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An ambitious firefighter hunts a notorious arsonist in the Edgar Award–winning true crime story the New York Times calls "stranger than fiction." From Joseph Wambaugh, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of such classics as The Onion Field and The Choirboys, comes the extraordinary story of the chase for the "Pillow Pyro," called the most prolific American arsonist of the twentieth century. Growing up in Los Angeles, John Orr idolized...
3) On, off
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English
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Detective Carmine Delmonico sets out on a frantic game of cat-and-mouse as he searches for a serial killer that is terrorizing a university town in Connecticut.
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English
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A decade after elderly multimillionaire Andrew Jakes is found murdered and his young wife raped and beaten, his estranged son Andres Jakes investigates, notices similar cases around the world, and finds evidence pointing to one woman, known by the police as the Angel of Death.
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English
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Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is called in to help the local police find a suspected serial killer who seems to choose his victims at random, but the case becomes more personal when a colleague is taken by the murderer, leading Veteren and the police on a chase to find their friend before it is too late.
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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Alyssa Locke's latest assignment, teaching self-defense techniques to a newly elected assemblywoman and her chief of staff, takes a deadly turn when a murder victim is discovered and Alyssa becomes the target for a sadistic serial killer.
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English
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The first comprehensive biography of Sharon Tate: Hollywood star, wife of Roman Polanski, victim of Charles Manson, and symbol of the death of the 1960s. It began as a home invasion by the "Manson family" in the early hours of August 9, 1969. It ended in a killing spree that left seven people dead: actress Sharon Tate, writer Voyteck Frykowski, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, hair stylist Jay Sebring, student Steven Parent, and supermarket owner Leno...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Intelligence officer Ryan Evans, having spent time in Fallujah as the captive of insurgents who forced him to learn to kill by breaking bones and leaving victims to die, returns to Texas only to find himself under suspicion when a serial killer who employs the same method of murder begins abducting young girls--including Evans' own estranged daughter.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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Twenty years after killing Alton Turner Blackwood, the serial killer who murdered his parents and sisters, homicide detective John Calvino fears for the safety of his wife and three children when someone begins recreating Blackwood's murders of two decades ago.
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2009
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English
Description
Dexter Morgan returns from his honeymoon in Paris and gets to work perfecting his disguise as the perfect husband, father, and investigator, and wondering if he will be able to put his homicidal tendencies to rest, but when a new serial killer is identified, Dexter is once again drawn into the battle for fitting justice.
12) 1st to die
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Four friends--homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer, medical examiner Claire Washburn, assistant district attorney Jill Bernhardt, and crime reporter Cindy Thomas--team up to track down a killer who has been stalking newlyweds in San Francisco, but their investigation goes terribly wrong.
13) The calling
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Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef is called in to investigate the murder of a terminally ill woman, the latest victim of a brutal serial killer, and the case soon causes Hazel's entire life to spin out of control.
14) Evil at heart
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
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English
Description
Detective Archie Sheridan, having recovered from an attack by the serial murderer known as the Beauty Killer and struck a truce with her to stop taking lives, is thrown back on her trail when another body with her trademark is found, but questions whether she is responsible or if a fan club is copying her crimes.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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New York police detective Jacob Kanon searches for the killer of his daughter and her boyfriend, who were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in other European cities have been found dead with little to connect the murders except a postcard to the local newspaper. Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter Dessie Larsson, who has just received a postcard in Stockholm, and they think they know where to find the next victims....
16) Lost souls
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
Description
Aspiring crime writer Kristi Bentz, having already survived two run-ins with serial killers, enrolls at All Saints College in New Orleans to investigate the disappearances of four girls, all of whom had been enrolled in a popular class on vampirism, and finds she has once again been targeted by a killer and has completely underestimated her enemy.
17) The last surgeon
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English
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Former trauma surgeon Dr. Nick Garrity, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after witnessing a suicide bombing in Afghanistan and currently offering medical assistance to the homeless in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, helps nurse Jillian Coates investigate the suspicious suicide of her sister, and, together, they discover links between the woman's death, a CIA cover-up, a professional assassin, and Nick himself.
18) Blood game
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After the daughter of a Georgia senator is murdered and her body drained of blood, Eve Duncan becomes enmeshed in the nefarious plot of serial murderer Kevin Jelak, who Eve thinks might know something about her missing daughter.
19) Shoot to thrill
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The cyber-investigators at Monkeywrench Software in Minnesota join with straight-laced FBI agent John Smith in an effort to track down a killer who is posting his murders on the Web.
20) Jackaby
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Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Description
Newly arrived in 1892 New England, Abigail Rook becomes assistant to R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with the ability to see supernatural beings, and she helps him delve into a case of serial murder which, Jackaby is convinced, is due to a nonhuman creature.
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