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The Killing Hour

Lisa Gardner · 324 pages

Each time he struck, he took two victims. Day after day, he waited for the first body to be discovered--a body containing all the clues the investigators needed to find the second victim, who waited...prey to a slow but certain death. The clock ticked--salvation was possible. The police were never in time. Years have passed; but for this killer, time has stood still. As a heat wave of epic p

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Wolfhunter River

Rachel Caine · 330 pages

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Kiss the Girls

James Patterson · 466 pages

First came the stunning number-one bestseller Along Came a Spider. Now comes the scariest, most unforgettable novel in several years. In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. Washington D.C.'s Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever. Two clever patter

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You

Caroline Kepnes · 424 pages

"Love hurts... When aspiring writer Guinevere Beck strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe works, he's instantly smitten. Beck is everything Joe has ever wanted: She's gorgeous, tough, razor-smart, and as sexy as his wildest dreams. Beck doesn't know it yet, but she's perfect for him, and soon she can't resist her feelings for a guy who seems custom made for her. But there's more to Joe

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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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Did You Miss Me?

Karen Rose

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The Hypnotist

Lars Kepler · 520 pages

Prepare for The Hypnotist to cast its spell In the frigid clime of Tumba, Sweden, a gruesome triple homicide attracts the interest of Detective Inspector Joona Linna, who demands to investigate the murders. The killer is still at large, and there’s only one surviving witness—the boy whose family was killed before his eyes. Whoever committed the crimes wanted this boy to die: he’s suffered more

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The Silence of the Lambs

Thomas Harris · 352 pages

A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname-Buffalo Bill-is stalking women. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states. Clarice Starling, a young trainee at the FBI Academy, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, chief of the Bureau's Behavioral Science section. Her assignment: to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter-Hannibal the Ca

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The 6th Target

James Patterson, Maxine Paetro · 400 pages

When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women's Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before anyone else is hurt. And Lindsay Boxer and her new partner in the San Francisco police department run flat-out to stop a series of kidnappings that has electrified the city: children are being plucked off the streets together with their na

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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 Never Game

Jeffery Deaver · 413 pages

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The Girl Who Was Taken

Charlie Donlea · 352 pages

**Two abducted girls—one who returns, one who doesn't.** The night they go missing, high school seniors Nicole Cutty and Megan McDonald are at a beach party in their small town of Emerson Bay, North Carolina. Police launch a massive search, but hope is almost lost--until Megan escapes from a bunker deep in the woods...A year later, the bestselling account of her ordeal has made Megan a celebrit

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The Killing Game

Iris Johansen · 355 pages

A merciless killer on the hunt...an innocent child in his sights...a woman driven to the edge to stop him...The killer knows Eve Duncan all too well. He knows the pain she feels for her murdered daughter, Bonnie, whose body has never been found. He knows that as one of the nation's top forensic sculptors she'll insist on identifying the nine skeletons unearthed on a bluff near Georgia's Talladega

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Abducted

T.R. Ragan · 384 pages

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Justice for Mackenzie

Susan Stoker · 264 pages

A member of the famed Texas Rangers, Daxton Chambers has dealt with more than his share of depravity. But the Lone Star Reaper takes evil to a whole new level, kidnapping and burying women alive. It's Dax's job to help keep San Antonio safe, but even with help from friends in various law enforcement agencies, the killer remains two steps ahead. It's hardly the ideal time for a relationship, but Ma

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Pretty Little Things

Jilliane Hoffman · 410 pages

Special Agent Bobby Dees knows what grief feels like. He understands the pain of losing a child. And he'll do whatever he can to prevent it from happening again.The phone call that comes on a Sunday morning will take him away from his insular world of grief and sleepless nights – and into a far darker place. A young girl, Elaine Emerson, has gone missing and only Dees has a chance of finding her.I

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The Cellar

Natasha Preston

Sixteen-year old Summer Robinson doesn't think anything ever happens in the small town of Long Thorpe, England. But she strays from a party and is snatched by a man who calls himself “Clover.” He forces Summer into his cellar, where she finds three other young women who were kidnapped just like her.

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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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All That Remains

Patricia Cornwell · 416 pages

Pathologist Kay Scarpetta searches for the cause of death in the case of five young couples whose decomposed bodies are found without shoes and socks deep in the woods. Bones, fragments of clothing, and a jack of hearts are all that remain.

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I Am Death

Chris Carter

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Say You're Sorry

Karen Rose · 614 pages

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Ruthless

Carolyn Lee Adams · 256 pages

Kidnapped and hidden in a decrepit cabin deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Ruth, a teenager who harbors a fiercely competitive nature, finds her skills pushed to the limit as she flees her murderous abductor.

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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder/Good Girl, Bad Blood/As Good as Dead/Kill Joy

Holly Jackson · 949 pages

Alle drei Bände der Bestsellerreihe von Holly Jackson jetzt auch als Bundle Schülerin Pippa wird zur Ermittlerin und löst die unglaublichsten (Cold Case) Fälle Band 1: A Good Girl's Guide to murder Eigentlich ist der Fall abgeschlossen: Vor fünf Jahren wurde Andie Bell von ihrem Freund Sal Singh ermordet. Zumindest ist sich die Polizei sicher, dass es so war. Die ganze Stadt ist sich sicher. Alle

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Criminal

Karin Slaughter · 518 pages

"1974: in the blistering heat of an Atlanta summer, a killer prowls the streets, searching for the weak, the vulnerable and the lost. Forty years later, a young woman is found brutally murdered in a sordid high-rise apartment. The specifics of her death are detailed and macabre, but for Special Agent Will Trent they are startingly familiar, and can only mean one thing. Desperate to deny this might

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