Serial Killer

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, ...

Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book's categorization to be sure that 'The Devil in the White City' is not, in fact, a highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for...

Patrick Bateman is twentysix and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to headon collision with America's greatest dream?and its worst nightmare?American Psycho is bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognise but do not wish to confront....

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My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker and more difficult to get out of the carpet than water...When Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what's expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This'll be the third bo...

When The Alienist was first published in 1994, it was a major phenomenon, spending six months on the New York Times bestseller list, receiving critical acclaim, and selling millions of copies. This modern classic continues to be a touchstone of historical suspense fiction for readers everywhere.The year is 1896. The city is New York. Newspaper repo...

WELCOME TO SAFE HAVEN, POPULATION 907...Nestled in the woods of Wisconsin, Safe Haven is miles from everything. With one road in and out, this is a town so peaceful it has never needed a fulltime police force. Until now...A helicopter has crashed on the outskirts of town and something terrible has been unleashed. A classified secret weapon program...

Randy Kraft was highly intelligent, politically active, loyal to his friends, committed to his workand the killer of 67 peoplemore than any other serial killer known. This book offers a glimpse into the dark mind of a living monster. "To open this book is to open a peephole into hell".Associated Press. Photographs....

Meet Dexter Morgan, a polite wolf in sheep's clothing. He's handsome and charming, but something in his past has made him abide by a different set of rules. He's a serial killer whose one golden rule makes him immensely likeable: he only kills bad people. And his job as a blood splatter expert for the Miami police department puts him in the perfect...

Murder Was the Least of His Crimes_x0085_The truth behind the twisted crimes that inspired the films Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs_x0085_ From Harold Schechter, _x0093_America's principle chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers_x0094_ (The Boston Book Review), comes the definitive account of Ed Gein, whose ghoulish crimes stunn...

It began with a random killing. Then came the murder on Tioga Way, where a dark trail of blood led from the front door to the victim's bedroom. For this killer, death was only the first step. Here was someone who had to desecrate the bodies of his victims, someone who would surely keep slaughtering until he was stopped.California's most monstrous c...

The first book of its kindphotographs included. Mothers, daughters, sisters and grandmothersfiendish killers all. Society is conditioned to think of murderers and predators as men, but in this fascinating book, Peter Vronsky exposes and investigates the phenomenon of women who killand the political, economic, social, and sexual implications. Fro...

The Real Story Of John Wayne Gacy By The Man Who Helped Catch HimHe was a model citizen. A hospital volunteer. And one of the most sadistic serial killers of all time. But few people could see the cruel monster beneath the colorful clown makeup that John Gacy wore to entertain children in his Chicago suburb. Few could imagine what lay buried bene...

You only think you know this story. In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer _x0097_ the most notorious serial killer since Jack the Ripper _x0097_ seared himself into the American consciousness. To the public, Dahmer was a monster who committed unthinkable atrocities. To Derf Backderf, _x0093_Jeff_x0094_ was a much more complex figure: a high school friend with whom he had shared classro...

This book reveals the true story of Graham Young, whose ambition was to become the world's most famous poisoner. By the age of 13 he had enough poison in his bedroom to kill 300 people, and he was to go on to poison his family and eight others....

A medical thriller from Pulitzer Prizewinning author James B. Stewart about serial killer doctor Michael Swango and the medical community that chose to turn a blind eye on his criminal activities.No one could believe that the handsome young doctor might be a serial killer. Wherever he was hired_x0097_in Ohio, Illinois, New York, South Dakota_x0097_Michael Swa...

The horrific true story of serial kidnapper, rapist, and killer Robert Hansen's reign of terror As oilboom money poured into Anchorage, Alaska the city quickly became a prime destination for the seedier elements of society: prostitutes, pimps, con men, and criminals of all breeds looking to cash in. However, something even worse lurked in their mi...

Chasing the Devil is the gripping firsthand account of Sheriff David Reichert's relentless pursuit of the Green River Killer a 21year odyssey full of nearmisses and startling revelations. For eight years, Sheriff David Reichert devoted his days and nights to capturing the Green River Killer. He was the first detective on the case in 1982, dogg...

Two truecrime thrillers as seen on Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series premiering January 2018HOME SWEET MURDER. Lawyer Leo Fisher and his wife Sue are a sixtyoneyearold couple enjoying a quiet Sunday dinner at home. Until a man in a suit rings their front door claiming to be an SEC agent. By the end of the evening, two people will be sho...

Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to the smalltime criminals, the realestate entrepreneurs, and all of his coworkers the lowlifes, the bigtimers, and everyone inbetween as the nicest guy around. He may not be the brightest or the most interesting man in town, but nevertheless,...

YOU WIN. OR YOU DIE. Wallace Mack is a retired FBI profiler. When he is contacted by an old friend whose daughter is missing, he agrees to try to find her. Soon, he uncovers THE KILLING LEAGUE, a competition among active serial killers. Even worse, Mack soon learns that he, and a woman whose life he helped save, are the grand prize. SOON TO BE A MA...

The twisted, but fascinating, mind of a serial killer is revealed with terrifying consequences in this astonishing and shocking exploration. with 20 b&w photos. The twisted, but fascinating, mind of a serial killer is revealed with terrifying consequences in this astonishing and shocking exploration. with 20 b&w photos. ...more...

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City, Douglas Preston presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence, Italy.In 2000, Douglas Pres...

The Shocking True Crime Stories of the 12 Worst Serial Killers in American History David Berkowitz: Known as the _x0093_Son of Sam,_x0094_ Berkowitz was a deeply disturbed young man who prowled the streets of New York dispensing death with his .44 caliber revolver.William Bonin: One of a trio of deadly psychopaths who trawled the freeways of Southern Californi...

On a Thursday evening in late October 2009, Cleveland Police detectives arrived at the home of Anthony Sowell_x0097_an exMarine and a registered sex offender_x0097_to arrest him on weekold rape charges. But this was no ordinary house, nor would it be a routine arrest.For even though Sowell was not at home, officers knew immediately something was horribly wro...

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The true story of Louisiana serial killer Ronald Dominique's tenyear murder spree, the men he slayed, and the detectives who hunted him down. In 1997, the bodies of young African American men began turning up in the cane fields of the quiet suburbs of New Orleans. The victimsmany of them transient street hustlershad been brutally raped and str...

Discover chilling and mindblowing facts in this ultimate collection of serial killer trivia for true crime fanatics.This bloody and completely true trivia collection will horrify and intrigue readers, with answers to questions like _x0093_What was John Wayne Gacy_x0092_s last meal_x0094_, _x0093_Which serial killer was captured because of a bloody footprint left on his ...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPENING IN THEATERS EVERYWHERE _x0093_This book is a public service._x0094_ _x0097_ MICHELLE MALKIN, founder of Twitchy and author of Culture of Corruption_x0093_Every American needs to read Gosnell._x0094_ _x0097_ DAVID DALEIDEN, the Center for American Progress reporter behind the undercover investigation of Planned Parenthood"Ann and Phelim courageousl...

With compelling style and suspense this truecrime book reconstructs the bizarre, bloody journey of a mesmerizing but sinister young man named Charles Sobhraj. Sweeping back and forth over half the globe from the boulevards of Paris to the slopes of Mount Everest to the underbellies of Bangkok and Hong Kong Sobhraj left in his wake a trail of...

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...

A comprehensive reference to serial killings offers case studies of notorious murderers and articles discussing the psychology of serial murder, law enforcement techniques used to catch serial killers, and famous unsolved cases....

Denver crimebeat reporter Jack McEvoy specializes in violent death. So when his homicide detective brother kills himself, McEvoy copes in the only way he knows howhe decides to write the story. But his research leads him to suspect a serial killer is at worka devious murderer who's killing cops and leaving a trail of poetic clues. It's the new...

Hannibal Lecter. The ultimate villain of modern fiction. Read the fivemillioncopy bestseller that scared the world silent. The Silence of the Lambs. A young FBI trainee. An evil genius locked away for unspeakable crimes. A plunge into the darkest chambers of a psychopath's mindin the deadly search for a serial killer. back cover...

A stunning, shocking, wonderfully well written debut reminiscent of James Patterson and one that will catapault Boris Starling to the front rank of thriller writers.London is in the grip of a heatwave: airless days, strange steamy nights and a killer stalking the streets. Wealthy men are being murdered to some mysterious pattern, with no clues left...

He has hunted some of the most notorious and sadistic criminals of our time: The Trailside Killer in San Francisco, the Atlanta Child murderer. He has confronted, interviewed and researched dozens of serial killers and assassins, including Charles Manson, Richard Speck, John Wayne Gacy, and James Earl Ray for a landmark study to understand their ...

It was a dark and stormy night when Mary Crane glimpsed the unlit neon sign announcing the vacancy at the Bates motel. Exhausted, lost, and at the end of her rope, she was eager for a hot shower and a bed for the night. Her room was musty but clean and the plumbing worked. Norman Bates, the manager, seemed nice, if a little odd....

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THE DEFINITIVE DOSSIER ON HISTORY_x0092_S MOST HEINOUS!Hollywood_x0092_s makebelieve maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can_x0092_t hold a candle to real life monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and scores of others who have terrorized, tortured, and terminated their way across civilization throughout the ages. Now, from the much...

Best of the Best. Kate Conlan has dealt with her share of frightened people after leaving an FBI desk job to become a witness advocate in the D.A.'s office. But 16yearold Angie DiMarco has witnessed a most heinous crime. Now Kate must protect Angie while using her FBI skills to track down a serial killer....

The true crime bestseller about Fred and Rose West a couple virtually unique in British criminal history who loved and killed together as husband and wife.During their long relationship the Wests murdered a series of young women, burying the remains of nine victims under their home at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, including those of their teenage...

She drove a school bus in Schenectady, New York. She even worked as a nurse's aide in a pediatric ward. But this seemingly normal woman killed her ninth child by smothering it and is suspected of doing the same to her other eight childrenwhile escaping suspicion for more than a decade....

Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the twentieth century: the coldblooded TateLaBianca murders carried out by Charles Manson and four of his followers. What motivated Manson in his seemingly mindless selection of victims, and what was his ...

What if the world's worst serial killer...was your dadJasper "Jazz" Dent is a likable teenager. A charmer, one might say.But he's also the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, Take Your Son to Work Day was yearround. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops wish they could_x0097_from the criminal's point of view.And...

Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden.In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees_x0085_and a collection of precious _x0093_butterflies_x0094__x0097_young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens.W...

"A deeply disturbing bookcool, ironical, and ferocious." Thomas Flanagan, author of The Year of the French For several weeks in the fall of 1977, Los Angeles was held hostage by fear as the body count of sexually violated, brutally murdered young women escalated. With increasing alarm, newspapers headlined the deeds of a serial killer they name...

What would you do if the man of your dreams hides the soul of a killer Jim Beckett was everything she'd ever dreamed of...But two years after Tess married the decorated cop and bore his child, she helped put him behind bars for savagely murdering ten women. Even locked up in a maximum security prison, he vowed he would come after her and make her ...

The Shadow of Death is the unforgettable true story of the search for the man who, since 1984, has killed at least six women and young girls in the Connecticut River Valley area of New Hampshire and Vermont. It is the definitive account of how police and forensic psychologists work to track a killer, and it is the harrowing story of bucolic innocen...