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21) Triple cross
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Alex Cross hunts down a serial killer who targets entire families-and who will next be coming for the Crosses. A precise killer, he always moves under the cover of darkness, flawlessly triggering no alarms, leaving no physical evidence. Cross and Sampson aren't the only ones investigating. Also in on this most intriguing case is the world's bestselling true-crime author, who sees patterns everyone else misses. The writer, Thomas Tull, calls...
Author
Series
Boogeyman volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 410 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After making a successful true crime writing and filmmaking career revolving around the murders that shook his hometown decades earlier, Rich Chizmar is terrified when the killings begin again, in the sequel to Chasing the Boogeyman.
23) Oh Danny boy
Author
Series
Molly Murphy volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
325 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
24) Beach house
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
210 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Bill Hodges trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging...
26) Liar, liar
Author
Series
Harriet Blue volume 3
Language
English
Description
In the space of a week, she has committed theft and fraud, resisted arrest, assaulted a police officer, and is considered a dangerous fugitive from the law. It's all because of one man, Regan Banks. He viciously killed the only person in the world who matters to Harriet--and he plans to kill her next. As she recklessly speeds toward the dark side--and finally crosses it--Harriet won't stop until Regan pays for the many lives he has taken.--
Author
Series
Alex Carter volume 01
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Targeted by aggressive locals attempting to sabotage her research on a Montana endangered wildlife sanctuary, biologist Alex Carter reports evidence of an injured person to indifferent authorities before uncovering the activities of a serial killer.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer, from the author whose work The New York Times described as "riveting" and The Wall Street Journal called "thrilling." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Zando
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From the co-host of chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid, a thrilling debut novel told from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and the medical examiner following where his trail of victims leads. Something dark is lurking in the Louisiana bayou: a methodical killer with a penchant for medical experimentation is hard at work completing his most harrowing crime yet, taunting the authorities who desperately try to catch up. But...
31) Triptych
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Troubled by a rocky marriage and the recent loss of his partner, Atlanta detective Michael Ormewood launches an investigation into the savage murder of a local woman, and ex-con John Shelley may be the key to solving the case.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Due to Jack Stapleton's ongoing recovery from his near-death confrontation with a serial killer, his wife Laurie Montgomery, the NYC chief medical examiner, is carrying the load both at work and at home. When she insists an underperforming pathology resident named Ryan Sullivan assist her on a suicide autopsy, Laurie unknowingly provokes an emotional storm in the trainee. So, when Ryan himself appears on the medical examiner's table days later, an...
34) Fifty fifty
Author
Series
Harriet Blue volume Book 2
Language
English
Description
After violating protocol in her efforts to defend her brother against murder charges, Detective Harriet Blue is reassigned to a small town in the outback, where a diary outlining plans to massacre the entire town is found.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
285 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A continuation of the series that inspired the popular Dexter television series finds newlywed blood-spatter analyst Dexter Morgan investigating the work of a Miami-area serial killer who has disguised his latest victim as a sunbather on the beach.
36) Final breath
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
436 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Once A Killer's Chosen You. . .
At first, the deaths seem random. A young Portland couple brutally murdered in a game gone awry. . .a Chicago woman who plummeted to her death from an office building. . .an aspiring screenwriter asphyxiated in his New York apartment. But the macabre souvenirs television reporter Sydney Jordan receives hint at a connection that is both personal and terrifying.
The Only Thing You Have To Do. . .
After events in her...
37) Sleeping beauty
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
While Miles Van Meter is on tour to promote his new true-crime book, the serial killer portrayed in the book escapes from custody and goes after the daughter of two of his victims, Ashley Spencer.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 274 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Ellery Hathaway, a police officer who hides her identity as a serial killer's only surviving victim, fears that someone has discovered her secret when three people from her quiet town disappear, and reaches out to the FBI agent who saved her years earlier for help.
39) Dying for mercy
Author
Series
Key News volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"[Clark] deftly combines the clue-searching and puzzle-solving fun of mysteries with the action-packed, emotion-driven narrative thrust of thrillers."
-Pittsburgh Tribune Review
"One of Clark's-and the genre's-best."
-Associated Press
A very suspicious death and a sprawling mansion with secrets and puzzles built into the very architecture are among the elements that make Dying for Mercy an unputdownable mystery. The third riveting...
Author
Series
Ellie hatcher volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a college student's murder, NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher builds a case against a young man last seen with the victim but doubts her original conclusions when she recognizes similarities between the killing and three deaths from a decade earlier.