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Series
Women's Murder Club volume 13
Language
English
Description
"San Francisco Detective Lindsay Boxer is loving her life as a new mother. With an attentive husband, a job she loves, plus best friends who can talk about anything from sex to murder, things couldn't be better. Then the FBI sends Lindsay a photo of a killer from her past, and her happy world is shattered. The picture captures a beautiful woman at a stoplight. But all Lindsay sees is the psychopath behind those seductive eyes: Mackie Morales, the...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Told through the women in his life--his mother, his sister-in-law, and the detective who brought him to justice--this gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row as he awaits his execution in twelve hours.
3) The drop
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fiercely than ever. In one morning, he gets two. DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime Lab? The latter possibility could compromise all of the lab's DNA cases currently in court. Then Bosch and his partner are called to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kate Burkholder, offered the job of chief of police in Painters Mill, Ohio, the Amish community where she grew up, believes she has securely put her past behind her, but the discovery of a body in a snowy field makes her realize she has to confront what happened to her as a child and expose a dark secret that could destroy her and those she loves.
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 27
Language
English
Description
"Unraveling the madness behind L.A.'s most baffling and brutal homicides is what sleuthing psychologist Alex Delaware does best. And putting the good doctor through his thrilling paces is what mystery fiction's #1 bestselling master of psychological suspense Jonathan Kellerman does with incomparable brilliance. Kellerman's universally acclaimed novels blend the addictive rhythms of the classic police procedural with chilling glimpses into the darkest...
6) The search
Author
Language
English
Description
Fiona Bristow, the only survivor of the Red Scarf serial killer who shot and killed her fiancé and his K-9 partner, is living quietly on Orca Island off the Seattle coast where she runs a thriving dog-training business, when her life is disrupted by artist Simon Doyle who is desperate for help in calming his wild puppy, and by the emergence of a copycat killer who wants the woman that got away.
7) Neon prey
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Series
Language
English
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Description
It was a relatively minor criminal matter, but enough that the U.S. Marshals obtained a warrant to enter the home. They didn't expect to unearth trophies from a score of killings. Now Lucas Davenport is on the trail of a serial murderer, one who was able to operate for years without notice or suspicion. But there's even more to this killer than meets the eye.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Doubleday large print home library ed.
Physical Desc
534 p. (large print) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven years ago Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband's betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, she's made a name for herself as a top prosecutor while juggling her role as devoted single mom to a teenage daughter. But everything changes when Alexa is handed her latest case: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Facing a high-stakes trial, her private...
9) Devious
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
439 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The crime scene at St. Marguerite's cathedral in New Orleans is shocking, even to seasoned detectives like Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya. A novice nun named Sister Camille has been found dressed in a yellowed bridal gown and viciously garroted, her body covered with an altar cloth. Convinced the police aren't doing enough, Camille's sister, Valerie Houston, begins to investigate. But the deeper Val's inquiries go, the more twisted the case becomes....
10) Roadside crosses
Author
Series
Kathryn Dance novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Roadside crosses are appearing along the highways of the Monterey Peninsula, not as memorials to past accidents but as markers for fatalities yet to come . . . and someone, armed with information gleaned from careless and all-too-personal blog postings, intends to carry out those killings. Kathryn Dance and her C.B.I. team know when the attacks will take place, but who will be the victims? Her body language expertise leads her to a recent fatal car...
12) Miracle cure
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Language
English
Formats
Description
They're one of the country's most telegenic couples: beloved TV journalist Sara Lowell and New York's hottest basketball star, Michael Silverman. In a Manhattan clinic, a doctor has dedicated his life to eradicating a devastating disease. One by one, they're being targeted by a serial killer. And now Michael has been diagnosed with the disease.
13) Second honeymoon
Author
Series
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
FBI agent John O'Hara and Special Agent Sarah Brubaker hunt an ingenious pair of serial killers whose victims all have one chilling thing in common--they're newlyweds.
14) The quiet tenant
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A psychological thriller about trauma, power, and survival, which follows a young woman who has been captured and confined by a serial killer--who is a father, widower, former Marine, and lineman for the local electric company--as he hides the true nature of his double life from his daughter, neighbors, and the local bartender who could be his next victim, unless his captive manages to stop him"--
15) 1st case
Author
Series
Angela Hoot volume Book 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323, 14 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Recruited into the FBI when her unorthodox programming skills get her kicked out of MIT, a computer genius tracks a killer who has been targeting young women through a sophisticated messaging app."--
Angela Hoot's unorthodox programming skills get her kicked out of MIT's graduate school-- and into the FBI's cyber-forensics unit as an intern. There's a messaging app with sophisticated tracking capabilities surfaces. Its beta users, all young women,...
16) Cruel intent
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Touchstone hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Former television journalist Ali Reynolds tries to defend her contractor Brian when he is named a prime suspect in his wife's murder and in the process uncovers a sadistic killer who finds his prey by hacking into a dating sight for housewives looking for a sexual relationship with married men.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Cassandra Brooks is a diviner, what used to be called a water-witch. Hired by a developer to dowse some land in upstate New York, she is walking a lonely forested valley one spring morning when she comes upon the shocking vision of a young girl hanged from a tree. When she returns with authorities to the site, the body has vanished, leaving in question Cassandra's credibility, if not her sanity. The next day, during a return visit with the sheriff...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York police detective Jacob Kanon searches for the killer of his daughter and her boyfriend, who were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in other European cities have been found dead with little to connect the murders except a postcard to the local newspaper. Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter Dessie Larsson, who has just received a postcard in Stockholm, and they think they know where to find the next victims....
19) Split second
Author
Series
Maggie O'Dell novels volume 2
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
400 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the sequel to A Perfect Evil, a serial killer escapes from prison and FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell realizes she can't play by the rules to track him down again.
20) Oh Danny boy
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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