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1) Wicked ways
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Suburban wife and mother Elizabeth Gaines Ellis worries that she is somehow the cause of a series of brutal deaths, but no one will take her fears seriously except the private investigator digging into her past.
Author
Series
Atlee Pine volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
'My sister was abducted from here nearly thirty years ago. The person who took her was never found. And neither was she. Her abductor nearly killed me. So I'm back here now trying to find the truth.' Atlee Pine has spent most of her life trying to find out what happened that fateful night in Andersonville, Georgia. Her six-year-old twin sister, Mercy, was taken and Atlee was left for dead while their parents were apparently partying downstairs. One...
3) Wicked game
Author
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
506 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after the disappearance of Jessie Brentwood, Detective "Mac" McNally reopens the case when bones are unearthed at Jessie's old school, and soon after Jessie's friends begin to die under suspicious circumstances.
Author
Publisher
Marysue Rucci Books
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First Marysue Rucci Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Masterfully blending elements of psychological suspense and true crime, Jessica Knoll delivers a new and exhilarating thriller in Bright Young Women. The book opens on a Saturday night in 1978, hours before a soon-to-be-infamous murderer descends upon a Florida sorority house with deadly results. The lives of those who survive, including sorority president and key witness, Pamela Schumacher, are forever changed. Across the country, Tina Cannon is...
5) Wild justice
Author
Series
Amanda Jaffe volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
The discovery of two severed heads and a mass grave leads investigators to the doorstep of a troubled surgeon, but when he disappears and the murders begin anew, attorney Amanda Jaffe must unravel the mystery.
6) The maidens
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient comes a spellbinding tale of psychological suspense, weaving together Greek mythology, murder, and obsession, that further cements "Michaelides as a major player in the field" (Publishers Weekly). 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...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four women--a police detective, an assistant D.A., a reporter, and a medical examiner who call themselves the Women's Murder Club--develop lifelong bonds as they pursue a killer whose twisted imagination has stunned an entire city.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
399 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
What if having a best friend could put you in the crosshairs of a killer? A psychopath the police have dubbed "Billy Dead Mates" is targeting pairs of best friends, and killing them one by one. Before they die, each victim is given a small white book. For months, detectives have failed to catch Billy, or figure out what the white books symbolize and why the killer leaves them behind. The police are on edge; the public in a panic. Then a woman, scared...
Author
Series
Quincy/Rainie volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
When the daughter of FBI Special Agent Pierce Quincy dies suddenly, the death is ruled an accident, until investigator Rainie Conner uncovers evidence that points to a killer with the ability to unleash his victims' innermost fears.
11) Chosen prey
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Description
Hoping to use a supposedly straightforward case of murder to clear his mind, Deputy Chief Lucas Davenport finds himself matching wits with an ever-escalating serial killer, art history professor, congenial pervert, and sexual predator James Qatar.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a near-future world where tree pollen has made outdoor air unbreathable, a woman's safe but tedious life is thrown into turmoil when she witnesses a murder and her young daughter starts sleep-talking about the killer"--
13) Private London
Author
Series
Private volume 1
Language
English
Description
Dan Carter, head of the London division of Private, the world's most exclusive detective agency, must join forces with his ex-wife if he is going to save American student Hannah Shapiro from a threat that has stalked her for eight years.
14) Identity
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The #1 New York Times-bestselling author's terrifying new thriller about one man's ice-cold malice, and one woman's fight to reclaim her life. Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the mortgage payments, as does Morgan's job as a bartender. But after she and Nina host their first dinner party--attended by Luke, the flirtatious IT guy who'd...
15) Red dragon
Author
Series
Hannibal Lector volume 1
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
443 p.
Language
English
16) Stake
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Simon Helsing believes the only way to stop a bad guy with fangs is a good guy with a stake. He has devoted his life to ridding the world of vampires. He hunts them, finds their daytime lairs, and pounds a stake through their hearts. Lexi Tarada wants to believe. She's desperate to prove that the strange and impossible can be real. She runs a website for the unexplained and tries to sift through the crazy conspiracy theories to find out what is -...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A Navy SEAL has nothing left to live for and everything to kill for after he discovers that the American government is behind the deaths of his team in this ripped-from-the-headlines political thriller. On his last combat deployment, Lieutenant Commander James Reece's entire team was killed in a catastrophic ambush that also claimed the lives of the aircrew sent in to rescue them. But when those dearest to him are murdered on the day of his homecoming,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1977. Ike and Lucy, the kids of Senator Charlie and Margaret Marder, are grown up--and in trouble. US Marine Ike has gone AWOL after a military operation gone horribly wrong. Now he's off the grid, working on the pit crew of the moody stunt master Evel Knievel and hanging in the roughest dive bar in Montana. His sister Lucy has become the star reporter of a brand-new Washington, DC tabloid breaking stories about a serial killer and falling...
19) Lazarus
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
487 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The latest installment in the internationally best-selling Joona Linna series sees the Swedish detective on the trail of the worst serial killer he's seen yet. Across the continent, someone is brutally murdering Europe's worst criminals. Who can object to taking out rapists, arsonists, human traffickers? But when two of the victims have a direct connection to detective Joona Linna, it's clear to him that somebody's trying to send him a message. His...
20) The babysitter
Author
Series
River Glen volume 1
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
460 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
"In River Glen, Oregon, rumors are spreading about the Babysitter Stalker. One victim was fatally stabbed. A second fell--or was pushed--from a rooftop deck. High school sophomore Jamie Whelan, scheduled to watch the Ryerson twins tonight, isn't worried. She's more interested in the party she'll go to later, as soon as her sister Emma arrives to take over babysitting duties. But nothing goes according to plan ... Twenty years after that night's vicious...