serial murderers

The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways - not in memoriam, but as announcements of his intention to kill. And to kill in particularly horrific and efficient ways: using the personal details about the victims that they've carelessly posted in blogs and on social networking websites.

Detective Harry Bosch, now in the Open-unsolved Unit, receives a call from the DA telling him a serial killer has confessed to several murders. Harry must interview the man about a case he couldn't crack involving the murder of a 22-year-old woman whose body was never found.

"A January downpour descends on L.A. For a faceless kidnapper playing for million-dollar stakes, it's part of the game. So are the labyrinthine storm drains coiling under the city. If the ransom isn't paid, this is where it ends for his victims--handcuffed and drowned, washed out of the drainage lines like garbage."--back cover.

Recruit Gaia Moore just managed to close one case and find her way back into the FBI's good graces when the Lollipop Murderer strikes again.

Washington D.C. detective Alex Cross is beset by two killers when Gary Soneji, a psychopath with AIDS declares his intention to murder Cross before he dies, while across the Atlantic, another psychokiller cuts a swath through London and Paris before setting his sights on the U.S.

Investigating the murders of two women whose bodies were left in houses of worship, prosecutor Alexandra Cooper rules out initial suspicions about hate crimes and begins a race against time to prevent further killings.