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When you're a hostage of your own nightmare... As the Shadow Island Historical Society prepares to raise funds to restore the island's beloved lighthouse, someone else has other lethal plans. Instead of the presentation the group hopes for, they attract the attention of a madman claiming the historic monument is his family legacy before firing several shots and barricading the doors. Now, one hostage is dying and the rest fear for their lives....

Which is more dangerous...Mother or Human Nature? Twelve hours earlier, Interim Sheriff Rebecca West was enjoying a casual lunchtime burger. Now she's preparing for a hurricane headed straight for Shadow Island. While hauling sandbags and calming town officials, the last thing she needs is a stunned man stumbling into the sheriff's department. Covered in blood. Clearly in shock, the man doesn't know who he is and only mutters about needing...

Detective Mike Fletcher, a rugged and obsessive police officer, and his partner Kelsey Walker, are on the trail of a serial killer who prowls the streets targeting young streetwalkers. When his teenage daughter disappears, Fletcher discovers that the killer has kidnapped her after mistaking her for a prostitute. Fletcher's obsession goes into overdrive when he drops all professional restraint to get the killer and save his daughter.

Doreen is overwhelmed with joy when so many volunteers show up to help build her deck. But before the deck improvement can be finished, duty calls, and the cops are called away on a case. Another gray-haired lady has dropped dead. Another heart attack victim is added to the long line of previous ones. None of the recently deceased had a heart condition that would explain their sudden demise. With her animals at her side, Doreen is determined to figure...

In the summer of 1988, the mutilated bodies of several missing girls begin to turn up in a small Maryland town. The grisly evidence leads police to the terrifying assumption that a serial killer is on the loose in the quiet suburb. But soon a rumor begins to spread that the evil stalking local teens is not entirely human. Recent college graduate Richard Chizmar returns to his hometown just as a curfew is enacted and a neighborhood watch is formed....

"FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit profiler Scarlett Bell knows her job will require her to enter the minds of murderers. But when she joins forces with fugitive Logan Wolf to track a deranged serial killer in Georgia, she learns the true meaning of fear. In the dead of night, a couple out for a moonlight walk discovers a woman's severed head on a well-traveled bridge. She isn't the first victim, and she won't be the last. While Scarlett follows the evidence...

Reinventing himself as Sweeney Todd, a man unjustly sent to prison returns to exact revenge on those who ruined his life, especially the evil Judge Turpin who sent the man to prison. Not only does he seek revenge for the cruel punishment he suffered in prison, but also for what happened to his wife and daughter. When he returns to his home town, he reopens his barber shop, where Mr. Todd becomes the Demon of Fleet Street. Mrs. Lovett is Sweeney's...

The "Moors murders" were committed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley from 1963 to 1965 and remain England's most notorious case of serial murder. Three children and two teenagers were adbucted, sexually assaulted and brutally murdered, their bodies buried in shallow graves on Manchester's desolate Saddleworth Moor. The crimes were so horrific that they will haunt England forever. It was the "trial of the century."

A fascinating pop-history dive into the stories behind the incredibly impactful crimes--both infamous and little-known--that have shaped the legal system as we know it. When asked why true crime is so in vogue, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Amber Hunt always has the same answer: it's no hotter than it's always been. Crimes and trials have captured American consciousness since the Salem Witch Trials in the...

She's on the run in Russia... and the only man she can trust is with the KGB. Her best friends are murdered and a serial killer is on her tail, and she's got a secret that could save millions of lives. The last person Gracie Benson is about to trust is a cynical Russian FSB agent. Pursued by his own demons, Vicktor isn't going to let the killer escape, not again. But his plans for payback are suddenly threatened when he has to choose between justice...