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Uncle Charlie is a seemingly charming man visiting his relatives in their small and peaceful hometown. But when his namesake niece, "Young Charlie" suspects that he may in fact be the psychopathic Merry Widow killer, Uncle Charlie must plot the death of his favorite relation in order to remain one step ahead of the law in this murderous game of cat-and-mouse.
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Equal parts thriller and love story...a novel about three identical sisters who have a nasty habit of killing their boyfriends, and what happens when the youngest commits their worst crime yet: falling in love with her mark. Make him want you. Make him love you. Make him dead. Sissy has an...interesting family. Always the careful one, always the cautious one, Sissy has taken a back seat while her sisters carved a path of carnage across the U.S. Now,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 39
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Reformed killer Tetsu wanders around Japan, awaiting his own execution, until he is called back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. This edition of the film includes an interview with the director.
4) The Reapers
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When his friend, a former member of an elite assassin organization, is abducted by a vengeful adversary, Charlie Parker and his associates set out to find him, in a case that forces Charlie to test the boundaries of his ethics.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (403 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DSI Stella Gibson continues to hunt serial killer Paul Spector in the second series of this smart psychological thriller. As Gibson tries to help Spector's surviving victim remember the identity of her attacker, Spector deals with loose ends that he left behind in Belfast. When he realizes that someone from his past has been helping the police with their enquires, Spector changes his plans with terrifying consequences.
6) The cell
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Using an experimental technique, a therapist enters the mind of a serial killer to save a child's life. Her experience becomes a nightmare when she cannot find her way out.
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Appears on list
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"Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he's done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn't want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood. Through a kaleidoscope of women - a mother, a sister, a homicide detective - we learn the story of Ansel's life. We meet his mother, Lavender, a seventeen-year-old girl pushed to desperation; Hazel, twin sister to Ansel's...
8) Compulsion
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c1995
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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A riveting true story about the notorious 1924 Leopold-Loeb murder case.
9) The maidens
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike-particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens. Mariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on The Maidens when one member, a friend of Mariana's niece Zoe, is found murdered...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
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Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tóti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. But as Agnes's death looms, the farmer's wife and their...
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Series
Evidence trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Scribner's
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
219 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Returning to Ireland to reclaim a painting that is part of his patrimony, a thirty-eight-year-old man commits a ghastly and motiveless murder, which he confesses in a novel-length narrative.
12) Scream
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Description
Twenty-five years after the original series of killings in Woodsboro, a new killer has emerged to resurrect secrets from the past.
13) Killing me
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Amber Jamison cannot believe she's about to become the latest victim of a serial killer-she's savvy and street smart, so when she gets pushed into, of all things, a white windowless van, she's more angry than afraid. Things get even weirder when she's miraculously saved by a mysterious woman...who promptly disappears. Who was she? And why is she hunting serial killers? You'd think escaping one psychopath would be enough, but Amber's problems are just...
14) Blood work
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
There is a masked killer on the loose, and the police believe its the locations that are important and that the victims are just unlucky. But retired FBI agent McCaleb thinks that it goes the other way around. The killer's victims are very specific. Forced to retire after suffering a heart attack, and receiving a new heart 2 years later, he is approached by the sister of the murdered woman whose heart he now has. Now McCaleb has to use his wits to...
15) Daisy in chains
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"He's a serial killer. A murderer of young women, all killed in brutal attacks. But despite Hamish Wolfe's conviction, he's always stuck to his story--he's innocent and he's been wrongly imprisoned. And now he wants someone to investigate and, more importantly, to write his story. Maggie Rose is a notorious defense attorney and writer whose specialty is getting convictions overturned. At first, Maggie is reluctant to even acknowledge Hamish's requests...
16) Haunted destiny
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Series
Krewe of Hunters volume 18
Description
An historic cruise ship, a haunted ship, the Celtic American Line's Destiny sets sail from the Port of New Orleans--with a killer on board. He's known as the Archangel because of the way he displays his victims in churches. And the way he places a different saint's medallion on each one. No one knows exactly who he is or why he's doing this."--Book jacket.
17) Steel fear
Author
Series
Finn novels volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
446 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
When Navy SEAL sniper Finn steps on board the USS Abraham Lincoln, adrift in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, it's immediately clear something is wrong. It's been a long deployment for the crew. With poor leadership and a lengthy slog home ahead of them, morale is low. But then crew members start disappearing one by one, and what at first seems like a string of unfortunate coincidences reveals something much more sinister at play. There's a killer...
18) Mr. Mercedes
Author
Series
Bill Hodges novels volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
493 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Bill Hodges es un policía jubilado. Brady Hartsfield es un asesino múltiple cuya culpabilidad Bill Hodges nunca logró demostrar. Ahora vuelven a encontrarse y cientos de vidas están en juego. ¿Quién es el cazador y quién la presa? Antes del amanecer, en una ciudad del medio-oeste, cientos de desempleados esperan la apertura de la oficina de empleo para solicitar uno de los mil puestos de trabajo que se han anunciado. Han hecho fila durante...
20) Blitz
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers. A fast-paced thriller set in contemporary London reflects the challenges faced by a group of police officers working in a modern, multicultural society.
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