First Serial Killer

"Pulpy, peppery and sinister, served up in a comic deadpan...This scorpion-tailed little thriller leaves a response, and a sting, you will remember."--NEW YORK TIMES "The wittiest and most fun murder party you've ever been invited to."--MARIE CLAIRE WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR...

In Michelle Chouinard’s clever mystery The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco, the granddaughter of a serial killer shows readers another side of the beloved city. Welcome to San Francisco, a city with killer charm. The chill of a San Francisco summer can be deadly. No one knows this better...

This book is for listeners of true crime podcasts and audiences of both fiction and true-crime nonfiction. It's the true story of first-generation Irish-American nurse Jane Toppan, born as Honora Kelley. Jane Toppan was absolutely a monster, but she did not start out that way. When Jane was a young child, her father abandoned her and her sister to the Boston Female Asylum. From there, Jane was indentured to a wealthy family who changed her name, never adopted her, and wrote her out of the will.

A sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885 In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin...

A killer call. A murder close to home. A case only DCI Matilda Darke and her team can solve. No one wants to be the first one to die… *** 'Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine’ Elly Griffiths ‘A master of horror and suspense’ ★★★★★ *** A KILLER CONFESSION When journalist Danny...

In this unique book, Peter Vronsky documents the psychological, investigative, and cultural aspects of serial murder, beginning with its first recorded instance in ancient Rome, through 15th-century France, up to such notorious contemporary cases as cannibal/necrophile Ed Kemper, Henry Lee Lucas, Ted Bundy, and the emergence of what he classifies as "the serial rampage killer" such as Andrew Cunanan.

In January 1938, a young man is found shot dead in the garden of the West London house where he is a lodger. Within days, two more men of similar age are murdered in the same area. The circumstances are almost identical in each case. A small-calibre weapon had been used – and given the absence of noise, it was almost certainly fitted with a silencer. Chief Inspector Adair investigates. Clearly, a serial killer is at large, and the newspapers are full of ‘Jack the Ripper’ references, with innuendos about the competence of the police. Then a fourth man is found. This time, the pistol is...

Sometimes the darkest mysteries are homegrown. When Zephyr Nelson returns home to look after her ailing mother, she discovers that her younger brother, Cotter, has become obsessed with a malevolent influencer on a mysterious voice app. Just as a series of puzzling deaths begin plaguing their small town of Sugarland. With the help of her college best friend and occasional lover, Teddy, Zephyr unravels truths about Sugarland that are impossible for her to accept ...

Hollywood's make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can'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-acclaimed author of Deviant, Deranged, and Depraved, comes the ultimate resource on the serial killer phenomenon.

It’s the case John Jordan doesn’t talk about. The Stone Cold Killer still haunts his nightmares. The year is 1988—the hundredth anniversary of the Jack the Ripper murders—and a young John Jordan has just landed his first job in law enforcement. Then young women begin disappearing around Stone Mountain. As John puts the clues together, a terrifying pattern emerges. Someone is hunting women. Someone methodical, sadistic, and ritualistic. And he is far from finished. The small town of Stone Mountain has never faced a killer like this. Neither has its police department. Neither has John...

A dark, forbidden romance between a criminal psychologist and her serial killer patient, for those that like their love stories a little devilish. My patient is stalking me … and he’s a psychopath. I’ve dedicated my life to understanding the darkest corners of the human psyche, but nothing...

Imagine a killer who thinks, "What is the worst thing anyone has ever done?"--and then goes far beyond it. Now imagine four women --a police detective, an assistant DA, a reporter, and a medical examiner --who join forces as they sidestep their bosses to track down criminals. Known as the...

What turns a bedwetting twelve-year-old girl with bruises she does not talk about into the woman the cameras would, two decades later, call America's first female serial killer? The answer is not the one the headlines gave you. Aileen Wuornos killed seven men along the Florida highways in twelve months. She confessed to all of them, took the stand against her own lawyers, and screamed at the jury that she hoped their wives and daughters would suffer the same fate she claimed had been done to her. The state of Florida killed her by lethal injection in October 2002.

An emotional story told by a murdered young girl as she watches her family grieve and her killer try to cover up his crimes. "My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to...

Two hundred bodies. A gas chamber in the basement. Acid vats. A torture maze built to catch tourists at the 1893 World's Fair. You have read the stories. You have watched the documentaries. You have heard the body count climb on every new podcast. Almost none of it is true. The real Herman Webster Mudgett, the New Hampshire farm boy who took the name H. H. Holmes, killed perhaps nine people. The Murder Castle on Sixty Third Street was a swindler's headquarters with an oversized furnace, not a Bluebeard's slaughterhouse. The famous Hearst confession was paid fiction, written in a ...

Between 1871 and 1873, travellers vanished along a lonely Kansas trail. The Bloody Benders is the true story of America's first known serial killer family. Reconstructed from historical records, newspaper archives, and modern criminological analysis. This is not folklore, this is history.

Now the subject of the Lifetime original movie An Amish Murder Sworn to Silence is the first in Linda Castillo's New York Times bestselling Kate Burkholder series. A killer is preying on sacred ground.... In the sleepy rural town of Painters Mill, Ohio, the Amish and "English" residents have...

Genius programmer Angela Hoot has always been at the top of her class, but now she's at the bottom of the FBI food chain—until her first case threatens everyone around her. ​ Angela's graduate school days at MIT come to an abrupt end when she uses her hacking skills on another student's...

These seven murderers are perhaps the most sadistic serial killers to ever live. Albert Fish was a rapist, a child killer, and a cannibal who, not satisfied with the torture and murders of his young victims, would write to the parents to detail all of the vile things he did to the children. One such letter in this book. Albert Fish may have been the sickest serial killer to ever live. He would keep his young victims alive for days and beat them constantly to tenderize their flesh for cooking.

A SERIAL KILLER with an uncontrollable urge.A DETECTIVE with revenge in his heart.A PSYCHOTHERAPIST with a secret.A TROUBLED TEEN who just might hold the key to bringing an elusive killer to justice.SERIAL KILLER. Can he be stopped before he kills again?