psychopaths

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psychopaths

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.

Cape Fear

a novel
2006
When psychopath Max Cady is released from prison after a fourteen year sentence, his single purpose in life is to destroy his lawyer Sam Bowden, and he targets the attorney's teenage daughter to seek his revenge.

Intensity

2000
Twenty-six-year-old Chyna Shepherd, hunted by a murderous sociopath, struggles to survive and also save his next intended victim.

Speaking in tongues

2000
Former trial lawyer Tate Collier, regrouping in Virginia after making some disastrous mistakes in the realms of love and the law, reunites with his ex-wife Bett in a desperate attempt to find their daughter who has been chosen by psychopathic psychologist Aaron Matthews as a target for the revenge he seeks against Tate who he believes ruined his life.

Season of the machete

1995
Vietnam veteran Peter Macdonald finds himself in big trouble when he accidentally sees the face of Damian Rose, a psychopath who along with his wife Carrie, has embarked on a killing spree in the Caribbean.

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