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Author
Publisher
Visible Ink Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xx, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"This chilling book looks at the horrifying stories of forty malevolent killers and hundreds of innocent victims, including such notorious homicidal maniacs as John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, and Jeffery Dahmer, but it also looks at lesser-known and overlooked murderers like Herbert Baumeister, America's I-70 Strangler; Japan's "Anime Killer," Tsutomu Miyazaki; Russia's "Rostov Ripper," Andrei Chikatilo; the "Giggling Granny," Nannie Doss; and many more....
22) Written off
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Duffy Madison, consultant to the county prosecutor's office, helps find missing persons. Rachel is busy finishing up her next book, when a man calls out of the blue asking for help in a missing persons case. The caller's name? Duffy Madison. Is this real or has she lost her mind? She doesn't have much time to find out because a serial killer is on the loose, kidnapping and murdering mystery authors. And Rachel may just be the next target.
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Four women who worked as codebreakers at Bletchley Park have taken up civilian lives. Susan has collated data about a series of murders. She tries to convince the police she knows where another body is, but they are unable to locate it and dismiss her. She turns to her three friends and they work out where the next victim will be taken, find the body, and then decide they are the only ones who can track down the killer.
24) The pledge
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Freshman Sam believes that joining a fraternity is the best way to form a friend group as he begins his college journey - and his best chance of moving on from his past. He is the survivor of a horrific, and world-famous, murder spree known as the Lake Priest Massacre - where a masked killer hunted down Sam and his friends. Sam had to do the unthinkable to survive that night, and it completely derailed his life. He sees college, and his new identity...
25) The dying game
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Series
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Description
Play To Win. . .
It's the ultimate game--the adrenaline surge of the hunt, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat. For in this game, the rules are simple: To win, you only have to kill. To lose, you will have to die. . .
Play To Scream. . .
The victims are former beauty queens found with a single rose beside their bodies. Lindsay McAllister has seen this signature before, when she was a rookie detective with the Chattanooga PD investigating...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Elderly Gwendolyn Chawcer and her colorful group of friends become increasingly suspicious of her tenant, Michael "Mix" Cellini, an eccentric who idolizes serial killer Reggie Christie, as his odd behavior and obsessions take an ever darker turn.
27) Do no harm
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"In Robert Pobi's thriller Do No Harm, a series of suicides and accidental deaths in the medical community are actually well-disguised murders and only Lucas Page can see the pattern and discern the truth that no one else believes. Lucas Page is a polymath, astrophysicist, professor, husband, father of five adopted children, bestselling author, and ex-FBI agent-emphasis on "ex." Severely wounded after being caught in an explosion, Page left the FBI...
28) Killing moon
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 13
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2023
Formats
Description
Two young women are missing, their only connection a party they both attended, hosted by a notorious real-estate magnate. When one of the women is found murdered, the police discover an unusual signature left by the killer, giving them reason to suspect he will strike again. They're facing a killer unlike any other and exposing him calls for a detective like no other. But the legendary Harry Hole is gone—fired from the force, drinking himself to...
29) Friday the 13th
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Terror strikes at a recently re-opened summer camp as each of the counselors is stalked by a violent killer.
30) The maidens
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Appears on list
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
442 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
After Detective John Calvino receives a signed confession to a shocking crime from 14-year-old Billy Lucas, he feels that somehow Billy has come home with him, to his family. Then another killing spree happens, just as and when John Calvino dreaded it would. Billy is safely locked away, but not the "ghost", if the ghost exists, that links these murders with past crimes, and with John Calvino. Anything could happen, and surely will-- again.
32) M
Series
Criterion collection volume 30
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([29] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Description
When a serial killer is stalking the children of the city, everyone, including the criminal underworld, wants to see him brought down.
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lizzie has been accused of murdering her husband, and her death by hanging seems all but inevitable. That is until Detective Inspector John Kildare is assigned to the case of a serial killer who murders innocent victims while leaving his distinctive signature in blood.
34) Bloodline
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Evan values family above all else, and anyone who gets between him, his wife, and newborn son learns that the hard way. But when it comes to violent tendencies, it seems the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Author
Series
Hollow star saga volume 1
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Description
"A queer cast of characters-a half-fae teenager, a temperamental ex-Fury, a fae prince, and his brooding guardian-must track down a serial killer whose disturbing murders are threatening to expose the hidden faerie courts to the human world"--
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 1
Description
Four crime-solving friends face off against a killer in San Francisco in the Women's Murder Club novel that started James Patterson's thrilling series.
Each one holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector in the San Francisco Police Department, Claire Washburn is a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt is an assistant D.A., and Cindy Thomas just started working the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle.
But the...
Each one holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector in the San Francisco Police Department, Claire Washburn is a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt is an assistant D.A., and Cindy Thomas just started working the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle.
But the...
38) Scre4m
Publisher
distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The newest installment in the acclaimed franchise that ushered in a new wave of horror in the 1990s. In Scream 4, Sidney Prescott, now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill. Unfortunately, Sidney's appearance also brings about the return of Ghost Face, putting her friends and the whole town of Woodsboro...
39) The séance
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Description
A Oujia board summons the spirit of detective Beau Kidd who wants to clear his name in the "Interstate-Killer" murders. Christina Hardy must convince Jett Braden, a cop-turned-writer, that she holds the key to catching the real killer.
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Description
After a series of kidnappings and murders in Virginia Beach, newspaper reporter Catherine O'Rourke experiences disturbing dreams that detail each crime. In an effort to aid the investigation, she shares them with her confidential source-a detective working on the case. Catherine's intimate knowledge of the crimes immediately makes her a prime suspect. When scientific evidence corroborates her guilt, she's arrested and charged with murder. As she begins...
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