Police Procedural Serial Killers Mystery

A serial killer playing judge and executioner leaves clues for the investigating detective who has a deep dark secret of her own to hide and fears she’s next. “ARE YOU SCARED YET? is a must-read for readers who love romantic suspense police procedurals with an accent on the investigation.”—A Passionate Reader Victims? No, they’re deprived sinners. I’ll make them die in agony. One more sinning monster gone, one more to go. Detective Delilah Swift is enjoying a personal and professional high. She’s newly promoted and in a new relationship with the chief of police, Snowden ...

FBI Special Agent Mackenzie White finds herself stumped. Victims are turning up dead, unrecognizable, their bodies hurled from the highest of heights. A deranged serial killer, obsessed with heights, is killing his victims from the highest locations. The pattern seems random. But is it? Only by entering into the darkest canals of the killer’s mind can Mackenzie begin to understand what his motive is - and where he will strike next.

When the body of single mother Melissa Rollins is found, trapped inside a bedroom closet in her immaculate suburban home, Detective Jo Fournier races to the scene. The small town of Greenfern is sweltering in a heat wave, and Jo is horrified to find that Melissa’s heating was turned up to the max while she died of thirst. Who would kill a devoted mother in such a cruel way? Searching the house for clues, Jo’s team discovers that the front door was locked from the inside. And with no sign of a break-in, they realize the killer must have been someone Melissa knew.

A body discovered in the river in the centre of Cardiff with its tongue amputated leads to more deaths in the Polish community. John Marco and his team have to delve into the East European immigrant community and uncover the murky world of people trafficking. But what is it that links all the deaths together?

A brilliant detective faces off against an intelligent killer. This killer murders his victims on certain days and dates of the year. Detective Ryker Bartley, with his newly acquired smarts, spots the pattern. Then the chase across Texas begins. Murders continue as Ryker and his team follow leads, trying to beat the killer at his own game. When the police get close, the killer goes after those who are on his trail. Ryker suffered one death during the investigation. Can he survive losing another?

Diner food slinger, Maggie Dwyer didn’t intend to be an amateur sleuth. Who does? She’s simply looking forward to a life writing her first novel. Then again, what else is a girl to do when her grandmother dies and leaves her an all expenses paid mansion in Louisiana? Dream come true, right? Until she learns her grandmother died under suspicious circumstances. Until she learns her grandmother died while investigating a series of crimes that occurred at a delinquent boys’ home in a neighboring parish. Toss in a couple of roommates who will make the trek from the Northwest to the bayou ...

Detective Valentine investigates the murder of a scathing judge of a singing competition. An unknown assailant strikes and kills the popular judge with her own Emmy. As Valentine investigates the homicide, she discovers the victim had earned the nickname "The Dream Crusher" and gathered numerous enemies. After she digs deeper, she finds a rival judge, an arrogant producer, an estranged brother, and a host of others with more than enough motive to deliver the deadly blow. When bodies start to pile up and her suspect list grows, Valentine must uncover the murderer before her own voice is ...

Are you a Law & Order Junkie? Then take the challenge. Read each chapter. Find the evidence. Solve the case. Become a Couch Detective.

They call him the Jackdaw. On each body, he leaves a chilling signature: five scratches. And each time he kills, he takes a trophy, an eerie collection that grows with every strike. No one knows what he looks like, where he'll strike next, or why. He could be your neighbour, your boss… your husband. There’s only a paralysing fear that, whoever he is, he's out there: watching, waiting.

I have now read everything Hunter Morgan has written and with the exception of one have enjoyed them all. This was great and intense, funny, I loved Casey's Dad Ed and the others...just read it...it's great! Casey McDaniels knows what it’s like to face domestic violence—and how the darkness it brings can can swallow someone’s life. Now an advocate for victim's rights, Casey gives the key testimony in the arraignment of the man who savagely murdered her best friend, testimony which put him behind bars. With horror, she now learns that man has been set free. Don't Trust Anyone… The ...

Detective Sydney Valentine chases down clues to uncover the identity of a physician's killer. The doctor is bludgeoned to death in his medical office. Without warning, Detective Sydney Valentine's lieutenant assigns her a new and annoying new partner. While the two detectives pursue the investigation into the bloody murder of this high-profile physician, they discover he's going through a nasty divorce. When the body of a John Doe turns up in an alleyway and strange connections between the murders emerge, the likelihood of a simple case looks grim. False Claims is the fourth book in the ...

Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer. When you ‘fix’ people for a living - terminally - it’s hard to get close to anyone. Now he’s finally met the woman of his dreams. But there are two problems. She’s his boss’ wife. And Olav’s just been hired to kill her. From the best-selling author of BAFTA-nominated Headhunters comes Jo Nesbo’s Blood on Snow.

There are a lot of things you really don’t want to find when you’re a homicide detective in the Bronx. High on the list is a new serial killer. Serial killers are real bad news because they kill without motive, so they are hard to trace and they can take years to catch. But even worse than a new serial killer, is a new kind of serial killer: one who murders with a motive, but a motive so unfathomable nobody can understand it; a motive that makes his choice of victims incomprehensible and unpredictable, a motive that leads to each victim being killed in a particularly cruel and unusual way.

He watches. A woman runs alone in the woods. She convinces herself she has no reason to be afraid, but she’s wrong. A predator is stalking the women of Grant County. He lingers in the shadows, until the time is just right to snatch his victim. He waits. A decade later, the case has been closed. The killer is behind bars. But then another young woman is brutally attacked and left for dead and the MO is identical. He takes.

A high-rise building collapses with 102 occupants crushed beyond recognition. Should the guilty be punished? A Chilling Tale of Serial Murder and Vengeance. A 12-story steel and concrete building in the town of Oceanside, Florida, collapses for no reason, with its unsuspecting occupants crushed beyond recognition. The death toll is staggering, with 102 men, women, and children instantly killed. Buildings Don’t Fall Down in America! Survivors of the victims want revenge. Who is responsible for this tragic loss of innocent human life? The architect…the steel supplier…. the building ...

Since her move to the country, Melissa Craig has become firmly established in village life. So, when one of the older residents fails to show up for a drinks party, Melissa goes to check on her. What she finds chills her to the bone: Her dear neighbor has been murdered, and the killer has painted a hideous smile onto her face. Melissa soon realizes that the death in her village bears the same trademark as a series of recent murders in the Cotswolds.

This omnibus features 3 page-turning mysteries packed with suspense. ** from Agatha, Anthony, Barry & Macavity finalist Kristi Belcamino ** Death Under the Stone Arch Bridge — A blast from the past turns sinister when Minneapolis photojournalist Tommy St. James goes to meet an old friend and instead finds a dead body. As she investigates the murder, St. James suddenly finds herself taking care of a young boy who is far from his Mexican home. Rafael's father, hoping to give the boy a better life, paid a coyote to smuggle his son safely into America. But nobody knew what lay waiting just on...

The day after Burning Lake’s notorious, debauched Halloween celebration, Detective Natalie Lockhart uncovers a heartbreaking scene - a young woman, dead and lying in a dumpster. There’s no clue to who she is, save for a mystifying tattoo on her arm, and a callus underneath her chin. She’s not from around here. No one knows who she is.

Aimee Bregman had an enviable job as head of marketing for an up-and-coming CBD-infused beer that was taking the tri-state area by storm. Everything was going right. But when her longtime mentor, Rita, sets up a business meeting with an important influencer, her life crashes all around her. The casual meeting over drinks suddenly devolves into a shouting match between all parties, and any chance of a new business relationship is over before it begins. Hours later, the NYPD shows up at Aimee's apartment, questioning her about Rita's abrupt disappearance - foul play suspected.

In the summer of Star Wars and Son of Sam, a Long Island schoolgirl is found gruesomely murdered. A local prosecutor turns a troubled teenager known as JT from a suspect to a star witness in the case, putting away a high school football star who claimed to be innocent. Forty years later, JT has risen to chief of police, but there's a trail of a dozen dead women that reaches from Brooklyn across Long Island, along the Sunrise Highway, and it's possible that his actions actually enabled a killer. That's when Lourdes Robles, a relentless young Latina detective for the NYPD, steps in.