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Chasing the Boogeyman

Richard Chizmar · 322 pages

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MPD Psycho, Vol. 2

Eiji Otsuka · 184 pages

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MPD Psycho, Vol. 1

Eiji Otsuka, Sho-u Tajima · 184 pages

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The Sun Down Motel

Simone St. James · 338 pages

Upstate NY, 1982. Viv Delaney knows something isn't right at the Sun Down motel, where she works as a night clerk, and she's determined find out what. Upstate NY, 2017. Carly Kirk has always been fascinated by her aunt Viv who disappeared from the Sun Down before Carly was born. Using a small inheritance from when her mom dies, Carly leaves college to figure out what happened to her aunt thirty-fi

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Sworn to Silence

Linda Castillo · 321 pages

A former Amish resident of Painters Mill is returning as police chief sixteen years after a series of brutal murders took place there, but when a new victim is found under her watch, she struggles with a secret that could hurt both her and her family.

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Mr. Monster

Dan Wells · 320 pages

Mr. Monster is a young adult horror novel by Dan Wells, published in 2010 by Tor Books and by Headline. It is the sequel to I Am Not A Serial Killer and the second book in the John Wayne Cleaver series. John Wayne Cleaver saved his town from a murderer even more appalling than the serial killers he obsessively studies. But it turns out even demons have friends, and the disappearance of one ha

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In the Dark of the Night

John Saul · 416 pages

Summer vacation becomes a season in hell for an ordinary family who unwittingly stir something invisible, insidious, and insatiable from its secret slumber--unleashing a wave of horror only the darkest evil could create, that only a master of spine-tingling terror like John Saul could orchestrate. For deep in the shadows in the dark of the night lurks something as big as life . . . and as real as

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Winter Prey

John Sandford · 343 pages

It's the dead of winter, and a killer like no other is turning a small Wisconsin town into a death trap-one that's closing in on Lucas Davenport

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Rachel Rising, Volume 5: Night Cometh

Terry Moore · 156 pages

Rachel, Jet, and Aunt Johnny recover quickly from their harrowing adventures with the aid of a magic herbal wrap, but they soon discover they've been the victims of a serial killer. Now they are determined to find the mysterious predator and deliver him to the evil of Zoe's knife. This new book is the 5th trade paperback in Terry Moore's Eisner Award nominated series, collecting issues #25-30.

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Midnight

Dean Koontz · 470 pages

What is the dark secret that haunts Moonlight Cove? A string of inexplicable deaths has occurred in this picturesque coastal town; sinister, shadowy figures stalk the streets in the dead of night and four people are drawn together by terrifying circumstance: A young woman determined to find the truth behind her sister's suicide; an undercover federal agent; a child on the run from her parents and

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The Preacher

Camilla Lackberg · 419 pages

The discovery of two murder victims who were killed twenty years earlier is complicated by the body of a third, recent victim at the same location, a case that compels detective Patrik Hedstrom to investigate a feuding clan of misfits, religious fanatics, and criminals.

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Blindsighted / Kisscut

Karin Slaughter · 434 pages

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Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Volume 1: Prodigal Son

Dean Koontz, Kevin J. Anderson

His name is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who's traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Detective Carson O'Connor is cool, cynical, and every bit as tough as she looks. Her partner Michael Maddison wou

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Kill For Me

Karen Rose · 415 pages

New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose delivers another pulse-pounding suspense novel that ties into SCREAM FOR ME. Five teenage girls have been murdered. One survived, and only she can reveal the secrets of a disturbing ring of people who kidnap and sell teenage girls on the black market. But those responsible for the crimes will do whatever it takes to maintain her silence.Susannah Vartan

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The Church of Dead Girls

Stephen Dobyns · 410 pages

Despite its superficial resemblance to a whodunit, The Church of Dead Girls is not a conventional thriller. Don't expect it to be suspenseful. This is a literary horror tale--slow paced, contemplative, meticulous in its descriptions--about a formerly sleepy small town in which the crucial distinction between public and private life is dissolving as suspicion spreads like a toxin. The reader's guid

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Serial Uncut: Extended Edition

Jack Kilborn, Blake Crouch, J.A. Konrath · 168 pages

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Postal, Vol. 1

Bryan Hill, Matt Hawkins · 128 pages

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The Reckoning

Carsten Stroud · 464 pages

When the sun tops a nearby mountain, Tallulah's Wall, and bathes the town in soft Sothern light, Niceville exudes an almost unearthly beauty. But there's a reason why Native American tribes avoided the place: An absence, "Nothing," inhabits the air and the depthless crater atop the ancient peak, bending time and the desires of a chosen few to hear shadowy ends. As the Reckoning begins, Detective N

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Hellblazer, Volume 4: The Family Man

Jamie Delano, Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman, Dick Foreman · 288 pages

"Constantine attempts a vacation after recent events, but as usual, things don't go as planned. Plus, Constantine must uncover the mystery of the murderous Family Man."--Amazon.com.

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Brother

Ania Ahlborn · 329 pages

"Deep in the heart of Appalachia stands a crooked farmhouse miles from any road. The Morrows keep to themselves, and it's served them well so far. When girls go missing off the side of the highway, the cops don't knock on their door. Which is a good thing, seeing as to what's buried in the Morrows' backyard. But nineteen-year-old Michael Morrow isn't like the rest of his family. He doesn't take pl

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Wolfhunter River

Rachel Caine · 330 pages

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From Hell

Alan Moore · 576 pages

FROM HELL is the story of Jack the Ripper, perhaps the most infamous man in the annals of murder. Detailing the events leading up to the Whitechapel killings and the cover-up that followed, FROM HELL is a meditation on the mind of a madman whose savagery and violence gave birth to the 20th century. The serialized story, presented in its entirety in this volume, has garnered widespread attention fr

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Still Life With Crows

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child · 583 pages

A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground. Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy? Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land? Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America's heartland.

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