serial murderers

Fiona Bristow, the only survivor of the Red Scarf serial killer who shot and killed her fianc? and his K-9 partner, is living quietly on Orca Island off the Seattle coast where she runs a thriving dog-training business, when her life is disrupted by artist Simon Doyle who is desperate for help in calming his wild puppy, and by the emergence of a copycat killer who wants the woman that got away.

Sally promised her father before he died that she would always look after her sister Troo, but the task becomes complicated in the summer of 1959 when her mother is hospitalized, her older sister becomes caught up in a teen romance, her stepfather takes up drinking, and a murderer and molester is terrorizing the town.

Mentally fragile Lena Dawson, a fingerprint expert at a Syracuse crime lab, is forced to face the truth about her own past when she begins investigating a rash of crib deaths in the community.

A search for closure brings a man home seventeen years after a childhood incident that forced his family out of town: his misguided attempt at age eleven to keep a troubled girl from going insane, undertaken against the backdrop of 1970s Detroit racial tensions and the city's search for a child killer called the Snowman.

Ten-year-old Winks and thirteen-year-old Josh inadvertently bring a serial murderer back to life when they use his hat and scarf to dress a snowman for a winter carnival, freeing him to seek revenge against the vigilantes who killed him.

Dexter, a serial killer who limits his victims to other killers, bides his time between murders by working as a blood splatter analyst for the Miami Police Department, and dating Rita, the single mother of two children, but he is faced with a challenge when a psychopath arrives in town and his sister, a newly-minted Miami detective, becomes involved in the case.

FBI forensic psychiatrist Dr. Frank Clevenger matches wits with a brilliant killer when he is assigned to investigate a string of murders committed by West Crosse, an architect who does not stop at designing homes, but is obsessed with creating perfect lives for his clients--even if it means eliminating people he considers undesirable.

A psychological thriller told from the points of view of a teenage serial killer and the runaway girl who falls in love with him.

As a serial killer begins murdering the members of a group of men and women whose violet eyes give them the ability to see the faces of murderers, two FBI agents hunt for the killer before he can take out every member of the FBI's most powerful crime-fighting aid.