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Tenderness

Robert Cormier · 229 pages

Eighteen-year-old Eric has just been released from juvenile detention for murdering his parents. Now he's looking for tenderness--tenderness he finds in killing girls. Fifteen-year-old Lori has run away from home again. Emotionally naive and sexually precocious, she is also looking for tenderness--tenderness that she finds in Eric. Will Lori and Eric be each other's salvation or destruction?

Serial KillerTense and SuspensefulYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Made for You

Melissa Marr · 358 pages

"Southern small town darling Eva Tilling wakes up in the hospital with the frightening ability to see through the eyes of the victims of a serial killer, and realizes that she, too, is a target of the depraved stalker"-- Southern darling Eva Tilling wakes up in the hospital with the frightening ability to see through the eyes of the victims of a serial killer and realizes that she, too, is a ta

Serial KillerTeen ProtagonistMultiple POVYoung Adult
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The Killer Next Door

Alex Marwood · 387 pages

"A taut new psychological thriller from the Edgar Award-nominated author of The Wicked Girls Alex Marwood's debut novel, The Wicked Girls, earned her lavish praise from the likes of Stephen King, Laura Lippman, and Erin Kelly, and was shortlisted for an Edgar Award. Now Marwood's back with a brilliant, tightly paced thriller that will keep you up at night and make you ask yourself: just how well d

Serial KillerLondonMultiple POVTense and Suspenseful
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I Hunt Killers

Barry Lyga · 359 pages

*What if the world's worst serial killer...was your dad?* Jasper "Jazz" Dent is a likable teenager. A charmer, one might say. But he's also the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, Take Your Son to Work Day was year-round. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops wish they could—from the criminal's point of view. And now bodies are piling up in Lobo's

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Private Games

James Patterson, Mark T. Sullivan · 442 pages

"Private, the world's most renowned investigation firm, is providing security for the 2012 Games in London. Hours away from the opening ceremony, Private investigator Peter Knight gets called to the scene of a ruthless murder. A member of the Games organizing committee has been killed - in a crime of precise calculation and execution." -- Back cover

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The Bletchley Riddle

Ruta Sepetys · 392 pages

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All In

Jennifer Lynn Barnes · 389 pages

Three casinos. Three bodies. Three days. After a string of brutal murders in Las Vegas, Cassie Hobbes and the Naturals are called in to investigate. But even with the team's unique profiling talents, these murders seem baffling: unlike many serial killers, this one uses different methods every time. All of the victims were killed in public, yet the killer does not show up on any security feed. And

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The Calling

Neil Cross · 400 pages

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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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Dear Killer

Katherine Ewell · 359 pages

"Kit, a seventeen-year-old moral nihilist serial killer, chooses who to kill based on anonymous letters left in a secret mailbox, while simultaneously maintaining a close relationship with the young detective in charge of the murder cases"--

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Acceleration

Graham McNamee · 240 pages

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Scythe

Neal Shusterman · 448 pages

*Thou shalt kill.* A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe—a role that neither wants. These teens must master the “a

Young AdultMultiple POVTeen ProtagonistTense and Suspenseful
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There's Someone Inside Your House

Stephanie Perkins · 304 pages

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The Rise of Nine

Pittacus Lore · 360 pages

Teen ProtagonistYoung AdultMultiple POVTense and Suspenseful
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Rules of Prey

John Sandford · 368 pages

Serial KillerMultiple POVTense and SuspensefulDark
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The Devil's Workshop

Alex Grecian · 427 pages

"Scotland Yard's Murder Squad faces the most shocking case of its existence, in the extraordinary new historical thriller from the author of the acclaimed national bestseller The Yard. London, 1890. Four vicious murderers have escaped from prison, part of a plan gone terribly wrong, and now it is up to Walter Day, Nevil Hammersmith, and the rest of Scotland Yard's Murder Squad to hunt down the con

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Beneath The Skin

Nicci French · 376 pages

Zoe. Jenny. Nadia. Three women of varying ages and backgrounds with little else in common but for one thing: Someone has sent them each a note informing them that they will be killed. A cruel joke? A hoax? The police don't seem to think so. Now, with no clear suspect and amid the growing threat of violence, the victims become the accused as authorities dig into their backgrounds for clues as to wh

Serial KillerLondonMultiple POVTense and Suspenseful
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The Last Echo

Kimberly Derting · 384 pages

Violet, a high school junior, discovers the body of a teen killed by "the girlfriend collector" and is determined to solve the case, but the serial killer is on the lookout for a new "relationship" and Violet may have caught his eye.

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Finders Keepers

Stephen King · 448 pages

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The Name of the Star

Maureen Johnson · 400 pages

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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.

Serial KillerTense and SuspensefulMultiple POVDark
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The Golem's Eye

Jonathan Stroud · 562 pages

In their continuing adventures, magician's apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golem's power before it destroys London.

LondonTeen ProtagonistMultiple POVDark
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Twisted

Sara Shepard

Four pretty girls have more ugly secrets than ever. It's been a year since the mystery of their former friend's disappearance was finally laid to rest, and Aria, Spencer, Hanna, and Emily have worked hard to put their lives back together. Now seniors in high school, the pretty little liars are older, but they're not any wiser. Last spring break in Jamaica, they did something unforgivable. Th

Young AdultMultiple POVTense and SuspensefulTeen Protagonist

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