Serial Killers

In this “skillfully penned tale of murder and cover-up that will keep readers enthralled until the powerful finish” (Fresh Fiction), family secrets and a serial killer from the past converge in this electrifying thriller. In 1985, Edward Shank famously gunned down the Beacon Hill Butcher...

The Dollmaker was the name of the serial killer who had stalked Los Angeles ruthlessly....

A serial rapist is kidnapping teenage girls. But he’s not interested in just any teenage girls - only virgins. He hunts them by following their status updates and check-ins on social media. Once he’s captured them, they’re locked away in his sound-proof basement....

In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other....

The #1 New York Times bestseller about a famous novelist held hostage in a remote location by his “number one fan.” One of “Stephen King’s best…genuinely scary” (USA TODAY). Adapted into the classic film Misery (1990). Paul Sheldon is a bestselling novelist who has finally met his...

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER The thrilling first book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series featuring Lisbeth Salander: “Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman movie with the grisly...

Listen to the silence... An instant classic novel of chilling psychological suspense...a critically-acclaimed audio production of unforgettable intensity...From the tormenting words of the homicidal maniac Dr. Hannibal Lecter and the flesh-rending depravity of an elusive killer to the sheer...

Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside....

In this electrifying thriller from the world’s most popular storyteller, Alex Cross is on his most terrifying murder case yet as a he must take down not one, but two serial killers working together in a twisted cross-country criminal alliance. Inspiration for the heart-pounding Prime Video...

Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing countless novelists and filmmakers.....

"Pulpy, peppery and sinister, served up in a comic deadpan...This scorpion-tailed little thriller leaves a response, and a sting, you will remember."--NEW YORK TIMES "The wittiest and most fun murder party you've ever been invited to."--MARIE CLAIRE WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR...

Welcome back to your darkest nightmare. I am Death, and they've stripped away my mask of mercy. My little lamb, I will paint the streets red until you're safe in my arms again.

Rainey Paxton never gave up on finding her friend Winnie after she was abducted by a serial killer. But the person Rainey knew wasn't the one she found. The woman Rainey loves has changed, and this new version is disturbing....

In this thrilling novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling author, the great Texas Rangers go on a no-holds-barred pursuit of the most dangerous killer ever to terrorize Texas. Texas Ranger Rory Yates protects his home state wearing a five-pointed silver badge and carrying a Sig Sauer. When a...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The “dark comedy with a creative twist” (Miami Herald) that introduced America’s favorite serial killer—the character that inspired the latest Showtime hit series Dexter: Resurrection. “A macabre tour-de-force.”—The New York Times Book Review Meet Dexter...

In this thrilling novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling author, detective Alex Cross is in the sights of the Dead Hours Killer, a serial murderer on a ruthless mission. “One of the greatest fictional detectives of all time” (Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child) The inspiration for #1 hit...

Alina Lis, Botanikerin und Hobbygiftmörderin, vertreibt sich die Zeit damit, widerliche Männer in ihrem verdrehten Sinn für poetische Gerechtigkeit zu töten.

USA Today and Amazon two million copy best-selling author Blake Banner is at his best in this mystifying crime series! And so is the Castle Hill Ripper. His MO hasn’t changed. He still stalks pregnant women like a hunter....

He was clinically dead after the accident - but was miraculously revived....

To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his “art” to new heights....

He is one of the most haunting characters in all of literature. At last the evolution of his evil is revealed. Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him...

What do you do when the killers come out to play? When it's hunt or be hunted? You sharpen your knives and prepare to get bloody because nobody does it better than a woman scorned with something to prove.

The peaceful little village of Saltern-le-Fen is buzzing with excitement. A film crew are in town, shooting a new TV police drama, Fen Division Five. But Detective Jackman receives a disturbing tip-off that something is wrong....

Now a Netflix film starring Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson A dark and riveting vision of 1960s America that delivers literary excitement in the highest degree. In The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock has written a novel that marries the twisted intensity of Oliver Stone’s Natural...

Lights. Camera. Murder. Take a wild ride through Hollywood with “the first serial killer who unabashedly solicits our love” (Entertainment Weekly)—the character that inspired the latest Showtime hit series Dexter: Resurrection. “Gory? Yes. Appalling? Absolutely! Funny? Amazingly so...

DCI Liam Brodie is no stranger to horror. Seven years ago, he led the hunt for a murderer who killed seven women, leaving their bodies out on display like some kind of morbid exhibition. Never any witnesses; never any clue as to who he was. Now, seven years later, the killings have started again. Same method. Same pattern. Same nightmare. Brodie is called back to Fife to lead the investigation. But this time, the killer isn't just repeating the past—he's rewriting it. And Brodie isn't just hunting a serial killer… He's being hunted.

Indien Crow d'adoption, Raynaud Shade est considéré comme le plus dangereux sociopathe des États-Unis et représente le cauchemar de tout policier. Finalement interpellé, il avoue avoir enterré un cadavre au beau milieu des Bighorn Mountains, dans le Wyoming, et c'est à Walt Longmire que revient la tâche d'escorter Shade, en plein blizzard, jusqu'au corps. Mais le shérif sous-estime peut-être les dangers d'une telle expédition.

Il y a huit ans, David Hunter, médecin et anthropologue médico-légal, s'était rendu dans un coin désolé du Dartmoor pour assister à l'exhumation d'un cadavre enterré sous des ossements d'animaux. L'une des victimes de Monk. Aujourd'hui, ce tueur en série de jeunes femmes vient de s'évader, et il hante de nouveau la lande. Envie de se rapprocher de ses victimes, dont les corps n'ont pas tous été retrouvés ? Ou désir de vengeance ? Une menace plane sur ceux qui ont été autrefois mêlés à l'enquête, obligeant Hunter à sortir de sa retraite pour affronter des ombres du passé.

Two years ago, Ruth was an ambitious journalist on the trail of a serial killer with a very specific calling card. Then her best friend became the latest victim, and Ruth's life fell apart. When police shelve the case, Ruth decides there is only one way to force them to keep looking: make him kill again. Or at least, make it look like he has… The good news: working at a funeral home has its perks, like access to fresh hearts she can use to stage convincing crime scenes. The bad news: the real killer has noticed Ruth's 'work' too, and now it's not just the police trying to catch her…

FBI-Spezialagentin Fiona Kelly wird von ihrer Vergangenheit eingeholt: Der „Nursery Rhyme Killer", der vor fast zwei Jahrzehnten ihre Schwester tötete, ist zurück. An jedem Tatort hinterlässt er eine Gänsefeder – ein grausames Zeichen, das Fiona das Blut in den Adern gefrieren lässt. Dieses Mal ist die Botschaft direkt an sie gerichtet. Während Fiona den Killer jagt, droht ihr Privatleben und ihre Ehe mit FBI-Agent Asa Kodiak jedoch daran zu zerbrechen. Gemeinsam müssen sie ihre Differenzen überwinden und erneut zusammenarbeiten, um den Mörder zu fassen.

UN LUGAR MARCADO POR LA MUERTE. UN INSPECTOR QUE NO QUIERE VOLVER. GRETA ALONSO REGRESA CON SU TERCERA NOVELA: SU OBRA MÁS INTENSA, MÁS OSCURA, MÁS BRILLANTE. 2024. La aparición de un cadáver envuelto en un macabro sudario marca el inicio de unos crímenes que aterrarán a la ciudad. La...

En medio de la crisis económica que sacude España, Ubaldo Contador, un psicólogo de la Policía Nacional, se ve inmerso en una investigación que lo llevará lejos de su hogar y de sus problemas cotidianos. A su lado, la investigadora checa Janka Kopecká lucha por descifrar la mente del implacable criminal conocido como el Mutilador de Praga. Tú no eres Sherlock Holmes es una novela que entrelaza las vidas de estos y otros muchos personajes, cada uno luchando por encontrar su camino en una ciudad que parece devorar a sus habitantes.

Un asesinato como ningún otro. Un asesino más retorcido de lo que jamás ha visto. Un caso que lo llevará al límite. Tras recibir el aviso, Robert Hunter llega a la escena del crimen más escalofriante y brutal a la que ha acudido jamás. El horror aumenta cuando, durante la autopsia, encuentran dentro del cuerpo de la víctima una nota con el verso de un poema dejado por el asesino. Cuando poco tiempo después se encuentra otro cadáver, el método utilizado y la firma del asesino son tan distintos del primero que los forenses al principio no ven ninguna relación entre los crímenes.

Im Hamburger Miniatur Wunderland geht ein Mörder um. Die echten Opfer sind stets versehen mit der Notiz: »Lieblingsleichen«. Kommissar Knudsen sieht den Ernst der Lage. Hamburg ist bundesweit die Stadt mit den meisten Obdachlosen. Auch La Lotse, Knudsens Freund, wirkt wieder auf ungewöhnliche Weise an den Ermittlungen mit.

La Suède est frappée par une série de meurtres barbares. Seul point commun entre les victimes, leur âge : 44 ans. À première vue ces personnes ne se connaissent pas, mais à mieux y regarder, leurs chemins se sont bel et bien croisés, il y a longtemps, dans la petite ville de Katrineholm. À l'époque, tous fréquentaient la même école. Et le souffre-douleur de la classe s'appelait Thomas Karlsson. Aujourd'hui, Thomas est un homme effacé, asocial, et aigri : autant dire le coupable idéal.

Gerade erst aus Ohio zurückgekehrt, wartet Inspektor Bishop mit einem neuen Fall auf Professor van Dusen. Ein Serienmörder hat es offenbar auf Geistliche abgesehen. Seinen Opfern fehlen die Schuhe, während sie mit durchschnittener Kehle vor dem Altar knien und zu einer Jesusfigur hinaufstarren. Van Dusen und Hatch stürzen sich kopfüber in einen neuen Fall, der ihre ganze Aufmerksamkeit und ihr Geschick erfordert, denn das Leben eines Menschen hängt allein von ihnen ab.

Diese Kriminalsatire wird aus der Perspektive von sieben Protagonisten erzählt: Die Freischaffende, die einem Serienvergewaltiger entkommt und ihm nach Jahren wiederbegegnet, als er mit Hilfe eines Galeristen zum Künstlerstar emporgehoben wird; die Gutachterin, deren Expertise ignoriert wird; der Anwalt, der dem Schwerverbrecher ein freies Künstlerleben ermöglicht; der berühmte Filmemacher, der die Welt neu erklären möchte, und dessen Kunstagent, der ihn zu waghalsigen Investitionen verleitet.

Bonnie Hunter has dedicated her career to locking up rapists. While her track record for putting them behind bars is second-to-none, one particularly nasty character has eluded her for years. His penchant for cutting out the tongues of his victims to stop them talking has made him rather difficult to catch. But he's just made his first mistake. Cooper and Quinn have their own problems. With a vigilante killer amongst them, they're racing the clock to figure out who's taking justice into their own hands before the press get wind of it and send the vigilante to ground.

In una Milano autunnale, allagata dai temporali, il giovane cronista di nera Enrico Radeschi, freelance e hacker, si ritrova nel mezzo di una doppia inchiesta riguardante un serial killer che uccide giovani prostitute nei loro appartamenti e un misterioso omicidio-suicidio nella metropolitana, cui incombe l'ombra del terrorismo e di un traffico internazionale di droga. Grazie all'amicizia che lo lega al vicequestore Loris Sebastiani, Radeschi comincerà a seguire entrambe le vicende per conto di un importante quotidiano milanese.

Sherlock Holmes ist mit einer aufsehenerregenden Mordserie konfrontiert: Der Täter scheint sich bei der Opferauswahl an den sieben Todsünden des christlichen Glaubens zu orientieren. Die Ermittlungen gestalten sich zunehmend schwierig und überaus gefährlich.