Police Procedural Serial Killers Mystery

“An amnesiac searching for her identity, a serial killer watching her, and a town full of suspects!"—Pat Raab All Jillian Deere can remember is a man no one could identify left her at a North Carolina hospital, seriously wounded with a gunshot wound to her neck. That’s it—all she can remember. When she gets out of the hospital, she doesn’t even know where she lived. Something is pulling her to the quiet beach town of Albany Beach. Even though she feels she belongs somewhere else, the thought keeps niggling her that she remembers something important about Albany Beach. She just ...

“All the threads come together in a taut, surprising climax.”–Publisher’s Weekly on The Other Twin “A tale of suspense, pain, and love that makes you think about human nature in its darkest sense! Definitely, a book to cuddle up with on a dark, stormy night." ~Jennifer He’s a face in the crowd with the heart of a serial killer. Dubbed the Bloodsucker, he preys on blond, blue-eyed women in Albany Beach, abducting them and then draining them of their blood. Business in Albany Beach is down. Everybody’s suspicious of everybody else and fear is running rampant. With such a high-...

"I recommend it to those that love SUSPENSE in their "romantic suspense" reads!" ~Kristi Ahlers Overweight and insecure, Marcy Edmond lives in the shadow of her beautiful twin sister Phoebe until one night she is in a fiery car crash which changes everything. Marcy wakes up from a coma and is a different person. She has lost weight and the doctors had to give her plastic surgery. She is beautiful and she has the look she has always craved. But life went on without her. Her twin sister Phoebe moved into her home and stole the hearts of her children, maybe even the love of her husband Jake. ...

"Hunter Morgan is at the top of her game with WHAT SHE CAN'T SEE as she joins two opposite people . . . who clash and bash as they search for a horrible serial killer." ¬–Suzanne Suzanne Colburn, Reader to Reader/The Belles & Beaux of Romance A Serial Killer With No Mercy Perfection is hard to find. Such young and beautiful students—the best and brightest. A good crop. That’s why they must die. I cull the best of them. For my collection. Then I make them even more perfect. A Game With No Rules FBI Agent M.K. Shaughnessy is investigating the deaths of students and her instinct tells ...

For Dorothea Cassidy Thursdays were special. But one Thursday in June was to be more special than any other. It was the day that Dorothea Cassidy was strangled... As the small town of Otterbridge prepares for its summer carnival, Inspector Stephen Ramsay begins a painstaking reconstruction of Dorothea’s last hours. He soon discovers that she had taken on a number of deserving cases – a sick and lonely old woman, a disturbed adolescent, a compulsive gambler, a single mother with a violent boyfriend and a child in care – and even her close family have their secrets to hide.

The day after Burning Lake’s notorious, debauched Halloween celebration, Detective Natalie Lockhart uncovers a heartbreaking scene - a young woman, dead and lying in a dumpster. There’s no clue to who she is, save for a mystifying tattoo on her arm, and a callus underneath her chin. She’s not from around here. No one knows who she is.

TWO COPS. ONE KILLER. HUNDREDS OF GODS. 21st Century London — except the Norman conquest never happened. An uneasy alliance of ancient tribes has formed, but peace is threatened by a series of brutal murders. Detectives Aedith and Drustan must put aside their differences to track down a serial killer with a decades-old grudge.

A young couple in their prime is found dead in the marital bed. As they lie naked, staring at each other with eyes wide open - filled with fear, his colleagues assume a double suicide, but Detective Andrew Deans senses that darker forces are at work. Deans is facing an awakening - a spiritual birth, but he is stuck in a living nightmare. Those around him are watching...judging...expecting him to break.

While attending a crime scene on the outskirts of Maidstone, DI Kay Hunter makes a shocking discovery. The victim has been brutally cut to pieces, his identity unknown. When more body parts start turning up in the Kentish countryside, Kay realizes the disturbing truth–a serial killer is at large and must be stopped at all costs. With no motive for the murders and a killer who has gone undetected until now, Kay and her team of detectives must work fast to calm a terrified local population and a scornful media. When a third victim is found, her investigation grows even more complicated.

Three glass cabinets appear in London's Trafalgar Square containing a gruesome art installation: the floating corpses of three homeless men. Shock turns to horror when it becomes clear that the bodies are real. The cabinets are traced to @nonymous—an underground artist shrouded in mystery who makes a chilling promise: more will follow. Eighteen years ago, Detective Inspector Grace Archer escaped a notorious serial killer. Now, she and her caustic DS, Harry Quinn, must hunt down another.

Julia Stein acepta el trabajo de asistente que le ofrece el agente Hans Freeman. Su nueva misión es cazar al asesino del hacha, quien ya ha decapitado a tres hombres en el bosque de Green Bank, un pueblo que, además, está justo en el medio de «la zona silenciosa», un lugar en el que los teléfonos móviles son inútiles.

Seventeen-year-old Chloe Smedley walks out of the school gates and waves to the person waiting for her across the road. She smiles and hurries towards them… and is never seen alive again. Detective Jackie Cooke is first on the scene when Chloe’s body is found, posed upright at a garden table. In her gut, Jackie knows she’s searching for a monster and it’s only a matter of time before they strike again, but no one will listen.

In this brilliant debut, a psychologist finds herself drawn into the dark world of a serial killer - who may be closer than she thinks.... Ray and Marie Benson killed 13 women before they were caught, tried and imprisoned. Five of their victims were never found. Six years later psychologist Alice Quentin discovers a woman's body on the waste ground at Crossbones Yard. The wounds are horrifyingly similar to the Bensons' signature style.

Eine grausame Mordserie erschüttert den Norden! An einem stürmischen Herbsttag wird im Hafen von Esbjerg die Leiche eines Mannes in einer Lagerhalle gefunden. Wenige Wochen später taucht in einer norddeutschen Kleinstadt eine zweite Leiche auf. Schrecklich entstellt und auf dieselbe Art gefesselt wie der Tote in Esbjerg liegt das Opfer auf dem Förderband einer Papiersortieranlage. Vibeke Boisen von der Flensburger Mordkommission und Rasmus Nyborg von der dänischen Polizei nehmen die Ermittlungen auf.

DI Tudor Manx was hoping for a quiet life. But his hopes are dashed when there's a gruesome find - a mutilated body, crucified to the bow of a fishing boat. Is this a message or a macabre premonition? Manx's past still haunts him - the disappearance of his younger sister, Miriam: a cold case that remains unsolved. Can he work it all out before the body count rises?

La scena del crimine è inquietante: una testa di donna è stata chiusa in un sacchetto di plastica e abbandonata in una grotta, a Contessa Entellina, un paesino montano in provincia di Palermo. Il cronista di nera Fabrizio Corsaro non può assolutamente rischiare di farsi soffiare la notizia dalla concorrenza e si precipita sul posto. Tutto il paese sembra terrorizzato anche perché secondo alcune antiche leggende un mostro affamato di fanciulle vivrebbe proprio rintanato all'interno di quella caverna.

Three men, sleeping rough on London's mean streets, have been found brutally murdered - each victim kicked to death and found with a £20 note pinned to his chest. But were they killed at random, or were they targeted for a reason? Tom Thorne is posted to the same streets - working undercover, disguised as a homeless man. In a harsh and harrowing underworld, Thorne discovers the horrifying link between the homeless victims and the perpetrators of a 15-year-old atrocity. Those who know are keeping quiet. But the word on these streets is that the killer is a cop....

When DC Rose Gifford is called to investigate the death of a young woman suffocated in her bed, she can’t shake the feeling that there’s more to the crime than meets the eye. It looks like a straightforward crime scene - but the police can’t find the killer. Enter DS Moony - an eccentric older detective who runs UCIT, a secret department of the Met set up to solve supernatural crimes. Moony wants Rose to help her out - but Rose doesn’t believe in any of that. Does she? As the killer prepares to strike again, Rose must pick a side - before a second woman dies.

The New Jersey State Police had started calling him Howdy Doody, after the famous TV puppet of the 1950s. Three people had been killed in northern New Jersey, then three in Manhattan, and another in the Bronx, in a 13-month period. All of them were found hung up with strings attached to their limbs, like puppets.

Ein unberechenbarer Serienmörder und eine knallharte Ermittlerin. Der erste Band der fesselnden Thriller-Reihe zum Mitfiebern! Ein bedeutender Zeuge wird tot in seiner Küche aufgefunden – in seine Stirn ist die Zahl Zwei eingeritzt. Das FBI vermutet zunächst einen gezielten Mordanschlag, um den Zeugen an seiner Aussage zu hindern. Doch der Fall nimmt eine unerwartete Wendung, als immer mehr Leichen auftauchen, die auf ähnliche Weise gekennzeichnet wurden.