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121) The burning wire
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English
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Quadriplegic forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme leads his team--NYPD detective Amelia Sachs, officer Ron Pulaski, and FBI agent Fred Dellray--to find and stop a killer who uses electricity as modus operandi. Meanwhile, Rhyme is consulting on another high-profile investigation in Mexico with a most coveted quarry in his crosshairs: the hired killer known as the Watchmaker, one of the few criminals to have eluded Rhyme's net.
122) The last book on the left: stories of murder and mayhem from history's most notorious serial killers
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
301 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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Since its first show in 2010, The Last Podcast on the Left has barreled headlong into all things horror, as hosts Henry Zebrowski, Ben Kissel, and Marcus Parks cover subjects spanning Jeffrey Dahmer, werewolves, Jonestown, and supernatural phenomena. Deeply researched but with a morbidly humorous bent, the podcast has earned a dedicated and aptly cultlike following for its unique take on all things macabre. In their first book, the guys take a deep...
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HL 730L
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English
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"Pip is about to head to college, but she is still haunted by the way her last investigation ended. She's used to online death threats in the wake of her viral true-crime podcast, but she can't help noticing an anonymous person who keeps asking her: Who will look for you when you're the one who disappears? Soon the threats escalate and Pip realizes that someone is following her in real life. When she starts to find connections between her stalker...
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2010
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English
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Eliza Benedict's peaceful suburban life is shattered after being contacted by Walter Bowman, the man who kidnapped and held her hostage as a teen in 1985, and who now claims to want forgiveness while on death row. An edgy, utterly gripping tale of psychological manipulation.
125) Second honeymoon
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2013.
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English
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FBI agent John O'Hara and Special Agent Sarah Brubaker hunt an ingenious pair of serial killers whose victims all have one chilling thing in common--they're newlyweds.
126) Haunted destiny
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English
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A historic cruise ship, a haunted ship, the Celtic American Line's Destiny sets sail from the Port of New Orleans--with a killer on board. He's known as the Archangel because of the way he displays his victims in churches. And the way he places a different saint's medallion on each one. No one knows exactly who he is or why he's doing this. Jackson Crow--head of the FBI's Krewe of Hunters, a special unit of paranormal investigators--is assigned to...
127) The final deception
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New York confidential volume 5
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English
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How do you confront a threat that is hiding in plain sight? FBI agent Craig Frasier and psychologist Kieran Finnegan hunt a serial killer with a too-close connection to Finnegan's Pub in this explosive thriller, the latest story in the New York Confidential series. It was one of Kieran's most chilling cases: her assessment of a murderer known as the Fireman. There was no doubt that the man was dangerous and needed to be locked away for his gruesome...
128) The preacher
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The discovery of two murder victims who were killed twenty years earlier is complicated by the body of a third, recent victim at the same location, a case that compels detective Patrik Hedstrom to investigate a feuding clan of misfits, religious fanatics, and criminals.
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"The summer of 1919 is over, and on the high prairie, a small army of men, women, and machines moves across the land, bringing in the wheat harvest. Custom threshers, steam engineers, bindlestiffs, cooks, camp followers, and hobos join the tide. Big Wheat is king as people gleefully embrace the gospels of progress and greed. But with Big Wheat comes a serial killer who calls himself the Windmill Man. He believes he has a holy calling to water the...
130) The drop: a novel
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Pub. Date
2011
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English
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LAPD detective Harry Bosch simultaneously investigates a killer who has been operating undetected for thirty years and a political conspiracy that has its origins in his police department.
132) Nighttime is my time
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English
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College dean and historian Jean Sheridan is to be honored at her twenty-year reunion along with six other members of her class from Stonecroft Academy. But five of her classmates have died recently in mysterious ways, and Jean has just received an anonymous fax referring to the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty years ago. Detective Sam Deegan is obsessed by the unsolved murder of a young woman who may be the key to the Stonecroft killer. Neither...
133) The coffin dancer
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"NYPD criminalist Lincoln Rhyme joins his beautiful protégée, Amelia Sachs, in the hunt for the Coffin Dancer--an ingenious killer who changes his appearance even faster than he adds to his trail of victims. They have only one clue: the madman has a tattoo of the Grim Reaper waltzing with a woman in front of a coffin. Rhyme must rely on his wits and intuition to track the elusive murderer through New York City--knowing they have only forty-eight...
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"A decade ago, psychologist Frieda Klein was sucked into the orbit of Dean Reeve--a killer able to impersonate almost anyone, a man who can disappear without a trace, a psychopath obsessed with Frieda herself. In the years since, Frieda has worked with--and sometimes against--the London police in solving their most baffling cases. But now she's in hiding, driven to isolation by Reeve. When a series of murders announces his return, Frieda must emerge...
135) Killer heat: a novel
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English
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Manhattan D.A. Alex Cooper investigates the murders of three victims while dodging infuriated gang members packing heat. Her interrogation skills lead to someone with a twisted obsession concerning the military, and things grow increasingly dangerous when the chase leads to a chain of small, abandoned islands around New York harbor.
136) NYPD red 2
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"NYPD Red--the task force attacking the most extreme crimes in America's most extreme city--hunts a killer who is on an impossible mission. A vigilante serial killer is on the loose in New York City, tracking down and murdering people whose crimes have not been punished. The number of victims grows, and many New Yorkers secretly applaud the idea of justice won at any price. NYPD Red Detective Zach Jordan and his partner Kylie MacDonald are put on...
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Bailey Weggins mystery volume 8
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English
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"On a sunny morning in late September, Shannon Blaine sets off for a jog along the rural roads near her home in Lake George, New York. Its her usual a.m. routine, her 'me time' after dropping the kids off at school&except on this day she never returns. Is her husband lying when he says he has no clue where she is? Could Shannon have split on her own, overwhelmed by the pressures of her life? Or is she the victim of a sexual predator who had been...
138) The vanishing season
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"Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or two about serial killers, but not through her police training. She's an officer in sleepy Woodbury, Massachusetts, where a bicycle theft still makes the newspapers. No one there knows she was once victim number seventeen in the grisly story of serial killer Francis Michael Coben. The only one who lived. When three people disappear from her town in three years--all around her birthday--Ellery fears someone knows her...
139) Visions in death
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2004
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English
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The summer of 2059 has been long, hot, and bloody. Eve Dallas is dispatched to New York's Central Park where a victim was found on the rocks, just above the still, dark water of the lake. The victim is nude, with only a red ribbon tied around her neck. Her hands are posed as if in prayer. And the eyes have been removed with surgical precision.
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After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed "The Angel of Death" by the media. But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster. He was a favorite son, husband, beloved father, best friend, and celebrated caregiver. Implicated in the deaths of as many as 300 patients, he was also perhaps the most prolific serial killer in American history. Cullen's murderous career in the world's most trusted profession...