Police Procedural Serial Killers Mystery

A death in custody. A life in jeopardy. When Ben Holdsworth dies alone in a police cell, riots erupt in Manchester. But after a post mortem, the authorities have decided nobody was to blame. DI Ridpath is asked to investigate by the coroner before an inquest, and immediately uncovers some...

A child's body in an unmarked grave. A killer waiting to strike again. A young boy's body is found in a meadow beside the River Mersey. No DNA. No witnesses. No clues. It brings back painful memories of the Moors Murderers. After two weeks, the police have made no progress finding the killer...

Three severed hands. No clues. A race against time. Three embalmed hands are discovered in a disused Victorian house. Is it a gangland ritual? The work of a cult? Or just a prank played by Medical Students? And what happened to the bodies? Meanwhile the Coroner needs to issue a Presumption of...

Play with fire, and you're going to get burned. The unputdownable new Ridpath crime thriller In Manchester, a block of flats is burning. The only victim is a middle-aged man, sat watching TV. Are the fire and the man's death an accident or is something more frightening at work? Meanwhile, DI...

"Du bist wie eine Rose, meine Prinzessin, deine Dornen sind voller Gift. Ich aber bin nur an deinen Blüten interessiert." Während ganz Deutschland in den Weihnachtsvorbereitungen steckt, erschüttern brutale Morde die Stadt Köln. Ein psychopathischer Mörder bringt junge blonde Frauen um, indem er sie skalpiert und enthäutet. Kann die Kölner Kripo um Lasse Brandt den Mörder schnappen oder wird es für weitere junge Frauen eine tödliche Weihnacht geben? Ein Wettlauf mit der Zeit beginnt.

Drei Nächte. Drei Frauen. Per Kopfschuss ermordet. Thomas Bulpanek will in Saarbrücken nur einen Anti-Gewalt-Kurs geben. Doch sein alter Mentor Martens bittet den Ex-Fallanalytiker um Hilfe: Ein Killer inszeniert die dritte Frauenleiche in der dritten Nacht. Die Polizei geht von einem psychisch gestörten Täter aus, aber Martens hat Zweifel. Außerdem traut er dem zuständigen Leiter der Ermittlungen nicht. Tatsächlich findet Bulpanek Hinweise, die in eine andere völlig Richtung deuten.

Strax före midsommar försvinner en medelålders man från sitt fritidshus i Härjedalen. Trots omfattande sökinsatser förblir han försvunnen men spår leder till ett samarbete med kriminalpolisen i Göteborg där Victor Carras tar sig an fallet som förundersökningsledare. Ett drygt halvår senare får polisen nytt huvudbry när två av nyckelvittnena omkommer i - vad det verkar - rena olyckshändelser. Carras och hans team har inget annat val än att börja om från början.

Pierwsza czesc cyklu o komisarzu poznanskiej policji. Wiosna 2010 roku to trudny czas dla stolicy Wielkopolski - do miasta zbliza sie potezna fala powodziowa. Wlasnie wtedy w kilku piwnicach staromiejskich kamienic pojawiaja sie trupy. Przypadkowe utopienia czy celowe dzialanie bezwzglednego mordercy? To wlasnie stara sie wyjasnic komisarz Zagrobny.

In der Nähe von Athen wird die Leiche eines Hotelbesitzers gefunden. "Das Heer der Nationalen Idioten" bezichtigt den Toten der Heuchelei. Es ist der erste Mord einer rätselhaften Serie, bei der die Anklage immer gleich lautet, die Opfer jedoch grundverschieden sind. Kostas Charitos – seit neuestem stolzer Großvater – ermittelt und versucht, den obskuren Fanatikern auf die Spur zu kommen.

Eine junge Frau liegt ertrunken im Christianshavns Kanal, mitten in Kopenhagen. Kriminalkommissar Georg Guldmann erkennt schnell, dass es sich um einen Mord handelt und die Frau vermutlich nicht das einzige Opfer ist. Die Ermittlung führt in die Kopenhagener Restaurantbranche, in das Parlamentsgebäude Christiansborg und ins Opernhaus. Erst im Gerichtssaal kommt schließlich die ganze grauenhafte Wahrheit ans Licht.

Still reeling from a personal tragedy, investigative journalist Rooker Lindström finds a grim hideaway from the world. It’s the dilapidated cabin on Minnesota’s Deer Lake bequeathed to him by his late father—one of the most notorious serial killers in the state. If the walls of this murder house could talk, they’d scream. Detective Tess Harlow needs something from Rooker only he can provide: a window into the mind of a murderer. A copycat is on the prowl, following in the footsteps of Rooker’s father.

When a young man is found lying on a station platform with a hole in his head, DI Kate Young is called in to investigate the grisly murder. But the killing is no one-off. As bodies start to pile up, she is faced with what might be an impossible task - to hunt down a ruthless killer on a seemingly random rampage.

When an abstract sculpture made from human body parts shows up in front of the Museum of Modern Art, NYC homicide detective Lucky Strickland and her partner are called in to catch the killer. Little do they know that this murder is only the opening gambit of a madman hell-bent on revenge. The sweltering city streets become a killing field as a new body is discovered on another block each day, with no end in sight. Can this psychopath be stopped before he reaches the end game, or has Lucky's luck just run out?

It seems like an open-and-shut case for FBI special agent Lucy Thorne when Eliza Cook walks into the field office. The teenage girl confesses to murdering a young boy. Disturbingly composed, she reveals chilling details only the killer could know. Beyond that Eliza doesn't say another word, leaving a vital question met with dead silence: Why did she do it?

When police investigator Susan Adler is called to the roadside murder of a fellow state trooper, she's tasked with finding the people responsible for the cold-blooded act caught on the trooper's dashboard cam. She traces the car to a nurse who, along with her elderly patient, has been missing for days. At the old man's house, she finds disturbing evidence that instantly revives two cold cases involving long-missing children.

Paul Czarcik, the longest-tenured detective in the Illinois Bureau of Judicial Enforcement, puts the rest of the team to shame. Ruthless and riddled with vices, Czarcik always gets his man. And fast. Until now... A double slaying isn’t the open-and-shut case of urban crime he’s used to. Connecting it to a high-profile Texas judge, Czarcik realizes something bigger is going on. It’s the work of a serial killer for whom Chicago is just the beginning. Now he’s inviting Czarcik to play catch-me-if-you-can on a cross-country murder spree. Going rogue, Czarcik accepts the challenge.

Florida homicide detective Maggie Novak should be celebrating: it’s the start of a new year, and her boyfriend has just proposed. But all she can think about is the alarming news she received earlier that evening - her teammate Detective Clayton Young is missing. With few leads, Maggie heads to the supermarket where Clay was last seen. To her horror, security footage reveals a devastating scene in the parking lot: her colleague has died in fearful circumstances.

Su uno scoglio del lungomare di Napoli viene ritrovato il corpo nudo e mutilato di una giovane donna. Un macabro rituale che ha già fatto più di una vittima. Una squadra di profiler, guidata dallo psichiatra Tito Jacopo Durso, sta indagando sul caso ed è alla disperata ricerca di qualche indizio sull'assassino, ribattezzato dalla stampa come l'Anatomista. Alla sua équipe la polizia ha deciso di affiancare una psicologa, Artemisia Gentile, esperta nella cura di vittime di abusi e maltrattamenti.

In 1999 and 2000, a number of young women go missing in the Perth suburb of Claremont. One body is discovered. Others are never seen again. Snowy Lane (City of Light) is hired as a private investigator, but neither he nor the cops can find the serial killer. Sixteen years later, another case brings Snowy to Broome, where he teams up with Dan Clement (Before It Breaks) and an incidental crime puts them back on the Claremont case.

Sequel to international best seller Block 46 and next in the award-winning Roy & Castells series. Whitechapel, 1888: London is bowed under Jack the Ripper's reign of terror. London 2015: actress Julianne Bell is abducted in a case similar to the terrible Tower Hamlets murders of some 10 years earlier and harking back to the Ripper killings of a century before. Falkenberg, Sweden, 2015: a woman's body is found mutilated in a forest, her wounds identical to those of the Tower Hamlets victims.