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The devil in the white city

murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America
2003
Tells the parallel stories of Daniel Burnham, the main architect of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and serial killer Henry H. Holmes, discussing the challenges Burnham faced in creating the hugely successful White City, and looking at how Holmes used the opportunities afforded by the fair to lure victims to their deaths.

Knifepoint

2010
Jill's summer job, guiding tourists on mountain trail rides, turns out to be troublesome and potentially life threatening when she takes a man into the mountains only to find out that he is a dangerous killer.

The dark half

1989
With a bit of guilt, Thad retires George Stark, his pseudonym, only to have him appear as a killing machine that destroys everyone on the path that leads to the man who created him.

Contagious

a novel
2008
As humanity battles a contagious, adapting virus that turns its hosts into violent and uncontrollable killers, scientists begin to suspect that the epidemic is controlled by an unknown central intelligence. A small group of researchers serves as humanity's last line of defense and utilizes the talents of Perry Dawsey, who has been affected by the disease yet somehow is able to sense the virus' hosts.

The hypnotist

2011
Detective inspector Joona Linna investigates a triple homicide in Tumba, Sweden, where the only surviving witness is the young boy who watched his family get killed, and in an effort to obtain information from him, Linna seeks out Dr. Erik Maria Bark to hypnotize the boy, an act which Bark had vowed never to do again, which reveals a unsettling chain of events.

Hater

2010
Danny McCoyne, a minor bureaucrat in an English city, struggles to keep his family safe when an unexplained upsurge in violence in which ordinary people mysteriously turn on each other, sweeps the country.

Thief of hearts

1999
Jenna Blake, working as a pathology assistant at the local hospital, decides to investigate when her friends at Somerset University are targeted by a killer who is removing the hearts of his victims.

For the sins of my father

a Mafia killer, his son, and the legacy of a mob life
2003
Al DeMeo tells about his youth as the son of Mafia killer Roy DeMeo, discussing the disparity between what he knew of Roy as a father and what he later learned about his dad's profession, and sharing the effects of that conflict on his adult life.

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