Police Procedural Serial Killers Mystery

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.

Detective Mina Harker has built a reputation as the sharpest mind in the New Orleans Police Department, closing cases no one else can crack. But the case that's been haunting her for years is unlike anything else in her files. The victims leave behind no forensic evidence, no witnesses, and not a single drop of blood in their bodies. When FBI Special Agent Jon Weston enlists Harker to help track a serial killer who's striking in New Orleans, she knows two things: he's closer to the truth than he knows.

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.

MEET DETECTIVE INSPECTOR JEMIMA HUXLEY IN THIS BRILLIANT NEW CRIME SERIES FULL OF STUNNING TWISTS. An isolated manor house. Shallow woodland graves. A troubled female detective facing the biggest case of her career. The call comes early in the morning. David and Helen Tremaine have discovered a...

This is the box set of the Sean Kruger series, books 1 through 3: The Fugitive's Trail; The Assassin's Trail; and The Imposter's Trail.

A woman's body is discovered in Hyde Park. Wearing only one shoe. Close by, Detective Jack MacIntosh finds a black stiletto, diamante buckle glinting in the morning sun. But it doesn't belong to the victim. Two days later, another young woman is found strangled to death in nearby Green Park. Wearing just one shoe - the matching stiletto. Hidden in the long grass beside the body, the police uncover a low-heeled court shoe. Detective Jack and his team are in a race against time to find the owner of the court shoe before it's too late.

Auftakt der "Vera Stanhope"-Krimireihe von Spiegel-Bestsellerautorin Ann Cleeves. Ein heißer Sommerabend an der Küste Northumberlands. Wie hatte sich Julie Armstrong auf ihr erstes Date seit Jahren gefreut. Doch bei ihrer Rückkehr erwartet sie ein schreckliches Bild: Ihr Sohn Luke liegt tot in der Badewanne, auf dem Wasser schwimmen Blüten. Wenig später treibt die attraktive Referendarin Lily im Teich inmitten von Blumen - ein schauriges Gemälde. Die inszenierten Morde geben Kommissarin Vera Stanhope und ihrem Kollegen Joe Ashworth Rätsel auf.

I en travl butik krammer en lille pige sin bamse, klamrer sig til den i sin mors fravær. Nogle timer senere bliver et lig fundet i en efterladt bygning. Det er Katrina, den lille piges mor. For kriminalkommissær Kim Stone ligner det et hurtigt, kontant mord. Men Kims mavefornemmelse fortæller hende, at der er mere i dette meningsløse drab, end det ser ud til på overfladen.

A new, twists-galore DI Barton thriller from bestselling author Ross Greenwood. The winter holidays finally look set to bring a white Christmas, but the beautiful snow hides horrors beneath. When a man is found cruelly tortured and murdered, the Major Crimes team is already stretched thin...

Montreal, 1970. The "Vampire Killer" has murdered three women and a fourth is missing. Bombs explode in the stock exchange, McGill University, and houses in Westmount. Riots break out at the St. Jean Baptiste parade and at Sir George Williams University. James Cross and Pierre Laporte are kidnapped and the Canadian army moves onto the streets of Montreal. A young beat cop working out of Station 10 finds himself almost alone hunting the serial killer, as the rest of the force focuses on the FLQ crisis.

"Un caso irrisolto" è l'audiolibro 8 nella serie di bestseller dei misteri di Riley Paige, che comincia con "Il killer della rosa", bestseller (Audiolibro 1). C'è un solo caso irrisolto che ha tormentato l'Agente Speciale Riley Paige per tutta la sua carriera, restando nei meandri della sua mente, costringendola a pensarci e ripensarci. L'unico caso che non ha mai risolto, e che è riuscita finalmente a togliersi dalla testa. Finché non riceve una chiamata dalla madre della vittima d'omicidio.

"Morte al college" è il libro #7 nella serie di bestseller dei misteri di Riley Paige, che comincia con "Il killer della rosa", bestseller (Libro #1)! Quando l'Agente Speciale Riley Paige finalmente decide di prendersi un meritato riposo dal lavoro all'FBI, giunge una richiesta di aiuto inaspettata: la sua stessa figlia. La migliore amica di April è devastata dalla morte di sua sorella, una matricola a Georgetown. C'è di peggio: è convinta che sia stato inscenato il suicidio e che sua sorella sia stata assassinata da un serial killer.

Charlie Parker, detective del dipartimento di polizia di New York, era occupato a ubriacarsi mentre uno spietato killer cancellava per sempre le vite della sua giovane moglie e della loro bambina. Torturato dal senso di colpa e consumato dall'alcolismo, quando perde anche il lavoro sfiora l'orlo della follia.

A pochi giorni dalla sua esecuzione, Caleb Wardell, ex cecchino del corpo dei marines divenuto uno dei più efferati serial killer della storia del crimine, evade dal braccio della morte. Un duro colpo per la credibilità delle forze dell'ordine alla vigilia delle elezioni presidenziali e un incubo che si rinnova ad anni di distanza dall'ultimo tragico delitto. Riconquistata la libertà, l'ex marine riprende il lavoro interrotto al momento della sua cattura, tornando a uccidere e insanguinare il Paese. L'FBI, beffato dalla sua evasione, ricorre all'aiuto di Carter Blake.

On the fourth floor of Chaucer House, two teenagers are found chained to a radiator. The boy is dead but the girl is alive. For Detective Kim Stone every detail of the scene mirrors her own terrifying experience with her brother Mikey, when they lived in the same tower block 30 years ago. When the bodies of a middle-aged couple are discovered in a burnt-out car, Kim can’t ignore the chilling similarity to the deaths of Erica and Keith - the only loving parents Kim had ever known.

The hero of The Poet and The Scarecrow is back in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly. Jack McEvoy, the journalist who never backs down, tracks a serial killer who has been operating completely under the radar—until now. Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy has...

The peaceful little village of Saltern-le-Fen is buzzing with excitement. A film crew are in town, shooting a new TV police drama, Fen Division Five. But Detective Jackman receives a disturbing tip-off that something is wrong. Detective Marie Evans meanwhile is looking forward to moving into her dream home. But there’s no time to celebrate. The naked body of a young man is found at the river’s edge. He’s been strangled, his skin massaged in expensive oil. Two days later, another handsome young man is discovered in a shallow lake.

La scena del crimine è inquietante: una testa di donna è stata chiusa in un sacchetto di plastica e abbandonata in una grotta, a Contessa Entellina, un paesino montano in provincia di Palermo. Il cronista di nera Fabrizio Corsaro non può assolutamente rischiare di farsi soffiare la notizia dalla concorrenza e si precipita sul posto. Tutto il paese sembra terrorizzato anche perché secondo alcune antiche leggende un mostro affamato di fanciulle vivrebbe proprio rintanato all'interno di quella caverna.

Twenty-year-old Kendele Byers is savagely killed and buried in a shallow grave. She had a violent past, a bizarre, kinky line of work, and the suspect list grows longer every day. But when another woman is murdered, Detective Mitchell Lonnie realizes that there's something much more sinister afoot: a connection between the two murders. Both victims had received a clue hinting at their oncoming demise several minutes before they were attacked. There's a serial killer in Glenmore Park.

Hours later, the man’s cold body lies in the city mortuary, alongside the woman he couldn’t save. And his sister, unconventional nurse Gemma Tate, tracks down troubled police inspector Sebastian Bell to unravel the truth. Sebastian has enough pressure to solve the murder of an aristocratic heiress without Gemma meddling in his case. But the cryptic sentences she brings him from her brother’s notebook could be a crucial lead. If only they knew what “milky way” meant.