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"After a harrowing experience with an obsessed patient, oncology nurse practitioner Leigh Weston needed a change. She thought she'd left her troubles behind when she moved home to Carrington, North Carolina, and took a job in the emergency department of the local hospital. But when someone tampers with her brakes, she fears the past has chased her into the present. She reaches out to her high school friend turned homicide investigator, Ryan Parker,...
83) Dead last
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Thorn novels volume 12
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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When a real-life serial killer begins to copy storylines featured on a popular cable television crime series, the reclusive Thorn joins forces with an Oklahoma policewoman in a case that implicates the show's head writer and leading man.
84) MURDER ROAD
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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...
85) Dead silence
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Foundlings volume 2
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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An investigative genealogist and a NYPD detective find their work intertwining in the case of a mute child.
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She calls herself Lady Justice. And once she has chosen a man as her target, she turns herself into a tall blonde or a curvaceous redhead, makes herself as alluring and seductive as possible to them. Once they are in her grasp, they are powerless. The first victim is wealthy businessman Nigel McEnroy. His company's human resources department has already paid out settlements to a couple of his young victims-but they don't know that his crimes go far...
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Dr. Dylan Reinhart wrote the book on criminal behavior. Literally--he's a renowned, bestselling Ivy League expert on the subject. When a copy of his book turns up at a gruesome murder scene--along with a threatening message from the killer--it looks like someone has been taking notes. Elizabeth Needham is the headstrong and brilliant NYPD Detective in charge of the case who recruits Dylan to help investigate another souvenir left at the scene--a playing...
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2020.
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"Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway changed her life-until a convicted killer tells her that four of his victims were never found, drawing her back to the place she left behind"--
Convicted murderer Amyas March offers to make DCI Nelson a deal. Nelson was always sure that March killed more women than he was charged with, and March offers to show Nelson where the other bodies are buried-- but only if Ruth Galloway will do the digging. When she warily...
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Cadence Jones mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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FBI agent Cadence considers a deeper relationship with Patrick during the holiday season before meeting a handsome doctor, clashing with a talented rival, and investigating the work of an enigmatic serial killer.
92) Blood of Eden
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Sloan Skye novels volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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When an error lands her with the FBI's new Paranormal Behavioral Analysis Unit, Sloan Skye, an ambitious intern, must cast aside her doubts and silence her inner para-skeptic to solve her first case--a string of victims, all with puncture wounds to the neck.
93) Great north road
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Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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Futuristic speculation combines with murder when a scientific expedition on a faraway planet searches for an alien species only to be stalked by a determined killer who may be a hostile alien or a member of their own team.
94) Dying breath
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As a teenager, Vickie Preston survived an attack by a serial killer. That was the first time she saw a ghost. Now the city of Boston is being terrorized - someone is kidnapping women and burying them alive, but cruelly leaving a glimmer of hope for the authorities by sending a clue about their location. Vickie is pulled into the investigation when her name is mentioned in one of the notes. And as a historian, she has the knowledge to help uncover...
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Ellie Hatcher novels volume 5
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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A murder case with ties to a convicted serial killer leads a young defense lawyer and NYPD homicide detective Ellie Hatcher into parallel investigations with explosive and deadly results.
96) Ready to die
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When detective Regan Pescoli drives to Sheriff Dan Grayson's house to present her resignation, she's not expecting to find him shot and bleeding out on the frozen ground. With Grayson barely clinging to life and the entire police department in shock, Pescoli feels compelled to stay on the force until the case is solved. She and detective Selena Alvarez work to whittle down the list of suspects, but the case becomes more personal and more dangerous...
97) The naturalist
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Naturalist novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Professor Theo Cray is trained to see patterns where others see chaos. So when mutilated bodies found deep in the Montana woods leave the cops searching blindly for clues, Theo sees something they missed. Something unnatural. Something only he can stop.
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Boogeyman novels volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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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.
99) Omens
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Plume
Pub. Date
2014, c2013
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English
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After learning that she is the daughter of accused serial killers Todd and Pamela Larsen, privileged 24-year-old Olivia Taylor ends up in the small town of Cainsville, Illinois, to prove her birthparents' innocence. But as she and Gabriel, her mother's lawyer, start investigating the case, Olivia finds herself drawing on abilities that have remained hidden since her childhood, gifts that make her both a valuable addition to Cainsville and deeply vulnerable...
100) The numbers
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Ex-homicide detective Thomas Prescott joins an emergency task force to track down a serial killer who carves three-digit numbers into his victims, and uncovers a link to an illegal street lottery known as the Numbers.
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