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-...

It's now a crucial time for Rebus. His superiors are getting increasingly impatient with his erratic behaviour, and his relationship with Siobhan becomes ever more complicated. And, most worryingly of all, as Rebus grows older, he is starting to feel closer to the criminals he fights than the force he works for. Set against the backdrop of the explosive 2005 G8 summit, this is Rankin's most hard-hitting novel yet. For among the hordes of protesters filling the streets, a serial killer lurks.

When a high-society call girl is murdered in her Georgetown home, investigators find two cameras hidden in the walls of her bedroom. One has its memory erased, presumably by the murderer. The second is connected to the Internet through an encrypted connection...and no one knows who's on the other end. Special Agent Allison McNeil is asked by beleaguered FBI Director Clarence Mason to run an off-the-record investigation of the murder because of the murder's similarity to a case she worked a year earlier.

A blood-smeared note. A string of gruesome murders. And a family secret she didn’t know existed. FBI Special Agent Faith Black thought she knew all about fear. Yet all it took was one night for her to realize she was horribly wrong. Did she miss the signs because she had found love—something she had once thought impossible? No, it went deeper than that. Was she so distracted by the history of her new partner, Special Agent Aaron Thomson that she never saw it coming? Possible, but doubtful. No, it all started unraveling on the night of her birthday. A night that changed her life forever....

Ellie White is found dead at the bottom of her own garden, propped up against a stone fountain. Detective Inspector Bethany Smith arrives at the scene of the crime still dressed in her funeral attire. Her head thick with emotion. Her colleagues think she's mad. But she wants to be there. She needs to be there. Even if what she sees makes her skin crawl. The next day another body is discovered. The victim has suffered a similar gruesome fate. Left for dead at the bottom of his garden where the creepy-crawlies can get to him.

When a woman's eviscerated body is found on the golf course close to the Fairmont Hotel, DCI Andy Gilchrist and his associate DS Jessie Janes are assigned the investigation. But the post mortem examination uncovers a shocking detail that must be kept from the public. Who could carry out such a brutal murder? And what is the significance of the gruesome trophy? But DNA uncovers links to a murder committed thirty years earlier, and has Gilchrist fearing a killer of old has resurfaced, or worse, a debut serial killer setting out to learn his murderous trade.

"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 ...

10am: A mother rushes for a train after dropping her daughter at school but is reported missing when she doesn't return to pick her up. 2.47pm: The same train causes the death of a young woman; her body bound and placed on the tracks. When Detective Alana Mack discovers the missing mother has vanished from the same train that claimed the life of the young woman, she fears the worst. A killer is on the loose, targeting women and leaving their broken bodies scattered across Dublin's Dart train line.

Drei Morde in vier Tagen - Fall 1 für Kommissar Severin Boesherz! "Bis in den Tod hinein" ist der erste harte Thriller mit dem genialen Kommissar Boesherz von Bestseller-Autor Vincent Kliesch. Berlin wird von einem selbsternannten Racheengel terrorisiert: Ein polizeibekannter Brandstifter, der bei lebendigem Leib in einem Auto verbrennt, ist bereits das dritte Opfer innerhalb von nur vier Tagen.

Isolated farmer Ernie Bowles was found lying on his kitchen floor, gruesomely strangled. News of the murder came to Inspector Stephen Ramsay early on Monday morning and he fears this case will not be simple. In his experience, most murders are straightforward: an explosion of family pressure, the loss of control in a fight. But Bowles seems to have kept himself to himself and had lived alone since his mother’s death. A seemingly unconnected women is then found strangled too, surely two such killings in the same locality are more than just chilling coincidence?

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 ...

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.

Su uno scoglio del lungomare di Napoli viene ritrovato il corpo nudo e mutilato di una giovane donna. Un macabro rituale che ha già fatto più di una vittima. Una squadra di profiler, guidata dallo psichiatra Tito Jacopo Durso, sta indagando sul caso ed è alla disperata ricerca di qualche indizio sull'assassino, ribattezzato dalla stampa come l'Anatomista. Alla sua équipe la polizia ha deciso di affiancare una psicologa, Artemisia Gentile, esperta nella cura di vittime di abusi e maltrattamenti.

When teenagers discover a body along the river in Grand Rapids, Lieutenant Jo Riskin and Detective Lynae Parker are called to the scene. The brutality of the murder is shocking, even without the corpse missing a hand. They soon find out that the suspect pool is huge, as the victim was not exactly a pillar of the community. When a second body is found, the similarities between the two crimes are unmistakable, and Jo fears they may have a serial killer on their hands. Teaming up with a handsome investigator from out of town, Jo and Lynae race the clock to find the killer before he claims ...

Four nuns and a fifth woman, a visitor to Africa, are killed in a savage nighttime attack. Months later in Sweden, the news of the unexplained tragedy sets off a cruel vengeance for these killings. Inspector Kurt Wallander is home from an idyllic holiday in Rome, full of energy and plans for the future. Autumn settles in, and Wallander prays the winter will be peaceful. But when he investigates the disappearance of an elderly birdwatcher, he discovers a gruesome and meticulously planned murder - a body impaled in a trap of sharpened bamboo poles.

How do you catch a killer who knows your every move? She drew the curtains and returned to the kitchen where she removed the bottle of vodka from the freezer and reached for the large kitchen knife. If he dared to come back, she'd be ready for him. When a body is found hanging in the remains of a dock-side warehouse, detective Kate Matthews is called to the scene.

A killer who stages his victims like art. A message hidden in a dead man’s throat. And a detective on the edge of breaking. The footsteps stopped on the stone floor. Then came a low, scornful laugh. A blade traced her calf. “Mariella, my beautiful one... It’s time.” In the sun-drenched vineyards near Stuttgart, Germany, a brutally mutilated corpse is found—slashed, disemboweled, and theatrically posed. Chief Inspector Lola Lindberg and her team are stunned. But the horror doesn’t end there. Inside the victim’s throat, forensic pathologist Hettkamp discovers a chilling message ...

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.

Montreal, 1970. The "Vampire Killer" has murdered three women and a fourth is missing. Bombs explode in the stock exchange, McGill University, and houses in Westmount. Riots break out at the St. Jean Baptiste parade and at Sir George Williams University. James Cross and Pierre Laporte are kidnapped and the Canadian army moves onto the streets of Montreal. A young beat cop working out of Station 10 finds himself almost alone hunting the serial killer, as the rest of the force focuses on the FLQ crisis.