Serial Killer Psychological Thrillers

Seventeen-year-old Jenny is abducted in broad daylight and taken to a dilapidated, isolated house where she is chained and caged along with several other girls. Their captor is unpredictable, and as wily as he is cruel: he foils every one of their desperate attempts to escape...and once caught they rarely survive their punishment. Five years later, Jenny is found dead in a public park, and the police are scrambling to find a lead among the scant evidence. But Detective Joona Linna realizes that this murder has an eerie connection to a death that was declared a suicide years before.

To save herself, she'll have to face the world's most vicious serial killer. She just calls him "Dad." “Brilliant, dark, and impossible to put down. O'Flynn masterfully crafts a twisted tale of buried secrets in Deadly Words. Poppy is unforgettable—unlike any character you've read before. This is the psychological thriller genre at its finest, and it will sit with you long after you've turned the final page.” ~Bestselling Author Emerald O’Brien A friend once told me that the world needs psychopaths, but I’m not sold that the world needed my father. I only know that I did. Poppy ...

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Someone wants Maggie dead. Maggie Sloan, former librarian with the fierce spirit of a warrior, accepts an assignment to find a missing spy who trusts only her. Simple enough, until she is shot and friends are murdered. Maggie and her partner, Larry, a police officer from her hometown, reel as the shockingly vicious attacks escalate. They struggle with the disturbing clues that point to the guilt of everyone they meet, and their trust and reliance on each other grows deeper than Maggie realizes. (He falls first.) How many more will die before Maggie and Larry expose the ruthless enemy’s ...

For years, unbeknownst to his wife and teenage daughter, Martin Reese has been illegally buying police files on serial killers and obsessively studying them, using them as guides to find the missing bodies of victims. He doesn't take any souvenirs, just photos that he stores in an old laptop, and then he turns in the results anonymously. Martin sees his work as a public service, a righting of wrongs. Detective Sandra Whittal sees the situation differently.

Little Lucy Appleyard is snatched from her child minder's on a cold winter afternoon, and the nightmare begins. It is as if the child had disappeared into a black hole with no clues to her whereabouts...until the first grisly discovery in a London graveyard. More such finds are to follow, all at religious sites. In a city haunted by religion, what do these offerings signify?

This is the first novel in a series of Dark Psychological Mystery Thrillers. Lyra King is hired as a nanny by the Bryants. The Bryants are extremely wealthy. As the wealthy sometimes do, they have their quirks, as well as dark secrets. When Lyra arrives to live with the Bryant’s she senses right away that there are some things that are off with the staff and family. She is forbidden from entering a section of the house. Lyra begins to investigate to uncover those secrets and what might lie hidden in the forbidden portion of the house. Detective Courtney Cane is simultaneously on the hunt ...

A killer who stages his victims like art. A message hidden in a dead man’s throat. And a detective on the edge of breaking. The footsteps stopped on the stone floor. Then came a low, scornful laugh. A blade traced her calf. “Mariella, my beautiful one... It’s time.” In the sun-drenched vineyards near Stuttgart, Germany, a brutally mutilated corpse is found—slashed, disemboweled, and theatrically posed. Chief Inspector Lola Lindberg and her team are stunned. But the horror doesn’t end there. Inside the victim’s throat, forensic pathologist Hettkamp discovers a chilling message ...

1979. Leading businesswoman Rebecca is struggling to build healthy relationships. Her on off partner is a philandering police officer, part of the team chasing the Yorkshire Ripper who’s striking terror across the county. Then Rebecca meets Larry, the charming American, with a troubled past. And then of course there’s Mervyn, the creepy journalist who’s desperate for a girlfriend and willing to do anything to keep her in his life. With three very different men craving her attention, and a serial killer on the loose, Rebecca finds herself in a twisted game of cat and mouse.

It all started as a game. But then again, most evil never really starts out to be evil. Yvonne is a popular high school English teacher. She revels in making a difference in her kids lives. She has a loving husband. A wonderful family. Dogs and cats. But underneath it all, she harbors a secret. She’s a serial killer. She kills with elegance and grace. Playing a game that she hopes will catch the attention of her husband, James, who is a detective with the State Bureau of Investigations. He’s a smart man, and has racked up an impressive portfolio of cases he’s solved. But Yvonne is a ...

Jesse was living a nightmare Jesse never imagined the screams haunting his house came from a tortured woman in the basement—courtesy of his own brother Jeremy and roommate Chris. He's been oblivious to their grisly secrets until he discovers their latest victim. Forced to dispose of the mutilated body in a sickening way, Jesse realizes with horror that Jeremy and Chris have been responsible for the string of disappearances plaguing the area for over a year. Now an unwilling accomplice, Jesie faces constant threats from the depraved pair if he goes to the police. But when he finally risks ...

Lydia's life spirals into chaos when her son is abducted, forcing her to confront dangerous secrets from her past and battle her manipulative ex-husband in a race against time.In this gripping psychological thriller, Lydia’s world is shattered when her son, Lance, vanishes from a crowded restaurant in a chilling kidnapping. Battling her ruthless ex-husband and his manipulative family, she’s thrust into a twisted murder mystery where every clue leads deeper into danger. As secrets from her past collide with the present, Lydia must unravel the truth before time runs out.

Their foster mother, Carol, has always been fanatical, but with Jazz grown up and out of the house, Carol takes a dangerous turn that threatens 13-year-old Joaquin’s life. Over and over, child services fails to intervene, and Joaquin is running out of time. Then Jazz gets a blocked call from someone offering a solution. There are others like her - people the law has failed. They’ve formed an underground network of “helpers”, each agreeing to eliminate the abuser of another.

The final victims of an infamous serial killer may be the ones he didn’t kill. Hoskins cracked the case of one of the most infamous serial killers—and then it cracked him. He’s in cold cases, as is his career. Sammie was the lead reporter who broke the story, but now she’s selling makeup at the mall. She wants back on page 1. Gloria claims she was the unsuspecting wife. She didn’t know a thing. And as new murders shake Denver, this is a final chance to get their lives back.

It’s lonely being a serial killer. Another must-read psychological thriller from Sam Anthony. What a dilemma: Should he confess his crimes, seek absolution, hand himself over to the police and serve a long prison sentence … or continue to live with the overwhelming guilt, and stay on the run with his beautiful pregnant lover? What happens when an adulterer meets a serial killer? While Jo begs Lee to just suck it up and find a way to cope with his guilty conscience, a real-life serial killer tries to convince him to murder again, just for the sheer fun of it. Enjoy the continuing ...

Amber Hewerdine suffers from chronic insomnia. As a last resort, she visits a hypnotherapist, doubtful that anything will really change. Under hypnosis, Amber hears herself saying, "Kind, cruel, kind of cruel." The words awaken a vague memory, but she dismisses the whole episode as nonsense. Two hours later, however, Amber is arrested for the brutal murder of a woman she's never heard of, and the only way she can clear her name is by remembering exactly where she’s seen those words.

Ein hochspannender Airbnb-Thriller rund um eine abgelegene Ranch, eine junge New Yorkerin auf der Suche nach Ruhe – und das mysteriöse Verschwinden einer jungen Frau. Spannungsvoll gelesen von Anne Düe und Peter Lontzek. Wem kann sie trauen? Und wie sicher ist sie wirklich? Auf der Suche nach Ruhe und Entspannung reist die junge New Yorkerin Grace nach Wyoming, wo sie sich auf einer abgelegenen Ranch über Airbnb ein Zimmer gebucht hat. Hier gibt es weder Handynetz noch WLAN oder andere Ablenkungen. Nur ihren Gastgeber Calvin, mit dem sich Grace für die nächsten Tage das Haus teilen wird.

Jessie wakes to darkness, cold, and the rain beating down on her. She reaches out, and her hands meet hard stone. Suddenly she knows where she is. Deep in the woods, far underground, at the bottom of the well where her best friend's lifeless body was found fifteen years ago. After returning to her hometown to investigate a new murder, she now finds herself poised to become the killer's next victim. Jessie gazes up to the circle of night sky above her, the relentless raindrops landing on her face.

“An exciting murder mystery that will keep you guessing until the last page.” ReadersFavorite.com How do you define justice? Detectives Angela Baxter and Max Gruber have a problem. When 38-year-old Maggie Dalrymple was found dead at the bottom of a ravine by her ex-husband, they thought they had an open-and-shut case against him. But the more they dig, the less things make sense, and the bodies are stacking up. Can they stop a serial killer before he strikes again?

A bundle of books number one (Next Door) and number two (A Neighbor’s Lie) in Blake Pierce’s Chloe Fine Psychological Suspense Mystery series! This bundle offers audiobooks one and two in one convenient file. In Next Door, Chloe Fine, 27, finds herself forced to confront her own dark past when her troubled twin sister needs her help. In A Neighbor’s Lie, FBI Violent Crimes Division Special Agent Chloe Fine, still reeling from the secrets of her past, finds herself thrown into her first case: The murder of a nanny in a seemingly perfect suburban town.