Police Procedural Serial Killers Mystery

When a mysterious DVD is delivered to Northumbria Police Headquarters, DS Matthew Ryan and Detective Superintendent Eloise O’Neil are among the few to view its disturbing content. With little to go on, the only lead comes from the anonymous and chilling woman’s voice narrating the blood-soaked lock-up depicted on screen. But with no victim visible, nor any indication of where the unidentifiable crime scene is located, Ryan and O’Neil get the distinct feeling someone is playing with them. The newly formed special unit has just taken on its first challenging case.

DI Jane Phillips was a star detective driven by a relentless quest for justice. But then she stepped outside the law. Now, demoted and suffering with PTSD, she finds herself facing the deadliest threat of her career - a serial killer who is preying on vulnerable women, murdering them in a shocking and bizarre ritual. A master of deception, he selects his victims at random. Or so it seems. But as Phillips investigates, she begins to see a method in the killer's madness. Perhaps these victims aren't random at all....

¿Existe algo peor que asesinar? Una nueva ola de crímenes asola Barcelona, pero esta vez las víctimas no aparecen muertas, sino algo mucho peor: alguien los ha convertido en muertos vivientes. El criminal más retorcido de la ciudad va más allá de matar a sus víctimas: les deja en un estado vegetativo. Estas apariciones encienden una alarma de la policía. Prácticas quirúrgicas de otros tiempos despiertan problemas olvidados. Entretanto, la farmacéutica más famosa de Barcelona se verá involucrada en un caso ajeno. Todas las víctimas llevan un mensaje del verdugo: una palabra, una venganza.

TWO COPS. ONE KILLER. HUNDREDS OF GODS. 21st Century London — except the Norman conquest never happened. An uneasy alliance of ancient tribes has formed, but peace is threatened by a series of brutal murders. Detectives Aedith and Drustan must put aside their differences to track down a serial killer with a decades-old grudge.

What if the serial killer you were investigating was someone you knew? DS Wendy Knight's first murder case was always going to test her limits, but even she couldn't anticipate that a sadistic serial killer might be someone she knew - very well. As her investigation unfolds, so too does a sinister plot that will turn her world upside down and make it increasingly difficult to distinguish friend from foe in her tight-knit world. By the time Wendy realises she is the killer's final intended victim, she's left fighting against her personal instincts - and for her life.

It's only 10 days since Douglas Remfry's release from prison, having served seven years for rape, and now he's dead: naked on a bare mattress in a grubby north London hotel room, his head hooded and his hands tied with a brown leather belt. Someone knew he was coming out. Someone wanted to mete out some punishment of his own. And when a second sex offender is found dead, DI Tom Thorne knows he has a vicious, calculating vigilante on his hands.

Detectives Harry Lennox and Jess Wilde have never seen anything like it. The dead woman is dressed up like a Victorian doll. She’s wearing a long white dress, a bloodstained blonde wig and a mask with red cupid-bow lips. Beneath the mask, her face is beaten so badly, it’s unrecognisable. DNA identifies the victim as Lori Lansing, who was kidnapped three weeks ago. Her wealthy husband paid half a million pounds to secure her release – but he never saw his wife again. Then another young woman is reported missing.

When troubled teen Connor moves to Exeter from the US after a horrific school shooting, he finds himself embroiled in a world of popular kids and easy girls. Everyone wants to be his friend, but they don’t know about what he did...and they don’t know about his father. As Connor’s life in England begins to unravel, DS Adrian Miles and his partner, Imogen Grey, are working up against the clock to catch a serial killer who dates his victims before he kills them. Determined to uncover the truth, Imogen is forced to act as bait - but will she take it too far and risk her own life?

Four nuns and a fifth woman, a visitor to Africa, are killed in a savage nighttime attack. Months later in Sweden, the news of the unexplained tragedy sets off a cruel vengeance for these killings. Inspector Kurt Wallander is home from an idyllic holiday in Rome, full of energy and plans for the future. Autumn settles in, and Wallander prays the winter will be peaceful. But when he investigates the disappearance of an elderly birdwatcher, he discovers a gruesome and meticulously planned murder - a body impaled in a trap of sharpened bamboo poles.

When a string of brutal murders in Portland, Oregon shatters the peace in the Rose City, the local police dump the case on FBI Special Agent Julie Oh. But just as quickly as Julie gets the case, the FBI calls in Leon Jackson, an expert in serial murders. Now the murderer starts to ramp up the killing before being caught. But some in Portland might not want the killer to stop, since only sexual predators who have avoided prosecution are being murdered. To complicate the investigation, Julie and Leon start a strictly sexual relationship.

Massachusetts State Police detective Tommy Kelly is called to Nantucket Island, where a boy’s skeletal remains have been discovered at a construction site—interred for thirty-five years. The crime is especially gutting for Tommy, the father of two boys. It’s also the beginning of a grim mystery. Because no child during that period was even reported missing. Tommy is partnered with Nantucket PD’s best detective, Jo Harris, who first chafes at the idea of a mainlander encroaching on her territory. And their work together is only raising more troubling questions.

IN THE HEART OF DANGER, SECRETS UNRAVEL AND DESTINIES COLLIDE Detective Superintendent Ian Wilson finds himself the target of a deadly vendetta. As he grapples with the looming threat to his life, the unsettling backdrop of Belfast sees the sudden disappearance of two gay men, a chilling mystery that sets the stage for a series of events with far-reaching consequences. Meanwhile, Detective Rory Browne, driven by a personal connection to the case of the missing men, becomes entangled in a perilous web that could make him the next victim of a cunning serial killer. With each step into the ...

Four women went on a weekend of fun to Miami. Four best friends who were inseparable. No one returned. The story made national headlines, and even after weeks of searching for them, they were never found. What happened to them? Are they still alive? Three years later, the teenage children of those same four women decide to take a trip together, against the wishes of their families. They are followed by a TV crew doing a true crime show. When they unearth the body of one of their mothers, they know they are in way over their heads, and soon they realize nothing is what it seems

In a small town in rural America, murders of little girls have been going on for a long time. Can the FBI stop him before he kills again?

Isolated farmer Ernie Bowles was found lying on his kitchen floor, gruesomely strangled. News of the murder came to Inspector Stephen Ramsay early on Monday morning and he fears this case will not be simple. In his experience, most murders are straightforward: an explosion of family pressure, the loss of control in a fight. But Bowles seems to have kept himself to himself and had lived alone since his mother’s death. A seemingly unconnected women is then found strangled too, surely two such killings in the same locality are more than just chilling coincidence?

It has been a week since anyone last saw 15-year-old Daisy, after she left her best friend’s house and started her short walk home. Detective Kate Matthews and her team have been looking for her ever since. When a tip-off leads Kate to a disused gymnasium building at Daisy’s school, she is devastated to find no sign of the missing girl, but, as she investigates further, what she does find among the dusty benches and broken lockers shakes her to the core: a side room covered in plastic and a small severed foot.

What are the odds of three serial killers working in the same college town? Astronomical. Unless two of them are twin brothers! The third is someone they hire to do maintenance at their nursing homes. A match made in hell! Using a pandemic's death toll as a cover, the brothers, who know a good thing when they see one, use their new hire to help them with their murderous insurance and "legacy" scheme. But they did not count on an idealistic -- and suspicious -- young woman. “A LAWRENCE DE MARIA TITLE GIVES YOU MORE BANG FOR YOUR BUCK THAN JUST ABOUT ANYTHING IN THE BOOK MARKETPLACE TODAY....

Accident or Murder? Truth or Lies? Nothing is what it seems in the Garden District of New Orleans. When a renowned real estate tycoon is found hanging in his lavish Garden District mansion, all signs point to suicide. But the governor isn't convinced and requests the FBI's help. Assigned to the high-profile case are Special Agents Briana Song and James Buckley—but it's Briana's first investigation since transferring to the New Orleans office. As they investigate, Briana realizes they'll need to bend the rules to uncover the disturbing truth lurking beneath the mansion's manicured exterior...

Ainara Pons es una joven y reconocida agente especial del FBI, experta en patrones y perfiles criminales. Ella enfoca todas sus fuerzas a un único propósito: atrapar al asesino en serie que destrozó su vida. En su afán por resolver el caso de mujeres asesinadas a través de todo el país, ella hará frente a un asesino astuto y sanguinario quien le tenderá una trampa sin escapatoria.

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.