psychopaths

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psychopaths

Mason

2008
Mason, a developmentally disabled teen in Louisiana who possesses the power to project images from his mind into others' sight, puts his ability to devastating use when his older brother Gene, a drug-dealing sadist who routinely beats Mason, has Rene, Mason's only true friend, brutally beaten, believing she has witnessed a murder he committed.

T is for trespass

2007
Kinsey Millhone, a private investigator in the small California town of Santa Teresa, faces a formidable enemy when she begins to suspect there is something not right about Solana Rojas, the home health care nurse hired to look after Kinsey's elderly neighbor and friend Gus.

Firestorm

2004
Silver, a psychic firefighter, enlists Kerry Murphy, an arson investigator haunted by her mother's death in a fire, to help him track down pyromaniac James Trask, a one-time Defense Department scientist who has gone on a fiery killing spree in retaliation for his project being scrapped.

Tenderness

a novel
1998
A psychological thriller told from the points of view of a teenage serial killer and the runaway girl who falls in love with him.

The kindling effect

a medical thriller
1996
Dr. John Brook lands a research job working with Dr. Robert Hartigan who is conducting electromagnetic brain experiments on a group of prisoners in an attempt to control their criminal behavior, but Brook soon notices the treatments are having an opposite effect, and when two of the patients escape, a killing spree begins.

The creek

2004
Around the time of her thirteenth birthday, Penny's suburban Philadelphia neighborhood is terrorized by a psychopath and everyone is sure that the young man just out of a juvenile home is responsible.

The psychopath test

a journey through the madness industry
2011
The author explains how his research into a potential hoax being played on scientists prompted him to explore an asylum for the criminally insane, where he met a wide variety of individuals and learned that the lines between ordinary and mentally ill are not always clear.

Blue smoke

2005
Reena Hale achieves her goal and joins the arson unit after a devastating fire destroys her family's pizzeria; however, as she continues to trace the origin of threats against her and unsolved arson cases, she struggles with her relationship with Bo Goodnight.

Tenderness

2004
A psychological thriller told from the points of view of a teenage serial killer and the runaway girl who falls in love with him.

Skeleton man

After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange "great-uncle, " Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk for her safety and maybe even for her life.

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