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Déjà Dead

Kathy Reichs · 509 pages

Un beau jour d'été à Montréal, sur la table de dissection du laboratoire de médecine légale de la police provinciale, arrive un cadavre découvert dans l'ancien parc du Grand Séminaire. Le docteur Temperance Brennan est chargé d'autopsier ce qu'il reste d'une femme découpée en morceaux. Sa sinistre expertise va l'amener en première ligne de l'enquête, face à l'assassin pervers qui collectionne les

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All The Pretty Girls

J.T. Ellison · 416 pages

When a local girl falls prey to a sadistic serial killer, Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson and her lover, FBI profiler Dr. John Baldwin, find themselves in a joint investigation pursuing a vicious murderer. The Southern Strangler is slaughtering his way through the Southeast, leaving a gruesome memento at each crime scene--the prior victim's severed hand.Ambitious TV reporter Whitney C

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The Death Collectors

Jack Kerley · 360 pages

Thirty years after his death, Marsden Hexcamp's 'Art of the Final Moment' remains as sought after as ever. But this is no ordinary collection. Hexcamp's portfolio was completed with the aid of a devoted band of acolytes – and half a dozen victims, each of whom was slowly tortured to death so that their final agonies could be distilled into art.When tiny scraps of Hexcamp's 'art' begin appearing at

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Taboo

Casey Hill · 409 pages

Forensic investigator Reilly Steel, Quantico-trained and California-born and bred, imagined Dublin to be a far cry from bustling San Francisco, a sleepy backwater where she can lay past ghosts to rest and start anew. She's arrived in Ireland to drag the Irish crime lab into the 21st century, plus keep tabs on her Irish-born father who's increasingly seeking solace in the bottle after a past family

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Impulse

Debra Webb · 368 pages

He will hurt those she loves...Until she is his. Special Agent Jess Harris is too good at what she does. She's the only person to have come close to The Player, a terrifying serial killer. And now, as she tries to rebuild her life in her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama - with the offer of Deputy Chief of a new division and the prospect of love - he has other ideas...He is fixated on her, on how cl

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Rules of Prey

John Sandford · 368 pages

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Rainey Days

R.E. Bradshaw · 296 pages

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A Perfect Evil

Alex Kava · 428 pages

Serial killer Ronald Jeffreys was executed for three murders. Three months after his death, the body of a boy is found, killed in the same style as Jeffreys' victims. Is there a copycat killer on the loose? Or is this the real thing?

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Victims

Jonathan Kellerman · 338 pages

"Unraveling the madness behind L.A.'s most baffling and brutal homicides is what sleuthing psychologist Alex Delaware does best. And putting the good doctor through his thrilling paces is what mystery fiction's #1 bestselling master of psychological suspense Jonathan Kellerman does with incomparable brilliance. Kellerman's universally acclaimed novels blend the addictive rhythms of the classic pol

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Hunted

Elizabeth Heiter · 400 pages

Terror stalks a small Virginia town. FBI rising star, criminal profiler Evelyn Baine, knows how to think like a serial killer. But she's never chased anyone like the Bakersville Burier, who hunts young women and displays them, half-buried, deep in the woods. As the body count climbs, Evelyn's relentless pursuit of the killer puts her career'and her life'at risk. And the evil lurking in the Burier'

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Blindsighted

Karin Slaughter · 393 pages

A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner. But it's only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that the full extent of the killer's twisted work becomes clear.Sara's ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, leads the investigation -- a trail of terror that grows increasingly macabre when another lo

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Once Pined

Blake Pierce · 211 pages

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Postmortem

Patricia Cornwell · 342 pages

A killer is stalking the streets of Richmond, Virginia. When the bodies begin to mount, Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta is pulled into a chilling investigation that blends high-stakes forensics with psychological warfare. Armed with cutting-edge science and unflinching resolve, Scarpetta must navigate hostile forces both inside and outside the investigation—because someone isn’t just trying t

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The Face of Death

Cody McFadyen · 452 pages

In Shadow Man, Cody McFadyen took the suspense thriller where other writers have feared to tread. He introduced readers to a heroine every bit as dark and edgy as the serial killers she hunts: Special Agent Smoky Barrett. Now, in his latest novel, McFadyen brings Agent Barrett back to track down a killer who breaks all the rules. Get ready for a shattering confrontation with the very essence of hu

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The Naturals

Jennifer Lynn Barnes · 308 pages

Young Adult thriller book series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes about a classified FBI program that recruits teenagers with exceptional abilities to solve cold cases. The protagonist, Cassie Hobbes, joins other gifted teens, including a profiler and a statistician, in this program. The series combines suspenseful crime-solving with personal danger as the Naturals find themselves in a lethal game of cat a

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The Apprentice

Tess Gerritsen · 380 pages

If it's gripping, it's Gerritsen. The chilling follow-up to The Surgeon, and a Rizzoli and Isles bestseller.The Surgeon has been locked up for a year but his chilling legacy still haunts the city, and especially Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli. But now a new killer is at work and Rizzoli senses something horrifyingly familiar about this murderer's modus operandi.It's when the FBI starts tak

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Crossbones Yard

Kate Rhodes · 317 pages

Enjoying a successful career in London, psychologist Alice Quentin stumbles on a murder scene that resembles the work of two imprisoned killers, a case that prompts her recruitment by police and places her life at risk. Ray and Marie Benson killed 13 women before they were caught, tried and imprisoned. Five of their victims were never found. Six years later, psychologist Alice Quentin discovers

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A Flicker in the Dark

Stacy Willingham · 368 pages

When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath. Now twenty years later, Chloe is a psychologist in Baton Rouge and getting ready for he

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The Mermaid Murders

Josh Lanyon · 328 pages

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The Butterfly Garden

Dot Hutchison · 333 pages

"Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden. In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees...and a collection of precious butterflies -- young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens. When the garden is discovered, a survivor is

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The Wire in the Blood

Val McDermid · 490 pages

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Body Count

P.D. Martin · 380 pages

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Child 44

Tom Rob Smith · 480 pages

A propulsive, relentless page-turner.A terrifying evocation of a paranoid world where no one can be trusted.A surprising, unexpected story of love and family, of hope and resilience.CHILD 44 is a thriller unlike any you have ever read."There is no crime."Stalin's Soviet Union strives to be a paradise for its workers, providing for all of their needs. One of its fundamental pillars is that its cit

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Plain Jane: Brunettes Beware

Cristyn West, Carolyn McCray · 328 pages

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