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21) Zombie: a novel
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Unflinching and unforgettable, devastating in its impact, Joyce Carol Oate's fictional journey into the mind of paroled sex offender Quentin P. provides a psychologically astute portrait of the way cold calculation and dark obsession combine in a serial killer. Oates is the award-winning author of 26 novels.
22) Vanishing games
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
It's just before dawn on the South China Sea when three experienced pirates open fire on a small smuggling yacht. Their target: a bag of uncut sapphires worth millions. But when one of them stumbles across an enormous treasure that wasn't on the manifest, everything goes sideways. Within minutes the other two are dead, leaving this coldblooded psychopath to claim both the sapphires and the mysterious windfall for himself. If he disappears, he won't...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Past midnight, Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend’s family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse, or limits, to live with intensity. Chyna is...
24) 24 hours
Author
Series
Mississippi volume 2
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2001, ©2000
Language
English
Description
A kidnapping ransom-seeker whose devious technological abilities have helped him get away with the crime many previous times now targets Will and Karen Jennings' five-year-old daughter Abby, and the family has only twenty-four hours to thwart his plan.
25) Sleight of hand
Author
Series
Dana Cutler volume 4
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten years ago, Horace Blair fell in love with Carrie, the prosecutor in his DUI trial. After a torrid courtship, he persuaded her to marry him and to sign a pre-nuptial agreement guaranteeing her twenty million dollars if she remained faithful during the first ten years of their marriage. The week before their tenth anniversary, Carrie disappears and Horace is charged with her murder. Desperate to clear his name, the millionaire hires one of D.C.'s...
26) Miami blues
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Junior Frenger, a smooth-talking, good-looking ex-con who borders on the psychotic, has Detective Hoke Moseley hot on his trail after he kills a Hare Krishna, robs a pickpocket and steals Moseley's badge and gun--Junior's running around town playing cops and robbers on both sides of the law.
27) Halloween II
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Michael Myers, a psychopath left for dead, picks up where he left off stalking the halls of the hospital where his sister lies waiting.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Risking everything to learn the truth about his daughter's death, called an accident by police, FBI Special Agent Pierce Quincy teams with former cop Rainie Conner on a desperate manhunt for a killer. This psychopath's most devastating weapon is an intimate knowledge of his victims' darkest fears. Another thing all the victims have in common--Quincy loved them.
29) Ryde
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
When a psychopath takes on the identity of a driver with a rideshare service, his customers discover that they must fight for their lives.
30) Hannibal rising
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Relates the early life of cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in Eastern Europe, from the ages of six to twenty, following the loss of his entire family during World War II.
31) Do no harm
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
When an unknown attacker is injured in the process of his capture, ER chief David Spier is ostracized for treating the man, a situation that is further complicated when the assailant escapes, prompting Spier to delve into his own past.
32) Killing ground
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When a couple goes to a beach for a camping vacation, they discover an abandoned campsite and learn that they are being stalked by psychopaths.
33) The next to die
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A psychopath the police have dubbed "Billy Dead Mates" is targeting pairs of best friends, and killing them one by one. Before they die, each victim is given a small white book. Detectives have failed to catch Billy, or figure out what the white books symbolize and why the killer leaves them behind. Stand-up comedian Kim Tribbeck has one of Billy's peculiar little books-- a stranger gave it to her at a gig she did last year. Was the stranger Billy,...
34) Firestorm
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen turns up the heat in this explosive new psychological thriller. This time a gifted arson investigator teams up with a mysterious operative to stop a killer raging completely out of control...
For Kerry Murphy, the inferno is never far away. The flames of that long-ago night still burn in her nightmares: the heat, the choking smoke, the helplessness. She can never run fast enough...
Now...
For Kerry Murphy, the inferno is never far away. The flames of that long-ago night still burn in her nightmares: the heat, the choking smoke, the helplessness. She can never run fast enough...
Now...
35) Demolition man
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997, c1993
Language
English
Description
The year is 2032 and archcriminal Simon Phoenix has emerged from a 35-year deep freeze in CryoPrison to find a serene, violence-free Southern California ready for a taking. Ill-equipped to deal with Phoenix's psychopathic 1990s style, city officials decide they need Spartan, an old-fashioned cop to fight old-fashioned crime.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Sam seems like a perfectly normal sixteen-year-old when you meet him. But his mom knows otherwise. How long can she keep a devastating secret from her son? And what might go wrong if she tells him the truth? The consequences are harrowing when falling in love for the first time collides with a psychopathic urge to kill.
38) Think twice
Author
Series
Rosato and associates volume 11
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After her evil twin sister, Alice, drugs her, leaves her for dead, and steals her life, Bennie must convince everyone she's ever cared about that she is the real Bennie, and not the deranged twin.
39) Secret window
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Following a bitter separation from his wife, famed mystery writer Mort Rainey is unexpectedly confronted at his remote lake house by a dangerous stranger named John Shooter. Claiming Mort has plagiarized his short story, the psychotic Shooter demands justice. When Shooter's demands turn to threats, and then to murder, Mort turns to a private detective he knows. But when nothing stops the horror from spiraling out of control, Mort soon discovers he...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
From celebrated authors Amy Hempel and Jill Ciment writing as A. J. Rich, a smart, thrilling, sexy, and emotionally riveting novel of psychological suspense about an accomplished woman involved with a man who proves to be an imposter. --Amazon.com
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