psychopaths

Michael Bennett is forced to cut his vacation short and enlists help from FBI Agent Emily Parker when a deadly mastermind threatens the city--and Bennett's family--but while they work together to detect the killer's pattern, Bennett's feelings toward Parker grow, while his relationship with Mary Catherine takes a surprise turn.

"Dominic is a prosecutor, a musician, and an Englishman living in Texas. He's also a psychopath. His main goal is to hide his condition and lead a seemingly normal life in the hopes to pay off his debts and become a full-time musician in Austin's club scene. But on one lousy day his carefully-controlled world starts to shatter..."--Amazon.

When a scholarship girl and a wealthy classmate become friends, their bond is tested when a handsome young teacher separately influences the girls in order to further his less-than-admirable interests.

When Melanie Denison discovers she is ten-weeks pregnant, she decides she is through hiding from her murderous father and goes on a mission to find him before he finds her.

Exhausted and rebellious after three years of working for her father and mothering her brother, eighteen-year-old Arcadia "Cadie" Wells joins two cousins who are camping their way through Florida, soon learning that one is a murderer.

Kawashima, a successful graphic designer living in Tokyo with his wife and baby, battles the desire to stab his child with an ice pick. He decides to face his demons and hires a prostitute, determined to stab her with the ice pick and rid himself of the desire. However, when he meets the girl, he discovers she has her own problems and the two clash in one terrifying night.

Still feeling guilty over the death of her little sister leaves eighteen-year-old Annie vulnerable when she takes a nanny job in beautiful Marin County, California, and meets her very controlling employer.

Davy Hamilton, who has Homicidal Tendency Syndrome, has escaped from her military camp after killing a person and is hiding out with a group of rebels with HTS.

When a disturbed man begins stalking the women who work at UCLA Medical Center, Dr. David Spier struggles to keep his coworkers from panicking, but the attacks take a violent turn when the attacker himself becomes a patient of Dr. Spier.

""Wake up, genius." So begins King's instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn't published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real treasure is a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel. Morris hides the money and the notebooks, and then he is locked away for another crime. Decades later, a boy named Pete Saubers finds the treasure, and now it is Pete and his family that Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson must rescue from the ever-more deranged and vengeful Morris when he's released from prison after thirty-five years" --.