Crime Fiction Thriller Serial Killer

When the body of a man is found in the dense forest surrounding Black Rock Falls, Sheriff Jenna Alton immediately sees disturbing similarities with a past case - the same murder weapon, the remote beauty spot, and the way the victim is perched against a tree with no sign of a struggle. But the killer in that case was jailed for life.

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Mentre sale a piedi le scale per tornare a casa, intenta a leggere un fatto di cronaca nera, sente delle urla provenire dall’appartamento di una nuova inquilina… Il nome della protagonista non è casuale: Randi è l’anagramma del mio cognome. Lei mi assomiglia soprattutto nel carattere e mi sono divertita a mettere molto di me in lei. Marcella Randi diventerà un commissario di polizia con la passione per le indagini fin da ragazzina, come se fosse scritto nel suo DNA. Nella serie, infatti, anche suo padre è un commissario.

This is the story of Ralph and Marlene. Marlene was a sexy redhead and a blonde all-in-one with a thirst to kill. She was a sexy Siamese twin, and she carried a stainless steel mallet. The couple was pretty successful at their life of crime, until they decided to go camping. That's when they came across an angry Bigfoot.

Since her move to the country, Melissa Craig has become firmly established in village life. So, when one of the older residents fails to show up for a drinks party, Melissa goes to check on her. What she finds chills her to the bone: Her dear neighbor has been murdered, and the killer has painted a hideous smile onto her face. Melissa soon realizes that the death in her village bears the same trademark as a series of recent murders in the Cotswolds.

Midlands police chase a serial killer who inflicts death by the new urban weapon of choice. Given the targets seem enveloped in love affairs and deceitful liaisons, Chief Inspector Gavin Roscoe suspects a motive of jealousy and revenge. But as the number of victims increases, the connection between them wears thin. Is it really a broken heart holding the crossbow? And if it's not some crazed Cupid, who has their finger on the trigger? Plucky Detective Sergeant Sunita Roy doesn't think they are looking in the right places. Yet without evidence, her theory won't hold water.

FBI Agent Ella Dark has studied serial killers from the time she could read, devastated by the murder of her own father, and has gained an encyclopedic knowledge of murderers. In a twisted homage to history's deadliest game of hide and seek, victims are discovered at unreachable crime scenes, echoing legendary killers' trademarks. FBI Agent Ella Dark delves into her encyclopedic knowledge of the macabre to stop a murderer intent on eclipsing the past's most cunning predators.

A young boy walks into a police station in France. He claims to be Carl Meagan - a missing child from Sheffield whose name is still whispered as a warning to kids who stay out after dark. On her way home from the supermarket, nine-year-old Keeley Armitage vanishes without trace. Her family is overcome with shock and DCI Matilda Darke can’t help but focus on memories of the Carl Meagan case that almost ruined her career.

Wie perfide kann ein Serienmörder sein? Der Kölner Verlagschef Sven Bochert wird tot aufgefunden. Alle Umstände deuten darauf hin, dass er sich selbst gerichtet hat. Schusswinkel und Schmauchspuren an der rechten Hand sind ein eindeutiges Indiz dafür. Jedoch wurde keine Waffe und auch kein Blut am Tatort gefunden. Zudem scheint es eine Gemeinsamkeit mit einem zurückliegenden älteren Fall aus Stuttgart zu geben. Der Befund ist eindeutig: Damals wie heute wurde die gleiche Waffe und Munition verwendet. Ein sechsschüssiger Revolver des Herstellers Colt.

Orkus nennt sich der kaltblütige Mörder, der den Tod seiner Opfer im Darknet ankündigt. Ein bekannter Düsseldorfer Baumogul und eine Kölner IT-Ingenieurin wurden bereits vor laufender Kamera hingerichtet. Als Andreas Lichtenstein, ein ehemaliger Hacker, von der Seite erfährt, läuft der Countdown wieder erbarmungslos gegen ein neues Opfer. Lukas Sontheim ermittelt auf eigene Faust und nimmt den Kampf gegen die Uhr auf ... denn Orkus hat bereits weitere Taten angekündigt!

When a bundle of frozen body parts fall out of a van on a Los Angeles freeway, FBI agent Scott Houston knows just where to go for an off-the-record post-mortem. But to everyone’s horror, Jayne and Steelie quickly determine the parts aren’t from one body. The body parts are from multiple bodies.

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.

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.

When Case’s psychic friend, a child, and a cop are all threatened by a serial killer, it pulls him and his team into a deadly hunt. What started as a hunt for one serial killer gets complicated. Case got more than he expected and his search exposes serial killers in Houston, Boston, and Miami. Case can’t let them go on killing, and he doesn’t. This stretches Case and his team as they race in three cities at once to bring these serial killers to justice and prevent innocents from being murdered.

This is a short story about a 79-year-old angry, bitter old woman that liked to murder in a local park at night. Her weapon of choice is the ball peen hammer.

Catching the Eden Killer earned Haley Perez her detective's badge—and plenty of angst from her fellow, more experienced, detectives. With her mentor, Marvin Richards, now retired, Perez must rely on her own instincts when the body of a woman is found frozen to death in the forest near Ravenwood, with her eyes gouged out. But, that's the least of Haley's problems: she has a new deadly admirer. Someone claiming to be the Eden Killer's mentor is stalking her.

Francis Ackerman jr. ist in den Fängen eines der gefährlichsten Verbrecher der Welt: des Hüters. An einem Ort weit entfernt von jeder Zivilisation, in einem der kältesten Dörfer der Erde ist Ackerman seiner Nemesis gnadenlos ausgeliefert. In Washington, D.C. jagt Ackermans ehemalige Partnerin Nadia Shirazi vom FBI derweil einen gnadenlosen Serienkiller. Aber selbst wenn Nadia Ackerman findet, würde sie ihm überhaupt noch helfen können?

Was, wenn ein Mörder dir alle nimmt, die du liebst? Diese Frage muss sich Anke Köhler stellen, nachdem sie im Krankenhaus das Bewusstsein wiedererlangt. Ihr Mann und ihre beiden kleinen Mädchen wurden brutal ermordet. Anke hat schwer verletzt überlebt und kann sich nur vage an die Geschehnisse jener schicksalhaften Nacht erinnern … Fast genau ein Jahr später wird eine weitere Familie grausam aus dem Leben gerissen. Erneut handelt es sich um ein Elternpaar mit zwei Mädchen.

Forensic psychologist and single mother Ann Bailey has joined forces with Montana Highway Patrol officer Bryce McCabe. An expert in untangling the motives of depraved minds, Ann is tasked to help solve the mystery of two murdered women doused with gasoline and set aflame. It’s not hard for Ann to be reminded of the charismatic Elijah Weston, who served a decade in prison for arson - a crime that nearly cost Ann her life. Elijah may have been exonerated, but the connection to these rage killings is impossible for Ann to ignore.

The call comes early in the morning. David and Helen Tremaine have discovered a body buried in the grounds of their large Victorian manor house, Llys Faen Hall, just north of Cardiff. DI Jemima Huxley and her partner, DS Dan Broadbent, race to the scene to discover that a second body has been unearthed in a shallow woodland grave. And the forensic team working the site believe this is just the start. Jemima knows this is the biggest case of her career. But it couldn't have come at a worse time.