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Diversion Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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A chilling exploration into the psyche of real-life killers like Oscar Pistorius, Harold Shipman, Melanie Lyn McGuire, and Michael Bruce Ross. For decades, renowned criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee has interviewed imprisoned, infamous serial killers and now he peels back the curtain, engaging with the psychiatrists tasked to understand their deviant minds. As Berry-Dee dives deeper than ever before, he uncovers a disturbing pattern: the utter lack...
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"A psychological portrait akin to Lord of the Flies." ~Midwest Book Review
SOME TRUTHS ARE BETTER KEPT SECRET.
SOME SECRETS ARE BETTER OFF DEAD.
ALONG THE BANKS OF THE BOGUE FALAYA RIVER, sits the abandoned St. Francis Seminary. Beneath a canopy of oaks, blocked from prying eyes, the teens of St. Benedict High gather here on Fridays. The rest of the week belongs to school and family-but weekends belong to the river.
And the river belongs to...
8) Wicked Lies
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English
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If At First You Don't Succeed
For two years, Justice Turnbull has paced his room at Halo Valley Security Hospital, planning to escape. Justice has a mission-one that began with a vicious murder two decades ago. And there are so many others who must be sent back to the hell that spawned them...
Kill...
Laura Adderley didn't plan to get pregnant by her soon-to-be ex-husband, though she'll do anything to protect her baby. But now reporter Harrison...
Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Christopher Berry-Dee returns with a companion volume that delves even deeper into the evil world of psychopaths and their hideous crimes. In Talking with Psychopaths: Beyond Evil, criminologist Berry-Dee combines sections on killers whom he has known, interviewed, or corresponded with, with studies of psychopathic serial killers from the past, including Peter Kurten, the Dusseldorf Monster; John Christie, a murderer and necrophile;...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From celebrated authors Amy Hempel and Jill Ciment writing as A.J. Rich, a smart, thrilling, sexy, and emotionally riveting novel of psychological suspense about an accomplished woman involved with a man who proves to be an imposter. Morgan Prager, at age thirty, is completing her thesis on victim psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan. She is newly engaged to Bennett, a seductive but possessive and secretive man. She returns...
12) Point of origin
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta's investigation of a killer who uses fire to hide his crimes turns personal when she learns that her old nemesis, Carrie Grethen, is somehow involved.
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Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When AA meetings make her want to drink more, alcoholic murderess Maeve sets up a group for psychopaths... The dark, unpredictable, electrifyingly original new thriller from critically acclaimed author Will Carver. ';Cements Carver as one of the most exciting authors in Britain. After this, he'll have his own cult following' Daily Express 'Will Carver is an exhilarating and audacious new voice in literary crime fiction' Sarah Pinborough ';A new Will...
14) Cape Fear
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2001, c1961
Language
English
Description
When pyschopath Max Cady is released from prison after a fourteen year sentence, his single purpose in life is to destroy his lawyer Sam Bowden. He menaces Bowden's family and the lawyer must resort to unorthodox measures to get rid of Cady.
15) Sacred sins
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English
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Dr. Tess Court, called upon to create a psychological profile of a killer who strangles his victims with a priest's white silk amice, is teamed with skeptical Detective Ben Paris who could not care less about the murderer's psyche, but does find the beautiful doctor intriguing.
17) Think twice
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Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Bennie Rosato looks exactly like her identical twin, Alice Connelly, but the darkness in Alice's soul makes them two very different women. Or at least that's what Bennie believes, until she finds herself buried alive at the hands of her twin. Alice underestimates Bennie, though, and the evil she has unleashed in her twin's psyche, as well as Bennie's determination to stay alive long enough to exact revenge.
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English
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That lovable, under-undermedicated dispenser of truth, justice, and trivia is back with a vengeance-just as his cherished home state is about to take a beating from a conga line of hurricanes bearing down on the peninsula. But as Serge and his burnout buddy Coleman go storm-chasing, bodies begin turning up at a disturbing rate, even by Florida standards. It looks like a serial killer is on the loose-another serial killer-which highly offends Serge's...
19) The gift
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A young married couple's lives are thrown into a harrowing tailspin when an acquaintance from the husband's past brings mysterious gifts and a horrifying secret to light after more than twenty years.--From WorldCat
20) Skeleton man
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange "great-uncle," Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety and maybe even for her life.
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