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Author
Pub. Date
2020
Description
There's a killer on the road, and nobody is safe. Michael and Megan Fitzgerald are siblings who share a terrifying past. Both adopted, and now grown - Michael is a long-haul truck driver, Megan a college student majoring in psychology - they trust each other before anyone else. They've had to. When a young woman is found murdered in Michael's LA apartment, he becomes the chief suspect and is quickly apprehended. But then there's another killing that...
2) Stay alive
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Description
It's a sunny afternoon, and you're deep in the country on a river trip with your family. You're nearing journey's end when a shot rings out - and your whole life changes in an instant. A woman is coming towards you, chased by three gunmen. It's clear she's in terrible danger. And now you are too. Because although you don't know it, she harbours a deadly secret. Night falls. You're running, terrified, desperate to find safety. All you know is that...
3) The thirst
Author
Series
Harry Hole volume 11
Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2017
Description
THERE?S A NEW KILLER ON THE STREETS... A woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks left on her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer. HE?S IN YOUR HOUSE? HE?S IN YOUR ROOM Under pressure from the media to find the murderer, the force know there?s only one man for the job. But Harry Hole is reluctant to return to the place that almost took everything from him. Until he starts to suspect a connection...
Author
Series
Bodenstein and Kirchhoff volume 4
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Police Detective Pia Kirchhoff is about to leave on her long-delayed honeymoon when she receives a phone call. An elderly woman has been shot and killed while walking her dog. A short while later another murder is committed and the modus operandi is eerily similar - a woman is killed by a bullet that smashes through her kitchen window ... and in both cases the same weapon fired the shot. Two more murders follow in short order. None of the victims...
5) Dark spectre
Author
Publisher
Faber
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Random and motiveless murders have been taking place all over America. Given the unpredictability of the killings, and the many different police forces involved, it is hard to see how the murderers can be stopped.
6) Deja dead
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan volume 1
Publisher
Cornerstone Digital
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Bagged and discarded, the dismembered body of a woman is discovered in the grounds of an abandoned monastery. Dr Temperance Brennan, Director of Forensic Anthropology for the province of Quebec, has been researching recent disappearances in the city. Soon she is convinced that a serial killer is at work. But when no one else seems to care, her anger forces her to take matters into her own hands. Her determined probing has placed those closest to her...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Setagaya ward, Tokyo Inspector Kosuke Iwata, newly transferred to Tokyo's homicide department, is assigned a new partner and a secondhand case. Blunt, hard as nails and shunned by her colleagues, Assistant Inspector Noriko Sakai is a partner Iwata decides it would be unwise to cross. A case that's complicated - a family of four murdered in their own home by a killer who then ate ice cream, surfed the web and painted a hideous black sun on the bedroom...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2018
Description
When Solomon's sister is found drugged and in a coma after an online date, Solomon can't believe this was just a terrible accident. Determined to find out what happened to his sister, and with the police unwilling to help, Solomon begins to investigate on his own. He soon uncovers a rash of similar cases of women who have been found brutally murdered or assaulted after an online date. There is a predator out there working the streets of London, preying...
10) Dying scream
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2011
Description
When Adrianna Barrington receives an anniversary card from her husband Craig, she assumes it's some crackpot's idea of a joke. After all, Craig is dead. But then come the phone calls, flowers and messages. While Adrianna begins to doubt her sanity, grisly remains are found and the bodies are thought to be linked to Craig.
11) Sacrifice
Author
Series
Lena Peters volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda/Bonnier audio
Pub. Date
2017
Description
He must hunt her down. Kill her. Destroy her ... In her very first case, criminal psychologist Lena Peters is confronted with a killer on a murderous vendetta. And though she is unaware, Lena will play a prominent role in his deadly mission, because Lena knows what makes killers tick - she also knows all about obsession, for she has been close to the edge herself. For now she is the hunter, but soon she will become the hunted.
12) The match
Author
Series
Wilde volume 2
Pub. Date
2022
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Description
In this gripping thriller from the bestselling author and creator of The Stranger, Wilde follows a tip that he hopes will finally solve the mystery of his abandonment, but instead sends him straight into the arms of a serial killer. As a young child, Wilde was found living a feral existence in the Ramapo mountains of New Jersey. He has grown up knowing nothing of his family, and even less about his own identity. He is known simply as Wilde, the boy...
Author
Series
Merrily Watkins volume 5
Description
After half a century of decay, the village of Underhowle looked to be on the brink of a new prosperity. Now, instead, it seems destined for notoriety as the home of a psychotic serial killer. DI Frannie Bliss, of Hereford CID, is convinced he knows where the bodies are buried, but Merrily Watkins wonders if Bliss isn't blinkered by personal ambition. Are the Underhowle deaths really linked to the legacy of Fred West and the most sickening cycle of...
14) Blueeyedboy
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Once there was a widow with three sons, and their names were Black, Brown and Blue. Black was the eldest; moody and aggressive. Brown was the middle child, timid and dull. But Blue was his mother's favourite. And he was a murderer.
15) Cry for help
Author
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Dave Lewis is a man with a history. Haunted by his brother's death, he's built a bitter life that seems to be going nowhere. Now, he's trying to convince himself the past is the past and that he is determined to move on. But is that going to be possible?
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Setagaya ward, Tokyo Inspector Kosuke Iwata, newly transferred to Tokyo's homicide department, is assigned a new partner and a secondhand case. Blunt, hard as nails and shunned by her colleagues, Assistant Inspector Noriko Sakai is a partner Iwata decides it would be unwise to cross. A case that's complicated - a family of four murdered in their own home by a killer who then ate ice cream, surfed the web and painted a hideous black sun on the bedroom...
17) Dead gone
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Series
DI Murphy and DS Rossi volume 1
Formats
Description
When DI David Murphy and DS Laura Rossi are called to investigate the murder of a student at the City of Liverpool University, they find a letter from her killer attached to her body detailing a famous and deadly unethical psychological experiment that had been performed on her. Convinced at first that the murderer is someone close to the victim, Murphy dismisses the letter as a bid to throw them off the scent - until more bodies are found, each with...
18) The murder bag
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Series
Formats
Description
There's a serial killer on the loose. He cuts throats. And he is good at it. 20 years ago seven rich, privileged students became friends at their exclusive private school, Potter's Field, founded 500 years ago by King Henry VIII. Suddenly they have started dying in the most violent way imaginable. Detective Max Wolfe follows the bloody trail from the backstreets and bright lights of the city all the way to the corner rooms in the corridors of power....
Author
Series
A Frankie Elkin Novel volume 3
Pub. Date
2024
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Description
A remote tropical island. Countless dangerous secrets. No way to call help. Missing persons specialist Frankie Elkin is on an isolated island off the coast of Hawaii. Her mission: to find Lani, the missing sister of a Death Row serial killer known as the Beautiful Butcher who is awaiting execution in just three weeks' time. According to the Beautiful Butcher's sources, Lani is being held captive by her millionaire ex-boyfriend on the island. The only...
20) Daisy in chains
Author
Publisher
Magna
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Famous killers have fan clubs. Hamish Wolfe is no different. Locked up for the rest of his life for the abduction and murder of three young women, he gets adoring letters every day. He's handsome, charismatic and very persuasive. His admirers are convinced he's innocent, and that he's the man of their dreams. Who would join such a club? Maggie Rose is different. Reclusive and enigmatic; a successful lawyer and bestselling true-crime writer, she only...