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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.

It’s 1989 and Amos Fielding, onetime sheriff of Oscar, Iowa, is in his early seventies and grieving the recent loss of his wife, Sara. He packs up his few belongings and heads to a ranch in the far northwest corner of Washington State.The farther he can get from Oscar and his years there as sheriff, the better. Eager to escape painful memories, Fielding throws himself into the daily chores of a gentleman rancher. But there is evil afoot, as dark as any he faced in Oscar.

I'd just graduated high school in Oregon when the Alphabet Killer began his reign of terror at Juniper College. When the next victim, 'Victim I' escaped, the Alphabet Killer was revealed to be Professor Rodney Boone. Now, eight years later, I am a rookie police officer, and while out on patrol I discover a dead body - a student with the letter 'J' carved deep into his flesh. As the body count rises, we race against time. Can we find the killer before he can complete the alphabet?

Sieben Morde gehen bereits auf das Konto des unbekannten Serientäters. Die Soko um Kriminalhauptkommissar Tom Engelhardt und Kryptologin Mascha Krieger sucht fieberhaft nach dem Täter, aber es gibt keine heiße Spur. Parallel versucht Mascha herauszufinden, wer die unbekannte Frau ist, die sie seit Wochen stalkt und mindestens einmal in ihre Wohnung eingedrungen ist. Als ein achtes Opfer gefunden wird und erneut ein verschlüsselter Brief auftaucht, begreifen Mascha und Tom endlich, was es mit dem Rachefeldzug auf sich hat.

The Muffin Man is widely regarded as the first documented serial killer. He prowled the streets of the Seven Dials neighborhood of London just three and a half miles from White Chapel and possibly the most famous of all killers. When a prostitute witnesses the Muffin Man take a life and decides blackmail is a better option than going to the police, the Muffin Man seeks out help to deal with her.

Comme beaucoup de femmes célibataires de New York, Sydney a beaucoup de mal à faire des rencontres. Elle a tout vu : des hommes qui mentent sur eux-mêmes, d'autres qui lui font payer l'addition du dîner et, pire encore, des hommes qui n'arrêtent pas de parler de leur mère ! Mais elle vient de décrocher le jackpot. Son nouveau petit ami est tout simplement parfait. Il est charmant, beau et travaille comme médecin dans un hôpital. Sydney est éblouie. Jusqu'au jour où elle entend parler du meurtre d'une jeune femme - le dernier d'une série.

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.

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.

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.

Er lehrt dich Schmerz und Einsamkeit! Am Stamm einer alten Eiche lehnt eine Frau. Aus ihrem leeren Blick ist jegliches Leben gewichen. Um ihren Hals baumelt eine Schiefertafel mit einer geheimnisvollen Nachricht des Täters. Spezialermittlerin Laura Kern ist erschüttert und nimmt sofort die Spur zum Mörder auf. Doch sie kann keinen einzigen Zeugen finden, und schon kurz darauf wird ein weiteres Opfer entdeckt, genauso grausam inszeniert. Laura und ihr Partner Max haben es mit einem skrupellosen Serienmörder zu tun, der sich selbst als Lehrmeister betrachtet und seine Opfer in die Einsamkeit des Waldes lockt.

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.

Santa Mondega, une ville d'Amérique du Sud oubliée du reste du monde, où sommeillent de terribles secrets. Un serial killer qui assassine ceux qui ont eu la malchance de lire un énigmatique livre sans nom. La seule victime encore vivante du tueur, qui, après cinq ans de coma, se réveille, amnésique.

Vous avez aimé "Le Livre sans nom" ? Vous allez adorer "L'Œil de la lune" ! Personne n'a oublié le Bourbon Kid, mystérieux tueur en série aux innombrables victimes. Ni les lecteurs du "Livre sans nom", ni les habitants de Santa Mondega, l'étrange cité d'Amérique du Sud, où sommeillent toujours de terribles secrets. Alors que la ville s'apprête à fêter Halloween, le Bourbon Kid célèbre, lui, le dix-huitième anniversaire de son premier homicide. Il est alors loin de se douter qu'il est devenu la proie d'une agence très spéciale.

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.

Augustin Rothmayer è un becchino nel famoso cimitero centrale di Vienna. Herzfeldt ha bisogno della collaborazione di un esperto nella preparazione dei cadaveri: diverse cameriere sono state uccise per essere poi brutalmente impalate. L'ispettore e il becchino iniziano a indagare insieme e finiscono per rendersi conto che dietro le mura di questa affascinante città cosmopolita si aprono profonde voragini.

Welcome back to your darkest nightmare. I am Death, and they've stripped away my mask of mercy. My little lamb, I will paint the streets red until you're safe in my arms again.

Invite Hannibal Lecter into the palace of your mind and be invited into his mind palace in turn. Note the similarities in yours and his, the high vaulted chambers of your dreams, the shadowed halls, the locked storerooms where you dare not go, the scrap of half-forgotten music, the muffled cries from behind a wall. In one of the most eagerly anticipated literary events of the decade, Thomas Harris takes us once again into the mind of a killer, crafting a chilling portrait of insidiously evolving evil - a tour de force of psychological suspense.

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.

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.

Es geschieht am helllichten Tag, in tiefster Nacht, am Rande der Gesellschaft und mitten unter uns - das Verbrechen. Es kommt über uns wie eine Naturgewalt oder wie ein grausamer Witz. Die Tat teilt uns in Opfer, Täter, Unschuldige, Monster und Menschen. Und wir alle fragen uns: Wie konnte das geschehen? Und was passiert jetzt?