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She was a beloved teacher. A trusted guardian. A monster hiding in plain sight. From 1988 to 2009, Emily Cannister—kindergarten teacher, community favorite, and secret killer—kidnapped and murdered fifteen children. To the outside world, she was kind and nurturing. But behind closed doors, she was consumed by obsession, delusion, and a twisted longing to claim the children she could never have. In 2012, during her third murder trial, Emily confessed. But her admission raised more questions than it answered.

In einem abgelegenen Waldstück stoßen Spaziergänger auf eine grausige Entdeckung: In einer Grube liegen die Überreste einer zerstückelten Frauenleiche. Für Kommissarin Jennifer Leitner und Staatsanwalt Oliver Grohmann beginnt ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit. Während Leitner und Grohmann fieberhaft versuchen, die rätselhaften Botschaften des Täters zu entschlüsseln, stoßen sie auf ein Netz aus Geheimnissen, das weit tiefer reicht, als sie ahnen.

Investigativjournalistin Rachel Skalla arbeitet an einem Artikel über illegale Medikamententests, als sie Mark Kreutzer kennenlernt. Mark kann ihr die richtigen Türen für die Story öffnen. Um sich dafür bei ihm zu bedanken, will Rachel Mark dabei helfen, einen mysteriösen Fall aufzuklären, der ihn bis heute belastet. Marks Vater sitzt im Gefängnis. Er soll auf grausame Weise eine Prostituierte ermordet haben, beteuert aber bis heute seine Unschuld. Bei ihren Recherchen entdeckt Rachel sieben weitere Fälle, die dem von Marks Vater gleichen.

Ein idyllisches Dorf im Westerwald: Mariensicht. Hierher ziehen Journalistin Katharina und ihr Mann, um einen Neuanfang zu wagen. Doch das Forsthaus, das sie jetzt bewohnen, birgt ein dunkles Geheimnis. Vor Jahrzehnten wurde Mariensicht durch einen aufsehenerregenden Mord erschüttert, für den die damalige Besitzerin, Flora, verurteilt wurde. Doch hat die schweigsame Frau wirklich ihren eigenen Mann getötet und grausam verstümmelt? Und weshalb lag ein abgeschnittener Zopf neben dem Toten? Gefesselt von der düsteren Geschichte des Hauses, beginnt Katharina zu recherchieren.

Ein kleiner Junge muss mit ansehen, wie seine Geschwister und Eltern ermordet werden. Ein Mann löscht gewaltsam seine Familie aus, bevor er sich selbst erschießt. Dann wird eine Kriminalkommissarin von einem unbekannten Attentäter aus dem Hinterhalt brutal hingerichtet. Profiler Dr. Carl von Wuthenow und seine Partnerin Verena Hofer vermuten, dass es zwischen den Fällen eine Verbindung geben muss. Mit fast nichts in der Hand nehmen sie die Jagd nach dem Serienkiller auf, um das Monster aus seinem Versteck zu locken und zu enttarnen.

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 imprendibile serial killer, che si firma marchiando le sue vittime con la vernice arancione, sta terrorizzando la città di Charlotte. Toccherà a Virginia West, energico vicecapo della polizia cittadina, il compito di fermarlo. Un nuovo indimenticabile personaggio dalla scrittrice che ha dato vita a Kay Scarpetta.

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 in Andover, B is for Betty Barnard in Bexhill, C is for Sir Carmichael Clarkein Churston. With each murder, the killer is gettingmore confident - but leaving a trail of deliberate clues to taunt the proud Hercule Poirot might just prove to be the first, and fatal, mistake.

Paul Sheldon is a best-selling novelist who has finally met his number-one fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes, and she is more than a rabid reader - she is Paul's nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident. But she is also furious that the author has killed off her favorite character in his latest book. Annie becomes his captor, keeping him prisoner in her isolated house. Annie wants Paul to write a book that brings Misery back to life - just for her. She has a lot of ways to spur him on.

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.

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.

Cuando los agentes de policía Janet Taylor y Dennis Morrisey son enviados a la casa para atender un caso de violencia doméstica, tropiezan con una espantosa escena: la muerte de uno y la lucha por sobrevivir y carrera del otro. El inspector Alan Banks se encuentra al frente de la operación de búsqueda de El Camaleón, un asesino en serie que ha secuestrado a cinco mujeres en la zona de Yorkshire. Pero la captura del asesino en serie es sólo el principio de una impresionante investigación que llevará a explorar los límites de todos y cada uno de los implicados en el caso.

Lincoln Rhyme was once a brilliant criminologist, a genius in the field of forensics - until an accident left him physically and emotionally shattered. But now a diabolical killer is challenging Rhyme to a terrifying and ingenious duel of wits. With police detective Amelia Sachs by his side, Rhyme must follow a labyrinth of clues that reaches back to a dark chapter in New York City’s past - and reach further into the darkness of the mind of a madman who won’t stop until he has stripped life down to the bone.

Eine Giftmordserie an jungen Frauen erschüttert Potsdam. Rasant, spannend, fesselnd – der neue Thriller von Frank Hagedorn. Zwei Giftmorde an jungen Frauen geben Paula Osterholz und ihrem Kollegen Henry Wullitzer vom Kommissariat Potsdam Rätsel auf. Ist hier ein Serienkiller am Werk? Beide Tote waren um die dreißig, aber da scheinen die Gemeinsamkeiten zu enden. Eine Spur führt das eigenwillige Team zu einer bereits vor Jahren geschlossenen Privatklinik, in der Paaren gegen sehr viel Geld ihr Kinderwunsch erfüllt wurde.

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.

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.

Don’t look down.... Because you’re trapped on the 40th floor of a deserted office building by a psychopath called "The Butcher". Don’t look down.… Because you’re an ex-mountain climber and a fall from Everest left you with a bad leg and a paralyzing fear of heights. Don’t look down.… Because The Butcher hasslaughtered the guards an.d short-circuited the elevators - the stairways are blocked, and for you and the beautiful woman with you, there’s only one escape route. Don’t look down.… Because 600 feet of empty space are looking back at you.

He was clinically dead after the accident - but was miraculously revived. Now Hatch Harrison and his wife approach each day with a new appreciation for life. But something terrible has come back with Hatch from the other side.

Yorkshire Dales, Summer 1997. Vicky Mott slips out the door of her remote cottage, and into the pale dawn light. She scrawls a note for her friends. Gone to see the sunrise. V xxx That's the last anyone ever hears from twenty-year-old music lover Vicky. Another victim of the Fellside Strangler? That would make Vicky the fourth young woman to lose her life this summer. Snatched by a mysterious killer who stalks the fells . . . But Vicky's body is never found.

Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him. Hannibal’s uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France, where Hannibal will live with his uncle and his uncle’s beautiful and exotic wife, Lady Murasaki. But Hannibal’s demons visit him and torment him. When he is old enough, he visits them in turn. He discovers he has gifts beyond the academic, and in that epiphany, Hannibal Lecter becomes death’s prodigy.