Mystery Biography

Wyatt is a mortician's assistant who has an overdeveloped interest in serial killers. He reads all of the True Crime books, watches all of the Deadly Women shows, and has an encyclopedic knowledge when it comes to every serial killer in history. But when a series of mysterious deaths take place in his city, he begins to notice things on the victim's body that the authorities do not. He launches his own investigation into who is doing the murders, and soon finds himself face to face with the killer himself.

JonBenet Patricia Ramsey was a young promising beauty queen at an early age of six. Unfortunately, it was at this age when a tragic incident shocked not only the beauty pageant scene but the entire world. The young beauty queen was brutally murdered in Boulder, Colorado. The brutal crime happened in the basement of the young star's own home on the 26th of December, 1996. Nineteen years have passed, yet the crime is unresolved.

Step into the world of Charles "Chuck" Patton, a true pioneer in technology and business innovation, with Visionaire, his compelling memoir of transformation and tenacity. Chuck's self-coined term, "Visionaire," captures his role as a trailblazer of extraordinary projects, illuminating the way forward with bold foresight. From leading groundbreaking global tech developments to mastering the art of travel business innovation, Chuck's career was driven by an unrelenting ambition to serve as a beacon of inspiration. This memoir offers an inside look at the high-stakes world of technology, ...

The Devil Takes the Bodies of dead women and girls just before they are buried. The "half-breed" Indians living over in Itawamba County in Mississippi are suspected. Most of the disappearances happened in that county and three in Monroe County. This is the story of the nineth, 10th and 11th incidents, which occurred in Lee County.

His father was an investigator who was murdered. Matthias Jones became an athlete and coach, but he solved his father's murder. Hamilton College on the coast of New Hampshire hired him to coach sports, but getting into murder investigations remains his passion. He knows the cops and the district attorney Herbert Lane hates his guts.

Ex-US Navy turned investigator Thomas J. Cooper is tortured by the past. A deadly fight with Somali pirates and a tragic accident at sea have left him struggling with PTSD and an addiction to prescription drugs. When he and his colleague Maddie return to the Democratic Republic of Congo to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a plane, what they find is far more sinister and dangerous....

Jeff Nichols - a man strong of conviction but weak of character - is fresh out of the Don Jail, looking for work - any kind of work - and a way back into Ann Ryan’s good graces. She waited for his return from prison but is quickly running short on patience. An ex-inmate and friend gets Jeff a job at Ted Bracey’s used car lot, selling cars for commission only. But it’s not enough to keep him and Ann afloat in mid-80s Toronto, and the lure of easy money soon gets Jeff involved in smuggling guns from upstate New York.

Early one morning, a young woman awakens alone in an unfamiliar hospital room, with no recollection of her own identity. She feels no emotion, no physical pain, and is puzzled when the staff at the facility offers no explanation for her injuries. Assigned a temporary name and invited to meet other residents, she listens to their stories. Slowly, the sealed doors of her mind begin to unlock, flooding her with the pain of her own recent traumatic experience.

Detta är den 3: dje och avslutande delen av trilogin Kriminalkommissarie Leah Quiller skipar rättvisa två gånger, Uppgörelsen. Leah Quiller har vid ett flertal tillfällen varit hemma på sitt gods på Österlen, där hon alltid är känd under sitt rätta namn, grevinnan Caroline von Steinberg, och för varje gång får hon en allt större längtan att återta sin rätta identitet. Men hon är också väl medveten om att för att återfå friheten måste hon hitta mannen som både våldtog och misshandlade henne brutalt och lämnade henne att dö i ett dike.

Den 2 delen av tre. Gärningen. I över ett decennium har kriminalkommissarie Leah Quiller försökt att skapa sig ett tryggt liv efter den våldsamma våldtäkten som nästan ändade hennes liv. Samtidigt arbetar hon och åklagare Jeanette på den nya sexbrottsroteln i Göteborg för att få till åtal och att sätta så många våldtäktsmän i fängelse som det bara är möjligt, och i vissa fall tvekar inte Leah att skipa rättvisa två gånger i sin privata rättssal.

Drawing on the infamous Lord Lucan affair, this compelling novel explores the roots of a shocking murder from a fresh perspective and brings to vivid life an era when women's voices all too often went unheard. In the summer of 1974, Mandy River arrives in London to make a fresh start and begins working as nanny to the children of one Lady Morven. She quickly finds herself in the midst of a bitter custody battle and the house under siege: Lord Morven is having his wife watched.

Within the Tokyo underworld there is an industry which exists to break up marriages. It is known today as 'wakaresaseya' - agents who, for a fee, can be hired by one spouse to seduce the other and provide grounds for divorce on favourable terms. Inspired by a real case, this is the story of Kaitaro Nakamura, a wakaresaseya agent, who is hired by a man to seduce his wife. Kaitaro falls in love with his target, Rina, and after the divorce she moves in with him, unaware of his role in the demise of her marriage.

When a beautiful young prom queen becomes the latest victim of a deadly bombing campaign, detectives Marty Sinclair and Al Alvarez must battle to find the killer before he can strike again. But when a rare documents dealer becomes the seriously injured next victim, is he really an innocent victim or something far more deadly?

Homeland Security agent Kit Steel is committed to avenge terrorism. And she’s after the blood of her nemesis, one of world’s most ruthless and dangerous criminals, Vincente Carpio. He has the blood of her husband and young son on his hands, and Kit is unwavering in her determination to see him kept behind bars forever. Clever, calculating, and manipulative, Carpio has aid and influence on the outside, and he’s waiting for the perfect moment when the final pieces of the jigsaw fall into place.

It started with a child's letter. Psychologist Karen Wiley thought she understood moral dilemma. Now, somewhere out there, an anonymous child has begun to cry for her help. The letters keep coming...and then something far, far worse. Until the terror in the Trueblood trailer, police chief Ella McCullers believed she knew crises of faith.

Two explosions at the same time. In two different cities. Ex-US Navy turned investigator Thomas J Cooper knows this is no random coincidence. This is a carefully planned attack calling for war on the US government. The clock is ticking, and Cooper must stop the perpetrators before the threat of further bombings becomes a deadly reality. With estranged wife Maddie working beside him, they travel from Washington to Burkina Faso in a dangerous trail to track down the killers. Engulfed in a murderous game, they must be the players with the winning final move....

Fraudulent car accidents is a multi-million dollar racket, involving unscrupulous medical providers, personal injury attorneys, and the cooperating passengers involved in the accidents and who also receive a portion of the illegal proceeds. Such is the fate of newly engaged Nathan and Shari, whose joy is tempered by the dark cloud of mounting debt. A chance encounter with a stranger in whom Shari confides her troubles proves fortuitous: he tells her of a get-rich-quick scheme that will put her and her fiancé on easy street.

Philip Shaw is a Great War veteran and widower struggling to put his life back together. He grasps at a chance to make a difference by investigating the death of a newspaper editor - did the man die in an accidental fire? Or was it murder? Shaw joins forces with fiery crime reporter Ray Taylor to dig into police corruption, a rivalry between a powerful shipbuilder and a sly politician, and the seedy world of Seattle's wide-open red-light district. Will they find the answers in the speakeasies, among the rum-runners on the waterfront, or at the mansions of the rich?

Gabbi loves her wine almost as much as she loves her men. But being the attention whore that she is, she couldn't hang in there when her marriage needed mending; instead she ran to an old high school sweetheart, making up stories that her husband abused her so all would feel sorry for her. When friends would confront Gabbi with their disbelief of Travis' abusiveness, she would say that he put on a good act. Gabbi got what she wanted - for a while.

La scomparsa di Emanuela Orlandi e il massacro delle guardie svizzere sono due tra i casi più bui e intricati della recente storia Vaticana. Da una parte una ragazzina di appena 15 anni che sparisce senza motivi e, soprattutto, senza lasciare la minima traccia, nel pieno di un'estate romana come tante altre; dall'altra un doppio omicidio e un suicidio (per lo meno questa è la versione ufficiale dei fatti) che rappresentano il più grave fatto di sangue avvenuto in Vaticano nel secolo scorso.