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81) Jackal: a novel
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"A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white Rust Belt town. But she's not the first--and she may not be the last...It's watching. Liz Rocher is coming home...reluctantly. As a Black woman, Liz doesn't exactly have fond memories of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a predominantly white town. But her best friend is getting married, so she braces herself for a weekend of awkward and passive-aggressive reunions. Liz has grown, though; she...
82) Taker of Lives
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Pub. Date
2018
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Until yesterday, no one knew Florida had another serial killer on the loose. Special Agent Tesss Winnett calls this particularly elusive one" the taker of lives".
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[2015]
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"In Gotti���s Rules, George Anastasia, a prize-winning reporter who spent over thirty years covering crime, offers a shocking and very rare glimpse into the Gotti family, witnessed up-close from former family insider John Alite, John Gotti Jr.���s longtime friend and protector. Until now, no one has given up the kind of personal details about the Gottis���including the legendary ���Gotti Rules��� of leadership���that...
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Level 26 volume 1
Pub. Date
c2009
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Reluctant operative Steve Dark is called in to hunt for a serial killer known as Sqweegel, a killer so twisted, evil, and dangerous that he can not be classified by the original twenty-five-level scale used to rate killers.
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Pub. Date
c2005
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1 corinthians 10:13, niv
"No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it."
Amber Frey's life was full of blessings: an exciting new business, a beautiful home, and most of all, her infant daughter, Ayiana. But Amber had been through some unhappy relationships, and she...
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A travel trunk hides two bodies.
An argument between a tenant and landlord turns one to ashes.
A sweet granny turned serial killer.
A serial killer granny, really? Yes, and in this true crime anthology, you’re going to explore more insane stories of unexpected murderers…, including a serial killer granny.
From a couple taking their love and hate relationship to a deadly extreme to rich kids turned child killers.
Join us as we explore the stories...
87) You: Season 2
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2021
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Bookstore clerk Joe transplants his tongue-in-cheek attitude regarding modern dating, social media and obsessive love from New York to Los Angeles in Season Two of the surprise hit series. In a new city with a new identity and object of desire, the aptly named Love, Joe, now known as Will, attempts to turn over a new leaf in a city that admires the young, the beautiful and the rich. But Will soon discovers that Love’s life is even more complicated...
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Pub. Date
c2005
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IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
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The manufactured young man who went AWOL from 200-plus-year-old Victor Helios-ne-Frankenstein's labs in Prodigal Son turns out to be not the only improved Frankenstein monster who is behaving strangely. Since he was created autistic for experimental purposes, he may be the least strange of the lot. Some of his "normal" fellows are mutating a la Alien, none more spectacularly than Victor's body guard. Deucalion, the original monster, now greatly humanized,...
89) The guilty ones
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Pub. Date
2018
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Jackmans sister-in-law Sarah disappears to London and throws herself into the river. What drove her to this? She was a woman with a seemingly happy home life and two beloved sons.DI Jackman and DI Evans dig into Sarahs life. And Jackman realises he knew almost nothing about his sister-in-laws past.Then, they discover a woman in a neighbouring village died in similar circumstances.What is the connection to a convicted murderer whose family are convinced...
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Pub. Date
c2013
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In Deal with the Devil, five-time Emmy Award–winning investigative reporter Peter Lance draws on three decades of once-secret FBI files to tell the definitive story of Greg Scarpa Sr., a Mafia capo who "stopped counting" after fifty murders, while secretly betraying the Colombo crime family as a Top Echelon FBI informant.
Lance traces Scarpa's shadowy relationship with the FBI all the way back to 1960, when his debriefings went straight to J....
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[2012]
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It was his first big murder case and one of the bloodiest and most violent crimes LAPD detective Danny McGuire would ever encounter. Andrew Jakes, an elderly multimillionaire art dealer, had been brutally murdered in his Hollywood home, his lifeless body tied to his naked young wife. Raped and beaten, the lovely Angela Jakes had barely survived the attack herself. Gazing into her deep, soulful eyes, Danny swore that he'd find the psychopath behind...
93) When a killer calls: a haunting story of murder, criminal profiling, and justice in a small town
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[2022]
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"From John Douglas--the legendary FBI criminal profiler, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration for the Netflix show Mindhunter--comes a chilling journey inside the mind and crimes of Larry Gene Bell, one of the most dangerous serial killers Douglas confronted, and the desperate effort to identify and catch him. On May 31, 1985, two days before her high school graduation, Shari Smith was abducted from the driveway of her family home...
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Maggie O'Dell novels volume 3
Pub. Date
c2002
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Is Reverend Joseph Everett a psychotic madman who uses his position of power to perform heinous crimes? Or is he merely a scapegoat for a killer more cunning, more disciplined than he? Maggie realized too late that there is more going on here than the FBI ever imagined...and her own mother may be about to pay the price.
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"In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated Western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorized by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far more diabolical than London's infamous Jack the Ripper. For almost exactly one year, the Midnight Assassin crisscrossed the entire city, striking on moonlit nights, using axes, knives, and long steel...
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Buchanan-Renard volume 4
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
While businesswoman Regan Hamilton Madison wouldn't actually wish anyone dead, she did compose a murder list as part of a seminar exercise. The list is meant to be burnt in a symbolic act of freeing herself from those whose names are listed. However, Regan's list survives and falls into the hands of someone who is only too glad to carry out her wishes.
97) The craftsman
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Pub. Date
2018.
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"Sharon Bolton returns with her creepiest standalone yet, following a young cop trying to trace the disappearances of a small town's teenagers. Florence Lovelady's career was made when she convicted coffin-maker Larry Grassbrook of a series of child murders 30 years ago in a small village in Lancashire. Like something out of a nightmare, the victims were buried alive Florence was able to solve the mystery and get a confession out of Larry before more...
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"In the winter of 1969, the bodies of four young women were discovered in a cemetery near the tip of Cape Cod. In a place once known as Helltown, the victims had been shot, stabbed, dismembered, and mutilated. As investigators would soon learn, the perpetrator was a young, handsome, serial killer named Tony Costa. A bizarre former taxidermist with a split personality and penchant for violence, Costa ultimately mobilized friends in the hippie community...
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Pub. Date
c2006
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To all appearances, Dennis Rader was a model citizen in the small town of Park City, Kansas, where he had lived with his family almost his entire life. He was a town compliance officer, a former Boy Scout leader, the president of his church congregation, and a seemingly ordinary father and husband. But Rader's average life belied the existence of his dark, sadistic other self: he was the BTK serial killer.
The self-named BTK (for Bind, Torture, Kill)...
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