Police Procedural Serial Killers Mystery

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.

“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 ...

"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 ...

In 1999 and 2000, a number of young women go missing in the Perth suburb of Claremont. One body is discovered. Others are never seen again. Snowy Lane (City of Light) is hired as a private investigator, but neither he nor the cops can find the serial killer. Sixteen years later, another case brings Snowy to Broome, where he teams up with Dan Clement (Before It Breaks) and an incidental crime puts them back on the Claremont case.

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?

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.

"The Fruit of Vengeance" follows Detective Maribel, a dedicated and resilient law enforcement officer, as she navigates a harrowing journey to bring a sadistic serial killer to justice. Lucas, the ruthless murderer, was once a vulnerable and troubled child. His dark past is marked by relentless bullying and traumatic experiences that twisted him into the monster he has become. As a young boy, Lucas was tormented by his peers, enduring physical and emotional abuse that left deep scars on his psyche.

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.

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.

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.

Sheriff Wade Mackay needed a break. Little did he know, a day of fishing would land him right into the aftermath of a deadly accident. The only survivor is a woman who doesn't remember her name and has no identification. Wade's instincts ignite when he notices the telltale marks of old bruises on Jane Doe. What hidden truths lie beneath the layers of her forgotten past? For true crime writer Dougal Lachlan, Twisted Cedars holds secrets that refuse to stay buried.

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.

Southend-on-Sea, Essex: Detective Sergeant Tomek Bowen — driven, dogged, and haunted by the death of his brother — is called to one of the most shocking crime scenes he has ever seen. A man has been ritualistically murdered and dumped in an allotment near the local airport. Early investigations indicate this was a man with a past. A past that earned him many enemies. But when another victim is found murdered under similar circumstances, it becomes clear that Bowen is on the trail of a serial offender.

What would you be willing to do to become famous? Cold Case Detective Harriet “Harri” Harper has done what she swore to do almost twenty-years ago: find her sister and bring her home. But, she hasn’t brought her sister’s killer to justice and that keeps her up at night. Now back at work at the Los Angeles Police Department, she works her caseload while hunting her sister’s killers at night with the help of Jake Tepesky, a former FBI profiler. When a grieving father brings the case of his missing daughter to the Cold Case Unit and her missing friend is found in a wall in a ...

A popular beach town was torn apart when a teenage girl went missing. Now, one year later, after a storm rips through the area, her body is found - strangled and buried deep under the brush of a local beach. But, as the cops uncover her body, another is found - a more recent victim - and they quickly realize it’s the work of a serial killer.

An elderly woman collapses and dies during a Sunday morning church service in Oakham. But things aren't quite as innocent as they seem. Within hours, there's a second unexplained death in Rutland. Then a third. But the victims appear to be completely unconnected. With the body count rising by the day, DI Caroline Hills and DS Dexter Antoine need to uncover the link before more innocent people die. Only one thing is certain: a killer walks the streets of Rutland. But no-one knows who the next victim will be, when they will be killed—or why.