Police Procedural Serial Killers Mystery

A pochi giorni dalla sua esecuzione, Caleb Wardell, ex cecchino del corpo dei marines divenuto uno dei più efferati serial killer della storia del crimine, evade dal braccio della morte. Un duro colpo per la credibilità delle forze dell'ordine alla vigilia delle elezioni presidenziali e un incubo che si rinnova ad anni di distanza dall'ultimo tragico delitto. Riconquistata la libertà, l'ex marine riprende il lavoro interrotto al momento della sua cattura, tornando a uccidere e insanguinare il Paese. L'FBI, beffato dalla sua evasione, ricorre all'aiuto di Carter Blake.

In a city that is already volatile, tensions mount after a Tory MP in Bradford Central is discredited leaving the door open for the extreme right-wing candidate, Graeme Weston, to stand in the resultant by-election. However, Graeme Weston is not what he appears to be, and with secrets jeopardising his political career, he must tread very carefully. Meanwhile, a serial killer targets Asian men who lead alternatives lifestyles and delivers his own form of torture.

When troubled teen Connor moves to Exeter from the US after a horrific school shooting, he finds himself embroiled in a world of popular kids and easy girls. Everyone wants to be his friend, but they don’t know about what he did...and they don’t know about his father. As Connor’s life in England begins to unravel, DS Adrian Miles and his partner, Imogen Grey, are working up against the clock to catch a serial killer who dates his victims before he kills them. Determined to uncover the truth, Imogen is forced to act as bait - but will she take it too far and risk her own life?

Painter's Creek, nell'Ohio, è una cittadina rurale silenziosa in cui coabitano una comunità amish e una inglese; ma è anche il luogo in cui, sedici anni prima, si è consumata una serie di brutali omicidi. Kate Burkholder, che all'epoca era solo una ragazzina, è scampata in extremis dall'essere uccisa; ma quell'esperienza le ha lasciato un senso di terribile fragilità, di perdita di innocenza, e la sensazione di non appartenere più alla comunità in cui viveva. E, da quel giorno, il killer si è misteriosamente fermato.

It has been a week since anyone last saw 15-year-old Daisy, after she left her best friend’s house and started her short walk home. Detective Kate Matthews and her team have been looking for her ever since. When a tip-off leads Kate to a disused gymnasium building at Daisy’s school, she is devastated to find no sign of the missing girl, but, as she investigates further, what she does find among the dusty benches and broken lockers shakes her to the core: a side room covered in plastic and a small severed foot.

Fall in Philadelphia. A man's corpse is found in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods. It's unmistakably the work of a killer. But to homicide detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano, it feels familiar. Eight years ago another body was found in the same place, in the same position...killed in the same manner. Even the crime-scene photos are identical. That case was never closed. And now more copycat murders are happening. Someone is recreating the city's most infamous unsolved killings, victim by victim - with more clues for Byrne and Balzano to unravel.

When the mutilated body of a woman is discovered in her home, DCI Bishop from the Met murder squad is called in to oversee the case. The horrific killing bears a striking resemblance to three other murders years before, but the cases were never solved. Bishop knows they need the help of Holly Wakefield, a criminal psychologist who specialises in getting inside the minds of serial killers. The grisly murders occur every three years, but it is the stick-man drawing left at each crime scene that has the police baffled.

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Former homicide detective Gabe Quinn has quit the LAPD and is chasing his demons pro bono - determined to catch or kill the two serial killers responsible for ruining his life. But when a mutilated body is washed up on a picturesque Florida beach, it marks the beginning of the end for Gabe and his sanity. Nothing is quite what it seems and never will be again. What follows is an explosive race to save a woman's life from the hands of a madman. But this is no ordinary kidnapper.

What if the serial killer you were investigating was someone you knew? DS Wendy Knight's first murder case was always going to test her limits, but even she couldn't anticipate that a sadistic serial killer might be someone she knew - very well. As her investigation unfolds, so too does a sinister plot that will turn her world upside down and make it increasingly difficult to distinguish friend from foe in her tight-knit world. By the time Wendy realises she is the killer's final intended victim, she's left fighting against her personal instincts - and for her life.

Spannungsvoll, atmosphärisch und bewegend. Der belgische Ermittler Piet Donker wird von Brüssel in eine Kleinstadt in Ostbelgien versetzt. Dort soll er einen fünfzehn Jahre alten Cold Case wieder aufnehmen, bei dem es neue Erkenntnisse gibt. Ein Jugendlicher verschwand damals spurlos, die Polizei ging davon aus, es mit einem Ausreißer zu tun zu haben. Doch nach und nach häufen sich die Hinweise, dass der Junge Opfer eines Serienmörders wurde - und dass das Morden noch lange nicht beendet ist.

As a local biker war rages - seven shrink-wrapped corpses have been found buried on a farm just outside of Dundurn - an ambitious waterfront project meant to revive the dying industrial city is underway. Dredging is nearly complete when six more bodies turn up at the bottom of the lake. With the body count rising, the situation in Dundurn escalates as a serial killer begins targeting the city's successful young women of colour.

DCI Michael Lambert thought he’d closed his last case.... Yet when he’s passed a file detailing a particularly gruesome murder, Michael knows that this is no ordinary killer at work. The removal of the victim’s eyes and the Latin inscription carved into the chest is the chilling calling card of the ‘soul jacker’: a cold-blooded murderer who struck close to Michael once before, 25 years ago. Now the long-buried case is being reopened, and Michael is determined to use his inside knowledge to finally bring the killer to justice.

BKA-Rechtsmediziner Dr. Fred Abel arbeitet unter Hochdruck an einem großen Fall: Ein winziger Einstich in der Kniekehle eines Toten verrät ihm, dass einer der gefährlichsten Killer der letzten Zeit weiterhin sein Unwesen treibt. Doch bevor Abel ihn stoppen kann, wird er in heikler Mission in den osteuropäischen Pseudostaat Transnistrien geschickt. Dort soll er zwei Mordopfer identifizieren, die in Kalkfässern gelagert wurden und fast vollständig zersetzt sind.

A popular beach town was torn apart when a teenage girl went missing. Now, one year later, after a storm rips through the area, her body is found - strangled and buried deep under the brush of a local beach. But, as the cops uncover her body, another is found - a more recent victim - and they quickly realize it’s the work of a serial killer.

FBI agent Scarlett Bell feels abandoned. Her supervisor doesn’t trust her to work with a partner, and the agency watches every move she makes.

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Detective Chief Inspector Allison and Sergeant Mark Stringer have the chilling task of tracking down a serial killer who is terrifying a city with his bizarre and cold-blooded murders of innocent women. They are ordinary men with human frailties and too much to do. The psychological profile of the killer is meticulously pieced together to reveal a suave, sophisticated seducer of women. He uses his deadly charm and good looks to lure his victims to horrifying deaths.

After the body of a brutally murdered young woman is recovered from the Gulf of Mexico far from shore, FBI Special Agent Tess Winnett is called in to assist with the profiling of the murderer. Although only one body has been found, every detail about the gruesome crime points to the work of a serial killer. Have there been others left to die far at sea, where no one will ever find them? Is there a connection to be found, or is Tess searching for evidence that doesn’t exist?

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