Nurse Serial Killer

He is the best nurse on the floor. Everyone says so. When alarms sound in the small hours of the morning at Good Samaritan Hospital on Long Island, Ricardo is always first through the door — calm, skilled, indispensable. In seven months on the overnight ICU shift, he has responded to thirty-seven code blue emergencies. What no one knows is that one nurse has caused most of them. Detective Lisa Moretti sees a pattern in the numbers that no one in the hospital wants to acknowledge. Nurse Chantal Harper sees something in Ricardo's eyes during a code that she cannot explain and cannot ignore....

Written by the forensic nurse who transformed the way the FBI profiles and catches serial killers, this thought-provoking book takes an intimate look at the creation of the Behavioral Science Unit–the inspiration for Hulu’s Mastermind documentary. In the 1970s, the FBI created the...

They were nurses, mothers, wives, caregivers, and trusted friends. Behind those familiar roles were women capable of calculated, repeated murder. In this gripping addition to Scott Jones’s true-crime series, twenty cases from the past fifty years reveal how female killers selected their victims, concealed their crimes, and escaped suspicion, sometimes for decades. From poisoners and hospital murderers to predatory couples and killers who turned homes, temples, and places of care into hunting grounds, each detailed chapter reconstructs the crimes, investigations, evidence, and trials that ...

This New York Times bestselling book is the mesmerizing basis for the movie starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain that takes you inside the mind of America's most prolific serial killer, whose 16-year long "nursing" career left hundreds dead. “The best book(s) I read this year” (top...

She was the kind nurse who brought cakes in. She remembered birthdays. She did the night shifts nobody else wanted. By the time the consultants of the Countess of Chester Hospital finally went to the police, seven babies were dead, and the most controversial criminal case in modern British history was about to begin. Lucy Letby Decoded goes beyond the headlines, the verdicts and the noise. It asks the questions the courtroom never quite answered. Why this quiet young woman from a quiet town in Hereford. Why babies. Why the smallest possible victims a country can produce. And why, after ...

Callista Vellis is beautiful, warm, and impossible to look away from—the kind of woman men forget how to be careful around. Grief should have broken her. Instead, it woke something older. Something inherited. Something that has slept in the women of her family for generations, waiting for its moment to rise. She doesn’t hunt in shadows. She hunts in plain sight—at hospital bedsides, across crowded bars, behind the warmest smile in the room. Unfaithful men vanish one by one, and what's left behind carries a message only she understands. Ray steps back from the hunt, forced to confront ...

The whole country knows Lucy Letby is guilty. So did Craig Beck. He wrote a bestselling book built on her conviction. Then he kept reading and watched the case fall apart in his hands. Seven murders. Seven whole life orders. One question nobody was allowed to ask: what if the evidence was wrong? In this gripping companion to Lucy Letby Decoded, the only author to argue both sides of Britain's most divisive murder case dismantles the prosecution piece by piece: the shift chart built around a chosen suspect. The insulin tests the laboratory itself said needed confirming, never confirmed, ...

SLASHED: THE UNFORGETTABLE TRUE STORY THAT HAUNTED A GENERATION On a sweltering July night in 1966, Chicago’s South Side descended into madness. Eight young student nurses—each with a dream, a future, and a purpose—were bound, brutalized, and murdered inside their shared townhouse. The man responsible, Richard Speck, would become one of the most infamous names in American criminal history. The nation would never be the same. “The night Chicago screamed” was more than a headline—it was the night America lost its innocence. THE KILLER WHO CHANGED AMERICA FOREVER Richard Speck ...

They were trusted nurses—daughters, mothers, veterans themselves. Behind their calm smiles and steady hands, death moved quietly through the hospital halls. Kristen Gilbert and Reta Mays worked decades apart in two different states, yet their crimes were mirror images of betrayal. Each used the same access, the same authority, and the same mask of compassion to murder those who trusted them most: American veterans. In Angels of Death, investigative author Elliot Christopher reconstructs the parallel stories of two women who turned healing into horror—and exposes how a vast institution ...

Winner of BEST NEW AUTHOR at THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2025 Highly commended for BOOK OF THE YEAR at THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2025 Shortlisted for THE ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION at the 2025 CWA DAGGERS 'Diligent and absorbing' Gaby Hinsliff, Guardian 'Meticulous and unexpectedly gripping' Janice...

The tea is warm, the smile is kind — and the poison is already working. When Nurse Brenda Glenford inherits her aunt’s flat and a strange silver pendant, she steps into a legacy steeped in silence, shadows, and death. At Ashmere Hospital, she becomes a comforting presence — calm, attentive, beloved by patients. But beneath the surface, something ancient is whispering to her. Something that remembers every death. Something that urges her to kill again. Poison is her method. Tea is her ritual. And murder is the mercy she believes she offers. As her past blurs with another woman's dark ...

Behind the white walls of Ashmere Hospital, something evil brews in the tea. Nurse Brenda Glenford is calm, capable, and quietly feared. Patients die under her care — not suddenly, but slowly, discreetly. A pendant from her aunt whispers of ancient duties, and Brenda listens. But when a professor uncovers her secret and a detective checks into the ward, Brenda’s careful order begins to crack. In this chilling psychological horror, the boundaries between healing and harm blur, and tea-time becomes a death sentence. The Killing Nurse is an entry in The Holloway Series, a dark exploration ...

Updated with dramatic developments and new murder charges, filed in the coldest of cold cases, to keep a serial baby-killer behind bars. This tale is every parent's worst nightmare: the horrifying account of a Texas nurse who killed children under her care, and the hospital that covered it up.

When Care Decides is a meticulously researched true-crime narrative that examines how trust, authority, and institutional silence enabled one of history’s most disturbing medical crimes. Through the life of Jane Toppan, a nurse who killed her patients while acting in the name of care, this book exposes the systems that failed to see — and the quiet decisions that proved fatal. Written with restraint and insight, When Care Decides is not a story about madness, but about what happens when care is given the power to choose.

They're not detectives. Or are they? Two travel nurses work together with local police to find out who's murdering young blonde women in this coastal North Carolina town that's just been ravaged by a hurricane. Having survived a devastating hurricane on the east coast of the United States, and solving the mystery of missing and murdered travel nurses, Piper Quinn and Jeannie Hatcher are reluctant to leave their summer home after their travel assignment is complete. Adventures await them on other assignments, but they decide to stay on Oak Island to help the people devastated by the storm. ...

She’ll offer you tea with a smile. You won’t taste the poison until it’s far too late. At Ashmere Hospital, Nurse Brenda Glenford is known for her calm hands, gentle words, and flawless tea. But behind her tidy apron and soothing voice lies a mind as sharp as any scalpel — and far more dangerous. When Lucy Trent, a new filing assistant, arrives with polite smiles and quiet questions, Brenda begins to sense trouble. Lucy’s curiosity is no accident. She’s been digging into the mysterious deaths at Ashmere… and into Brenda’s shadowy past. As their tea-time friendship deepens, ...

It was meant to be Caitlin's perfect summer, but betrayed by her best friend and her boyfriend, she finds herself hitchhiking home alone, heartbroken, and penniless. When a smiling family pulls up on the roadside to help her on her way, she's relieved at first - they seem friendly, normal. And when they offer her a warm bed in their cottage for the night, she's grateful - it's not safe for young women travelling alone in the dark, and she's in no rush to get home, where she knows a grave secret is due to blow her family apart.

A new and gripping psychological thriller with a medical twist, perfect for fans of Harriet Tyce, B A Paris and Doctor Foster. Care giver, life saver… or cold-blooded killer? Running away from a past she’d rather forget, Doctor Alison Wilson has moved to a new town to take up the role of...

‘We don’t talk about sick or healthy people at St Patricia’s. Words such as hysteric, lunatic and psychopath... They are no longer used. Because who amongst us can say that we are always healthy?’ An underground passage leads from the Dell nursery to Saint Patricia’s asylum. Only the...

If you've ever wondered if the fairy tales and nursery rhymes you grew up on have any connection to actual events, this book may hold the answers you seek. This exploration of twenty-five children's favorites and their possible origins takes a closer look at such classics as Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, The Snow Queen, Jack Be Nimble, Little Jack Horner, Bluebeard and many others. While some of their histories are as pure as the driven snow, others are downright horrific. So, if you're ready to pull back the curtain on a world that is not ...