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"Medicine Creek, Kansas, has been dying for the last century. A small, quiet place, the primary occupation is still farming, Main Street is a stretch of old and dusty businesses, and the nearest mall is 200 miles away. In a town where nothing changes, the community is terrified after a series of grisly murders takes place."--from NoveList.
22) Twisted: a novel
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When a brutal murder is scheduled for June 28th, detective Petra Connor must find the serial killer who, so far, has evaded the police.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
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11:05 p.m. Convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the Commonwealth of Virginia's electric chair. His death is not the only newsworthy event on this cold December night. Three hours after young Eddie Heath goes out to buy a can of soup, his nude, grotesquely wounded body is found propped against a dumpster. The two events seem unrelated until chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta remembers that Waddell arranged his victim in a strikingly...
24) Dead by morning
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When someone begins killing her colleagues one by one, mimicking a notorious serial killer already behind bars, Maleah Purdue, a security agent, works alongside top profiler Derek Lawrence to piece together the clues and stop a twisted madman in their midst.
25) Wild justice
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Amanda Jaffe novels volume 1
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It seems a serial killer is at large and the modus operandi points to the murderer being a medic. Vincent Cardoni, a brilliant but unpopular surgeon, is suspected and certain pieces of evidence found in his apartment make the police believe they have a solid case. But the trial collapses when an officer lies on oath and Cardoni disappears, having firmly stated his belief that he was set up by his estranged wife, Justine, who is also a surgeon. A few...
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Television news anchor Dana Evans is beautiful and intelligent. She is also fearless, having been a correspondent during the Bosnian war. But when she begins to investigate a string of murders that has wiped out one of America's most prominent families, she is shocked by evidence that points to powerful, international forces.
27) Lost souls
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True crime writer Kristi Bentz, searching for the one case that will take her to the top, gets her wish when she enrolls at All Saints College to investigate the brutal murders of three troubled girls, all of whom were found with the blood drained from their bodies.
28) Black house
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IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 41
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Jack Sawyer, a retired homicide detective living in rural Wisconsin, doesn't remember his boyhood journey into the parallel universe called the Territories. When he's recruited to find a brutal serial killer stalking the region, Jack soon discovers the methods resemble those of Albert Fish--who committed murders thirty years earlier. But is there an even more malignant force at work?
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Terry McCaleb, the retired FBI agent who starred in the bestseller "Blood Work," is asked by the LAPD to help them investigate a series of murders that have them baffled. They are the kind of ritualized killings McCaleb specialized in solving with the FBI, and he is reluctantly drawn from his peaceful new life back into the horror and excitement of tracking down a terrifying homicidal maniac. More horrifying still, the suspect who seems to fit the...
30) Fatal flaw
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Fatal series volume 4
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While investigating a series of puzzling murders, newlywed D.C. Police Lieutenant Sam Holland begins to believe that she may be the killer's ultimate target.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 21
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As a series of brutal murders darkens the Wrightsburg, Virginia countryside, the killer taunts police by leaving watches on the victims set to the hour corresponding with their position on his hit list. What's more, he strives to replicate notorious murders of the past, improving on them through savage attention to detail. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are already investigating a crime involving an aristocratic and dysfunctional Southern family,...
32) Chill factor
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Lilly and Dutch Burton's marriage didn't withstand the loss of their three-year-old daughter, despite their attempt at a fresh start with the purchase of a vacation cabin in bucolic Cleary, N.C. Dutch is now Cleary's chief of police, and Lilly is a magazine editor in Atlanta. As she races back to the city to beat a blizzard, her car skids out, striking a hiker emerging from the woods. Turns out he's a man she knows: handsome freelance writer Ben Tierney,...
33) Bone cold
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A woman being stalked by her childhood kidnapper turns to a local cop for help in this thriller from a New York Times–bestselling author.
Twenty-three years ago Anna North survived a living nightmare. A madman kidnapped her, cut off her pinkie, then vanished. Today Anna lives in New Orleans, writing dark thrillers under another name. She finally feels safe.
Suddenly Anna's quiet life takes a frightening turn. Letters start...
Twenty-three years ago Anna North survived a living nightmare. A madman kidnapped her, cut off her pinkie, then vanished. Today Anna lives in New Orleans, writing dark thrillers under another name. She finally feels safe.
Suddenly Anna's quiet life takes a frightening turn. Letters start...
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Meet Dexter Morgan, a polite wolf in sheep's clothing. He's handsome and charming, but something in his past has made him abide by a different set of rules. He's a serial killer whose one golden rule makes him immensely likeable: he only kills bad people. And his job as a blood splatter expert for the Miami police department puts him in the perfect position to identify his victims. But when a series of brutal murders bearing a striking similarity...
35) Shiver
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Abby Chastain, is the beautiful and haunted daughter of Faith Chastain. Faith spent most of her adult life in Our Lady Of Virtues mental hospital and now, twenty years later, the daughter who looks so much like her, has her own demons to deal with. Some of those demons are connected directly to Our Lady Of Virtues and a darkly dangerous killer who has reappeared, ready to wreak his own special and deadly vengeance on Abby and those she loves. Abby...
36) A perfect evil
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Maggie O'Dell novels volume 1
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The brutal murders of three young boys paralyze the citizens of Platte City, Nebraska. What's worse is the grim realization that the man recently executed for the crimes was a copycat. Then Sheriff Nick Morrelli is called to the scene of another grisly murder.
37) The narrows
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 10
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FBI agent Rachel Walling and former LAPD detective Harry Bosch get calls that the serial killer who wove verses into his crimes has returned; Rachel and Harry find themselves at odds with the FBI and in the path of a ruthless murderer.
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Lustmord: the joy of murder. The terrifying concept seems apt for the slaying of a young society wife dumped in the vast English Garden in 1929 Munich. Homicide inspector Axel Berg is horrified by the crime and disturbed by the artful arrangement of the victim's clothes and hair - a madman's portrait of death. Berg's superiors demand a quick arrest. When a second body is discovered, the city erupts into panic, the unrest fomented by a wild-eyed, hate-mongering...
39) Comes a Horseman
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Two FBI agents pursuing a killer frm a centuries-old cult realize they have become his prey.
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Alex Delaware novels volume 13
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When a nonfunctional psychotic who is locked up in an institutions for homicidal madmen begins predicting a series of brutal murders, Dr. Alex Delaware joins forces with Detective Milo Sturgis to stop the killer before it is too late.
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