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Ein Serienmörder, der seine Opfer nach einem grausamen Ritual tötet. Eine Polizistin, die einem perfiden Racheplan auf der Spur ist. Als eine Frau auf grausame Weise ermordet wird, deutet alles auf einen Ritualmord hin und der Ehemann wird von Ermittlerin Elizabeth Hallman festgenommen. Doch dann schlägt der Täter erneut zu – und hinterlässt seine makabere Signatur: Die Opfer werden mit ihrer eigenen Strumpfhose erwürgt und wie gekreuzigt positioniert.

Il caso di Messaggeri dell'oscurità parte da una serie di lugubri reperti che arrivano per posta, frutto di orrende mutilazioni. L'impresa di una mente turbata, di un sanguinario maniaco, che lancia i suoi messaggi dall'inferno della psicosi. Un passo dietro l'altro Petra e Garzón si inoltrano nell'imbuto di un mondo più complesso e inquietante. Che lancia i suoi messaggi dall'inferno della storia.

FBI agent Sarah Cole is stunned to receive an invitation to the “Game of Nines,” the most secretive and longest-running murder puzzle in history. Thrust into a mystery that has confounded law enforcement for decades, she proves to be an unexpectedly formidable "player"—and might finally end the deadly game once and for all.

Un serial killer è in azione nella città di Richmond: già tre donne sono morte, violentate e strangolate nelle loro camere da letto. I delitti avvengono sempre di sabato, prima dell'alba. Kay Scarpetta sa che il sanguinario killer può tornare a colpire in qualunque momento e non può escludere alcuna ipotesi. Nemmeno quella di essere la prossima vittima.

Now an Amazon Prime original limited series! Agatha Christie’s beloved classic The A.B.C. Murders sets Hercule Poirot on the trail of a serial killer. There’s a serial killer on the loose, working his way through the alphabet and the whole country is in a state of panic. A is for Mrs. Ascher...

Police sirens ring louder while blood drips from my hands. I must hide, but it's Christmas Eve, and all houses shine with colorful lights. All but one. Too late do I realize the house is not empty. A woman lives here alone, hidden in the dark and playing a game. I don't kill innocents. It's my only rule. The woman doesn't scream or try to call the police. Her big, green eyes take me in with curiosity, and not even the blood on my gloves makes her flinch. She sees me at my worst—and she doesn't run.

A prisoner in a psychiatric ward confesses to killing two children and leads the Berlin police to their bodies. The police are certain he is also the kidnapper of a six-year-old boy, Max, who disappeared a year ago. But they only have circumstantial evidence, and the murderer is now refusing talk. In the many months since Max vanished, his father Till’s life has spiraled out of control. His wife has left him, he’s lost his job, and all he can do is obsess about what happened to his son.

Sulle rive ventose di Seurasaari, un'isola al largo di Helsinki, viene ritrovato un cadavere: la pelle ricoperta di vernice bianca, un pezzo degli scacchi incastrato in gola. I crimini seguono una logica precisa e gli indizi rimandano a simboli e strategie che sfuggono ai protocolli investigativi. L'omicida non si limita a colpire: provoca, anticipa e orienta l'indagine come su una scacchiera. Per fermare il killer, Milo è costretto a collaborare con Stanislav, campione europeo di scacchi e suo patrigno, l'unico in grado di interpretare il linguaggio strategico dell'assassino.

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.

Una joven aparece asesinada junto al río Támesis, con el cuerpo horriblemente mutilado y una dalia roja en el cabello. El crimen evoca de inmediato al infame caso de la Dalia Negra, pero esta vez, el escenario es Londres. La detective Anna Travis se ve arrastrada a una investigación sin pistas claras, bajo la presión de los medios y con un asesino que parece querer dejar un legado. Para resolver el caso, deberá colaborar con su jefe y expareja, James Langton, en una relación marcada por la tensión y las heridas del pasado.

Pyhäinpäivä lähestyy. Hautausmaiden kynttilöiden karttuessa puukkotappaja iskee jälleen. Gisela Forsell ei usko yliluonnollisiin tutkintalinjoihin, vaan matkustaa Kööpenhaminaan selvittämään liittyykö vanha ratkaisematon tapaus Pohjanmaan murhiin. Pahaa pyhäinpäivää 2 on toinen osa jännittävää kolmiosaista juhlapyhäkalenteria.

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.

Two years ago, Ruth was an ambitious journalist on the trail of a serial killer with a very specific calling card. Then her best friend became the latest victim, and Ruth's life fell apart. When police shelve the case, Ruth decides there is only one way to force them to keep looking: make him kill again. Or at least, make it look like he has… The good news: working at a funeral home has its perks, like access to fresh hearts she can use to stage convincing crime scenes. The bad news: the real killer has noticed Ruth's 'work' too, and now it's not just the police trying to catch her…

Un asesinato como ningún otro. Un asesino más retorcido de lo que jamás ha visto. Un caso que lo llevará al límite. Tras recibir el aviso, Robert Hunter llega a la escena del crimen más escalofriante y brutal a la que ha acudido jamás. El horror aumenta cuando, durante la autopsia, encuentran dentro del cuerpo de la víctima una nota con el verso de un poema dejado por el asesino. Cuando poco tiempo después se encuentra otro cadáver, el método utilizado y la firma del asesino son tan distintos del primero que los forenses al principio no ven ninguna relación entre los crímenes.

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Twenty-five years ago, a killer dubbed the Richmond Ripper terrorised London, claiming four victims before vanishing without a trace. Now, with her mother dying, Holly is running out of time to deliver the answers she desperately craves. But as she digs deeper into the past, someone is watching, and when Holly is targeted, it becomes clear that the killer is back, and he doesn't want to be found. Caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse, Holly can trust no one - because someone in her inner circle is hiding the darkest secret of all.

En la apacible comunidad costera de Story Cove todo parece perfecto: casas de ensueño, vecinos ejemplares y una vida tranquila… hasta que una mañana aparece el cuerpo destrozado de una runner al pie de los acantilados y la fachada idílica comienza a resquebrajarse. La detective Rue Duval sospecha que podría tratarse de otra víctima del asesino en serie al que investiga hace tiempo. Lily Bradley (reconocida psicóloga, madre de dos hijos y esposa de un prestigioso profesor) parece tener su vida bajo control o es lo que parece y todos creen.

Venedig, Sehnsuchtsort und Ziel vieler Liebespaare. Pech für jene, die sich dazu entschließen, eine Fahrt mit dem mysteriösen „Gondoliere in Schwarz" zu unternehmen. Sehr gerne schießt er Fotos von den glücklichen Paaren, doch hinter der Maske verbirgt sich ein wahnsinniger Killer, getrieben von seinem tiefen Hass auf Touristen. Schon bald findet sich der ermittelnde Commissario Moretti in einem perversen Wettlauf gegen die Zeit wieder, als ihm der Psychopath die Fotos der auserkoren Opfer schickt.

In this “skillfully penned tale of murder and cover-up that will keep readers enthralled until the powerful finish” (Fresh Fiction), family secrets and a serial killer from the past converge in this electrifying thriller. In 1985, Edward Shank famously gunned down the Beacon Hill Butcher...

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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.

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.

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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.

Quando la scena del crimine non parla e tutti gli indizi conducono a un vicolo cieco, arriva lei: arma segreta di una scienza pionieristica, indagatrice solitaria capace di svelare ciò che all'apparenza sembra invisibile. È la botanica forense Lena Malinverni, che esplora l'ambiente alla ricerca di tracce impercettibili restituite da radici, steli, pollini, frammenti vegetali. Instabile e ostinata come una pianta che cresce in un terreno avverso, ha imparato a leggere ogni minimo dettaglio della natura in grado di dischiudere verità celate.

Novembre 1991. I Nirvana risuonano nel mangiacassette, George H.W. Bush è alla Casa Bianca e la studentessa Charlie Jordan è in macchina con un uomo che potrebbe essere un serial killer. Josh Baxter è praticamente uno sconosciuto per Charlie. Si sono incontrati alla bacheca del campus: lei aveva bisogno di qualcuno che l'accompagnasse in Ohio e lui di un passeggero che condividesse le spese per il viaggio.

Der Mord an einem windigen Anwalt gibt Karin Wolf und ihrem Team Rätsel auf. Waren es seine unsauberen Geschäfte oder seine perversen Umtriebe, die ihm zum Verhängnis wurden? Doch der Täter hat eine Nachricht hinterlassen. Die Parallelen zu einem weiteren Verbrechen legen den Verdacht nahe, dass es sich um einen Serientäter handelt. Geht in der Stadt ein Mörder um, der scheinbar wahllos und mit unvorstellbarer Grausamkeit tötet?

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Vier Morde, vier meisterhaft inszenierte Tatorte – Berlin wird von einer rätselhaften Mordserie erschüttert. Kommissariatsleiter Christian Hartwich setzt alles auf eine Karte und holt einen mysteriösen Berater ins Team, ohne zu ahnen, wie tief dieser in das Netz aus Lügen und Geheimnissen verstrickt ist. Während Hauptkommissarin Stefanie Piehler dem undurchsichtigen Berater misstraut, wagt Professor Hornoff den riskanten Schritt in die Abgründe der Täterpsyche – und erkennt: Wer den Mörder stoppen will, muss das Kind in ihm retten.

After a high-profile model is found dead, FBI Special Agent Tess Winnett finds it hard to accept the findings that it was suicide and pushes for an investigation. But as she delves into the case, she uncovers things she never expected to find.

È una calda notte di giugno, e Kirsten sta tornando a casa dopo aver celebrato con i compagni la laurea. Mentre attraversa il parco, qualcuno la aggredisce con selvaggia violenza: quando si risveglierà dopo giorni di coma, ricorderà solo, come in un incubo, due figure che incombono su di lei, una bianca e una nera, e una mano callosa che la stringe; e scoprirà di avere terribili ferite inflitte con un coltello, e che nulla sarà più come prima. Altrove, in una cittadina di pescatori sulla costa dello Yorkshire arriva Martha, una giovane donna che sta scrivendo un libro.

In this first novel, we are introduced to suave, handsome Tom Ripley: a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan in the 1950s. A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy" by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Ripley becomes enamored of the moneyed world of his new friend, Dickie Greenleaf. This fondness turns obsessive when Ripley is sent to Italy to bring back his libertine pal, but he grows enraged by Dickie's ambivalent feelings for Marge, a charming American dilettante.

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.

Für die Polizei ist es ein tragischer Suizid. Nur Profiler Carl von Wuthenow erkennt darin die Handschrift eines psychopathischen Mörders. Der Killer wählt lebenslustige Frauen, verwandelt sie in willenlose Marionetten und lässt sie um ihr Leben kämpfen. Doch das grausame Spiel kennt nur einen Ausgang: Ihren Tod. Je tiefer Carl und seine Partnerin Verena Hofer graben, desto klarer wird: Der Täter spielt nicht nur mit seinen Opfern. Auch Carl und Verena sind längst Figuren seines perfiden Plans.

Diese Kriminalsatire wird aus der Perspektive von sieben Protagonisten erzählt: Die Freischaffende, die einem Serienvergewaltiger entkommt und ihm nach Jahren wiederbegegnet, als er mit Hilfe eines Galeristen zum Künstlerstar emporgehoben wird; die Gutachterin, deren Expertise ignoriert wird; der Anwalt, der dem Schwerverbrecher ein freies Künstlerleben ermöglicht; der berühmte Filmemacher, der die Welt neu erklären möchte, und dessen Kunstagent, der ihn zu waghalsigen Investitionen verleitet.

Indien Crow d'adoption, Raynaud Shade est considéré comme le plus dangereux sociopathe des États-Unis et représente le cauchemar de tout policier. Finalement interpellé, il avoue avoir enterré un cadavre au beau milieu des Bighorn Mountains, dans le Wyoming, et c'est à Walt Longmire que revient la tâche d'escorter Shade, en plein blizzard, jusqu'au corps. Mais le shérif sous-estime peut-être les dangers d'une telle expédition.

2024. La aparición de un cadáver envuelto en un macabro sudario marca el inicio de unos crímenes que aterrarán a la ciudad. El joven inspector Martín Benot regresa a casa después de un largo destierro y toma las riendas de una investigación que va a revolver sus demonios familiares. Cuando la brillante doctora Cecilia Flores —por quien Martín siente una rara fascinación y cuyo rostro cree recordar— expone las causas asombrosas de las muertes, el pánico se apodera de este emblemático rincón del norte.

Trelleborg, Südschweden, 1989: Polizeimeisterin Gunni Hilding wird überraschend vom Dezernat für Gewaltverbrechen rekrutiert. Doch die junge Beamtin fühlt sich der Aufgabe alles andere als gewachsen: Von ihren eigenen Eltern verstoßen, muss ausgerechnet Gunni ein Verbrechen aufdecken, das eine Familie zu zerreißen droht. Denn ein achtjähriges Kind ist spurlos im Wald verschwunden … Fünf Jahre später wiederholt sich ein ähnlicher Fall – Gunni sieht als Einzige eine Parallele. Und wenn sie recht hat, bedeutet das, dass ein gefährlicher Serientäter noch immer auf freiem Fuß ist.

Ein Einsatz in einer verlassenen Villa endet mit einem Fund, der die Dresdner Polizei verstummen lässt: Staub im Dämmerlicht, blätternder Putz, ein altes Gemälde, das sich von der Wand gelöst hat. Dahinter befindet sich eine eingemauerte Leiche. Kriminaloberkommissar Arne Stiller wird hinzugezogen, denn nicht nur die Entdeckung, auch das Bild selbst gibt Rätsel auf. Als weitere Leinwände abgenommen werden, kommen noch mehr Tote zum Vorschein – sorgfältig verborgen, kaltblütig inszeniert. Stiller muss begreifen, welche Geschichte dieses Haus erzählt – und wer sie weiterschreibt.