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The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, Kathy Bates
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 80 ratingsHannibal Lecter. The ultimate villain of modern fiction who scared the world silent. A young FBI trainee. An evil genius locked away for unspeakable crimes. A plunge into the darkest chambers of a psychopath's mind -- in the deadly search for a serial killer . . .An instant classic of chilling psychological suspense . . . a critically acclaimed audio production of unforgettable intensity . . -
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Watchers by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsOn his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever who will let him go no further into the dark woods.That morning, Travis had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life... -
![Psycho by Robert Bloch]()
Psycho by Robert Bloch
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThe story was all too real-indeed this classic was inspired by the real-life story of Ed Gein, a psychotic murderer who led a dual life. Alfred Hitchcock too was captivated, and turned the book into one of the most-loved classic films of all time the year after it was released.Norman Bates loves his Mother. She has been dead for the past twenty years, or so people think... -
![The Wire in the Blood by Val McDermid]()
The Wire in the Blood by Val McDermid
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAcross the country, dozens of teenage girls have vanished. Authorities are convinced they're runaways with just the bad luck of the draw to connect them. It's the job of criminal profilers Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan to look for a pattern. They've spent years exploring the psyches of madmen. But sane men kill, too. And when they hide in plain sight, they can be difficult to find.. -
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![Along Came a Spider by James Patterson]()
Along Came a Spider by James Patterson
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 79 ratingsWhat have we got? A missing little girl named Maggie Rose . . . a family of three brutally murdered in the projects of Washington, D.C. . . . the thrill-killing of a beautiful elementary school teacher . . . a psychopathic serial kidnapper/murderer who is so terrifying that the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police cannot outsmart him - even after he's been captured... -
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Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 71 ratingsA second family has been massacred by the terrifying serial killer the press has christened "The Tooth Fairy" Special Agent Jack Crawford turns to the one man who can help restart a failed investigation?Will Graham. Graham is the greatest profiler the FBI ever had, but the physical and mental scars of capturing Hannibal Lecter have caused Graham to go into early retirement... -
![Pop Goes the Weasel by James Patterson]()
Pop Goes the Weasel by James Patterson
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsDetective Alex Cross is back-and he's in love. But his happiness is threatened by a series of chilling murders in Washington, D.C., murders with a pattern so twisted they leave investigators reeling. Cross's pursuit of the killer produces a suspect, a British diplomat named Geoffrey Shafer. But proving he's the murderer becomes a potentially deadly task... -
![Cat & Mouse by James Patterson]()
Cat & Mouse by James Patterson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsIn this New York Times bestseller, two killers-one operating in America, one in Europe-believe Alex Cross is the only worthy opponent in the deadly game each has planned. Gary Soneji, a dying prison escapee, is looking for revenge on Cross, while another insane killer is pursued by Thomas Augustine Pierce-a brilliant and relentless detective who may even be better than Cross... -
![The Collector by John Fowles]()
The Collector by John Fowles
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsWithdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda. When he wins the pools he buys a remote Sussex house and calmly abducts Miranda, believing she will grow to love him in time... -
![Postmortem by Patricia Daniels Cornwell, Patricia Cornwell]()
Postmortem by Patricia Daniels Cornwell, Patricia Cornwell
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsFour women with nothing in common, united only in death. Four brutalized victims of a brilliant monster - a "Mr. Nobody", moving undetected through a paralyzed city, leaving behind a gruesome trail of carnage . . . but few clues... -
![A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin, Otto Penzler]()
A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin, Otto Penzler
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsA Kiss Before Dying not only debuted the talent of best-selling novelist Ira Levin to rave reviews, it also set a new standard in the art of mystery and suspense. Now a modern classic, as gripping in its tautly plotted action as it is penetrating in its exploration of a criminal mind, it tells the shocking tale of a young man who will stop at nothing--not even murder--to get where he wants to go... -
![The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid]()
The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThis was the summer he discovered what he wanted--at a gruesome museum of criminology far off the beaten track of more timid tourists. Visions of torture inspired his fantasies like a muse. It would prove so terribly fulfilling.The bodies of four men have been discovered in the town of Bradfield. Enlisted to investigate is criminal psychologist Tony Hill... -
![The Sculptress by Minette Walters]()
The Sculptress by Minette Walters
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn prison, they call her the Sculptress for the strange figurines she carves - symbols of the day she hacked her mother and sister to pieces and reassembled them in a blood-drenched jigsaw. Sullen and menacing, Olive Martin is burned-out journalist Rosalind Leigh's only hope of getting a new book published.But as she interviews Olive, in her cell, Roz finds flaws in the Sculptress's confession... -
![Loves Music, Loves to Dance by Mary Higgins Clark]()
Loves Music, Loves to Dance by Mary Higgins Clark
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA serial killer leaves one dancing shoe on a foot of the victims who answer his personal ads. When Erin dies, her best friend places ads to entice the villain already targeting her next. New York police detective Vince D'Ambrosio takes a personal interest. New boyfriend Dr Michael Nash is supportive. A stalker may surprise everyone... -
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![The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson]()
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsEveryone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to the small-time criminals, the real-estate entrepreneurs, and all of his coworkers--the low-lifes, the big-timers, and everyone in-between--as the nicest guy around... -
![The Speed Queen by Stewart O'Nan]()
The Speed Queen by Stewart O'Nan
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsStewart O'Nan is one of the most highly acclaimed fiction writers of his generation, selected by Granta as one of the Best Young American Novelists and hailed by The New York Times as a master. Grove Press is proud to reissue his haunting noir novel The Speed Queen... -
![Beneath the Skin by Nicci French]()
Beneath the Skin by Nicci French
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsWhen three very different women are targeted by a sadistic killer, they become sisters beneath the skin as they search for a suspect who could be anyone: a neighbor, a lover, a co-worker, even an absolute stranger... -
![El beso de la muerte by Kathy Reichs]()
El beso de la muerte by Kathy Reichs
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 66 ratingsHer life is devoted to justice; for those she never even knew. In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Temperance detects an alarming pattern and she plunges into a harrowing search for a killer... -
![The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe]()
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 20 ratings"I was thinking how right ma was -- Mrs. Nugent all smiles when she met us and how are you getting on Mrs and young Francis are you both well? . . .what she was really saying was: Ah hello Mrs Pig how are you and look Philip do you see what's coming now -- The Pig Family!" This is a precisely crafted, often lyrical, portrait of the descent into madness of a young killer in small-town Ireland... -
![Garnethill by Denise Mina]()
Garnethill by Denise Mina
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsMaureen O'Donnell wakes up one morning to find her therapist boyfriend murdered in the middle of her living room and herself a prime suspect in a murder case. Determined to clear her name, Maureen undertakes her own investigation and learns of a similar murder at a local psychiatric hospital... -
![Child of God by Cormac McCarthy]()
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail. While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance... -
![Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith]()
Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIt's been six years since Ripley murdered Dickie Greenleaf and inherited his money. Now, in Ripley Under Ground (1970), he lives in a beautiful French villa, surrounded by a world-class art collection and married to a pharmaceutical heiress. All seems serene in Ripley's world until a phone call from London shatters his peace... -
![American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis]()
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 71 ratingsPatrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to head-on collision with America's greatest dream—and its worst nightmare—American Psycho is bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognise but do not wish to confront... -
![Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite]()
Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsTo serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his "art" to new heights... -
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![Felicia's Journey by William Trevor]()
Felicia's Journey by William Trevor
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWilliam Trevor's Last Stories is forthcoming from Viking.Felicia is unmarried, pregnant, and penniless. She steals away from a small Irish town and drifts through the industrial English Midlands, searching for the boyfriend who left her. Instead she meets up with the fat, fiftyish, unfailingly reasonable Mr. Hilditch, who is looking for a new friend to join the five other girls in his Memory Lane... -
![Naomi's Room by Jonathan Aycliffe]()
Naomi's Room by Jonathan Aycliffe
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCharles and Laura are a young, happily married couple inhabiting the privileged world of Cambridge academia. Brimming with excitement, Charles sets off with his daughter Naomi on a Christmas Eve shopping trip to London. But, by the end of the day, all Charles and his wife have left are cups of tea and police sympathy. For Naomi, their beautiful, angelic only child, has disappeared... -
![The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks]()
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 63 ratingsFrank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outsIde a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations... -
![Tenderness by Robert Cormier]()
Tenderness by Robert Cormier
Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsEighteen-year-old Eric has just been released from juvenile detention for murdering his parents. Now he's looking for tenderness--tenderness he finds in killing girls. Fifteen-year-old Lori has run away from home again. Emotionally naive and sexually precocious, she is also looking for tenderness--tenderness that she finds in Eric... -
![Killer on the Road by James Ellroy]()
Killer on the Road by James Ellroy
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMartin Michael Plunkett is a product of his times -- the possessor of a genius intellect, a pitiless soul of brushed steel, and a heart of blackest evil. With criminal tendencies forged in the fires of L.A.'s Charles Manson hysteria, he comes to the bay city of San Francisco -- and submits to savage and terrible impulses that reveal to him his true vocation as a pure and perfect murderer... -
![The Church of Dead Girls by Stephen Dobyns]()
The Church of Dead Girls by Stephen Dobyns
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA literary chameleon, Stephen Dobyns is as well known for his poetry as he his for his taut and chilling mysteries. The two disciplines collide in The Church of Dead Girls, a lyrical novel that inspired Stephen King to comment, "If ever there was a tale for a moonless night, a high wind and a creaking floor, this is it ... I don't expect to read a more frightening novel this year... -
![Koko by Peter Straub]()
Koko by Peter Straub
Rated: 3.55 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsKOKO. Only four men knew what it meant. Now they must stop it. They are Vietnam vets a doctor, a lawyer, a working stiff, and a writer. Very different from each other, they are nonetheless linked by a shared history and a single shattering secret. Now, they have been reunited and are about to embark on a quest that will take them from Washington, D.C... -
![In the Miso Soup by Ryū Murakami]()
In the Miso Soup by Ryū Murakami
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIt is just before New Year's. Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's sleazy nightlife on three successive evenings. But Kenji learns exactly how much he has to fear and how irrevocably his encounter with this great white whale of an American will change his life... -
![Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris]()
Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris
Rated: 3.55 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsHE IS ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTING CHARACTERSIN ALL OF LITERATURE.AT LAST THE EVOLUTION OF HIS EVILIS REVEALED.Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him... -
![The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood]()
The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsOne fateful summer morning in 1986, two 11-year-old girls meet for the first time and by the end of the day are charged with murder.Twenty-five years later, journalist Kirsty Lindsay is reporting on a series of attacks on young female tourists in a seaside town when her investigation leads her to interview funfair cleaner Amber Gordon... -
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![The Bat by Jo Nesbø, Ю Несбё]()
The Bat by Jo Nesbø, Ю Несбё
Rated: 3.55 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsInspector Harry Hole of the Oslo Crime Squad is dispatched to Sydney to observe a murder case. Harry is free to offer assistance, but he has firm instructions to stay out of trouble. The victim is a twenty-three year old Norwegian woman who is a minor celebrity back home... -
![Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates]()
Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates
Rated: 3.34 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsMeet Quentin P., the most believably terrifying sexual psychopath and killer ever brought to life in fiction. The author deftly puts you inside the mind of a serial killer--succeeding not in writing about madness, but in writing with the logic of madness...
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