Crime Fiction Thriller Serial Killer

For years, the public believed The Morning Star Killer was dead. Special agent James Beamer and retired agent Reid Hoffman knew different. They searched the shadows for the notorious serial killer, but he was always one step ahead. With his need to bring the world to an end, The Plague Vendor presents the perfect smokescreen to allow The Morning Star Killer step out of the shadows and play his endgame.

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.

The final victims of an infamous serial killer may be the ones he didn’t kill. Hoskins cracked the case of one of the most infamous serial killers—and then it cracked him. He’s in cold cases, as is his career. Sammie was the lead reporter who broke the story, but now she’s selling makeup at the mall. She wants back on page 1. Gloria claims she was the unsuspecting wife. She didn’t know a thing. And as new murders shake Denver, this is a final chance to get their lives back.

Dare to enter a killer’s mind. The heart-pounding serial killer thriller that will leave you breathless. A teenage girl is brutally murdered in an idyllic lake community. In over his head, the local sheriff calls upon the Behavior Analysis Unit’s best profiler, Scarlett Bell, to find the murderer. Is a serial killer stalking Coral Lake? Now Scarlett faces a killer unlike any she’s encountered. Bloodthirsty. Cunning. Insane. Another girl goes missing, and the special agent must stop the killer before time runs out.

Dit is Annies verhaal. Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine en Mary Jane zijn vijf compleet verschillende vrouwen en hebben elkaar nooit ontmoet. Toch zijn ze beroemd om dezelfde reden: ze werden allemaal in 1888 vermoord. Hun moordenaar is nooit gepakt, maar de naam die de pers voor hem bedacht kennen we tot op de dag van vandaag. Na bijna anderhalve eeuw krijgen De vijf van Whitechapel eindelijk zelf een stem in hun wereldberoemde verhaal.

It's the ultimate test of strategy and skill. The killer chooses each opponent carefully, learning each one's weaknesses. Every meticulously planned move is leading to a devastating checkmate. Because in this game, all the pretty pawns must die.

When a toddler goes missing in the middle of a bustling Bradford park in broad daylight, Detective Daniel Ward is put on the case. It ought to be an open and shut investigation, but the hours tick by, and Millie Thompson is nowhere to be found. There’s only one conclusion DI Ward can come to: She was taken. When a known child-killer is spotted in the vicinity, Ward fears the worst. He has to catch up with the only lead he has before the infamous Hunters - merciless vigilante justice seekers who will seek retribution at any cost - catch up with his suspect first.

A killer is putting the mangled, lifeless bodies of prostitutes on display in sleepy Northeast Tennessee. The murderous spree is accelerating. Two detectives, Lukas Miller from Johnson City and Brooke Stevens from Kingsport, have been assigned to hunt the killer down and stop him. Miller and Stevens are considered the best in their respective departments, and although they've never met, their superiors order them to work together in a coordinated effort to put an end to the violence as quickly as possible. Their reputations, and perhaps their careers, are on the line.

Still reeling from a personal tragedy, investigative journalist Rooker Lindström finds a grim hideaway from the world. It’s the dilapidated cabin on Minnesota’s Deer Lake bequeathed to him by his late father—one of the most notorious serial killers in the state. If the walls of this murder house could talk, they’d scream. Detective Tess Harlow needs something from Rooker only he can provide: a window into the mind of a murderer. A copycat is on the prowl, following in the footsteps of Rooker’s father.

Based on a true story. An unsolved murder has stumped a small town Sheriff for years... But when young women start turning up dead, killed in the same grisly way as that previous crime, the Sheriff starts pointing the finger at Agent Houston, the new guy in town.

With a serial killer on the loose in Dallas, Texas, former US Marshal turned FBI agent Sommer Potts is assigned the case. Can she find out who he is and catch him before it's too late or will she become The Artist's next Masterpiece?

Die einen haben eine Katzenallergie oder können keine Milch vertragen. Seine Abwehrsysteme schlugen Alarm bei allem, was mit Weihnachten zu tun hatte. Tobias Henner, der Mörder von siebzehn Weihnachtsmännern, ist auf der Flucht. Geschickt konnte er bei einem Freigang seinen Bewachern entwischen. Alles zieht ihn zurück an seine letzten Tatorte in Ostfriesland. Denn ihm fehlen noch sieben Weihnachtsmänner, damit er in seinem ganz speziellen Adventskalender bis zum Heiligen Abend auch alle Türchen öffnen kann.

Der Todesschrei ihrer Mutter klingt Abby noch immer in den Ohren, auch wenn es schon zwanzig Jahre her ist, seit diese in den Tod sprang. Ihre düsteren Erinnerungen erhalten neue Nahrung, als eine unheimliche Mordserie New Orleans erschüttert. Denn alle Morde stehen in einer seltsamen Verbindung zu jener Nervenheilanstalt, in der Abbys Mutter ihrem Leben ein Ende setzte. Dort, versteckt in den Kellergewölben, hat sich der Killer sein Reich geschaffen. Er will die Sünden der Vergangenheit rächen – und Abby wird zur Zielscheibe seines Wahns …

Dit is Polly's verhaal. Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine en Mary Jane zijn vijf compleet verschillende vrouwen en hebben elkaar nooit ontmoet. Toch zijn ze beroemd om dezelfde reden: ze werden allemaal in 1888 vermoord. Hun moordenaar is nooit gepakt, maar de naam die de pers voor hem bedacht kennen we tot op de dag van vandaag. Na bijna anderhalve eeuw krijgen De vijf van Whitechapel eindelijk zelf een stem in hun wereldberoemde verhaal.

Three children entered the woods; just two returned. And they are the only ones who know what happened to their friend. The secret they carry echoes down the years until it becomes too much for one of them to bear. But the attempt to set things right goes horribly wrong. Exactly how wrong is what Leah Nash, a journalist with trust issues and a compulsion to find the truth, aims to discover. Leah is rocked by the seemingly senseless present-day murder of someone very close to her.

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?

DC Alex McKenna is meant to be resting following her last case, so she lets her boyfriend to take her to the Isle of Skye for the weekend. But what's meant to be a getaway to see the aurora borealis soon turns into a nightmare when they discover that their hotel has double booked. In desperation, they check into the only hotel with rooms available nearby - The Loch House. But from the moment they step foot in the guest house Alex knows something is very wrong. And as snow starts to fall, and night closes in, she begins to wonder if they will ever leave here alive.

They call him the Jackdaw. On each body, he leaves a chilling signature: five scratches. And each time he kills, he takes a trophy, an eerie collection that grows with every strike. No one knows what he looks like, where he'll strike next, or why. He could be your neighbour, your boss… your husband. There’s only a paralysing fear that, whoever he is, he's out there: watching, waiting.

Nine years ago, July Weaver’s little sister was one of the first victims of the Pacific Lake Killer, a serial killer in Georgia. When other girls began to disappear and were found dead, it was July’s testimony that put her own father into prison for the crimes. After the sentencing, she fled to Nashville to focus on her music career and to try to forget the horrible past. But when her brother tries to kill himself, July is forced to come back home and reunite with her four remaining siblings. What she isn’t expecting is to uncover new evidence that makes her question everything.

In the bleak countryside around Blithfield Reservoir, a serial murderer and rapist is leaving a trail of bloodshed. His savage calling card: the word ‘MINE’ carved into each of his victims. DI Kate Young struggles to get the case moving - even when one of the team’s own investigators is found dead in a dumpster. But Kate is battling her own demons. Obsessed with exposing Superintendent John Dickson and convinced there’s a conspiracy running deep in the force, she no longer knows who to trust.