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221) Calibre
Author
Series
Brant novels volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The Southeast London Police Squad is plagued by a serial murderer who's determined to give his victims a lesson in manners. The "Manners Killer" believes that anyone who behaves rudely in public (e.g., verbally abuses a store clerk, slaps a child) is fair game. He soon finds that he's no match for Brant, Bruen's amoral, sociopathic brute of a detective. While his methods may be questionable, Brant gets results, and we find ourselves secretly cheering...
Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Clarice Starling es una aprendiza joven y vulnerable del FBI. Hannibal Lecter es un genio brillante, el mal. La suya es una lucha fascinante entre el bien y el mal dise?adas para detener a un asesino, y garantizado para enfriar la sangre.
Clarice Starling is a young, vulnerable FBI trainee. Hannibal Lecter is a brilliant, evil genius. Theirs is a mesmerizing struggle between good and evil- designed to stop a killer, and guaranteed to chill your blood....
223) Grave doubts
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"Viciously attacked by a serial rapist intent on murder, Sergeant Louise Nightingale is recovering from her ordeal, relieved that the psychopath has been put behind bars for a very long time. Escaping to a remote family home for a well-earned rest, she is unaware that her nightmare has only just begun. When a nameless, faceless terror starts terrorising the country, her colleague, Detective Chief Inspector Andrew Fenwick, questions whether or not...
224) The hunt
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"For seventeen years, a serial murderer has used the Presley, Arkansas, Annual Hunt for the Golden Egg to find prey. Or at least that's what some people believe. Others, like the town's devoted "Eggheads," relish the tradition and think the deaths are just unfortunate accidents. But for Nell Holcomb, the town's annual Hunt dredges up 7, long believed to be "the Hunter's" first kill. Nell has been caring for her nephew since then, trying to keep him...
Author
Series
Asker volume 1
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Criminal inspector Leonore Asker seems to have the leading position at Malmö’s Major Crime Division within reach. But things go awry when, in the middle of a high-profile kidnapping case, management relegates her to the so-called Department of Lost Souls—the unit for odd, cold cases banished to the basement of the police station. Despite the humiliation, Asker is drawn into one of the more peculiar cases. Someone is placing small ominous figures...
226) Killman Creek
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Gwen Proctor won the battle to save her kids from her ex-husband, serial killer Melvin Royal, and his league of psychotic accomplices. But the war isn't over. Not since Melvin broke out of prison. Not since she received a chilling text... You're not safe anywhere now. Her refuge at Stillhouse Lake has become a trap. Gwen leaves her children in the protective custody of a fortified, well-armed neighbor. Now, with the help of Sam Cade, brother of one...
227) The killer next door
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A taut new psychological thriller from the Edgar Award-nominated author of The Wicked Girls Alex Marwood's debut novel, The Wicked Girls, earned her lavish praise from the likes of Stephen King, Laura Lippman, and Erin Kelly, and was shortlisted for an Edgar Award. Now Marwood's back with a brilliant, tightly paced thriller that will keep you up at night and make you ask yourself: just how well do you know your neighbors? Everyone who lives at 23...
Author
Series
Serge Storms novels volume 25
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Serge A. Storms and his permanently baked sidekick, Coleman, have decided to pump the brakes and live on island time. After years of manic road tripping across their beloved Sunshine State, the irrepressible anti-heroes drop anchor in the Florida Keys. They settle down in Pelican Bay, a thriving condo complex with scenic views and friendly neighbors. But the community is at war with investors who are buying up units and leasing them to young vacationers...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Bernard White is a curmudgeonly widower who has lived in Seven Springs, Florida for decades and has kept to himself since his wife passed. When his neighbor is murdered, he emerges from his solitude to reconnect with his fellow octogenarians. These connections become a literal lifeline as a second, and then a third, elderly woman is murdered, and "the originals" as they call themselves, realize that they are being targeted. Amy Unger is an artist...
Author
Series
Black Lotus volume 2
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It's been months since Kahllah El-Amin hung up her pistols and retired from the murder-for-hire business, leaving behind her days of dealing in death and espionage in favor of a quiet desk job. After so many years of searching, Kahllah has finally found peace. But when a police officer is murdered and a familiar flower is left at the crime scene, all signs point to it being the work of the Black Lotus. Someone is trying to frame her! The case is handed...
231) Where monsters dwell
Author
Series
Odd Singsaker volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"A murder at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, bears a close resemblance to one in Trondheim, Norway. The corpse of the museum curator in Virginia is found flayed in his office by the cleaning staff; the corpse of an archivist at the library in Norway, is found inside a locked vault used to store delicate and rare books. Richmond homicide detective Felicia Stone and Trondheim police inspector Odd Singsaker find themselves working on...
Series
Library of America volume 268
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Four suspense novels of the 1940s. These four stories explore the terrors of family life, personality disorders, and horrors of the mind.
233) The constant man
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Former Munich detective Willi Geimeiser is a wanted man. He sacrificed his career and put his life on the line by exposing a high-ranking Nazi official as a murderer, and is now in hiding in a cabin deep in the Bavarian forest.But when his friend, Lola, is savagely attacked, Willi returns to Munich in disguise and under a new identity - Karl Juncker - determined to find the perpetrator. Meanwhile, the discovery of the body of a woman in the River...
234) A fatal affair
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Actress Nora Kemp loves two men. One is Hugh Iverson, a philanthropic movie star who gives Nora security and respectability. The other is Hugh's twin brother, Trent, a Hollywood bad boy who brings out Nora's wild side. When Trent and an unidentified woman are found dead on the Iversons' Beverly Hills property, more than Nora's and Hugh's reputations are at stake. An investigation suggests murder-suicide. But there's more to the crime than first meets...
235) Firstborn
Author
Series
Descendants of the House of Bathory volume 2
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Face-to-face with her past, Audra Ellison now knows the secret she gave up everything-including her memory-to protect. A secret made vulnerable by her rediscovery, and so powerful neither the Historian nor the traitor Prince Nikola will ever let her live to keep it. With Luka in the Historian's custody and the clock ticking down on his life, Audra only has one impossible chance: find and kill the Historian and end the centuries old war between the...
236) I come with knives
Author
Series
Malus Domestica series volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Robin - now armed with new knowledge about a mysterious demon terrorizing her around town, the support of her friends, and the assistance of her old witch-hunter mentor - plots to confront the Lazenbury coven and destroy them once and for all. Meanwhile, a dangerous serial killer only known as The Serpent is abducting and killing Blackfield residents. An elusive order of magicians known as the Dogs of Odysseus also show up with Robin in their sights....
Author
Publisher
Scarlet
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The line between justice and revenge blurs when a judge takes the law into her own hands.
"The Honorable Alice D. McKerrity is no stranger to violence... But there's something about this trial--a defendant charged with the murder of a pregnant woman--that affects her as no other case ever has... As the trial progresses, Alice's life starts to unravel... Then she makes a shocking discovery that sends her on a collision course with her past... she...
238) Sound of darkness
Author
Series
Krewe of Hunters volume 36
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Gifted with ability to psychically "hear" people, rookie FBI agent Colleen Law teams up with Krewe of Hunters K9 officer Mark Frampton to bring an elusive monster who kidnaps and murders young women to justice and soon becomes the killer's obsession.
239) The hellion
Author
Series
Malus Domestica series volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Robin Martine has destroyed witches all across the country, but since her confrontation with the demon Andras, Robin has had to deal with her toughest adversary yet: herself. While coming to grips with new abilities, she and her boyfriend Kenway make their way to the deserts of rural Texas, where new opportunities await. Something lurks in this isolated town of Keystone Hills: a dangerous gang ruled by a husband who wields an iron fist over his...
240) Punishment
Author
Series
Detective Barnes volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
Detroit-based homicide detective John Barnes has seen it all, literally. Thanks to a technologically advanced machine, detectives have access to the memories of the living, the dying, and the recently dead. But extracting victims' experiences first hand and personally reliving everything up to the final, brutal moments of their lives, the sights, the sounds, the scents, the pain, is also the punishment reserved for the criminals themselves. Barnes...
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