serial murders

Quentin is a serial murderer who shares his thoughts and perverse desires in a sort of journal.

Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, Barbara Havers, and Detective Sergeant Winston try to find the psychopath responsible for a gruesome series of murders, but tragedy strikes one of their own.

Psychic Deacon Silvey must turn to a supernatural being for help when his wife, just days away from giving birth to their first child, is kidnapped by a serial killer who plans to offer the baby as a sacrifice in order to join a society of monsters.

Nora Chancel, haunted by nightmares of her stint in Vietnam as a nurse and by the murders of four neighborhood women, is accused of kidnapping and torturing her husband's mistress; but while at the police station for questioning, she is taken hostage by charming madman Dick Dart, a local attorney who is responsible for the killings.

When an infamous serial killer known as the Poet reemerges, FBI agent Rachel Walling, long haunted by her unsuccessful efforts to bring him to justice, receives assistance from LAPD detective Harry Bosch.

America's murder laws--Murder statistics--The chronology of headline murders--Murder ink.