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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"January 15, 1978, is a night of promise, excitement, and desire. A serial killer's murderous spree in the Pacific Northwest couldn't be further from the minds of the vibrant young women at the top sorority on Florida State University's campus in Tallahassee. That night, Pamela Schumacher, president of the sorority, makes the unpopular decision to stay home. Startled awake at 3 a.m. by a strange sound, she makes the fateful decision to investigate....
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Relocating to her Catalina Island home, obituary writer Coco Weber, with a number of elderly folks dying on the island, draws connections between a serial killer's crimes and her own family tragedy, while someone watching her every move is hell-bent on finally putting her past to rest.
3) 26 below
Author
Series
Alaskan cyber hunters volume 1
Publisher
Kregel Publications
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"As City and Emergency Manager for Fairbanks, Alaska, Darcie Phillips is proactively working to learn all she can about keeping her city ahead of the game in preventing disasters. But when cyber-security specialist Jason Myers arrives, she realizes they are at serious risk and it's her job to fix it and make sure nothing bad happens. Now, there's a woman garnering national media attention with her rantings about a curse. A curse that they've all ignored......
Author
Series
Ruinous love trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Zando
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, they find something elusive -- the friendship of two like-minded, pitch-black souls who just happen to enjoy killing other serial killers. From small-town West Virginia to upscale California, and from downtown Boston to rural Texas, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, one that pits them against the most dangerous monsters in the...
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"A magical serial killer is stalking the Occult town of Wrackton. Hypnotic whistling causes victims to chew their own tongues off, leading to the killer being dubbed the Whistler (original, right?). Enter the Undetectables, a detective agency run by three witches and a ghost in a cat costume (don't ask). They are hired to investigate the murders, but with their only case so far left unsolved, will they be up to the task? Mallory, the forensic science...
Author
Publisher
Datura Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Tinsel Munroe is the host of The Graveyard Shift -- a late-night radio show where she and her loyal listeners celebrate the sounds of cult cinema. She has busted her ass to carve out this section of the airwaves and nothing will keep her from reaching her prime-time dreams... That is, until someone gets murdered live on air. She's freaked out by the horrible incident. Her true crime-obsessed sister Pandora is fascinated by it. Detectives assure them...
Author
Series
Mick Hardin novels volume 3
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Mick Hardin is back in the hills of Kentucky. He'd planned to touch down briefly before heading to France, marking the end of his twenty-year Army career. In Rocksalt, his sister Linda the sheriff is investigating the murder of Pete Lowe, a sought-after mechanic at the local racetrack. After another body is found, Linda and her deputy Johnny Boy Tolliver wonder if the two murders are related. Linda steps into harm's way just as a third body turns...
8) The spider
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Three years ago, Saga Bauer received a postcard with a threatening message. It mentioned a gun and nine white bullets-one of which was intended for Detective Joona Linna. According to the anonymous sender, Saga was the only person who could save him. But as time passed, the threat faded. That is, until now. A sack with a decomposing body has been found tied to a tree in the forest, and a milky white bullet casing turns up at the scene. Soon, the...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"It's 1977. Ike and Lucy, the kids of Senator Charlie and Margaret Marder, are grown up -- and in trouble. US Marine Ike has gone AWOL after a military operation gone horribly wrong. Now he's off the grid, working on the pit crew of the moody stunt master Evel Knievel and hanging in the roughest dive bar in Montana. His sister Lucy has become the star reporter of a brand-new Washington, DC tabloid breaking stories about a serial killer and falling...
10) What harms you
Author
Series
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...
11) The twenty
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When DCI Adam Bishop arrives at the crime scene in the dead of night, the sight of the body is bad enough -- but what Adam notices next chills him to his core. More bodies surface. And the spray-painted numbers daubed above the corpses reveal the horrific truth: the killer is counting down. But to what end? Adam has no idea -- until Dr. Romilly Cole knocks on his door with damning evidence pointing to a series of murders twenty five years earlier...
12) Nobody's angel
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-065-R
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Two killers stalk the streets of Chicago -- can one taxi driver corner them both? Eddie Miles is one of a dying breed: a Windy City hack who knows every street and back alley of his beloved city and takes its recent descent into violence personally. But what can one driver do about a killer targeting streetwalkers or another terrorizing cabbies? Precious little -- until the night he witnesses one of them in action."--Back cover
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