murderers

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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.

McTeague

a story of San Francisco
2011
Nineteenth-century American realist Frank Norris's brutal story of a San Francisco dentist and his greedy wife, two people doomed to lives of violence by their respective obsessions. Includes biographical notes, introduction, and afterward.

Outrage

A Novel
2012
New York District Attorney Roger "Butch" Karp faces one of his most challenging and dramatic cases when his wife Marlene Ciampi learns that his office has indicted the wrong man for murder.

The 6th Target

2007
Throughout San Francisco, wealthy children and their nannines are disappearing. It's up to the ladies of the Women's Murder club to solve the crime, but with no ransom notes or demands, the trail looks bleak. Throughout the investigation, the club must also deal with the recent shooting of one of their members.

Bodies of evidence

the true story of Judias Buenoano : Florida's serial murderess
1991

Odd Thomas

an odd Thomas novel
2012

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