Serial Killer Psychological Thrillers

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU LIED? The first lie: MONSTERS DON’T EXIST. When the body of a man is discovered in the Boston Common, Martina finds herself entering a horrific nightmare. She discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of ancient methods of persecution being carried out by a Puritan-indoctrinated serial killer who believes the devil walks among us. The second lie: YOU WOULD KNOW A MONSTER IF YOU SAW ONE. After the first victim is dismissed as gang-related, Martina fears there is more to the murder than meets the eye. Her instincts are soon proven correct when another...

She’s chasing a killer. And he knows exactly how to tear her apart. When a third woman goes missing in the rustbelt town of Shadow Bay, Chief of Police Shauna Peterson faces a brutal truth. A predator is hunting in her backyard, and the victims are getting closer to home. The town wants answers. The state police want control. And Shauna’s daughter, Emma, is slipping away. Then the latest body turns up, stitched with a red thread, deliberate and methodical, unmistakably personal. Is a serial killer stalking the frozen streets of Shadow Bay?

A hidden identity. A violent past. A killer who knows her better than she knows herself. I live by routines. Locked doors. Controlled schedules. Predictable days. Five years ago, I survived a violent attack while working as a real estate agent in Augusta. I escaped a man who should have been just another client—and I ran. I changed my name. I moved states. I rebuilt my life in Nashville, one listing at a time. I don’t talk about the past. I don’t revisit old memories. I tell myself survival was enough. Then a client is murdered at one of my properties. Then a colleague vanishes. Then ...

He attacks women in their homes. Then he has dinner with them. Detective Lily Hart is brilliant, sarcastic and running on fumes. Insomnia and sleeping pills blur her nights into hallucinations, but when a predator known as The BFF Killer strikes again, dragging her into a case that echoes the darkest chapter of her own past. One survivor tells the story: The blindfolded dinner. The only clue is a lizard tattoo. When Lily’s partner is murdered while protecting her, everything changes. The deeper she digs, the more the lines between justice and obsession disappear. Because he isn’t just ...

Venus, a wife and true crime vlogger, ferociously pursues the dark, disturbing mystery behind a series of vicious slayings in her small town of St. Devil. Who are the victims? The women in her family, people she dearly loved—brutally murdered at the hands of a mysterious serial killer. She suspects that her own father may very well be this serial killer, but nothing is as it seems. The neighbor, her brother-in-law, and people very close to her have their fair share of dark secrets and shocking lies.

7 gripping books! Not for the fainthearted. They are gritty and violent. The Child Taker Slow Burn Criminally Insane Frozen Betrayal Desolate Sands Concrete Evidence Three★★★★★ Gritty and gripping. An amazing thriller series, it's up there with the UK's best offerings. Free on Kindle Unlimited! ★★★★★ "Couldn't put this down. Fast-paced from the beginning." ★★★★★ "An impressive series. This author writes such gripping stories, I couldn't put them down." This author has 35 best-selling novels. This shows the depths of his storytelling. One of the best series you ...

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.

From the author of Chloroform Wars — Runner-Up, Paris Book Festival 2025 A psychological thriller told from the mind of a serial killer. What happens when the hunter becomes the hunted—and the mask slips for good? Tom Clanblaze is an expert at pretending. By day, he’s a devoted husband, an ordinary father, an invisible government IT tech. But behind the calm exterior, he is something far more dangerous—a man who’s spent years locking away his darkest compulsions, keeping every impulse controlled. Until the violence turns inward. Until his own family bleeds. Now, Tom’s world ...

28 Days. 28 Chapters. 28 Women. One killer hiding in plain sight. The night of her engagement party, Mya’s engagement ring finger is severed in a violent incident. She staggers into the street covered in blood and is thrust into the spotlight. But as Valentine’s Day approaches, she’s not the only one, women across the city begin turning up mutilated—and murdered. As fear spreads and secrets surface, Mya starts questioning every man in her life. One of them could be the Engagement Ring Killer. Things take a turn for the worst when one of the mutilated women turns up dead on ...

The first three books in the Rebecca Watson crime thriller series. Stone Cold Detective Rebecca Watson is tracking a vicious serial killer in Eugene Falls, Florida. As a distraction, she’s dragged back into court for the retrial of a man convicted of murdering his girlfriend five years earlier. His defense attorney will use any means to get his client freed, including uncovering old wounds from Watson’s past. As the case takes a few hard turns, nothing can prepare her for the world she’s about to encounter, the past that haunts her, and the truth behind the serial killer’s motive. ...

The Midnight Visitors are relentless. When a family is murdered in cold blood, the terror spreads like a virus. No one is safe, and every corner hides a threat. As the network of fear grows, Krissy finds herself at the center of a nightmare that has no rules, no mercy, and no end in sight. Samantha Leary and Greg Dickson are racing against time, piecing together the patterns of a ruthless, invisible enemy. Every decision carries consequences, and every step could be their last. In this electrifying installment of the Samantha Leary Psychological Thriller series, suspense escalates with ...

A killer from his past threatens his future. Will a decade-long chase end in justice or disaster? Special Agent Aidan O’Reilly is haunted by the one that got away. And even after another year of silence, he still can’t shake his failure to nail the sociopathic madman responsible for over fifty shocking murders. But his guilt becomes a shot at redemption when the murderer returns, naming the detective in a personal note pinned to a fresh kill. With meticulously clean crime scenes and a nosy reporter on the loose, O’Reilly and his new partner scramble to uncover the next target’s ...

This haunting journey into the mind of a psychopath will chill you to the core . . . A brutal psychological thriller that takes you deep inside the mind of a monster. Headless bodies are turning up across Portvale, each one arranged with a precision that suggests ritual rather than impulse. Detective Ray Truman has spent years tracing the pattern, convinced he knows exactly who is responsible. What he cannot find is the proof that will hold the case together. As the murders spread beyond the industrial district, Truman’s investigation begins to erode the boundaries he relies on. Every ...

A frozen lake…Cold-Blooded Murder. A powerful man is found dead in his fish house on a frozen Minnesota lake, murdered, stabbed to death. His employees, family, and the local sheriff, all seem happy to have him gone - all except his personal assistant. With his death she is now forced to do something she thought she would never have to do, reveal secrets that will destroy the careers and lives of many - including a man set on being the next governor of the state. Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Agent Danny Carlisle has been given the assignment, her first as a lead agent, and ...

Damon Williams is a bull-riding legend—famous, fearless, and built like a battering ram. But beneath the swagger lives something feral. His rage is volcanic. His mind, fractured. And when it erupts, young women vanish. Each act is deliberate. Each aftermath, disturbing. The Furious Bull isn’t hiding. He’s performing. And the show is just beginning. Juliette, once Ray’s partner, now leads the hunt on her home turf. She’s seen violence before—but nothing like this. Damon doesn’t just kill. He dominates. Arthur returns—brilliant, detached, and unflinching. Together, they ...

Sheriff Sadie Mills navigates the challenges of single motherhood while solving crimes in the rural community of Possum Gap, Kentucky. The recent trailer shootings in her jurisdiction have her on edge, and the new coroner, a Yankee transplant from the east coast, is still adjusting to life in the wilderness when all hell breaks loose. Cases stemming from an out-of-control hillbilly clan, sex trafficking, and a murder in the nearby Amish community collide, and Sheriff Mills finds herself in a race to stop a serial killer before they strike again.

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One FBI profiler. Three European cities. Three impossible cases. FBI profiler Reid Harper has seen the darkness that lives inside the human mind. But when his Amsterdam investigation ends in catastrophic failure—six women murdered, only one saved—the guilt nearly destroys him. Now, three complete thrillers follow Reid from his darkest moment to his ultimate redemption across the streets of Europe's most dangerous cities. THE AMSTERDAM KILLER Six dead. One alive. The case that broke him. A serial killer is hunting women in Amsterdam's narrow canal-side streets. Reid Harper arrives too ...

Her blue eyes wide open, glossed over. A few specks of sand clung to her long, dark lashes. Her beautiful face, immobile, covered in sparkling flecks of sand. Who is the beautiful girl found at dawn, on a deserted stretch of white sand beach? What is her secret? FBI special agent Tess Winnett searches for answers relentlessly. With each step, each new finding, she uncovers unsettling facts leading to a single possible conclusion: Dawn Girl is not the only victim. Her killer has killed before.

A yearning to be free... Katherine was just nineteen when she met Basil Duckworth. He was charismatic, worldly, and impossible to resist as he spoke of freedom, adventure, and a life lived beyond the ordinary. With no hesitation, young and somewhat naive Katherine left everything behind and ran off with Basil, believing she had found the man of her dreams. For a while, it felt like the right choice. As they travelled from place to place chasing Basil's musical career, there were nights filled with laughter, stolen kisses under starlit skies, and promises whispered like prayers. But slowly, ...