Police Procedural Serial Killers Mystery

Rave reviews for The Serial Killer's Game: ....... INTENSE, CHILLING, and IMPOSSIBLE TO PUT DOWN. ..... GRIPPING and THOUGHT-PROVOKING story that explores the complexities of human nature and the darker side of society. A vicious serial killer is terrorizing the beautiful American city of San Francisco during the 50s and 60s. A thin ligature is being used to strangle some of his victims brutally, but others have received the death touch, a deadly kung fu blow to their chests - exploding their hearts. The vaunted San Francisco Police Department is puzzled, and the public clamor is reaching a...

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 ...

If you love twisty thrillers with heart, you'll love the Bridget Bishop FBI Mystery Thriller Collection Volume One which has been earning rave reviews from thriller lovers looking for their next chilling series. This Boxset includes Books 1-3 in the addictive series: Lessons in Evil (Book One) Renowned criminal psychologist Bridget Bishop quit the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit after only two years on the job, exhausted and traumatized from facilitating the investigation and capture of one of the country’s most prolific serial killers. But the Bureau isn’t done with Bridget yet as ...

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...

The first novel in the addictive USA Today million-selling CSI police procedural series. 'Be warned - you won’t put it down ... ' -- LOVEREADING Forensic investigator Reilly Steel, Quantico-trained and California-born and bred, imagined Dublin to be a far cry from bustling San Francisco, a sleepy backwater where she can lay past ghosts to rest and start anew. But a serial killer soon puts paid to that idea. A young man and woman are found dead in a hotel room, the evidence initially suggesting a suicide pact. But as Reilly and the investigative team dig deeper and more bodies are ...

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. ...

If you love twisty thrillers with heart, you'll love the Bridget Bishop FBI Mystery Thriller Collection Volume Two. This Boxset includes Books 4 - 6 in the addictive series: Road to Evil (Book Four) Criminal psychologist Bridget Bishop’s worst nightmare comes true when the Backroads Butcher returns to terrorize the small town of Mount Destiny, Virginia. Working with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit to track down the depraved serial killer, Bridget soon discovers her old nemesis isn’t the only killer in town. When Evil Calls (Book Five) Criminal Psychologist Bridget Bishop returns to...

When the body of a young woman is found in her own backyard, a week after her disappearance, evidence leads investigators to a chilling conclusion. She is not the first victim of a serial killer no one knew existed. She most definitely is not the last. FBI Special Agent Tess Winnett joins the local detectives assigned to the case and searches for answers in the intriguing investigation that offers a plethora of forensic evidence, yet no viable leads. When another body is found, the search intensifies, and details about the killer's unusual signature emerge.

ANIMAL INSTINCT IS A KILLER… A brutal attack at an elite training stable shatters the calm—and thrusts DCI David Garrick into the darkest case of his career. What begins as a savage assault spirals into murder, dragging Garrick and his fractured team into a ruthless investigation where nothing is as it seems. Still grieving the loss of a beloved colleague, Kent’s finest are stretched to breaking point as pressure mounts and trust begins to crack. For Garrick, the case cuts dangerously close to home. With a newborn daughter waiting for him and a team on the brink, he’s forced to ...

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.

They are the most violent, blood-thirsty, and vicious of criminals. While hunting for them, FBI profilers call these monsters UNSUBS, short for "unknown subjects of ongoing investigations". At any given time, in the United States there are more than 50 serial killers at large, preying on vulnerable, unsuspecting victims. Until yesterday, no one knew Florida had another serial killer on the loose. Special Agent Tess Winnett calls this particularly elusive one the "Taker of Lives".

Three dead. Shot point-blank. A hot summer day just got hotter. Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Agent Doc Hunter had a golf game scheduled. Doc was a good golfer. Very good. Thinking about going pro. But now all of that had been put on hold because three people on a farm got themselves shot and Hunter's boss had decided he needed to be the one to investigate. Doc wasn't happy about the assignment, and was even less happy when he finds there is a cover-up and a suspect list that only seems to keep growing. On top of that, he has a killer who has a lot more killing to do. As the body count ...

A Diabolical Madman Leaves a Grisly Trail of Fresh Blood and Old Bones When FBI Special Agent Bailey Flynn investigates a brutal stabbing in the coastal Florida town of Belle Harbor, she soon discovers that the vicious crime is linked to the murder of an unidentified woman with a disturbing connection to a notorious criminal cartel. After a search of the crime scene unearths the hidden remains of a local woman who vanished three decades earlier, Bailey begins to piece together the twisted motive of a madman whose deadly obsession has driven him to kill again, and again, and again… Book ...

The Detective Nessa Ainsley Novella Series If you love emotional thrillers with a twist, you'll love the Detective Nessa Ainsley Novella Series, Get complete series of all 4 novellas in one chilling collection! Steal Her Breath, Book One When the body of a young coed is discovered near the local college campus on Nessa Ainsley's first day as a Major Crimes detective, she quickly finds herself on the trail of a vicious predator. Take Her Life, Book Two When hikers find the body of a young woman in the Twisted Pine Forest outside Rosewood, Georgia, Detective Nessa Ainsley soon discovers a ...

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.

DCI David Garrick knows what murder leaves behind. He’s been living with it since his sister was killed. Now bodies are turning up across Kent’s picture-perfect villages — mutilated, staged, and marked with a grotesque trophy carved from the victim’s flesh. As the killings escalate, Garrick finds himself haunted not only by the case, but by visions he can’t explain — and instincts he no longer trusts. Digging beneath the county’s idyllic surface, Garrick uncovers a network of human trafficking and organised crime that reaches further than any one killer. But with no clear link...

An Evil Matchmaker Arranges a Date with Death After a suspected wife-killer and wanted fugitive is arrested for a brutal attack on a young woman outside the Dark Diamond nightclub on New Year’s Eve, he refuses to talk to anyone but FBI Behavioral Analyst Bridget Bishop. And when a blood-stained tarot card found at the scene reveals a disturbing link to a series of unsolved murders, Bridget begins to suspect that the man they have in custody may be an unwitting pawn in a serial killer’s deadly game. Book Seven in the chilling FBI mystery thriller series by Melinda Woodhall, author of the...

REVENGE IS ONLY HALF THE STORY… An unreported disappearance. A crime hidden in plain sight. A temptation that threatens to corrupt even the incorruptible. When a corpse is finally uncovered, the dark secrets behind the crime are laid bare. But the dead cannot speak, cannot accuse, and cannot demand justice. It falls to DCI David Garrick and his team to piece together the clues and unravel a most peculiar and chilling case. Yet even as the investigation intensifies, Garrick is under pressure closer to home. Budget cuts, a wedding, and mounting personal crises force him to question ...

A Son Haunted by His Father’s Sins As private investigator Frankie Dawson begins to build a new life for himself in Memphis, he takes on the disturbing cold case of an ambitious young reporter who vanished without a trace decades earlier. When the woman’s disappearance is linked to a barrel of human remains found at a new construction site, and a potential witness to the crime goes missing, Frankie finds himself at the heart of a serial murder investigation. In a desperate bid to stop the cold-blooded killer before another body is found, Frankie unearths the chilling truth about his ...

The winters in Willow Falls, Iowa are cold, brutal and unforgiving. And so is the town’s newest visitor. Except he’s not passing through. He’s here on vacation, for some fun and he’s going to stay for a while. They call him “Robin Hood”, a winter serial killer who has left a gruesome trail of horror and d ath across four Midwestern states. His grisly trademark is skewering his victims to tree trunks using a hunting crossbow. Now he’s here.