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"In all their years working for the Baywood Police Department, detectives A.L. McKittridge and Rena Morgan have never seen anything like it. Four women dead in forty days, each killed ten days apart. With nothing connecting the victims and very little evidence, the clock is already counting down to when the next body drops. A.L. and Rena will have to act fast if they're going to find the killer's next victim before he does. But identifying the killer's...
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In the tradition of Long Bright River and The Mars Room, a gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense that deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row, told primarily through the eyes of the women in his life-from the bestselling author of Girl in Snow.
Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he's done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn't...
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In this gripping new series by New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Eden, a disgraced FBI profiler must save her reputation by stopping a sadistic killer she knows all too well Former FBI agent Samantha Dark was one of the most respected profilers in the bureau, an expert on the twisted minds and dark hearts of the most depraved criminals. But when her own former lover turned out to be the serial killer she was hunting, Samantha's career was...
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Japanese literary sensation Fuminori Nakamura's latest novel is as a dark look into human psyche - what turns someone into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion? Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life. A confessional diary implicates its reader in a heinous crime, and reveals with disturbing honesty the psychological motives of a killer. With My Annihilation, Fuminori Nakamura, master of literary noir, has constructed...
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Verena Vitek shot and killed a man when she was fifteen. A youthful refugee from the conflict in Serbia, Verena dreams of the day when she can legitimately kill again. Her chance comes when she joins an animal-rights activists cell headed by John Borrowman, a London, Ontario, zoologist. He's haunted by a recent trip to China in which he witnessed the barbaric practice of milking Moon bears for their bile, an ingredient in a growing variety of commercial...
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"Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let's get started"--...
7) Sawbones
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They call him Sawbones: a serial killer touring America kidnapping young women. The FBI's investigating — but getting nowhere. The latest victim is Laura Jones. Sixteen years old. Pretty. Blonde. And the daughter of one of New York's most notorious gangsters. Laura's Dad doesn't care about the law. What he wants is revenge. And he knows just the guys to get it. This time, Sawbones picked on the wrong family...
8) Unspeakable
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Unthinkable Crimes
A family of four murdered in their hotel room. A single mother and her boyfriend both stabbed to death. A sordid history of violent crimes, repeated over and over--but decades apart. . .
Unrelenting Fear
Olivia Barker is a therapist with no connection to the murders. But she has heard things. Stories that keep her up at night. Details that only a killer would know. A killer who could be one of her patients. . .
Unspeakable Truth
Olivia...
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Agency (Alexandra Ivy) volume 1
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HE SEES YOU
First came the floods. Then came the bodies. The victims-strangled, then buried along the shores of the Mississippi-have finally been unearthed, years after they disappeared. He remembers every satisfying kill... each woman's terror and agony. But there's only one he truly wanted. And fate has brought her within reach again...
HE KNOWS YOU
Jaci Patterson was sixteen when she found the first golden locket on her porch. Inside were a...
10) Shutter
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"Day Connor is convinced that a boy she has met is not the murderer the police say he is, but can she prove his innocence--or will the truth change everything?"--Provided by publisher.
11) The lies we tell
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Undertaker's daughter volume 2
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In this thriller by the author of The Secrets We Bury, danger continues for a doctor grappling with an enigmatic past and the threat of a serial killer.
Doctor Rowan Dupont knows a serial killer is coming for her. Julian Addington has been waiting. Watching. And it's only a matter of time before he strikes. But what Julian doesn't know is that Rowan is ready for him. And more than anything she wants answers. How well did the depraved...
Doctor Rowan Dupont knows a serial killer is coming for her. Julian Addington has been waiting. Watching. And it's only a matter of time before he strikes. But what Julian doesn't know is that Rowan is ready for him. And more than anything she wants answers. How well did the depraved...
13) Mind games
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Dr. Timothy Dare, a forensic psychiatrist for the criminal courts in Vancouver, is on the verge of a breakdown. His wife has left him, and his practice is in disarray. On top of that, his newest patient is a man who murdered his previous shrink and now Dare believes his own life is in danger. The only way forward is to consult a psychiatrist himself and confront the real source of his inner turmoil.
14) Delusion
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A woman's world is turned upside down when new evidence frees a man she put in prison with her testimony years ago.
15) A deeper grave
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Shades of death volume 2
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A vigilante teams with a cop to stop a copycat killer in this romantic suspense thriller by the USA Today–bestselling author of No Darker Place.
Serial-killer hunter Nick Shade built his legendary career chasing monsters-sadistic criminals with a gruesome thirst for death. When he rescued Montgomery detective Bobbie Gentry from horrific captivity and helped her reclaim her life, he didn't intend to be a hero. Or a target. But now a copycat murderer...
16) The watcher
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Seven years ago, Marlie Jacobson was kidnapped by a serial killer-and lived to tell about it. But it was actually her mother who told the story, in a bestselling book that made Marlie famous. Today, she's known as the girl who slayed a killer. The one who got away. Now, there's just one thing Marlie wants to get away from: her past. But when her little sister disappears, her worst fears come rushing back-with a vengeance... Kenai Michelson is a world-renowned...
17) The bad seed
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The bestselling novel that inspired Mervyn LeRoy's classic horror film about the little girl who can get away with anything-even murder. There's something special about eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark. With her carefully plaited hair and her sweet cotton dresses, she's the very picture of old-fashioned innocence. But when their neighborhood suffers a series of terrible accidents, her mother begins to wonder: Why do bad things seem to happen when little...
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Haunted by the loss of her cousin, Cedar, Delilah has curated a world of revenge: playing judge, jury, and executioner while, you know, searching for love. Maybe murdering gives her the control she craves. Maybe it fills the gaping hole that was left when Cedar disappeared. Maybe her rage is ancestral, dating back to all of the Indigenous women before her whose cases were closed without much of a search. She's never been close to getting caught, but...
19) Karen Memory
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"You ain't gonna like what I have to tell you, but I'm gonna tell you anyway. See, my name is Karen Memery, like memory only spelt with an e, and I'm one of the girls what works in the Hotel Mon Cherie on Amity Street. Hotel has a little hat over the o like that. It's French, so Beatrice tells me." Set in the late 19th century--when the city we now call Seattle Underground was the whole town (and still on the surface), when airships plied the trade...
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Tom Thorne novels volume 12
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Who'd trust a depraved killer like Stuart Nicklin? Tom Thorne, the DI who put him away, has to. Nicklin has promised to bring closure to the grieving mother of one of his first victims by finally revealing where the body can be found. But there's just one condition: Thorne must accompany him to the burial ground-the remote Bardsey Island, cut off from the mainland of Wales in more ways than one. Nicklin is in cuffs, surrounded by authorities, and...
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