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Sally promised her father before he died that she would always look after her sister Troo, but the task becomes complicated in the summer of 1959 when her mother is hospitalized, her older sister becomes caught up in a teen romance, her stepfather takes up drinking, and a murderer and molester is terrorizing the town.
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Joe Gunther puts a murder investigation on hold to help his girlfriend Lyn solve her father's mysterious death in Maine. Discovering that Lyn's father and brother weren't the good guys that Lyn always believed them to be and that they might have been involved with vicious smugglers who murdered them, Gunther sets out to protect Lyn from the same fate.
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High school soccer star Ashley Spencer luckily escapes being a victim in a killing spree that claimed the life of her father and her best friend, and moves to Oregon to attend college on a scholarship to find herself in the middle of a conspiracy that promises to get much worse before all the facts are revealed.
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Reporter Connie Burns vows to expose a British mercenary who is using the chaos of the war in Africa to hide his sadistic, misogynistic fantasies and murderous intentions, but her efforts to reveal the truth have devastating consequences when Connie is taken hostage and held for three terrifying days.
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Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is called in to help the local police find a suspected serial killer who seems to choose his victims at random, but the case becomes more personal when a colleague is taken by the murderer, leading Veteren and the police on a chase to find their friend before it is too late.
7) Killing me
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
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2023.
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324 pages ; 24 cm.
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"Amber Jamison cannot believe she's about to become the latest victim of a serial killer--she's savvy and street smart, so when she gets pushed into, of all things, a white windowless van, she's more angry than afraid. Things get even weirder when she's miraculously saved by a mysterious woman... who promptly disappears. Who was she? And why is she hunting serial killers? You'd think escaping one psychopath would be enough, but Amber's problems are...
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Police officer Kirby Wayland is on his way home late one day when he sees a stray dog along the highway and decides to shelter it. From that moment on, Kirby experiences a continuing strangeness about this canine. Man and dog quickly develop a bond, though there is always something very unsettling about it. Kirby takes a six-month leave from the force and decides to take a road trip. On the road, Kirby and the dog have a series of rapidly escalating...
9) Spider bones
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John Lowery was declared dead in 1968 - the victim of a Huey crash in Vietnam, his body buried long ago in North Carolina. Four decades later, Temperance Brennan is called to the scene of a drowning in Hemmingford, Quebec. The victim appears to have died while in the midst of a bizarre sexual practice. The corpse is later identified as John Lowery. But how could Lowery have died twice, and how did an American soldier end up in Canada? Tempe sets off...
10) Unseen
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When a serial killer begins stalking the residents and tourists of the Swedish island of Gotland, Inspector Anders Knutas teams up with journalist Johan Berg to find the killer before any more victims are claimed by the brutal murderer.
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Provides an account of the life and crimes of Jack Unterweger, a man released from an Austrian prison in 1990 after serving fourteen years for the murder of a German girl, who, passing himself off as a journalist investigating the Vienna Woods Killer, strangled several more women in Austria and Los Angeles before being nabbed for the crimes.
12) Blood game
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In the aftermath of the murder of a senator's daughter, Eve Duncan is horrified by the killer's tactic of draining the victim's blood, as the case draws her into the web of a serial killer who taunts her with hints about her missing daughter.
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Intelligence officer Ryan Evans, having spent time in Fallujah as the captive of insurgents who forced him to learn to kill by breaking bones and leaving victims to die, returns to Texas only to find himself under suspicion when a serial killer who employs the same method of murder begins abducting young girls--including Evans' own estranged daughter.
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Washington, D.C., antique store owner and socialite Reven Lynch agrees to help detective Gunner investigate a series of murders in which Reven's wealthy businessman love interest is a suspect and uncovers secrets within her social circle that test friendships and loyalties.
15) The angel
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Folklorist Keira Sullivan, trapped in a collapsed ruin while in Ireland researching the legend of an ancient Celtic stone angel, is saved by Simon Cahill, an agent of Fast Rescue, a rapid-response search-and-rescue organization, and together they explore the link between Keira's close call and Cahill's investigation of a serial killer who seems to operating on both sides of the Atlantic.
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More than a century after he stalked the streets of London's East End, Jack the Ripper continues to exert a macabre fascination on the popular imagination. After scrupulously re-examining official documents of the time, investigative journalist Paul Roland strips away decades of myth and misconceptions to reveal the identity of a brand-new suspect who has never been seriously considered until now. If you are expecting a finger to be pointed at one...
17) Twisted But True
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Retired Phoenix Police Sergeant Darren Burch captivates you on another wild police ride-along with outrageously macabre and compelling stories from his thirty-year career as a rookie cop, sex crime detective, and night detective sergeant in the Phoenix Police Department's Homicide Unit in this gut-clinching, horrific, and oftentimes laugh-out-loud funny follow-up to Darren's award-winning true-crime book, Twisted But True. Darren's dark humor reemerges...
18) Jack the Ripper's Streets of Terror: Life During the Reign of Victorian London's Most Brutal Killer
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An exploration of the Jack the Ripper murders through the eyes of the Londoners who lived through it, including eye-witness accounts and inquest testimonies.
The shocking murders carried out by an unknown serial killer in London's East End in during the autumn of 1888 dominated the news and public imagination at the time and have continued to exert a baleful influence ever since. But what was it like to live through those terrifying weeks? No matter...
19) Cruel intent
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Former television journalist Ali Reynolds tries to defend her contractor Brian when he is named a prime suspect in his wife's murder and in the process uncovers a sadistic killer who finds his prey by hacking into a dating sight for housewives looking for a sexual relationship with married men.
20) 8213: Gacy House
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John Wayne Gacy murdered 33 young men and boys between 1972 and 1978 in suburban Chicago. 26 bodies were found in a crawl space beneath his house and 3 others were buried in the backyard. Although the house was completely demolished during the exhumation of the bodies, on May 15, 2004 a group of paranormal investigators wired the home that was built in its place with paranormal detection and surveillance equipment. The outcome of the investigation...
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