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Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In the sequel to the "captivating"* Zig Zag Girl, DI Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto hunt for a killer after two children are murdered in a tragic tableau of a very grim fairy tale. *Wall Street Journal It's Christmastime in Brighton, and the city is abuzz about a local production of Aladdin, starring the marvelous Max Mephisto. But the holiday cheer is lost on DI Edgar Stephens. He's investigating the murder of two children, Annie and...
302) The snowman
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose scarf is found on a mysteriously built snowman, a case that is complicated by subsequent abductions and a menacing letter.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
London, 1850: A young Charles Lenox struggles to make a name for himself as a detective--without a single case. Scotland Yard refuses to take him seriously and his friends deride him for attempting a profession at all. But when an anonymous writer sends a letter to the paper claiming to have committed the perfect crime--and promising to kill again--Lenox is convinced that this is his chance to prove himself. The writer's first victim is a young woman...
304) Hangman: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Hangman, Hangman, what do you see? Four little girls, as cute as can be. The eerie schoolyard chant still sends ripples of horror through North Buffalo. Not so long ago, serial killer Marcus Flynn preyed upon the community's teenaged daughters - until he was cornered and shot in the head. But Flynn lived, carrying to prison the nickname "Hangman," along with the secret of his last victim's fate. Homicide cop Abbie Kearney wasn't around during Hangman's...
305) Saw V
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Following Jigsaw's grisly demise, Mark Hoffman becomes the final apprentice to the serial killer and is deigned a hero. Meanwhile, Agent Strahm is tested and puts the pieces together. While Strahm realizes that Hoffman is helping Jigsaw, five seemingly unconnected people are kidnapped and forced to complete a series of tasks in order to survive. Strahm follows all the leads that Hoffman gives him, including information on the death of his sister and...
Author
Publisher
HC
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
For 31 years, an unremarkable family man stalked, killed, and terrorized the people of Wichita, Kansas. He was a devoted husband. A helpful Boy Scout dad. A reliable, conscientious employee. A dependable church president. And behind it all, the notorious serial killer BTK--a self-anointed acronym for "bind, torture, kill." Four award-winning crime reporters for The Wichita Eagle, with the enthusiastic help of Wichita police lieutenant Ken Landwehr...
Author
Series
Logan and Scarlett Serial Killer Thriller volume Book 1
Publisher
Dan Padavona
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
It takes a killer to catch a killer. Logan Wolf was the Behavioral Analysis Unit's most-respected profiler. Then a serial killer murdered his wife and tore his life apart. Now he's a vigilante fugitive, hiding from the FBI while he hunts the nation's deadliest criminals. When a college student and her boyfriend vanish in West Texas, Wolf suspects the Devil's Rock killer. But the FBI hasn't captured the murderer, and after a decade of terror,...
308) The executioner
Author
Series
Robert Hunter mystery volume 2
Publisher
Charnwood
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Inside a Los Angeles church, on the altar steps, lies the blood-soaked, decapitated body of a priest. Carefully positioned, legs stretched out, arms crossed over the chest, the most horrifying thing of all is that the priest's head has been replaced by that of a dog. Later, the forensic team discover that, on the victim's chest, the figure 3 has been scrawled in blood. At first, Detective Robert Hunter believes that this is a ritualistic killing....
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
℗2011
Language
English
Description
The corpses of two long-missing girls are discovered buried under the concrete floor of a residential home. Convinced that he made disastrous mistakes while handling the missing persons case years earlier, Davenport is determined to set things right.
310) The stolen
Author
Publisher
Dan Padavona
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The night Sutter and Monica Steen leave for dinner, they never return home. Two weeks later, the police drag their bodies out of the river, sending the town into a panic. The Black River killer is back. Nobody is safe. When another person goes missing, Jefferson Gildon, a police detective with a checkered past, leads the investigation. But it takes a twisted profiler to enter the mind of a psychopath, and only fugitive serial killer Logan Wolf can...
311) Don't look now
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Austin homicide detective Jordan Poe is hunting a serial killer she fears is the same man who assaulted her sister, Avery, two years ago. The details line up: the victims are the same age, same type, dead by the same grim MO. Luckily Avery survived. But the terrible memories linger, making Jordan more determined than ever to stop this monster in his tracks. Texas Ranger Carter Spencer isn't one to poach on a detective's territory. Yet no matter...
312) Secrets never sleep
Author
Series
P.I. Nia Carter Thriller volume Book 1
Publisher
Dan Padavona
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to a small town’s deadliest secret…After failing to locate a missing child, PI Nia Carter returns to the Finger Lakes to escape her demons. Raising her adopted daughter, she puts her life together…until three lost teenagers turn up dead in a local vineyard.Is a murderer loose in the community? Nia believes the wine magnate is hiding a deadly secret. But the power-hungry man has the police wrapped around his finger. As the body count...
Series
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Swedish
Description
During a blackout, a woman is found murdered in the middle of the Oresund Bridge, on the border between Sweden and Denmark. Police from both countries are called to the scene, and what looks like one murder turns out to be two. It's a spectacular double murder: the bodies have been brutally cut in half at the waist and put together to form a single corpse. Half of the body belongs to a Swedish politician, the other half to a Danish prostitute. Trapped...
315) Mangrove lightning
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Doc Ford has been involved in many strange cases. This may be one of the strangest. A legendary charter captain and guide named Tootsie Barlow has come to him, muttering about a curse. The members of his extended family have suffered a bizarre series of attacks, and Barlow is convinced it has something to do with a multiple murder in 1925, in which his family had a shameful part. Ford doesn't believe in curses, but as he and his friend Tomlinson...
317) Manhunt
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When the battered body of a French student is found on Twickenham Green in London, hardworking and humble DCI Colin Sutton is appointed the lead detective on his first big case. Despite objections from his superiors, Sutton believes the young woman's murder may be connected to a previous attack and embarks on a quest to catch a serial killer. Realistically portraying the ins and outs of police investigations, it tells the story of one detective's...
318) Water's edge
Author
Series
Detective Megan Carpenter volume 2
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The young woman's body is lying with her arms stretched out to each side. Her lips slightly parted. Her face untouched by injury and her hair spread around her head like a fan. A redhead. Just like the others. When the body of Leann Truitt is found in a secluded cove in Mystery Bay, Detective Megan Carpenter is one of the first on the scene. The victim has tell-tale marks on her wrists, ankles and neck where she has been bound. But that's not all....
Author
Series
Bishop/Special Crimes Unit novel volume 20
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Special Crimes Unit agent Nash O'Hara and his new partner, Destiny Kincaid, will need every tool in their arsenal, and also their paranormal powers, to fight off a twisted killer that is stalking the small town of Salem.
320) Cleopatra's dagger
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"New York, 1880. Elizabeth van den Broek is the only female reporter at the Herald, the city's most popular newspaper. Then she and her bohemian friend Carlotta Ackerman find a woman's body wrapped like a mummy in a freshly dug hole in Central Park--the intended site of an obelisk called Cleopatra's Needle. The macabre discovery takes Elizabeth away from the society pages to follow an investigation into New York City's darkest shadows. When more bodies...