Serial Killer Survivors

From bestselling thriller writer Fiona Cummins, The Serial Killer Survivors Club explores the fragile friendships formed in a unique support group - for the young family members of people who have committed the darkest of crimes . . . It takes the daughter of a serial killer to catch one...

When Dean receives a distraught phone call from his ex-girlfriend. He rushes to her home to find a horrific and dreadful scene... A ransacked house and her bloodied body lying on the floor. As the police and her husband arrive at the scene, Dean learns that his ex's son is also missing. While Dean searches for answers behind her death, a bombing kills a friend from his days in the military. At the memorial service, Dean has to confront people he hasn't seen in years while facing memories of a tragic event that left them all scarred. The situation takes a darker turn as mysterious classified...

There are individuals who walk among us, their humanity a thin and brittle mask. They are the quiet neighbor, the charismatic leader, the smiling grandmother. Their normality is their most effective weapon, a camouflage that allows them to move through the world unseen—until the moment the mask is dropped and the abyss is revealed. This gripping collection delves into thirty of the most harrowing and unsettling accounts in modern history . From the frozen plains of Soviet Russia to the sun-baked deserts of the American border, this book is a journey into the heart of darkness, exploring ...

From the shadows of the Pacific Coast Highway to the silence of the Sierra Nevada, California is a state built on sunshine—and stained by blood. Logan Carter, Top 100 Audible Author in True Crime, brings you 23 gripping cases that reveal the darkest corners of the Golden State. Inside, you’ll find: – Killers hiding in plain sight – Disappearances with chilling twists – Small-town horrors that never made national headlines – Fresh takes on infamous cases like the Golden State Killer, the Zodiac, and the Manson Family True Crime: California is raw, relentless, and rooted in real ...

They came to heal. One of them came to hunt. Seven survivors of violent crime meet every Thursday in a church basement in Portland, Oregon. They call themselves The Circle. They have one rule: what is shared in the room stays in the room. For seven months, they have traded their darkest confessions — the freezing, the hiding, the hesitation, the shame of what they did or failed to do in the moments that nearly destroyed them. Then the members start dying. Not randomly. Not violently. Precisely. Each death mirrors the victim’s original trauma with a specificity that can only mean one ...

EDITORIAL REVIEW A chilling and meticulously researched true-crime investigation, The Truck Stop Killer examines one of America's most disturbing highway predator cases through survivor testimony, investigative records, victim histories, and the unanswered questions that continue to haunt the case decades later. Balancing factual accuracy with powerful human storytelling, Ted Lazaris shines a light on the victims, families, survivors, and investigators whose lives were forever changed by crimes that unfolded along the nation's interstates. Both gripping and deeply moving, this Documented ...

*Shortlisted for Book of the Year at the True Crime Awards 2026!* What makes ordinary people, living normal lives, abandon everything to join a cult? Emma Kenny - psychologist and true crime expert - delves into gripping true stories of cults, operating all around us. In this exhilarating and...

New York Times bestselling authors Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen team up for another electrifying thriller that pits a serial killer against Kendra Michaels' heightened powers of deduction. After scoring a plea deal in a high-profile murder trial, serial killer James Michael Barrett leads a...

The one who lived is the one who can prove it was never an accident. When a target survives a sabotaged breakdown and triggers an SOS, she leaves Elliot Marsh something he has never left behind: evidence. A mechanic's affidavit names the tool marks. For the first time, the accidents have a fingerprint. Naya Kaur finally has a task force, an affidavit, and a corridor of dead motorists that line up too cleanly to be chance. Then the warrant dies on a technicality — placement, not proximity — and a thirty-day clock starts running on the only case that has ever made sense to her. Elliot ...

EDITORIAL REVIEW THE SUNSET KILLER S is one of the most emotionally devastating entries in the Documented Terror collection, blending the neon glamour of 1980s Hollywood with the chilling reality of a killer couple who hid in plain sight. Written with the pacing of a top-tier crime thriller and grounded in the fear, grief, and uncertainty experienced by victims, survivors, investigators, and families, this book transforms a true crime nightmare into a deeply human story of obsession, loss, and remembrance. Equal parts psychological thriller, historical crime narrative, and emotional tragedy...

In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as Ted Bundy stalked nearby. He grabbed an oak log from a stack of firewood, slipped through a back door with a broken padlock, and headed upstairs.He began twisting doorknobs. Room 9 was open, and he quietly and quickly killed one of my sleeping sorority sisters. Across the hall, he found another unlocked door and murdered again. Then, he turned the knob to my bedroom and found it was open. I remember the attack vividly. But Bundy wasn’t my first brush with death, and he wasn’t my last.

Nine months ago, DCI Matilda Darke survived a bullet to the head. The brutal attack claimed dozens of lives, including those she loved most, and the nightmares still plague her every waking thought. Now, she’s ready to get back on the job. But a new terror awaits. A woman is found murdered and her wounds look eerily similar to several cold cases. Desperate to find a lead, DCI Darke and her team must face a terrifying truth: a serial killer is on the loose in Sheffield.

DCI Matilda Darke is back. And it might be her most personal case yet. ‘Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine’ Elly Griffiths FIVE PERFECT MURDERS DCI Matilda Darke receives an anonymous email from someone claiming to have committed the perfect murder. Experience tells her this isn’t...

A sensual love story. His touch. Her wildness. And a nightmare that returns from her past. ◆An FBI Romantic Suspense◆ The story begins with a secret three people know. A PRISONER. A KILLER. AND THE BLONDE. It's all about something that happened years ago down a 54-mile stretch of Louisiana highway - from Baton Rouge to Angola Prison. Samantha's life changed forever that day. Savagely. But now...gorgeous, blonde, and blue-eyed SAMANTHA RUTLEDGE IS A BATON ROUGE PROSECUTOR. PASSIONATE. BOLD. ARMED. And she has a very sexy friend. Brilliant and skilled, FBI AGENT SEAN NASH IS HOT. HANDSOME...

It’s a total crime wave: A mini encyclopedia of true crime, packed with stories of killers, cons, survivors, forensics and more! More than 200 stories of killers, con artists, master thieves, and brazen kidnappers—and strong survivors, detectives, forensic breakthroughs, and legal minds on...

Books 25-27 Volume 9 of the Samantha Leary Psychological Thrillers brings together three interconnected investigations that reveal how disappearance, violence, and control can take different forms—but leave the same kind of damage behind. In the first case, a child vanishes without a trace. Every lead is deliberate, every clue carefully placed. Samantha Leary and Detective Greg Dickson follow a trail of coded messages, abandoned locations, and controlled patterns that point toward a system built to erase evidence rather than leave it behind. What begins as a missing child investigation ...

'Baldacci is the master' – Jeffrey Archer FBI Special Agent Atlee Pine’s mission to find her missing sister reaches an explosive climax in Mercy. From one of the world’s favourite thriller writers and internationally bestselling author of The 6:20 Man, David Baldacci. The hunt is finally...

When a young girl is snatched from a West Yorkshire town there are eerie similarities with a cold case from many years earlier. It can't be the same killer, can it? 1994. Eighteen-year-old Adrian Brown spends his days working at the local newspaper, and his evenings in his local pub. But under...

Some wounds don’t fade. Some killers don’t stop. Dr. Charlie Morrow thought she had escaped the haunting forests of Mattawa, where her last case left her scarred in body and spirit. But when the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrest a local eccentric for the murders she narrowly survived, Charlie is called back—this time not as a victim, but as a consultant. Haunted by nightmares and drawn by a truth she can’t ignore, Charlie returns to Canada to confront the man who may—or may not—be the serial predator who has eluded capture for years. And an RCMP investigator weighed down by ...

‘Wickedly fun and highly addictive… a delicious read with all the elements of a perfect whodunit’ Jeneva Rose, New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage ‘House on Haunted Hill mixed with Agatha Christie’ NetGalley Reviewer The brand new locked-room thriller for fans of...