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2) Exposure
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Rita Todacheene novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"A dual-voice cat-and-mouse thriller, told from the points of view of a killer who has created his own deadly religion and the only person who can stop him, an embattled young detective who sees the ghosts of his Native victims"--
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Bryant and May mysteries volume 5
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English
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The unthinkable has happened at London's Peculiar Crimes Unit. In the depths of winter, a member of staff has been found murdered, and everyone who works there is suddenly a suspect. But Arthur Bryant and John May, the eccentric elderly detectives who run London's strangest crime division, aren't on hand to solve the crime.
They've ventured into the heart of the English countryside, only to become stranded on a desolate snowbound section of road....
They've ventured into the heart of the English countryside, only to become stranded on a desolate snowbound section of road....
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Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 6
Language
English
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Returning to the Victoria Cross pub hours after witnessing the murder of a woman, Detective Arthur Bryant is stunned to discover that the pub itself has vanished and the street around it has mysteriously aged, and calls in the Peculiar Crimes Unit to track down a killer who is stalking London's oldest watering holes.
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English
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"Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb...We will likely be reading Patricia Highsmith for the next one hundred years." —Paula Hawkins
Just in time for the centennial celebration of groundbreaking noir fiction writer Patricia Highsmith comes a reissue of her propulsive, engrossing debut, Strangers on a Train, with a new introduction by best-selling author Paula Hawkins. Guy Haines and Charles Anthony...Author
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English
Description
Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. "Femi makes three, you know. Three and they label you a serial killer." Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality is the...
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English
Description
Civilization doesn't end with a bang or a whimper. It ends with a call on your cell phone. What happens on the afternoon of October 1 came to be known as the Pulse, a signal sent though every operating cell phone that turns its user into something...well, something less than human. Savage, murderous, unthinking-and on a wanton rampage. Terrorist act? Cyber prank gone haywire? It really doesn't matter, not to the people who avoided the technological...
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English
Description
Richard Papen had never been to New England before his nineteenth year. Then he arrived at Hampden College and quickly became seduced by the sweet, dark rhythms of campus life -- in particular by an elite group of five students, Greek scholars, worldly, self-assured, and at first glance, highly unapproachable.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
Description
Back in the summer of 1988, serial killer Joshua Gallagher-- dubbed "The Boogeyman" by the media-- stalked a tranquil Maryland town. A young Richard Chizmar was catapulted into the center of the nightmare, being the only person who an incarcerated Gallagher will speak to on or off the record. He has make a successful true crime writing and filmmaking career revolving around the murders. When the killings begin again, a horrifying calling card is left...
11) The shards
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1981 Los Angeles, 17-year-old Bret and his friends at the exclusive Buckley prep school welcome new student Robert Mallory into their fold until Mallory's unsettling preoccupation with the Trawler, a serial killer targeting teenagers throughout the city, takes a horrific turn.
12) Daisy in chains
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
He loves her. He loves her not. He's a serial killer. A murderer of young women, all killed in brutal attacks. But despite his conviction, he's always stuck to his story - he's innocent and he's been wrongly imprisoned. And now he wants someone to investigate, and more importantly, to write his story. At first Maggie, a barrister and true-crime writer, is reluctant to even acknowledge his requests, ignoring his letters. But this is a very charismatic...
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Series
Prison break trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Theodore Glenn escapes from prison, he continues the murdering spree ended by his incarceration seven years ago, but this time his target is the woman who put him behind bars--ex-stripper and club owner Robin McKenna.
14) The bad seed
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English
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"The bestselling inspiration for the chilling movie starring Patty McCormack and Nancy Kelly. What happens to ordinary families into whose midst a child serial killer is born? This spine-tingling tale investigates a mother's concerned suspicion surrounding several mysterious accidental deaths that all connect back to her eight-year-old daughter, Rhoda. Tremendously impacting the thriller genre, this masterpiece of suspense generated a whole crop of...
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A ninety-thousand-ton aircraft carrier. Six thousand men onboard. A killer in their midst. And the disgraced Navy SEAL who will track him down... The high-octane debut thriller from the New York Times bestselling writing team of former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb and John David Mann. When Navy SEAL sniper Finn steps on board the USS Abraham Lincoln, adrift in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, it's immediately clear something is wrong. It's been a long...
16) The stowaway
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Two years ago, Maria Fontana was the deciding vote on a jury that set alleged serial killer Wyatt Butler free. Now, she and her family are enjoying vacation on a two week long transatlantic cruise. But when passengers are discovered brutally murdered in a similar way to Butler's ritualistic MO, the ship goes on lockdown. Maria, one of only twelve people in the world with intimate knowledge of the case, faces a perilous ticking clock. Is it a copycat?...
17) Identity
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After Morgan Albright and her roommate Nina, host their first dinner party--attended by Luke, the guy who'd been chatting her up at the bar--Morgan's world is shattered. The back door glass is broken, cash and jewelry are missing, her car is gone, and Nina lies dead on the floor. Soon, a horrific truth emerges: "Luke" is actually a con artist named Gavin Rozwell who targets a particular type of woman, steals her assets and identity, and then commits...
Author
Series
Predator trilogy (Allison Brennan) volume 3
Language
English
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When the man she had helped convict of the rape and murder of her sister is set free because of exculpatory evidence, FBI scientist Olivia St. Martin launches her own investigation to uncover the truth about the case, only to discover that a brutal serial killer has been at large for years and, posing as a field agent, joins forces with Seattle detective Zack Travis to stop the monster.
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English
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"In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When prodigal daughter Heather Evans returns to her family home after her mother's baffling suicide, she makes an alarming discovery--stacks and stacks of carefully preserved letters from notorious serial killer Michael Reave. The Red Wolf, as he was dubbed by the press, has been in prison for over twenty years, serving a life sentence for the gruesome and ritualistic murders of several women across the country, although he has always protested his...
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