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English
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Unflinching and unforgettable, devastating in its impact, Joyce Carol Oate's fictional journey into the mind of paroled sex offender Quentin P. provides a psychologically astute portrait of the way cold calculation and dark obsession combine in a serial killer. Oates is the award-winning author of 26 novels.
Author
Series
Deadly reunions novels volume 2
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Spunky and outgoing, nothing much bothers medical examiner Serena Hopkins--except for the thought of falling in love again. But when a serial killer is picking off her former classmates, Serena's life becomes intertwined with her old high school crush, FBI agent Dominic Allen. Is the secret she's keeping putting her next on the killer's hit list? Can she trust Dominic with the truth before it's too late?
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
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After Detective John Calvino receives a signed confession to a shocking crime from 14-year-old Billy Lucas, he feels that somehow Billy has come home with him, to his family. Then another killing spree happens, just as and when John Calvino dreaded it would. Billy is safely locked away, but not the "ghost", if the ghost exists, that links these murders with past crimes, and with John Calvino. Anything could happen, and surely will-- again.
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Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"Texarkana's phantom was not America's first serial slayer; he certainly was not the worst, either in body count or sheer brutality. But he has left a crimson mark on history as one of those who got away. The Phantom Killer left a haunting mystery behind. This is the definitive story of that mystery"-- Provided by publisher.
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Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 4
Language
English
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Jack Reacher is back, dragged into what looks like a series of grisly serial murders by a team of FBI profilers who aren't totally sure he's not the killer they're looking for, but believe that even if he isn't, he's smart enough to help them find the real killer. And what they've got on the ex-MP is enough to ensure his grudging cooperation: phony charges stemming from Reacher's inadvertent involvement in a protection shakedown and the threat of...
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Series
Good girl's guide to murder volume 3
Language
English
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Pip is about to head for college. She's blindsided when it starts to feel like someone is watching her. Small things at first: a USB stick with footage recording her and the same anonymous source always asking her: who will look for you when you're the one who disappears? It could be a harmless fan, but her gut is telling her danger is lurking. When connections between her possible stalker and a local serial killer are found, Pip has only one choice:...
8) Watchers
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2003, ©1987
Language
English
Description
Two creatures, the end result of experiments in genetic engineering and enhanced intelligence, escape from a government laboratory and bring either doom or a touching new kind of love to those they encounter.
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Fatal Burn and Shiver comes a pulse-pounding new novel of madness, deceit, and twisted revenge that will take readers into the heart of fear...
For the past three months, Eve Renner has struggled to remember the night she was nearly killed and her lover was tried for murder. She remembers getting the anxious call from a friend from her past: "Meet me at the cabin. I've got evidence." She remembers seeing...
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Series
Publisher
Loveswept
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen delivers the unforgettable story of a man who refuses to give up on the woman he loves. Reporter Sara O'Rourke never shies away from a tough story. With a serial killer on the loose, Sara is willing to put herself in harm's way to get the scoop. But when it comes to her personal life, she's not so confident. It's been a year and a half since Sara left her husband in Australia and moved to San Francisco....
Author
Publisher
Visible Ink Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This chilling book looks at the horrifying stories of forty malevolent killers and hundreds of innocent victims, including such notorious homicidal maniacs as John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, and Jeffery Dahmer, but it also looks at lesser-known and overlooked murderers like Herbert Baumeister, America's I-70 Strangler; Japan's "Anime Killer," Tsutomu Miyazaki; Russia's "Rostov Ripper," Andrei Chikatilo; the "Giggling Granny," Nannie Doss; and many more....
12) 2666
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Publisher
Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared.
13) Kiss the girls
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Detective Alex Cross is called away from kids and his jazz piano when two murderers, operating on opposite sides of the country, strike at the same time, and one of them has abducted his niece, Naomi.
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Language
English
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"In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated Western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorized by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far more diabolical than London's infamous Jack the Ripper. For almost exactly one year, the Midnight Assassin crisscrossed the entire city, striking on moonlit nights, using axes, knives, and long steel...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books / Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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"A time-traveling serial killer is impossible to trace-- until one of his victims survives. In Depression-era Chicago, Harper Curtis finds a key to a house that opens on to other times. But it comes at a cost. He has to kill the shining girls: bright young women, burning with potential. He stalks them through their lives across different eras until, in 1989, one of his victims, Kirby Mazrachi, survives and starts hunting him back. Working with an...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Pete Earley comes the true story of a young man who suffers a traumatic brain injury that renders him incapable of judging or feeling repulsion, and subsequently becomes the most trusted confidant of numerous imprisoned serial killers"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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The Gardener Estate is one of the most storied and beloved places on the West Coast: a magnificent house in vast formal grounds, home to a family that shaped California--and fought hard to conceal the turmoil and eccentricities within their walls. And now, just as the turmoil seems buried and the Estate prepares to move into a new future, construction work unearths a grim relic of the estate's history: a skull, hidden away some fifty years ago. Inspector...
19) The preacher
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Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In the fishing community of Fjllbacka, life is remote, peaceful and for some, tragically short. Foul play was always suspected in the disappearance twenty years ago of two young holidaymakers in the area. Now a young boy out playing has confirmed this grim truth. Their remains, discovered with those of a fresh victim, send the town into shock. Local detective Patrik Hedstrom, expecting a baby with his girlfriend Erica, can only imagine what it is...
20) Run: a novel
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A gripping apocalyptic thriller about a man and his family running for their lives in an America gone mad--from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion. Five days ago, the epidemic of rage began. Four days ago, the rash of senseless murders swept the nation. Three days ago, the President addressed the country and begged for peace--even as the murders increased tenfold. Two days ago, the killers began to mobilize. One day...
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