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Hunting Prince Dracula

2017
"Bizarre murders are discovered in the castle of Prince Vlad the Impaler, otherwise known as Dracula. Could it be a copycat killer...or has the depraved prince been brought back to life?"--Provided by publisher.

My friend Dahmer

a graphic novel
Derf describes his classmate Jeffrey Dahmer's teenage years as a lonely oddball. Dahmer would go on to become one of the United States' most notorious serial killers.

Blood game

After the daughter of a Georgia senator is murdered and her body drained of blood, Eve Duncan becomes enmeshed in the nefarious plot of serial murderer Kevin Jelak, who Eve thinks might know something about her missing daughter.

The boy she left behind

"Rylee tracks a serial killer in Portland, Oregon doing what she does best - lying, reinventing, and plotting vengeance for the victims of the brutal killer that has college students at Portland State University terrified. At the same time, she grapples with a betrayal so shocking that it sends her reeling, testing her as she's never been tested before. Is there anyone she can trust?"--Amazon.

Death in the city of light

the serial killer of Nazi-occupied Paris
Recounts the true story of a serial killer who terrorized Nazi-occupied Paris, leaving severed heads and dismembered body parts throughout the city, and chronicles Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu's investigation into the crimes.

The row

After visiting her father on death row for twelve years, seventeen-year-old Riley is determined to find out if he is guilty or not before he is either executed or retried and, perhaps, released.

The Terrible Axe-man of New Orleans

nights of terror! : a city awash in blood!
2010
During the years 1918 and 1919, six people in New Orleans were killed and six more injured, in their homes, in the dead of night, by an axe-wielding intruder who got away without a trace. After more than a year, the killings stopped as suddenly as they started. No trace of the murderer was ever found. Geary presents the facts and the speculations about these attacks in the third in his series on twentieth-century murder.

Jackaby

2014
Newly arrived in 1892 New England, Abigail Rook becomes assistant to R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with the ability to see supernatural beings, and she helps him delve into a case of serial murder which, Jackaby is convinced, is due to a nonhuman creature.

Orchard Grove

2016
Depressed screenplay writer Ethan's life begins to fall apart when he and his secretive wife, Susan, move in next to a seductive serial killer.

Borkmann's point

an Inspector Van Veeteren mystery
2006
Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is called in to help the local police find a suspected serial killer who seems to choose his victims at random, but the case becomes more personal when a colleague is taken by the murderer, leading Veteren and the police on a chase to find their friend before it is too late.

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