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The naked body of a teenage girl is found on the banks of the River Baztan. Less than 24 hours after this discovery, a link is made to the murder of another girl the month before. Is this the work of a ritualistic killer or is it the basajaun, the 'invisible guardian' of Basque mythology? 30-year-old Inspector Amaia Salazar heads an investigation which will take her back to Elizondo, the village in the heart of Basque country where she was born, and...
2) The match
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Wilde volume 2
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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As a young child, Wilde was found living a feral existence in the Ramapo mountains of New Jersey. He has grown up knowing nothing of his family, and even less about his own identity. He is known simply as Wilde, the boy from the woods. But when a match at an online ancestry database puts him on the trail of a close relative - the first family member he has ever known - he thinks he might be about to solve the mystery of who he really is. Only this...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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In the city that?s become a symbol for the death of the American dream, a nightmare killer is unravelling reality. The new thriller from Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls.Detective Gabi Versado has hunted down many monsters during her eight years in Homicide. She?s seen stupidity, corruption and just plain badness. But she?s never seen anything like this.Clayton Broom is a failed artist, and a broken man. Life destroyed his plans, so he?s...
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2020
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English
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Michael and Megan Fitzgerald are siblings who share a terrifying past. Both adopted, and now grown - Michael is a long-haul truck driver, Megan a college student majoring in psychology - they trust each other before anyone else. They've had to. When a young woman is found murdered in Michael's LA apartment, he becomes the chief suspect and is quickly apprehended. But then there's another killing that is strikingly similar. And another. And not just...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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A serial killer is on the loose. His victims? Crime writers? A murderer is at large, hunting with a bloodlust that shatters all the conventional wisdom on how serial killers operate. Professor Fiona Cameron is a psychologist who uses computer technology to track serial offenders. She vowed never to work for the Met again after they went against her advice and screwed up an investigation as a result. But when her lover, thriller writer Kit Martin,...
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2019
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English
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You always know who you're meeting online . . . don't you? Four women decide to explore online dating, downloading an app that promises they will swipe their way to love and happiness. But not everyone is who they seem online. Hidden behind a perfect smile and charming humour, one man appears to be the perfect date. But the night he has planned is unlike any other. The clock is ticking, and for one woman, this date might just be her last . . .
7) Red dragon
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Hannibal Lecter volume 1
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Cornerstone Digital
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Sexual hunger; demonic violence; sinister logic - the lethal components of a deadly formula driving a psychopath in the grip of an unimaginable delusion; a boastful killer who sends the police tormenting notes; a tortured, torturing monster who finds ultimate pleasure in viciously murdering happy families, and calls himself... The Red Dragon. Special agent Will Graham had been assigned to similar cases before, cases where he was able to see and feel...
8) The thirst
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Harry Hole volume 11
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Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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THERE?S A NEW KILLER ON THE STREETS... A woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks left on her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer. HE?S IN YOUR HOUSE? HE?S IN YOUR ROOM Under pressure from the media to find the murderer, the force know there?s only one man for the job. But Harry Hole is reluctant to return to the place that almost took everything from him. Until he starts to suspect a connection...
9) The retreat
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Detective Elin Warner volume 2
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English
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An idyllic wellness retreat has opened on an island off the English coast, promising rest and relaxation - but the island itself, known locally as Reaper?s Rock, has a dark past. Once the playground of a serial killer, it?s rumoured to be cursed. Then a young woman is found dead below the yoga pavilion in what seems to be a tragic fall. But Detective Elin Warner soon learns the victim wasn?t a guest - she wasn?t meant to be on the island at all. The...
11) 23rd midnight
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Women's Murder Club volume 23
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Detective Lindsay Boxer put serial killer Evan Burke behind bars. Now a new killer has recreated Burke's most infamous crimes - and disappeared without a trace. Reporter Cindy Thomas put Burke on the bestseller list, in her true crime book about the case. An obsessed fan is studying every detail - and committing fresh horrors that carry Burke's signature. Now Lindsay's tracking an elusive suspect, one who's penning a deadly playbook featuring Cindy's...
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Maeve has everything. A high-powered job, a beautiful home and a string of uncomplicated one-night encounters. She?s also an addict - a functioning alcoholic with a dependence on sex and an insatiable appetite for killing men. When she can?t find a support group to share her obsession, she creates her own. And Psychopaths Anonymous is born. Friends of Maeve. Now in a serious relationship, Maeve wants to keep the group a secret. But not everyone in...
13) Moskva
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Red Square, 1985. The naked body of a young man is left outside the walls of the Kremlin; frozen solid - like marble to the touch - missing the little finger from his right hand. A week later, Alex Marston, the headstrong 15-year-old daughter of the British Ambassador disappears. Army Intelligence Officer Tom Fox, posted to Moscow to keep him from telling the truth to a government committee, is asked to help find her. It's a shot at redemption. But...
14) The long drop
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Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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William Watt wants answers about his family's murder. Peter Manuel has them. But Peter Manuel is a liar. William Watt is an ordinary businessman, a fool, a social climber. Peter Manuel is a famous liar, a rapist, a criminal. He claims he can get hold of the gun used to murder Watt's family. One December night in 1957, Watt meets Manuel in a Glasgow bar to find out what he knows. Based on true events, The Long Drop is an extraordinarily unsettling,...
15) Miracle cure
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Sara Lowell and Michael Silverman are the ideal celebrity couple: she's TV's most popular journalist and he's New York's hottest basketball star. Their lives would soon be shattered by Dr Harvey Riker's clinic and the miracle cure that millions seek. One-by-one his patients are getting well. One-by-one they are targeted by a serial killer.
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Detective Sean Duffy volume 1
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Serpent's Tail
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Sean Duffy will do anything to solve this case. Including risking his life. Two dead. One left in a car by the side of a road. He was meant to be found quickly. His killer is making a statement. The other is discovered hanging in a tree, deep in a forest. Surely a suicide: she'd just given birth, but there's no sign of the baby. Nothing seems to link the two, but Detective Sergeant Sean Duffy knows the links that seem to be invisible are just waiting...
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Atlee Pine volume 1
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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Long Road to Mercy is the heart-pounding first novel in the FBI Special Agent Atlee Pine series by bestselling author David Baldacci. ?Eeny, meeny, miny, moe . . .? It is thirty years since FBI special agent Atlee Pine?s twin sister, Mercy, was taken from the room they shared as young children. Notorious serial killer Daniel James Tor, was caught and convicted of other murders, and while there?s no proof, Atlee believes he knows what happened to Mercy....
18) He will get you
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Detective Maddie Ives volume 5
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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Detective Maddie Ives faces the most twisted serial killer of her career. He?s one step ahead of them. He?s watching their every move. And his next target is one of their own. You might know who the killer is, but can you work out why? The body count is rising and each murder is more unpredictable than the last. Detective Maddie Ives races against time to work out the killer?s real motive. Full of twists and turns until the fiendish climax.
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The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries volume 3
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English
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A team of archaeologists, investigating coastal erosion on the north Norfolk coast, unearth six bodies buried at the foot of a cliff. How long have they been there? What could have happened to them? Forensics expert Ruth Galloway and DCI Nelson are drawn together again to unravel the past. Tests reveal that the bodies have lain, preserved in the sand, for sixty years. The mystery of their deaths stretches back to the Second World War, a time when...
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Merrily Watkins volume 5
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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After half a century of decay, the village of Underhowle looked to be on the brink of a new prosperity. Now, instead, it seems destined for notoriety as the home of a psychotic serial killer. DI Frannie Bliss, of Hereford CID, is convinced he knows where the bodies are buried, but Merrily Watkins wonders if Bliss isn't blinkered by personal ambition. Are the Underhowle deaths really linked to the legacy of Fred West and the most sickening cycle of...
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