Crime Fiction Thriller Serial Killer

Mentre sale a piedi le scale per tornare a casa, intenta a leggere un fatto di cronaca nera, sente delle urla provenire dall’appartamento di una nuova inquilina… Il nome della protagonista non è casuale: Randi è l’anagramma del mio cognome. Lei mi assomiglia soprattutto nel carattere e mi sono divertita a mettere molto di me in lei. Marcella Randi diventerà un commissario di polizia con la passione per le indagini fin da ragazzina, come se fosse scritto nel suo DNA. Nella serie, infatti, anche suo padre è un commissario.

This is the story of Ralph and Marlene. Marlene was a sexy redhead and a blonde all-in-one with a thirst to kill. She was a sexy Siamese twin, and she carried a stainless steel mallet. The couple was pretty successful at their life of crime, until they decided to go camping. That's when they came across an angry Bigfoot.

Following the gruesome murder of a young woman in her neighborhood, a self-determined woman living in New York City - as if to test the limits of her own safety - propels herself into an impossibly risky sexual liaison. Soon she grows increasingly wary about the motives of every man with whom she has contact - and about her own.

When Penny O’Dwyer is snatched from the quiet streets of Cahirsiveen, a small town in the west of Ireland, her family is distraught. Bright, beautiful, career-driven, she had the world at her feet. Local police scour the muddy hills surrounding the town, but, finding no leads, they turn to criminal behaviourist Jessie Boyle.

Her body floats. A bloated thing half atop the river. Naked. Pale. Mouth and eyes open wide. When two fishermen discover a corpse floating in the Clackamas river, profiler Violet Darger heads to rural Oregon to hunt another serial killer. What she discovers in the woods might change the course of her life. What secrets does the water conceal? The girl in the water marks the third such case in the area - all drowned with superficial stab wounds and discovered in a body of water - and Darger feels certain she won't be the last. The corpses are badly decomposed.

In the hellish city of Miscordia, a serial killer stalks the shadows, leaving a trail of brutal murders each more sadistic and depraved than the last. Enter Detective Valentina Nero, determined to unmask this savage killer before his final, chilling masterpiece is revealed to the world. To navigate this killer's twisted psyche, she must turn to Dr. Renee DeVilliers, a brilliant yet notorious murderer in his own right.

When a copy-cat killer arrives in the small New England town of Edgeport, criminal psychologist Audrey Harte must use all her skill to solve the case. Audrey has been hired by the prosecution to help prepare for the trial of 19-year-old serial killer Ian "Boy Scout" Monroe. His one surviving victim, Tori Scott, is the star witness, but when someone begins killing with Monroe's MO, the authorities - and Audrey - begin to wonder if Monroe had a partner. Keeping Tori safe is the main concern, but Audrey has also attracted the copy-cat's attention.

All of Nashville is on edge with a serial killer on the loose. A madman is trying to create his own end-of-days apocalypse and the cops trying to catch him are almost as damaged as the killer. Field of Graves reveals the origins of some of J.T. Ellison's most famous creations: the haunted Lieutenant Taylor Jackson; her blunt, exceptional best friend, medical examiner Dr. Samantha Owens; and troubled FBI profiler Dr. John Baldwin.

When the fingers of dead women start showing up in the Supreme Court’s mail, ex-FBI Agent Jeremy Winter is brought back to the Bureau to aid in the investigation. Agent Maggie Keeley, his girlfriend and now boss, leads the search for the serial killer. Together, Jeremy and Maggie learn the five remaining cities on the murderer’s list, but they have no idea when the killer will strike or whom he will target. When they stumble upon a clue at the scene of a young woman’s death, the case focuses on an abandoned ramshackle home in sparsely populated west Texas.

Eine Serie von Morden, bei denen die Opfer mit seltenen Blumen „verschönert“ und dann begraben werden, erschüttert die ganze Stadt. Für Kommissarin Katharina Winkler und ihren Kollegen Sebastian Fischer beginnt damit ihr erster gemeinsamer Fall, der an Wahnsinn kaum zu überbieten ist. Zusammen enthüllen sie nach und nach eine verstörende Verbindung zwischen den Mordopfern und verschiedenen Blumenläden vor Ort.

A family is murdered as they sleep. FBI Special Agent Nina Guerrera and her new team are tasked with determining whether there is any link between this attack and another triple homicide from four years earlier and more than 2,000 miles away. In the process, they’ll discover a serial killer so cunning that his grisly trail of death spanning nearly three decades has gone undetected. Each crime scene reminds Nina of the ghostly Latin folktale of La Llorona, which terrified her when she was an abandoned and vulnerable child. Now it’s back to haunt her.

When new victims of the still-at-large serial killer known as the Red Reaper start to appear in London, DCI Declan Walsh and his team are placed back on the case—but everything isn't what it seems. For a start, the deaths are different, and the calling card is new. It could be a copycat, apart from one thing... They know what Declan did to the real Red Reaper a year earlier. Something only Declan and the closest members of his team keep secret. Is this the real Reaper, back to gain revenge on Declan and his family—or is this a protégé, staking his own claim to the serial killer name?

Beaufort is in North Carolina's 'Inner Banks,' and it's where Stormie Arrington calls home. Stormie is a feisty, stubborn, strong Alabama-born and raised woman who just happened to have had the misfortune of marrying the wrong man. Ben Arrington is a well-known prosecutor who married Stormie for reasons that are all his own. Ben wants to be the next governor of North Carolina, and he'll do anything to make that happen. When FBI Agent Nathan Emerson arrives to investigate the mysterious deaths and disappearances of a few local girls, he stumbles across a conspiracy.

Saturday morning, a rare day off for Detective Maddie Ives. She's about to have a relaxing shower with her boyfriend Vince when she gets the call: There's been another one... Ron and Sandy Blackman's brutalised bodies are found in the hallway of their isolated rural home. They've been stabbed multiple times; Ron's hands are tied tightly behind his back; Sandy has several fingernails ripped out. The safe has been forced open. This is the second house of horrors that Maddie and her team have been called out to in a matter of days.

Adopted when she was only days old, Ivy Hon knows little about her lineage. But when she’s stricken with a mystery illness, the results of a genetic test to identify the cause attract the FBI. According to Ivy’s DNA, she’s related to the Full Moon Killer, who has terrorized the Pacific Northwest for decades. Ivy is the FBI’s hope to stop the enigmatic predator from killing again.

Er tötet dich. Und alle schauen zu. Video an, Mikrofon aus. Eine weitere Videokonferenz. Doch dann huscht ein Schatten über den Bildschirm. Du zoomst ran – und plötzlich ist überall Blut. Ein Teilnehmer wird mit einem Messer angegriffen. Du hörst seine Schreie, siehst wie er langsam und präzise vor laufender Kamera gequält wird. Und das Schlimmste ist: Du darfst nicht wegschauen... "Seelenleser" Tom Bachmann und sein Team vom BKA vernehmen mehrere traumatisierte Zeugen, die mitansehen mussten, wie ihr Kollege zu Tode gefoltert wurde. Doch wieso braucht der Killer ein Publikum?

Dr Olivia Winter is a forensic psychologist whose job is to understand the minds of serial killers. There’s only one monster she can’t understand, her father.

Detective Lucy Harwin is called out to attend the discovery of a woman’s body in an abandoned, crumbling church and is quickly plunged into a case that will test her leadership skills to the limit. With no leads except the crudely-fashioned crucifix the victim was displayed on, Lucy is at a complete loss. That is, until another body turns up: an elderly woman who devoted her life to the church. Faced with a killer stalking the streets of her small coastal town, while also throwing herself into work to forget the love of her life, Lucy’s first case is turning into a nightmare.

There'd been several killings in Melville. Unusual killings, no witnesses, no clues, and no suspects. Sheriff Jim Bonner was having a time trying to narrow his search down. He had no idea where to look, or what he might be looking for. The murder was so gruesome, so unexpected, neither him nor his deputy, Smitty Younger, knew where to start looking. Whoever was doing this to his peaceful town was clever and covered his tracks. So Jim set about setting a trap for the villain.

Five young college girls are found dead on the side of Hwy 50 with an icepick in their throat and the words, "Annie, was here" carved into their foreheads. Local woman, Annie Filker, aka "Crazy Annie," is charged and convicted of the murders. However, prison guard Kathra Talls, does not believe Annie is guilty of the crimes and sets out on a quest to find the real killer and uncovers a sinister plot involving the most powerful people in Blue Mountain.