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1) Crosshairs
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Series
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
NYC detective Michael Bennett teams up with a former Army Ranger and sniper whose long, unexplained absences from duty causes suspicions during the investigation of a serial killer.
2) Murder road
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English
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"A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deserted road in this terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases. July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They're looking for the small resort town where they plan to spend their honeymoon. When they spot what appears to be a lone hitchhiker along the deserted road, they stop to help. But not long...
3) Cold pursuit
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English
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"Former FBI profiler River Ryland suffers from PTSD after a serial killer case gone horribly wrong and has opened up a private investigation firm with Tony, her former colleague. Their first job is a cold case, but when the past comes back to haunt them, there's a killer on the loose with River in their sights, set on finishing the job they started"--
4) Dark corners
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Rachel Krall investigations volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Rachel Krall, the true crime podcaster star of Megan Goldin's acclaimed Night Swim returns to search for a popular social media influencer who disappeared after visiting a suspected serial killer. Terence Bailey is about to be released from prison for breaking and entering, though investigators have long suspected him in the murders of six women. As his freedom approaches, Bailey gets a surprise visit from Maddison Logan, a hot, young influencer...
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Boogeyman novels volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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.
6) You can die
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Series
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
FBI profiler Laurel Snow investigates bodies found with valentine candy hearts shoved down their throats. Then the case takes a shockingly personal turn when the father she's never met turns up among the dead.
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English
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There are killers so savage, so twisted, that they leave a mark not just on their victims, but on everyone who crosses their path. For Detectives Bentz and Montoya, Father John, a fake priest who used the sharpened beads of a rosary to strangle prostitutes, is one such monster. Bentz thought he'd ended that horror years ago when he killed Father John deep in the swamp. But now there are chilling signs he may have been wrong. A new victim has surfaced,...
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Ryan Strickland novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After his sister disappeared, FBI consultant and psychologist Ryan Strickland spent years looking for answers in an investigation gone tragically cold. But in his work, Ryan has built a reputation for getting reluctant victims to speak. A witness has been found who can identify an elusive serial killer whose crimes reach back decades. However, Olivia, the silent and scarred young woman in Ryan's care, isn't telling all. Yet. As a guarded trust develops...
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Driven by a compulsion that challenges his self-control, the man calling himself Charles Milton prowls the rodeo circuit, hunting young women. For years, he has been meticulous in his methods, abducting, murdering, and disposing of his victims while leaving no evidence of his crimes -- or their identities -- behind. Indigenous women have become his target of choice, knowing law enforcement's history of ignoring their disappearances. A cold case has...
10) One last kill
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Series
Tracy Crosswhite novels volume 10
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Tracy Crosswhite is reopening the investigation into Seattle's Route 99 serial killer. After thirteen victims, he stopped hunting and the trail went cold, stirring public outrage. Now, nearly three decades after his first kill, Tracy is expected to finally bring closure to the victims' families and redeem the Seattle PD's reputation. Even if it means working with her nemesis, Captain Johnny Nolasco. Lead detective of the original task force, Nolasco...
11) Laws of wrath
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Series
Martyr maker novels volume 2
Publisher
Lavette Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When the butchered body of a transgender woman is found in a dumpster, it's up to Detective Phee Freeman to solve the crime. But this case is personal. The victim is Freeman's sister. At first, the slaying looks like the random act of a vicious killer, but Freeman, his partner Quincy Cavanaugh, and FBI agent Janet Maclin soon discover this is something much more sinister. Similar ritualistic murders are taking place across the city. They're willing...
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Blackbird trilogy (Heather Graham) volume 2
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Over a century after Jack, a new Ripper is on the loose. Following in the footsteps of notorious serial murderer Jack the Ripper, a killer is stalking the streets of London. The self-dubbed Ripper King strikes at night, leaving a trail of eviscerated bodies in his wake. Fresh off a case with potential ties to the recent rash of killings, FBI agents Della Hamilton and Mason Carter are all too familiar with a slayer set to rule with a lethal fist. And...
13) What harms you
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Locard Institute volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The Locard Institute is a state-of-the-art forensic research center where experts from around the world come together to confront and solve the world's most challenging and perplexing crimes. When Dr. Ellie Carr arrives for her first day as an instructor at the prestigious facility, the buildings glimmer amid the brilliant fall foliage on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. But within hours a colleague, Dr. Barbara Wright, is found dead on the floor...
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Leningrad confidential volume 2
Publisher
Pushkin Vertigo
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"'A superb read, with some unexpected turns right at the end."--Crime Book of the Month, The Critic On the eve of Soviet purges, Detective Zaitsev returns to solve the murder of a Red Army horseman--the second installment in the ultimate noir detective series Perfect for fans of thrilling historical crime fiction, Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther novels, and Lara Prescott's The Secrets We Kept "Fascinating reading This series has legs!"--Publishers Weekly...
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Alex Cross novels volume 32
Language
English
Description
"An airport killer targeting pilots expands his scope. Alex Cross Must Die. "Drop whatever you're doing, Detective Cross, and head to Reagan Airport," DC Metro Police dispatch says. "A jet just crashed and exploded on the runway. The chief and the FBI want you and John Sampson there pronto." Cross and Sampson race to the crash site. The plane didn't fail--it was shot down by a stolen Vietnam War-era machine gun. The list of experts who can operate...
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Apocalypse Cult series volume 4
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Agents from the FBI and Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigate a series of murders linked to conspiracy theorists and doomsday cults.
17) Original sins
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A brilliant and addictive thriller for fans of Tana French and Liz Moore, FBI rookie Riley Fisher must navigate a brutal serial killer as well as a kidnapping plot against the governor. It's a brutal winter in Des Moines, Iowa, and the city is gripped by fear. A serial attacker known as the Sin Eater is stalking women and has just struck again. It's a tough time and a tough place for Riley Fisher, a former small-town sergeant, to be reporting for...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Claire, an aspiring artist and part-time serial killer, realizes someone is watching her -- someone who knows about her murderous hobby -- and she, while attending a weekly bereavement support group after losing her father, must finish off her blackmailer before they reveal all.
19) Come with me
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Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Reeling after his wife dies, Aaron Decker finds a motel receipt among her belongings and embarks on a journey to uncover what she was doing in the weeks before her death, revealing dark secrets and a terrifying truth.
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Christine Prusik volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From TikTok sensation Lloyd Devereux Richards comes the next pulse-pounding thriller in which FBI agent Christine Prusik races to track down a serial killer who leaves a peculiar mark on his victims"--
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