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61) The silence
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Here comes a candle to light you to bed. And here comes a chopper to chop off your head. Chip chop chip chop the last man is dead. Matt Connolly and five of his friends are at a music festival when, in the dead of night, they are awakened by a bloodcurdling scream. That's when the group discover one of their own being assaulted by a man in the darkness. In the resulting fight, the man ends up dead. Nearby, another body is discovered beheaded in the...
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a series of bizarrely posed corpses turns up around Philadelphia, along the banks of the Schuylkill River, homicide detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano race to stop a murderer whose macabre crimes appear to be inspired by childhood bedtime stories.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Pete Earley comes the true story of a young man who suffers a traumatic brain injury that renders him incapable of judging or feeling repulsion, and subsequently becomes the most trusted confidant of numerous imprisoned serial killers"--
65) The circle
Author
Series
Commandant Martin Servaz thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"They find the boy by the swimming pool, dolls floating on its surface. Inside the house, his teacher lies dead. But he claims to remember nothing. June 2010. In the middle of a World Cup match, Martin Servaz receives a call from a long-lost lover. A few miles away in the town of Marsac, Classics professor Claire Diemar has been brutally murdered. As if that weren't disturbing enough, Servaz receives a cryptic e-mail indicating that Julian Hirtmann,...
Author
Series
Social media murders volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Set in London, a serial killer targets trolls on the internet and then develops an ever-growing Twitter following because of the publicity surrounding the murders. The first to figure out what's going on is Freddie Venten, a part-time journalist and full-time barista, who happens into the investigation of the first murder through a chance encounter with a childhood friend, Nasreen Cudmore, now a police sergeant. Freddie nearly compromises the case...
Author
Series
Caroline Mabry mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Regan Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Young detective Caroline Mabry is thrust into a hunt for a serial killer, forcing her and her troubled mentor Alan Dupree to confront the truth about America's fascination with violence, but as they close in on their target, they uncover an evil far morealarming.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Olivia Taylor-Jones is the daughter of a prominent Chicago family--or so she thought. Ivy League educated, with a handsome, politically ambitious fiancé, Olivia is shattered when she learns that she's adopted. Her real parents? Todd and Pamela Larsen, notorious serial killers serving life sentences. Overwhelmed by a maelstrom of unwanted publicity, Olivia flees to home to pursue the truth about her birth parents. Landing in the small town of Cainsville,...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Trying to rebuild her life in Kansas without her fugitive ex-husband, Lily Brown is thrust into a killer's crosshairs when her tween son breaks into a storage unit and finds photos and news clippings about five long-missing girls.
70) Sense of evil
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
After a series of murders in which the victims are all blondes who did not resist their attacker, police chief Rafe Sullivan calls in the FBI for assistance and is concerned by the atypical methods of the responding agent, Isabel Adams.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A chilling true story-part memoir, part crime investigation-reminiscent of Ann Rule's classic The Stranger Beside Me, about a little girl longing for love and how she found friendship with her charismatic babysitter-who was also a vicious serial killer. Growing up on Cape Cod in the 1960s, Liza Rodman was a lonely little girl. During the summers, while her mother worked days in a local motel and danced most nights in the Provincetown bars, her babysitter-the...
Author
Series
Jack Sawyer series volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 41
Language
English
76) The rosary girls
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A devious serial killer lays siege to the city of Philadelphia, brutally sacrificing pretty young Catholic girls on the altar of insanity. As the body count rises, an exceptional investigating partnership struggles to stop him. Detective Jessica Balzano, Philly's Homicide Unit's newest rookie, is teamed up with the veteran cop Kevin Byrne, respected for his solve rate and known for his unorthodox methods. The pair, willing to do anything it takes...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The stunning true story of an Alabama serial killer, and the trial that obsessed the author of To Kill a Mockingbird in the years after the publication of her classic novel--a complicated and difficult time in her life that, until now, has been very little examined. Willie Maxwell was a Baptist reverend in Alabama; he also happened to be a serial killer. Between 1970 and 1977, his two wives and brother all died under suspicious circumstances -- each...
Author
Series
Dexter books volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Hiding a secret life as an assassin while working as a murder analyst for the Miami police, Dexter Morgan is intrigued by the work of a new serial killer whose style mimics his own.
80) Finding Dawn
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Dawn Crey. Ramona Wilson. Daleen Kay Bosse. These are just three of the estimated 500 Aboriginal women who have gone missing or been murdered in Canada over the past thirty years. Directed by acclaimed Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh, Finding Dawn is a compelling documentary that puts a human face to this national tragedy. This is an epic journey into the dark heart of Native women’s experience in Canada. From Vancouver’s skid row, where more...
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