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While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door. Decades later, Nora's father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows her father was a notorious serial killer. And she intends to keep it that way. `Then Nora discovers one of her young female patients has been murdered. In the same unique and horrific manner that her father used to kill his victims.

Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. She's seen it all: men who lie in their dating profile, men who stick her with the dinner bill, and worst of all, men who can't shut up about their mothers. But finally, she hits the jackpot. Her new boyfriend is utterly perfect. He's charming, handsome, and works as a doctor at a local hospital. Sydney is swept off her feet.

YouTube-Sternchen Lea Grimm zog eine riesige Fangemeinde in ihren Bann – bis sie ermordet, skalpiert und im Wald nahe Frankfurt aufgebahrt wird. BKA-Profilerin Nessa Wolf wird auf den Plan gerufen, um die kranke Psyche des Mörders zu verstehen, bevor er ein weiteres Opfer findet… Eine einsame Waldstraße im Taunus – eine nackte Frauenleiche. Sie wurde überfahren, um die Spuren eines viel grausameren Verbrechens zu verstecken. Profilerin Nessa Wolf nimmt die Ermittlungen auf und stößt auf eine Gruppe selbsternannter Satansjünger.

From the bestselling author of The Life We Bury comes a "riveting, hold-your-breath" new mystery in which a woman finds herself in a race not only for justice—but for her life (Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Wife). Lila Nash is on the verge of landing her...

Il caso è estremamente complesso e quanto accaduto quella notte è solo il primo anello di una macabra catena. Soltanto un uomo può riuscire a mettere fine a quest'incubo: Joona Linna. E per calarsi nelle tenebre il commissario, questa volta, avrà bisogno dell'aiuto di un suo vecchio amico, l'ipnotista Erik Maria Bark.

Struggling to balance her personal and professional life, young DS Becca Vincent has landed the biggest case of her career–and she knows that it will make or break her. But how can she identify one face in a sea of thousands? With the help of Police Super Recogniser Joe Russell, she strives to catch a glimpse of the elusive murderer, but he’s watching her every move.

Sechs Jahre sind vergangen, seit Anka ihrem sadistischen Entführer entkam. Gequält und gefoltert hat die Gefangenschaft Spuren bei ihr hinterlassen. Sie quittierte ihren Dienst als Polizistin, um fortan ein ruhiges Leben zu führen. Doch eine rätselhafte SMS mit GPS-Daten und dem Wort HILFE reißt sie zurück in ihre Albträume. In einer Hütte im Wald entdeckt Anka makabre »Kunstwerke«: menschliche Körperteile, fein säuberlich eingelegt in Formaldehyd, ausgestellt wie in einer Galerie. Die grausame Handschrift ihres Peinigers ist unverkennbar.

The chilling prose of Karin Slaughter meets the high-stakes plotting of The Butcher and the Wren in a dark debut following three normal sisters, their own forgotten traumas, and the serial killer that lives within one, begging the question: can you ever truly recognize the evil around you? Three...

Stranded in Paris during an air traffic crisis, Laura offers to share her hotel room with a young woman who seems lost and alone. It’s a split-second act of kindness—one any good mother would make. But as the girl slips away at dawn, Laura feels a whisper of unease. Weeks later, as her precious family is targeted one by one, Laura’s ordinary life completely unravels and she can’t shake the feeling that everything leads back to that night. Suddenly she’s in a police cell, the main suspect in a serious crime.

A car submerged in a remote pond. The bodies of two girls strapped into their seats. The mystery of their mother, vanished without a trace, leads Gwen Proctor and Kezia Claremont into dangerous territory. On the surface, Gwen’s life is good - two children approaching adulthood, a committed partner, and a harrowing past dead and gone. That past is attracting the attention of someone invisible and unstoppable. Trouble’s just beginning. So is the body count in this backwoods Tennessee town. As threats mount and Gwen’s hunted by an enemy who pulls all the strings, Kezia has her back.

Past midnight, Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend’s family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed “homicidal adventurer,” Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse, or limits, to live with intensity. Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit.

An online video of a girl clawing at the ceiling of her own grave could be the worst thing FBI forensic psychologist Zoe Bentley has ever seen. Perhaps even more disturbing is the implication of the video’s title: “Experiment Number One.” Zoe and her partner, Special Agent Tatum Gray, work as fast as they can to find the monster behind the shocking video, but soon another one shows up online, and another girl turns up dead.

A decade ago, Emily Carlino vanished after her car broke down on a California highway. She was presumed to be one of serial killer Ronny Lee Jessup’s victims whose remains were never found. Writer David Thorne still hasn’t recovered from losing the love of his life, or from the guilt of not being there to save her. Then David meets Maddison Sutton, beguiling, playful, and keenly aware of all David has lost. But what really takes his breath away is that everything about Maddison, down to her kisses, is just like Emily.

After putting a stop to one of Edinburgh's most notorious serial killers 3 years ago, DCI Liam Brodie is known as a man who can handle - and solve - the hardest of cases. When a child's bones are unearthed beneath the floorboards of an old house in Fife - the same house where his girlfriend, psychologist Ruth Calder, grew up as a foster daughter - Brodie uncovers a tangled web of lies and jealousy.

Museum curator Pearl Davis always had a strained relationship with her mother, Sally. Growing up, she rarely felt her mother’s love. So many things about her mother’s behavior never added up. But when Sally dies unexpectedly, she leaves Pearl a letter from the grave…confessing to murder. Suddenly, Pearl has even more questions than she has answers. She suspects the letter is just a sign of her mother’s diminished state of mind—until she finds human remains in Sally’s garden.

Deep beneath London, urban explorer Connie Darke stumbles across a mutilated body in the city’s decaying sewer system. Moments later, a strange whistling sound follows her through the tunnels—low, eerie, impossible to trace. DI Lew Kirby is assigned the case. The victim is a wealthy financier with no clear reason to be underground—and no shortage of enemies above it. As Kirby investigates, Connie uncovers chilling new clues about the unexplained death of her sister. Both are drawn deeper into a world of hidden networks, buried secrets, and obsession.

Eine Serie rätselhafter Selbstmorde stellt Kriminalhauptkommissarin Tara Kronberg und ihr Dezernat für extreme Gewaltverbrechen im LKA vor eine schier unlösbare Aufgabe. Die Ermittlungen führen sie zu einem Podcast, der eine verstörende Fangemeinde anzieht – Menschen am Abgrund, die im trügerischen Versprechen auf Hilfe ihr Verderben finden. Als in einer verlassenen Fabrik die Leiche einer 16-Jährigen entdeckt wird, findet die Polizei nicht nur Spuren einer bizarren Tötungsmethode, sondern auch merkwürdige Abschiedsworte an einer Wand.

Ein Serienmörder, der von der Presse „Das Phantom der Nacht" genannt wird, versetzt Berlin in Angst und Schrecken. Panik verursacht sein Treiben auch bei den Freundinnen Cordula und Amelie, die beide eine nahe Verwandte durch den unheimlichen Täter verloren haben. Als ein Mann verhaftet und in den Maßregelvollzug eingewiesen wird, ist das nur kurzzeitig ein Grund zum Aufatmen. Nach seiner spektakulären Flucht scheint es das Phantom auf die beiden ohnehin traumatisierten Frauen abgesehen zu haben.

In a sleepy Devon village, a woman is taken from the streets. Local vet Jenny is horrified. This kind of thing doesn’t happen here. But it’s not the first time she’s been so close to a crime scene. The daughter of a prolific serial killer, she’s spent her whole life running from who she really is. And the crime is harrowingly similar to those her father committed all those years ago.

I en bambushytte i Malaysia bliver en kvindelig dansk turist fundet myrdet. Tilsyneladende offer for et makabert ritual. Den verdenskendte franske dykker Jacques Reverdi arresteres for drabet og mistænkes for en række andre kvindemord ved de sydøstasiatiske strande. I Paris fatter den hærdede journalist Marc Dupeyrat interesse for Reverdis sag. Besat af tanken om at forstå det ondes væsen, udgiver han sig for at være en ung kvindelig psykolog og skriver til Reverdi i fængslet. Men løgn avler løgn, og snart sendes Marc ud, hvor han ikke kan bunde. På en rejse i en seriemorders blodige spor. På en rejse ad den sorte linje.