serial murders

"Nora Lopez is seventeen during the infamous New York summer of 1977, when the city is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam who shoots young women on the streets. Nora's family life isn't going so well either: her bullying brother, Hector, is growing more threatening by the day, her mother is helpless and falling behind on the rent, and her father calls only on holidays. All Nora wants is to turn eighteen and be on her own. And while there is a cute new guy who started working with her at the deli, is dating even worth the risk when the killer likes picking off couples who stay out too late?"--Amazon.com.

"For Maggie Larsen, the town of Gill Creek is only a stopgap before college and freedom. Until she meets Pauline and Liam. What starts as an uneventful year suddenly changes. Someone is killing teenage girls, and the town reels from the tragedy. As Maggie's and Pauline's worlds collide and change around them, they will both experience love and loss"--Amazon.

Retired homicide detective Jack Sawyer is pulled into the past by a series of mysterious killings near his western Wisconsin home--a past that Jack does not remember, during which, as a boy, he traveled to a parallel universe to protect his mother and save another world from destruction.

A chilling expose is drawn from more than 150 hours of exclusive tape-recorded interviews with Ted Bundy. It is a shocking self-portrait of the self-described, 'most cold-blooded son of a bitch you'll ever meet' that was also recently made into a Netflix documentary.

"Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwell's murderer was acquitted--thanks to the same attorney who had previously defended the Reverend"--Jacket flap.

Profiles thirty-five of the world's serial killers, including Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, B?la Kiss, John Wayne Gacy, David Berkowitz, and others, and featuring quizzes, quotations, photographs, and miscellaneous facts throughout.

FBI agent Alex Cross is assigned to investigate a string of murders where the victims are Hollywood stars.

San Francisco police lieutenant Lindsay Boxer, the subject of a police brutality trial after a shoot-out involving two teens, retreats to Half Moon Bay to get away from the media circus and becomes embroiled in the investigation of a series of murders that puts her in mind of an unsolved case from her rookie years.

Falsely convicted of a brutal crime, New York City college student Jeff Converse is ripped away from his dreams for the future and plunged into a dark underworld beneath the streets of Manhattan, where he must join the society of the homeless and the mad--and avoid being hunted by a mysterious predator.