serial murderers

"The Cloudkiss Killer is dead. Now a true-crime podcast is hosting a contest to find his bones. Lucy was almost the serial killers final victim. Carolina is a true-crime fan who fears her own rage. Maggie is a psychology student with a little too much to hide. But there are more than bones hiding in the shadows--sometimes the darkness inside is more frightening than anything the dead leave behind"--Provided by publisher.

"There is often trouble of a mythical sort in Bath. The booksellers who police the Old World keep a careful watch there, particularly on the entity that inhabits the ancient hot spring. This time trouble comes from the discovery of a sorcerous map, leading left-handed bookseller Merlin into great danger, requiring a desperate rescue attempt from his sister, the right-handed bookseller Vivien, and art student Susan Arkshaw, who is still struggling to deal with her own recently discovered magical heritage. The map takes the trio to a place separated from this world, maintained by deadly sorcery and guarded by monstrous living statues. But this is only the beginning. To unravel the secrets of a murderous Ancient Sovereign, the booksellers must investigate centuries of disappearances and deaths. If they do not stop her, she will soon kill again. And this time, her target is not an ordinary mortal"--Provided by publisher.

Seventeen-year-old Scarlet Murphy is shocked to learn that the father she never knew is a notorious serial killer, and now that he is dying, he will give the names of his remaining victims to his daughter--but only if she agrees to meet with him.

"From John Douglas--the . . . FBI criminal profiler . . . --comes a . . . journey inside the mind and crimes of Larry Gene Bell, one of the . . . serial killers Douglas confronted, and the desperate effort to identify and catch him"--Provided by publisher.

The orphan caretaker of the holy Sanctum who possesses unique skills, Catrin witnesses a murder that traps her between a killer and the brilliant detective investigating the case, forcing her to hide her own secret gifts, which could save her and those she loves from becoming the next victims.

"In the winter of 1969, the bodies of four young women were discovered in a cemetery near the tip of Cape Cod. In a place once known as Helltown, the victims had been shot, stabbed, dismembered, and mutilated. As investigators would soon learn, the perpetrator was a young, handsome, serial killer named Tony Costa. A bizarre former taxidermist with a split personality and penchant for violence, Costa ultimately mobilized friends in the hippie community for support and retribution and captivated literary icons and rivals Kurt Vonnegut and Norman Mailer. Costa embarked on a daring cat-and-mouse game with investigators, who-as the body count kept growing-were desperate to put an end to the killing season on Cape Cod"--Provided by publisher.

Tells the story of serial killer Charlie Cullen, who worked as a nurse for sixteen years in nine different hospitals and has been implicated in the deaths of three hundred patients.

In 1918 New Orleans, seventeen-year-old Gianna Crutti's worries about her family's grocery, the Great War, and influenza are overshadowed when a murderer returns to terrorize the city--years after he attacked Gianna's parents and left her with a psychic connection between them.

"The fascinating story of Ted Bundy, a brilliant law student now suspected of thirty-eight murders nationwide, as told by a crime reporter, former policewoman, and long-time personal friend of the convicted murderer"--OCLC.

"Profiles the most notorious serial killers of the 1980s, including the Night Stalker, the BTK Killer, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Aileen Wuornos, revealing the facts about their crimes along with the advances in forensics that helped lead to their capture"--Provided by publisher.