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41) The reckoning
Author
Series
John Madden novels volume 4
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In the aftermath of World War II, a dead man summons Inspector Madden our of retirement to find a killer."--page [4] of cover.
42) The hang man
Author
Series
Forgotten files volume 3
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Julia Vargas is a cop with a mission. When she's not chasing down bad guys, Julia dedicates her time to investigating the Hangman serial killer...the same unsolved case that her father, Jim Vargas, was working on when he supposedly shot and killed himself three decades before. While rumors continue to swirl around her father's death, Julia attempts to hunt down the truth. The case once again hits dangerously close, however, when a woman's bones are...
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From the international bestselling author of Eeny Meeny comes the second thriller in the "truly excellent series"* featuring Detective Helen Grace. A man's body is found in an empty house. A gruesome memento of his murder is sent to his wife and children. He is the first victim, and Detective Helen Grace knows he will not be the last. But why would a happily married man be this far from home in the dead of night? The media call it Jack the Ripper...
Author
Series
Detective Cooper Devereaux thrillers volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Author
Series
Men of the Texas Rangers volume 2
Publisher
Abingdon Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Texas Ranger Cody Jackson is paired with local police officer Liliana Rodriguez as they investigate a serial killer targeting illegal aliens and try to calm the growing unrest of the Mexican Americans who live in the area.
Author
Series
Charley Davidson novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Resolving to avoid son of Satan and new next-door neighbor Reyes Farrow, Charley Davidson is forced to ask for Reyes's help when she is approached by desperate ghosts and her sister is targeted by a serial killer.
Author
Series
Boogeyman novels volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1988, the mutilated bodies of several missing girls begin to turn up in a small Maryland town. The grisly evidence leads police to the terrifying assumption that a serial killer is on the loose in the quiet suburb. But soon a rumor begins to spread that the evil stalking local teens is not entirely human. Law enforcement, as well as members of the FBI are certain that the killer is a living, breathing madman -- and he's playing games...
49) Neon prey
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Lucas Davenport pursues a prolific serial killer who has gone undetected for years in the newest nail-biter by best selling author John Sandford. It was a relatively minor criminal matter, but enough that the U.S. Marshals obtained a warrant to enter the home. They didn't expect to unearth trophies from a score of killings. Now Davenport is on the trail of a serial murderer, one who was able to operate for years without notice or suspicion. But there's...
Author
Series
Cross series volume 3
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Cross and his team claim to have identified a pattern to the signature-kills and believe they can predict a forthcoming strike. They are prepared to personally confront-and-capture, but financial arrangement alone not sufficient. What you describe as a requested "Get out of jail free" card is hereby approved.
51) Driven
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
On the hunt for a serial killer called "the Surgeon," Angus Force is teamed up with Deep Ops Unit psychiatrist Nari Zhang and the attraction between them is as dangerous as the killer.
Author
Series
Sonny Burton novels volume 1
Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Sonny Burton was forced to retire from the Texas Rangers after taking a bullet from Bonnie Parker in a shoot-out. The bullet so damaged Sonny's right arm that he had to have it amputated. While Sonny struggles with recuperating and tries to get used to the idea of living a life with only one arm, Aldo Hernandez, the hospital's janitor, asks Sonny to help find his daughter and bring her back home. She has got herself mixed up with a couple of brothers...
53) Little boy blue
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Helen Grace faces her own dark compulsions in the twisty new thriller from the author of Pop Goes the Weasel and Eeny Meeny. In the darkest corners of the city, there is a thriving nightlife where people can let loose and cross the lines of work and play, of pleasure and pain. But now that sanctuary has been breached. A killer has struck and a man is dead. In a world where disguises and discretion are the norm, one admission could unravel...
Author
Series
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.
55) Fair warning
Author
Series
Jack McEvoy novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy has taken down killers before, but when a woman he had a one-night stand with is murdered in a particularly brutal way, McEvoy realizes he might be facing a criminal mind unlike any he's ever encountered. McEvoy investigates - against the warnings of the police and his own editor - and makes a shocking discovery that connects the crime to other mysterious deaths across the country. But his inquiry hits a snag when he...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"New York homicide detectives pursue a serial killer in this apocalyptic thriller. When detectives James Manning and Covina "Dewey" Duwai are called in to investigate a series of bizarre murders, they make a shocking discovery: the legend of the hidden righteous ones, the 36 who preserve the world from destruction, is no legend at all. They are real, and they are being murdered. As the bodies pile up and the world tilts into chaos, Manning and Dewey...
57) Second honeymoon
Author
Series
Honeymoon thrillers volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A newlywed couple steps into the sauna in their deluxe honeymoon suite, and never steps out again. FBI Agent John O'Hara is deep into solving the case, while Special Agent Sarah Brubaker is hunting another ingenious serial killer, whose victims all have one chilling thing in common.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winner John Sandford. They call them Travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimes-they just like to stay on the move. And now somebody is killing them. Lucas Davenport's adopted daughter, Letty, is home from college when she gets a phone call from a woman Traveler she'd befriended in San Francisco. The woman thinks...
Author
Series
Caitlin Strong novels volume 6
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Texas Ranger William Ray Strong teams up with Judge Roy Bean to track down the Old West's first serial killer, who is stitching a trail of death along the railroad lines slicing their way through Texas.
Author
Series
Abbot and Lowell forensic mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Homicide detective Leigh Abbott has something to prove both to herself and to the men in her department. She s been assigned a difficult challenge: solve a murder where the only evidence is a single bone. To identify the victim and find the killer she must join forces with forensic anthropologist Matt Lowell. Matt s initial refusal is only the first in a series of setbacks. Matt and Leigh s skills and tenuous partnership are tested when the evidence...
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