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In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes, Paula Rabinowitz
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPostwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside—and a stranger is preying on young women. The suggestively named Dix Steele, a cynical vet with a chip on his shoulder about the opposite sex, is the LAPD's top suspect...Categorized as:
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![The Alienist by Caleb Carr]()
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsWhen The Alienist was first published in 1994, it was a major phenomenon, spending six months on the New York Times bestseller list, receiving critical acclaim, and selling millions of copies. This modern classic continues to be a touchstone of historical suspense fiction for readers everywhere.The year is 1896. The city is New York...Categorized as:
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![The Bad Seed (P.S.) by William March]()
The Bad Seed (P.S.) by William March
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNow reissued – William March's 1954 classic thriller that's as chilling, intelligent and timely as ever before. This paperback reissue includes a new P.S. section with author interviews, insights, features, suggested reading and more.What happens to ordinary families into whose midst a child serial killer is born? This is the question at the center of William March's classic thriller...Categorized as:
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![The Devil Aspect by Craig Russell]()
The Devil Aspect by Craig Russell
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsPrague, 1935: Viktor Kosárek, a psychiatrist newly trained by Carl Jung, arrives at the infamous Hrad Orlu Asylum for the Criminally Insane. The state-of-the-art facility is located in a medieval mountaintop castle outside of Prague, though the site is infamous for concealing dark secrets going back many generations...Categorized as:
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![Ripper by Michael Slade]()
Ripper by Michael Slade
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of Cutthroat comes a nerve-shattering thriller combining the legend of Jack the Ripper, the terrifying secrets of the Tarot, and a "mystery weekend" on a secluded Canadian island, whereurder becomes all too real... -
![Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s: Laura / The Horizontal Man / In a Lonely Place / The Blank Wall by Vera Caspary, Helen Eustis]()
Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s: Laura / The Horizontal Man / In a Lonely Place / The Blank Wall by Vera Caspary, Helen Eustis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWomen writers have always had a central place in American crime writing, although one wouldn’t know it for all the attention focused on the men of the hardboiled school. This collection, the first of a two-volume omnibus, presents four classics of the 1940s overdue for fresh attention... -
![The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr]()
The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIn The Angel of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr. Kreizler himself, are seen anew. It is June 1897. A year has passed since Dr...Categorized as:
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![River of Darkness by Rennie Airth]()
River of Darkness by Rennie Airth
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAs rural England slowly emerges from the sorrow of World War I, a particularly vicious attack on a household in a small Surrey village leaves five butchered bodies and no explanation for the killings. Sent by Scotland Yard to investigate is Inspector John Madden, a man still recovering from his own war experience and from the deaths of his wife and child...Categorized as:
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![The Unclaimed Victim by D.M. Pulley]()
The Unclaimed Victim by D.M. Pulley
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLiving decades apart, two women get caught in the web of an infamous serial killer. In 1938, at the height of the Great Depression, a madman hunts his victims through the hobo jungles of Cleveland, terrorizing the city... -
![The Blood-Dimmed Tide by Rennie Airth]()
The Blood-Dimmed Tide by Rennie Airth
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWith the publication of the New York Times Notable Book River of Darkness, Rennie Airth established himself as a master of suspense. The Blood-Dimmed Tide, set in 1932, marks the return of the beloved Inspector John Madden, whose discovery of a young girl's mutilated corpse near his home in rural England brings him out of retirement despite his wife's misgivings...Categorized as:
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![A Wicked Snow (Emily Kenyon #3) by Gregg Olsen, Kevin Foley]()
A Wicked Snow (Emily Kenyon #3) by Gregg Olsen, Kevin Foley
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHannah Griffin was a girl when tragedy struck on her family's farm. She still remembers the flames reflected against the newly fallen snow and the bodies the police dug upone of them her mother's. It was the nation's worst murder scene in decades and the killer was never found. Two decades later Hannah is a CSI investigating a case of child abuse when the past comes hurtling back...Categorized as:
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![Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith]()
Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLiving on his posh French estate with his elegant heiress wife, Tom Ripley, on the cusp of middle age, is no longer the striving comer of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Having accrued considerable wealth through a long career of crime—forgery, extortion, serial murder—Ripley still finds his appetite unquenched and longs to get back in the game... -
![Ripley Under Water by Patricia Highsmith]()
Ripley Under Water by Patricia Highsmith
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTom Ripley passes his leisured days at his French country estate tending the dahlias, practicing the harpsichord, and enjoying the company of his lovely wife, Heloise. Never mind the bloodstains on the basement floor.But some new neighbors have moved to Villeperce: the Pritchards, just arrived from America. they are a ghastly pair, with vulgar manners and even more vulgar taste... -
![The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes]()
The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA haunting mystery tale that revolves around the Jack the Ripper murders, this novel was the basis for several films, including a 1927 Alfred Hitchcock silent film featuring Ivor Novello in the title role... -
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![Ripley achterna by Patricia Highsmith]()
Ripley achterna by Patricia Highsmith
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn this quietly terrifying exploration of trust and friendship, a troubled young runaway arrives in Villeperce... -
![American Gothic by Robert Bloch]()
American Gothic by Robert Bloch
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Castle: it looms over the streets of modern Chicago. Its stone walls conceal a maze of secret passageways and hidden rooms, private laboratories and concealed trapdoors. The Castle is home to G. Gordon Gregg, physician-murderer. His victims are young, beautiful women. His methods are swift, scientific and painless, his crime perfect. Until a newspaper reporter becomes suspicious... -
![Psycho II by Robert Bloch]()
Psycho II by Robert Bloch
Rated: 3.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsYou remember Norman Bates—the shy motel manager with the fatal mother fixation. Now, years after his bout of butchery that horrified the world, Norman is at large again, breaking free from the psycho ward, cutting a shocking swath of blood all the way to Hollywood—where, so it happens, they are making a movie about Norman's life and crimes... -
![Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People by Tim Reiterman]()
Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People by Tim Reiterman
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe basis for the upcoming HBO miniseries and the "definitive account of the Jonestown massacre" ( Rolling Stone ) -- now available for the first time in paperback.Tim Reiterman’s Raven provides the seminal history of the Rev. Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and the murderous ordeal at Jonestown in 1978... -
![The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy by Stephen G. Michaud, Hugh Aynesworth]()
The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy by Stephen G. Michaud, Hugh Aynesworth
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTed Bundy was America's first celebrity serial killer, and one of the most chilling enigmas in criminal history. Handsome, boyish and well-spoken, a law student with bright political prospects, Bundy was also a predator and sexual deviant who murdered and mutilated at least thirty young women and girls, many of them college coeds but at least two as young as twelve... -
![I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara, Juliane Köhler]()
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara, Juliane Köhler
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsA masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer—the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade—from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case."You’ll be silent forever, and I’ll be gone in the dark...Categorized as:
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![The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story by Ann Rule]()
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story by Ann Rule
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsUtterly unique in its astonishing intimacy, as jarringly frightening as when it first appeared, Ann Rule's The Stranger Beside Me defies our expectation that we would surely know if a monster lived among us, worked alongside of us, appeared as one of us... -
![A Rose For Her Grave: And Other True Cases by Ann Rule]()
A Rose For Her Grave: And Other True Cases by Ann Rule
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe first volume of Ann Rule's Crime Files anthologies - a benchmark in true crime writing... -
![Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker]()
Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsHe has hunted some of the most notorious and sadistic criminals of our time: The Trailside Killer in San Francisco, the Atlanta Child murderer. He has confronted, interviewed and researched dozens of serial killers and assassins, including Charles Manson, Richard Speck, John Wayne Gacy, and James Earl Ray - for a landmark study to understand their motives. To get inside their minds...Categorized as:
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![Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry]()
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsThe case that shocked a nation the incredible book that tells what really happened.It began August 9 and 10, 1969, when seven people were shot, stabbed, and bludgeoned to death in Los Angeles. It ended when a nation watched in fascinated horror as the killers were tried and convicted. But the real questions went unanswered...Categorized as:
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![The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin, Derrick Bell]()
The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin, Derrick Bell
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne of America's most important writers takes on the arrest of Wayne Bertram Williams for the murder of twenty-eight black children in Atlanta to offer this searing indictment of the nation's racial stagnation.This edition of James Baldwin's classic work offers a new foreword by Derrick Bell (with Janet Dewart Bell), and is as meaningful today as it was when it was first published in 1985... -
![Dead Men Do Tell Tales by William R. Maples]()
Dead Men Do Tell Tales by William R. Maples
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom a skeleton, a skull, a mere fragment of burnt thighbone, Dr. William Maples can deduce the age, gender, and ethnicity of a murder victim, the manner in which the person was dispatched, and, ultimately, the identity of the killer. In Dead Men Do Tell Tales, Dr... -
![Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring]()
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the most infamous crimes in American history: carelessness from police, misconduct by prosecutors, and even potential surveillance by intelligence agents... -
![The Search for the Green River Killer by Carlton Smith, Tomás Guillén]()
The Search for the Green River Killer by Carlton Smith, Tomás Guillén
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe true story of America's most notorious serial killer case ever...Categorized as:
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![A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown by Julia Scheeres]()
A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown by Julia Scheeres
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“I love socialism, and I’m willing to die to bring it about, but if I did, I’d take a thousand with me.” — Jim Jones, September 6, 1975 In 1954, a pastor named Jim Jones opened a church in Indianapolis called People's Temple Full Gospel Church... -
![Every Breath You Take: A True Story of Obsession, Revenge, and Murder by Ann Rule, Blair Brown]()
Every Breath You Take: A True Story of Obsession, Revenge, and Murder by Ann Rule, Blair Brown
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAmerica’s #1 true-crime writer fulfills a murder victim’s desperate plea with this shattering New York Times bestseller.“If anything ever happens to me…find Ann Rule and ask her to write my story...
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