Police Procedural Serial Killers Mystery

Six female undergrads at an elite university vanish. The media descends. The families demand action. And as Special Agent Nina Guerrera follows clue by chilling clue, she realizes she’s tracking the most cunning predator of her career. The case takes a turn for the worse, and the bizarre, when several victims are found perfectly preserved in an underground chamber of an abandoned mine. No signs of violence, no hint of how they died. Just more evidence that the killer is cruel, calculating, and a master of mind control.

A man has been mutilated and left to drown on the incoming tide, handcuffed in his van. With the murder bearing a striking resemblance to a string of sadistic killings carried out with surgical precision in 1990s gangland Manchester, it can mean only one thing: the killer is back. Transferred to the Major Investigation Team, DI Nick Dixon is assigned a new partner and sent to Manchester. Meanwhile, the gruesome murders in Somerset continue.

In this new series by number one best-selling—and critically acclaimed—mystery and suspense author Kate Bold, Camille Grace, a rising star in the FBI’s BAU unit, is dispatched to the one place she vowed to never return: the deep South. When bodies turn up on steamboats on the Mississippi River, Camille realizes she is up against a diabolical serial killer—one who will not stop until she finds him.

Massachusetts State Police detective Tommy Kelly is called to Nantucket Island, where a boy’s skeletal remains have been discovered at a construction site—interred for thirty-five years. The crime is especially gutting for Tommy, the father of two boys. It’s also the beginning of a grim mystery. Because no child during that period was even reported missing. Tommy is partnered with Nantucket PD’s best detective, Jo Harris, who first chafes at the idea of a mainlander encroaching on her territory. And their work together is only raising more troubling questions.

FBI Special Agent Mackenzie White finds herself stumped. Victims are turning up dead, unrecognizable, their bodies hurled from the highest of heights. A deranged serial killer, obsessed with heights, is killing his victims from the highest locations. The pattern seems random. But is it? Only by entering into the darkest canals of the killer’s mind can Mackenzie begin to understand what his motive is - and where he will strike next.

Quand la curiosité est vraiment un vilain défaut... Paris, Lyon, Alicante. Une série de crimes méthodiques, au modus operandi similaire. Un suspect bien sous tous rapports, au passé lourd d'une blessure jamais refermée. Louise, derrière la fenêtre de son appartement de Montmartre ou la vitrine de la librairie où elle travaille, s'éprend d'un inconnu au charme fou. Bientôt, des coïncidences troublantes et des mensonges, l'incitent à voir en lui le coupable des meurtres mentionnés dans la presse.

Detective Mia Hart never planned to return home. One terrifying summer night, Mia lost two of her closest friends to suicide. Scarred and broken, she fled St. Lucy’s, a small island off the coast of Maine. Now fifteen years later, when the body of a journalist is fished out of the bay near St. Lucy’s cliffs, Mia is forced to help with the case - and face all she’s been running from. As she approaches the island, the wintery winds of Black Rock Bay usher Mia home again.

FBI Agent Riley Paige faces a calculating serial killer who turns abandoned classrooms into macabre crime scenes, complete with unsolved math problems on the blackboard.

It’s a total crime wave: A mini encyclopedia of true crime, packed with stories of killers, cons, survivors, forensics and more! More than 200 stories of killers, con artists, master thieves, and brazen kidnappers—and strong survivors, detectives, forensic breakthroughs, and legal minds on...

In a brilliant and addictive thriller for fans of Tana French and Liz Moore, FBI rookie Riley Fisher must navigate a brutal serial killer as well as a kidnapping plot against the governor It’s a brutal winter in Des Moines, Iowa, and the city is gripped by fear. A serial attacker known as the...

Everyone has secrets. And many people do a good job hiding them. So when an unknown killer assassinates Jasmine Carter, a renowned abstinence speaker and upstanding citizen, and posts scandalous photos of her online, detectives Otto Haines and Serena Grimm are baffled. When it happens a second time, it is clear a serial killer is on the loose.

Two people consumed by grief. One seeks salvation. The other, revenge. Two years after losing her husband in the line of duty, DI Carrie Tyler is finally stepping back into the field. When tragedy strikes again in the form of apparent, drug-related gang killings, Carrie must lead her team into the shadows of Arthwaite’s streets to find a killer. Then the letters arrive. A million and one people interacted with my daughter while she was alive. It took only six to kill her. One by one, they will pay the price...

An undercover agent has gone missing after making an odd phone call... FBI agent Blake Wilder is a veteran in her field. From thieves, crooks, killers, to evil doers, Blake and her team have successfully hunted them all down, leaving no stone unturned. When Agent Thomas Hickley disappears and another undercover Fed vanishes, it sends shock waves throughout the Bureau. Blake and her team are asked to tackle this sensitive case, which leaves the Bureau scrambling at every point. After diving headfirst into the investigation, Blake hits a brick wall, one that almost knocks her out.

Missing journalist Ellie Landy is found in the River Parrett by a news crew covering the worst floods the Somerset Levels have suffered in living memory. A paperback is found by the woman’s bed with a mysterious inscription mentioning 'Sandman' and a time of day. Police assume it is an accidental drowning. Kate disobeys orders from the top and probes the death, as she suspects this was no accident. When another woman dies in suspicious circumstances, Kate finds herself drawn ever deeper into a nightmare of murder, treachery and perversion.

Set in a small, rural town in the Finger Lakes region in New York, forensic photographer Moon McFadden is psychic and communicates with the dead to solve their murders. When the bodies of several women are discovered in remote fields, FBI profiler Stuart Bauer is called in to help Moon catch the serial killer. They know two things about the killer: he places his victims’ bodies in an open field on rainy nights to wash away the DNA, and he removes a particular body part from the victim. As they zero in on the killer, he abducts Moon.

Ein grausamer Serienkiller versetzt ganz New Orleans in Angst und Schrecken. Er verbrennt, enthauptet oder vergräbt seine Opfer bei lebendigem Leibe. Detective Rick Bentz ermittelt unter Hochdruck. Als die nächste barbarisch entstellte Leiche gefunden wird, ein Heiligenmedaillon in der Hand, kommt dem Detective ein schrecklicher Verdacht: Könnte der katholische Heiligenkalender dem Mörder als Vorbild für diese Ritualverbrechen dienen? Die schöne Olivia, zu der sich der Detective unwiderstehlich hingezogen fühlt, will die Morde in ihren Träumen vorausgesehen haben.

Als die Ermittler des LAPD-Morddezernats es unmöglich finden, mit den Polizeisystemen eine Leiche zu identifizieren, die auf dem Campus der UCLA vergraben aufgefunden wurde, rufen sie Jayne Hall und Steelie Lander von Agency 32/1. Die Agentur, nach Artikel 32, Protokoll I der Genfer Konventionen benannt, erweitert Vermisstenmeldungen, um tausende von unidentifizierten Leichen einen Namen zu geben, die bei Gerichtsmedizinern in den ganzen USA im Rückstau liegen.

Jede Leiche hat ihre Geheimnisse ... Jayne und Steelie haben Agency 32/1 zu einem bestimmten Zweck gegründet: sie wollen ihre speziellen forensischen Fähigkeiten zu nutzen, um der Polizei bei der Aufklärung von Verbrechen zu helfen. Als ein Haufen gefrorener Leichenteile aus einem auf einem Freeway in Los Angeles aus einem Transporter fällt, weiß FBI Special Agent Scott Houston genau, an wen er sich wenden kann, um eine inoffizielle Postmortem-Untersuchung in Auftrag zu geben.

Der Todesschrei ihrer Mutter klingt Abby noch immer in den Ohren, auch wenn es schon zwanzig Jahre her ist, seit diese in den Tod sprang. Ihre düsteren Erinnerungen erhalten neue Nahrung, als eine unheimliche Mordserie New Orleans erschüttert. Denn alle Morde stehen in einer seltsamen Verbindung zu jener Nervenheilanstalt, in der Abbys Mutter ihrem Leben ein Ende setzte. Dort, versteckt in den Kellergewölben, hat sich der Killer sein Reich geschaffen. Er will die Sünden der Vergangenheit rächen – und Abby wird zur Zielscheibe seines Wahns …

Auftakt der "Vera Stanhope"-Krimireihe von Spiegel-Bestsellerautorin Ann Cleeves. Ein heißer Sommerabend an der Küste Northumberlands. Wie hatte sich Julie Armstrong auf ihr erstes Date seit Jahren gefreut. Doch bei ihrer Rückkehr erwartet sie ein schreckliches Bild: Ihr Sohn Luke liegt tot in der Badewanne, auf dem Wasser schwimmen Blüten. Wenig später treibt die attraktive Referendarin Lily im Teich inmitten von Blumen - ein schauriges Gemälde. Die inszenierten Morde geben Kommissarin Vera Stanhope und ihrem Kollegen Joe Ashworth Rätsel auf.