serial murders

With four performers found murdered in recent months and with the idolized Maria deLivnova coming to Tristopolis, Lieutenant Donal Riordan is assigned to protect the diva, but his task is undermined by the horror lurking beneath the streets of the city.

When a robotlike assassin begins to wreak havoc in Washington D.C. on New Year's Eve, it is up to Special Agent Margaret Lukas to stop the deranged robot before it destroys the entire city.

Kate Burkholder, offered the job of chief of police in Painters Mill, Ohio, the Amish community where she grew up, believes she has securely put her past behind her, but the discovery of a body in a snowy field makes her realize she has to confront what happened to her as a child and expose a dark secret that could destroy her and those she loves.

Retired Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch agrees to look into the death of former colleague and friend Terry McCaleb and finds himself immersed once again in the pursuit of a serial killer, presumed dead by the FBI, who calls himself the Poet.

Gaia and her roommate, Catherine, are given temporary FBI badges in order to hunt down a murderer whom they saw committing the crime.

The on-again, off-again relationship between FBI agents Miranda Cahill and Will Fletcher takes a backseat when they are assigned to track down a killer who is being forced to carry out his part of a prison agreement to kill three people of a fellow inmate's choice--one of them being Cahill.

When a series of gruesome murders take place in western Wisconsin, retired homicide detective Jack Sawyer is hired to find "the Fisherman," a killer whose methods resemble those of Albert Fish who committed murders thirty years earlier.

Dean Koontz s unique talent for writing terrifying thrillers with a heart and soul is nowhere more evident than in this latest suspense masterpiece that pits one man against the ultimate deadline. If there were speed limits for the sheer pulse-racing excitement allowed in one novel, Velocity would break them all. Get ready for the ride of your life. Velocity Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. But that is about to change. One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift, he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car. If you don t take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have four hours to decide. The choice is yours. It seems like a sick joke, and Bill s friend on the police force, Lanny Olson, thinks so too. His advice to Bill is to go home and forget about it. Besides, what could they do even if they took the note seriously? No crime has actually been committed. But less than twenty-four hours later, a young blond schoolteacher is found murdered, and it s Bill s fault: he didn t convince the police to get involved. Now he s got another note, another deadline, another ultimatum ?and two new lives hanging in the balance. Suddenly Bill s average, seemingly innocuous life takes on the dimensions and speed of an accelerating nightmare. Because the notes are coming faster, the deadlines growing tighter, and the killer becoming bolder and crueler with every communication until Bill is isolated with the terrifying knowledge that he alone has the power of life and death over a psychopath s innocent victims. Until the struggle between good and evil is intensely personal. Until the most chilling words of all are: The choice is yours.