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The Dollmaker was the name of the serial killer who had stalked Los Angeles ruthlessly, leaving grisly calling cards on the faces of his victims. Now, with a single faultless shot, Harry Bosch thinks he has ended the city's nightmare.

The peaceful little village of Saltern-le-Fen is buzzing with excitement. A film crew are in town, shooting a new TV police drama, Fen Division Five. But Detective Jackman receives a disturbing tip-off that something is wrong. Detective Marie Evans meanwhile is looking forward to moving into her dream home. But there’s no time to celebrate. The naked body of a young man is found at the river’s edge. He’s been strangled, his skin massaged in expensive oil. Two days later, another handsome young man is discovered in a shallow lake.

Jedna chwila, gdy znajdziesz się w nieodpowiednim miejscu, w nieodpowiednim czasie... Podczas jednej z pierwszych wiosennych nocy toruńska policja dostaje zgłoszenie. Na terenie nieczynnego dworca kolejowego ginie dwoje nastolatków. Ktoś w ciemności oddał dwa precyzyjne strzały. Sprawa podwójnego morderstwa staje się priorytetowa. Pytanie, jaki motyw miał zabójca i czy będą następne ofiary. Komisarz Robert Bukowski, doświadczony śledczy, rozpoczyna dochodzenie. Zmotywowany tym bardziej, że sam ma nastoletnią córkę.

Eat Pray Love meets American Psycho in a seductive and sinister debut literary thriller. Food critic Dorothy Daniels indulges in her homicidal urges by murdering her lovers and devouring their organs in this intense, visceral, and lushly told tale of food, sex, power, and the pursuit of a very particular taste set between New York and Italy. Please Note: A Certain Hunger contains adult language and depictions of violence. Discretion is advised.

Past midnight, Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend’s family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed “homicidal adventurer,” Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse, or limits, to live with intensity. Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit.

When Eleanor Wooley's best friend Rette suddenly disappears, Eleanor abandons her job as a crime reporter for the Gold Strike Tribune in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada and sets off in desperate pursuit. What begins as a search and rescue operation quickly becomes an obsession and a personal quest for truth. Spurred by gut instinct, Eleanor scours Northeastern Nevada during the worst heat wave in recorded history. Obscure signs appear-an intruder's dire warning, a casino's mysterious graffiti, a random sighting of a killer on the run.

One moonlit night, the bodies of two young people are discovered lying entwined on a blanket in the woods. The young man is clutching a red rose. It appears to be a lovers' suicide pact.... Until Detective Nikki Galena and DS Joseph Easter look more closely. Romeo and Juliet, as they decide to call them, were murdered somewhere else and brought to the woods. But why? Then another young couple are found dead, again beautifully posed as lovers.

She is the perfect assassin. A Russian orphan, saved from the death penalty for the brutal revenge she took on her gangster father's killers. Ruthlessly trained. Given a new life. New names, new faces - whichever fits. Her paymasters call themselves The Twelve. But she knows nothing of them. Konstantin is the man who saved her and the one she answers to. She is Villanelle. Without conscience. Without guilt. Without weakness. Eve Polastri is the woman who hunts her. MI5, until one error of judgment costs her everything.

Amaia Salazar, a young detective from the north of Spain, has joined a group of trainees at the FBI Academy in Virginia. Haunted by her past and having already tracked down a predator on her own, Amaia is no typical rookie. And this is no ordinary student lecture at Quantico. FBI agent Aloisius Dupree is already well acquainted with Amaia’s skills, her intuition, and her ability to understand evil. He now needs her help in hunting an elusive serial killer dubbed “the Composer,” and in solving another case that’s been following him his whole life.

Former social worker Elle Castillo is the host of a popular true-crime podcast that tackles cold cases of missing children in her hometown. After four seasons of successful investigations, Elle decides to tackle her white whale: the Countdown Killer, or TCK. Twenty years ago, TCK established a pattern of taking and ritualistically murdering girls, each a year younger than the last. No one’s ever known why - why he stopped abruptly with his 11-year-old victim, or why he followed the ritual at all.

To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his “art” to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires, and drawn to possess and destroy young boys, Compton inadvertently joins forces with Jay Byrne, a dissolute playboy who has pushed his “art” to limits even Compton hadn’t previously imagined.

Genervt davon, ihre Freundinnen mit deren Ehemännern und Kindern in die Vororte verschwinden zu sehen, findet Hannah in einem Internet-Forum für True-Crime eine aufregende neue Beschäftigung. Die Community hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, die Morde an vier Frauen aufzuklären, die in einer Schlucht außerhalb von Atlanta abgelegt wurden.

Imagine, you are lounging on your couch, sipping coffee, and suddenly from nowhere a naked corpse of a woman appears in front of you. You get rid of the corpse somehow, without informing the police, but a few days later, you meet the same woman, alive and thriving. This is exactly what happens to Rehan. There is a serial killer on the loose with the means to dump his victims across time and space. Rehan makes saving the woman and catching the killer his mission. What's more, the police have an inkling that he is involved in the case somehow.

Vad du inte vet kan bli din död... I Texas avrättas en seriemördare, som in i det sista lyckas hålla sin familj hemlig. I Boston hittas en nioårig flicka övergiven utanför ett sjukhus. Hon adopteras av ett förmöget par. Tjugo år senare lever Melanie Stokes ett bekymmerslöst liv. Tills en kriminalreporter börjar intressera sig för hennes förflutna och första brevet dyker upp med texten: DU FÅR VAD DU FÖRTJÄNAR.

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 …

A serial rapist is kidnapping teenage girls. But he’s not interested in just any teenage girls - only virgins. He hunts them by following their status updates and check-ins on social media. Once captured, they’re locked away in his sound-proof basement until they’re groomed and ready. He throws them away like pieces of trash after he’s stolen their innocence. Nobody escapes alive. Until Ella. She risks it all to escape, setting herself and the other girls free. Only the girl who's been captive the longest gets out with her. And soon Ella discovers her nightmare's far from over.

Als im Bayrischen Wald die schrecklich zugerichtete Leiche des kleinen Benedikt Richter entdeckt wird, sendet das LKA München Hauptkommissarin Katja Strömer in die Region, um den Mord an dem Jungen aufzuklären. Vor langer Zeit verließ die Kommissarin gemeinsam mit ihrer Mutter die Gegend um Altschönau und schwor sich damals, nie wieder einen Fuß in die winzige Gemeinde zu setzen. Ein Blick auf das Foto des toten Kindes reicht allerdings aus, um Katja in die Vergangenheit zu katapultieren, denn der Killer, der Benedikt umgebracht hat, scheint derselbe zu sein, der vor langer Zeit neun Kinder tötete und bestialisch verstümmelte.

He was clinically dead after the accident - but was miraculously revived. Now Hatch Harrison and his wife approach each day with a new appreciation for life. But something terrible has come back with Hatch from the other side.

Despite the obvious danger to her, Britney Cage has somehow collected a boy toy who also happens to be a cop. That means no hunting for her next victim, no planning her next exotic murder…nothing but fending off all this unwanted attention as her appetites threaten to consume her. Deep down, Britney knows that sleeping around with the enemy has got to end—and fast. She’s a hunter for god’s sake, and the time since her last kill has now stretched into months. She’s already picked her next victim, but can she plan a murder while disposing of her full-time pest of a lover?

Britney Cage collects people. From her friends to her clients to the thousands of employees her temp agency places throughout Tampa, Britney obsessively sifts through humanity in search of the ones who might--in some way or other--prove useful to her. This compulsion has served her well. A young, successful businesswoman, Britney routinely hobnobs with the rich and powerful, making fans and amassing power at every rung up the ladder. Still, amid nights out with friends and lavish, sparkling parties with clients, there's always one person who seems just out of reach: her next victim.