Serial Killer Mystery Fiction

Small-town police officer Silas Sloane knows every resident of O'Leary, New York. He's earned the love and respect of its citizens, though living under the small-town microscope grates on him. But though he's good at his job, there's one thing he's not good at: commitments...until Everett Maior, widower and O'Leary's newest citizen.

A festive holiday party turns into a nightmare when a guest is found dead, and a snowstorm causes a blackout. PI Dean Steele dedicated a significant portion of his life to serving his country. Now, a story from one of his past missions is on the verge of becoming a TV show. He is invited to attend a Christmas party with his military buddies and some entertainment industry professionals. Soon, a snowstorm hits, and a missing guest from the party is found dead. With the police unable to reach them and another body turning up, Dean does everything in his power to take control of the situation ...

A Predator is Stalking Summerset County, and He's Looking for His Next Angel Determined to put her painful past behind her, FBI Special Agent Bailey Flynn welcomes her assignment to a Major Crimes task force in Washington, D.C., hoping that she and her search and rescue dog Ludwig can make a fresh start. But as Bailey settles into a new life a thousand miles north of her hometown of Belle Harbor, a vicious predator is stalking the quiet coastal community, preparing to take another life. A life that was once near and dear to Bailey’s heart. When a disturbing call summons her back to South ...

A Celebration at a Luxury Island Resort Ends in a Brutal Murder at the Hands of an Evil Man When a bachelorette party at the luxurious Bellamy Island Resort turns deadly, Special Agent Bailey Flynn suspects the murder may be the work of the same man who strangled a young bride-to-be on the island a decade earlier. After the investigation turns up an unidentified set of remains near the body, and a possible witness to the crime goes missing, Bailey calls on FBI profiler Bridget Bishop to help her track down the evil serial killer responsible before another innocent life can be taken. Book ...

Twenty years of secrets. One night of reckoning. Criminal profiler Dr. Edith Ward thought returning to her hometown of Bain Island would offer a fresh start. Instead, she finds herself thrust into a nightmare when a series of brutal murders rocks the small community, eerily connected to a twenty-year-old cold case. Teaming up with Sheriff Devon James, Edith must confront the ghosts of her past while racing to catch a killer. As she delves deeper into the investigation, Edith realizes the murders are hitting closer to home than she ever imagined. With her unique insight into the criminal ...

Sometimes Love Can Be Fatal As winter settles over the small town of Barrel Creek, Private Investigator Frankie Dawson makes a horrifying discovery. A popular teacher has been brutally murdered in the woods beside the local high school. When a new client hires Frankie to track down the vicious killer, he quickly uncovers evidence revealing the teacher’s secret past and linking her death to a series of grisly homicides. As Frankie joins forces with the FBI and local police, he realizes that to solve the perplexing case, he must find the truth behind the killer’s terrifying obsession. ...

Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for 40 years. Now their talents are considered old-school and no one appreciates what they have to offer in an age that relies more on technology than people skills.

Victoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. When she rides her bicycle over the rickety old covered bridge in the woods near her house, she always emerges in the places she needs to be. Vic doesn't tell anyone about her unusual ability, because she knows no one will believe her. She has trouble understanding it herself.

A Moonlit Ride Ends in Murder, Betrayal, and a Secret Grave When the new barn manager at Wilde Valley Stables goes on a late-night horseback ride and never returns, behavioral analyst and profiler Bridget Bishop investigates the young woman’s disappearance and discovers the hidden graveyard of a killer set on revenge. After the missing person case escalates into a serial murder investigation, a threatening letter is delivered to the local police and press from a vindictive killer identified only as the Wilde Reaper. Terror settles over the small town of Wilde Valley as another grave is ...

Eat Pray Love meets American Psycho in a seductive and sinister debut literary thriller. Food critic Dorothy Daniels indulges in her homicidal urges by murdering her lovers and devouring their organs in this intense, visceral, and lushly told tale of food, sex, power, and the pursuit of a very particular taste set between New York and Italy. Please Note: A Certain Hunger contains adult language and depictions of violence. Discretion is advised.

After FBI special agent Garrett Mann executes a deadly raid on an underground facility in New Mexico, the sole survivor’s testimony reveals a greater threat to come. The covert lair was a training ground for hundreds of cartel sicarios, who have since disappeared into the US, their ultimate mission still unknown. When another FBI raid goes catastrophically wrong, Mann finds himself on the trail of the Bureau’s original target—a moonlighting serial killer who leads the agent into a nightmare that’s darker and more extensive than Mann ever feared.

When the Red Rose Killer leaves his calling card for Staff Sergeant Felicity Monroe, she knows exactly what that means-she's on his revenge list. Her boss, Master Sergeant Westley James, and K-9 German shepherd Dakota become her guardians, but they'll have to act fast to escape the man who wants her dead.

In this first novel, we are introduced to suave, handsome Tom Ripley: a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan in the 1950s. A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy" by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Ripley becomes enamored of the moneyed world of his new friend, Dickie Greenleaf. This fondness turns obsessive when Ripley is sent to Italy to bring back his libertine pal, but he grows enraged by Dickie's ambivalent feelings for Marge, a charming American dilettante.

Everything has changed for Ruth Galloway. She has a new job, home, and partner, and she is no longer North Norfolk police’s resident forensic archaeologist. That is, until convicted murderer Ivor March offers to make DCI Nelson a deal. Nelson was always sure that March killed more women than he was charged with. Now March confirms this and offers to show Nelson where the other bodies are buried - but only if Ruth will do the digging. Curious, but wary, Ruth agrees.

When Jake Boulder is asked to help investigate the murder of Kira Niemeyer, he soon finds himself tracking a serial killer who selects his next victim in a most unusual manner. As the body count rises, Boulder has to work with the police to identify the killer before more lives are taken. What ensues is a twisted game of cat and mouse. Only Boulder or the Watcher can survive.

Dying is simple. Coming back is when things get interesting. Ivy Wells never wanted to die. When she does, she thinks it's all over. It isn't. When the 30 year old mother of two wakes up as a 12 year old, she has to navigate her life all over again. And she remembers everything, including the serial killer who is terrorizing her small town. Over several lifetimes, Ivy battles to save herself, her friends, and even her own children from the vicious killer. Follow Ivy Wells in a desperate race through time as she tries to outwit the person that is killing her over and over. What would you do ...

A serial rapist is kidnapping teenage girls. But he’s not interested in just any teenage girls - only virgins. He hunts them by following their status updates and check-ins on social media. Once captured, they’re locked away in his sound-proof basement until they’re groomed and ready. He throws them away like pieces of trash after he’s stolen their innocence. Nobody escapes alive. Until Ella. She risks it all to escape, setting herself and the other girls free. Only the girl who's been captive the longest gets out with her. And soon Ella discovers her nightmare's far from over.

For three years, Detective Jude Fontaine was kept from the outside world. Held in an underground cell, her only contact was with her sadistic captor, and reading his face was her entire existence. Learning his every line, every movement, and every flicker of thought is what kept her alive. After her experience with isolation and torture, she is left with a fierce desire for justice - and a heightened ability to interpret the body language of both the living and the dead.

A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname—Buffalo Bill—is stalking women. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states. Clarice Starling, a young trainee at the FBI Academy, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, chief of the Bureau's Behavioral Science section. Her assignment: to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter—Hannibal the Cannibal—who is kept under close watch in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.

Something is troubling Inspector Henry Cutter. Sergeant Gideon Bliss is accustomed to his ill-tempered outbursts, but lately the inspector has grown silent and withdrawn. Then, the murders begin. The first to die is the elderly Sir Aneurin Considine, a decorated but obscure civil servant who long ago retired to tend his orchids. If the motive for his killing is a mystery, the manner of his death is more bewildering still. The victims that follow suffer similar fates, their deaths gruesome but immaculately orchestrated.