Police Procedural Serial Killers Mystery

Paradise is turned upside down when a killer begins hunting victims in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the situation quickly goes from bad to worse. Former NYPD detectives Pete Nazareth and Tara Gimble are vacationing in St. John when the killing spree begins, and they offer to lend their expertise to the investigation. But a local police lieutenant does everything he can to keep them from becoming involved, and even his own officers don't understand why.

DCI Matilda Darke has been kidnapped and her nemesis, Steve Harrison, appears to be behind it. He’s currently residing in the supermax of Wakefield Prison and spends twenty-three hours a day in his cell, so how could he possibly be responsible? As Matilda’s team race to find her, they’re alerted to a body found in an abandoned car on the outskirts of Sheffield. With forensics scouring the woodland for clues, the last thing they expect is for the body count to rise. Meanwhile the search intensifies for the DCI when a video of her kidnapping is leaked to the media.

A serial killer is terrorising London, removing a body part from each victim and leaving in its place a single pink rose. Dr Vernon Sange, a multiple murderer awaiting extradition, seems to know the culprit’s identity - but he’ll only talk to profiler Ziba MacKenzie, the woman responsible for putting him away. Though there’s something he wants in return from her. And time is running out. With one killer whispering in her ear and another running rings around the police, Ziba must play a game in which only her opponent knows the rules, and the forfeit is death.

When a reported gang rape seems to have disturbing links to a high-profile miscarriage of justice, DCI Wade's superiors don't seem to want her anywhere near the enquiry. Wade has never been good at ignoring her hunches though, and soon her stubborn persistence leads her to a shocking discovery which threatens her career and her life, and sets her on collision course with her nemesis, the incarcerated serial killer David Reimoore.

When the body of single mother Melissa Rollins is found, trapped inside a bedroom closet in her immaculate suburban home, Detective Jo Fournier races to the scene. The small town of Greenfern is sweltering in a heat wave, and Jo is horrified to find that Melissa’s heating was turned up to the max while she died of thirst. Who would kill a devoted mother in such a cruel way? Searching the house for clues, Jo’s team discovers that the front door was locked from the inside. And with no sign of a break-in, they realize the killer must have been someone Melissa knew.

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 trail, she suspects Wolf is hiding a deadly truth.

While Ben and Ro found happiness as a couple in part 1, Ben's obsession with his sister's murderer continues to consume him. Now, on Christmas day, he will make his way to Berkeley, hoping to find answers before the killer strikes again. Will Ben and Ro find the missing pieces before it's too late?

Chicago private investigator Michael Kelly is hired by his former partner, John Gibbons, to help solve an eight-year-old rape and battery case, a case it turns out his old friend was once ordered to forget. When Gibbons turns up dead on Navy Pier, Kelly enlists a team of his savviest colleagues to connect the dots between the recent murder and the cold case it revived.

Be careful how you behave in public. You never know who is watching. DI Fiona Williams returns from a romantic week away with Stefan to walk into the most harrowing crime scene of her career. A gunman walked into a house of students and shot five of them but left one girl unharmed.With no other leads, Fiona focuses on the traumatised survivor. If she is an innocent witness, then why was she spared? Her cold indifference to the fate of her housemates could be a defence mechanism. Or could she be responsible? There was friction in the house and a motive, but the forensic evidence is ...

A stunningly brilliant psychopathic killer who has skillfully eluded the police from London to Paris to New York. A beautiful woman journalist suddenly in grave danger. An unorthodox New York detective whose motive for stopping the killer couldn't be more personal or emotional. With his latest release, the best selling author of When the Wind Blows and Cat and Mouse, turns 1999 into the Summer of St. Germain. You'll listen in terror as New York Cop John Stefanovich pursues Alexandre St. Germain, the most deadly and powerful member of the secret society of criminals known as the Midnight Club.

Since her move to the country, Melissa Craig has become firmly established in village life. So, when one of the older residents fails to show up for a drinks party, Melissa goes to check on her. What she finds chills her to the bone: Her dear neighbor has been murdered, and the killer has painted a hideous smile onto her face. Melissa soon realizes that the death in her village bears the same trademark as a series of recent murders in the Cotswolds.

FBI Special Agent Mackenzie White finds herself stumped. Victims are turning up dead, unrecognizable, their bodies hurled from the highest of heights. A deranged serial killer, obsessed with heights, is killing his victims from the highest locations. The pattern seems random. But is it? Only by entering into the darkest canals of the killer’s mind can Mackenzie begin to understand what his motive is - and where he will strike next.

"You're listening to the heart of Classic Rock here on KRHM..." These are the last words Jeff Davis would ever speak before he gets strangled on air. When a second disk jockey meets the same suffocating end, it gives dead air a whole new meaning. A serial killer is on the loose in Rohm. The rules have changed suddenly, and Max Harmon is on a high-stakes race against time to solve a spine-chilling mystery—one that might break him. If you love fast-paced, clean detective mysteries, then you would love Micheal Maxwell's latest addition to the nail-biting Max Harmon Mystery series.

For untold years, the perfectly preserved mummy had lain forgotten in the dusty basement of Boston’s Crispin Museum. Now its sudden rediscovery by museum staff is both a major coup and an attention-grabbing mystery. Dubbed “Madam X,” the mummy–to all appearances, an ancient Egyptian artifact–seems a ghoulish godsend for the financially struggling institution. But medical examiner Maura Isles soon discovers a macabre message hidden within the corpse–horrifying proof that this “centuries-old” relic is instead a modern-day murder victim.

Diner food slinger, Maggie Dwyer didn’t intend to be an amateur sleuth. Who does? She’s simply looking forward to a life writing her first novel. Then again, what else is a girl to do when her grandmother dies and leaves her an all expenses paid mansion in Louisiana? Dream come true, right? Until she learns her grandmother died under suspicious circumstances. Until she learns her grandmother died while investigating a series of crimes that occurred at a delinquent boys’ home in a neighboring parish. Toss in a couple of roommates who will make the trek from the Northwest to the bayou ...

When a body is pulled from the dank and dangerous fens on the outskirts of town, everybody assumes it was a tragic accident. But Detective Tara Thorpe, newly joined and determined to prove herself, suspects there’s more to the story. Tara is desperate to investigate further, but her supervisor Patrick Wilkins has other ideas. He would rather die than let this ambitious upstart show him up - even if it means some digging in Tara’s secret past to keep her under his thumb.

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A serial killer playing judge and executioner leaves clues for the investigating detective who has a deep dark secret of her own to hide and fears she’s next. “ARE YOU SCARED YET? is a must-read for readers who love romantic suspense police procedurals with an accent on the investigation.”—A Passionate Reader Victims? No, they’re deprived sinners. I’ll make them die in agony. One more sinning monster gone, one more to go. Detective Delilah Swift is enjoying a personal and professional high. She’s newly promoted and in a new relationship with the chief of police, Snowden ...

What Lies Ahead The loss lies where it falls... Cathy Morgan has recently suffered a breakdown, which causes her to take sick leave from her work as a ward sister. One morning, she is awoken by her husband Denzil, who has some distressing news for her. Someone she knows well has been murdered. Not only that, but there appears to be a connection with that murder and that of a young nurse called, Alison Marsh, who died some ten years ago. It’s Detective Sergeant Ruth Carter’s first day back in work after giving birth to her son, Jacob Not only is it her first day back on the job, but now ...

Written by a real-life, A-list celebrity bodyguard - Someone is murdering Hollywood's elite. Only professional bodyguard Michael Beckett can make them stop. Ex–New York City cop Michael Beckett has seen the worst humanity has to offer. But nothing has quite prepared him for his role as a celebrity bodyguard: shepherding TV-reality star Tata Andolini through throngs of fans and hyper-charged celebrity photographers: stalkerazzi. And when he takes on a new client—the beautiful A-list celebrity Victoria Carrington—the chaos only gets more chaotic. Heroin has made its way into the ...