Crime Rituals

Bodies are being staged across Kent’s quiet villages—mutilated, displayed, and marked with a killer’s signature. This isn’t random. DCI David Garrick knows what murder does to a family. He’s lived with it ever since his sister was killed. Now he’s leading a case that feels disturbingly familiar. As the body count rises and the press close in, Garrick uncovers a pattern—one that leads far beyond a single killer. Behind the ritualistic murders lies something far more dangerous: A network of organised crime and human trafficking—hidden in plain sight. Protected. Profitable. ...

“You want to read this book. It is chilling and compelling at the same time.” – Dr. Phil McGraw. “I can think of no more important book at this moment in our history than Profiling Evil: An Investigative Memoir of the Zion Society Cult. Mike King has made a superb and vitally important contribution by exposing the abuse of women and children in that heinous cult. And this still happens far too often in the multitude of harmful groups around the world. If you want to understand coercive influence and control, then read this book.” -Janja Lalich, Ph.D., Professor “This book has it...

Human sacrifice still goes on uncomfortably close to home - cases have been found in the U.S., Europe, and the United Kingdom. In other parts of the world, such as South America, ritual killing is almost commonplace. Human Sacrifice investigates the terrifying current spate of human sacrifices and ritual killings. Jimmy Lee Shreeve draws on police reports and interviews with the victims' families to paint a horrifying picture of ritual sacrifice at home and abroad.

Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. One of the women was brutally raped as she returned from the mikvah, the bathhouse where the cleansing...

Detective Alex Cross must confront his most terrifying nemesis ever—and his own deepest fears—in this electrifying thriller from the world's #1 bestselling writer. Alex Cross has investigated macabre crime scenes. But the gruesome murders of two joggers in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park...

Siete pies, cortados y atados entre sí, aparecen flotando en el río Sena, cerca de la sede central de la Policía Judicial francesa. Se forma rápidamente un equipo de investigación, dirigido por el capitán Martin Vaas. La búsqueda de los cuerpos a los que pertenecen esos pies hace que se reabran casos de hace más de veinte años, crímenes en los que al cadáver le faltaba un pie, cometidos cerca del curso de un río. Sin embargo, las piezas no terminan de encajar. Una misteriosa inscripción (en uno de los pies se lee «ganador») podría encerrar la clave de todo.

From “one of America’s smartest and most charming writers” (NPR), an archaeological romp through the entire history of humankind—and through all five senses—from tropical Polynesian islands to forbidding arctic ice floes, and everywhere in between. Whether it’s the mighty pyramids of...

Who needs fiction when real life serves up acid baths, cannibal cults, and killers with freezers full of flesh? 20 stories from 20 countries - all real and all shocking! From acid-dissolved corpses in Pakistan to brutal ritual killings in Tanzania — these aren’t horror stories. They’re real. Climb into Hamburg’s attic of horrors, stand trial with a Cuban war criminal, and uncover the butcher couple of Brazil who turned victims into food — each story in Macabre Volume #2 is meticulously told for lovers of twisted true crime, historical atrocities, and human darkness laid bare. ...

Black masses. Human sacrifices. Secret cults hidden in the woods. For decades, stories about Satanic crimes have fascinated, terrified and divided public opinion. But how much of what we think we know is actually supported by evidence? Satanic Crime for Beginners explores the complex world of alleged ritual crimes, occult-inspired violence, moral panics and criminal investigations through the lens of criminology. From the Satanic Panic of the 1980s to real homicide cases involving occult symbolism, this book separates documented facts from urban legends, media hysteria and conspiracy ...

Six bodies. One survivor. And the killer's final words that will haunt him forever. FBI profiler Reid Harper has spent sixteen years hunting monsters—trying to balance an impossible equation. Thirty-seven victims saved. One daughter lost. The math never works. When six American women are found drowned in Amsterdam's canals, staged with religious symbols and positioned like prayers, Dutch police request his expertise. The pattern is clear. The killer is organized, intelligent, and escalating. Reid identifies Willem de Vries within days: a canal tour operator with a dead mother, a strict ...

When Olivia Taylor-Jones found out she was not actually the adopted child of a privileged Chicago family but of a notorious pair of convicted serial killers, her life exploded. Running from the fallout, she found a refuge in the secluded but oddly welcoming town of Cainsville, Illinois, but she couldn't resist trying to dig out the truth about her birth parents' crimes. She began working with Gabriel Walsh, a fiendishly successful criminal lawyer who also had links to the town.

Three more short stories from the “Crossroads” series that will help keep you entertained late into the night. Discover the bright imagination, suspense, thrilling drama, picturesque visions, and the third look into the true meaning of the “Crossroads” series.

Fans of Stephen King, Stuart MacBride and Karin Slaughter will devour this dark and disturbing thriller from bestselling and prize-winning author Mo Hayder. Expertly weaving ancient rites with modern forensics, it draws you in and paints a picture so vivid and compelling in the mind, you'll be...

Chantal Frei (pseudonym) who grew up in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, was only six years old when Satanists decided to make her into a Mother of Darkness. At that time, she had already survived massive torture – which was the reason why the cult considered her to be strong, smart, and intelligent enough to be trained by the Illuminati. Today, Chantal Frei is able to speak out about her experiences as a survivor of satanic ritual abuse, spiritual abuse, and mind control in order to help others by providing insight and knowledge.

BOOK 2 IN THE BESTSELLING CANON CLEMENT MYSTERY SERIES 'The best of the new cosy crime writers' Daily Telegraph 'First-class entertainment' Daily Mirror It's been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton apart. As Canon Daniel Clement tries to steady his flock, the parish...

This set contains books seven to nine in the gripping, fast-paced crime fiction series featuring DCI Whitney Walker and forensic psychologist Dr. Georgina Cavendish: Ritual Demise, Mortal Remains, and Silent Graves.

My name is Cindy and my deepest desire, since I was a child, was to do something fulfilling with my life. This desire came from all the devastation I witnessed. Then, I came across a Zen proverb, “May we exist like the lotus at ease in muddy water.” My childhood was like slopping through mud but where was my lotus? The more I remembered of my youth the more horrified I became. I was waking up from a terrifying nightmare. I knew I needed help but what or who could help me? In my fervor, I recognized that I was being as hard on myself as those who had harmed me. How could I exist at ease ...

Four men. One ritual. A kingdom of supernatural power at stake. Heiress Olivia Blackwood has spent her life as magical royalty, her family ruling the supernatural criminal underworld for generations. Publicly, she plays the perfect daughter; privately, she's her father's most dangerous weapon, her telekinetic abilities honed to lethal precision. But when she uncovers her father's unthinkable betrayal, the carefully constructed façade begins to crumble. Kidnapped by the notorious Valenti brothers, powerful magic users openly challenging her family's throne in the supernatural hierarchy, ...

They called it the Satanic Panic. It should be remembered as one of the strangest, most consequential moral panics in American history. In 1979, a college student vanished into the steam tunnels beneath Michigan State University, and a private investigator's wild theory about a "dangerous" tabletop game became the founding legend of an entire decade's fear. From there, the panic spread everywhere: to Senate hearing rooms where Tipper Gore put heavy metal on trial; to Florida courtrooms where a rap group fought an obscenity conviction all the way to the Supreme Court; to a Washington living ...

Something ancient is stirring beneath Ascension, Colorado—and the door between worlds is thinning. When FBI Agent Elizabeth Wheeler arrives in the quiet mountain town of Ascension to investigate a priest’s mysterious death, she expects a straightforward case. Instead, she finds a community unraveling: children collapsing into trances, families hearing drumming in their walls, and a pastor haunted by a midnight ritual he performed twenty‑two years ago—a ritual that opened something he cannot close. As Wheeler, Marcus Wendall, and FBI Special Agent Tim Johnson descend into the mine ...