalassistent Ellie Reeves fra Georgia i Appalacherbjergene. Da kriminalassistent Ellie Reeves er ude at vandre i Appalacher-bjergene, som hun ofte er, efter at hendes forældres mørke hemmelighed er blevet afsløret, finder hun pludselig liget af en ung kvinde ligge i skoven på et leje af blomster med en tornet brombærranke om halsen og hænderne foldet i bøn. Snart findes endnu en ung kvinde dræbt i vildmarken. Ellie og hendes team er oppe imod en uhyggelig seriemorder, der myrder unge kvinder. Og pludselig kommer Ellie selv i fare.

Als der notorisch erfolglose Anwalt Nicholas Meller die junge Nina empfängt, die sich bei ihm bewirbt, wird schnell klar: Nina sieht genauso gut aus wie auf dem Bewerbungsfoto, und – sie trägt einen körperlichen Makel. Ihr rechter Arm ist zurückgebildet. Ebenso schnell wird klar: Nina ist eine starke Frau, die kein Mitleid duldet und sich durchs Leben kämpft. Beide ahnen nicht, dass ihre Schicksale schon bald durch dramatische Ereignisse verschmolzen werden. Sie geraten in den Fall um einen unheimlichen Mörder, der seine Opfer mit chirurgischer Präzision einkreist und brutal umbringt.

Adopted when she was only days old, Ivy Hon knows little about her lineage. But when she’s stricken with a mystery illness, the results of a genetic test to identify the cause attract the FBI. According to Ivy’s DNA, she’s related to the Full Moon Killer, who has terrorized the Pacific Northwest for decades. Ivy is the FBI’s hope to stop the enigmatic predator from killing again.

When five Texas women disappear without trace, each on Saturday nights, the local authorities call in the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit. The newest member of this elite group of criminal profilers, Caitlin Hendrix, is all too familiar with hunting society's most depraved and twisted criminals. She suspects that the women were taken by a highly confident killer who convinces victims to lower their guard so he can gain power over them. But there's no evidence that any of the victims are dead - until a dog drags home a bloody strip of fabric torn from a white baby doll nightgown.

On a cold morning a cyclist finds the brutally-slaughtered body of a woman in her car, on a remote lane leading to the long-abandoned Irish village of Kelly’s Forge. But when Detective Finnegan Beck arrives from the nearby town of Cross Beg to investigate he notices there’s a baby’s seat in the back of the car. A bottle of baby’s milk lying in the footwell. And no child. Little Róisín isn’t the first child to go missing from that same remote location though. There was another baby girl, taken more than 50 years before, who was never found.

It was one of Kieran’s most chilling cases: her assessment of a murderer known as the Fireman. There was no doubt that the man needed to be locked away. Now, Craig is called to a gruesome crime scene that matches the killer’s methods, and news breaks that the Fireman has escaped prison. Amid a citywide manhunt, Kieran and Craig need to untangle a web of deceit, privilege, and greed. They suspect that those closest to the killer have been drawn into his evil, or else someone is using another man’s madness and cruelty to disguise their crimes.

A schoolgirl found it on a nature hike. A severed human foot wearing pink nail polish. A gruesome but invaluable clue that leads forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman down a much darker trail - to a dangerous psychopath whose powers of persuasion seem to have no end.

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.

Dismembered bodies of women for hire litter the sides of the road in rural Tennessee. It has happened before, 30 years prior. Not knowing if the murders are that of a copycat or the original killer making a reappearance, Agent Hank Rawlings, along with Agent Beth Harper, is once again dispatched to the scene. With little help from the local authorities and limited resources at their disposal, Hank, Beth, and a local agent are tasked with pulling back the layers of deceit to circle closer to the man responsible.

Eine grausame Mordserie versetzt Köln in Angst und Schrecken. Ein Serienmörder tötet Frauen, schneidet ihnen den Uterus heraus und drapiert ihre Leichen auf Waldlichtungen. Jederzeit könnte er wieder zuschlagen, denn er hat eine Todesliste, die er auf bestialische Art und Weise abarbeitet. Noch immer schwer angeschlagen nach dem Mord an seiner Schwester Patricia, übernimmt der Ermittler Mark Birkholz die Ermittlungen. Eine folgenschwere Entscheidung! Und ehe er sich versieht, wird er in einen Strudel gezogen, der ihn hinab auf den Grund seines tiefsten Seelenschmerzes zieht.

When a brutal serial killer defies all known methods, the police call in prolific lawyer and former homicide detective, Charlie Priest, to assist the hunt. Working together they soon discover a link to a lost scripture that contains a secret so devastating that its custodians are prepared to die to keep it. Tangled in a dark world of fanaticism, chaos and deadly secrets, Priest comes up against a nemesis more formidable and deranged than any he has previously encountered.

Catching a ride may not be as safe as we thought. Find out why when a couple of rides shares take a deadly turn.