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Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
Elderly Gwendolyn Chawcer and her colorful group of friends become increasingly suspicious of her tenant, Michael "Mix" Cellini, an eccentric who idolizes serial killer Reggie Christie, as his odd behavior and obsessions take an ever darker turn.
42) The preacher
Author
Series
Patrik Hedstrom mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The discovery of two murder victims who were killed twenty years earlier is complicated by the body of a third, recent victim at the same location, a case that compels detective Patrik Hedstrom to investigate a feuding clan of misfits, religious fanatics, and criminals.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Carrie Lawrence is an accomplice to murder, multiple murders actually, because her sister is a serial killer. When her sister's most recent victim is discovered and police find twelve more bodies buried nearby -- all missing a foot! -- things get weird. Carrie has helped her sister dispose of thirteen two-footed bodies in the past decade, but these bodies are being attributed to a madman dubbed "Footloose" by the media. At first, Carrie is not certain...
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Four women--a police detective, an assistant D.A., a reporter, and a medical examiner who call themselves the Women's Murder Club--develop lifelong bonds as they pursue a killer whose twisted imagination has stunned an entire city.
45) Wild justice
Author
Series
Amanda Jaffe novels volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
The discovery of two severed heads and a mass grave leads investigators to the doorstep of a troubled surgeon, but when he disappears and the murders begin anew, attorney Amanda Jaffe must unravel the mystery.
48) The butcher
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the acclaimed suspense novels Creep and Freak and whom Jeffery Deaver has praised as a "top of the line thriller writer," The Butcher is a high-octane novel about lethal secrets that refuse to die--until they kill again. A rash of grisly serial murders plagued Seattle until the infamous "Beacon Hill Butcher" was finally hunted down and killed by police chief Edward Shank in 1985. Now, some thirty years later, Shank, retired and...
49) Stake
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Simon Helsing believes the only way to stop a bad guy with fangs is a good guy with a stake. He has devoted his life to ridding the world of vampires. He hunts them, finds their daytime lairs, and pounds a stake through their hearts. Lexi Tarada wants to believe. She's desperate to prove that the strange and impossible can be real. She runs a website for the unexplained and tries to sift through the crazy conspiracy theories to find out what is -...
50) Should I fall
Author
Series
Austin Grant series volume 2
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When John Frankel's ex-wife is discovered dead on the floor of his Manhattan studio apartment, the NYPD Detective instantly becomes the prime suspect in her murder. Then more information surfaces, linking his gun to the fatal bullet, a motive is discovered, and Frankel flees the city, all of which further convinces his colleagues of his guilt. In spite of the mounting evidence, Frankel's bride-to-be, Rachel Grant, and her father, Austin Grant, formerly...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
English
Description
Documents the author's discovery that his new family home in Florence had been the scene of a double murder, his relationship with the investigative journalist co-author, and how they both became targets of the police investigation into the murders.
52) La ratonera
Author
Series
Publisher
Austral
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Giles y Mollie Ralston están muy ocupados tratando de ultimar los preparativos para los primeros huéspedes. Acaban de abrir una pensión en una mansión antigua que Mollie heredó y solo desean que los visitantes tengan una estancia placentera. Pero una intensa nevada deja la mansión Monkswell incomunicada y la noticia que el oficial Trotter da al matrimonio Ralston y a los clientes de la pensión no resulta muy tranquilizadora: se encuentran...
Author
Series
Truly Devious volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stevie Bell managed to solve the mystery at Ellingham Academy. Then she gets a message from the owner of Sunny Pines-- formerly known as Camp Wonder Falls, the site of the infamous "Box in the Woods" murders. The new camp owner wants Stevie to help him work on a true-crime podcast about the unsolved case. Going undercover as a camp counselor, Stevie learns that something evil still lurks at the camp-- and will is willing to make room for more victims.--...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the late summer of a long-ago year, a killer arrived in a small city. In the space of a few months, Alton Turner Blackwood brutally murdered four families. His savage spree ended only when he himself was killed by the last survivor of the last family. Two decades later, someone is murdering families again, re-creating Blackwood's crimes. Homicide detective John Calvino, who stopped Blackwood when he was fourteen, knows his family is the copycat's...
55) Downfall
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Detectives dig into the dark side of Toronto when a serial killer targets homeless people who are camped out near one of the city's most exclusive enclaves in this latest crime thriller from bestselling author Robert Rotenberg."--
56) The killing club
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Jamie Ferrara returns to her New Jersey hometown to attend the funeral of an old friend and to launch an investigation into a death that bears a strange resemblance to a fictional murder she and her fellow misfits had come up with years earlier.
57) Wicked ways
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A spine-tingling thriller in which one woman's birthright holds the key to a rash of brutal murders"--
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
"When elderly multimillionaire art dealer, Andrew Jakes, is found brutally murdered in his ransacked Hollywood home, his young wife raped and beaten, and his art and jewels stolen, the motive seems pretty clear. But when the investigation doesn't turn up a single, solid lead, the case is closed and his stunning young widow vanishes. A decade passes before Andrew Jakes' estranged son, Matt Daley, does a little digging of his own, only to find that...
59) Chill factor
Author
Language
English
Description
When a serial killer who leaves a blue ribbon at the site of his victims' last sightings appears in the peaceful town of Cleary, North Carolina, police chief Dutch Burton finds the case complicated by his ex-wife's disappearance during a blizzard.
Author
Series
Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series volume 6
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boston Medical Examiner Maura Isles is summoned to the scene of a brutal killing and teams up with Detective Jane Rizzoli to investigate the victim's ties to Joyce O'Donnell, a cantankerous psychologist, and to a sinister cabal called the Mephisto Club.
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