True Crime Psychological Thriller

A sinister secret lies buried—one that swallows two young teens into an abyss of mystery. When two young teens at a county fair are drawn to desperate cries emanating from the House of Horrors, their world spins into chaos. They never enter, but suddenly, they're gone—vanished into thin air. Thus begins a baffling mystery into which rookie detective Teresa Simmonds and veteran Allan Yeats are thrown headfirst into a maze of secrets and lies. As they unravel the web of secrets and cover-ups, the question haunts them: What happened to Yasmine and Jerry, and why does no one want the truth ...

February 20, 2016 — Kalamazoo, Michigan. An ordinary Uber shift turned into a citywide nightmare. Jason Dalton seemed like any other driver on the road. But as he ferried passengers across Kalamazoo, Dalton became convinced that something had taken over his iPhone — a flashing app icon that shifted from red to black, a digital signal he believed was commanding him to kill. Minutes later, he began executing strangers at random, turning the city into a hunting ground and leaving police scrambling to understand the pattern behind the chaos. By the end of the night, eight people had been ...

When true crime podcaster Scott Townseend decides to feature a local cold case on his show, he’s just hoping to grow his audience. But the murder of Tony Sanchez isn’t just any cold case. It’s brutal, unsolved, and tangled in secrets no one wants uncovered. And when Scott stumbles across a second eerily similar murder, things start to feel less like coincidence and more like a pattern.

Zoe Nolan disappeared from Manchester University in 2011. Her story was sad, certainly, but hardly sensational, Joseph Knox thought. As a crime writer, he felt that dead girls were everywhere, and the missing ones just didn't cut it. He wouldn't have given her any more thought were it not for Evelyn Mitchell. Another writer struggling to come up with a new idea, Evelyn attended one of Joseph's publicity events, and she was wondering just what happened to all the girls who go missing.

For two thousand passengers, it’s the vacation of a lifetime. For a killer, it’s a floating tomb—and the perfect hunting ground. Rory Blake, a retired criminal profiler, wants nothing to do with the string of grisly deaths plaguing the ship's exclusive legal retreat. He’s just a guest speaker trying to escape his own past. But when a cunning serial killer begins executing the legal world's elite one by one, staging each murder as a symbolic masterpiece, Rory is dragged into a desperate hunt. Trapped on the open ocean with a murderer who knows every secret passage of the ship and a ...

The Headlines Told You What Happened. These Stories Explore the Chilling Why... and the Terrifying What If. You’ve read the news clippings, seen the grainy photos. But behind every infamous crime lies a story far darker and more complex than any headline can reveal. From the masterful pen of Logan Carter comes TRUE CRIME: RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES, a harrowing collection of 30 fictionalized short stories, each plunging into the heart of real-life tragedies that shocked the world. Step beyond the yellow tape and into meticulously crafted narratives inspired by cases that continue to haunt ...

A fifteen year old dead body, with a note in its throat. What does this mean for Detective Robin Matthews?Here is what reader are saying about The Robin Matthews Series: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Now I’m scared to close my eyes lol. This was awesome and really kept me guessing. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This book is just WOW. It is intense. The writing gets you heart rate up. The characters are outstanding. This one wept me on the edge of my seat. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A really wild series! Definitely, “More Mayhem, More People Killed!” I don’t think I have ever read a story with a more fierce killer. ⭐⭐...

Psychologist Margot Scott has a picture-perfect life: a nice house in the suburbs, a husband, two children and a successful career. On a warm spring morning Margot approaches one of her clients on a busy train platform. He is looking down at his phone, with his duffel bag in hand as the train approaches. That’s when she slams into his back and he falls in front of the train. Margot’s clients all lie to her, but one lie cost her family and freedom.

This shocking true story of an abducted child’s harrowing struggle for survival amidst a horrific Russian military program is a raw examination of the atrocities of war, the resilience of spirit, and the existence of the supernatural. When an unfamiliar hand grabbed Tina Soctoy by the shoulder in the woods near her home at age 6, she suddenly found herself far from her family, disoriented, and imprisoned in the house of a military operative. His mission was to turn her into a merciless weapon of war. Her mission was to survive. In horrifying detail, Soctoy recounts the terrifying ...

When you can’t hear…death comes silently. Scotland Yard detective Valerie Crowther is assigned to investigate the murder of a student at a university for the Deaf in London, England. The murder investigation coincides with a deadly flu virus outbreak, resulting in the university being quarantined from the outside world. When more Deaf students are murdered, it becomes clear there is a serial killer operating within the sealed-off university. A chilling cat-and-mouse game evolves as the unknown killer targets Valerie and the virus claims more lives. A stunning, claustrophobic, “...

Everyone calls her paranoid. She calls it survival. Megan Wells is a true crime junkie who knows the anatomy of a killer. While her city obsesses over the hit docuseries The Mind of a Killer, Megan isn't just watching for entertainment—she is watching for a monster. When Jared Adams starts at her firm, the office sees a scholarly, harmless man with a gentle stutter. Megan sees a ghost. Jared looks, speaks, and moves exactly like the "Butcher of the Village," the serial killer who vanished into the Toronto snow a decade ago. Her coworkers think she’s unhinged. The police think she’s ...

Check your locks. Then check your search history. She was the perfect roommate. Until she started living your life better than you. True crime podcaster Cassidy Burke is drowning. Her bank account is empty, her landlord is threatening eviction, and the case she’s investigating—the decades-old Milwaukee "Phantom" murders—is going nowhere. Then comes Evelyn Hart. Evelyn is a digital archivist. She’s quiet. She’s stable. She pays two months' rent in cash and even helps Cassidy find a flaw in her investigation that changes everything. For the first time in months, Cassidy can breathe....

A woman's car is rammed on a desolate road. A man is shot dead at point-blank range. For the jury, it should be a clear-cut case of self-defense. Danielle, a young schoolteacher with a clean record and a registered firearm, claims the man she killed was a violent aggressor who threatened her life. The prosecution argues it was an unnecessary execution, painting Danielle as a vigilante. With the nation fiercely divided on the issue, the pressure is on the twelve men and women in the deliberation room to get it right. As they examine the grainy gas station video and listen to the chilling ...

Zwölf Jahre nach einem Doppelmord gilt der Fall Czerny als abgeschlossen. Doch als Melanie und Raphaela beginnen, den Fall öffentlich neu aufzurollen, bröckelt die offizielle Version. Ein übersehenes Alibi. Ermittlungsfehler. Schweigen an entscheidenden Stellen. Was als Podcast-Recherche startet, wird zur Gefahr – für die Wahrheit und für die Frauen, die sie aussprechen.

Editorial Review CABIN 28 is a relentless, edge-of-your-seat thriller that transforms a real 1981 nightmare into a gripping, claustrophobic descent into fear. Ted Lazaris delivers sustained tension, emotional realism, and chilling authenticity, proving once again why he is known as the Master of Documented Terror. Fans of true-crime suspense and home-invasion horror in the tradition of The Strangers will find this story impossible to put down and unforgettable long after the final page. CABIN 28 A True Documented Terror — The Keddie Cabin Murders (California, 1981), The Case That Inspired...

Rookie cop Carrie Santero has always been fascinated by serial killers. As a teenager, she wrote a letter to Charles Manson in prison - and received a chilling reply. Then she came face to face with a child murderer in her small Pennsylvania town, an encounter that haunts her to this day. Now, as a detective in training, she finally has her chance to make a difference; to hunt down a psychopathic sadist who embodies the very nature of evil itself.

When the past whispers secrets, two strangers must listen to save the future. Immerse yourself in a gripping thriller where historian Angus Cunningham and Detective Jackie Moralez join forces to unravel a sinister mystery. Two teenagers disappear from the state fair, leading to a harrowing investigation into a centuries-old ritual sacrifice plot. Experience the rush as Angus’s deep historical insights and Jackie’s intense police work collide, racing against time to save the victims from a dark fate. Brace yourself for a whirlwind of suspense and unexpected twists.

In the summer of ’84, fourteen-year-old Frankie Jubilee is shuttled off to Litani, Minnesota, to live with her estranged mother, a county prosecutor she barely knows. From the start, Frankie senses something uneasy going on in the small town. The locals whisper about The Game, and her mother warns her to stay out of the woods and away from adults. When a bullying gang of girls invites Frankie to The Game, she accepts, determined to find out what’s really going on in Litani. She’s not the only one becoming paranoid. Hysteria burns through the community. Dark secrets emerge.

A riveting thriller about a woman still grieving her brother who was killed at a carnival, but when she goes back to retrace his steps the night he was killed, she learns the full, terrifying truth about what happened that night... Everyone will hear you scream. No one will listen. Norah can’t...

“Such Quiet Girls sucked me in from the first page. I came to care about all the characters and by the end I couldn’t stop turning the pages. Yet another winner from Noelle Ihli that is not to be missed!” —Freida McFadden, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid Ten...