murderers

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The secret history

2004
Richard Papen becomes embroiled in a society of brutal and deadly secrets from which he is unable to escape when an elite group of students from the prestigious Hampden College accept him into their group.

The bodies left behind

2009
Investigating a late night emergency call that came from a Wisconsin vacation home, deputy Brynn McKenzie narrowly escapes an encounter with two professional criminals, and flees into the woods with Michelle, the city-girl who rented the house for the weekend, but if the women want to survive, they will have to learn to trust one another.

Looking for JJ

2005
Three children walked away from the cottages on the edge of town toward Berwick Waters. Later that day, only two of them came back. . . . Alice Tully knows exactly what happened that spring day six years ago, though it's still hard for her to believe it. She'll never be able to forget, even though she's trying to lead a normal life?she has a job, friends, and a boyfriend whom she adores. But Alice's past is dangerous, and violent, and sad . . . and it's about to rip her new life apart. Includes a reader's guide.

Hush

2002
After surviving an attack by the Madonna Murderer, a serial killer who targets unwed mothers and their infant sons, criminal profiler Ivy Dunlap travels to Chicago to capture the man responsible for the death of her child.

The violence of our lives

interviews with American murderers
1995
A series of interviews with men and women who have been convicted for murder.

Guilty by reason of insanity

a psychiatrist probes the minds of killers
1998
A psychiatrist sets out to understand the underpinnings of violence in killers including Ted Bundy, Arthur Shawcross, and Mark David Chapman.

A stranger in the family

a true story of murder, madness, and unconditional love
1995
The true story of Danny Starrett, a serial killer and rapist raised by a seemingly-perfect family. Includes passages from his prison journal describing his crimes and their causes.

Psycho

1999
Horror melodrama in which a woman disappears after spending the night in an isolated motel which adjoins an eerie Victorian mansion, inhabited by a disturbed young man and his mother.

Cold blooded

a hardcore novel
2004
Moe may have revealed his life as a paid killer to Janeia, but his most dangerous habit is his womanizing, and he fails to consider this threat to his safety.

So I married an axe murderer

1999
Charlie, a man who has a problem with commitment, invents excuses to break up with his girlfriends--one's a kleptomaniac, another must belong to the mob--and works them into his poems which he recites at a San Francisco coffeehouse. But then Charlie meets Harriet, a butcher at Meats of the World who may be his soulmate. There's a little problem, though, since Charlie is convinced Harriet is the unknown Mrs. X, a tabloid favorite who marries and murders her husbands.

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