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2) Dear killer
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Kit, a seventeen-year-old moral nihilist serial killer, chooses who to kill based on anonymous letters left in a secret mailbox, while simultaneously maintaining a close relationship with the young detective in charge of the murder cases"--
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
As a child, Ashley Whitelam could often see odd things nobody else could: quiet, watchful figures she called the Heedful Ones kept a strange vigil wherever she went. As an adult, she keeps these visions to herself, but she's turned her taste of the beyond into a career as a psychic, parting people from their money with a combination of psychology and internet research. When the Lake District is gripped by a series of grisly child murders, Ashley offers...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Center convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, who she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nation's imagination...
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Un asesino envuelto en sombras. Una rosa, una cadena de espinas. Un bosque flotante donde el miedo oculta terribles secretos. Isla de Cortegada, 1910. El hallazgo del cadáver de una niña el día de la matanza genera gran conmoción entre los habitantes de la ría por las circunstancias y la atrocidad del crimen. Un culpable: el poeta Guillermo de Foz. Una condena: la muerte por garrote. Monasterio de Armenteira, Pontevedra, 2002. Las obras de restauración...
Author
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.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The police call him Merkury. He's a killer who chooses his victims seemingly at random. He leaves no evidence behind, and no witnesses. Except for one. When Kate Summerlin was eleven years old, she climbed out her bedroom window on a spring night, looking for a taste of freedom in the small college town where she was living with her parents. But what she found as she wandered in the woods near her house was something else: the body of a beautiful...
Author
Series
Cory and Crystal Pratt novels volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Siblings Cory and Crystal Pratt are still trying to get their lives together after a tragic accident which killed their parents years ago. The only thing that distracts them now is their jobs. With Crystal working as a newly minted detective at the Chicago Police Department and Cory owning a dog training academy with two human remains detection dogs of his own, their professional paths cross every now and then. Crime, and especially murder, in Chicago...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen, the oldest child of a large Catholic family, meets a young man she believes to be Mickey Mantle. He chats her up at a local diner and gives her a ride home. The matter consumes her until later that night, when a triple homicide occurs just down the street, opening a specter of violence that will haunt the Larkins for half a century. As the siblings leave home and fan across...
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