Catalog Search Results
1) Jackaby
Author
Series
Jackaby volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
Newly arrived in 1892 New England, Abigail Rook becomes assistant to R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with the ability to see supernatural beings, and she helps him delve into a case of serial murder which, Jackaby is convinced, is due to a nonhuman creature.
2) Girl, 11
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Description
VICTIMS
Twenty years ago, the Countdown Killer went on a deadly killer spree. Each victim was a year younger than the last.
VIGILANTE
True-crime podcaster Elle Castillo has long been hellbent on finding him and serving historic justice.
VENGEANCE
Now, he’s back.
Elle must stop the countdown before the killer can claim his next victim.
Author
Series
John Cleaver novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
John Wayne Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. He's spent his life doing his best not to live up to his potential. John is obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn't want to become one. So for his own sake, and the safety of those around him, he lives by rigid rules he's written for himself, practicing normal life as if it were a private religion that could save him from damnation. Dead bodies are normal to John. He likes them, actually....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Two murders. Twenty years. Now the killer is back for more...A darkly compelling debut crime novel. The start of a brilliant series, perfect for fans of Stuart MacBride, Val McDermid, and James Oswald. DCI Matilda Darke has returned to work after a nine month absence. A shadow of her former self, she is tasked with re-opening a cold case: the terrifyingly brutal murders of Miranda and Stefan Harkness. The only witness was their eleven-year-old son,...
Author
Series
Dave Gurney novels volume 1
Description
Recently retired after a prestigious career with the NYPD, homicide detective Dave Gurney is pulled back into service when an old college friend receives threatening letters from a murderous sender who has an uncanny ability to read a person's thoughts.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Jazz Dent, who has been shot and left to die in New York City, his girlfriend, Connie, who is in the clutches of Jazz's serial killer father, Billy, and his best friend, Howie, who is bleeding to death on the floor of Jazz's own home in tiny Lobo's Nod, must all rise above the horrors their lives have become and find a way to come together in pursuit of Billy.
Author
Description
Reggie, a successful architect who left her hometown and the horrific memories of a long ago summer behind, gets a call revealing that her mother has been found alive--a call that forces Reggie to confront the ghosts of her past and find the serial killer known as Neptune before he kills again.
Author
Series
DI Rowan Jackman and DS Maria Evens volume 1
Pub. Date
2016
Description
A BLOODY KILLER SEEMS TO HAVE RETURNED TO THE LINCOLNSHIRE FENSA gripping standalone crime thriller by the best-selling author of the Nikki Galena series.Twenty years ago: a farmer and his wife are cut to pieces by a ruthless serial killer.Now: a woman is viciously stabbed to death in the upmarket kitchen of her beautiful house on the edge of the marshes.Then a man called Daniel Kinder walks into Saltern police station and confesses to the murder.But...
Author
Series
Hana Westerman thrillers volume 1
Description
"An absorbing, clever debut thriller that speaks to the longstanding injustices faced by New Zealand's indigenous peoples, by an acclaimed Māori screenwriter and director. A tenacious Māori detective, Hana Westerman juggles single motherhood, endemic prejudice, and the pressures of her career in Auckland CIB. Led to a crime scene by a mysterious video, she discovers a man ritualistically hanging in a secret room and a puzzling inward-curving inscription....
11) Alex Cross, Run
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Detective Alex Cross arrests renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls. Now, his life ruined, Creem is out of jail, and he has made sure that no one will recognize him by giving himself a new face. A young woman is found hanging from a sixth floor window, and Alex is called to the scene. The victim recently gave birth, but the baby is nowhere to be found. Before Alex can begin searching for the missing newborn and killer,...
12) The Russian
Author
Series
Formats
Description
When a serial killer crashes Detective Michael Bennett's wedding, he and his new partner uncover a gruesome string of cold-case homicides across the country.
Weeks before NYPD Detective Michael Bennett is to marry his longtime love, Mary Catherine, an assassin announces his presence in the city with a string of grisly murders. Each victim is a young woman. And each has been killed in a manner as precise as it was gruesome.
Tasked with working alongside...
13) Paper valentine
Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Followed everywhere by the ghost of her recently deceased best friend, Hannah investigates the serial murders of young girls in her community.
14) I Hunt Killers
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious "Dear Old Dad," but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, so he secretly helps the police apprehend the town's newest murderer, "The Impressionist."
15) The sixth man
Author
Series
Description
Edgar Roy, an alleged serial killer held in a secure, fortress-like Federal Supermax facility, is awaiting trial. He faces almost certain conviction. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's attorney, Sean's old friend and mentor Ted Bergin, to help work the case. But their investigation is derailed before it begins - en route to their first meeting with Bergin, Sean and Michelle find him murdered.
16) Jump
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Ex-police officer Sam McGowan knows he is a prime suspect in the murder of his hated landlord, who was pushed from the top floor of Sam's apartment building, but as Sam tries to track down the real killer, the body count begins to rise and Sam wonders if he is next on the killer's list.
17) The Maze
Author
Series
Formats
Description
"The Maze takes you on a dangerous hunt for an apparent serial killer who has murdered nine and maybe more, prostitutes and hidden their bodies in the thick undergrowth on a lonely stretch of beach. As Corey digs deeper into this case, which has made national news, he comes to suspect that the failure of the local police to solve this sensational case may not be a result of their inexperience and incompetence, it may be something else. Something more...
Author
Series
Jack McEvoy novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Formats
Description
Newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to use his final days at the LA Times to write the definitive murder story of his career. Focusing on the case of Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder, Jack realizes that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus and that the real killer is operating completely below police radar--and with perfect knowledge of any move against him.
19) Private justice
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
Description
A dark shadow of fear has fallen over Newpointe, Louisiana. First one, then another of the town firemen's wives has been murdered, and a third has barely escaped an attempt on her life. Incredible as it seems, a serial killer is stalking this sleepy little southern community.
A serial killer is stalking the wives of the firemen in a Louisiana town.
20) The other woman
Author
Series
Jane Ryland mysteries volume 1
Formats
Description
Tracking down a candidate's secret mistress days before a pivotal Senate election, reporter Jane Ryland discovers links between her story and a serial killer investigation by detective Jake Brogan, with whom she partners to stop a killer in the face of dirty politics and betrayal.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request