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FBI agent Sarah Cole is stunned to receive an invitation to the “Game of Nines,” the most secretive and longest-running murder puzzle in history. Thrust into a mystery that has confounded law enforcement for decades, she proves to be an unexpectedly formidable "player"—and might finally end the deadly game once and for all.

Her blue eyes wide open, glossed over. A few specks of sand clung to her long, dark lashes. Her beautiful face, immobile, covered in sparkling flecks of sand. Who is the beautiful girl found at dawn, on a deserted stretch of white sand beach? What is her secret? FBI special agent Tess Winnett searches for answers relentlessly. With each step, each new finding, she uncovers unsettling facts leading to a single possible conclusion: Dawn Girl is not the only victim. Her killer has killed before.

It's Saturday, shortly after 10:00 p.m. Jules Tannberg is manning a telephone helpline—a service for women who feel afraid and need a reassuring voice to guide them safely home, or call for help in an emergency. Jules has never encountered a truly life-threatening situation until this night, when he speaks with a terrified young woman named Klara. She believes she is being stalked by a man who once attacked her and who painted a date on her bedroom wall in blood: the date of Klara's death.

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.

Twenty-five years ago, a killer dubbed the Richmond Ripper terrorised London, claiming four victims before vanishing without a trace. Now, with her mother dying, Holly is running out of time to deliver the answers she desperately craves. But as she digs deeper into the past, someone is watching, and when Holly is targeted, it becomes clear that the killer is back, and he doesn't want to be found. Caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse, Holly can trust no one - because someone in her inner circle is hiding the darkest secret of all.

Across the Pacific Northwest, a twisted killer stalks victims representing ancient archetypes: The Ruler. The Warrior. The Scholar. The Priest. Four are dead, leaving FBI investigators puzzled by the macabre, color-coded shrines the killer left behind. And clues now point to a fifth victim.

Chief Inspector Soobramania is called when three bodies are discovered in the space of twenty-four hours, with mutilations bearing an eerie resemblance to Jack the Ripper’s victims. Initial suspicion centres on an English Duke visiting Hyderabad and his friend, a powerful Deccani noble and the angry stepson of one of the dead. In the face of political pressure, Soob must ally with his rival in the British Residency Police, Inspector Wilberforce, to unearth the culprit.

In Michelle Chouinard’s clever mystery The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco, the granddaughter of a serial killer shows readers another side of the beloved city. Welcome to San Francisco, a city with killer charm. The chill of a San Francisco summer can be deadly. No one knows this better...

Eric Ward thinks there is something odd about Arthur Egan’s life and death. But Ward is a former police inspector and trained to be suspicious. Egan left a large sum. But Ward makes no progress tracing the dead man’s offspring. A photograph of an unknown tombstone is his only clue. He discovers Egan served a term for manslaughter and that the evidence against him may have been planted. Why had he accepted his fate so meekly?

Psychiatrist Dr. Gwen Moore is an expert on killers. She’s spent a decade treating California’s most depraved predators and unlocking their motives - predators much like the notorious Bloody Heart serial killer, whose latest teenage victim escaped and then identified local high school teacher Randall Thompson as his captor. The case against Thompson as the Bloody Heart Killer is damning - and closed, as far as Gwen and the media are concerned. If not for one new development.

Tief verborgen im Dark Net lauert der geheimste und gefährlichste Club, den man sich nur vorstellen kann: die Selbsthilfegruppe für Serienmörder. Doch als Cyras Schwester von einem Serienkiller ermordet wird und die Ermittlungen ins Stocken geraten, tritt sie dem Club bei, überzeugt davon, dort den Mörder zu finden. Um sich als eine von ihnen auszugeben, muss Cyra ihre dunkelste Seite hervorbringen und der Preis, den sie dafür zahlt, ist hoch.

The Dollmaker was the name of the serial killer who had stalked Los Angeles ruthlessly, leaving grisly calling cards on the faces of his victims. Now, with a single faultless shot, Harry Bosch thinks he has ended the city's nightmare.

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.

K.S.C, l'acronyme de la plus sombre des organisations criminelles. Vous n'en avez certainement jamais entendu parler, sauf si vous avez un jour décidé de disparaître. "Le Killer Social Club" possède une liste : un fichier qui recense les personnes disparues. Et il possède une faction : des tueurs qui s'assurent que ces disparus le deviennent pour de bon. Être membre du K.S.C, c'est disposer d'un mois pour retrouver et assassiner un disparu, avant qu'une nouvelle cible ne vous soit attribuée.

THE THIRD AND FINAL THRILLING BOOK IN THE BESTSELLING AND AWARD-WINNING A GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO MURDER TRILOGY. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is The New York Times No.1 bestselling YA crime thriller Pip Fitz-Amobi is haunted by the way her last investigation ended. Soon she’ll be leaving for...

Someone is murdering high-ranking Vietnamese government officials, so the head of Saigon's homicide division, Captain Chyang Fang, a troubled Chinese Vietnamese man, is given the task of finding the killer. Hated by almost everyone in Saigon and an outcast in both Chinese and Vietnamese circles, Fang has to rely on his wit, biting sarcasm, and not-so-capable assistant, Sergeant Phan - a man who would rather play on his smartphone than work - to find the killer who leaves toy cobras on the bodies of his victims.

When Damon survives a near-drowning, his life flashes before his eyes. Every memory is crystal clear—except one. A dead boy. A face he can’t place. A moment he doesn’t remember living. At first he tells himself it’s a trick of the mind. But everything else he saw was real. So why not this? With his waking life stalked by the disturbing scene, confusion quickly turns to obsession.

Granada, 2025. Todos conocen a la inspectora Barea por su apellido. Cuando la ciudad se ve sacudida por una serie de terribles crímenes, Barea debe enfrentarse a su caso más importante, que no solo pone en peligro las vidas que ha jurado proteger, sino también a su entorno más íntimo y a su propia supervivencia. Lo que en principio parece un ajuste de cuentas de tintes políticos, se torna en un ritual mucho más perturbador a medida que se suceden las víctimas. Cada escena del crimen lleva la marca de su asesino: las mariposas junto a los cadáveres.

Un asesino mata siguiendo un patrón oculto en películas emblemáticas. El cadáver de un hombre aparece en un cine para nostálgicos en el corazón de Los Ángeles. Lo encuentran en plena noche sentado en el escenario, con las piernas amputadas y un peculiar pañuelo en la cabeza. A los investigadores la escena les resulta extrañamente familiar. El detective Luca Bruzzo está frente al caso más extraño de su carrera, y también el que ha desenterrado sus miedos más íntimos.

La specialità dello psicologo e profiler Tony Hill è scandagliare le menti dei criminali e comprenderne i meccanismi. A fronte di una misteriosa serie di omicidi che vede vittime degli psicologi brutalmente uccisi e segnati con un atroce scalpo rituale, è a lui che le autorità si rivolgono per decodificare la folle logica che sta mietendo vittime tra i suoi colleghi.