Nurse Serial Killer

In the early hours of March 2015, the police receive a call from a nurse at a provincial Danish hospital. She suspects her colleague is deliberately killing patients and fears that it has just happened again. Soon, several witnesses reveal that they too suspect the same nurse of poisoning patients; some have been harboring their suspicion for years… so why has no one done anything about it before? And now that those patients’ bodies have long been cremated, where is the evidence?

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Before the first victim died in Detroit, there was Marguerite— a grandmother in a forgotten Texas town, and the woman who raised a monster. Years later, Detective Robin Gallagher catches a case nobody wants: strange deaths inside a run-down Detroit nursing home. The victims are elderly, invisible, and easily written off as natural losses. But something about the pattern doesn’t sit right. The old women aren’t dying—they’re being helped along. With her department stretched thin and her past catching up to her, Robin digs in. The trail leads to a drifter nurse’s aide who left ...

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.

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, ...

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.

In 1895, elderly patients were quietly dying one by one, yet no one sounded the alarm – until an entirely family passed away. All had been in the care of nurse Jane Toppan and suspicions hit the roof. Dilated pupils, feverish bodies, and erratic rambling left doctors baffled, but these weren’t the signs of illness. They were the marks of something far more sinister. Toppan manipulated her patients' dosages, watching them drift between life and death. For her, each fatal dose was not a crime, but a twisted act of mercy—a dark salvation from suffering.

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 ...