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Diversion Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Bestselling true crime writer and criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee turns his attention to a new kind of victim: the wives and partners of serial murderers who remained unaware of exactly who they had fallen for until after their other half's arrest or, in some cases, conviction. Only upon Peter's arrest did Sonia Sutcliffe first discover that her husband was leading a secret existence as the Yorkshire Ripper. The wife of the Hillside Strangler...
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Publisher
Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Suspicion and paranoia engulf a community while a police detective hunts for a serial killer. One murder can make a town nervous. Two brings fear. Add three, four, or even more, and neighbors will start to turn on one another . . . Victoria Bullrush is a stickler for rules and tries to maintain a faultless investigation. But with each grisly killing, the urgency grows greater, and it soon becomes impossible to ignore the public’s growing anger ....
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Publisher
Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
He survived-but can he ever truly escape? A chilling psychological novel about damage, desperation, and a man trapped by childhood trauma.
When Monty was a child, he killed his father. His father had been kidnapping and murdering women for years, and forcing Monty to help. Monty survived-physically. He was adopted by a wonderful, caring family and is now a wealthy and successful man. On the outside.
But now, the last of his adoptive family...
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Publisher
Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A new thriller by the author of the Lindsey Ryan novels: Would you know a serial killer if you met one? What if she served your coffee every day?
Grace Murphy doesn't seem like the type of woman who'd have a man cable-tied to a chair, slowly dying in her house. She keeps to herself and goes through life relatively unnoticed, working as a barista and caring for her sister, providing her with wholesome meals and a clean home-things they never had...
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Skyhorse Publishing / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A thorough, comprehensive guide to some of history's most disturbing killers, from Rodney Alcala to the Zodiac Killer. Equal parts fascinating and horrifying, the stories of serial killers like Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer have taken on a new cultural prominence with the rise of the true-crime genre. Now, The Wikipedia Encyclopedia of Serial Killers offers murder fans and curious readers a new opportunity to learn about the lives and histories of...
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English
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Over the course of twenty-five years, Dr. Helen Morrison has profiled more than eighty serial killers around the world. What she learned about them will shatter every assumption you've ever had about the most notorious criminals known to man.Judging by appearances, Dr. Helen Morrison has an ordinary life in the suburbs of a major city. She has a physician husband, two children, and a thriving psychiatric clinic. But her life is much more than that....
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Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Trapped on a ship with a killer… can her K-9 partner sniff out the clues? Undercover on a cruise ship with her K-9 dog, Alaska State Trooper Maya Rodriguez uses herself as bait to catch a murderer. And security officer David Garrison is the only person she can trust with the truth. But with a possible serial killer dead-set on taking out anyone who stands in the way, will Maya and David make it off the ship alive? USA TODAY Bestselling Author Sharon...
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Given the opportunity, would you assume someone else's identity and leave your old life behind? A serendipitous crossing of paths between Lisa Barnes, a down-on-her-luck job seeker, and Julie Forman, a personal trainer to an Olympic hopeful, forever changes the course of both women's lives. One winds up dead and the other finds herself a fugitive, hiding behind one lie after another as a cold-blooded killer methodically hunts her. Desperately trying...
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Publisher
WildBlue Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A forensic psychologist answers true crime fan questions and reveals the terrifying truth behind the world's deadliest serial killers. Serial killers haunt our dreams and inspire the terrifying villains of TV shows and horror movies. But how much do you really know about the minds behind the world's deadliest killers? What drives these murderers to kill and kill again? And what fuels our fascination with the true stories of their horrific crimes?...
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Series
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
For over twenty-five years, leading crime expert Christopher Berry-Dee has gained the trust of some of the most infamous convicted killers, having corresponded with them and even entered their prison lairs to discuss their horrific crimes in detail. In Talking with Serial Killers: Dead Men Talking, he presents six unforgettable prisoners and allows them to tell their stories, providing the details and background of their terrifying cases. Beyond...
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Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"A heartbreaking story of female friendship, first love, and betrayal, Rebecca McKanna explodes onto the thriller scene. Absolutely phenomenal!" -Julie Clark, New York Times bestselling author
We never remember the dead girls. We never forget the killers.
Twelve years ago, 18-year-old University of Iowa freshman Abby Hartmann disappeared. Now, Jon Allan Blue, the serial killer suspected of her murder, is about to be executed. Abby's best friends,...
13) Hell to Pay
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"If you like Mary Higgins Clark, you'll love Wendy Corsi Staub." -Lisa Jackson "Wendy Corsi Staub is a master storyteller!" -Brenda Novak "Once Staub's brilliant characterizations and top-notch narrative skills grab hold, they don't let go." - Publishers Weekly Superstar thriller writer Lee Child calls the novels of Wendy Corsi Staub, "Solid gold suspense," and readers who dig into Hell to Pay will discover they've hit the mother lode. The third book...
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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;...
15) The Last to Know
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Townsend Heights is the perfect small town, just the kind of place Tasha Banks longed for when she left her big-city career for full-time motherhood. But now her dream is turning into a nightmare as a serial killer stalks Tasha's friends. One by one they are dying in horrific ways, and terror is transforming her peaceful existence into one of fear and foreboding ... where evil lurks behind the mask of a familiar face-a face that may be the last one...
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Publisher
WildBlue Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A New England community is rocked by a serial killer, a mass shooter, and a sexual predator --all in a single day --in this true crime chronicle. On January 7, 1994, residents of Berkshire Hills woke up to a typical winter day in the majestic woods of Western Massachusetts. But as that fateful day unfolded, three separate crimes --each unsettling in its own way --would converge in this quaint corner of New England. That day, a trial began for college...
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Publisher
Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An intense, gripping read that had me snared from the start." --Amazon reviewer, five stars Is this London detective hunting a serial killer--or a supernatural entity? "Genuinely creepy and panic inducing moments." -- Scream magazine When a bloody corpse is discovered in a North London park, Det. Insp. Daniel Graves is the man tasked with finding the killer. However, with no clues and no suspects, the case seems like a dead end. Then another body...
18) Laws of wrath
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Series
Martyr maker volume 2
Publisher
Lavette Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When the butchered body of a transgender woman is found in a dumpster, it's up to Detective Phee Freeman to solve the crime. But this case is personal. The victim is Freeman's sister. At first, the slaying looks like the random act of a vicious killer, but Freeman, his partner Quincy Cavanaugh, and FBI agent Janet Maclin soon discover this is something much more sinister. Similar ritualistic murders are taking place across the city. They're willing...
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Series
Publisher
Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A London forensic psychologist pursues a serial killer with a passion for music and revenge in this crime thriller by the author of Blood Symmetry. Adrian Stone believes he is a genius. A narcissist, with a psychotic desire to pursue his ambition to become the world's most revered pianist, Stone joined London's Royal College of Music as a child prodigy, believing his path to fame was secure. But when his parents decided to send him back to school,...
20) Burn factor
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English
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Vince Flynn
Bright, young, and ambitious, Quinn Barry desperately wants to be an FBI agent, even as she programs databases in the basement of the J. Edgar Hoover Building. But Quinn's career -- and her life -- are about to change wildly. Testing a new program, Quinn's computer savvy turns up a mysterious DNA link among five gruesome murders. A link that the old FBI system had been carefully programmed...
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