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.

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?

Months after discovering the mastermind behind her own kidnapping, Detective Jude Fontaine is dealing with the past the only way she knows how: by returning to every dark corner of it. But it’s a new, escalating series of mass slayings that has become her latest obsession at Homicide. At first, Jude and her partner, Detective Uriah Ashby, can see no pattern to the seemingly random methods, the crime scenes, or the victims - until they’re approached by a brilliantly compulsive math professor.

They call him the Jackdaw. On each body, he leaves a chilling signature: five scratches. And each time he kills, he takes a trophy, an eerie collection that grows with every strike. No one knows what he looks like, where he'll strike next, or why. He could be your neighbour, your boss… your husband. There’s only a paralysing fear that, whoever he is, he's out there: watching, waiting.

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.

Nowhere is safe. No one can be trusted. A bloodied body is found in a Manchester Immigrant Removal Centre. The investigating officer and the pathologist seem certain: a suicide. But for DI Ridpath something doesn't add up. As the evidence starts to unravel, and with few leads, the pressure is on...

The past is never over. It's just waiting for an opportunity to return When the notorious serial killer the Beast of Manchester was captured, the streets should have been safe. Except the police got the wrong man. An innocent person was convicted, and only later was the culprit put away. Now...

Er verstümmelt Frauen. Tote Schmetterlinge und zwei Mäuse sind zuerst die einzigen Spuren, die der Mörder hinterlässt. Niemand hat ihn bei seinen Ritualmorden gesehen - niemand bis auf einen kleinen Jungen. Kommissar Wedekind wird Zeuge einer bestialischen Inszenierung. Später bekommt Mike Wedekind eine Nachricht, die nur für ihn bestimmt ist... Der Kampf gegen die Zeit beginnt. Der Berliner Kommissar macht sich an die Lösung des Falls. Dabei sinkt er immer tiefer in die Abgründe seiner eigenen Vergangenheit - und die des gesuchten Mörders.

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...

અમદાવાદના પ્રસિદ્ધ સાબરમતી રિવરફ્રન્ટ પર એક દિવસ એક મૃતદેહ મળી આવે છે અને એની સાથે હોય છે એક ગિફ્ટ બોક્સ.. આ સાથે જ શરૂ થાય છે એક પછી એક હત્યાઓનો સિલસિલો. એક ખૂંખાર અને શાતીર સિરિયલ કિલર તથા એક જાંબાઝ અને નીડર મહિલા પોલીસ અધિકારી એસીપી રાજલ વચ્ચે શરૂ થાય છે એક દિલધડક રમત..જેમાં રહસ્ય,રોમાંચનો ફૂલ ડોઝ વાંચકો માણી શકશે.

"L'osservatore oscuro" è l'alter ego negativo che ci portiamo dentro, quello che ci dice che non ce la faremo, quello che alimenta le nostre paranoie, gli incubi peggiori... Per Aurora Scalviati, giovane profiler della polizia di Sparvara, i colleghi Bruno Colasanti, Tom Carelli e Silvia Sassi sono diventati la famiglia che non ha mai avuto. Ma tutto è destinato a cambiare con il ritrovamento, alla Certosa di Bologna, del cadavere di un uomo senza nome né documenti di riconoscimento.

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.

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.

Investigator Carrie Kintz is new blood with the Alaska Bureau of Investigation in Anchorage. But with a serial killer on the loose and a body count that’s rising, there’s no easing into the job. It’s sink or swim. The only clues to help law enforcement stop this maniac are the taunts dropped into crossword puzzles across the country—always in the same 8 DOWN position. Carrie is desperate to prove her worth to the force and the community by catching the killer.

Er weiß, was sie getan haben. Jetzt lässt er sie bluten. Ein junger Mann wird auf grausame Weise ermordet. In die Stirn ritzt der Täter das Wort "Feigling". Hauptkommissar Jan Theisen und seine Partnerin Laura Schüle stehen zunächst vor einem Rätsel. Das Opfer war sehr beliebt, niemand kann sich diesen Akt der Gewalt erklären. Kurz darauf wird in der Nähe einer alten Fabrik die Leiche eines Strichers entdeckt. Bei der Obduktion wird in dessen Magen etwas gefunden, das für Entsetzen sorgt, zugleich aber auch Licht ins Dunkel bringt: Offenbar verbindet die beiden Opfer ein düsteres Geheimnis.

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.

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.

¿Existe algo peor que asesinar? Una nueva ola de crímenes asola Barcelona, pero esta vez las víctimas no aparecen muertas, sino algo mucho peor: alguien los ha convertido en muertos vivientes. El criminal más retorcido de la ciudad va más allá de matar a sus víctimas: les deja en un estado vegetativo. Estas apariciones encienden una alarma de la policía. Prácticas quirúrgicas de otros tiempos despiertan problemas olvidados. Entretanto, la farmacéutica más famosa de Barcelona se verá involucrada en un caso ajeno. Todas las víctimas llevan un mensaje del verdugo: una palabra, una venganza.

Ein junges Paar verschwindet in der Nähe eines kleinen Ortes spurlos. Sie sind zwei weitere Opfer in einer langen Kette von Vorfällen im australischen Outback, die eines gemeinsam haben: Menschen verschwinden und nicht einmal ihre Leichen tauchen je wieder auf. Ermittler D.S. Walker und die Schwester der vermissten Frau glauben nicht an einen Zufall. Für sie steht fest, dass ein perfider Serienkiller die Abgeschiedenheit des Outbacks nutzt, um zu töten ... und jetzt hat er sein nächstes Opfer gefunden!

Former FBI agent Ryan McBride crashed and burned three years ago after a case took a fatal turn. He swore he was done with the Bureau forever—until Special Agent Vivian Grace shows up at his door with a new case he can’t refuse. Six-year-old Alyssa Byrne has been kidnapped, and her abductor, alias Devoted Fan, has threatened to kill her in twenty-four hours. He promises to reveal the girl’s location to the FBI on one condition: He’ll only talk to McBride.