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21) Dying for mercy
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
After journalist Eliza Blake arrives her friend's newly renovated New York estate for a gala, she finds the host has perished in a grotesque suicide, but while she investigates within the mansion, Eliza uncovers clues that lead to a killer determined to expose the sins of respected local citizens.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Serial killer Dexter Morgan, who limits his victims to others killers, discovers that he was seen while committing a murder and is now being followed and mimicked, while at the same time a cop killer is targeting Miami's police detectives and leaving behind battered and bloodless corpses.
23) The last surgeon
Author
Language
English
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Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
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.
26) Devious
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Detectives Bentz and Montoya are assigned to investigate the murder of young novice Sister Camille, and, as more bodies are found, they uncover Montoya is connected to the first victim and the prime suspect, Father Frank O'Toole, as well as evidence that indicates a killer, who was believed to be dead, may be targeting nuns.
27) Silent mercy
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Prosecutor Alexandra Cooper investigates the deaths of two New York City women whose bodies are found at two different places of worship, and his own life is put in danger as he searches for connections between the two deaths.
28) Never knowing
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Sara Gallagher has always been curious about her birth parents, and when she finally locates her birth mother, she is shocked to learn her mother is the only woman to escape a serial killer who has been hunting women for decades and that the police believe the killer may be her birth father.
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Eliza Benedict unexpectedly hears from the man who kidnapped her when she was twelve and who is now on death row for the rape and murder of his final victim; but as she finds herself being drawn into his situation, it becomes apparent that he has a hidden agenda.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Retired New York Police Department homicide detective Dave Gurney is called in to consult on a serial killer investigation in which the murderer seems to be clairvoyant, and, as he makes progress, tragic facts from his past begin to haunt him and he realizes he must face them and work out his problems in his marriage if he is ever going to solve the case.
31) Spider bones
Author
Language
English
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Description
Temperance Brennan investigates the death of a man who was believed to have died almost forty years earlier in Vietnam and whose dog tags were found on another corpse, while also examining the remains of an adolescent boy who was found offshore and may have been the victim of a shark attack.
32) The spider's web
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Ned Windsong, an Arapaho, is shot to death, his fiancée Marcy becomes a suspect, and as Vicky Holden investigates, she finds that she and Father John are suddenly caught up in an intricate web of deceit.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Serial killer Dexter Morgan, who typically adheres to a code of only killing bad people, experiences life changes when his daughter is born, and as he looks into the disappearance of a teenage girl who is associated with a group of goths who are actually cannibals, he puts himself in danger of being their next meal.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Reporter Stacy Flynn, having moved from Cleveland to the small, upstate New York town of Haeden with the intention ofresearching the environmental impact of a dairy farm, is motivated by an article on violence against women written by fifteen-year-old Alice to investigate the murder of cocktail waitress Wendy White and finds her fate entwined with Alice's when a second crime occurs in the rural community.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Against a teeming canvas of Borgia politics, Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci come together to unmask an enigmatic serial killer, as we learn the secret history behind one of the most controversial works in the western canon.
36) 1st to die
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
37) Kiss the girls
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Detective Alex Cross is called away from his kids and his jazz piano when two murderers, operating on opposite sides of the country, strike at the same time, and one of them has abducted his niece, Naomi.
38) The search
Author
Language
English
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Description
Fiona Bristow, the only survivor of the Red Scarf serial killer who shot and killed her fiancé and his K-9 partner, is living quietly on Orca Island off the Seattle coast where she runs a thriving dog-training business, when her life is disrupted by artist Simon Doyle who is desperate for help in calming his wild puppy, and by the emergence of a copycat killer who wants the woman that got away.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
40) Mr. Brooks
Publisher
MGM DVD
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Man of the Year recipient Mr. Brooks learns he has an alter ego which is a serial killer and decides in order to get rid of the voice in his head he must kill one more time, but his plan is complicated when police officer Tracy Atwood pinpoints him as a suspect in previous murders.
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