Police Procedural Serial Killers Mystery

Chicago private investigator Michael Kelly is hired by his former partner, John Gibbons, to help solve an eight-year-old rape and battery case, a case it turns out his old friend was once ordered to forget. When Gibbons turns up dead on Navy Pier, Kelly enlists a team of his savviest colleagues to connect the dots between the recent murder and the cold case it revived.

Meet Katie Reid, a young woman with a good job and a good life, until she discovers it was all a lie. Now, her desperate search for the truth begins and it will change her forever. Compelled to dig into a past no one wants to relive, Katie soon turns to Detective Marshall Avery. He is the only one willing to give her the resources she needs to find answers, but those answers could come at a steep price. When her search breathes new life into an old monster.

Years ago there was a silent witness to an act of evil. Now a twisted killer is on the loose, fuelled by revenge. Called to the brutal murder of a priest, it is immediately clear to DCI Claire Winters that the victim's death was prolonged, agonising...and motivated by a lust for revenge. The killer has been clever; there are no clues, no leads. But Claire Winters has never let a killer remain on the streets.

Alice Quentin returns to tackle a series of murders in the Square Mile in the thrilling sequel to Crossbones Yard. The first death looked like a suicide. But someone had tucked a picture of an angel and a handful of white feathers into the banker's pocket - before pushing him in front of a Tube. A killer is stalking the Square Mile, an avenging angel intent on punishment. But why these victims? What were their sins?

When the body of a man is discovered in woodlands outside Manchester, a ten-year missing-persons investigation can finally be filed away. But this was no ordinary death: gagged, bound and buried alive, he was the victim of a sophisticated and sadistic killer. And there is something else that has the National Crime Agency puzzled. A single character carved into a nearby tree.

"America's best novelist" ( The Denver Post) introduces his most evil character yet in the 20th thriller in the bestselling Dave Robicheaux series. In Light of the World, sadist and serial killer Asa Surrette narrowly escaped the death penalty for the string of heinous murders he committed while capital punishment was outlawed in Kansas. But the killer escapes from a prison transport van and heads to Montana - where an unsuspecting Dave happens to have gone to take in the sweet summer air.

After years of paying her dues on the force, Beth Sturgis has earned her place as a detective for the Robbery-Homicide division of the Atlanta PD. Now, she's heading up a major manhunt for a potential serial killer who's working his way inward from the outskirts of the city. The copycat elements in the first crime scene lead Sturgis to retired FBI agent Jack Kale, who was responsible for apprehending and nearly killing the murderer known as the Scarecrow, the same Scarecrow who appears to be this new killer's terrible inspiration.

The brilliant author of Fear Itself pulls readers into an intricate web of ritual killings orchestrated by an evil pair of murderers who always manage to be one step ahead of the law.

A wanted serial killer and his girlfriend are on a bloody killing spree across the United States. Agents Hank Rawlings and Beth Harper, along with the rest of their team, are on a nationwide manhunt to bring them to justice. Scene after scene and body after body only add to the media coverage. The wanted couple's faces are splashed across every television and cover the front pages of every newspaper, yet Hank's team remains a step behind.

Ein brutaler Serienmörder und ein Wettrennen gegen die Zeit... Thaler und Kralik ermitteln im packenden Kriminalthriller! Eigentlich wollten die beiden Kriminalhauptkommissare Christian Thaler und Stephan Kralik sich bei ihren Ermittlungen nicht in die Quere kommen – zu gegensätzlich sind sie. Doch als Frauenleichen im Wochentakt gefunden werden, wissen beide, dass sie es mit einem grausamen Serienmörder zu tun haben und sie diesen nur gemeinsam stellen können.

There are a lot of things you really don’t want to find when you’re a homicide detective in the Bronx. High on the list is a new serial killer. Serial killers are real bad news because they kill without motive, so they are hard to trace and they can take years to catch. But even worse than a new serial killer, is a new kind of serial killer: one who murders with a motive, but a motive so unfathomable nobody can understand it; a motive that makes his choice of victims incomprehensible and unpredictable, a motive that leads to each victim being killed in a particularly cruel and unusual way.

Der umstrittene Detective William Oliver Layton-Fawkes, genannt Wolf, ist nach seiner Suspendierung wieder in den Dienst bei der Londoner Polizei zurückgekehrt. Wolf ist einer der besten Mordermittler weit und breit. Er dachte eigentlich, er hätte schon alles gesehen. Bis er zu einem grausigen Fund gerufen wird. Sechs Körperteile von sechs Opfern sind zusammengenäht zu einer Art Lumpenpuppe, einer "Ragdoll".

It’s been twelve long years since Detective Kawika Wong was tasked with solving the brutal murder of the infamous real-estate developer Ralph Fortunato—a case that led to more bodies than answers and a slew of complicated and ancient secrets, a case that made his career. Now, the once-rookie detective is next in line to be Honolulu’s next Chief of Police. But all is not well on Oahu or the Big Island. For weeks, Kawika and his team have failed to catch an elusive serial killer known as the “Slasher.” He strikes quickly and efficiently, and he doesn’t make mistakes.

Alexis Carter, una psicóloga que reside en la ciudad de Topeka, Kansas, está aburrida de su trabajo. Siente que necesita más acción en su vida, así que decide entrar a trabajar como perfiladora criminal en la policía de la ciudad. Alexis será asignada junto con el experimentado detective Devin Walsh para encontrar al asesino serial de niños que está aterrorizando la ciudad.

A young couple in their prime is found dead in the marital bed. As they lie naked, staring at each other with eyes wide open - filled with fear, his colleagues assume a double suicide, but Detective Andrew Deans senses that darker forces are at work. Deans is facing an awakening - a spiritual birth, but he is stuck in a living nightmare. Those around him are watching...judging...expecting him to break.

"L'osservatore oscuro" è l'alter ego negativo che ci portiamo dentro, quello che ci dice che non ce la faremo, quello che alimenta le nostre paranoie, gli incubi peggiori... Per Aurora Scalviati, giovane profiler della polizia di Sparvara, i colleghi Bruno Colasanti, Tom Carelli e Silvia Sassi sono diventati la famiglia che non ha mai avuto. Ma tutto è destinato a cambiare con il ritrovamento, alla Certosa di Bologna, del cadavere di un uomo senza nome né documenti di riconoscimento.

Fifteen years ago, Charleston, South Carolina was home to one of the deadliest serial killers in American history. The Carolina Reaper took out 12 people, and he just so happened to be Andy Winslow's identical twin brother.

Der Kieler Musikproduzent Peter Bruhns wird zusammen mit seiner jungen Geliebten tot in einem Penthouse aufgefunden. Eine Beziehungstat? Oder das Werk eines persönlichen Feindes, von denen es nicht wenige gibt? Bei den Untersuchungen wird ein Gift nachgewiesen, das den Kommissaren Sören Henning und Lisa Santos Rätsel aufgibt. Der Fall nimmt eine ungeahnte Wendung, als am Tatort auch noch DNA sichergestellt wird, die in Deutschland bereits mit verschiedenen Morden in Verbindung gebracht wird. Handelt es sich hier nicht um eine Einzeltat, sondern um das Werk eines Massenmörders?

Seit dem Selbstmord des fälschlich Angeklagten ist Hauptkommissar Sören Henning seines Lebens nicht mehr froh geworden: Schuldgefühle quälen ihn, seine Ehe ist darüber zerbrochen, und er ist wie besessen von dem Gedanken, den wahren Schuldigen zu fassen. Fünf Jahre später wird wieder ein junges Mädchen brutal ermordet aufgefunden. Und es mehren sich die Hinweise darauf, dass der Täter noch für weitere grausame Morde verantwortlich ist. Sören Henning wird zum Leiter einer Sonderkommission ernannt, die die Verbrechen aufklären und den Täter endlich dingfest machen soll.

Er weiß, was sie getan haben. Jetzt lässt er sie bluten. Ein junger Mann wird auf grausame Weise ermordet. In die Stirn ritzt der Täter das Wort "Feigling". Hauptkommissar Jan Theisen und seine Partnerin Laura Schüle stehen zunächst vor einem Rätsel. Das Opfer war sehr beliebt, niemand kann sich diesen Akt der Gewalt erklären. Kurz darauf wird in der Nähe einer alten Fabrik die Leiche eines Strichers entdeckt. Bei der Obduktion wird in dessen Magen etwas gefunden, das für Entsetzen sorgt, zugleich aber auch Licht ins Dunkel bringt: Offenbar verbindet die beiden Opfer ein düsteres Geheimnis.